Published: February 7, 2025
The next morning, Ye Zhongming energetically called Mo Ye, Lu Yi, and the others to gather, reiterating what he had instructed Xia Lei yesterday. There was no choice; Xia Lei would probably not get up until noon.
Taking advantage of the time the people from Cloud Summit were cleaning up under the city wall, Ye Zhongming took out two versatile equipment upgrade scrolls and reviewed his gear in his mind. Ultimately, he decided to use these two scrolls on the Treasure Storage Gourd and the Demon Servicing Beehive.
Although the Treasure Storage Gourd could absorb energy from equipment for upgrades on its own, Ye Zhongming found that the energy required for the upgrade was quite substantial. Relying solely on this method to raise the level of this silver-grade equipment could take a long time.
Thus, Ye Zhongming chose to first use the versatile equipment upgrade scroll (green) to elevate it to green grade. This not only improved the energy conversion efficiency of its ability 3, which was to swallow treasures, but also allowed ability 1, repair, to fix equipment of silver grade or below. These levels were precisely the mainstream grades of weaponry and equipment in Cloud Summit right now.
Additionally, ability 2 of the Treasure Storage Gourd could also come into play, allowing ordinary equipment to be raised to gray grade and then again to white grade. This would significantly alleviate Ye Zhongming's pressure in terms of weapon and equipment crafting. After all, equipment placed in the Treasure Storage Gourd required neither materials nor mental power; they just needed some time.
Once the Treasure Storage Gourd had been upgraded from silver grade to green, Ye Zhongming noticed another benefit: the interior space had expanded.
Previously, with ability 1, the repair space was somewhat larger, allowing up to fifty pieces of equipment to be stored at once, while ability 2 of the Treasure Storage Gourd allowed for twenty pieces. Now that it had reached green grade, both numbers had increased by about twenty pieces.
Of course, this was the maximum number of items both abilities could simultaneously accommodate. In such a state, whether for repair or treasure storage, the efficiency would be significantly reduced.
Ye Zhongming first tossed his Edge of the Moon into the Gourd for repair, then called for ten protective suits to be sent over to test the effects.
Naturally, the weapons that were damaged in the recent battle, as well as those that had been phased out, were also absorbed by the Treasure Storage Gourd and converted into energy for the first two abilities.
For the other versatile equipment upgrade scroll (blue), Ye Zhongming did not continue to upgrade the Treasure Storage Gourd, but instead chose to upgrade the Demon Servicing Beehive to blue grade.
This beast pool class equipment left a deep impression on Ye Zhongming during its performance in the competition of death roulette space, especially the ferocity of the needle birds gathering together, which left survivors without perfect defense or equipment utterly defenseless.
However, as the apocalypse progressed, the level of evolvers increased, the prevalence of equipment rose, and the strength of mutated life forms grew; a green-grade Demon Servicing Beehive would definitely be insufficient. Now that Ye Zhongming had upgraded it to blue, he believed it could still hold its own for a while.
The benefits of the upgrade were immediately apparent; the volume of the Demon Servicing Beehive increased significantly, and naturally, there were more honeycombs. The number of honeycombs corresponds to the number of monsters residing inside, and this alone greatly enhanced the power of the Demon Servicing Beehive. Ye Zhongming also felt that the evolution level of the needle bird king and its subordinates inside would see a considerable improvement.
With these two pieces of equipment sorted, Ye Zhongming went down to the city wall and selected a spot where he had a few barrels of water delivered. He then took out the ginseng melon seeds he had obtained from the desolate land.