My talent is 1.

Looking at the message Xiang Yang sent, Zhong Wuyai couldn't help but feel a bit overwhelmed.

A total of 654 pieces of equipment need to be made.

"Damn it, this is such a tough and tiring job."

The two pieces of equipment for secondary professions that Zou Shu brought over caught Zhong Wuyai's eye.

"I never expected there to be such a thing."

[Extraction Bottle]

Alchemist Class Equipment

Durability: 100/100

Grade: Bronze

Extraction speed +20%

The amount of extractable substances increased by 10%.

There is a 1% probability of extracting the highest grade of substances from medicinal materials.

Exquisite Medicine Sickle

Alchemist Class Equipment

Durability: 200/200

Grade: Bronze

Increases damage to plants by 500%.

Collection speed increased by 50%

There is a 5% chance of collecting perfect medicinal herbs.

There is a 15% chance of collecting high-quality medicinal herbs.

There is a 30% chance of collecting medium-quality medicinal herbs.

There is a 50% chance of collecting low-quality medicinal herbs.

We have to give this a try... we absolutely have to.

First, the low-level enhancement scroll was installed. The +3 effect of the extraction bottle was not significant. Apart from increasing the extraction speed and quantity, there were no other changes.

Zhong Wuyai tried to place the extraction bottle into the divine furnace, but it indicated that the operation could not be performed.

"This is really troublesome... Do we have to use the Azure Dragon Seal?"

No, it's just a bronze item, not even the exclusive kind, there's no need to waste the Azure Dragon Seal.

Besides, there are only 4 Azure Dragon Seals left now, so it's impossible to waste them on this.

At worst, I can just redo it during the tempering process; I don't need those tempering stones anyway.

Of course, the other sessions within an hour shouldn't be wasted.

After upgrading 9 pieces of equipment, Zhong Wuyai finally upgraded the extraction bottle to +31.

[Extraction bottle +10]

Alchemist Class Equipment

★★★★★★★★★★

Durability: None

Grade: Bronze

Extraction speed +30%

Extraction speed +100%

Extractable substance quantity +20%

Extracting substances does not consume durability.

Extraction should not be interrupted and should not be affected.

There is a 10% probability of extracting all substances.

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Tempering Lv.10

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That makes things much easier.

First, the blank refinement was destroyed at the Divine Furnace, the tempering disappeared, and then one star was lost.

Zhong Wuyai took it to the weapon refiner again. The refiner had a large stock of equipment upgrade stones. Bai Xiaoniu had arranged it very well this time.

Three people switched sects, and their two backpacks were full of various materials, equipment upgrade stones, crystals, and other things.

If the backpack is empty, and you break it down into a large quantity of materials that you can't fit inside, just give it to him and put it back into the Heavenly Treasure Vault.

Of course, he was also the only player to have all the storage slots in the Heavenly Treasure Vault filled, spending countless gold coins in the process.

Shen Mengli also gave her an elite, which directly expanded her power to 80,000 grids.

There's still a lot of unsold inventory; let's use it up first.

Zhong Wuyai is currently level 56 and has reached the maximum experience level, so he has enough experience to upgrade his star rating.

This time, we were very cautious with the star upgrade. We didn't lack materials for Zhong Wuyai, but the gold coin cost was a bit high, so we tried to save as much as possible.

I kept checking the success rate indicator until it reached 20% before clicking "OK".

With the blessing of the Pala statue, the success rate is currently the highest.

I was lucky this time; I only had to click 3 times to successfully upgrade my star rating.

"Fortunately, it only took 150 million experience points to get it done, it wasn't that troublesome."

Zhong Wuyai opened the guild chat window.

"Zou Shu, what is your primary attribute? Or rather, what attribute do you want to increase?"

"Boss, is it really going to work?"

"Holy crap, boss, I want one too! What the hell?!"

"Wei Xian, shut up, and everyone else, don't interrupt either."

"It's done. Now it's time to refine the attributes. What do you need?"

"If possible, boost your morale."

"Spirit?"

"Yes, the higher the spirit value, the better the extraction effect. When refining medicine, the spirit attribute is the most important."

"Then why don't you switch to a magic-based class with high spirit?"

"It's tough. The job change quest is difficult. The vice president has a rare Elemental Manipulator job change scroll, but I'll fail nine times out of ten if I try to do it myself."

