The Small Fragment of World Wandering Spirit Essence dropped by the Great General was worth one million.

With one million Spirit Essence in the Book of Trade, you can buy a top-tier Epic+ weapon, or just meet the threshold for the lowest slot of a Legendary-grade piece of armor, such as boots, pauldrons, bracers, and the like.

It may not sound like much, but note that this is only the Spirit Essence income from a single end-of-level boss, not counting items and equipment.

Lin Xun remembered that in the Nightmare chapter of the Blood Sun world, not counting opening chests and looting equipment through Possession, speaking purely of top-quality equipment dropped by monsters, he had only gained the end boss drop Iridescent Scaled Wing Boots.

And that was with the drop rate in a Nightmare chapter. In an Ordinary chapter, you might not see a single top-tier piece drop over an entire level.

Because the Spirit Essence income and equipment drop rate inside a chapter are very low, even if ordinary Apostles can advance to the next chapter, they still stay at the current difficulty to stockpile Spirit Essence and assemble a full set of gear before advancing to the next difficulty.

But the equipment drop rate at Hell difficulty is extremely exaggerated. In this chapter there were Tachi – Uzuki-Kir, Exorcising Purification Wand, the Purifying Evil and Averting Calamity Halo dropped by the chief priest, and the Tachi: Eight Views Welcome Evil dropped by the Great General.

This is not even counting the series of gear obtained from quests, such as Dragon Sword Masamune, Golden Roc Raptor Claws, and Amateru Sakiina’s Harvest Sickle.

Adding up the total gains from a single Hell chapter is at least more than ten times those of an Ordinary chapter, to say nothing of Lin Xun’s full-map exploration, scouring the land three feet deep, leaving not a single scrap behind.

Compared to clearing a dozen Ordinary chapters, aside from far less experience, the profits from completing a Hell chapter absolutely surpass those of Ordinary chapters.

Apart from his shell levels being inferior to those of typical elite Apostles, Lin Xun could crush Apostles of the same difficulty in every other respect, whether shell quality, skills, or equipment, and even fighting cross-difficulty against other Apostles would not be impossible.

The Great General had also dropped a Complete Forging Crystal Chunk, which can be used to enhance Legendary-grade equipment.

Including this one, Lin Xun now had a total of 7 pieces in his pocket, just right to use the Imperial Swordsmith shell to waive the enhancement fee.

[Great Seal of Yomi-no-Osho Jinpi-Yasha – Yang Seal (Epic+ accessory): This half of an archaic square seal is the Yang Seal, one half of a combined seal. It is one of the tokens the Great General used to mobilize the army. Combine it with the Yin Seal to form a complete seal.]

[Equipping this accessory will cause your summons/special summons to receive the Yang Seal’s amplification effect, slightly increasing their attack power.]

[You possess the Great Seal of Yomi-no-Osho Jinpi-Yasha – Yin Seal. Do you wish to combine the two accessories into one?]

The Yin Seal was an accessory obtained after killing the head of the Ogiwara Clan. Accessories count as equipment. Only when you are possessing a shell that carries this accessory will the equipment’s effects manifest.

Previously, the Yin Seal’s improvement to summons was small and not directly perceptible.

He wondered what effect would be gained after combining the two accessories.

[You fit the two archaic square seals together. The joint is tight and seamless, forming a complete seal…]

[A flash of dazzling light!]

[You have obtained Great Seal of Yomi-no-Osho Jinpi-Yasha Square Seal (Legendary accessory)!]

[Great Seal of Yomi-no-Osho Jinpi-Yasha Square Seal (Legendary accessory): A complete token for commanding troops, representing the highest command of the Sakura Falls army.]

[Equipping this accessory will cause the duration of your buffs cast on summons/special summons to be greatly extended.]

[Furthermore, if the skills possessed by your summons/special summons include effects that strengthen themselves, the duration of those strengthening skills will also be greatly extended!]

“Awesome!”

Without another word, Lin Xun moved the accessory into the Palace Master’s equipment slot.

[Your shell Fire-Worshipping Palace Master of Iya Palace has equipped Great Seal of Yomi-no-Osho Jinpi-Yasha Square Seal (Legendary accessory).]

[You have become stronger!]

The accessory would not only extend the active durations of the Palace Master’s United Resolve and Filth Purification Rebirth, it would also extend the durations of Nurarihyon’s True Celestial Demon Form and the Nine-Tailed Fox’s Nine Tails Patrolling the Heavens.

When the Great General was in the second phase, Lin Xun had used strengthening skills and the shikigami’s transformation ultimates.

By the time the Great General entered the third phase, the durations of these skills were all about to run out.

Filth Purification Rebirth and the two shikigami’s ultimates were quite ferocious. The only flaw was that their durations were a bit short. Calling them three-second real men is a bit exaggerated, but that was roughly the idea.

With this Legendary accessory, the burst window for the shikigami could be extended by a lot, which indeed increased his combat strength.

