Chapter 147: Ghost Mother Diagram, Taiping Ring

"I hope I can have more Paradise Points left over."

At this moment, Chu Danqing was in the True Spirit Hall, beginning to awaken the true spirit of the Nine-Child Ghost Mother Diagram.

This piece of equipment was the most powerful one among all his gear.

The first awakening was to upgrade its quality; 5,000 Paradise Points were invested, but the changes were not significant.

It was just that the originally added 100 Mana points became 1,000.

The remaining changes were all on the summoned entities, the Ghost Gui Yuan Ying and the Ghost Gui Yuanmu.

Roughly speaking, their attributes were elevated from the original Excellent tier to the Fine tier.

Chu Danqing did not hesitate and continued to invest Paradise Points.

Obsession, Motherly Kindness, Filial Piety, Mana +1000, Dear Mother, and Pity for the Child each cost another 5,000.

The first seven awakenings took away a full 35,000 of Chu Danqing's Paradise Points.

"Starting to ramp up the intensity." Chu Danqing did not hesitate to continue the upgrades.

He invested 20,000 into the two true spirit awakening options: Mana +1000 and Rest in Peace.

The final one, Repaying Kindness, cost 20,000 Paradise Points directly.

"The complete awakening cost me 75,000 Paradise Points."

"Fortunately, it was upgraded through true spirit awakening, so the equipment requirements haven't changed." Chu Danqing breathed a sigh of relief.

Native Fine-tier equipment, like the Flesh Scholar's spellbook, mostly has relatively complex equipment requirements.

But if the quality is upgraded through true spirit awakening, those requirements will not change.

【Nine-Child Ghost Mother Diagram】

【Type: Equipment · Accessory】

【Quality: Fine】

【Durability: 100/100】

【Mana +3000】

【Infant's Grudge (Active): Consumes 980 Mana to summon 49 Ghost Grudge Infants to fight for you. While they exist, each Ghost Gui Yuan Ying requires 5 Mana per minute to maintain until the maintenance mana is insufficient, they are killed in battle, or they are dismissed. You can partially replenish their numbers, up to a maximum of 49.】

【Mother's Hatred (Active): When there are 9 Ghost Grudge Infants on the field, consume 800 Mana to summon 1 Ghost Gui Yuanmu to fight for you. While she exists, she requires 50 + (number of Ghost Grudge Infants) Mana per minute to maintain until the maintenance mana is insufficient, she is killed in battle, or she is dismissed. Cannot be summoned repeatedly.】

【True Spirit Awakening: Obsession (Passive), Motherly Kindness (Passive), Filial Piety (Passive), Dear Mother (Passive), Pity for the Child (Passive), Rest in Peace (Passive), Repaying Kindness (Passive)】

【Equipment Requirement: Spirit 10 points, Constitution 10 points】

Chu Danqing equipped it immediately, and his Mana surged by 3,000 points.

It originally only added 1,000 points, but after the addition, the true spirit awakening provided an extra 2,000 Mana to the Nine-Child Ghost Mother Diagram.

"Next is the Three Rings." Chu Danqing glanced at his remaining Paradise Points.

True spirit awakening is truly expensive.

"Upgrading to Fine tier costs 5,000, the set effect is another 5,000, and the final Three Corpses effect is 10,000."

"The Three Rings total 60,000???" Chu Danqing calculated; the three pieces of equipment were almost catching up to the Nine-Child Ghost Mother Diagram.

Since things had come to this, Chu Danqing could only bite the bullet and continue the awakening.

The money was spent quickly, true, but the harvest was high.

True spirit awakening adheres to the principle of "you get what you pay for"; the more Paradise Points consumed, the more powerful the equipment becomes.

With 60,000 Paradise Points paid out, the Three Rings underwent a heaven-shaking, earth-shattering change.

Before he could examine the attributes in detail, he saw the set effect.