"That's alright. This time, everyone will get eight pieces of ten-star equipment. Whether you need combat power, defense, or damage reduction/control immunity, I'll make it for you."

"Really?... Magic attack, magic defense, and magic immunity, ideally with critical hits too."

"Come to the capital and make whatever equipment you need yourself. Leave the rest to me."

"Okay, boss."

Zhong Wuyai used several Imperial Tomb Obsidian Stones to refine the extraction bottle, and he actually managed to get a previously unseen attribute.

Drug efficacy enhancement: 0

Upon seeing this attribute, Zhong Wuyai was at a loss for words.

Perhaps the extraction bottle is a special type of professional equipment, possessing even this attribute.

Finally, with a heavy heart, Zhong Wuyai used more than a dozen pieces of Imperial Tomb Obsidian to wash out three medicinal properties.

Then, use quenching stones to fully quench the material.

Tempering Lv.10

Medicinal properties: +50%

Medicinal properties: +50%

Medicinal properties: +50%

That's perfect now.

As for the three gem slots, perhaps they will be used for special gems in the future.

Next is the medicine scythe. After upgrading it to level 31, destroy it and continue to upgrade its star rating.

This was a bit of a hassle. I only managed to level up after I was almost out of experience points. The difficulty of the last star was just unbelievable.

It's just me; anyone else wouldn't be able to level up without tens of millions of gold coins and billions of experience points.

There's no rush to refine it yet; we don't have many refining stones left.

After his talent and talent skill cooled down, Zhong Wuyai immediately crafted two pieces of equipment, then refined them, and upgraded them to level 31.

After dismantling fully tempered equipment, you'll suddenly have a lot of tempering stones.

Tempering stones are fine, but these star-raising stones are really...

"Damn it, if you really can't handle it, you can just throw some away."

"No way, boss! Wouldn't it be better to share it with the brothers? Once the others reach level 50, their demand for equipment upgrade stones will definitely be high. We can sell them cheaply and still make hundreds of thousands or even millions of gold coins."

"Your warehouses won't be able to hold them all before that time comes."

When Xiang Yang came over to get the equipment, his eyes held a hint of resentment.

"Boss, can we just make it like the ten-star equipment we used before?"

"What's wrong?"

"Destroying the refinement will reduce the star rating, and the last star upgrade is simply impossible for us. It would take a long time to accumulate experience points alone, not to mention the cost of gold coins."

Um... that's true.

I hadn't thought that much about it before; I was just thinking that it would save me the trouble of drilling holes in the gemstones later.

But now the blank space at Tempering Lv.10 has left everyone in a dilemma.

Destroy it! Not only will it lose one star's worth of stats, but the crucial point is that no one else has any hope of getting the last star.

If we don't destroy it, then the cleansing process will be ruined; it can't be cleansed or tempered.

Compared to others, this has so many fewer attributes.

After thinking for a moment, Zhong Wuyai took back the nine pieces of equipment and destroyed all of their tempering attributes.

"Put these pieces of equipment into storage, and auction them off one piece every three days, starting at 15 million gold coins."

Nine-star equipment might not be worth much to me, but to others it's practically a divine artifact.

Zhong Wuyai wasn't worried about finding buyers; frankly speaking, 15 million was already a significant discount.

Even if they tried to make it themselves, it would cost them 100 million gold coins a year and they might not be able to produce a single piece.

Materials and experience are both problems.

Strengthening to +10 is already incredibly difficult, let alone star-level upgrades.

There was no other way but to redo it.

"I'll remake your equipment; you'll just have to make a few more trips."

Xiang Yang didn't say much and left directly.

It's only been a short time, and so much equipment is already ready.

They wouldn't have to wait too long for their own equipment, so naturally they wouldn't say anything more.

After finishing her work, Shen Mengli immediately came to the capital. She did nothing but stare at Zhong Wuyai.

"Could you please stop staring at me like that? Do you really have nothing better to do?"

"I'm already done with my work, and leveling up is too slow. I'll wait for you to help me level up later. My equipment needs to be fully tempered."

"Okay, okay, I know, but please don't look at me like that..."

"What's wrong? You're already looking down on me? You don't like me anymore... You heartless, unfaithful man..."

"Alright, alright... Let's get your equipment ready first, okay?"

"Don't do that. Let's give it to a few deputy positions first. To be honest, I'm even thinking of switching to alchemy because of Zou Shu's extraction bottle."

