Because Ying Le and Shang Xinlei were always talking about Pharmacist’s Wish, coupled with the fact that in his previous life he hadn’t understood the details of Foundation Establishnt, Yan Qing subconsciously assud that acquiring a Foundation Establishnt Pill had a high threshold, probably requiring a forced path through Celestial Spirits and Earthly Fiends.
It wasn’t until now that Yan Qing realized, how could acquiring a Foundation Establishnt Pill be difficult?
In the ga "ssenger", Foundation Establishnt is rely the starting point for players to leave the novice phase; equivalent to Link in "Breath of the Wild" acquiring the glider to leave the initial plateau; equivalent to players finishing the single-player mode in "Street Fighter 6"... Only after Foundation Establishnt in "ssenger" does one qualify to explore the vast ga world!
Even before crossing over, Yan Qing had only seen players complaining about the high threshold of Immortal Ascension, never heard of anyone complaining about the difficulty of Foundation Establishnt, which indicates that there must be many channels to acquire Foundation Establishnt Pills in the ga, like the "Demon Gathering Land" event, which rewards participants... So why was it so hard to acquire in reality?
This question was finally answered when Yan Qing clicked on the activity rewards and saw the detailed introduction of Foundation Establishnt Pills.
Just like tokens, Foundation Establishnt Pills are divided into four grades: ordinary, rare, marvelous, and legendary.
However!
Ordinary and rare Foundation Establishnt Pills can only be acquired through "events" and "player production."
Marvelous Foundation Establishnt Pills and legendary Foundation Establishnt Pills have three channels: "events," "player production," and "secret realm rewards."
At first glance, it’s incomprehensible why secret realms wouldn’t produce lower-grade Foundation Establishnt Pills but only produce high-grade ones? This is obviously intentional. Although it doesn’t say in the details, Yan Qing roughly guessed the official design logic.
Ultimately, a Foundation Establishnt Pill is sothing a character will use only once, leading to a very minimal demand for low-grade Foundation Establishnt Pills—like if students were given an option, who would choose a college over a nightclub dance?
As long as players are serious about playing, they will surely spend so ti pursuing high-grade Foundation Establishnt Pills, striving for an impressive first degree, and the officials couldn’t possibly hold players up at the Foundation Establishnt Pill stage for too long; it’s rely a formality.
Therefore, they straightforwardly decided that secret realms will only produce high-grade Foundation Establishnt Pills and low-grade ones will be coincidentally crafted by players practicing production.
No need to ntion ordinary Foundation Establishnt Pills — consuming them feels a bit filthy — but rare and marvelous Foundation Establishnt Pills have little difference; if a player has a new account or doesn’t want to spend ti grinding secret realms, they can easily obtain a rare Foundation Establishnt Pill by visiting the Treasure Pavilion or participating in an event.
In the ga, this setup has no issues, but in reality, there are massive discrepancies: the crucial "event" channel is essentially nonexistent for local muggles!
If Yan Qing guessed right, the previous ’Mansu Forest Land’ dungeon probably also offered Foundation Establishnt Pills as rewards, but at the ti Jiang Shi was still at the second turn, so the prioritization for Foundation Establishnt Pills was low, hence none were obtained.
The "player production" route is even less dependable, as the first step to practicing a production profession is having enough materials to practice. Are there even a hundred Foundation Establishnt phases in the Central Plains combined? How many secret realms can they conquer? Do these secret realms precisely contain the required materials for Foundation Establishnt Pills?
Even if the answers to the above are "yes," do they know the pill formula for Foundation Establishnt Pills? Do they know others hold materials for Foundation Establishnt Pills?
Without the anonymous trading platform of the Treasure Pavilion, the information is foggy everywhere, even if the local ssengers establish caravans and trade networks, the material collection ti would indeed be counted in years.
In the ga, as long as one has money, they can rush to master-level production or grandmaster-level production in a day, but in reality, it might take years or even decades.
Therefore, for Central Plains ssengers, the only thod of obtaining Foundation Establishnt Pills is by challenging secret realms!
Thinking of this, a sense of understanding dawned on Yan Qing: it’s no wonder why Suo Long, Winter Hunt, Ying Le, Jie Huang Chao, and others have divine techniques that are extrely powerful and practical; evidently, at the very least, they’ve consud marvelous Foundation Establishnt Pills!
Whether it’s considered a blessing in disguise, due to the harsh environnt preventing the acquisition of low-grade Foundation Establishnt Pills, all Foundation Establishnt in the Central Plains were excellent students consuming marvelous Foundation Establishnt Pills; even in the ga, their Foundation Establishnt setup wouldn’t lose out to ordinary players’ main accounts.
Having encountered a beneficial event distributing Foundation Establishnt Pills, Yan Qing wouldn’t miss out; however, once he saw the introduction of the marvelous Foundation Establishnt Pills, he imdiately widened his eyes.
"Demon Gathering Land," just like "Mansu Forest Land," allows players to send many alt accounts to compete in the event for rankings, but rewards can only be claid once per account. However, the Treasure Hunting Order can be used by anyone, but there is a bizarre limitation on the Foundation Establishnt Pill:
"Real-mode characters cannot consu Foundation Establishnt Pills unrelated to themselves."
Perhaps the officials were worried players wouldn’t understand, they listed three situations: only when the real-mode is involved in the event can the Foundation Establishnt Pill from the event be consud; only real-mode characters participating in secret realm battles can consu Foundation Establishnt Pills from secret realm rewards; Foundation Establishnt Pills produced by non-real-mode players cannot be consud at all.
The seemingly only exception is Foundation Establishnt Pills produced by real-mode players, but the problem remains—who would spend the ti to practice production in real-mode normally? Engaging in production takes quite an investnt, and a fully developed production account is a resource treasure for any player. Heavily investing in real-mode production only to get wiped out would be a genuine loss.
The gaming market ultimately remains dominated by ordinary mode players.
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