Update Time: 2014-03-03

“This has both advantages and disadvantages!” Yang Qi said. “All skill attributes changing to Ice attribute means if you encounter an opponent immune to ice attacks, you’ll suffer a huge loss! But thankfully, this probability isn’t too high. Overall, the Tear Clan is still a very powerful race!”

“What about you? What race are you?” Lin Zheng looked at Yang Qi, who shrugged and said, “I’m from the Yan Clan. The race matches me quite well, but where in the world do I go to awaken!?”

“There’s a place I think might be a gathering place for the Yan Clan!”

Yang Qi’s eyes lit up. “Where?”

“Yan God Basin!”

“That place!” Yang Qi raised her eyebrows. “It’s possible. I’ll go check it out after we establish the guild!”

“You better be careful; that’s a Third Turn map!”

“If I can’t fight, can’t I hide? Riding on Blood-colored Nightmare, no monster will be able to catch me!” Yang Qi said triumphantly. Lin Zheng, seeing her getting too carried away, couldn’t help but retort, “Oh?! No matter how fast you are, can you be faster than avian monsters?”

“…” Struck by the blow, Yang Qi immediately changed the subject. “Never mind that, what about your racial talent? What is it?”

“Ability Enhancement!”

“Ability Enhancement?!” Yang Qi looked curious. “How does it enhance?”

“Every time you level up, all basic attributes +1. Recovery items double their recovery effect after use, and received healing effects are doubled. At the same time, when used as a skill, it can increase teammates’ attack and defense by 30%!”

“Holy crap!” Yang Qi was completely stunned! This racial talent was too overpowered, wasn’t it?! This was only the effect of a Second Turn talent. When it reached Third Turn, Fourth Turn, wouldn’t it be even more abnormal!?

“No way! After building the guild, I must find a way to awaken!” Yang Qi said with eager eyes.

“Brother!” Suddenly, Yu Shi Lei’s voice rang out. The two followed the sound and found that they had unknowingly walked to the new altar. In front of the altar, the fairy-like and ethereal Yu Shi Lei was happily waving at Lin Zheng…

“Yo—Hello, Xiao Lei! You look like you’re in good spirits!” Lin Zheng greeted Yu Shi Lei with a smile.

Yu Shi Lei playfully wrinkled her nose and complained softly, “Not at all! I’ve been so busy with clan matters recently, I’m practically dead!”

“Is that so?! If there’s any trouble, tell me about it. Maybe I can help!” Lin Zheng originally just said it out of politeness, but he didn’t expect Yu Shi Lei to immediately become happy upon hearing it!

“Really? That’s great! There’s just one thing that’s been bothering me a lot right now!” Yu Shi Lei looked at Lin Zheng happily and said, “It’s like this: to arm our clansmen as quickly as possible, we need enough ore to forge weapons and armor for our warriors. But our Tear Clan has been dormant for hundreds of years, and the caves where we used to collect ore have all been occupied by monsters. These monsters are very powerful, and we can’t beat them without weapons. This problem has been bothering me for days! But now it’s fine, with your help, Brother, we can definitely eliminate the monsters in the mine quickly!”

“Ding—You have accepted the quest ‘Tear Clan Construction: Clear the Mine,’ quest difficulty C-rank Upper. There is an important Tear Clan mine south of Tear City, now occupied by a large number of monsters. Quest objective: Clear all monsters in the cave!”

“Okay, I’ll clear out the monsters in the mine as quickly as possible!” Since the quest came to him, Lin Zheng had no choice but to accept it, especially since it was a request from a beautiful girl!

“Thank you for your help, Brother!” Yu Shi Lei was very happy. At this moment, she noticed Yang Qi beside Lin Zheng and said in surprise, “This must be Brother’s friend, right?! I saw her last time!”

“You can call her Liu Mang!” Lin Zheng introduced Yang Qi with a mischievous smile, which made Yang Qi roll her eyes. “And if you have any other troubles, just give them to her; she’ll definitely handle them perfectly for you!”

“I actually do have something! Liu Mang Sister, can you help me?” Yu Shi Lei looked at Yang Qi with sincerity, but that address!? Yang Qi immediately felt an urge to strangle Lin Zheng! Pulling at her lips, Yang Qi smiled and said, “Alright! Just tell me what it is!”

“Behind our Tear City, there’s a large lake called Tear Pond. Blue-scaled fish grow there, and their scales are an important material for us to make armor. But recently, a group of Ice Birds flew in from somewhere unknown. They feed on the blue-scaled fish every day and have been nesting in Tear Pond without leaving. If this continues, the blue-scaled fish will be eaten up. So, Liu Mang Sister, please help us drive away this group of Ice Birds!”

And so, Yang Qi received the B-rank Lower quest to clear the bird menace. Yang Qi was still thinking about establishing a guild later, so after receiving the quest, she immediately bid farewell and headed to Tear Pond, hoping to complete the quest quickly so she could establish the guild. Lin Zheng wasn’t in such a hurry; anyway, the quest had no time limit. After bidding farewell to Yu Shi Lei, he continued to stroll around Tear City.

When Lin Zheng walked into the equipment shop, he was immediately dumbfounded by the sight of the entire shop filled with equipment of Dark Gold grade and above! All the equipment sold in the Tear City equipment shop was at least level 50 Dark Gold grade. The shop was filled with such magnificent treasure, looking incredibly spectacular! However, when Lin Zheng thought he had discovered a treasure and excitedly wanted to buy a few pieces, he looked at the purchase requirements and immediately turned to stone!

To purchase a level 50 piece of equipment, you needed 20,000 gold coins and also had to consume 5,000 reputation! This was absolutely outrageous! These pieces of equipment were purely for players to drool over; basically, no player would actually buy them! However, after conversing with the shop assistant, Lin Zheng did learn something quite interesting.

It turned out that the equipment shop assistant had an equipment crafting and upgrading function. As long as players collected enough blue-scaled fish scales, they could come to the shop assistant to craft the Han Ling Set. The basic Han Ling Set could be equipped at level 50, and it was also a configuration of Gold grade plus Dark Gold armor. The second-level set had the same attributes as the set Lin Zheng currently possessed, and there were levels 3, 4, 5… up to 12. By the third level, the Han Ling Set was already entirely Dark Gold grade, and the highest-level Han Ling Set was even a full Epic set! However, upgrading to the top level was truly extraordinarily difficult. It not only required a massive amount of scales but also many precious materials. At least the materials listed, by their names, seemed to be Epic grade, which tells you how difficult they would be to acquire!

As for how to obtain blue-scaled fish scales, there was also a hint from the shop assistant. There was a patrol officer by Tear Pond who was responsible for guarding the Tear Pond, which was very important to the Tear Clan. By speaking with the patrol officer, you could accept the quest “Collect Scales,” and then you could enter a dungeon that was equivalent to the player’s average level. Every monster in the dungeon would drop scales, in varying quantities! After completing the dungeon, players needed to submit 100 scales to the patrol officer to complete the dungeon quest, and then the remaining scales would belong to the player! And there was no limit to the number of times this dungeon could be entered. If you liked, you could spend the entire day in this dungeon! Therefore, it could be expected that this dungeon would become very popular in the future, and there would definitely be many players camping there daily to farm scales for money!