Legend of Mir 2: Seeking the Truth in Marfa

"I want to take the veil." Of course, the only one who could speak so directly was Wenren Muxue.

"Sister, take it. I had originally planned to give this veil to you." Wenren Muyue said.

"Originally? Did you guess that the fat man would reveal his veil?"

"How is that possible? Haha~ I mean, I thought so before I came to fight the ancient leader." Wenren Muyue quickly denied it. Muxue was too perceptive. She quickly changed the subject and said, "Oh, by the way, I have another veil. It dropped when Bruko and I killed the ancient golden fox together. I'll give it to you too."

"Oh?" Wenren Muxue took the veil, nodded, and smiled, "You're lucky today! If you can reveal a few more veils, I'll give you credit!"

"Thank you, second sister!"

"Call me if you need me, keep going!"

Wenren Muxue took everyone away.

"I almost let it slip, but luckily I managed to cover it up." Wenren Muxue said, "Xiaobai can sense legendary equipment, so why can't the Overlord and Taurus?"

"Not yet. It should be ready in a few days," Brook said. Xiaobai hadn't yet mastered the Overlord, Taurus, or even the more advanced 6th-Rank Hot-Blooded equipment.

"Where's the skill book?"

"Well... I don't know either. Let's take our time. Right now, being able to sense gems and legendary equipment is already great."

"With Xiaobai, we can explore all the monsters! If there are good equipment, we will grab them, and if there are no good equipment, we will leave. I feel that we will get rich soon!" Wenren Muyue said excitedly.

"Calm down. It's okay to do it occasionally, but whether it's asking others to buy the property or asking your sister for help, you will be exposed if it happens too many times." Brooke reminded quickly.

"What should I do?"

"Keep a low profile. If someone is fighting for the Qi Crystal that exploded like before, we won't grab it. We only take action at the critical moment, such as the ancient beast just now." Brook said.

"Okay, I'll take your word for it. Shall we continue?"

"Well, continue."

Brook and Wenren Muyue diligently fought monsters during the day, and with Xiaobai's help, their gains multiplied. At night, Brook would teach Xiaobai various lessons. They would also smelt equipment, increasing their own and Xiaobai's levels and strength. Finally, they would engage in close combat with the guardian deity of the Ice Palace in the Abyss, honing their reaction speed and combat skills.

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Two months passed quickly.

Gu Zhizi helped collect more than 10 fourth-turn pills, and with the remaining few fourth-turn pills from the Wenren family, Brooke and Wenren Muyue successfully achieved the fourth turn and reached level 130. They could have been promoted even higher, but Brick gave most of the spirit gathering beads to Xiaobai.

The jade pendants and formations of the two have reached level 7, with a lot of attributes added. In addition, the replacement of the dominant equipment, especially the smelting equipment, has obtained a large amount of blood demon essence and Vajra essence. The levels of the blood demon and Vajra are very high, reaching the 8th level of the blood demon's body and the 6th level of the Vajra body. Their strength has been greatly improved again.

布鲁克目前道术450-1365，防御672-1492，魔御536-1158，生命值。

Xiaobai's level had reached 140, and he had successfully completed his third transformation, donning Taurus gear. His current health was 1, his attack was over 500, and his defense and magic resistance were 150. However, compared to the Green Goblin Spider of the same level, he was still inferior, especially in health, which was several dozen times lower.

Xiaobai was a demon beast, and many of the cultivators' quests, such as the Blood Demon, Diamond, Jade Pendant, and Formation, were unavailable to him, preventing him from further improving his strength. He could only rely solely on his level and equipment, which limited his ability to improve. Brooke understood this, but for the time being, he was at a loss.

After staying in the abyss for more than two months, Brook and Wenren Muyue collected more than 2 Star Blood Moon Shields and more than 30 medals, and upgraded and fused them all.

First, using the remaining Bloodthirsty Lord Shield and 10 Blood Moon Star Shields, he successfully crafted the Bloodthirsty Lord Shield (Superior): 20 Defense, 20 Magic Resistance, 14% increased attack damage, and 14% reduced incoming damage. He also had two other shields: the Bloodthirsty Lord Shield (Excellent) and the Bloodthirsty Lord Shield (Normal), increasing damage by 2% and 12% respectively. Wenren Muyue wore one shield herself, and gave the other to Qin Ziyu, her future sister-in-law.

The second is the upgrade of the Medal of Honor. Brook's Medal of Honor has been upgraded from the original level 3 to level 5. When a critical hit is made, there is a 12% chance of causing an additional 523 damage to the target.

Regarding his skills, Brook spent a significant amount of gold, upgrading his commonly used shield to level 4, and Bloodlust, Divine Beast Summoning, Poison, and Mass Healing to level 6. Level 6 skills require a significant amount of tome pages, various crystals, and epiphany marks. Bloodlust, in particular, requires three times as many tome pages and materials as a normal skill. Despite his wealth, Brook was left penniless after upgrading these skills.

Brook also broke the fallen divine weapon into 100 small fragments. Although it could only last for 10 minutes in Marfa, it was enough for Brook.

Whenever Brook had free time, he would venture into Marfa to search for artifacts. Over the course of two months, he had used up most of the fragments and found several artifacts. These included a defense ring, a skill necklace, an invisibility ring, acquired through trade with an alien warrior, a paralysis ring obtained with Xiaobai's help, and a rare resurrection ring.

Brook used them as upgrade materials to improve several existing rings.

The defense ring has been upgraded for the second time. When worn, the defense and magic defense attributes are doubled, which greatly improves Brook's survivability again!