【3-Piece Set: Imperial Peace (Active)】

(Note: After use, the Human Heart Ring, Flood Dragon Soul Ring, and Tiger Soul Ring can be fused into the Taiping Ring.)

(Note: The effect after fusion is irreversible.)

Chu Danqing did not hesitate and used the set effect directly.

Since it was an effect that could only be obtained with the three-piece set, it certainly wouldn't let him suffer a loss.

Inside the private small room of the True Spirit Hall, the three rings blended together, and the figures of the Human Heart Demon, the Single-Horned Flood Dragon, and the Tiger of the Traces emerged with their respective Three Corpses.

The Taiping Ring was born, instantly shattering the three summoned entities and the Three Corpses, completely absorbing all their power, and thoroughly becoming a new piece of equipment.

【Taiping Ring】

【Type: Equipment · Ring】

【Quality: Fine】

【Durability: 100/100】

【Imperial Protection (Passive): When Health drops to 30% or below, trigger a healing recovery of 50% of maximum Health. Cooldown: 24 hours.】

【Dao Child (Active): Consume 1,000 Mana to summon 1 Son of Heaven to fight for you. While he exists, he requires 100 Mana per minute to maintain until the maintenance mana is insufficient, he is killed in battle, or he is dismissed. He can only be re-summoned after the Son of Heaven dies.】

【Dharma Register (Passive): After the Son of Heaven kills an enemy, he will add Health and Mana attributes to the Taiping Ring, up to a maximum of 2,000 points. Current Mana/Health attribute: 1,500.】

【Warrior (Passive): When summoning the Son of Heaven, simultaneously summon 10 Huang Jinlishi to fight for you. They cannot be summoned independently after death, and they dissipate simultaneously when the Son of Heaven dies.】

【Heaven Above (Passive): Devouring the original "Taiping Book" can increase quality (0/3).】

【Equipment Requirement: Mana cap 30 points】

Chu Danqing looked at it carefully; besides the Son of Heaven, there were ten Huang Jinlishi that did not require him to pay Mana.

Most importantly, the original skills had changed.

Previously, they were linked active skills, and Chu Danqing had had very few opportunities to use them.

Now they had changed into passives, and a life-saving healing passive at that, which made Chu Danqing very satisfied.

As for the final quality-upgrading effect, the difficulty was a bit high.

The main thing was that the Taiping Ring required the original; otherwise, if it were replaced with a hand-copied version, the Guo family could obtain it by paying a price.

The original was certainly in the hands of the Taiping Dao Master; even if the Guo family could afford the price, the Taiping Dao Master would not give it up.

Therefore, it could only be shelved for the time being.

"It's just that with this, the Fine-tier equipment synthesizer can't be used on the Three Rings."

This equipment synthesizer didn't mean you could succeed just by throwing equipment into it; it required five pieces of equipment to synthesize.

He had originally planned to use the Three Rings + the Divine Machine Camp Crossbowman Token + the Wang Fu Personal Guard Waist Token; although there was no way to break through the Fine tier, it could still greatly strengthen his combat power.

Now that the Three Rings had become the Taiping Ring and had growth effects, he naturally didn't intend to use them for synthesis.

As for gambling on using the Nine-Child Ghost Mother Diagram and the Taiping Ring as synthesis materials? Chu Danqing didn't want to gamble.

After synthesis, the nature of the true spirit equipment would certainly change, and if it really broke through the Fine-tier limit, he wouldn't be able to equip it.

Even if it didn't break through the Fine-tier quality and remained in the Fine tier, the equipment requirements would increase significantly.

If he were calculating carefully, he would certainly gather five Fine-tier pieces of equipment, but Chu Danqing didn't intend to do that.

"Green Vine Nine-Section Staff, Divine Machine Camp Crossbowman Token, Wang Fu Personal Guard Waist Token; I only need to gather two more Excellent-tier summoning-type pieces of equipment to obtain one Fine-tier piece of equipment."

This could be considered another kind of short-sighted usage; it was definitely a loss, but the realization was fast.

