Chapter 357: Epic-grade Secret Potion Formula, Encountering Griffins (5800)

Yes, it was a bundle of secret potion formulas.

Cao Xing was dumbfounded!

Then, she casually tossed the entire bundle of formulas to Cao Xing.

[Obtained: Intermediate Constitution, Strength, Agility, and Spirit Secret Potion Formulas (Blue) * 4]

[Obtained: Witch's Swallow Secret Potion Formula (Purple) * 1]

[Obtained: Witch's Golden Oriole Secret Potion Formula (Purple) * 1]

[Obtained: Witch's White-beaked Crow Secret Potion Formula (Purple) * 1]

[Obtained: Witch's Unicorn Secret Potion Formula (Orange) * 1]

…

A total of eight secret potion formulas.

Four blue, three purple, and one orange.

Clearly, this was the time Cao Xing had obtained the most formulas ever.

Furthermore, among them was an orange-quality secret potion formula, which meant an epic one!

Up until now, Cao Xing had only ever obtained one epic-quality secret potion—the Succubus's Demonic Flame Potion, whose effects were quite terrifying.

Therefore, he was also extremely looking forward to the effects of this [Unicorn Secret Potion].

He glanced at the attributes of these secret potion formulas.

[Intermediate Constitution, Strength, Agility, and Spirit Secret Potion Formulas]

[Potion Effect: Increases 50 points of attributes, lasting for 30 minutes]

[Required Materials for Crafting: Alchemy Workshop, glass bottle, Bear Strength Grass / Spirit Vine / Wind Qing Leaf / Monolith Root (Blue), Cold Spirit Water * 200 * ml]

…

The materials for the four attribute secret potions were mostly similar, with the main difference lying in one of the primary ingredients.

Although Cao Xing had not heard of these materials yet.

But since they were only blue-grade excellent quality herbs, they should still be quite easy to find.

Cao Xing thought to himself: "After the server merger tomorrow, I'll acquire a few hundred copies of these four materials, and then let all my subordinate warriors and staff drink a bottle each."

"By then, everyone's four-dimensional attributes will increase by 50 points, and the benefits will be quite good."

Then, he began to continue checking the requirements of the other three golden formulas.

[Witch's Swallow Secret Potion Formula (Purple)]

[Potion Attributes: Increases evasion rate by 25%, effect lasts for 1 minute]

[Crafting Requirements: Alchemy Workshop, high-grade tree sap, Nightshade Grass, Cold Spirit Water]

…

[Witch's Golden Oriole Secret Potion Formula (Purple)]

[Potion Attributes: Applied to weapons, the next 10 attacks will carry the Golden Oriole's Eclipse effect, reducing the enemy's armor by 10%]

[Crafting Requirements: Alchemy Workshop, high-grade tree sap, Dim-light Moss, venom]

…

[Witch's White-beaked Crow Secret Potion Formula (Purple)]

[Potion Attributes: Accelerates melee classes' attack speed by 20%, and increases dismemberment probability by 20%. If constitution is insufficient, it will damage muscles and cause a tearing effect on oneself]

[Crafting Requirements: Alchemy Workshop, high-grade tree sap, white orchid, Cold Spirit Water]

…

"The effects of these three secret potions are all very good. After all, they provide percentage-based attribute bonuses, and even Hero-level powerhouses can make use of them."

"However, refining these secret potions all require high-grade tree sap, and I don't have much in reserve."

High-grade tree sap was good stuff; not only could it quickly restore mental attributes, but it could also be used to brew wine.

Now there was an additional function of potion crafting.

Cao Xing secretly thought: "It seems that recently, I can send a squad to wipe out the Witch Forest once."

"Inside there, there should still be quite a few Face Trees left."

Then, he began to check the last formula, which was the epic formula.

