Chapter 46

And Li Yao knew

that this situation definitely wouldn’t last long.

The strength he displayed today was enough to make the Federation higher-ups pay attention.

By then,

even the Yan family would have to weigh their options.

The most urgent task

was to improve his own strength and increase his weight in the eyes of the higher-ups.

Thinking of this,

Li Yao laid out all his gains from this trip in front of him.

Three First Clear treasure chests,

one treasure chest dropped by the Tongue-Ripping Empress,

Yan Yan Gaojie’s gauntlet-type weapon,

and

dozens of glittering gold coins that had never appeared before!

Thirty-four, forty-seven coins!

Li Yao was pleasantly surprised; this was equivalent to the gold coins obtained by a hedge fund leveling up 20 times!

This was an unexpected joy!

Before this, he had never had gold coins drop from monsters.

“Looks like it requires Lord-level or above?”

Li Yao pondered.

He just didn’t know what the drop rate was; were the 47 coins dropped this time considered a lot or a little?

Adding the 10 gold coins obtained at level 15, plus what was left before, he now had 67 coins on hand.

There was still some distance to the 100 coins needed to upgrade the Void Mantis to four stars.

Li Yao planned to wait a bit longer.

In the previous battle with Yan Yan Gaojie, he had also discovered his own shortcoming:

displacement skills.

Yan Yan Gaojie used a displacement skill to create distance, which easily allowed him to dodge his attacks.

If he had a displacement skill, it wouldn’t have taken so much time to deal with Yan Yan Gaojie.

Once the Void Mantis reached four stars, it might awaken a displacement skill, so Li Yao planned to save the gold coins first and prioritize upgrading the Void Mantis’s star level.

However,

Li Yao also thought that besides gold coins, equipment parts could also be obtained from monsters.

If Lords didn’t drop them, could it be that it required something above Lord-level?

“Interesting!”

Li Yao curled his lips into a smile.

Effort equals reward; this saying holds true at all times.

With such a high difficulty in acquisition, the Cloud Top series equipment should be quite good!

But at his current level, he couldn’t reach monsters above Lord-level yet, so Li Yao withdrew his thoughts and looked at the treasure chests.

Among them, the Tongue-Ripping Empress’s chest was the one Li Yao looked forward to the least, so he opened it without hesitation.

After all, no matter how you looked at it, the Tongue-Ripping Empress didn’t seem like a summoning-type monster.

The treasure chest opened.

As expected,

two pieces of equipment:

one Platinum-grade Assassin-type leather armor, one Gold-grade Warrior-type helmet.

Li Yao threw them into his storage space.

Any one of these Platinum-grade pieces of equipment could stir up a storm in the outside world, let alone being produced in a Purgatory-grade Original Instance.

Handing them over to the Qin family one by one, was the efficiency a bit slow?

Li Yao considered.

Should he save up some more and go to the Sangyu main city to hold an auction?

An auction that didn’t take money, only traded for things a Summoner could use?

Or concentrate them to exchange for an item beyond Platinum-grade?

As a sewer-tier profession, Summoners’ equipment and skills were much cheaper than other professions.

Exchanging for an item beyond Platinum-grade wasn’t impossible!

Li Yao became more excited the more he thought about it, deciding to hold this trade convention the day before the Martial Exam.

By then, with the Martial Exam imminent, those noble family descendants would be more prone to impulsive consumption.

Maybe if their brains got hot, they’d even bring out Dark Gold-grade items!

However,

Li Yao could already imagine Qin Qin Yue’s frantic expression when he took back all the high-quality equipment from the Qin family.

“I’ll just have the Qin family help manage it then; anyway, I don’t have any connections in this regard.”

Li Yao thought while opening the two First Clear treasure chests.

These two were his own and Song Song Anqing’s.

First Clear treasure chests also improved in quality based on contribution points; he’d keep Yang Yang Junfei’s 1-contribution chest to trade for a Yan family head.

That could be considered making the best use of everything.

The treasure chests opened, and in an instant, the light was brilliant.

One skill book, three pieces of equipment, one scroll.

Original Instance, First Clear treasure chest, and it was Purgatory-grade difficulty; the buffs were stacked to the max.

He wanted to see what kind of good stuff he could get!

[Beast King Robe (Top)]

[Quality: Platinum]

[Equipment Requirement: Level 20, Spirit 200]

[Equipment Attribute 1: Spirit +120, Stamina +40]

[Equipment Attribute 2: Beast King Call (Active): Summon 10 Silver Moon Wolf phantoms (B-grade) to fight for the wearer; phantom level increases with the wearer’s level, duration 60 seconds, cooldown 12 minutes]

[Equipment Attribute 3: Beast King Aura (Passive): Designate one summoned creature; within a 50-meter radius of that creature, all summoned creatures’ main attributes increase by 25%, and the designated summoned creature’s main attribute increases by 5%]

[Durability: 240/240]

[Heart-Protecting Mirror (Pendant)]

[Quality: Platinum]

[Equipment Requirement: None]

[Equipment Attribute 1: Spirit +100]

[Equipment Attribute 2: Heart Protection (Active): Designate a target to trigger an invincibility state for 1 second, cooldown 24 hours]

[Durability: 100/100]

[Prayer Staff (Weapon)]

[Quality: Platinum]

Healing-type equipment, omitted.

[Heart of Devotion (SS Active Skill): A moving bond between summoned creatures; designate one summoned creature, and all non-designated summoned creatures are returned to the summoning bar. The designated summoned creature inherits the sum of the main attributes of the returned summoned creatures, duration 6 seconds, cooldown 12 hours]

Excited heart, trembling hands.

Li Yao didn’t know how to describe his mood at this moment.

A massive explosion, an unprecedented massive explosion!

Three pieces of equipment, two of which Li Yao could wear himself.

And both were perfectly suited to Li Yao’s current situation.