Massive resources, count the trading gains!

Cao Xing discovered many items that piqued his interest among the various private chat messages.

He continued to chat privately with Survivors, throwing out prices, and then trading directly.

"Trade Successful! You obtained [Overload Operation (Skill Book)] * 1, you lost [Legendary Ice Rhinoceros Meat] * 1500g (15 portions) ———"

"Trade Successful! You obtained [High-Voltage Electromagnetic Field (Skill Book)] * 1, you lost [Legendary Ice Rhinoceros Meat] * 2500g (25 portions) ———."

"Trade Successful! You obtained [Aurora Impact · Pillar of Purification (Skill Book)] * 1, you lost [Legendary Ice Rhinoceros Meat] * 3500g (35 portions) —·"

"Trade Successful! You obtained [Master-level Sword Mastery (Skill Book)] * 1, you lost [Legendary Ice Rhinoceros Meat] * 4000g (40 portions)"

"Trade Successful! You obtained [Frozen Mystery (Skill Book)] * 1, you lost [Legendary Ice Rhinoceros Meat] * 4000g (40 portions) —————."

"Trade Successful! You obtained [Master-level Ice Element Mastery (Skill Book)] * 1, you lost [Legendary Ice Rhinoceros Meat] * 5000g (50 portions) —————"

"Trade Successful ——"

System notifications were scrolling crazily!

This trading session lasted from 11:30 PM until 1:00 AM.

It lasted for a full hour and a half!

From this, one can see how terrifying Cao Xing's gains were this time!

Even he couldn't help but exclaim, "Damn, this was a huge profit!"

He took a look at his backpack.

[Mithril] * 1,136,400

[Eternal Gold Ingot] * 81,647

[delimo steel ingot] * 12,897

[Spatial Crystal] * 41,647

[Purest Shard] * 1,564

[Crystallized Dust Pile] * 1,547

[Enhanced Silk Cloth Roll] * 1,693

[Frost-White Crystal] * 69,732

[Lion-Head Flower] * 11,234

[Cold Jade Marrow] * 21,546

[Bull Vine] * 8,974

These materials consumed a total of 109,335.97 kg of Legendary beast meat, equivalent to over a million portions!

That sounds like a lot, but it was not even one-tenth of the beast meat resources in Cao Xing's hands.

But even so, it still helped him exchange for a nearly massive amount of resources!

Even the most precious materials like [Purest Shard] and [Crystallized Dust Pile] were collected in quantities of over a thousand.

From this, one can imagine how terrifying the value of this batch of materials is!

Cao Xing said excitedly: "Harold said that if I prepare two sets of materials, I can basically guarantee the success rate of forging Legendary equipment."

"And since I prepared three sets this time, it seems highly likely that I will succeed in forging!"

"In this way, I will soon be able to obtain two more pieces of Legendary equipment."

"Moreover, this is Legendary equipment that I forged with my own hands, relying on my own strength."

Exchanging a few tens of thousands of kilograms of Legendary beast meat for the birth of two pieces of Legendary equipment can be said to be a massive profit.

Thinking of this, Cao Xing was even trembling with excitement!

And besides these, he also obtained a large amount of precious herbs.

According to the ratio given by Francesca, 10 pieces of 'Cold Jade Marrow' plus 5 'Lion-Head Flowers' or 'Bull Vines' can refine one Legendary secret medicine!

And Cao Xing collected almost two thousand portions here!

In other words, he would soon be able to possess over two thousand bottles of Legendary secret medicine!

And the value of any bottle of Legendary secret medicine is unimaginable.

Even just relying on these two thousand-plus bottles of secret medicine, it would be enough to raise the resources to build a Giant City!

This is simply money begetting money, then begetting more money!

Cao Xing sighed endlessly!

"Next are those blueprints."

This time, Cao Xing also successfully exchanged for several high-level blueprints.

These included the High-level Knight Hall, Warrior Camp, Archer Range, as well as the Primary Assassin Training Ground, Intermediate Assassin Training Ground, and High-level Assassin Labyrinth.

And the [Guardian Goddess Statue Construction Blueprint].

Seven blueprints cost him a total of 670 kg of Legendary beast meat, which is 6,700 portions.

Especially the final 'Guardian Goddess Statue', which cost him a full 200 kg of Legendary beast meat.

It was a bit regrettable that he didn't manage to get his hands on the [High-level Mage Tower Construction Blueprint] that he wanted the most.

Cao Xing sighed: "I didn't expect that no one in the entire four major districts would have this kind of construction blueprint."

Shaking his head, he didn't dwell on it.

