Steady Cultivation: Starting With the Perk “Work Hard, Rest Hard” Chapter 655: Xie Tingfeng's Attention

Tens of thousands of years vanished in the blink of an eye.

"A real headache, this task has landed squarely on my shoulders!"

Xie Tingfeng, the Third Speaker, found himself utterly speechless.

Upon careful consideration, the signs had been there all along.

Earlier, he had been given instructions by the First Speaker and granted some procurement authority. At the time, he hadn't given it much thought, simply delegating the task downwards. He had presumed the First Speaker intended for him to broaden the military camp's material acquisition avenues.

He had never, ever anticipated that he would now be completely shouldering the former responsibilities of the Seventh Speaker concerning logistics and procurement.

Among these responsibilities, items like elixirs, talismans, arrays, Chaos Jade, and Chaos Origin crystals were still relatively plentiful. However, the deficit in Dominator Artifacts was simply too immense.

Xie Tingfeng accessed the military camp's material management backend system.

Observing that the procurement target for Dominator Artifacts remained ninety-four percent unfulfilled, he let out a profound, weary sigh.

Just as he was about to exit the backend interface, an unusual occurrence caught his eye. He noticed someone was submitting Dominator Artifacts in substantial quantities, prompting him to look closer.

Meanwhile.

Su Yuan had concluded the refinement of all his outstanding orders.

From the raw materials for a total of 3,500 orders, he had successfully refined an astounding 800 million Dominator Artifacts!

While one hundred million were required to meet the order deliveries, this represented only a minor portion. The overwhelming majority of Dominator Artifacts had accumulated in his inventory, desperately needing an outlet for liquidation.

Consequently, he diverted a fraction of his attention to peruse the military camp's procurement task list.

Gazing at the easily achievable rewards offered by these tasks, he clicked onto "Select All."

To his surprise, however, the permissions associated with a Junior Procurement Officer restricted him to accepting only ten tasks concurrently.

Su Yuan was also rendered speechless by this limitation. He could only select ten of the available tasks and proceed to accept them.

After accepting them, he moved forward to submit the tasks.

Yet, upon submission, he was prompted to specify the origin of the items.

Su Yuan pondered briefly before entering: "Stockpiled treasures refined by myself."

As an artificer, maintaining a certain level of inventory was entirely standard practice.

Next, Su Yuan uploaded one thousand Dominator Artifacts that satisfied the specified requirements.

Following this, Su Yuan had to await the review of the submitted tasks.

This waiting period stretched for an entire month.

A notification finally appeared: review successful, task completed. One million Kalpa units of Chaos Jade were initially credited to his account, swiftly followed by one thousand Kalpa units of Merit Points being deposited.

The former constituted the payment from the military camp. Had he sourced these items from another party, he would have been required to advance the funds upfront. Since these were now his own goods, no additional complications arose.

The latter represented his reward as the procurement officer for facilitating the transaction.

The quantity wasn't particularly significant, but the ability to earn Merit Points simply by facilitating the movement of goods explained why Qi Bai had sought him out previously.

Su Yuan grumbled, "What's going on with this military camp system? The review process is agonizingly slow!"

In reality, this speed was far from slow. Had the Seventh Speaker still held their position, the review process could have dragged on for decades, or even millennia. Even with the recent relaxation of restrictions on Dominator Artifact reviews, compressing the timeline to a year was expected, but certainly not as rapid as a single month. There was evidently a specific reason for this accelerated pace.

Naturally, Su Yuan remained oblivious to these intricate details. He proceeded by selecting ten more tasks and chose to submit them.

The tasks once again entered the review queue.

Just as Su Yuan anticipated another month-long wait for the review, he witnessed the progress bar flash, instantly displaying: [Review Approved]!

[Funds Received]

[Merit Points Received]

The two notifications arrived simultaneously.

Su Yuan displayed an expression of bewilderment. "Hmm? Has the system undergone an optimization? Or has my trust rating increased?"