[Witch's Unicorn Secret Potion Formula (Orange)]

[Quality: Epic]

[Potion Attributes: After use, it can increase 500 points of mental attributes, and increase resistance to abnormal statuses by 30%, lasting for 10 minutes]

(Note: The Unicorn Secret Potion contains extremely powerful magic; only creatures of Tier 4 or above can consume it, otherwise there is a risk of exploding.)

[Required Materials for Crafting: Advanced Alchemy Workshop, glass bottle * 1, top-grade tree sap, Mysterious Four-Leaf Clover, Keda Flower]

…

"What the… so terrifying?"

Cao Xing was directly stunned!

The attributes of this epic secret potion far exceeded his imagination.

Directly increasing 500 points of spirit, if casually given to a magic-class profession, it would be a bonus of over a thousand points of attack power!

In particular, for Cao Xing and Liu Muxue, their status skill bonuses both relied on the strength of their spirit.

The higher the spirit, the greater the help they could bring to the team!

Just Liu Muxue's [Blessing of Courage] alone could additionally increase attack power by 750, and the effect was extremely terrifying!

Of course, increasing 500 points of spirit attributes was not the greatest effect of this secret potion.

That 30% abnormal status resistance in the back was the truly powerful effect.

This was equivalent to directly increasing resistance by 30% against various negative statuses like dizziness, freezing, burning, and even bleeding.

In addition, it also reduced controlled time by 30%.

Coupled with the fact that after Francesca broke through to Master, she also gained an additional 50% abnormal status resistance, which stacked up to 80%!

It could be said that Francesca, after taking the [Unicorn Secret Potion], would be very difficult to be controlled,

and even if she was controlled, it would be impossible to inflict a control chain effect on her!

The value of this secret potion far exceeded imagination.

Seeing the attributes of this Unicorn Secret Potion, Cao Xing praised with a sentence.

"As expected of an epic-quality secret potion, these attributes are truly damn formidable!"

"Of course, this kind of secret potion can only be kept in my own hands and used for our own people!"

Suppressing the excitement in his heart, he turned his head and asked: "We do have a bit of the [Mysterious Four-Leaf Clover] needed here in the territory, but do you know where to get the other [Keda Flower]?"

The witch shook her head, "Although I developed the formula for this secret potion, I am not very clear about the origins of the materials inside."

"The Keda Flower is a few flowers I accidentally obtained from a merchant before, and I have never encountered them since."

"I feel that you have more means than I do, so you should have a way to get this magical flower."

Cao Xing nodded in sudden realization.

"Alright, I understand, it doesn't matter if we can't find it."

"Recently, you should still make holy water and high-grade life secret potions first."

"As for the other materials, I will find a way."

Francesca nodded slightly.

Then, Cao Xing came to the storage box again and took out the magic potions that Sabina had refined over the past few days.

[Obtained: Sabina's Nightmare Potion (Green) * 463]

[Obtained: Sabina's Nightmare Potion (Blue) * 135]

…

There were nearly 600 bottles, which was quite good.

Glancing at Sabina beside him, he praised: "Sabina did well, keep up the good work."

This woman, who was both a physician and a poison master in the territory, was very respectful toward Cao Xing.

She immediately turned around respectfully and bowed.

"I will continue to work hard, thank you for the encouragement, Lord."

Cao Xing smiled and then left the Alchemy Workshop.

Afterwards, he hurried over to the vicinity of the [Tavern] and clicked on the [Recruit] function.

With the upgrade of the tavern, the cooldown time of this function had become once every two days.

It had already finished cooling yesterday, so not using it would be a waste.

After doing this, Cao Xing continued to ponder: "Next, I need to contact Ji Xinyue to trade some Cold Spirit Water for me on the market, so I can make Extreme Ice Water."

"Then go to the Lords Manor, activate the special effect on the Shining Throne, and see what precious resource points it can find for me."

"After that, there shouldn't be much else to do, just wait for the update at midnight."

Thinking of this, Cao Xing quickly put it into action.

He pulled open his friend list, looking at the only two names on it.

Except for Ji Xinyue, there was only Yao Yiming.