After all, even without the High-level Mage Tower, getting so many high-level blueprints was already enough.

"Now, let's look at the attributes of these blueprints."

Cao Xing randomly clicked on one to take a look.

[High-level Knight Hall Construction Blueprint (Orange)]

[Blueprint Introduction: Can upgrade the Intermediate Knight Hall in the territory to High-level. Knight-class professions can train inside, gain experience points, and learn more high-level skills.]

(Note: Legendary Knights can accelerate the recovery of divine power value in the High-level Knight Hall.)

[Armor: 3000]

[Durability: 480,000]

[Footprint: 1345 square meters]

[Height: 24 meters]

[Training Experience Points: 1 hour / 3,000 ~ 30,000 points]

[divine power value Acceleration: Can recover 24 points per day]

[Learnable High-level Skills: Steel Barrier, Charge Trample, Sacred Oath]

[Construction Materials Required: Lords Castle Level 5, Wood 200,000, Stone 100,000, Iron 50,000, Mithril 10,000, Eternal Gold Ingot 2,000, Magic Pattern Stone 2,000, master-level elemental crystal 500]

[Upgrade Time: 245 hours / 46 minutes]

After reading the attributes of this blueprint, Cao Xing nodded with satisfaction.

"Not bad, just like other professional buildings, after the Knight Hall is upgraded from Intermediate to High-level, it can learn three more skills."

"And the attributes of these three skills are even more powerful than the previous ones."

Plus, training inside can also grant up to 30,000 experience points per hour.

Just these two functions alone make it worthy of being an Epic-level building.

Of course, this is still not the most important function.

For this kind of high-level building, the most important thing is that Legendary Knights training inside can accelerate the natural recovery of divine power value.

And it's not recovering 1 point, but at least 2 points!

This is a quite astonishing boost!

Calculated this way, even a 100-level Knight who has just broken through to Legendary can recover 3 points of divine power value every day in the Knight Hall.

If upgraded to level 150, there is even hope of reaching 10 points a day!

"With these high-level buildings, my speed of producing divine power shards will be even faster later."

Then, he began to continue checking.

Next were the blueprints for [High-level Warrior Camp (Orange)] and [High-level Training Range (Orange)].

The effects of these two buildings are basically the same as the [High-level Knight Hall (Orange)].

Only the high-level skills learned are a bit different.

Warrior: Berserk Rage, Earth-Shattering Slash, Indomitable Will.

Archer: Cloud-Piercing Arrow, Chain Shot, Fatal Weakness.

Then, Cao Xing looked at the other three blueprints, which belonged to the Assassin-type buildings.

"Speaking of which — because there weren't many assassins in the territory before, only Sarah and Beast-Ear Girl, I didn't collect blueprints in this area."

"Now, I have directly exchanged for all three grades of blueprints: Primary, Intermediate, and High-level at once."

According to Cao Xing's plan, he was also preparing to establish an assassination squad next.

After the Giant City is built in the future, if he encounters some things that need to be resolved secretly, he will hand them over to the assassination squad to handle.

As for Sarah, she is his personal bodyguard and cannot easily leave his side.

A few seconds later, Cao Xing finished reading the attributes of these three assassin building blueprints.

The effects are basically the same as other professional buildings.

In addition to being able to obtain training experience points inside, a total of eight skills can be learned.

Besides the basic Stealth and Assassination skills.

There are also advanced Shadow Strike, Backstab, and Sacrifice Strike.

In addition, there are high-level Dark Blade Throw, Death Mark, and Heaven's Punishment.

Cao Xing nodded with satisfaction again, "Not bad, these primary skills are of no use to Sarah."

"Those intermediate and high-level skills are still quite powerful."

"In the hands of this Legendary Assassin, they can unleash terrifying lethality."

He decided in his heart that once the blizzard ends, he would start building all six blueprints.

Of course, the amount of materials required to build the six blueprints is also quite terrifying.

"I exchanged for over a million Mithril this time, plus the hundreds of thousands in the Velon Kingdom treasury, so it is quite sufficient."

"What is relatively lacking are those basic resources like wood, iron, and master-level elemental crystal."

Thinking of this, Cao Xing secretly said: "It seems that after this wave of trading ends, I will have to sell a batch of Ice Rhinoceros meat later to exchange for some basic materials."

Times are different now.

In the early stages, unless he was in dire need, Cao Xing generally wouldn't use the resources on hand to exchange for basic resources from other Survivors.

Because the quantity of these basic resources determines the development speed of the territory.

If he were to loot the resources in the hands of other Survivors and concentrate them all in his own hands.

His own territory's development would indeed speed up.