"Let me do it for you first. Also, you should refine the attributes of your equipment first."

Zhong Wuyai couldn't stand Shen Mengli's gaze.

Shen Mengli has almost completely changed her equipment this time, and all ten pieces of ten-star equipment are now maxed out.

Seven of them were fully tempered, and their attributes were much higher than Zhong Wuyai's.

Only then did he leave satisfied.

Even if Shen Mengli used all her SSS-level talents at the moment, she would still be no match for her.

Even so, she might not be able to handle an 80-level epic boss. She might be able to handle a gold boss, but it's hard to say about an epic boss.

She's not like Zhong Wuyai, who has no cooldown and can control the enemy indefinitely, nor does she have over 100% physical immunity, magic immunity, or true damage immunity.

Needless to say, Zhong Wuyai's skills are so badly distorted that they're practically nonexistent.

Zou Shu stood to the side, not daring to say a word from beginning to end.

I kept taking the extraction bottle out to look at it, and the more I looked at it, the more I loved it.

Beside the divine furnace, the medicine sickle was refined and produced something.

Three pieces of diamond obsidian, ten pieces of imperial tomb obsidian, and quite a few other obsidian were used.

Finally, I've cleaned up the attributes of this medicine sickle.

"You little rascal, the cost of this one piece of equipment is equivalent to someone else's entire set."

"Hehe, boss, did you get some good stuff?"

"Nonsense, see for yourself!"

[Exquisite Medicine Scythe +10]

Alchemist Class Equipment

★★★★★★★★★★

Durability: None

Grade: Bronze

Increases damage to plants by 1000%.

Ignore any defenses or mitigations of the plant

Collection speed increased by 200%

Harvesting herbs does not consume durability.

There is a 20% chance of collecting perfect medicinal herbs.

There is a 30% chance of collecting high-quality medicinal herbs.

There is a 50% chance of collecting medium-quality medicinal herbs.

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Tempering Lv.10

Spirit: +1100

Collection speed: +50%

Spirit: +1100

Not only has the probability increased significantly, but you also won't collect low-quality medicinal materials; at worst, you'll get medium-quality ones.

The three strands of silk were even more unbelievable to Zou Shu.

"Two...more than two thousand spirits..."

"What?...Not satisfied?"

"Satisfied, extremely satisfied. This spirit... how many attribute levels does it need to reach?"

"Well, you're still missing a few pieces of equipment. Just bring over whatever attributes you want. They both have the materials."

Disassembling fully tempered equipment involves more than just equipment upgrade stones and tempering stones; it also yields a variety of other materials.

Even though crafting equipment consumes a lot of materials, disassembling it restores most of them.

Next up are Shen Youchu's... and Chen Wenyu's...

Zhong Wuyai broke out in a cold sweat just looking at Chen Wenyu's equipment.

Bai Xiaoniu gave him more than ten obsidian stones, and unexpectedly, he got a lot of attack speed and health bar increase attributes.

Even the bloodsucking was washed out.

……

Tempering Lv.10

Attack Speed: +100%

Attack Speed: +100%

Physical life steal: +10%

……

Tempering Lv.10

Health Points: +350000

Attack Speed: +100%

Physical Hit: +30

There's also an item that deals true damage and grants true damage immunity.

The last one also includes an evasion option.

Zhong Wuyai was unsure of the extent to which Chen Wenyu's combat strength had soared.

Basically, he's evenly matched with Bai Xiaoniu now... and Bai Xiaoniu might not even be a match for him.

That's good; it makes conquering the Dragon Empire much more likely.

It's a pity that Xiahou Shen and Huangfu Liancheng aren't from my guild, otherwise I wouldn't feel any pressure at all.

For several days in a row, Zhong Wuyai was either making equipment or sleeping.

Alternatively, you can prepare all the equipment in advance and upgrade all of it at once as soon as the talents are off cooldown.

Of course, if you don't have tempering, you'll have to get it yourself.

I ran out of crystals for upgrading, so I dismantled several pieces of equipment.

This caused a surge in the inventory of materials in the Heavenly Treasure Vault.

The more materials you use to craft equipment, the more you consume—it's unbelievable!

"Buying equipment upgrade stones at high prices...buying all kinds of obsidian, prices negotiable..."

A message on the world channel left many people puzzled.

