Chapter 41: Standard Long Sword
After sweeping the battlefield, everyone quickly returned. This time, no one died, and it was a great victory. Zhao Dashan even became the fourth person to reach level 4 after Qin Lang, and he also obtained a pair of worn-out straw sandals from the dropped items. He immediately put them on with joy. In addition, he and Li Dan had previously killed six level-3 evil spirits, and they managed to collect three rough iron sands. With Zhang Ying's help in synthesizing them, the three of them whispered among themselves and refined an evil spirit ring for Zhao Dashan using the fine iron sand. Adding the free points awarded from leveling up, his attributes also greatly increased. His health reached 21 points, strength reached 25 points, agility reached 15 points, defense reached 1 point, closely following Tang Kun.
Qin Lang's luck wasn't bad either, and he also dropped a pair of worn-out straw sandals. Adding the free points from leveling up, his attributes became: HP 19, Strength 18, Agility 24, Defense 1, Attack 4.
In comparison to Qin Lang and Zhao Da Shan, Tang Kun's advantages are even more apparent. In these three attacks, he and his soldiers have killed over 40 level-3 evil spirits. Not only did this allow all 13 of his level-0 soldiers to reach level 3, but they also obtained a dozen or so rough iron sands. The four refined iron sands created from these were given one each to He Ming, while Tang Kun used the remaining three. However, he has always been refining evil spirit rings, and after failing once, he finally successfully refined one of his evil spirit rings to 2-star level.
"Level 2 Evil Spirit Ring, White Equipment, Refined Two Stars."
"Health +4, Strength +3, Agility +3."
"Comes with a 1st-level skill, Evil Spirit's Roar, which consumes a small amount of stamina to cast. After casting, strength temporarily increases by 5 points, attack increases by 3 points, and defense increases by 3 points for 5 seconds. Cooldown time is 1 minute."
This Evil Spirit Ring, refined to two stars, appeared and caused a burst of astonishment from the crowd. Even Zhou Yue couldn't help but feel envious. This is the benefit of having many people. Tang Kun had concentrated the gains of over twenty people under him into one person, himself. If it were someone else, they wouldn't even dare to refine a one-star ring, let alone a two-star one.
Because Tang Kun had previously killed that auxiliary soldier, a pair of straw shoes also dropped. At this time, his attributes have undergone tremendous changes. His health has reached 25 points, his strength has reached the terrifying 28 points, agility 17 points, defense 1 point. If you add up the evil ghost's roar skill, Tang Kun's short-term defense has already reached 4 points, which is completely capable of head-on confrontation with that slashing skill. At that time, his 28-point terrifying strength will be unleashed, and it will be no problem to confront two or three level-4 auxiliary soldiers head-on!
It's alright, Zhou Yue's gains this time were still able to suppress Tang Kun and the others. He alone was equivalent to twice as many of them, and he killed a total of ten 4th-level auxiliary soldiers, which is equivalent to one hundred 3rd-level evil spirits.
This time, the six small bags that fell down, Zhou Yue did not immediately open them, because he felt that he needed to borrow Liang Xiaoxue's luck again, although this was a bit far-fetched and even superstitious, but he just thought so, at worst, it would be a change of luck.
When Zhou Yue let her open these small bags emitting a faint white glow, Liang Xiaoxue was truly overjoyed and immediately opened them one by one with great excitement. Perhaps she was really lucky, the first three small bags directly dropped out three fine iron sands, which also meant that Zhou Yue could finally synthesize that low-grade steel ingot.
The fourth and fifth small bags were opened, revealing forty copper coins. Now, Zhou Yue was numb to this sight, unable to think of a way to spend these copper coins.
Just as Zhou Yue was about to lose hope, the sixth small bag's glow disappeared and reappeared in Liang Xiaoxue's slender palm, revealing a standard long knife approximately one meter in length!
"Hiss——"
In an instant, everyone around him gasped in shock. When Tang Kun refined the two-star ring earlier, they hadn't been this astonished. It could only be said that the two-star ring was simply incomparable to this exquisite long sword!
Zhou Yue was so excited that he picked up Liang Xiaoxue and spun her around in a circle twice. Indeed, this silly woman was just lucky! After putting down Liang Xiaoxue, who had turned bright red in the face, he carefully took over the standard long knife that looked very ordinary and even roughly forged.
"Grade 4 weapon, a standard long knife used by the Yellow Turbans, white equipment, durability 20/20."
"Strength +4, Agility +1, Defense +1, Attack +3."
"Is this weapon equipped as a two-handed weapon? Note that each person can only equip two primary weapons at the same time."
Upon seeing this last piece of information, Zhou Yue finally understood. This was normal, as each person could only equip two, otherwise if they were to carry ten or more Evil Ghost Fangs, they would be able to crush their opponents with just those attributes alone.
After Zhou Yue chose yes, this standard long knife suddenly came to life and established a weak connection with his body. However, after thinking about it, he still handed the standard long knife over to his left hand, while his right hand continued to hold the Evil Ghost Tooth. This was because what he relied on most now was speed, and the Evil Ghost Tooth allowed him to exert the greatest attack power. The standard long knife, on the other hand, only increased agility by a bit, making it extremely suitable for people like Tang Kun or Zhao Dashan to use.
Of course, Zhou Yue wouldn't be foolish enough to send this formula long knife away. In any case, equipping it on himself would also increase his attributes, right?
At this time, Zhou Yue's attributes changed again. His life value reached 23 points, his energy value was 7 points, and his strength broke through the sky for the first time to reach 20 points. He no longer had to worry about insufficient strength. As for agility, adding two free points made it 28 points, tied with Tang Kun's strength attribute. His defense was 2 points, and his attack became an extraordinary 7 points.
Overall, Zhou Yue's attributes were still able to firmly suppress Tang Kun's, let alone the fact that he had five pieces of fine iron sand that had not been synthesized yet.
At this time, Zhou Yue didn't hesitate much either. He directly took out the five fine iron sands. As expected, it turned out that 2 points of spiritual energy were needed for this step. After thinking for a moment, he decided to synthesize the first step himself and then hand over the synthesis of the second step to Liang Xiaoxue.
At this time, with the faint white light on, those five iron sands gradually merged together. After about twenty seconds, when the white light disappeared, what appeared in Zhou Yue's hand was a large steel ingot, about the size of a child's fist, dark gray and slightly shiny.
"Description: Made from fine iron sand, it has higher toughness and hardness, as well as a bit of sharpness. Can be used to temper weapons, shields, etc., to improve the quality of some equipment. Note: The lower the quality of the equipment, the higher the synthesis rate, and the higher the quality, the lower the synthesis rate. This steel ingot can only refine equipment up to level 10, with unlimited refinement times, but the more successful refinements, the lower the success rate."