[Blood of the Evil God’s Offspring (Legendary item): The blood of the Dragon God’s offspring passed down from the divine war to this day. It is said that the offspring of the Chaotic Origin Dragon, such as the deities Qiuniu, Yazi, Bian, and others, also took part in the divine war. This drop of blood was left by Chiwen, one of the Dragon God’s offspring. However, as the divine war was long ago, the draconic power in the blood is on the verge of dissipating completely.]

[Using this item will grant you the Blessing of Chiwen buff state, massively amplifying water-attribute arts for a certain period of time.]

[In the depths of the bloodline of your shell Knowledge-Seeking Primordial Hermit, the Hermit power is gradually awakening. The withered bloodline is ravenous and longs to devour all items containing residual draconic blood to strengthen itself.]

[Do you wish to devour Blood of the Evil God’s Offspring (Legendary item)?]

Overjoyed, Lin Xun quickly pressed the devour option.

He had no related water-attribute spells, so keeping this item would be useless.

But if given to the little dragonkin shell, relying on the item’s Legendary quality, he could raise the little dragonkin’s shell quality to Legendary.

[You open your large mouth toward the residual blood of the Dragon God’s offspring. A wisp of golden bloodline in the blood turns into streams of light and is inhaled into your body…]

[Devouring…]

[The horns on your skull grow thicker, the fangs in your jaws sharper, and the majesty of the Hermit lineage radiates from your shell…]

[Devour successful!]

[The shell of Knowledge-Seeking Primordial Hermit has been promoted!]

He quickly opened the Shell Panel.

The little dragonkin’s shell quality had changed, promoted from the previous Epic+ to Legendary.

At present, the little dragonkin’s shell Compatibility had reached 93% under the 55% soul talent bonus.

As long as Lin Xun could upgrade his soul talent again, he could push the little dragonkin’s Compatibility past the critical threshold and raise the shell quality to Legendary+.

At the moment, only the shikigami Nine-Tailed Fox possessed an overall tier of Legendary+. The highest shell quality among the shells in his Shell Slots was only Legendary.

The other gains in this chapter were all very high, except that Divine items were extremely scarce. Only at the very beginning, in the lower level of the Idyllic Pleasure Quarter, had he obtained one Epic-grade Divine item.

By common logic, both Nurarihyon and the Great General should have dropped Divine items.

But perhaps because neither of the two big bosses was personally killed by him and because there had been tremendous external assistance, the tier of the drop rewards was lowered, and thus no deserved Divine items dropped.

“Without powerful plot characters helping out, I cannot beat the big bosses. But if I call in people to help, the rewards get downgraded. Hellish game, you really live up to your name.”

While complaining, Lin Xun ignored the fact that both bosses fell into the category of optional fights, tantamount to bonus questions.

Just like the Veiled Aberration in the World of Omniscience, you can skip class and not fight it.

[Tachi: Eight Views Welcome Evil (Legendary weapon): A heavy great tachi that ordinary people can hardly lift. It is a sword carried by the Great General at all times, forged by Imperial Swordsmith, the finest swordsmith of Sakura Falls.]

[When using this weapon, the stronger the Strength attribute your shell possesses, the stronger the additional damage bonus this weapon provides.]

Ordinary weapons also have templates that amplify attacks based on attributes. For example, with a ninja blade like Dragon Sword Masamune, the power exerted by an Agility shell and a Strength shell will be drastically different.

Eight Views Welcome Evil should be a template of full Strength scaling, and on top of that template it also possesses additional damage bonuses. It is a favorite for pure Strength builds.

Because of the single required attribute, this type of weapon is very popular in the Book of Trade.

However, the most suitable equipment for a shell is still a custom-fitted piece, namely the unique equipment forged by the Book of Craftsmen.

Earth Giant is the shell most suitable for this weapon.

It is just that as chapter difficulty has sharply increased, the position of the Earth Giant has gradually shifted from main damage dealer to massive HP tank.

Its damage role has already been replaced by the Ninja Master and the Greedy Wolf Star Lord.

After weighing it for a while, he did not put the weapon up for sale, but equipped it on the Earth Giant.

[Your shell Corrupted Earth Giant has equipped Tachi: Eight Views Welcome Evil (Legendary weapon).]

[You have become stronger!]

The Earth Giant now dual-wielded one blade and one club. The Tachi – Uzuki-Kir he had slotted before had the weapon effect enhance damage dealt to ghost-type monsters, which likely would not be of much use in future chapters.

The whiteboard stats of the Epic+ weapon were quite solid. Speaking purely of attack power, it would certainly be higher than the Ancient Dragonfang Greatclub.

For dual-wielding, attack power uses the best of the two weapons’ panels as a base. The attack increase from the secondary weapon is relatively small. The main purpose of dual-wielding is to share weapon passives.

Therefore, when Tachi – Uzuki-Kir is not the highest-quality weapon among the dual-wielded pair, the double critical effect of the Ancient Dragonfang Greatclub is more important.

