His current research topic is the basic fusion of Inheritance Factors, which involves merging the Inheritance Factor of one organism into another and conducting simple practical experiments.
The Inheritance Factor is crucial for the future evolution of totems. Even with his Master Level in Totem Drawing, he is limited by the amount of knowledge he possesses and cannot achieve a complete understanding.
What he lacks most now are Rune Factories and various precision research instruments, such as microscopes and refining glassware. Without these, he can only conduct the most rudimentary and superficial dissection experiments.
However, this research has yielded some results. At the very least, through the experimental notes left by Bruce, he has gained a deeper understanding of the Moonlight Fox.
This understanding has also caused a slight change in the unchanging Evolution Modulator panel.
"Variant Moonlight Fox: Main Totem, not evolved, can be enhanced, Evolution success rate 15%, consumes 5 Evolution Points;
Abilities: Fox Spirit, Agility."
In addition, a piece of information appeared regarding how to increase the success rate of evolution.
"1 unit of Azure River Heart Stone, 5 units of Purple Shadow Stone, and 3 Nightmare Flowers can increase the success rate by 80%."
Xiar was pleasantly surprised; he hadn't expected the Evolution Modulator to provide such detailed hints. This meant that as long as he collected enough of these items, he could achieve a 95% success rate in one go, allowing for a forced evolution.
A 15% success rate is far too low, and consuming 5 Evolution Points each time is simply beyond his means.
However, obtaining these three items is not easy either.
In this world, different colored gemstones have varying effects on totem evolution and can enhance certain attributes of totems.
Among them, Purple Gemstones are related to mental attributes, while blue gemstones are associated with Agility. These two attributes happen to be the most important for the White Fox.
The White Fox possesses the rare mental ability known as Fox Spirit and the Agility ability. If both are enhanced to their peak, it could directly seduce enemies, rendering them helpless like fish on a chopping board, unwittingly having their lives harvested!
One unit in the game is equivalent to 1 cubic centimeter. The Azure River Heart Stone is relatively easier to obtain; a piece typically costs just over ten gold coins and isn't too hard to find.
However, the Purple Shadow Stone was incredibly expensive. Xiar remembered attending an auction at Storm Harbor, where a shadow stone no larger than a fingernail sold for a staggering 6,000 gold coins.
This meant that to acquire enough Purple Shadow Stones, he would need at least twenty thousand gold coins!
"The Spirit Master truly deserves its reputation as the most costly profession. The cultivation of those top-tier totems relies entirely on an endless supply of money!"
Xiar couldn't help but sigh, once again aware of his own poverty. Relying on his family's gold mine, he realized it wouldn't be enough to allow the White Fox to achieve its Ultimate Evolution.
The Evolution Modulator could indeed facilitate the Evolution of totems, but it depended on the most crucial element: Evolution Points. These points could only be obtained by defeating Extraordinary Beasts, also known as Totem Beasts, which was reminiscent of gaining experience from monster kills in games.
However, with his current strength, it was difficult to confront those terrifying monsters head-on. He had to find alternative ways to navigate through this early stage of hardship.
Endowment, knowledge, and resources were the three key factors determining whether a Spirit Master could ascend. Without any one of these, becoming a top-tier powerhouse would be impossible.
In the future scenarios he envisioned, countless gifted Spirit Masters were constrained by a lack of resources, forced to bow down to others and even unable to evolve their totems throughout their lives!
He furrowed his brow in thought for a moment and began to search through his memories of future scenarios, trying to uncover hidden treasures.
Indeed, in the future plotlines, there were instances where "protagonists" entered certain treasure vaults and became instantly wealthy.
But those places were all fraught with immense danger, filled with various terrifying Spirit Techniques and formidable guardian totems.
This was not like those third-rate stories where one could casually steal from others' treasure vaults after being reborn, easily navigating traps and using them against others—wasn't that absurd?
Without strength, one couldn't even break through the Spirit Techniques laid out before them. Some hidden Spirit Techniques wouldn't reveal themselves until one got too close and triggered them.
In such circumstances, he would merely be adding meals for those totems!
The memories of the future were stored like files on a computer, categorized by time and location, making them relatively easy to sift through.
After flipping through for a while, he finally found a feasible method for making money.
He was unsure if he possessed that kind of bad luck, but he could certainly follow the actions of those "protagonists."
In a certain scene, there happened to be a protagonist who would be acting in the eastern Storm Harbor, where he discovered treasure on a cliff by the sea.
Moreover, he inadvertently discovered that there was a hidden Spirit Master Market in Storm Harbor, where various trades could take place, including the sale of low-level Rune Factory items.
With this in mind, Xiar decided to set off and take a look…
………………
On the flat road, five Cavalry were escorting a carriage through an endless sea of trees.
Inside the carriage sat three young nobles, two men and one woman. Among them, the man at the back had wine-red shoulder-length hair and a handsome face, dressed in a silver-gray robe, resembling one of those learned scholars.
At that moment, he was leaning against the side of the carriage with a book sprawled across his lap.
Notably, a snow-white fox was napping on his shoulder.
“Xiar, what are you thinking bringing a fox along? Have you turned into one of those girls?” Field teased as he looked at the white fox perched on his shoulder.
However, Xiar completely ignored him, engrossed in his book as if it contained infinite enjoyment.
The only girl among them, a young lady named Tiffany, wore an eager expression and gazed at the white fox with sparkling eyes.
She had tried several times to reach out and pet it, but each time the fox had shown no mercy, nearly swiping at her hand with its claws, forcing her to observe from afar.
“Xiar brother, please let me touch it,” Tiffany pleaded once more with a charming pout.
“Sorry, Firefly only wishes to be with me; no one else can get close,” Xiar replied with an apologetic smile.
Firefly was a mutated Moonlight Fox with magical abilities; now it had become his totem, significantly enhancing his power and growing even prouder.
Neither the maid Eve, nor the children of the family, nor Marcus, who tried to lure it with food, could get close to it.
"Hmph, what a shame! Touching it wouldn't cost you an arm and a leg," Tiffany complained indignantly, sulking as she sat off to the side.
Xiar smiled helplessly; this girl was from the Birel Family and was a year younger than him.
Her family's territory, Radiant Town, was located north of Shining Gold Town. Together with the Field Family, the three Extended Families had long formed an inseparable alliance.
He hadn't intended to bring her along this time, but her brother had an unexpected matter to attend to and entrusted her care to him while they took a break in Storm Harbor.
"The number of ruffians in the north is increasing. Quite a few troublemakers have made their way to Radiant Town and have been thrown into the dungeons by the Security Force," Field complained somewhat aimlessly.
Xiar's heart stirred as he realized that a large-scale riot had erupted in the northern part of Farn County. Many people could no longer endure the local Lord's cruel exploitation and had directly revolted.
This riot was not as simple as Field imagined; it would soon become a raging fire, spreading rapidly across several counties and forming an enormous rebellion.
The mastermind behind this rebellion was none other than the Terrorist Organization that had opened the Source Gate.
The energy from the Source Gate had leaked out significantly, creating terrifying Source Power radiation that caused countless cultivated beings to rapidly evolve, quickly breaking free from the organization's control.
These horrifying monsters formed a massive Beast Tide, destroying one human city after another and severely shaking the foundations of the empire!
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