Chapter 42: Establishing a City, Lottery Draw! Set Soul-Transfer Stone
Player forum.
The God-Slaying Battle is about to begin!
Don’t miss it if you’re passing by! A great battle in three days, outer betting pools are open, the chance to get rich overnight is right before your eyes! Come in and take a look!
A god-tier player accepts the challenge. In three days, on the wasteland east of Luoyang, an unparalleled battle is about to begin!
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Posts flew wildly across the player forum, and the news spread chaotically through the streets. Before long, it reached the ears of the female streamer Shen Shuyi.
When she heard the news, Shen Shuyi was still speeding up the construction of basic infrastructure in her territory. Her expression immediately changed, and a trace of surprise flashed between her brows.
Clearly, she had not expected that this god-tier player, who had only just embarrassed Wang Heng in Treasure House before, would turn around and strike even harder, directly taking advantage of the chaos to raid his home, seize his treasures, and leave, making Wang Heng lose face completely.
Unable to swallow his anger, Wang Heng directly invited Xiao Wen to a Lord Duel outside Luoyang in three days.
A so-called Lord Duel, as the name implied, was a duel between players.
In this duel, players could act as commanders and lead soldiers into battle.
But there was one extremely important point: generals could not appear!
The appearance of generals was strictly forbidden in this duel. Whoever used one would be breaking the rules.
Shen Shuyi knew that Xiao Wen had a fifth-rank general under him, Ma Chao!
In her view, or rather, in the view of all the players in the online gaming world, the reason Xiao Wen had achieved so much was because Ma Chao was far too powerful.
After all, this fellow was one of the Five Tiger Generals of Shu in ancient history. His strength was obvious!
The reason Xiao Wen had been able to snatch those treasures from Wang Heng was not because of Xiao Wen himself. It had definitely been because of Ma Chao!
Xiao Wen must have put the night clothing on Ma Chao, let the general take action, block Gan Ning, and send Wang Heng flying.
As for whether all of this could have been Xiao Wen’s own strength?
Wang Heng had never even considered it.
While still at the level of a first-rank general, a level-three village lord, was it possible to block a level-twenty fifth-rank general?
Impossible!
Even if the lord was also level twenty, level twenty was already the level cap that a level-three village lord could reach. If he wanted to increase it further, according to the information currently released by the officials, there was only one way: raise the territory’s level.
Only by establishing a city could a player lord’s aptitude rise to the level of a second-rank general, and only then could the level cap of twenty be raised to forty!
Before that, how could a mere player have the ability to fight a fifth-rank general?
Absolutely impossible!
Therefore, everything that happened at Qingfeng Stronghold might have been secretly ordered by this fellow, but to say he was the one who fought?
Wang Heng did not believe it!
It was precisely because he thought the person who blocked him might have been Ma Chao that Wang Heng was apprehensive. Even when issuing the duel challenge, he demanded a Lord Duel, excluding both sides’ generals.
Although Shen Shuyi was a newly entered streamer, she still knew a little about the online gaming world. She could not help but worry for Xiao Wen and sent him a message to ask about it.
The reply she received was only a thank you, telling her not to worry.
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On the other side, after Xiao Wen accepted the duel, he was not worried at all. He used the teleportation array to return to his territory, then directly activated the City Establishment Token in his inventory and established a county town.
Ding! It has been detected that player Half-Journey Through the Mortal World has met the conditions for a territory upgrade. Upgrade?
Yes!
Xiao Wen chose yes without hesitation. The next moment, the City Establishment Token in his inventory turned into a streak of flowing light and merged into the sky. Golden light descended across the entire sky.
Under the illumination of this golden light, Xiao Wen’s territory began expanding outward. Earthen walls rose from the ground one after another, directly forming an outer rammed-earth city wall. There were battlements and corner towers on the walls. Although they were somewhat crude, everything that should be there was present.
Inside the walls, at both ends and the middle of each city wall, Xiao Wen also built a watchtower.
When the golden light in the sky dissipated, the prototype of a small town had completely taken shape.
Ding! Congratulations, player Half-Journey Through the Mortal World. Territory upgrade complete. Level-three village → county town.
Warm reminder: Next territory upgrade: county town → main city.
Required conditions: Player level (22/30); seventh-grade or higher official title (none); generals (2/2) (Note: Lu Cheng uses civil arts as martial arts and has been appointed as a general); strategist (1/1).
A series of completed conditions appeared before Xiao Wen’s eyes, and understanding showed on his face.
These conditions were exactly the same as what he knew from his previous life. There was nothing special about them.
Announcement: Congratulations to player Half-Journey Through the Mortal World for being the first to establish a county town. Reward: special material draw x1. May all players continue working hard!
The crisp notification rang through the sky of the entire server. The sound echoed beside everyone’s ears, spreading across the whole server in only an instant.
Xiao Wen did not care how many cries of shock came from outside. At that moment, what he cared about was this special material draw.
This material draw was similar to equipment draws, but there was no especially obvious distinction between material grades.
Clearly, after that incident, the game’s mechanisms had silently changed, and its balance was gradually being perfected.
Want to draw Heaven-rank equipment again?
That had already become extremely difficult.
Didn’t you see that there was no grade range added before this material draw?
However, the cost of drawing again was still 1,000 ingots per reroll.
One thousand?
A drizzle.
This lord had never cared about that!
Draw!
Ding! Congratulations, player Half-Journey Through the Mortal World, for drawing 100 jin of raw gold ore. Confirm?
Xiao Wen’s mouth twitched.
Raw gold ore? Something used to refine gold? Does this lord need that?
Spend 1,000 ingots. Reroll!
Ding! Congratulations, player Half-Journey Through the Mortal World, for drawing two pieces of Hundred-Refined Steel…
Ding! Congratulations, player Half-Journey Through the Mortal World, for drawing Chicken Vine Grass…
Ding! Congratulations, player Half-Journey Through the Mortal World, for drawing 10 cubic units of Tianshan Snow Water.
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Ding! Congratulations, player Half-Journey Through the Mortal World, for drawing a Set Soul-Transfer Stone. Confirm?
Re—
Just as Xiao Wen was about to choose “reroll,” he stopped in time. He glanced at the hundreds of thousands of ingots he had already spent, then looked at the large pile of useless materials he had drawn before, and finally looked at the Soul-Transfer Stone in front of him.
This thing seemed usable after all.
Transferring the set attributes of the Python-Head Moon-Sundering Spear onto the Profound Spirit Battle Halberd was feasible.
In terms of weapon attributes alone, the Profound Spirit Battle Halberd, as a Gold-grade weapon, was far superior to the Python-Head Moon-Sundering Spear.
The reason Xiao Wen had not replaced it was only because he wanted to preserve the Python-Head Set and its special buff, Dragon-Python Body Protection.
Now that a usable material had appeared, something that could perform set soul transfer, it could not be considered too much of a loss.
As the thought flashed through his mind, Xiao Wen immediately chose confirm. Then he took the Set Soul-Transfer Stone out of his inventory and transferred the Python-Head Moon-Sundering Spear’s set attributes onto the Profound Spirit Battle Halberd.
Then he replaced the Python-Head Moon-Sundering Spear with the Profound Spirit Battle Halberd.
Holding the battle halberd in his hand, Xiao Wen narrowed his eyes. A sharp killing intent immediately flashed through them.
“Wang Heng, this lord will be waiting for you in three days!”
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