Chapter 30: Touch of Spirit Quenching

Yasuo sheathed his longsword, his cold gaze sweeping across Young Master Mo's still-warm corpse.

He bent down.

His fingertips lightly pinched the lavishly designed Storage Ring.

The ring silently fell into his palm.

"Heh, another one," Zhou Huai sneered inwardly.

As expected, a Storage Ring was standard equipment for young masters of wealthy families.

This trip was a massive profit!

The three Storage Rings alone were worth over a million Daxia Coins!

Not to mention the things inside.

Young Master Mo's inventory in his ring was particularly bountiful.

With a rough glance, over a hundred bottles of Advanced magic recovery potions emitting a light blue gloss were neatly stacked.

A thick stack of brand-new Daxia Coin cash, visually estimated to be at least one hundred thousand.

There was also a pile of low-level fierce beast Materials glowing with various dim lights.

In comparison, the rings of the two brothers, Zhao Tianming and Zhao Tianqi, were much more shabby.

A few pieces of equipment with mediocre attributes.

A few basic health recovery potions.

Nothing else.

Zhou Huai understood.

No one would carry all their wealth on themselves.

To them, a ring was merely a tool for convenience on the road.

After carefully taking inventory of all the loot, Zhou Huai nodded with satisfaction and looked at the sky.

The horizon was already turning pale white, and it was already past seven in the morning.

Although last night's fierce battle had delayed a lot of time,

setting off now should still be in time to rush to Clear Water Lake.

His gaze turned not far away to Jasmine, who was curled up under a tree and still somewhat shaken.

"You, come with me."

Jasmine gave a start, hurriedly climbed up from the ground, and nodded like a chick pecking at rice, not daring to show the slightest disobedience.

Afterwards, under Zhou Huai's signal, Jasmine once again summoned her scout spirit eagle.

Several nimble flying birds flapped their wings and flew high, hovering above Yasuo and Jasmine, taking in the environment within a radius of hundreds of meters.

"Three hundred meters to the front left, there is a small squad of three Level 5 Gale Wolves."

"There is energy fluctuation in the forest on the right, not high in Rank, it should be a Level 7 Mottled Venomous Spider. Watch out for its web."

Jasmine's voice was slightly hoarse, but her tone was very focused, constantly guiding the direction for Yasuo and reporting the distribution of scouted fierce beasts.

With this mobile radar, Yasuo's advancing efficiency was greatly improved.

He could always avoid unnecessary entanglements with fierce beasts in advance, choose the optimal route, and greatly save time.

However, Jasmine was ultimately just a support-type Summoner.

Physical stamina was her fatal flaw.

After running at high intensity for more half an hour, she was already dripping with fragrant sweat, panting, and staggering.

Seeing that she was about to be left behind,

"Boss… I… I can't run anymore…"

The voice carried a crying tone and panic.

Yasuo paused his steps.

Turning back, he frowned and looked at Jasmine, who was almost limp.

A few seconds of silence.

He turned around, turned his back to her, and half-squatted down.

"Get on."

A cold command without any ripples.

Jasmine was stunned.

Immediately, a strange blush rapidly crept up her cheeks.

Hesitation lasted only a split second; she bit her lip and cautiously leaned over him.

Her arms wrapped around the wide and sturdy shoulders and back in front of her.

Through her clothes, she could feel the warm body temperature containing power.

A strong masculine scent mixed with sweat and a faint trace of blood rushed into her nasal cavity.

Jasmine's heartbeat involuntarily skipped a few beats.

Her cheeks were burning hot.

"Focus your mind, report the coordinates!"

Yasuo's cold voice was like a bucket of cold water poured over her head.

Instantly shattering Jasmine's romantic thoughts.

"Ah! Yes! Five hundred meters ahead, on the right, there are two Iron-Clawed Lynxes roaming. It is suggested to go around the low slope on the left…"

Jasmine hurriedly reined in her thoughts, focusing on reporting what the "eyes" in the sky saw.

Her cheeks were still burning.

Carrying her on his back, Yasuo was still as swift as the wind.

Galloping away in the direction of Clear Water Lake.

Meanwhile, Zhou Huai switched his consciousness to Ou Yezi on the top floor of the Forging Guild.

Inside the top-tier forging room.

The furnace fire was blazing.

The monotonous and rhythmic hammering sounded like a heartbeat pulsing.

Ou Yezi was shirtless with a well-built upper body, sweat flowing along the lines of his muscles.

He was immersed in endless forging.

On the forging table.

More than twenty freshly baked rings were neatly arranged.

Every ring flickered with a warm magical luster.

After Zhou Huai picked them up one by one to inspect them, there was not much joy on his face.

"They are all rare… no epic-grade."

"It seems that even for an SS-Rank Myriad Forms Divine Craftsman, forging epic-grade equipment is by no means an easy task."

"It takes time, and even more, a little luck."

As Yasuo Advanced to Rank 10,

Zhou Huai's main body Rank also rose accordingly, simultaneously reaching Rank 10.

