Published: February 10, 2025
Ye Zhongming looked at the equipment in front of him, somewhat stunned.
Because... this was a piece of blue-grade equipment!
Ye Zhongming could hear the strong beating of his heart.
Could it be that imprinting combined with Nourishing Life Soil, Ghost Gold, Drilling Sea Gold, and high-quality materials could elevate the equipment to blue grade?
He recalled how delighted he was when he could create green-grade equipment before. Could it be that he could enhance this ability again because of the imprinting?
Ye Zhongming was feeling restless. He hadn't even looked at the attributes of the new battle armor and directly started another round of manufacturing; he wanted to see if it was true.
Still using the mountain character seal, still at a sixty percent success rate, he produced another piece of royal blue battle armor.
But!
It was no longer blue-grade!
He scratched his head in confusion. What was going on? Did this thing have a hidden success rate?
Green and blue were separated by one grade, but their attributes and capabilities had a significant gap. They were two tiers of items, and with the same materials and methods, different grades appeared. Anyone would want to create the better one, yet Ye Zhongming didn't know how to grasp it.
Unwilling to give up, Ye Zhongming tried five more times, failing three times and succeeding twice. Still, those two were green-grade.
Ye Zhongming wanted to continue experimenting, but with an imprinting success rate of only sixty percent and his luck not being great today, he had more failures, which made him feel pained over the wasted Nourishing Life Soil and Ghost Gold.
Although there was still Ghost Gold on the iron lock prisoner, and he could "pull" out the little creature on his shoulder for Nourishing Life Soil, the former required a desperate fight against a super powerful eighth-level life form. Even now, Ye Zhongming didn't dare to easily bring anyone to hunt the iron lock prisoner; that fellow was too strong. So, the Ghost Gold was still diminishing gradually.
As for the latter, it needed to be well-fed, and the food had to be good. Moreover, Ye Zhongming had yet to figure out how long this little guy needed to replenish its energy; at least for now, it hadn't asked him for food again.
Thus, the replenishment of Nourishing Life Soil wouldn't be quick, but the amount used each time was considerable. This was still Black Nourishing Life Soil, while yellow and red soil were even harder to obtain, with each gram being precious, making it impossible for Ye Zhongming not to cherish it.
This failure rate had already exceeded Ye Zhongming's threshold of tolerance.
His plan was to upgrade the entire equipment for the Xia Bai Squad!
Having given up the gambling-style creation of blue-grade equipment, Ye Zhongming began to honestly manufacture green-grade Earth's Essence Battle Armor.
By the time noises came from outside, a night had already passed, and in front of Ye Zhongming were a total of twenty pieces of green-grade battle armor.
He called people over and reserved fifteen pieces for Cloud Summit Villa, three pieces for Guangyao, and two pieces for Zhao Xingmei.
Neither Zhao Xingmei nor Guangyao had any objections to this distribution. Zhao Xingmei didn't need to say much; although she had been with Ye Zhongming for a long time, she had already gained a lot. The core members and herself were already fully equipped with silver armor, while the others also benefited in different ways. Moreover, Ye Zhongming promised that he would show more appreciation when they returned.
Ye Zhongming had already paid them their deserved rewards. Now, getting two extra pieces of green equipment was a pleasant surprise.
It should be noted that within the entire Ying City Alliance team, only Zhao Xingmei and two others possessed one piece of green equipment each.
As for Guangyao, there was more to say. They had just joined Cloud Summit, and everything before was merely their efforts to survive; it could be said they had temporarily contributed nothing. Suddenly receiving three pieces of armor, especially green-grade, what more could they ask for?