The quality of the treasure chests I open will always increase by 3.

Lin Yuan shook his head.

The more chaotic the times, the more rampant the demons and monsters become—and this is indeed the case.

It's true that while normal people wouldn't believe in the theories of cults, many people are under so much pressure that they naturally become abnormal, which makes it not surprising that cults have a large number of followers.

Unfortunately, he didn't know which cult the person who assassinated him belonged to!

Then when I have enough power, I'll wipe out all the cults.

Lin Yuan thought about it for a moment and thought the method was good, so he stopped worrying about it.

Continue on your way.

To save time, he crossed the area instead of taking the normal route—which would have been a much longer detour.

He summoned Xiao Hei to serve as his mount.

This pet is too weak for combat, but it's not bad as a mount, allowing Lin Yuan to take a break and browse forums or something.

Wait, his purchase request post was dug up and someone left a reply.

It's been a long time, a whole month already!

"You're Qingfeng, the one who set a newbie level record and got gold rating in all level 20 dungeons!" The other person seemed very excited, using a series of exclamation marks, which made Lin Yuan worry that if his Chinese teacher saw this, would he not recognize this student?

"I have a black iron treasure chest, but do you still want it?" the other party asked.

Looking at his game name, "A Strange Man in the World of Dust," Lin Yuan couldn't help but chuckle.

"Yes, I'll keep accepting them," Lin Yuan replied.

"Hmm, but your purchase request has expired. Please resubmit it," a strange man in the dust reminded him.

Yes.

Lin Yuan nodded. He was particularly eager to get treasure chests from the trading platform on the first day, but later, as Su Yunmeng, Han Ming, and others started paying for their tickets, his equipment got better and better, so he didn't care much about acquiring treasure chests anymore.

He would have almost forgotten about it if this person hadn't suddenly sent him a message.

But since I've thought of it, let's give it a try.

The black iron treasure chest is like a golden treasure chest to him. Even though he no longer cares about gold equipment, if he melts it down and extracts the core essence, one piece can sell for 500 million!

Money is still very important.

He then posted a new purchase request, asking for a Black Iron Treasure Chest for 20.

Soon, the game sent a notification that the purchase request had been completed.

"Great God Qingfeng, the money has been received—are you still accepting treasure chests?" a strange man in the dust asked.

"I'll take it all, however many you have," Lin Yuan said with a smile. Before, when he collected treasure chests, he was only spending money and not earning any, because the items he opened were all bound and could not be sold. But now it's different. He has become a blacksmith and can smelt core essence. With just a few moves, he can turn bound equipment into core essence that can be sold.

"Bronze chest: 50; silver chest: 200 million; gold chest: 1000 million," Lin Yuan said. "If you can get them, I'll take them all."

"I understand," said a strange man amidst the dust. "Just wait for my good news."

After saying that, he disconnected the temporary communication.

Lin Yuan smiled and then took out a small black iron treasure chest from his game backpack.

open!

Without hesitation, he immediately opened the box.

【Crimson Mask (Gold Grade, Bound)】

Constitution: +180

Strength: +16

Agility: +16

Spirit: +16

Special effect: Upon hitting a target, there is a 50% chance to fire a crimson ray at the target, dealing 200 damage.

Level required: 20

Lin Yuan smiled and tossed the mask into his storage ring.

Let's just melt it down.

He first went to the blacksmith shop. After finding it, he took out a lot of equipment from his backpack and storage ring and began to smelt them one by one.

He had previously opened diamond chests and obtained two "useless" pieces of equipment. Combined with the equipment from the platinum chests, he had accumulated a lot of equipment. However, he didn't have time to smelt it at the time, so he kept it in his backpack and storage ring.

Just then, he acquired another piece of golden equipment, and it was time to deal with it.

The first thing he forged was that diamond-grade weapon.

This should have been an awesome, top-tier weapon, but Lin Yuan got the Blood Shadow Sword from the Star Treasure Chest first, so it just sat there gathering dust and eventually became a smelting product.

Logically, a blacksmith's furnace shouldn't be able to destroy a diamond-encrusted item; the temperature simply couldn't be that high. But this is a game, and some things just don't make sense. Smelting requires a furnace, and with a furnace, you can smelt, regardless of the quality.

Soon, the diamond weapon disappeared, replaced by a glittering core essence.

【Diamond Core Essence (Destruction Storm)】Blacksmiths can use this to enhance weapons, with a 90% chance to grant the weapon the Destruction Storm effect; if it fails, the effect disappears.

Actually, this diamond weapon has two special effects, one of which is Destruction Storm.

—When smelting, no matter how many special effects the equipment has, you can only obtain one of them.

Without hesitation, Lin Yuan directly imbued the core essence into the Blood Shadow Sword.

Although the Blood Shadow Sword is only level 20, it might be replaced at level 30. If there isn't a good opportunity, it might have to wait until level 40. However, given his leveling speed, it shouldn't take long to reach level 40. Isn't it a bit extravagant to use up such a diamond-level core essence?

You should know that the core essence is not limited by its level!

Diamond level!

"It's alright, out with the old, in with the new."

Even with diamond gear, you'll only get a silver treasure chest.

[Inlay successful. Your Blood Shadow Sword has gained the Destructive Storm effect.]

【Destructive Storm】When you hit a target with your weapon, a devastating energy storm will be created, impacting a 5-meter area around the target and dealing 5000 damage to all targets.

Holy crap, is this the true power of the diamond armor?

Even if it's just a passive effect, it will definitely activate as long as it hits, dealing an extra 5000 points of damage with each hit, and it's an area-of-effect attack!

Lin Yuan felt that if he put this core essence on the trading platform, it would be snapped up even if he offered 10 billion.

No, it might be more than 10 billion!

After all, this is not only a diamond-encrusted weapon, but also one of the rarest.

Unfortunately, he has already used it up.

It doesn't matter, he's not short of money now, and being strong himself is the key.

Lin Yuan thought for a moment, and the second item he smelted was the Demon Eye Blade.

Sure enough, after smelting, the effect of the core essence was "stagnation" rather than tetanus.

The Windbreaker effect is a special effect of silver weapons, specifically the Demon Eye Blade. It will disappear once the weapon is melted down.

It's a pity.

Lin Yuan smiled. Although tetanus is an area-of-effect attack, it takes time for it to take effect. But his damage is too high now, so why should he wait for the monsters to die?

Besides, the special damage effect of silver weapons is still a bit low.

Most importantly, his weapon has been upgraded and now has area-of-effect damage capabilities!

He tried to inlay the inlay, and a prompt immediately appeared.

Your weapon has already been upgraded; upgrading it again will significantly increase the chance of failure.

[Current failure rate: 55%. If it fails, existing enhancements will be lost. Continue?]

Lin Yuan hesitated. The effect of the stagnation was to reduce the target's movement speed and attack speed, which was useful, but not particularly significant. The key point was that failure would cause the enhancement of the Destruction Storm to disappear!

That would be a huge loss.

No wonder even for second-generation rich kids like Su Yunmeng and Han Ming, their equipment only gets one upgrade.

Indeed, the cost of this failure was too high.

"Sell it," Lin Yuan murmured.