"Holy crap, what's wrong with Lu Yingjie?"

"I don't know. By the way, what are these equipment upgrade stones, and what are tempering stones?"

"It seems that Zhong Wuyai and Shen Mengli have it, but I don't know about the others."

"I know about equipment upgrade stones, but what are obsidian and tempering stones used for?"

"The Royal Capital Divine Furnace is used for refining and tempering; it can only be used at level 50."

Xiahou Shen couldn't help but speak up. He hadn't expected Lu Yingjie to accept this thing, since he couldn't use it now.

"Holy crap... Look at the leaderboard... Lu Yingjie is already level 53... and Lu Yinghao is level 55, second on the leaderboard!"

"Holy crap... what's going on?"

"What the hell is this?... Lu Yingjie was only level 30-something a few days ago, how did he suddenly jump to third place on the leaderboard?"

"And then there's Lu Yinghao... He wasn't even level 30 last week, and now... he's already second on the leaderboard!"

"I saw Lu Yingjie a couple of days ago; he was already level 49 back then."

"Can anyone tell me what's going on?... Everyone was running just fine, how come you suddenly started flying in the sky?"

Zhong Wuyai, who was making equipment, was unaware of what was happening when suddenly his leg was grabbed.

"What's wrong with you now, you silly girl?"

"Hmph~..."

Shen Youchu looked at Zhong Wuyai with a resentful expression...

"Tell me what happened... Does Mengli have more fully tempered equipment than you?... No, I remember you both have 7 pieces, while Chen Wenyu only has 4."

"Hmph... Hmph~..."

"What exactly is going on?"

"President, you're showing favoritism... Lu Yingjie and Lu Yinghao are outsiders, and you've already helped them rise to second and third place on the rankings, but you're not even helping your own people..."

What am I supposed to do...?

"I can't do anything about it. Their level is too low, so the experience given to those who are higher level is too high. Just one level 90 BOSS gave them billions of experience points, which is a serious overflow."

"real?"

Shen Mengli looked suspicious.

"Why would I lie to you? It's just one BOSS. When I was with Lu Yinghao, we only fought one Adil. Who would have thought that I would get billions of experience points? I just changed jobs and immediately jumped to second place on the leaderboard."

"When are you going to help me level up?"

"I'll be done with this busy period soon, and I'll level everyone up to 60. You can stay at level 61 or 62, okay?"

"That's more like it!"

"Lu Yingjie is advertising in the world chat that he's buying equipment upgrade stones. Isn't the guild leader going to make a killing?"

"When did this happen?"

"Just now!"

"Holy crap... here come the gold coins."

I have so many upgrade stones for my equipment that I'm thinking of throwing them away.

Immediately open the friends list...

"Bai Xiaoniu, hurry up and ship the goods! Lu Yingjie is collecting stones."

Shen Mengli, who had just upgraded her skills, was testing their effects when she saw the message and immediately contacted Lu Yingjie...

As for the price... naturally, the more the better, since this stuff is almost never produced outside of Xianyang Palace at this stage.

Shen Mengli's first thought wasn't about star-up stones, but rather 9-star equipment, as well as obsidian and tempering stones.

She refused to believe that Lu Yingjie wouldn't be tempted.

However, it is not convenient to sell nine-star equipment directly at the moment.

Because of the equipment ranking system, most people think that upgrading equipment stars is easy, to the point that they feel that as long as they reach level 50, it is easy to spend some money to upgrade the star level of their equipment.

Of course, because there are relatively few equipment upgrade stones available now, apart from the few equipment upgrade stones that were previously sold to Zhang Haitao, there are almost no other people selling them.

There are quite a few +10 enhanced equipment items for sale, and they are all 0-star, so you don't need to use Enlightenment Stones to unlock their star rating.

Lu Yingjie easily upgraded his equipment to two stars using some equipment upgrade stones, and was even lucky enough to upgrade one piece to three stars.

This made Lu Yingjie believe that it was easier to advance to the next star level.

Although he has consumed a lot of experience, he still has a lot of experience.

Moreover, Lu Yinghao still has hundreds of millions of usable experience points, so upgrading his star level is a must.

However, level 50 equipment is difficult to obtain, as enhancing it is a challenge.

Therefore, Lu Yingjie wanted to acquire some Star-Up Stones first. It would be difficult to collect a full set of ten-star stones, but it would be much easier to collect five-star stones.

