Chapter 298: Chapter 240: Legendary Token - Dragon and Snake Seven Kills

"Black Wolf bids 96 points for the Exotic Iron."

"No one here can outbid 96 Thief Points, so the Exotic Iron goes to Black Wolf."

Pharmacist’s Wish and Yan Qing almost called out their bids simultaneously; it wouldn’t be surprising for either to win it. However, Pharmacist’s Wish, who snatched the top prize, didn’t seem that happy, while the missed opportunity left Yan Qing somewhat relieved.

Exotic Iron: Shall I leave then?

Yet soon, a faint sense of regret and envy arose in Yan Qing’s heart. After all, the Legendary Token forged by the Thief’s House with Exotic Iron is something one would naturally covet. Regardless of its performance, the mere fact it’s ’exclusively customized’ is an irresistible lure for any player, akin to the superiority of an ’experimental machine’ over a ’mass-produced machine’ in Gundam anime.

But the issue is, Yan Qing also wanted other rewards from the Thief’s House, which were not of lesser priority.

As per usual, for Yan Qing to secure the Exotic Iron, he’d need at least 96 points. Even if others let him have it, it would inevitably exhaust his stock, leaving nothing for a second reward bid.

One can imagine how torn Yan Qing felt; should he choose Exotic Iron or other rewards? No matter the choice, he felt he would regret it. So, seeing Pharmacist’s Wish’s points tied with his for first, Yan Qing secretly rejoiced. With competition, giving up had its value.

Unlike White Fox, he wasn’t vying for team authority, but Black Wolf, you taking the Exotic Iron at my expense, shouldn’t you be more polite when talking to me afterward? Shouldn’t you stop smacking your lips when I speak?

This way, Yan Qing could rightfully bid for other rewards and morally pressure Pharmacist’s Wish, a win-win situation where he triumphed twice!

Though there was a slight hiccup, Pharmacist’s Wish finally won the bid for the Exotic Iron. As long as she dared to sulk, Yan Qing would remind her of this past event, firmly manipulating it. Knowing Pharmacist’s Wish’s character, he could milk this favor for a lifetime!

While imagining Pharmacist’s Wish’s timid, sullied expression, Yan Qing looked up at the Exotic Iron. At the auction’s end, golden light from the Thief’s House enveloped the Exotic Iron. This piece of Vajra Ore, unchanged after nearly a hundred years in the dungeon’s Secret Realm, melted, reshaped, and solidified in the golden light. Yan Qing considered capturing a video to send to True Man of Locking Dragon—Is Exotic Iron hard to utilize on your side? It’s not for me, though, dare to open and see.

Clang!

A crisp, pleasant iron-forging sound suddenly rang out in the Thief Hall. The melting Exotic Iron exploded into bright sparks, startling everyone. But this was just the beginning; the clanging of iron continued, loud yet not harsh, rhythmically perfect as if steel was singing. Old sparks linked to new ones before extinguishing. Eventually, the sparks, dense like woven threads, hammered cracks into the Exotic Iron, not presenting fragmentation but rather something breaking out of a shell!

What one saw was dazzling, what one heard was delightful. This wasn’t just forging; it was as if a deity was personally crafting a peerless divine weapon before them! The hearts of the thieves were captivated by this grand performance. Regardless of their prior thoughts, now only a pure desire remained—they yearned for it! No matter the cost, they wanted this weapon! 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

Not yet emerged, the Exotic Iron’s legend already claimed their hearts as an unattainable love.

The iron-forging sound gradually slowed until it vanished. The surface cracks on the Exotic Iron, dense like a web, burst with an orange-red glow upon a shattering sound. Wherever the sound reached, fissures exuded glow, as if lava flowed within...until the hall was entirely illuminated, with the Exotic Iron becoming a cage of flames!

But the forging wasn’t finished.

Pharmacist’s Wish suddenly stood up—amazingly leaving her seat at such a moment—and drew a Blood Sacrifice Dagger, slicing forcefully across her palm. Blood droplets broke free from gravity, turning into a blood column that merged into the Exotic Iron, emitting a sizzling sound like quenching with blood!

