"This cultivation technique is worth at least tens of billions of spiritual coins!"
Zhou Yan looked at the cultivation technique and found it to be an extremely rare lightning-elemental technique. Even with his limited knowledge of the Lord's Continent, he understood the immense value of a high-level lightning-elemental cultivation method.
These two items alone, if auctioned, would fetch at least fifty billion spiritual coins.
This was just his estimation; he wasn't entirely sure of the exact value.
The rewards for the final three days of the novice trial were truly substantial.
It was no wonder the novice trial was hailed as an opportunity for ordinary lords to rise to prominence.
These words were perfectly suited for him.
"Chan'er, Zhen Mi, open these four hundred thousand treasure chests."
Four hundred thousand treasure chests (he ignored the fractional amount) were all Black Iron grade or above, including several hundred Silver chests, four Gold chests, and the rewarded Gold Pendant chest.
The four Gold chests naturally came from the four Silver Bosses.
Although Diao Chan's luck value was slightly lower than Zhen Mi's, Diao Chan also possessed equipment that increased luck, so the gap between them wasn't that significant.
Opening over four hundred thousand treasure chests alone would be slow. With two people, the speed could be increased.
As the two began opening the chests, a barrage of messages appeared from the [Treasure Vault]. He ignored them directly, as there were simply too many items. He decided to wait until all the chests were opened.
Once the chests were opened, the [Treasure Vault] immediately began organizing and cataloging them. He only needed to check the various data changes on the Treasure Vault interface from time to time.
Fortunately, treasure chests of the same quality could be stacked up to 99.
Each of the women would only need to open over two thousand chests to finish them all.
Soon, only the last five Gold chests remained.
[Obtained Equipment - Fire Cloud Boots.]
[Obtained Skill - S-Rank: Thunderclap.]
[Obtained Equipment - Purple Heaven Sword.]
[Obtained Equipment - Long Rainbow Sword.]
[Obtained Pendant - Peach Blossom Sachet.]
He examined each of these five pieces of equipment. Every single one was of Gold quality.
The attributes of these equipments were very good, and the weapons were better than what he was currently using.
Having obtained two Gold equipment items this time, he handed the Purple Heaven Sword to Diao Chan and said, "Chan'er, take this Purple Heaven Sword to use."
"Thank you, Lord."
In front of others, Diao Chan still preferred to call Zhou Yan "Lord."
She picked up the Purple Heaven Sword. With a "clang," the sword was unsheathed.
The Purple Heaven Sword was predominantly purple, with an exquisite and beautiful design, making it very suitable for a woman to wield. Diao Chan performed a few casual slashes and immediately fell in love with the sword.
He kept the other sword, the Long Rainbow Sword, for himself.
The Long Rainbow Sword was longer and twice as heavy as the Purple Heaven Sword. This weapon was extremely sharp and had armor-piercing damage, making it quite excellent.
As for Zhen Mi and Nie Xiaoqian, they each already possessed two or three Gold equipment items, all of which Zhou Yan had purchased from the mysterious shop and given to them.
He put away the pair of Fire Cloud Boots. This equipment wasn't suitable for any of the three women, and he was still wearing his Silver set. He didn't want to switch yet and planned to keep it until he had a complete set of Gold defensive equipment before wearing it.
He picked up the S-rank skill book.
Although Zhen Mi could learn it, she already had many skills, and her innate abilities were geared towards ice magic. She didn't intend to learn other types of spells.
This skill book was naturally for him to learn.
[Learning S-Rank: Thunderclap.]
The skill book transformed into a purple beam of light and entered his body.
This was a single-target magic skill with immense power, making it very suitable for dealing with powerful bosses.
The last piece of equipment remaining was from the pendant treasure chest. He began to examine its attributes.
[Equipment: Peach Blossom Sachet]
[Quality: Gold]
[Durability: 150/150]
[Attribute 1: Reduces damage from magic, soul, sonic, charm, and other negative effects by 20%.]
[Attribute 2: Increases cultivation speed by 10%.]
[Attribute 3: Can release a Peach Blossom Illusion Array to confuse enemies, causing them to enter a state of chaos. The array covers an area of 200 square meters with a cooldown of seven days.]
[Attribute 4: Increases luck by 10 points.]
[Equipment Requirement: Male, Charm 50, Luck 50, Spirit 100]
[Description: Created by a certain peach blossom fairy, inscribed with several array formations.]
The attributes of this piece of equipment were very high.
He had previously obtained a Gold-quality bracelet, but its attributes were far inferior to this.
This equipment focused on defense, capable of resisting various types of damage.
Although it didn't increase physical defense, his own attributes were very high. His melee combat ability was strong, and with armor, his physical defense was decent. For other types of defense, he was quite vulnerable. This sachet could increase those aspects of defense, making it extremely valuable.
"This equipment is very powerful and will be useful for a long time."
He really liked this piece of equipment and fastened it to his waist.
A sachet was typically something a woman would give to her lover.
Diao Chan looked at Zhou Yan, thinking that she needed to learn a tailor's sub-profession so she could eventually create a sachet even better than this Peach Blossom Sachet to give to Zhou Yan.
Zhen Mi and Nie Xiaoqian had similar thoughts. They also wanted to personally craft a sachet for Zhou Yan.
The forty thousand treasure chests had yielded many good items.
They had obtained over two million soul coins, over a million spiritual coins, over ten thousand Black Iron grade equipment items, several thousand Bronze and Silver grade equipment items, and even two Gold grade equipment items.
Ten job transfer scrolls had also appeared, but these were all ordinary class skill books.
Over a hundred other skill books had appeared, with only one A-rank, three B-rank, and six C-rank. The rest were low-level skill books.
He had placed all of them into the [Treasure Vault]. Li Shuang was responsible for these items, and she would distribute the equipment and skills appropriately to the suitable individuals.
He had upgraded all the soldiers in the territory to level 30.
The consumed soul coins were only a small portion.
With so many soul coins, he naturally wanted to upgrade himself.
Territory Announcement: "Soul Coins - Ten Thousand Eight Thousand. Your level has increased from 30 to 31."
Territory Announcement: "Soul Coins - Twenty Thousand. Your level has increased from 31 to 32."
Territory Announcement: "Soul Coins - Twenty-Two Thousand. Your level has increased from 32 to 33."
...
He had spent a total of 270,000 soul coins to advance from level 30 to level 40.
He had enough soul coins to upgrade all the heroes to level 40.
Therefore, he raised the levels of Diao Chan, Zhen Mi, Nie Xiaoqian, Sun Shangxiang, Yan Chixia, Chen Qingzhi, the Si Teng siblings, and the Hua Yue Rong sisters to level 40.
This still consumed only a portion of the coins. He then began a major upgrade for all the soldiers in the territory.
After upgrading all of them to level 35, he still had around twenty million soul coins remaining.
With this strength, he believed it would be sufficient to deal with the final wave of the trial.
Nie Xiaoqian went to the [Underworld] to cultivate, while he, Diao Chan, and Zhen Mi practiced in the [Spiritual Qi Bamboo House].