Transmigration with Cheat Codes Chapter 26: Advanced Lu Ban Wooden Puppets

To acquire advanced Lu Ban Wooden Puppets and earn higher points, there were typically three avenues: system gift package rewards, ordering them from rare talent artisans who had attained Grandmaster-level forging skills, or patiently waiting for periodic refreshes in the system's marketplace for such items.

Regarding system gift package rewards, Meng Jingtang remembered that back when she had crossed over, the officials had indeed mentioned that they would release a free DLC later.

Downloading it would grant a new appearance set and an Advanced Lu Ban Wooden Puppet. However, at present, she couldn't connect to the internet, and even if she could update, she didn't want to try it.

As players who have purchased the game know, when updating a new content pack, you need to close the game. However, Meng Jingtang was currently in real-life operation mode, and despite pressing all the system buttons, she couldn't find an option to return to the main menu…

As for the second path, searching for precious talents who had attained Grandmaster-level skills, although it was feasible, the time span was too long.

By the time Meng Jingtang had actually found such individuals, the "Sect Study Construction Gift Pack" would likely have been gathering dust.

The remaining method was more mystical in nature. It was possible to encounter it right at the beginning of the game, or it could remain elusive even after playing through multiple saved games.

However, experienced players believed that, for the sake of convenience in testing, the game company's programmers would surely leave a trigger for specific events.

After all, it was a single-player game that didn't require microtransactions, and you could play it for as long as you liked. In the end, with the spirit of perseverance akin to the tale of "Foolish Old Man Who Moved Mountains," they managed to figure out that cheat code.

It was only effective when the in-game character reached level fifteen, and it couldn't be used a second time within thirty levels.

Upon entering the cheat code, a new item appeared at the bottom of the system store's shopping list, highlighted in purple to indicate its rarity.

[Advanced Lu Ban Wooden Puppet (Blacksmith) Set: An advanced Lu Ban Wooden Puppet with high-level blacksmithing skills, along with the necessary toolbox.]

Meng Jingtang stared at the item interface, halting her purchase action.

— In addition to the description, the price of the Advanced Lu Ban Wooden Puppet was displayed: 1000 gold.

Meng Jingtang was speechless.

Indeed, it was a purple-tier item, and the price listed in the store seemed to reflect the quality of the item quite well.

Similar advanced Lu Ban Wooden Puppets came with toolboxes, and if the sect lacked a similar structure, they could even establish their own forging room.

While the price was indeed steep, it was undoubtedly a high-return investment that wouldn't lead to losses. Meng Jingtang's current dilemma was figuring out how to come up with such a substantial amount of money.

Previously, due to her assistance in rescuing Wang Youhuai from danger, the Wang family had shown their gratitude to Meng Jingtang with a generous gift. In addition to cash, there were some clothing, jewelry, hairpins, and cosmetics.

When exchanged in the system store for money, she had a total of 97 gold, 36 silver, and 24 copper.

Meng Jingtang then checked the collection in the sect's warehouse. To make it easier to find items, she had always stored various items by category.

Weaponry was placed at the top, with the first item being the fan she had obtained from Wen Yudi. Following that were ten sets of flying locust stones that she had acquired from daily gift boxes.

After the concealed weapons, there were two white-tier leather concealed weapon pouches, followed by three bronze short swords, twelve iron swords, five fine iron swords, and one green-tier Longquan sword.

In the [Basic Gift Boxes], she often found duplicate weapons. Meng Jingtang considered the need for replacement longswords for herself and the possibility of having other disciples in the Hanshan Sect in the future. Therefore, she had kept them in the warehouse for future use and practice.

Since the future disciples were still unknown and not present, Meng Jingtang left behind one fine iron sword and the Longquan sword. She sold the rest to the system store, gaining 10 gold, 16 silver, and 3 copper in return.

Moving further, Meng Jingtang came across various medicinal items she had created when she was advancing her pharmaceutical skills. Among them, the Bone-Setting Ointment stood out due to its relatively simple ingredient requirements and the high proficiency it provided.

She had accumulated quite a stock of it. There were also common medicines like Golden Healing Powder and Jade Pivot Pills. However, for more expensive ones like the agarwood elixir, which temporarily boosted aptitude, the system's buyback price was five gold.

Yet, because of the high difficulty in crafting them and the rarity of the raw materials, Meng Jingtang had never used them while studying secret techniques. She definitely wouldn't casually sell them to the store.

Furthermore, selling such medicines to the native NPCs in the game world was much more profitable than selling them to the system store.

Meng Jingtang had always been interested in entering the pharmaceutical market and establishing trading relationships with commercial organizations like the Tower of a Thousand Treasures.

However, due to her current limited resources, she couldn't simultaneously manage too many activities.

As for the Golden Healing Powder, the price difference on both sides remained within a range that an average player could accept.

Considering the cost-effectiveness, Meng Jingtang selectively cleared out some of the sect's medicinal stocks, earning herself 86 gold, 44 silver, and 71 copper.

Within the Hanshan Sect, there were medicinal fields, and various plants grew in the mountains.

These were often harvested by the Hanshan Sect's head when passing through, so after the medicines, there was a substantial collection of various materials that Meng Jingtang had accumulated, including herbs and ingredients.

As for minerals, due to the limitations of her mining skill, only a small portion of them had been personally extracted by Meng Jingtang. Most of them came from system gift boxes.

The total amount of money obtained from selling the surplus materials was 34 gold, 56 silver, and 1 copper.

In the warehouse, apart from clothing and equipment, there were various odds and ends that Meng Jingtang had no intention of selling.

The drop rate for money from humanoid monsters was decent, especially for bandits. She had obtained around a thousand gold from Ghost Cry Gang during her last encounter.

However, she had spent some of it on daily expenses and sect management, so she currently had just under nine hundred gold left. After some financial maneuvering, she would still have some liquid assets left after purchasing the Lu Ban Wooden Puppet.

[System: Obtained [Advanced Lu Ban Wooden Puppet (Blacksmith) Set] x1.]

[System: Detected that the current sect's home base lacks a forging room. Would you like to create one?]

Meng Jingtang chose [Yes].