At the same time, Zhou Huai finally disengaged from controlling Gandalf.

A night of fighting in the beast tide was a huge drain on his spirit.

He was truly too tired.

That sense of exhaustion, originating from the depths of his Soul, overwhelmed him like a tide.

He didn't even have time to check his biggest spoils of war—that brand new profession orb—before his head lolled to the side, and he fell into a deep sleep.

He slept for an incredibly long time.

A full dozen hours.

Midway, Butler Fu had quietly entered, woken him up, and fed him some liquid food.

Zhou Huai almost semi-consciously swallowed it before collapsing back down, falling into a profound dream.

By the time his consciousness cleared again, the window showed the night as dark as ink, with stars filling the sky.

“I actually slept for another day...”

Zhou Huai chuckled self-deprecatingly, feeling that his main body was becoming increasingly sleepy.

He didn't delay, immediately focusing his mind to check the progress of his two Clones' “work.”

First, Gandalf.

Controlled by the Smart Core AI, he was practically an indefatigable dungeon-farming machine.

Even without Yasuo's assistance, with his current strength, soloing the Calamity-level difficulty of the Shadow Swamp Demon Cave was already effortless.

An average of half an hour per run, precise and efficient.

During the dozen or so hours he was asleep, Gandalf had ★ 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 ★ already farmed nearly thirty dungeon runs.

His Rank, amidst this frantic experience harvesting, had successfully broken through to LV20!

Zhou Huai opened his storage space and checked the spoils.

Three blueprints for the star moon set that he had been longing for had already been farmed.

They were the star moon magic robe, Star Moon Gauntlets, and star moon magic robe.

“Two duplicates actually came out.”

“Tsk.”

Zhou Huai clicked his tongue.

After a dozen hours, three more blueprints were farmed.

Unfortunately, they were all duplicates.

Currently, he was still missing one blueprint for the Star Moon Leggings to complete the entire set of equipment, and his task would be accomplished.

“Keep farming.”

Zhou Huai could only helplessly continue to issue the command.

Fortunately, he wasn't doing the farming himself; otherwise, with such tedious and repetitive labor, he would have long since been sick of it.

After checking Gandalf's progress, Zhou Huai switched his consciousness to Ouyezi's side.

As the Epic equipment forged by Ouyezi began to appear in the auction house under the Forging Guild.

He also gradually began to rise to fame.

Initially, the major forces and professionals in Donghai City all thought this was just a coincidence.

After all, it had been a long time since a Blacksmith capable of forging Epic-grade equipment had appeared in the Forging Guild.

The fact that it could be forged this time might just be because this Blacksmith named Ouyezi had gotten incredibly lucky.

However, by the second day, when Epic-grade equipment signed by Ouyezi appeared one after another at the auction.

Everyone began to lose their composure.

If the first piece was luck.

How could the second and third pieces be explained?

So, on the third day, the auction house experienced unprecedented liveliness.

Countless people rushed to bid on these Epic-quality pieces of equipment.

Although the Rank of these pieces of equipment was not high, with the highest being no more than Rank twenty.

The equipment was still hyped up to high prices of over 300,000.

Especially one piece of equipment with an Advanced attribute, which was even auctioned for nearly a million.

It was then that everyone realized that a formidable top-tier Forging Master seemed to have arrived at the Forging Guild.

On this point, no one had more say than Ouyezi's assistant, Lin Wei.

In her eyes, Great Master Ouyezi recently was simply a tireless forging machine that had been wound up.

He spent at least seventeen or eighteen hours a day in that top-tier forging room.

The “ding-ding-dang-dang” of hammering almost never stopped.

At least a dozen pieces of equipment were personally forged by him from that forging room every day.

And among them, the probability of Epic-grade quality equipment appearing was as high as thirty percent.

Although it was only thirty percent, it was still quite terrifying.

One must know that those top Forging Masters in the Imperial Capital could successfully forge one or two pieces of Epic-grade equipment in a month, which was enough to pop champagne and celebrate.

But what about Great Master Ouyezi?

He could easily complete other people's one or two months of work targets in a single day.

Even exceeding them.

The equipment he forged was not only astonishingly high in quality, but the attached attributes were also extremely excellent.

Occasionally, one or two rare Advanced attributes would even appear.

This exaggerated forging Genius was unprecedented in his life.

If the major guilds were to learn of Ouyezi's potential.

They would probably spare no effort to poach this Great Master.

Also aware of this was Gu Yan, the President of the Forging Guild.

After these past few days, his head had already started to sweat.

He had long anticipated that Ouyezi's talent was outrageous, but he never expected it to be so incredibly absurd.

Now that Ouyezi's reputation was gradually rising.

Gu Yan simply hardened his heart and decided to promote him even more vigorously.

He wanted everyone to see.

Their Forging Guild had produced an unparalleled Genius that would shine through the ages!

This would be a resounding slap in the face to those who had always looked down on the Donghai City Blacksmiths' Association.

As for other guilds coming to poach him.

Gu Yan wasn't too worried.

He believed Ouyezi wasn't that kind of materialistic person.

He pursued the highest Profound Truth of forging.

He was completely a forging fanatic.

Every day, he followed a two-point line; aside from sleeping, as soon as his eyes opened, he was coolly forging.

This point alone far surpassed ordinary people, making Gu Yan sincerely admire him.

Zhou Huai was naturally extremely satisfied with Ouyezi's progress.

The efficiency of the AI Smart Core had indeed never disappointed him.

At this moment, Ouyezi's forging Rank had also reached 【LV9】.

His expectations for Ouyezi were not just as simple as forging Epic-quality equipment.

In the future, he was to forge Legendary and even Divine Rank equipment.

After contentedly checking the progress of all the Clones, Zhou Huai then completely returned his consciousness to his main body.

He slowly closed his eyes.

In his mind, that massive and familiar rotary machine slowly reappeared.

It was time for the exciting profession drawing segment again.

This time, it was for his fourth Clone.

Zhou Huai's chest rose and fell slightly, calming his somewhat accelerated heartbeat.

His will, with a fierce surge, pressed the only 【Draw】 button on the rotary machine!

Buzz—!

The giant rotary machine began to spin wildly.

Countless profession orbs transformed into dazzling streams of light within it, mesmerizing to behold.

Finally, amidst a brilliant glow.

A dazzling golden orb stood out, shot out from the rotary machine, and slowly landed before him.

Golden light burst forth.

A transfer scroll, thicker than the Thunder Sword Master's scroll, yet also exuding a powerful aura, quietly floated.

【Congratulations, Host, you have drawn the profession: Unique Hidden Profession, S-Rank Extinction Bulwark!】

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