But accordingly, the development speed of other Lords would slow down.

Their strength is already not strong, and if they encounter some disasters, they will have no way to survive.

But it's different now.

Now the infrastructure of most territories has been built, and there are quite a lot of basic resources on hand.

It won't have much impact if Cao Xing exchanges for a small portion.

Of course, that's just a small fraction; when spread across the hundreds of thousands of people in the four major regions, it's still an astronomical number.

Thinking of this, Cao Xing began to check the seventh blueprint, which was the last one.

[Guardian Goddess Statue Blueprint]

[Quality: Epic]

[Blueprint Description: Consume a large amount of materials to build a statue of the Guardian Goddess, Iseryl, within the territory to protect the entire territory.]

[Footprint: 412 square meters]

[Building Height: 28 meters]

[Statue Effect: The divine power of the Guardian Goddess Statue shields the entire territory, increasing the armor of all territory buildings by 20% and their durability by 20%. Furthermore, when the territory is under attack, the 'Guardian Power' effect can be activated.]

Guardian Power: Restores 1% of durability to all buildings in the territory every 5 seconds, lasting for 300 seconds, with a 7-day cooldown.]

[Construction Materials Required: Lords Castle Level 5, Stone * 200,000, Iron * 100,000, Mithril * 20,000, Eternal Gold Ingot * 5,000, master-level elemental crystal * 2,000, Guardian Stone * 1]

After reading the description of this blueprint, a thoughtful look appeared in Cao Xing's eyes.

"Increase the durability and armor of all buildings? These attributes are actually quite good."

"Plus, there's the Guardian Power effect afterwards, and it can actually restore durability by a percentage!"

"Although it's not much, this is still an incredibly amazing effect!"

You have to know, before this, when these territory buildings, such as the city walls, were damaged, they couldn't be repaired immediately.

One could only wait until the battle ended, then send workers to repair them.

But in this way, it not only required a lot of time but also consumed quite a few materials.

But with this [Guardian Goddess Statue], it indirectly saved an unknown amount of resources and time.

However, the point that Cao Xing was more concerned about was this—Guardian Power can continuously restore the building's durability.

Then, could this effect, just like "Ice Healing Art", receive the bonus from [Eternal Power] and become a permanent state?

If it could, the significance would be huge!

This would mean that his city walls could restore 1% of their durability every 5 seconds, and it would only take 500 seconds to fully recover!

For the Giant City he was going to build next, this would be an immense help.

Thinking of this, Cao Xing couldn't wait to build this statue and test the effect.

However, building the Guardian Goddess Statue, like building the God of Craftsmen Statue, required a special material.

This time, it required a 'Guardian Stone'.

Cao Xing decided that when he traded for those basic materials later, he would also see if he could trade for this stone.

He nodded with satisfaction.

After finishing the blueprints, the next items were the skill books.

This time, he had obtained a total of 6 skill books, with two for each profession.

Cao Xing, as usual, only acquired the skill books needed by himself, Liu Muxue, and Tong Chuchu.

As for the Snowfield Hunter and Polar Warrior, he ignored them.

He glanced at the attributes.

[Overload Operation (Orange)]

[Quality: Epic]

[Learning Requirement: Cold Iron Mechanic profession]

[Learning Level: Level 60 or above]

[Skill Effect: Consumes 200~500 Mechanical Power, as well as 200 units of Mithril and 20 master-level elemental crystals.

Grants special power to the machinery or mechs controlled by the Mechanic, causing them to enter an 'Overload Operation' state.

Mech attack speed increased by 50%, attack power increased by 30%, skill cooldown -30%, duration 60~300 seconds, cooldown 10 minutes.]

(Note: After entering the Overload Operation state, the mech will unleash its ultimate potential and overdraw its core energy; after the state ends, there is a 50% chance of entering an overload paralysis state.)

[High-Voltage Electromagnetic Field (Skill Book)]

[Quality: Epic]

[Learning Requirement: Cold Iron Mechanic]

[Learning Level: Level 60 or above]

[Skill Effect: Consumes 500 Mechanical Power to form a high-voltage electromagnetic field with a diameter of 500 meters.

Within this area, all enemy units will receive the 'Electromagnetic Interference' effect, reducing their attack speed and movement speed by 20%,

and there is a 30% probability that their skill casting will fail.

If the enemy unit is a mechanical or electronic unit, the interference effect is doubled.

Furthermore, an electromagnetic pulse will be released every 3 seconds, dealing Attack Power * 248% Lightning Damage to all enemies.

Skill duration 20 seconds, Cooldown: 120 minutes.]

