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Chapter 85: The Frenzied Forging
As the forging began, Lian Yun gradually grasped Fang Wu's Forging Insights, slowly integrating his forging techniques into his own Forging Technique. He did not simply copy everything; instead, he made subtle changes to create a method that suited him.
At the same time, Clone City started to explore its own Soul Gear forging skills, with a Soul Sword taking a considerable amount of time to craft.
Lian Yun first practiced using materials from the Treasure Alliance, producing equipment that he handed over entirely to them. Once he absorbed all the insights from his time there and had integrated much of their techniques, Lian Yun began using his own materials to forge equipment, which he then stored in the Cloud Realm warehouse.
To be honest, at this point, the Cloud Realm faction had become somewhat irrelevant to Lian Yun.
He had never anticipated such rapid growth. However, since he had promised to assist them in their development, Lian Yun naturally would not go back on his word.
The hundreds of mid to high-level pieces of equipment were suitable for Intermediate Monarchs to Medium Monarchs, which should suffice for Ma Wenlong and others for quite some time.
After forging these items, Lian Yun's Forging Technique reached the pinnacle of high-level Blacksmithing. In the following days, he crafted two Supreme pieces of equipment, officially entering the ranks of Master Blacksmiths.
However, due to the low success rate, Lian Yun was not satisfied and entered a reckless phase where he would not categorize materials. Whatever materials he had on hand were used with a relentless pursuit of perfection, resulting in equipment of varying quality.
Sometimes high-grade materials would yield only mid-level equipment, while other times mid-grade materials surprisingly produced high-level gear. Even if it was the lowest tier among high-level equipment, such gear still possessed defensive capabilities that mid-level equipment lacked.
It felt as though Lian Yun's Forging Technique forcibly altered the properties of the materials.
Despite this sensation, Lian Yun paid little mind; he continued forging equipment while absorbing experience and contemplating the application of Vibrational Force.
After about ten days, three cities within the Twelve Cities experienced a Chaos Beast Tide. Xianyang City was one of them. Therefore, Lian Yun decided to leave Clone City behind to continue practicing Forging Technique while he returned to Xianyang City to participate in the battle.
Lian Yun had chosen to settle in Xianyang City primarily because it offered more Honor Points missions. This so-called abundance became apparent shortly after his arrival when he realized that it was due to Xianyang City's frequent occurrences of Beast Tides.
This was likely one reason why Xianyang City had relatively few top-tier factions.
If it weren't for the Dungeon of Yaochi, Yaochi would probably not be willing to establish a Fortress outside Xianyang City.
However, the Chaos Beast Tide is controlled by the Earth Formation of Yin Yang City, and the Beast Tide essentially forms directly within thirty to fifty miles outside Xianyang City, thus having little impact on Yaochi, which is over a hundred miles away. Nevertheless, the Beast Tide would still surge towards Yaochi Fortress.
After receiving news from Zhuang Wuxue, Lian Yun made a trip to Yaochi and obtained some Diamond Spirit Coins from Zhuang Wuxue. He hired two robots at the Peak of Sovereignty to guard Yaochi Fortress while he returned to Xianyang City, arriving at the city gate.
Lian Yun did not ask for many Diamond Spirit Coins from Zhuang Wuxue; however, the Chaos Beasts killed by the two Peak of Sovereignty robots would count towards Lian Yun's tally.
Furthermore, in the city defense mission of Xianyang City, personnel from the outer city generally do not experience a reduction in rewards. As a result, many people came from other cities to participate in the battle, while the rewards for personnel from Xianyang City received a certain bonus.
Depending on individual status, this bonus ranged from five percent to twenty percent.
Lian Yun's reward increased from over twenty percent after the Annual Meeting secret to nearly forty percent.
This Chaos Beast Tide was not particularly difficult; at most, it reached the Medium Monarch level. Although numerous, the battle concluded in just three hours, or less than six hours.
Casualties were minimal, but Lian Yun had a feeling that this time, the Chaos Beast Tide seemed like a test by Yin Yang City of the current strength of outsiders. The difficulty of the next Chaos Beast Tide would surely increase.
However, Lian Yun did not dwell on it. After completing the defense mission, he earned countless White Spirit Coins and Honor Points amounting to over one hundred million.
It seemed like a lot, but he was still short by over nine billion to purchase a Duke Title. Achieving that Duke Title was indeed a long and arduous journey.
Once the Beast Tide ended, Lian Yun returned to Chang'an City and placed Clone Swallow and all Ghost Slaves into BSS Tower to let them challenge themselves and improve their strength while he continued his forging endeavors.
For nearly a month afterward, aside from participating in major Beast Tide defense missions, Lian Yun spent his time in Treasure Shop Forging Equipment. With continuous improvement in his forging skills and completion rates, his success rate for forging Supreme equipment rose to ten percent.
While it may seem modest at one in ten, this achievement had already astonished the surrounding Blacksmiths since such a success rate could be considered on par with that of seasoned Master Blacksmiths.
However, at that moment, Master Mo made a rare appearance and handed Lian Yun twelve materials, requesting him to forge a knife, spear, sword, ring, earrings, necklace, hat, helmet, chestplate, belt, greaves, and boots.
He also stipulated that if more than six of these twelve pieces were Supreme equipment, Lian Yun should come find him. If six or fewer did not reach the Supreme level, there would be no need to return to the Treasure Shop.
Many Forging Techniques around them displayed expressions of schadenfreude because Master Mo's request essentially meant that Lian Yun had to achieve a success rate of over fifty percent in forging Supreme equipment. Even some seasoned Master Blacksmiths would not dare to guarantee such a feat, let alone a newly promoted Master Blacksmith.
A Master Blacksmith who could not forge Soul Gear could only be considered a worthless Blacksmith.
However, Lian Yun did not dwell on this aspect; instead, he took the materials from Master Mo with a serious and solemn expression.
At that moment, he realized he had been too extravagant.
In recent days, he often heard the surrounding Forging Techniques complaining about insufficient materials and difficulties in finding what they needed. At the time, Lian Yun did not think much of it because he lacked none of the Forging Materials.
Now, Lian Yun understood that Master Mo's sudden imposition of this challenge was due to his growth in Forging Technique, which had been built up entirely through the accumulation of Forging Materials. He had wasted many precious materials and now felt somewhat blind to the situation.
Master Mo's impromptu task was actually meant to teach him to cherish Forging Materials. If one approached forging without a mindset of valuing each material, then even if they forged Supreme equipment, it would be as soulless as factory-made products—lacking any human touch.
(End of Chapter)
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