However, although he only had two friends, the messages in his message column had reached a terrifying number.

It wasn't 99+, but 9999+.

The information piled up on it had already reached tens of thousands of entries.

Inside here, these were all messages sent by other Survivors.

Some people expressed through messages that they wanted to bring their families along to join Cao Xing's territory.

Some people wanted to cooperate with him to explore a certain special area and claimed that there were a large amount of treasures inside!

Others even wanted to pull him over to be a legion commander or deputy commander.

Facing these messages, Cao Xing directly cleared them all with one click.

There might be some useful information among them, but if he read them one by one, he wouldn't finish reading them in a day.

Then, he sent another message to Ji Xinyue.

"Long time no see, I have a matter that I need to trouble you with."

Cao Xing was relatively direct, so he went straight to the point right away.

Soon, the other side sent a message back.

"Great Lord Cao Xing, long time no see!"

"If you have anything, just say it directly, I'm free anytime."

Cao Xing also smiled and replied: "I need some Cold Spirit Water right now, don't you have a spring over there? So I wanted to ask you to help fill up some Cold Spirit Water and then trade it to me through the market."

"Of course, you can also tell me if you are lacking anything."

And Ji Xinyue said very readily: "Aiya, what trouble is this, I'll go get it for you right away."

Cao Xing was taken aback.

Ji Xinyue instantly realized that she had exposed her accent.

She quickly apologized: "Sorry, Great Lord Cao Xing, it just slipped out!"

Cao Xing smiled, "It's fine, then I'll trouble you."

"It's no trouble, I'm heading over right now!"

…

Meanwhile.

In Ji Xinyue's territory.

She quickly hung up the call, then trotted out of the Lords Cabin, and the Survivors outside all greeted her upon seeing her.

"Hello, Commander!"

"Good day, beautiful Lord."

Ji Xinyue perfunctorily brushed them off: "Alright, alright, I'm a bit busy right now, so I won't greet every single one of you~"

After saying that, she leaped onto the back of that tiger and shouted: "Little Tiger, let's go!"

In an instant, that fierce tiger carried Ji Xinyue and rushed out of the territory.

"Tap, tap…"

The tiger's rhythmic running sound echoed throughout the territory.

Furthermore, its running speed was extremely fast, and in just a few minutes, it arrived beside that spring.

Ji Xinyue directly jumped down from the tiger's back, took out several large water buckets holding a full 30 liters from her backpack, and began frantically filling them with Cold Spirit Water.

Soon, she had filled a full hundred barrels.

Even the water level of that spring dropped quite a bit.

She patted her backpack and said with satisfaction: "Hehe, this should be about enough now."

…

A few minutes later, Cao Xing saw the message replied by Ji Xinyue.

"Great Lord Cao Xing, it's all ready!"

"I've set up the transaction information on the market, only you can trade, you can just go and snap it up."

He quickly opened the market, entered 'Cold Spirit Water', and sure enough, saw a consignment listing on it.

Taking a glance, there were a full 3000 liters…

"Goodness! You loaded so much for me all at once?"

He smiled, directly clicked to purchase, and then a trade window popped up.

Ji Xinyue placed all the hundreds of barrels of Cold Spirit Water onto the window.

And Cao Xing also placed 20 bottles of Intermediate Life Secret Potions, along with a [Cyan-Gold Longsword (Purple)].

This longsword was something he stole—no, picked up—from the weapon shop in Lake Doron City.

He still had many weapons like this level 30 purple weapon in his backpack.

In addition, he also had a golden longsword-type weapon—[Revelation Longsword].

Then there was also an epic-quality longsword—[Divine Shadow Sword].

Of course, the price of the golden longsword naturally far exceeded this batch of Cold Spirit Water.

This Cao does not make losing deals.

Besides, even if he gave it to her, Ji Xinyue definitely wouldn't accept it.

Just like right now, upon seeing these items in the trade window, the person on the other side let out a loud exclamation.