If one were talking about long-term income, calculating carefully would certainly be appropriate.

But this involved another problem, which was that in the future, Chu Danqing would certainly obtain better opportunities and growth.

Yet right now, he needed sufficient combat power to ensure he could complete the A-rank assessment more smoothly.

The talent awakening mission that could only be obtained once and the five compatible · rare attribute passives were clearly more valuable.

The current choice could make the future better; once he reached Rank One, it wasn't as if Chu Danqing had no way to obtain an equipment synthesizer again.

"No wonder the person who sold me the Divine Machine Camp Crossbowman Token was so urgent; even someone like me with powerful external aid would feel anxious, let alone other apostles."

Chu Danqing started setting up a stall in the Apostle Plaza, putting the Taichang Martial Preparation Book, the Iron Palm Flying Dragon Hand-copied Book, and the Can Luo Five Elders Sword Art Comprehensive Explanation on the shelves.

He specified that he wanted summoning-type equipment; this time the conditions were relatively broad, and the number of people coming suddenly increased.

Very soon, he exchanged the Can Luo Five Elders Sword Art Comprehensive Explanation for two pieces of summoning-type equipment that caught his eye.

They were the Mystic Iron Cavalry Token and the Heavy Armored Chariot Talisman.

The former was cavalry, and the latter's chariot was not a modern chariot, but rather similar to the chariots of the Spring and Autumn period.

The summoned entities of these two pieces of equipment were quite good; their attributes, skills, and equipment all belonged to the top tier.

They were much better than the repeating crossbowmen and the Wang Fu personal guards; they were genuine strong soldiers of the battlefield.

Chu Danqing did not synthesize them, intending to wait until he had finished exchanging before talking about it.

The main thing was that sword arts belonged to mainstream weapons in the Apostle Paradise, which was why they were easy to sell.

Things like the Iron Palm Flying Dragon Hand-copied Book had fewer people looking at them.

Because he had bought what he needed, Chu Danqing changed the transaction conditions, making them much more detailed.

For example, collecting summoning-series equipment.

After all, he intended to use the Green Vine Nine-Section Staff as a material for synthesis and needed a more suitable weapon.

"I have one piece of Excellent-tier summoning-series equipment and intend to exchange it with you for this inheritance skill," said a woman who looked somewhat thin.

The other party was wrapped from head to toe in a black robe.

"One piece? Not enough." Chu Danqing refused.

The Taichang Martial Preparation Book had flaws, but it would take at least three Excellent-tier pieces to exchange for it.

As for it being bought by a woman? That was none of his business; as long as they could afford the price, even a demon could buy it.

"It's enough; the true spirit is completely awakened and it's already reinforced +5." The other party added: "One for one."

Only when Chu Danqing heard this did he become interested.

"Tsk, a rich person." He hadn't reinforced equipment, but he knew the price of reinforcing equipment.

Reinforcing Excellent-tier equipment +1 required 1,000 Paradise Points, with a 90% success rate.

Then, before reinforcing +5, every +1 would increase the Paradise Point requirement by 1,000 points, but the success rate would be halved.

Fortunately, before reinforcing +7, failure would not cause damage, only a reduction in reinforcement level.

The Paradise Point consumption was not small, and subsequently, it would require investing materials and props to increase the reinforcement success rate.

True spirit awakening was very "pay-to-win," and reinforcement was even more so.

The main thing was that the improvement obtained from reinforcing +1 was very lackluster; generally, one needed at least reinforcement +3 to have a significant enhancement.

Reinforcing +4 to reinforcement +5 had a 5.6% success rate; being able to succeed without adding extra materials or props to increase the success rate was truly strong.

The other party didn't answer Chu Danqing's words at all, but directly took out a large pillar and showed the attribute panel to Chu Danqing.

"Two passive recoveries, plus high damage and no need for technique."

"Exchanging for your Taichang Martial Preparation Book is enough."

Chu Danqing glanced at the attributes and reached the deal without hesitation.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 148 =====