Three days later, Moore told Lin Xiao everything he needed to know and packed up his things and left. Before leaving, he told him that he was going to the Eastern Totem City of the Osa Empire. The organization already had seniors who had obtained high positions in the Totem Tower and had channels to directly enter the Totem Tower 's subordinate academy to study, but the prerequisite was that you had to pay the tuition.
After all, you only obtained a high position, not the owner of the Totem Tower, and you still had to pay the tuition.
In fact, this was already very good, and having a chance was better than anything else.
Moore told him that it would be best to make good use of the resources here to earn tuition in one to three years, so as to avoid having to collect tuition everywhere.
Once Moore left, the organization's huge assets in the small city would all be under Lin Xiao's management in the next three years. For ordinary people, it was like pie in the sky, but it was meaningless to those who came like them.
Sitting in the rocking chair in the empty hall, rocking back and forth gently, Lin Xiao pondered what to do next.
Or in other words, when to earn tuition.
This tuition fee does not refer to making money. Going to the Totem Tower to study does not require gold or silver coins, but resources unique to the extraordinary world, such as the essence of the beast extracted from the blood and flesh of the beast after hunting it, also called the beast crystal, because after being extracted, it is a red crystal containing the purest blood of the beast, which is the universal currency of the extraordinary world and the food of the totem master. The
essence of the beast extracted from different beasts has no difference in quality, only the size of the crystals extracted due to the different body shapes and blood of the beasts, and the purity. The higher the purity, the less impurities, and the more expensive the price.
If you want high-quality essence, you must have a more powerful beast than the beast.
Well, at least that's what they call it.
Lin Xiao doesn't know how to extract the essence of the beast, but he has the magic cube of good fortune to purify it directly, and the purity is super high.
After thinking for a long time, he decided to go to the wilderness to hunt beasts.
First, he went to a mercenary group that had a cooperative relationship with the organization and hired an elite team of ten people at a preferential price.
It is worth mentioning that Lin Xiao had already parted ways with the original mercenary group.
The team brought their own dry food and weapons and equipment, and he only needed to prepare logistics, which didn't cost much.
Soon a team left the town and entered the wilderness, starting their hunting career.
Half a year later, a safe point appeared next to a small lake deep in the wilderness. It was guarded all year round, and the five or six-meter-high stone walls were enough to resist any attack from aliens. Soon the news spread, and many adventurers or caravans crossing the wilderness chose to stay here for supplies.
With the convenience of this supply point, Lin Xiao purchased a large number of beast corpses from adventurers at a price lower than the market price, and refined them all into beast essence.
Then, with this stronghold as a fulcrum, after swallowing a large number of super-pure beast essence crystals, Lin Xiao, whose breathing method reached level seven, defeated all nearby alien tribes with powerful and brutal force, opened up a trade route connecting the north and south of the wilderness, attracted a large number of caravans to pass along the trade route, and continuously obtained a large amount of money and resources.
After reaching the seventh level of breathing method strengthened by the energy of good fortune, Lin Xiao possessed the peak of mortal force. With the cooperation of more than 200 mercenary soldiers, he had almost no rivals in the wilderness.
In the next year, he led his men to continuously consolidate the business road, recruited men to expand the base, and established a trade transit town with the base as the center.
Two years later, Lin Xiao, who had made a lot of money, finally broke through the seventh level of breathing method and successfully awakened his qualifications.
This qualification awakening is extremely difficult. Even if the physical qualifications of this rebirth are good and the essence of the fierce beast is almost unlimited, it took him so long. However, there was nothing abnormal when awakening. It was just a breakthrough, and then there was nothing else. There was no special feeling.
To be honest, if it was not tested with special tools to prove that the qualifications were indeed awakened, most people might not know that there was such a thing.
Even if the qualifications were awakened, the breathing method had reached the end. It would be a waste to stay here. It was time to go to the Totem Tower.
As for the things here, they will all be handed over to the next person. Although no newcomers have come in two years, he should stay for another year to three years before leaving, but the trade route he opened up is too valuable. When he said he wanted to leave, several active adventers nearby were willing to take over.
These adventers were not very qualified and their training speed was very slow. They needed a lot of resources to pile up. They hit it off with him and felt relieved to hand over the industry to them.
One night, Lin Xiao rode a horse alone and left the small town to the Circle Totem City.
The Totem City is located on the seashore of the Red Tide Sea east of the Osa Empire, two or three thousand kilometers away.
Most of the areas coming out of the wasteland are human territories, and you can continue to see the customs and customs of this world along the way.
It's a pity that it's just a mortal country, and many things can't be seen.
Three months later, Lin Xiao crossed nearly three thousand kilometers to the Totem City near the Totem Tower, found the organization mark again, and found the Adventer Organization in the Totem City.
After a simple registration to confirm his identity, he obtained a more detailed "Details on how to join the Totem Tower Academy".