"Great Lord Cao Xing, y-y-y… why are you giving me so many secret potions and weapons?"

Cao Xing said casually, "A hardship fee, just take them first."

Upon hearing this, the other side immediately refused, "Who gives a purple weapon as a hardship fee! This is worth over two hundred thousand crowns!"

"And those life secret potions, their value is simply too high!"

By now, Survivors also knew the price of purple weapons among the indigenous people.

Any random piece of purple-grade equipment cost over a hundred thousand crowns.

The higher the level of the purple weapon, the more expensive it was.

Moreover, even though global Survivors had been in this world for over a month, purple equipment was still not something everyone could possess.

Most Survivors still wore a mix of blue and green equipment.

Take Ji Xinyue for example; in the battle of Lake Doron City, cooperating with the Ascalon Legion under her command, she wiped out quite a few Other-ghosts.

But she had only barely exchanged for half a set of the legion armor set.

This showed just how difficult it was to acquire purple equipment.

Cao Xing chuckled, "This is nothing to me, just take it."

Ji Xinyue hesitated for a moment.

Deep down, she also knew that given this man's strength, these few things really amounted to nothing.

"Th-Then alright…"

Finishing her sentence, Ji Xinyue directly clicked trade.

And Cao Xing also successfully obtained a large amount of Cold Spirit Water as he wished.

"Then happy cooperation, I have things to do, hanging up first."

"Alright, Great Lord Cao Xing, go ahead and get busy."

With that, both sides hung up the communication.

Meanwhile.

After finishing the trade, Ji Xinyue lingered by the market.

Holding that brand-new purple longsword in her hand, she fondled it caressingly, unable to put it down while a constant smile remained on her face.

Right at this moment, a girl suddenly crowded over.

She seemed to have been eavesdropping nearby for a long time.

"Sister Xinyue, who were you chatting with? How come even your accent disappeared?"

Ji Xinyue wasn't surprised to see the young girl beside her. "He's a very formidable person, I was even thinking of bringing you all to join and depend on him in the future!"

"However, I won't tell you who it is right now."

The little girl beside her had her curiosity completely hooked, and she pestered her, saying, "Sister Xinyue, tell me! I'm begging you!"

"Are there any other forces in the entire District 17 worth us depending on?"

Ji Xinyue turned her head and softly snorted, "I just won't tell you, bleh bleh bleh…"

Finishing her sentence, she ran off directly.

…

On Cao Xing's side, after successfully acquiring a large amount of Cold Spirit Water as he wished, he prepared to inject ice-attribute magic power into the water according to Francesca's instructions.

Right at this moment.

He suddenly received a message.

[Your territory member: Kamini has been attacked…]

[Your territory member: Kanfeit has been attacked…]

[Your…]

…

Over a dozen consecutive system prompts made Cao Xing frown.

"So many Centaur have been attacked, what's going on?"

This Centaur squad was sent out by Cao Xing to patrol outside the territory.

In other words, they most likely encountered an attack nearby.

At the same time, a 'bzz' static sound came into his ears.

Without having to think, it was definitely the communication from that group of Centaur.

During this period, with the addition of the goblin Locke, many Small Communication Devices had been produced in the mechanical factory.

Basically, every squad had one or two people equipped with them.

"Lord, I am Kamini, we are currently under attack."

Cao Xing quickly said, "Explain the enemy's situation and location."

"The enemies are a few Griffins! To the southwest of the territory, approximately 12 kilometers away!"

Cao Xing was stunned, "Griffins? How did you guys provoke this group of creatures?"

As a territorial creature, Griffins had their own territorial range.

As long as you didn't actively provoke them, they generally wouldn't take the initiative to attack others.

Kamini quickly replied, "When we were patrolling outside, Kanfeit said there were a few black dots in the sky, thinking they were some kind of bird, so he shot a few arrows."

"As a result, who would have thought this action seemed to anger those fellows, and then a few Griffins flew down from the sky!"