After reading the attributes of these two skills, a smile appeared on the corner of Cao Xing's mouth.

Clearly, both 'Overload Operation' and 'High-Voltage Electromagnetic Field' are very powerful.

The former can significantly increase the combat power of mechs or robots, and it can also receive the bonus from [Eternal Power].

What kind of concept is this?

It means Tong Chuchu can use this skill to cast it on all those hundreds of robots in the territory!

Directly creating an enhanced robot army!

And the latter, 'High-Voltage Electromagnetic Field', also combines group interference + group damage effects.

It can be said that a Mechanic who has mastered these skills holds a crucial position in the team.

Cao Xing nodded with satisfaction and said: "At this stage, the Mechanic can be considered to have begun to show their edge."

"In the closed beta version I played before, Mechanics could only level up to 70 at most."

"But even so, they were already very strong."

"I wonder what powerful abilities Mechanics will have after breaking through to Hero, or even Legendary!"

This also made him somewhat expectant.

Then, he began to continue checking the other items.

Next were the two skill books for the Aurora Knight.

[Aurora Impact · Pillar of Purification (Orange)]

[Quality: Epic]

[Learning Profession: Aurora Knight]

[Learning Condition: Level 60 or above]

[Skill Effect: Condenses a large amount of Aurora Power at the sword tip, then erupts forward, releasing a Pillar of Purification that pierces through the battlefield!

Deals (Attack Power * 215% + Agility) points of damage per second to all enemy units on the path, and attaches a 'Purification' effect, dispelling 1-3 buff states from the enemy units.

The maximum length of the Pillar of Purification is 500 meters, and the width is 5 meters.

Duration 3 seconds, Cooldown: 5 minutes.]

[Master-level Sword Mastery (Orange)]

[Quality: Epic]

[Skill Type: Passive]

[Learning Condition: Aurora Knight, Polar Warrior, and other combat professions that use swords]

[Learning Level: Level 60 or above]

[Skill Effect: Accompanied by the sword for decades, mastering various combat techniques, finally comprehending Master-level Sword Mastery.

Increases attack power of sword-type weapons by 30%, attack speed by 20%, and increases damage of all sword-type skills by 25%.]

These two skills for Liu Muxue are equally powerful.

Although they are not the buff-type skills Cao Xing wanted most, they are still very good.

And by comparison, Liu Muxue already has many buff skills now, equivalent to the strongest support in the entire territory.

"Not bad, these two skills can let Muxue increase her combat power quite a bit."

Then, Cao Xing began to check the last two skills.

[Icebound Profound Meaning (Orange)]

[Quality: Epic]

[Skill Type: Passive]

[Learning Condition: Frost Mage]

[Learning Level: Level 60 or above]

[Skill Effect: Penetrating the profound meaning of the Ice Way, comprehending the true essence of Ice Power, the skill Icebound ability is significantly strengthened!

The duration of all Frost Mage ice-type control skills (such as Freeze, Slow, Deep Freeze) is extended by 50%.

When a Frost Mage casts an ice-type skill, there is a 30% probability of triggering "Ice Shackles", causing the target to be completely frozen, unable to move or attack, lasting for 0.1~3 seconds.]

[Master-level Ice Elemental Mastery (Orange)]

[Quality: Epic]

[Skill Type: Passive]

[Learning Condition: Frost Mage]

[Learning Level: Level 60 or above]

[Skill Effect: Ice-type skill casting speed increased by 40%, skill damage increased by 30%.]

After reading the attributes of the last two skill books, a satisfied smile appeared on Cao Xing's face again.

"These two passive skills are a huge boost for me!"

The former, [Icebound Profound Meaning], significantly extended the duration of control.

After learning this skill, with one [Frost Crystal Prison · Ice Burial], he could control a Legendary for at least three or four seconds.

And this amount of time is enough for the Legendaries under his command to cast their skills once.

The latter, [Master-level Elemental Mastery], once again significantly increased his casting speed and skill damage.

His already terrifying attack power soared once more.

He clapped his hands together and directly learned both of these skill books.

In no time! A massive amount of memories flooded into Cao Xing's mind.

At the same time, a terrifying chill radiated from his body.

This chill seemed to be able to freeze everything around him,

thick white frost spread from under his feet to the surroundings, as if even the air was frozen.

As a level 100 Frost Mage, the time taken to comprehend these two master-level skills was much less.

Just a few minutes later, Cao Xing suddenly opened his eyes.

Two consecutive system prompts appeared.

[You have successfully learned the skill: [Icebound Profound Meaning].]

[You have successfully learned the skill: [Master-level Ice Elemental Mastery].]