"Can I enroll as long as I have the qualifications?"
He looked at it carefully and it was indeed true.
However, there was a reminder from a senior at the back -
indeed, anyone with the qualifications can enroll, and everyone can enroll regardless of their qualifications. The Totem Tower Academy treats everyone equally on this point, but the key point is that you must have enough tuition fees and pass the monthly exams once a year.
According to the rules, new students are exempt from exams within one year, and there will be monthly exams every month after one year. If you fail two consecutive monthly exams, or fail three monthly exams cumulatively within a year, you will be forced to drop out.
In addition, you need to pay extremely high tuition fees. Each semester requires one thousand units of fierce beast crystals with a purity of more than 95%. If the purity is high enough, the number will be reduced.
This unit is a common measurement method in the extraordinary world, and one standard unit is equivalent to about five ounces.
A three-meter-long wilderness leopard can extract less than one ounce of beast crystals. One standard unit of beast crystals is equivalent to the essence of beasts extracted from five to seven wilderness leopards.
It is not difficult to obtain beasts, but the key is to extract them. Others are not like Lin Xiao who can directly use the magic cube
of good fortune to extract them. Once they are refined, they are 100% pure. In fact, Lin Xiao only eats 100% pure essences himself. The rest are carefully divided into several purity levels and stored in the magic cube of good fortune. He does not dare to use the ultra-high purity ones as tuition.
At this time, Lin Xiao has stored more than 2,000 units of beast blood and flesh essences of various purities, which is enough to pay the tuition and still have more than half left.
However, school has not started yet. Lin Xiao is temporarily living in the gathering point of the Adventers Organization in the Totem City. As one of the few places on this continent where you can learn the extraordinary power of totems, it gathers about one-third of the awakened people on this continent. He asked casually, and there are more than 100 Adventers here. Most of them have already enrolled. Like him, there are more than a dozen people who just came this year to wait for the start of school.
It is worth mentioning that although most of them have been enrolled, there are less than 20 adventers still staying in the Totem Tower Academy. The rest were all eliminated in the monthly exam one year later.
However, although they were eliminated, they have learned extraordinary methods and are now basically independent totem master apprentices. They are working together to earn resources and be self-reliant.
This shows that the difficulty of this monthly exam is unusually high. The qualifications of the adventers may be high or low, but their knowledge, experience and understanding of power are not low. To be honest, Lin Xiao is a little nervous about such a high elimination rate.
While waiting for the start of school, he began to make up for the information in this area.
There are many eliminated predecessors staying at the gathering point. He spent some fierce beast crystals to buy information and experience from them to avoid taking detours.
After the explanations of the predecessors, Lin Xiao finally understood why they were eliminated and why the elimination rate was so high.
Their one-fifth retention rate is not bad, while the retention rate of those natives is only about one percent, and only one or two out of a hundred can persist.
The key is that there are too many things to learn to become a totem master apprentice. Qualification is only the most basic condition. After entering school, you will learn a lot of necessary related knowledge, which requires a strong memory and learning ability. This directly eliminates a lot of people. Many eliminated people are eliminated because they can't keep up with the progress in this aspect.
In the words of some predecessors, the difficulty of learning this totem master is not easier than becoming an arcane master in the Toril multiverse.
In other words, if you have the ability to become a formal totem master, then you have the ability to become a real arcane master.
This description may be a bit exaggerated. Lin Xiao does not think that the difficulty of becoming a totem master is really comparable to that of an arcane master, but it is definitely not low. At least for so many years, few people have been able to successfully gain a foothold in this world, which shows its difficulty.
A month later, the new enrollment began. Lin Xiao and eleven other descenders paid super high tuition fees to officially join the Totem Tower and officially began to contact the extraordinary power of this world.
After the entrance ceremony, Lin Xiao was assigned to the seventh class and began to contact the profession of totem master with other forty-nine classmates.
There are still many people who have signed up at this stage, but I don't know how many will be able to stick to it in the end.
Sitting in the classroom full of exotic style, listening to the whispers of his classmates, Lin Xiao looked at the thick stack of textbooks in front of him expressionlessly. From top to bottom, they were written:
Basic cognition of totem runes.
Basic meditation.
Basic biology.
Illustrations of beast-level creatures.
Basic alchemy.
Basic geological identification.
Cognition of energy particles.
On the harm of energy radiation to the body.
Basic botany.
Basic biological structure.
There are a total of twenty books, each of which is a big book of several hundred pages. Some are divided into three volumes, upper, middle and lower. They are all compulsory courses and are also the test points for the monthly exam one year later.
Learning so much in one year definitely requires a very high IQ and learning ability to understand it thoroughly. Lin Xiao also felt a headache after reading it, because he is not a top student.
Under normal circumstances, it is really difficult to learn all this in one year, so the clever adventers found a way to cheat.
(End of this chapter)