"There are a total of four adult Griffins, each with the strength of a Tier 5 or Tier 6 boss level, and they keep attacking us!"

Cao Xing was speechless.

These Centaur were quite funny; shooting arrows into the sky for no reason, no wonder this group of Griffins was hunting them down.

This should be a group of Griffins out foraging.

Cao Xing was just about to tell them that driving them away would be fine.

At this time, he suddenly thought of something!

"No, creatures like Griffins are territorial social creatures!"

"Since adult Griffins are active here, this means there is likely a Griffin lair nearby?"

Cao Xing narrowed his eyes.

As aerial units, Griffins could be said to be quite powerful.

Not only did they have the strength of a lion, but they also possessed the agility and attack power of an eagle.

Powerful knights all hoped to tame a Griffin!

This was not only a symbol of honor, but could also greatly enhance a knight's strength.

It was said that in the Ice Crystal Kingdom, there was a batch of powerful Griffin Knights.

As the king's trump card troops, they were not easily dispatched.

Once dispatched, they would deal a heavy blow to the enemy!

If he could capture a batch of Griffins and then train a batch of Griffin Knights himself, Cao Xing's territory strength would skyrocket!

Moreover, it could just make up for the deficiency of lacking aerial units in his territory!

Of course, the premise was that he could find this Griffin lair.

Cao Xing pondered, "However, Griffins are also very powerful creatures; just running into a few casually, they are Tier 5 or Tier 6 boss levels."

"If it's inside a Griffin lair, there are definitely even more numerous and terrifying Griffins."

"So we still need to plan this carefully."

Therefore, Cao Xing ordered, "You guys continue to stall this group of Griffins in place, don't kill them. If these Griffins try to escape, try your best to hold them back."

"I'm bringing people over right now!"

The Centaur on the other side were stunned for a moment upon hearing this.

But they still immediately replied, "Alright, Lord!"

As for the safety of these Centaur, Cao Xing didn't need to worry.

Although these Tier 5 and Tier 6 Griffins were powerful, they couldn't hurt them.

After all, besides the Frost Magic Shield, these Centaur also had a health regen of over 5,000 per second, and one resurrection chance from Holy Light Redemption.

Their survivability was simply ridiculously strong!

Thus, Cao Xing quickly called over thirty-something Ascalon soldiers and also summoned Andrew over.

"Get ready everyone, take your ejection grappling hooks, and come out with me on a trip."

The soldiers all turned serious, then heavily nodded.

Cao Xing directly sprinted forward, then leaped onto Dabai's back.

"Dabai, let's go!"

"Moo—"

Dabai instantly opened its four hooves, carrying Cao Xing as it galloped out wildly.

Behind him were more than thirty sprinting soldiers following along.

Andrew also transformed into bear form, galloping all the way behind Dabai.

"Boom! Boom!"

The group swiftly rushed out of the territory.

The Arctic People working on the city wall looked at their lord with blank expressions.

Seeming not to understand why he had just returned not long ago, only to head out again.

Because the place where the Centaur encountered the Griffins was not far from the territory, only seven or eight kilometers away.

Coupled with Dabai's terrifying running speed.

Therefore, taking only a few minutes, Cao Xing caught sight of their figures.

That was at the foot of a mountain covered in sparkling white snow.

In the plain below, there was a group of agile Centaur.

They constantly shifted positions, holding bows and arrows, continuously pulling the bowstrings to shoot at the sky.

"Swoosh! Swoosh swoosh swoosh!"

Arrow after arrow shot out fiercely.

And right above their heads.

Was a group of massive creatures whose front halves resembled majestic lions while their rear halves exhibited the characteristics of eagles.

Their feathers displayed an interweaving of dark brown and gold, and when their huge wings spread, they seemed to be able to cover the sky!

Their thick, powerful limbs allowed them to run fast on land, and their huge wings could also carry them flying through the sky.

It was precisely that magical creature—Griffins!

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