Back in the territory, Zhou Yan headed towards the open land. He was going to build the structures he had purchased this time.
However, as he passed by the [Divine Arms Workshop], Zhou Yan saw many dwarves cheering excitedly.
Curious, Zhou Yan walked in and saw Jerry. He asked, "Jerry, what's making everyone so happy?"
Jerry was indeed very happy. Hearing Zhou Yan's voice, he was surprised that the Lord would appear here. He quickly walked over and said to Zhou Yan, "Right, my Lord, you've arrived at the perfect time. I've already forged a spiritual artifact. Take a look and see how its attributes are."
Zhou Yan was very surprised to hear that Jerry had forged the first spiritual artifact at this time. He quickly said, "Bring it out for me to see. This is the territory's first independently produced high-end equipment. We must see its effects."
Jerry immediately handed the forged spiritual artifact to Zhou Yan, looking very happy and excited. He then said, "Master Ou Yezi is indeed very powerful. It was under his guidance that I succeeded this time. His forging skills are far superior to mine."
"You are also very good. Keep working hard, and you won't be inferior to anyone in the future. If you don't understand something, go and consult Ou Yezi," Zhou Yan said.
Zhou Yan picked up the spiritual artifact forged by Jerry. It was a long sword, about 1.6 meters long and weighing about 50 jin. It gleamed with a cold light and looked sharp and formidable. The design was also very good, both beautiful and comfortable to hold.
Zhou Yan quickly checked the attributes of this piece of equipment.
[Equipment: Duan Yun Sword]
[Quality: Spiritual Artifact]
[Durability: 5000/5000]
[Attribute 1: Strength +600 (+20)]
[Attribute 2: Additional Attack +100 (+50)]
[Attribute 3: Armor Penetration +100]
[Attribute 4: Stamina +100]
[Attribute 5: Critical Hit Rate +100]
[Attribute 6: Spiritual Power Damage +50%]
[Attribute 7: Has a certain chance to shatter the enemy's weapon. Ineffective against weapons of spiritual artifact quality or higher.]
[Attribute 8: Duan Yun Slash (Release a sword energy slash, cooldown 12 hours)]
[Equipment Requirement: Level 50]
[Introduction: Forged by Master Smith Jerry, possesses an additional +10 to all attributes.]
Zhou Yan was amazed. He hadn't expected the first spiritual artifact to have such powerful effects, and he was very satisfied.
"Jerry, well done. This Duan Yun Sword is excellent. From now on, you will focus on forging the Duan Yun Sword. As for materials, you don't need to worry about them at all. Just focus on forging spiritual artifacts."
Zhou Yan was very pleased. This meant that the territory could finally mass-produce spiritual artifact weapons.
It was a pity that only Jerry and Ou Yezi were master-level blacksmiths in the entire territory. Even with their full effort, it would still take a considerable amount of time to forge one spiritual artifact.
Forging equipment of spiritual artifact quality or higher required a greater expenditure of spirit, energy, and mental fortitude. If any operation was flawed, it could result in the forged equipment becoming of diamond quality, or worse, requiring it to be reforged.
"To be honest, my Lord, forging spiritual artifacts and above is indeed difficult. However, with Master Ou Yezi here, I believe the failure rate will decrease significantly in the future."
Jerry deeply respected Ou Yezi, and even more so, he admired the Lord for being able to recruit such a powerful blacksmith.
"It's alright. Success comes from failure. I've purchased many blueprints again this time, and quite a few of them are for spiritual artifact quality. Work hard, and master the Duan Yun Sword first before learning other spiritual artifact blueprints."
Zhou Yan casually took out some of the spiritual artifact blueprints he had purchased. Jerry was overjoyed, but he couldn't use these blueprints yet. Each spiritual artifact blueprint was very precious and could only be used after Jerry had mastered the forging of the Duan Yun Sword.
"My Lord is truly amazing, collecting so many spiritual artifact-level blueprints so quickly." Jerry was genuinely happy.
"Work hard, and I will build a few more [Divine Arms Workshops]. Then you will have more space to forge equipment, and I will purchase plenty of materials as well," Zhou Yan said.
"Thank you, my Lord." Jerry was truly excited.
Jerry did not need to worry about these matters. Zhou Yan had explained the blueprints and other issues to Tao Hongjing, who would arrange everything.
Zhou Yan noticed that the order in the [Divine Arms Workshop] was much better than before, and all the materials were neatly organized. This was all thanks to Tao Hongjing's efforts, and Zhou Yan was very satisfied with her work.
After leaving the [Divine Arms Workshop], Zhou Yan came to the open land and began building the ordinary structures. As one building after another was constructed and evolved, the territory gained many more structures.
Zhou Yan upgraded these structures to level 50, and they could be upgraded further later if they became insufficient.
There were many buildings, hundreds of them, and it took Zhou Yan a considerable amount of time to complete their construction.
These were all existing types of buildings. Even with a few new types of buildings added, Zhou Yan didn't pay much attention to them. Instead, he took out the high-level buildings he had acquired previously.
These buildings were Zhou Yan's main focus.
First was the [Iron Mine] building. Zhou Yan was very curious about what kind of building this would evolve into.
Zhou Yan began to construct it.
Territory Announcement: "Constructing [Iron Mine]. [Iron Mine] has evolved into [Fine Iron Vein]."
A colored light enveloped the building in Zhou Yan's hand, then transformed into a mountain range. In front of Zhou Yan, a cave appeared with the words "Fine Iron Vein" written above it.
This building directly turned into a mountain. The entire mountain had an area of only over a hundred square meters and a height of only a few dozen meters. It didn't appear very large.
Zhou Yan was very curious about the attributes of this building and clicked to view them.
[Building: Fine Iron Vein]
[Level: 1 (Requires upgrade)]
[Quality: rrr]
[Special Attribute: A batch of fine iron ore can be randomly refreshed every 24 hours.]
[Introduction: Contains rich mineral veins. The higher the level, the more advanced ores will be refreshed.]
After reading the attributes of this building, Zhou Yan began to upgrade it.
After level 20, the [Fine Iron Vein] required two-star iron ore. The territory had the most of this type of ore, so there was no shortage. After level 30, the material changed to a three-star space stone.
"The [Fine Iron Vein] even requires space? That's unusual," Zhou Yan was surprised.
However, three-star space stones were not high-grade, and he had quite a few.
After level 40, the material changed again to four-star silver ore, which he also possessed.
After level 50, the material became five-star gold ore, and he had a good amount of that as well.
After level 60, the material became six-star diamond. Xuan Ning looked and found that he had no diamonds.
"Diamond?" Zhou Yan was surprised that such a material was required.
"Why does the [Fine Iron Vein] need so many different types of materials?" Zhou Yan was truly baffled.