Chapter 69: The Fourth Clone, Annihilation Barrier!

Meanwhile, Zhou Huai finally broke free from controlling Gandalf.

Fighting through the night in the beast horde took a massive mental toll.

He was simply too exhausted.

That wave of exhaustion originating from the depths of his Soul submerged him like a tide.

He didn't even have time to check his biggest trophy this time—that brand-new Profession Orb—before his head tilted to the side and he fell into a deep sleep.

He slept so soundly that day and night blurred together.

A full dozen-plus hours.

Midway through, Uncle Fu had tiptoed in, woken him up, and fed him some liquid food.

Zhou Huai swallowed it almost half-asleep before collapsing back down, sinking back into a deep dreamland.

When his consciousness cleared once more, the scenery outside the window was already as dark as ink, with stars filling the sky.

"I actually slept for another day…"

Zhou Huai gave a self-deprecating smile, feeling that his main body was truly becoming more and more prone to sleep.

He didn't delay, immediately calming his mind to review the "work" progress of his two Clones.

First was Gandalf.

Controlled by the smart core ai, he was simply a tireless dungeon-farming machine.

Even without Yasuo assisting from the side, with his current strength, soloing the calamity-grade difficulty [Shadow Swamp Demon Cave] was already a breeze.

Averaging half an hour per round, precise and efficient.

In the dozen-plus hours he was asleep, Gandalf had already farmed close to thirty rounds of dungeons.

His Rank had also successfully achieved a Breakthrough to LV20 amidst this crazy experience harvesting!

Zhou Huai opened his storage space to check the loot.

Three blueprints for the [Star-Moon Set] that he had been yearning for had already been farmed out.

They were respectively [star moon robe], [Star-Moon Gauntlets], and [star moon robe].

"Two identical ones actually dropped."

"Tsk."

Zhou Huai smacked his lips.

In a dozen-plus hours, three more blueprints were farmed out.

Unfortunately, they were all duplicates.

Currently, he was still missing one blueprint for the [Star-Moon Greaves] to gather the complete set of equipment and accomplish the mission.

"Keep farming."

Zhou Huai could only helplessly continue issuing instructions.

Fortunately, he wasn't farming it personally; otherwise, with such dry and repetitive labor, he would have farmed until he threw up long ago.

After checking Gandalf's progress, Zhou Huai switched his consciousness over to Ou Yezi's side.

As the epic-grade equipment crafted by Ou Yezi began to appear in the auction house under the Forging Guild,

he also gradually began to rise in fame.

At first, the major factions and Professionals of Donghai City all thought this was just a coincidence.

After all, it had been a long time since a forger who could craft epic-grade equipment had appeared in the Forging Guild.

Being able to forge it out this time might just mean that this forger named Ou Yezi had some sheer dumb luck.

However, by the second day, when epic-grade equipment signed by Ou Yezi appeared one after another at the auction,

everyone began to lose their composure.

If the first piece was sheer dumb luck,

how should the second and third pieces be explained?

Thus, on the third day, this auction welcomed an unprecedented hustle and bustle.

Countless people scrambled to auction for these epic-grade quality pieces of equipment.

Although the Rank of this equipment wasn't high, reaching at most level 20,

yet the equipment was still bid up to a high price of over 300,000.

Especially a piece of equipment with an Advanced affix, which was bid up to a price close to one million.

Only then did everyone realize that an extraordinary top-tier forger seemed to have arrived in the Forging Guild.

Regarding this point, no one had more right to speak than Ou Yezi's assistant, Lin Wei.

In her eyes, Great Master Ou Yezi recently was simply a wound-up, tireless forging machine.

He spent at least seventeen or eighteen hours every day staying in that top-tier forging room.

The clanging sound of "clink-clank" had almost never stopped.

Every day, at least a dozen pieces of equipment were personally forged by him out of that forging room.

Among them, the probability of epic-grade quality equipment appearing was as high as thirty percent.

Although it was only thirty percent, it was already quite terrifying.

You must know that for those top-tier Forging Masters of the imperial capital, successfully forging one or two pieces of epic-grade equipment in a month was enough for them to pop champagne in celebration.

But what about Great Master Ou Yezi?

The work quota that took others a month or two could be easily completed by him in a single day,

even exceeding the quota.

The equipment he forged not only had terrifyingly high quality, but the attached affixes were also extremely exceptional.

Occasionally, one or two rare Advanced affixes would even appear.

This exaggerated forging talent had rarely been seen in a lifetime.

If the various major guilds were to learn of Ou Yezi's potential,

they would probably spare no cost to poach this great deity away.

Knowing this just as well was Gu Yan, the president of the Forging Guild.

Over the past few days, his head had already begun to sweat.

He had long expected that Ou Yezi's talent was outrageous, but he never expected it to be outrageous to such an unfathomable degree.

Now that Ou Yezi's fame was gradually rising,

Gu Yan simply hardened his heart; he might as well publicize it even more grandly.

He wanted everyone to see

that their Forging Guild had produced an epoch-making peerless Genius!

Smacking the faces of those who had always looked down on the Forging Guild of Donghai City hard.

As for other guilds coming to poach people,

Gu Yan wasn't all that worried either.

He believed that Ou Yezi wasn't that kind of tacky person.

What the other party pursued was the highest Profound Truth of forging.

He was simply a forging madman.

Every day was a two-point line; besides sleeping, the moment his eyes opened he was fiercely forging.

Just this point alone far surpassed ordinary people, inevitably filling Gu Yan with heartfelt admiration.

Zhou Huai was naturally twelve-point satisfied with the progress on Ou Yezi's side.

The efficiency of the smart core ai truly had never disappointed him.

At this moment, Ou Yezi's forging Rank had also already reached [LV9].

His expectations for Ou Yezi weren't simply as straightforward as crafting epic-grade quality equipment.

In the future, he was going to forge legendary or even Divine Rank equipment.

After checking the progress of all Clones with satisfaction, Zhou Huai finally returned his consciousness completely to his main body.

He slowly closed his eyes.

Within his mind, that huge and familiar dial machine slowly surfaced once more.

It was once again the exciting profession-drawing segment.

This time, it was his fourth Clone.

Zhou Huai's chest rose and fell slightly, calming down his somewhat accelerated heartbeat.

His mind fiercely pressed the sole [Draw] button on the dial machine!

Hum—!

The huge dial machine began to spin frantically.

Countless profession orbs transformed into brilliant streaks of light within it, dazzlingly hypnotic.

Finally, amidst a brilliant radiance,

a dazzling golden orb stood out, shooting out from the dial machine and slowly landing before him.

The golden light burst open.

A class-transfer scroll that was even thicker than the Thunder Sword Master's scroll, yet similarly exuded a powerful aura, floated quietly.

[Congratulations to the host for drawing the profession: Unique Hidden Profession, S-Rank Annihilation Barrier!]