Published: February 7, 2025
Ye Zhongming planned to launch an attack in the middle of the month, but after some thought, he decided to take a different approach. Starting tomorrow, he would post three updates a day for about three days. He hoped everyone could understand; he was really struggling, only managing a few hundred words in an hour...
Ye Zhongming immediately planted the Staff of Nature into the ground, embedding a water-type gemstone on it. The phantom of the Shield of the Water Bottle wrapped the team tightly in the center.
He could still let the team train against gray-level flying knives, but he would not dare to be careless against white-level attacks.
These were attacks that could cause massive casualties.
Ye Zhongming hadn't anticipated facing such intense attacks suddenly, and his eyes narrowed.
He thought of a popular saying from his previous life: the difficulty of a special roulette corresponds to the rewards obtained.
This was a broad statement, but the meaning was clear—what you put in is what you get out.
Ye Zhongming had no way of knowing what kind of difficulty they would face if no one chose the rewards like Team Amplification Book and System Recipe: Enchanting Potion during the Easter egg challenge. However, he did know that if the challenge they faced was already extremely tricky for him, it indicated one thing: the Treasure Storage Gourd was a good item, even a very good one, and its true value might surpass 'System Recipe: Enchanting Potion' and 'Team Amplification Book'!
This realization made Ye Zhongming's heart race.
Looking at the golden gourd that was still spraying a torrent of white needles, he speculated that this equipment might be something that could be upgraded. After all, it had transformed from silver to gold, skipping the green and blue levels—wasn’t that a great hint?
The needle rain began to violently collide with the Shield of the Water Bottle.
Ye Zhongming quickly produced two more natural gemstones in his hand. Given the level of the attack, the Shield of the Water Bottle wouldn't hold out for long.
Sure enough, moments later, one Shield of the Water Bottle was breached, and Ye Zhongming replaced the gemstone as fast as he could.
However, the attacks were too fierce. The golden gourd seemed like a sky with a hole, as torrents of needles poured in. In the brief moments when the two Shields of the Water Bottle alternated, some attacks broke through, and even though the Cloud Summit warriors were in a defensive stance, these were still white-level attacks that their equipment couldn't fully defend against.
Screams erupted as many were hit, and even Ye Zhongming felt a white needle graze his shoulder, leaving a streak of blood.
To be safe, he had placed Shengyuan and Park Soo-young, both top-tier support players, with Xia Lei, so there wasn't anyone on his side who could fill in the gap alone.
Fortunately, there was still some holy water left, and Ye Zhongming immediately had someone treat the injured.
The second Shield of the Water Bottle shattered at this moment!
The warriors of Cloud Summit Villa demonstrated exceptional timing. In the instant the two Shields of the Water Bottle crossed, their skills were seamlessly deployed in front of the team.
Injuries still occurred, but compared to the previous count, this time they were reduced by more than half, and no one died.
The first time had cost them two lives.
Having found a way to cope, every time Ye Zhongming switched gemstones, the warriors would spring into action. In the last instance, they even achieved a perfect outcome with no one injured, and when the attacks ceased, many cheered.
Yet, Ye Zhongming was fixated on the golden gourd in the sky.
If that thing turned purple or even rainbow... Ye Zhongming could scarcely imagine.
Fortunately, as if reaching its limit, the gourd slightly rotated and transformed back from gold to silver, and the gray flying knives reappeared.
This made everyone breathe a sigh of relief.
After the flying knives, the Cloud Summit warriors didn't give the silver gourd a chance to change back to gold, taking advantage of the time difference to successfully shatter the gourd.