The Skill Necklace has been upgraded for the second time. When worn, the chance of triggering the upper limit of attack, defense, magic defense, and other attributes has been increased from 2% to 60%. This probability increase also applies to the Medal of Honor.

The Invisibility Ring has received a second upgrade, now allowing players to become invisible. Previously, Brooke used a combination of collective invisibility and the ring's barrier to achieve invisibility. As long as he didn't move, other monks couldn't see him. Now, wearing the Invisibility Ring grants this effect, and it allows for mobile invisibility, making it even more powerful than before.

The Resurrection Ring has been upgraded for the second time. When worn, it can revive other characters who have died within 2 minutes, and consumes 5 point of endurance. In addition to healing others, Brook finally has another magical skill of resurrecting others.

The paralysis ring was given to Xiaobai to wear. Brook didn't know the effect of the paralysis ring after it was upgraded, so he let Xiaobai use it first and slowly train it to grow.

On this day, Brook and Wenren Muyue came to the 4th-level companion continent, Wolong Villa.

Wolong Villa is a place full of opportunities and challenges. There are high-explosive maps and underground imperial tombs.

Monsters in high-explosive maps have a chance of dropping rare bamboo hats.

Bosses in the Imperial Tomb map have a very low chance of dropping an even rarer item called the Imperial Tomb Notebook. These are ancient forging materials. Legend has it that using the Imperial Tomb Notebook, along with items like Supreme Gems and Mayan Gems, there's a slight chance of forging a divine artifact! Although no one has yet succeeded, many still swear by this legend.

However, these two maps cannot be entered casually, and certain conditions must be met.

To enter the high-explosive map, you first need to sponsor Wolong Villa, with each sponsorship costing 2 yuan. If you sponsor 100 times, you will be eligible to enter the high-explosive map, but only the first level. To enter the second level, you must be in the top ten on the sponsorship rankings; and to enter the third level of the high-explosive map, you need to be in the top three in the sponsorship rankings. Finally, Wolong Villa will give special titles to anyone who can enter the high-explosive map. This title can be used in the fourth-level continent. It not only hides your name and identity, but also provides a certain bonus to combat attacks. As a result, many cultivators will come to sponsor, especially those from wealthy families who want to compete for the top ten sponsorship rankings.

The rules for entering the other underground imperial mausoleum are similar. Within the underground mausoleum lies a hidden area known as the Imperial Mausoleum Secret Realm. Within this area, ores of varying sizes can be mined, potentially containing ancient treasures. Many cultivators have unearthed unique items such as golden bulls, overlords, legendaries, and even medals of honor. Of course, many have found nothing at all. At the beginning of each month, Wolong Villa opens the Imperial Mausoleum Secret Realm and sells the mined ores publicly, with a starting price of 2 yuan per piece. The highest bidder wins. Any cultivator who completes 200 excavations gains access to the Imperial Mausoleum map. This gambling-inspired gameplay is far more engaging than the sponsored maps.

Finally, the cumulative rankings for high-explosive maps and underground imperial tombs will be reset every three months.

Brook and the others had no interest in gambling games like sponsorship and treasure hunting. They came to Wolong Villa not for the high-explosive map and the underground imperial tomb, but to synthesize the bamboo hat and the healing stone.

After the fourth level, the monk can wear a bamboo hat and a healing stone. This requires finding the jewelry forger at Wolong Villa to synthesize.

When I was doing the Bravely Break Through the Heavenly Gate mission before, I obtained 10 bamboo hat fragments, which were just enough to synthesize an ordinary gray bamboo hat.

Bamboo Hat: Attack/Magic/Taoism 3-7, HP 72. Also has the special effect "Mountaneous": Makes you savage, resisting push and displacement skills like Fire Ring and Qigong Wave, preventing them from being pushed continuously for 10 seconds. This means that after being pushed once, you won't be pushed again for 10 seconds.

Hats can also be upgraded. Three hats of the same level can be combined into a higher-level hat. According to Wenren Muxue, the yellow hat worn by Gu Zhizi is a second-level King's Hat.

The Healing Stone is an upgraded version of the Blood Stone. Once synthesized, it can be used forever, unlike the Blood Stone, which needs to be purchased again after it is used up.

The synthesis of the Healing Stone requires a material called the Sighing Stone. 10 Sighing Stones can be synthesized into the most common first-level Healing Stone. This Sighing Stone can only be obtained after completing the escort mission in Wolong Villa.

The two of them went to the head of the villa to ask, and learned that there are two types of escorts:

Low-level darts can be obtained for free, and you can get 2 Stones of Sighs after completing them; high-level darts require the use of the Wolong Dart Order to obtain them, and you can get 8 Stones of Sighs after completing them.

Each person can only escort twice a day.

Brook and Wenren Muyue certainly wanted to escort high-level darts.

"Master Escort Leader, where can I buy the Wolong Escort Order? How much does it cost?" Brooke asked.

"The Wolong Escort Order cannot be purchased, but you need to open the treasure chest yourself to obtain it. The owner of the villa will place a large number of treasure chests within the map of Wolong Villa every day, and some of the treasure chests contain the Wolong Escort Order. You can freely choose the treasure chest you like, but each person can only open it twice a day. By the way, I would like to remind you that the Wolong Escort Order is bound and cannot be traded." The villa escort leader replied.

"...Your manor's style of doing things is truly unique, and your master is truly a manor with a refined taste!" Brooke praised helplessly.

The Wolong Escort Order can't be purchased with money, and you can only rely on luck to open the treasure chest. The owner of Wolong Villa is really good at playing, and even asks everyone to play with him.