[Extreme Evil Great Armor (Legendary+ item): A set of great armor formed entirely from pure malice. It can block all attacks directed at you.]

[Using this item will generate an indestructible Extreme Evil Great Armor on your body surface. Malice will repair the armor’s wear. Until the aura of malice is completely worn away, you will not receive any damage.]

“A Legendary+ defensive item. Calling it a god-tier lifesaving item is not excessive, right?”

Delighted, Lin Xun carefully stored the item.

This defensive item is extremely effective against high-difficulty bosses. You need not fear being one-shot by a boss. As long as you can turtle it out, with his ferocious offensive means, he can grind a boss down to death.

The last item was also Legendary+, named Sakura Falls Yasaka Curved Jewel.

[Sakura Falls Yasaka Curved Jewel (Legendary+ item): A treasure passed down through the Sakura Falls royal family for generations. Each time the old emperor abdicates, he passes this jewel to the next emperor. The status of the Yasaka Curved Jewel is equivalent to the Imperial Heirloom Seal of the Vermilion Empire.]

[This item stores the national destiny of Sakura Falls across generations. Whoever possesses the Yasaka Curved Jewel is the child of destiny.]

[This item can be used unlimited times. After use, it will randomly consume luck value stored in the item to briefly raise your Luck attribute by a commensurate degree.]

[Please note, if you have already obtained a Luck increase from this item, using it again will cause the previous Luck increase to be overwritten.]

[After Luck value is consumed, it will slowly recover until full.]

[Current Luck value: 100/100]

“Whoa!”

“This is the Lucky Gold Coin PLUS, PRO, MAX supreme power enhanced edition!”

Lin Xun was dumbfounded and exclaimed that the Life Soul Casket of the Greedy Wolf Star Lord had been opened far too early.

If he could have gotten this item before opening the shell blind box, he would surely have raised the Star Lord’s shell quality to the highest tier, and the shell skills would also have rolled the top three options.

This single item alone equals the total gains of all the other items dropped by the Great General.

Exaggerating a bit, this item is enough to match the total gains of the entire chapter.

“Hell difficulty chapter… so sweet!”

All things in the world cannot escape the law of fragrant truth. Lin Xun was no exception.

He secretly made up his mind. If the difficulty is higher, then it is higher. Next time he will still choose Hell difficulty.

“It is not that I am a masochist. I simply like challenges and am brave enough to climb peaks. It is absolutely not because the rewards of Hell difficulty are better.”

After checking the spoils dropped by the Great General, Lin Xun prepared to go to the Book of Craftsmen to snag blueprints for free and forge an exclusive weapon for the Greedy Wolf Star Lord.

A sword immortal without a suitable treasure sword is like a millionaire going out without a wallet, phone, or bank cards, a kind of stifled feeling of having money with nowhere to spend it.

“Huh?”

Just as Lin Xun was about to close the items, he discovered an unexpected item, Mature Fruit of Evil!

This item had transformed from the Newborn Fruit of Evil after absorbing enough malice.

He had thought the fruit’s function was merely to absorb malice, specialized for dealing with Extreme Evil monsters, and that after absorbing enough malice its mission would be complete and it might disappear. So he had not examined it carefully.

[Mature Fruit of Evil (Special Item): The pitch-black fruit has absorbed countless malice until it grew mature and awaits picking.]

[When this item transforms from Newborn Fruit of Evil into Mature Fruit of Evil, you will draw the unblinking gaze of the Extreme Delusion Fruit. Even if the item is discarded or destroyed, the deity’s gaze cannot be shifted away.]

“Damn. So in the end, the Dance Goddess’s fall into Extreme Evil was triggered by me?”

A heavy sense of frustration rose in Lin Xun’s heart.

Without using this item, he could not beat the Great General into the third phase and trigger the critical moment.

Using this item to defeat the Great General’s second phase would draw the gaze of the Extreme Delusion Fruit.

And that was with Lin Xun using it sparingly.

If, when he slaughtered over a hundred Extreme Evil small monsters in the Tenmei Grand Shrine, he had used this item for convenience, the item would probably have already turned into the Mature Fruit of Evil.

He fell silent.

Lin Xun did not know that the Extreme Delusion Fruit corrupts all things in the world. So long as a living being bears the Tattoo of Extreme Evil on its chest, it cannot escape the deity’s gaze.

Several of his Fire-Worshipping shells bore the malice tattoo. Even if he did not use the Fire-Worshipping shells, shikigami such as the Nine-Tailed Fox, Shuten Doji, and Nurarihyon also had the malice tattoo.

Moreover, he had fought the Proxy of the Evil God. Even without the Mature Fruit of Evil, the evil god would still have cast down its gaze.

As long as the Dance Goddess descended to the mortal realm, she would ultimately find it difficult to escape the fate of falling into Extreme Evil.

“Enough of that. There is no regret medicine in this world, and chapters already entered cannot be reinterpreted in a second run.”

“…”

“Next, let us forge a weapon for the Greedy Wolf Star Lord!”

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