Xibo, which produced Stone Treasure Molybdenum Gold, was an ancient place name. Its current name was Luoyi. Stone Treasure Valley was located in the mountains south of Luoyi. This was recorded in Vermilion Geographical Records, but the recorded direction was rather vague.

And Luoyi just happened to be Lin Xun’s next destination.

The other supplementary material with a clue was Black Sea Ice Soul Essence Crystal. It was produced in Black Sea Dragon Palace deep beneath the Eastern Black Sea, ten thousand zhang below the sea. It was a necessary item for ancient sea yokai to cultivate. By hunting sea yokai with a certain level of cultivation, there was a high probability of obtaining this item.

Now that the yokai race had been destroyed, sea yokai had also long since vanished from the Vermilion coastal waters. Obtaining Black Sea Ice Soul Essence Crystal would not be easy.

As for the locations that produced the other three supplementary materials, Heavenly Dragon Grottoes, Yangan Earth Vein, and Yongdong Dragon Cascade Mountain, there were completely no clues. Lin Xun repeatedly checked Vermilion Geographical Records, but did not obtain even the slightest trace.

He narrowed his eyes, and countless characters flashed through them.

The known Luoyi and Eastern Black Sea were both along the route east toward Penglai. From this perspective, there was a certain possibility that the remaining three supplementary materials were also located along the preset route of the hellish game.

But even knowing this, gathering all five supplementary materials was not an easy task.

Take Xibo Stone Treasure Valley for example. Stone Treasure Molybdenum Gold was not produced within Luoyi City, but in the vast mountains south of the prefecture city. Without learning the specific location information and exact clues of Stone Treasure Valley, even if Lin Xun passed through Luoyi, there was a high probability he would miss this item.

“This is a bit difficult…”

After thinking for a long time, he thought of two methods.

The first was to return to Kunlun and ask Lu Wu.

As an old monster who had lived for countless years, and originally the old dragon’s loyal subordinate, Lu Wu might know the specific locations of the five materials.

The other method was a class-skipping method similar to cheating.

This method could not be carried out by the Apostle player alone. It required cooperation from other Apostles, because while an Apostle was clearing a chapter, the hellish game would block all items related to that chapter in the library.

When an Apostle in an official organization was stuck because of lacking a certain material, they would cooperate with other Apostles and use this method to bypass the hellish game’s restrictions.

With this thought, Lin Xun decided to use both methods at once.

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On the private beach of a seaside hotel, the warm and humid sea breeze brushed past, lifting the white gauze curtains beneath the sunshade canopy.

A man lay bare-chested on a physiotherapy bed, eyes half closed, enjoying a pleasant afternoon as essential oil was spread across his back and soft hands massaged him in a spa treatment.

Suddenly, an ear-piercing phone ringtone sounded.

Amos took the phone. When he saw the caller, he immediately got up and waved away the serving women.

“Little Amos, what are you busy with?”

Amos looked at the empty golden beach, where waves gently lapped in one after another, and replied respectfully, “Lord Cain, your subordinate is currently in the Qiongya Province pasture district.”

“The previous Disciple left behind quite a few old subordinates here. Several newly appointed proxy agents were having some difficulty dealing with them, so your subordinate came here with Arsonist to completely settle the lambs in the pasture district.”

“Please give your orders, Lord.”

“Like this. First, do as I say…”

After hearing Cain’s voice from the other end of the phone, Amos’s heart tightened. He immediately opened the game and followed the lord’s instructions to search for items in the Book of Trade.

After searching for a while, however, he did not find the items the lord needed.

“Reporting to you, Lord, the Book of Trade does not have these materials.”

“Go to the Book of Craftsmen. In the name of forging exclusive equipment, use the Book of Craftsmen’s sales system and try to see whether it can generate the materials.”

After hearing this, Amos immediately did as instructed.

After an Apostle player forged a complete exclusive equipment set through the Book of Craftsmen, their forging authority would be greatly increased.

Even without specified materials in their pocket, they could input material names, designate a certain material, and have the Book of Craftsmen generate a forging blueprint.

When an Apostle killed blacksmith-type NPCs in a chapter, there was a small chance of obtaining blueprint items. However, although the blueprint items dropped were all equipment with rare traits, most were incomplete.

At this time, one could input the names of various materials into the Book of Craftsmen according to the materials recorded on the incomplete blueprint, and there was a relatively high probability of restoring the blueprint. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

The higher the completeness of the blueprint obtained, the greater the probability that the Book of Craftsmen could restore the blueprint. If the blueprint was too severely incomplete and only the main material was searched, although an equipment blueprint could still be generated, it would have a very large difference from the original equipment’s properties.

Here, a BUG that was not really a BUG appeared.

Because the materials missing from the blueprint could be generated by the Book of Craftsmen and purchased at full price.

So as long as an Apostle’s forging authority had increased, any material that could be used to forge equipment could be purchased from the Book of Craftsmen in this way by spending a large amount of Spirit Essence.

Amos followed Lord Cain’s instructions and searched several materials in the Book of Craftsmen, attempting to generate blueprints.

The Book of Craftsmen showed that among the five materials, three could generate forging blueprints. They were Black Sea Ice Soul Essence Crystal, Radiant Glazed Gold, and Vajra Void Sandstone.

After Amos generated the blueprints, he clicked the Book of Craftsmen’s material purchase option. With one look, he nearly blurted out, “Holy shit.”

[Black Sea Ice Soul Essence Crystal (Material) Spirit Essence Cost: 20,000,000 points]

[Radiant Glazed Gold (Material) Spirit Essence Cost: 15,000,000 points]

[Vajra Void Sandstone (Material) Spirit Essence Cost: 18,000,000 points]

One had to know that forging a high grade piece of equipment often required more than ten kinds of materials, while these three materials Lord Cain needed added up to as high as fifty-three million.

“What kind of divine grade artifact is Lord Cain trying to forge?” Amos could not help sucking in a breath.

The prices of these three materials were not far apart from each other, and they clearly did not belong to the main materials but supplementary materials. Even one supplementary material required over ten million or twenty million. Then how much Spirit Essence would the main material require?

Moreover, Lord Cain had provided the names of five materials, two of which even the Book of Craftsmen could not generate. Those two materials might be the true main materials. Just how high would the value of the equipment forged from this be?

Amos opened his mouth, but still restrained himself and did not ask aloud.

“How could Lord’s affairs be something I can ask about? Less trouble is better than more trouble. I only need to handle the task. I must not talk too much or ask too much.”

He was just about to report the situation to Lord Cain, but suddenly realized something was wrong and froze on the spot.

“Last time Lord Cain herded lambs, he obtained hundreds of millions of Spirit Essence after the Offering Ritual.”

“Hundreds of millions of Spirit Essence is enough to forge more than ten exclusive equipment sets. From this, it can be seen that Lord Cain’s forging authority is definitely higher than mine.”

“But why doesn’t Lord go to the Book of Craftsmen to buy the materials himself, and instead has me generate the blueprints?”

“Could it be…”

Amos subconsciously covered his own pocket, and cold sweat gushed from his forehead.

All clues pointed to one place, which was that Lord Cain wanted him to pay for and buy the materials!

One had to know that over fifty million Spirit Essence was not a small number. Even if Amos still retained his own pasture district, it would take nearly half a year to gather this amount.