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

Platinum-grade core essence, and it's used to enhance weapons—its value is astonishing!

Although this effect doesn't add damage and seems somewhat useless, it has a huge effect when used to kill enemies or bosses.

Lin Yuan first searched on the trading platform, but found that there were no core essences of platinum or above for sale.

Regardless of whether it's a weapon slot or not.

Looking at the core essences of silver and gold, their prices are basically the same as those of the silver and gold versions.

Okay, then let's sell it as a platinum weapon.

Lin Yuan thought for a moment, "If this thing isn't available for sale on any trading platform, what does that mean?"

Scarce!

Since it's a scarce commodity, let's take care of our own people first.

He then sent another message to Su Yunmeng, describing the effects of the platinum core essence: "Do you need it? If not, I'll put it on a trading platform for sale."

"Wait a minute, let me ask Grandpa and the others," Su Yunmeng replied immediately. A dozen seconds later, she sent a voice message: "Yes! Yes! Yes!"

Lin Yuan laughed and said, "A platinum weapon has a market price of around 1 million. Shall we go with that price?"

"Deal!" Su Yunmeng said without hesitation.

Clearly, she had received authorization from her family, and as long as the amount did not exceed a certain threshold, she would agree without hesitation.

Lin Yuan then initiated a remote transaction and placed the core essence on it.

"Wait a minute, my grandfather is still sending me money," Su Yunmeng said apologetically. After a while, she finally finished and entered 1 million star coins.

Both parties confirmed that the transaction was completed.

Su Yunmeng laughed, "Last time we made the platinum necklace, it almost emptied our working capital. This time, buying the core essence has drained our working capital again. If you have anything else good, we can only look on with envy, we don't have the money to buy it!"

"However, with this core essence, we can save a lot of investment when killing BOSS. We only need to kill it 20 or 30 times to earn back all the money we invested."

Wilderness bosses are not the weaklings in dungeons; they often require hundreds or thousands of people to fight them. Each battle either results in casualties or the use of a large number of items, potions, and elixirs, making the cost considerable.

By adding a "sluggish" effect to the weapon, the BOSS's damage will be greatly reduced and its movement will be slower. This can save a lot of lives and reduce the amount of items needed.

She said it would take twenty or thirty tries to break even, but that's a very conservative estimate; maybe a dozen or so would be enough.

Lin Yuan smiled but did not reply. Instead, he continued smelting.

There's also a diamond-encrusted dress.

A few minutes later, the equipment also turned into a core essence.

【Diamond Core Essence (Lightning Backlash)】Blacksmiths can use this to enhance armor, with a 90% chance to give the armor the Lightning Backlash effect; if it fails, the effect disappears.

This isn't limited to any particular location; any armor will do.

After thinking for a moment, Lin Yuan decided to enhance the shield with this core essence.

[Inlay successful. Your Dragonbone Shield has gained the Lightning Backlash effect.]

[Lightning Backlash] When you are hit, there is a 100% chance that you will strike the attacker with lightning, dealing 2000 damage.

Both have diamond-enhanced effects, but the lightning backlash is clearly not as powerful as the destructive storm.

One is triggered when you are attacked, while the other is triggered when you actively attack. Both attack a wide area, and the damage is more than double that of the other.

Don't underestimate it. With higher-level equipment, your physique will also increase. The actual damage caused by 2000 and 5000 may differ by 5 times, 10 times or even 100 times!

Lin Yuan melted down all the remaining equipment, extracting a total of 9 Platinum Core Essences and 7 Gold Core Essences, and then anonymously put them all on the trading platform.

After selling all of these core products, he could earn approximately 200 million yuan.

Then he should be able to purchase the materials needed to craft the protective necklace.

He decided to exchange the protective necklace for a platinum treasure chest.

Platinum Chests are so hard to get!

You can't buy it at all.

But what if he trades it for a protective necklace?

In the game, everyone only has one life, but with the protective necklace, you have two lives, which is something that no other equipment has!

Therefore, in order to gain an extra life, major powers will definitely spare no expense to find the Platinum Treasure Chest.

Although he didn't know the exact cost of protecting the necklace, it was definitely over a hundred million!

The key issue is that some materials are unavailable!

Hmm, can I redeem it with points?

As long as it can be redeemed with points, there's not much of a problem—he can have others redeem it with points and then pay money to buy it back; there are always students who need money.

He continued onward, walking for more than half an hour, until he entered a valley. As soon as he entered, he saw a group of people standing there. Upon seeing him, a dashing woman immediately came up to him: "Friend, we've discovered a newly spawned bronze-level BOSS. Interested in fighting it with us? If it drops loot, we'll bid on the equipment and split the money."

Wilderness BOSS?

Lin Yuan's heart skipped a beat; this meant experience!

But aren't all the wild bosses already monopolized by various factions?

Could this be a trap?

trap?

Lin Yuan couldn't help but smile. If it really was a trap, then these people were just unlucky, and their families wouldn't need to save them a place to eat anymore.

There are only about 30 people on the other side. When will we be able to gather enough people to start pushing the BOSS?

He doesn't have much time.

"Okay." He nodded.

The woman then sent a team-up invitation.

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "Let's skip the team."

This made the others very unhappy, as they felt that Lin Yuan was too arrogant.

In games, teaming up has a huge advantage: teammates won't hurt each other, so you can throw attacks randomly without harming your own teammates. Of course, it's different in the real world. Teaming up doesn't work there either. If your attack accidentally hits a teammate, they'll literally die.

While integrating games with reality is one thing, there are still some differences within games.

However, Lin Yuan was riding a handsome giant wolf, which made everyone look at him with more respect.

—That's a pet, and someone who owns a pet must be at a high level. Moreover, pets are much more expensive than ordinary equipment, which is enough to show that Lin Yuan is a pay-to-win player, and his equipment is not bad either.

They were short-handed and didn't want to drag things out for too long, as things might change. So, even though they were dissatisfied with Lin Yuan's attitude, they had no choice but to endure it.

"Let's hurry up and fight the boss," someone suggested.

"If there are too many people, we'll get less money. Besides, a group of people might come and try to take it from us, and we might end up with nothing." The others agreed.

Finally, the woman who had invited Lin Yuan to team up nodded: "Then let's go fight."

Everyone else calls her "Sister Tang," but she is actually a rare life healer!

Among the many talents, S-level talents are one in a million, but life healers are even rarer, perhaps only one in a hundred thousand.

Since this woman is a life healer, she should have been accepted by a top martial arts university and be sought after by various top forces after graduation. How did she end up teaming up with a bunch of rabble?

Lin Yuan found it very strange.

Also, more than 30 people went to fight a wild boss?

Do you know who I am?

Otherwise, who gave you the courage to try and take on a wild boss with so few people, especially a bronze-level one? You really don't think of your village officials as cadres!