At this precise moment, Xie Tingfeng was intently examining Su Yuan's submission records. Upon seeing Su Yuan submit one thousand Dominator Artifacts in a single batch, he too exhibited a look of astonishment.

"This artificer possesses a considerable stock!"

Xie Tingfeng had a vague recollection of this individual. This person was likely a City Lord, also an artificer, who had acquired procurement officer privileges through a special reward. This particular identity certainly held multiple facets.

He then inspected the Dominator Artifacts Su Yuan had submitted, revealing yet another instance of surprise.

"The quality is notably superior to the requirements. Most interesting. Could it be that this individual is willing to incur a slight personal loss to support the efforts of the frontline forces?"

He casually expedited the review process for Su Yuan, thereby completing the task.

Xie Tingfeng's opinion of Su Yuan saw a significant enhancement. This individual possessed foresight, aiming for the bigger picture. Although the task parameters stipulated Medium-Quality or superior, Su Yuan had actually turned in numerous High-Quality Dominator Artifacts. A price disparity existed between these two tiers, yet the remuneration from the procurement task remained static.

The deficit arising from this difference was, naturally, absorbed by Su Yuan himself.

"This reward structure is quite lacking in user-friendliness. How many hidden traps did the Seventh Speaker ingeniously devise?"

The Third Speaker, Xie Tingfeng, promptly amended the reward methodology. Henceforth, when a procurement officer submitted items exceeding the quality demanded by the task, the corresponding remuneration would be augmented.

This necessitated a dynamic review mechanism, which Xie Tingfeng initially intended to implement without delay.

However, he was taken by surprise to observe Su Yuan, who had merely concluded his tasks, had already accepted and chosen to submit new ones.

"Hm?"

Xie Tingfeng expressed his astonishment. He detached a fragment of his consciousness to maintain its focus on Su Yuan, while his other consciousnesses proceeded to address the matter he had just conceived.

"Just how extensive is the inventory of this Seven Stars Artificer?"

He briefly surveyed the caliber of items Su Yuan uploaded, manually processed Su Yuan's tasks, and this time, he elevated the task rewards in accordance with their quality.

Before he could even meticulously examine the precise quality of the Dominator Artifacts, Su Yuan's third batch of review submissions had already been tendered.

"Why doesn't this 'Seven Stars' submit everything all at once?" Xie Tingfeng was equally perplexed.

Then, the realization dawned upon him: Su Yuan's authorization level was merely that of a Junior Procurement Officer, limited to completing ten tasks per session.

Witnessing this, Xie Tingfeng made a magnanimous gesture, directly elevating Su Yuan's credentials to Intermediate Procurement Officer. Concurrently, he bestowed upon Su Yuan a temporary, special privilege to automate task completion and review.

Su Yuan, at this moment, was in the process of submitting the third installment of Dominator Artifacts.

Suddenly, a notification resonated from his City Lord Seal.

[Ding, congratulations on your authorization upgrade. You have officially become an Intermediate Procurement Officer of the Second Frontline!]

"Huh? An upgrade after merely two batches of tasks?"

Su Yuan wore a look of mild surprise. This was indeed welcome news. Following the authorization enhancement, he would be able to submit tasks in larger quantities, wouldn't he?

Su Yuan noticed that the tasks were already marked as successfully reviewed.

He perused the rewards and unexpectedly observed that the total remuneration had reached 1.7 million Kalpa units, an unexplained increment of 700,000 Kalpa units.

"Well now, that's quite promising. As anticipated, being an Intermediate Procurement Officer makes a noticeable difference. Even the task rewards see an increase."

Su Yuan mused aloud to himself, then proceeded to select all available tasks.

This time, a total of one hundred primary tasks (spanning the 30th to 39th tiers) and ten intermediate tasks (covering the 40th to 49th tiers) were successfully accepted by him.

With a grand flourish, Su Yuan submitted eleven thousand Dominator Artifacts that satisfied the stipulated criteria.

In the briefest instant.

The tasks were already indicated as successfully submitted!