He already met the conditions to create a third Clone.

He was just missing an opportunity to draw a profession for the Clone.

Although Ou Yezi still couldn't craft epic-grade equipment at the moment,

that didn't mean there was no good news.

After several hours of uninterrupted forging,

Ou Yezi's Rank had already reached 5.

In the skill bar,

a brand new active skill had unexpectedly appeared!

[Touch of Spirit Quenching LV1]:

Consumes 200 Mana Points.

Selects a piece of equipment and alters and reshapes one of its random affix attributes.

Cooldown time: 1 hour.

"Alter affix attributes?" Zhou Huai's eyes instantly lit up!

As if he had discovered a new continent!

The value of equipment doesn't just depend on its base quality!

A powerful affix was enough to make an ordinary piece of equipment undergo a complete transformation!

Even surpassing high-grade equipment!

He knew very well that in this world, aside from its own quality and Rank, the value of a piece of equipment largely depended on its attached affix attributes!

A good affix could sometimes even allow a piece of equipment of slightly inferior quality to unleash power far surpassing top-tier equipment of the same Rank!

Equipment affixes were likewise divided into several grades:

Ordinary Affixes: Usually increase fixed attribute points, such as Strength +10, Agility +8, etc., and are the most common.

Excellent Affixes: Most effects are percentage bonuses, such as Attack Power increased by 5%, Critical Hit Rate increased by 3%, Healing Received effect increased by 10%, or 20% Physical Penetration, etc., which already possess considerable value.

Advanced Affixes: They are even rarer and can often carry some special effects triggered passively, such as having a chance to stun the target for 1 second when attacking, having a chance to freeze the attacker when attacked, or reflecting a portion of damage, etc.

Above these were the extremely rare Top-Tier Affixes!

Equipment with top-tier affixes could even directly grant Professionals a brand new active skill! It was equivalent to giving Professionals an extra skill slot out of thin air! One could easily imagine its value!

And the very top tier was that legendary Golden Legendary Affix!

Every single one of these affixes possessed terrifying Heaven-Defying effects that could alter destiny; some involved passive permanent effects, some granted powerful active skills, and some even stacked multiple effects.

What was even more terrifying was that certain golden legendary affixes could even touch the forbidden Domain of time and space!

In Zhou Huai's memory, there was a world-renowned example of a golden legendary affix.

That was the epic-grade armor worn by Qi Fengyun, the Guardian General of the Great Xia Country and a legendary-tier powerhouse — [Undying Battle Soul Armor]!

That piece of armor itself was only of epic-grade quality, but the golden legendary affix attached to it, "Undying Battle Soul", granted the wearer a chance to resurrect in-situ with full status!

Moreover, this was not a one-time consumable!

After the resurrection effect was triggered, one only needed to wait for a cooldown time of one year to have it again!

This was the terrifying aspect of the golden legendary affix!

A piece of equipment directly acquired strategic-level significance because of a single affix!

"Can this [Touch of Spirit Quenching] not only change the affix attributes, but also change the grade of the affix?"

"Can low-grade affixes be directly reshaped into Advanced or even top-tier ones?"

Thinking of this, he immediately made Ou Yezi stop the action of forging a new ring in his hands.

The forging room instantly fell silent.

His gaze fell on the forging table.

On a Rank 10 ring that had just been forged.

Zhou Huai brought up its attribute panel:

[Swift Wolf Ring (Rare ★★★★)]

[Required Rank: LV10]

[Spirit: +30]

[Max Mana: +150]

[Affix 1 (Ordinary): Strength +20]

"You're it!"

Ou Yezi extended his index finger, and a cluster of golden light as deep as a vortex suddenly lit up at his fingertips.

Within the light, countless tiny rune chains seemed to be flowing and reorganizing.

This was precisely [Touch of Spirit Quenching]!

He tapped gently towards the ring.

Hum!

The golden light instantly enveloped the entire ring!

The ring hovered and vibrated in the golden light!

Emitting a buzzing low hum.

As if some internal structure was collapsing and reorganizing!

A few seconds later.

The golden light abruptly receded!

The ring steadily fell back into Ou Yezi's palm.

Looking at the attribute panel again:

[Swift Wolf Ring (Rare ★★★★)]

[Required Rank: LV10]

[Spirit: +30]

[Max Mana: +150]

[Affix 1 (Excellent): Attacks come with 10% physical lifesteal]

"10% physical lifesteal!"

A light of wild joy burst out in Zhou Huai's eyes!

It succeeded!

Not only did it change the affix attribute, but it also directly reshaped an ordinary affix into an excellent affix!

Furthermore, this lifesteal effect was simply a divine skill for melee classes!

Currently, this [Touch of Spirit Quenching] was still only Level 1.

With the increase in Rank, would the probability of reshaping higher-tier affixes increase?

Could it even directionally reshape?

An incomparably broad blueprint for equipment innovation instantly unfolded in Zhou Huai's mind!

"This skill must be used frequently!"

"Proficiency, time to grind it up!"