The problem is that upgrading requires too many crystals, and gold coins are also a problem.

Shen Mengli also thought of this and sent a message to Zhong Wuyai...

"Make some level 50, 0-star equipment with +10 enhancement. After selling them, the equipment upgrade stones will be easier to sell."

Zhong Wuyai immediately understood what Shen Mengli was planning.

Strengthening is too difficult, so I'll just strengthen it to the maximum level for you right now, then you won't have to worry about not being able to sell it.

All enhancements are maxed out, and star ratings have been unlocked. Do you want to upgrade the star rating?

The process of leveling up becomes increasingly difficult, and the more you progress, the more mental anguish you endure, sometimes even to the point of collapse.

Then... Nine-star equipment appears, and I ask you, isn't that intoxicating?

There are also tempering stones... If you post a screenshot of a fully tempered piece of equipment, I bet you'll be tempted.

There is no such thing as failure in obsidian refining, nor is there any such thing as failure in tempering.

So, it's not a big deal if obsidian and tempering stone are a little more expensive, right...?

Then there's the skill enhancement of the ten-star set.

The 10-star set skill enhancement can enhance talent skills, and it provides three effects.

So, should we upgrade from nine stars to ten stars...? Let's consider upgrading equipment stars; I'll give you a discount...

The more Zhong Wuyai thought about it, the more feasible it seemed.

After letting Xiang Yang take another batch of equipment, he started making level 50 fully enhanced equipment.

That's much easier. Just get two pieces for each profession, upgrade them to +1, and use talents to improve them.

After making about twenty items, Zhong Wuyai stopped and asked Bai Xiaoniu to come and collect the equipment.

There are never enough gold coins.

It can't be brushed like other materials.

Therefore, Zhong Wuyai never dared to use his talent to modify the gold coins.

After all, you can only modify it once, so you must save up enough gold coins before using it.

Gold coins~……Gold coins~……

Zhong Wuyai seemed to have thought of something...

"Bai Xiaoniu, how much money do you have right now?"

"What's wrong?...Do you need it?"

"I have a bold idea~..."

"What the hell are you trying to do?... You pervert... Don't do this stupid thing..."

"What are you thinking?... First, tell me how many gold coins you have?"

"A little over three million, what's wrong?... But once all this equipment is sold, it should be around fifty million. Upgrade stones for the subsequent equipment will also sell for a lot. It just takes time, after all, they need time to farm gold."

"Bring me as much as you have. I'll give it a try. If it works, maybe we'll never lack gold coins again."

Shen Mengli seemed to have thought of something.

"Are you trying to cause trouble again?"

"Bingo!"

Shen Mengli was also a little excited. Although she didn't understand how Zhong Wuyai had done it, the quantity of equipment and materials far exceeded everyone's expectations.

And those fully tempered ten-star equipment, they can actually be mass-produced... As for gold coins... maybe he really can get them.

Shen Mengli didn't waste any words and confiscated all the gold coins of Shen Youchu, Chen Wenyu, and Xiang Yang, as well as the guild's reserve gold coins.

6647010 gold coins, the total amount of funds that Xianyang Palace can currently mobilize. If it weren't for the high construction costs of Chang'an City, this number could be three or four times higher.

Shen Mengli sent a screenshot of the gold coins to Zhong Wuyai.

Zhong Wuyai listed a piece of equipment at the auction house in Chang'an City.

The price is 6647000.

"Holy crap, a +1 enhanced piece of equipment, over five million?"

There are many players in Chang'an City now, and equipment gets noticed as soon as it enters the auction house.

However, this is only a +1 enhanced piece of equipment. Even if it's a level 50 gold item, the price is outrageous.

"Bai Xiaoniu, take a picture of this piece of equipment!"

Without wasting any words, Shen Mengli immediately increased her bid by 10 gold coins, which was all the gold coins she had at the moment.

"Holy crap, someone bought it...someone actually bought it..."

"No way, who's crazy enough to spend over six million on something like this?"

"Who knows? Maybe they'll like it."

"There are all sorts of people here. A full set of level 50 gold equipment doesn't even cost 500,000. What the hell... Has the fantasy world gone mad, or am I going mad?!"

Shen Mengli was completely bewildered by the various noises coming from the auction house...

Zhong Wuyai, you better get me some money, or I'll never forgive you...