The Exotic Iron slowly descended into Pharmacist’s Wish’s hand. The moment she grasped the spear shaft, the outer shell of the Exotic Iron puffed into powder and burst open, revealing a Three-Pointed Double-Bladed Spear before the crowd. Its spear shaft was engraved with Dragon and Snake patterns, extending up to bite the spearhead ends, as if ready to leap from the drawing. Its glow blazed fiercely like fire, with sharpness that was intimidating and unbearable to gaze upon!

The information about this Legendary Token appeared on the Thief’s House’s screen:

"Dragon and Snake Seven Kills"

"Grade: Third-Turned Legendary"

"Durability: 200/200"

"Base Attack Power: 55~85 points"

"Equipment Condition: Qi Blood 50 points, Spiritual Power 20 points, exclusive to Black Wolf"

"Equipment Condition: Advanced Gun Skill MAX"

"Weight: Twenty-eight pounds"

"Length: Six feet six inches"

"Effect: Blood Sacrifice: Dragon and Snake Seven Kills has been blood-bound to Black Wolf, making it unusable by anyone else. As Black Wolf ascends ranks, Dragon and Snake Seven Kills will also enhance, with the grade potentially rising to Six-Turn."

"Effect: Dragon and Snake: The Earth manifests killing intent, Dragon and Snake arise from the land.

Standing upon the earth allows you to unleash a wide-range shock attack using Earth Vein forces. The more Spiritual Power consumed, the larger the attack range.

Shock attack benefits from all effect enhancements.

After the shock attack, it will also cause 20 points of aftershock damage that ignores the defense token, the number of aftershocks is related to the number of people affected by the shock attack, the more people shocked, the more aftershocks occur, up to forty-nine waves of aftershocks can be unleashed.

Effect: Seven Kills Fate: When a person triggers a killing intent, the heavens and earth turn upside down.

When Dragon and Snake Seven Kills slays an enemy of the same realm, it absorbs their soul. You need at least seven souls to trigger Seven Kills Fate.

You need to consume all current Spiritual Power and up to forty-nine souls to activate Seven Kills Fate, once activated, your injuries instantly heal, emitting a shockwave to repel surrounding enemies and flying objects.

Seven Kills Fate lasts for seven seconds.

With each soul consumed by Dragon and Snake Seven Kills, your Qi Blood, spirit, and dexterity increase by 1 point, your defense barrier absorbs 1% more damage, your attack causes 1% more damage, you recover 10 points of Spiritual Power, and Seven Kills Fate extends by 1 second.

If your defense barrier is shattered during Seven Kills Fate’s duration, it immediately reinstates to full, and the defense token’s durability restores to maximum value, this effect can only trigger once per Seven Kills Fate, and it has utmost priority.

Before Seven Kills Fate’s effect ends, you will be in an ’Unmovable’ state, rendering any displacement, stun, or interruption effects ineffective against you.

Evaluation: The most ferocious and evil Dragon and Snake, supreme and powerful Seven Kills!

Ah, can I regret this?

Yan Qing first reflected on why he set the reward standards of Thief’s House to be so overpowered—though he always knew it would suit Pharmacist’s Wish well, but this suits too well! He also wishes to be Pharmacist’s Wish!

The first Effect: Blood Sacrifice is self-explanatory, Pharmacist’s Wish was already not far from Foundation Establishment, now she essentially just needs to establish her foundation to immediately obtain a Fourth Transformation Legendary Token... Not even Yan Qing can have such treatment.

The second Dragon and Snake is a regular attack skill, completely compensating for her lack of area attacks and short attack range, moreover, the shock attack can boost damage with her Bright King Armor, Secret Technique Rotating Lamp, etc., meaning her future enemies are blessed, originally Pharmacist’s Wish’s burst single target damage could only hit one person, now everyone can’t escape, all must perish. As for aftershocks, it’s even more outrageous, ignoring defense tokens can be considered half an Asura Artifact, and the more people, the more aftershocks, like a sweeping grass cutting divine skill.

