What he currently lacked were people; as for whether they were heroes, he didn't particularly care.
He began to use intermediate summons.
[Bronze Sparrow Terrace] announced: "Soul Coins -500, congratulations on obtaining a palace maid."
Getting a palace maid at the start showed that the level-up of [Bronze Sparrow Terrace], combined with his current high luck, was quite effective.
[Bronze Sparrow Terrace] announced: "Soul Coins -500, congratulations on obtaining a handmaiden."
[Bronze Sparrow Terrace] announced: "Soul Coins -500, congratulations on obtaining a skill book."
[Bronze Sparrow Terrace] announced: "Soul Coins -500, congratulations on obtaining a set of high-grade tea utensils."
...
Ten consecutive draws.
A hundred consecutive draws.
[Bronze Sparrow Terrace] announced: "Soul Coins -500, congratulations on obtaining the equipment [Jiaowei Qin]."
"Guh..."
"Jiaowei Qin?"
This thing sounded so familiar.
Then, a brilliant light flashed, blinding everyone.
Zhou Yan, filled with curiosity, opened his eyes to see an ancient zither radiating light, landing before him.
"This is the Jiaowei Qin; it looks so powerful!"
The entire zither was ancient and peculiar, emitting a dazzling glow that made him feel it was extraordinary.
Moreover, it was equipment.
He began to examine the equipment's attributes.
[Equipment: Jiaowei Qin]
[Quality: Spirit Artifact]
[Durability: 2000/2000]
[Attribute 1: Spirit Power +500]
[Attribute 2: Agility +200]
[Attribute 3: Constitution +100]
[Attribute 4: Sonic Damage +80%]
[Attribute 5: Skill Damage +50%]
[Attribute 6: Consumption -40%]
[Attribute 7: Sonic Kill (Area-of-effect damage, unleashes a wide-range sonic attack, with the specific range and damage dependent on the user)]
[Attribute 8: Dominance (Area-of-effect buff, increases overall Strength, Speed, Defense, Damage, Stamina, and reduces all negative status effects, with specific effects depending on the caster)]
[Equipment Requirement: Spirit 500, proficient in playing]
[Description: One of the four famous ancient zithers of a certain world, crafted from divine Wutong wood. Greatly reduced in quality due to damage.]
"Holy cow! It's a Spirit Artifact!"
Zhou Yan was utterly shocked!
He never imagined it would be a Spirit Artifact.
He himself definitely couldn't use it.
He also recalled that this [Jiaowei Qin] seemed to be related to a certain hero.
He felt he absolutely had to summon a hero today.
He began to summon again.
[Bronze Sparrow Terrace] announced: "Soul Coins -500, congratulations on obtaining a maidservant."
.....
A hundred consecutive draws!
[Bronze Sparrow Terrace] announced: "Soul Coins -500, congratulations on obtaining Hero · [Cai Yan]."
"O Yeah!"
"Finally, a hero has been summoned!"
Zhou Yan was overjoyed, having finally summoned the person he wanted.
He turned his head and looked at the classical woman before him.
The woman was adorned in Hanfu palace attire, exuding an elegant aura. Her skin was like jade, fair and flawless as snow, as beautiful as a carved piece of jade.
Cai Yan lowered her head slightly, a jade hairpin adorning her hair, making her appear even more like a lady from a noble family, charming and graceful, instantly captivating anyone who saw her.
"Greetings, Lord."
Cai Yan bowed to Zhou Yan, then cast a curious glance at him. Their eyes met, and she became shy like a ripe persimmon, her cheeks instantly flushed with a rosy hue.
She quickly lowered her head, appearing demure.
Zhou Yan quickly said, "Rise, rise."
Zhou Yan was very curious and first checked her attributes. Indeed, she was another RRR quality hero.
More importantly, Cai Yan was a hero with buffing abilities, and her attributes were incredibly powerful.
He immediately began to upgrade Cai Yan, raising her level to the maximum.
Territory Upgrade: "Soul Coins -100, Hero · Cai Yan, Level upgraded from 0 to 1."
Territory Upgrade: "Soul Coins -200, Hero · Cai Yan, Level upgraded from 1 to 2."
......
Territory Upgrade: "Soul Coins -4,000,000, Hero · Cai Yan, Level upgraded from 99 to 100."
Then he began to examine Cai Yan's attribute list.
[Name: Cai Yan]
[Gender: Female]
[Age: 18]
[Race: Human]
[Belonging Lord: Zhou Yan]
[Quality: RRR]
[Loyalty: 100]
[Level: 100]
[Upgrade Required: Level cap reached]
[Charm: 245 (Base 4.5)]
[Luck: 208 (Base 0.8)]
[Strength: 104 (Base 0.4)]
[Constitution: 104 (Base 0.4)]
[Agility: 104 (Base 0.4)]
[Spirit: 550 (Base 5)]
[Class: None]
[Talent: Blessed Immortal Melody Body]
[Skills: All Attributes Blessing, All Attributes Buff, Overall Empowerment, Remove Negative Status, Poison Removal Technique, RRR Zither Skill《Eighteen Songs of the Hu Jia》]
[Special Attribute 1: Zither Skill Power +200%]
[Special Attribute 2: Sonic Attack +200%]
[Special Attribute 3: Spirit Power +200%]
[Special Attribute 4: Blessing Skill Power +150%]
[Special Attribute 5: -150% Spirit (Soul) damage taken]
[Aptitude: RRR]
[Cultivation Method: None]
[Realm: None]
[Description: Evolved under mysterious energy, base attributes have increased tenfold.]
Cai Yan had not yet class-changed, so she lacked a class, cultivation method, and realm.
He immediately took out the [Jiaowei Qin] and placed it before Cai Yan, saying, "This equipment is for you to use. I believe you will be able to unleash its power."
"Thank you, Lord."
Cai Yan accepted the equipment and, after examining its attributes, was greatly surprised, not expecting it to be a Spirit Artifact.
After all, even Zhou Yan himself only had the recently purchased [Phantom God Mask] as a Spirit Artifact, with other equipment being of Dark Gold quality or below.
He found a set of Golden quality equipment for Cai Yan and had her wear it. From now on, she would be incredibly useful.
After summoning Cai Yan, he summoned several hundred more times, hoping to summon another high-quality hero. However, unfortunately, after hundreds of summons, no other heroes appeared.
Instead, he summoned many women with other talents, including those skilled in cooking, tailoring, floral arts, logistics, and various other areas.
Among them, he summoned an R quality woman named Zhang Ying, who seemed to be a concubine from a certain dynasty. She was quite beautiful, but her talent for "Harem Management" made him sweat. He hadn't expected such a talent to exist.
He had spent over a thousand draws, consuming only about seven or eight hundred thousand Soul Coins.
Since they didn't need to fight on the battlefield and were primarily responsible for logistics, he decided to raise their levels to thirty.