The final Seven Kills Fate is tailor-made for Pharmacist’s Wish, she inherently likes venturing into Secret Realms, collecting souls is no challenge for her, resulting in Seven Kills Fate having a limit of consuming up to forty-nine souls each time—seems Thief’s House believes as long as Pharmacist’s Wish gets a little sunshine, she can soar into the sky side by side with the sun.

Adding attributes aside, the focus is on increasing damage absorption, meaning Pharmacist’s Wish’s ultimate charge is further elevated. And it’s not even enough, Seven Kills Fate allows Pharmacist’s Wish to restore her defense barrier immediately after it breaks, extending her extreme charge limit even further.

Yan Qing can’t even believe how terrifying Pharmacist’s Wish stacking damage to the limit could be, seems like a Third-Turn Messenger is paper-thin before her.

If Pharmacist’s Wish at Shu Dao Mountain had Dragon and Snake Seven Kills, even without the Power of Calamity, she could likely resolve the two from the Helan Family—even with strong recovery it’s useless, Seven Kills Fate + Dragon and Snake’s extreme charge would crush their minds and hearts in one move.

Gripping Dragon and Snake Seven Kills, the vexation in Pharmacist’s Wish’s heart is also swept away. Not only because its effect is impeccable, the sight of other thieves eager to come lick it makes Pharmacist’s Wish feel as refreshing as eating icy watermelon on a hot summer day—yes, yes, I just want to see you drool with envy!

As Pharmacist’s Wish stored Dragon and Snake Seven Kills in the Storage Ring, three ’tsk’ sounds resonated simultaneously in Thief Hall.

Frankly speaking, Dragon and Snake Seven Kills doesn’t outperform Heaven-Swaying Sword and Bingzi Pepper Forest in terms of features, unfortunately, each effect of Dragon and Snake Seven Kills perfectly suits Pharmacist’s Wish, while Bingzi Pepper Forest’s positioning is ’commander weapon’, but without even Yan Qing leading a team, Bingzi Pepper Forest’s features couldn’t be utilized fully.

Heaven-Swaying Sword is even more absurd, initially its three powers seem cooperative, but actually in play, ’Peace’ and ’Chaos’ conflict. Ying Rushi could utilize it well, only because she actively adapted to Heaven-Swaying Sword.

Therefore, what everyone yearns for is not Dragon and Snake Seven Kills, but a weapon customized by Thief’s House for themselves. However, Ying Rushi and Shang Xinlei quickly adjusted, since they never had the opportunity to compete for Exotic Iron from the start, only Yan Qing glares wistfully at Pharmacist’s Wish.

He wanted Pharmacist’s Wish to obtain a Legendary Artifact, but didn’t anticipate she’d get such a superb one!

It was initially just an act of losing, now Yan Qing truly feels he’s losing greatly... My exclusive custom, my delight weapon... all blamed on Pharmacist’s Wish, ruining my gaming dream...

Pharmacist’s Wish somewhat guiltily avoids his gaze.

Second item is Earth Vein Evil Qi, thieves please bid.

Seeing Yan Qing finally avert his gaze, Pharmacist’s Wish sighed with relief, folded her arms and leaned against the chair to leisurely watch everyone. She only has 4 Thief Points left, now it’s other thieves’ turn.

I bid 52 points. Yan Qing didn’t hesitate much, directly calling out the bid.

Yellow Dog bids 52 points for Earth Vein Evil Qi.

No one present bids above 52 Thief Points, Earth Vein Evil Qi belongs to Yellow Dog.

White Fox has 56 points, Red Snake has 50 points, Yan Qing’s bid of 52 points is the highest unmatched bid.

Ying Rushi seems to want to bid too, but stopped upon seeing Yan Qing’s gesture, uncertain if she’s giving Yan Qing some face or anticipating a more desired reward. While Shang Xinlei, resting her face on her hand, glared at him displeased—those with the fewest points go last!

Earth Vein Evil Qi slowly descended before Yan Qing, as he pondered how to contain it, Earth Vein Evil Qi suddenly transformed into a small stone dropping down, Yan Qing picked it up and upon concentration knew how to use it.