Hundred Refinements Grade Equipment!

A video shot to the top of the Battle Through the Heavens Forum's trending list in just a few minutes.

Its contents were a third-person recording of Ya Fei and Nalan Yanran "fighting over" Yang Shan.

It had clearly been recorded by a Player who had been present at the time.

The post had an overwhelming number of replies.

ID Zi Wo Jiang Li Cheng Yin: Fuck! A minute ago, I was still jerking off to screenshots of Ya Fei, and now I'm seeing her linking arms with someone else?

ID Gynecology Research Specialist: The guy above, a minute ago? Maybe you should see an andrologist?

ID Godhead Ghostface: Holy shit, is this what it means to be the game's number-one Player? Ya Fei and Nalan Yanran are fighting over him? ID Meat Stick Strike: Ah! Nalan Yanran! Ever since I saw her screenshots, I haven't even watched female streamers anymore. I swore I'd join the Misty Cloud Sect and win her over—so how did she end up falling for that cheating bastard?!

ID Xiao Aotian: Fuck! Ya Fei was still in Wutan City a few days ago. How did she get to Cloud Frost City?!

ID Jin Shankao: Screw that elephant dick! I just tried sneaking into the Cloud Frost Branch to get a better look at Ya Fei, and I got thrown out! Comparing people really pisses people off!

ID Ye Suifeng: Tell me about it. I wanted to follow Nalan Yanran around and have some heart-pounding encounter with her, but I nearly got stabbed through with a sword.

ID Two O'Clock at Night: Can someone tell me what gives Yang Shan the right to give Nalan Yanran the cold shoulder? She's the Misty Cloud Sect's Eldest Sister, Yun Yun's disciple!

ID Retired Argumentative Expert: What's that worth? Great God fought Nalan Yanran before, and she got one-shot with a single slash. What's wrong with giving her the cold shoulder?

ID Wang Tianhao: @Yang Shan, Nalan Yanran is mine! Whoever tries to take her dies! ID Chao Bafang: @Wang Tianhao, who the fuck are you? Big words for a nobody!

ID Wang Tianhao: @Chao Bafang, fuck your mother, I remember you. If you've got the guts, come to the south gate. I'll kill you all the way back to the Novice Realm! ID Chao Bafang: Everyone sees it now, right? This is the kind of trash the Tian Hao Alliance's leader is. Who the hell would be stupid enough to join the Tian Hao Alliance?

ID Wang Tianhao: You fucking set me up, didn't you? ID Mei Yangyang Does Not Double Standard: Great God Yang Shan is so handsome. I really want to have babies with him.

ID Gynecology Research Specialist: Great God Yang Shan, don't fall for it. Mei Yangyang's WeChat name has something in parentheses: "Available to fly anywhere nationwide"! ID I am a Fan of Nalan Yanran's Beauty: Impossible! There's no Xiao Yan in the game, so how could Nalan Yanran possibly be interested in a Player at the Dou Shi level? ID Die Beneath Ya Fei's Skirt, Be a Romantic Ghost: Ah! Ya Fei linked arms with this bastard, and he actually pulled his arm away! Damn it! He really deserves to die!

Most of the replies were still filled with envy, jealousy, and hatred toward Yang Shan's situation.

After all, two of the three universally acknowledged most beautiful NPCs in the game were right here. The other was Xiao Mei. More importantly, the AI for NPCs who had appeared in the original story was maxed out. It was exceedingly difficult for Players to build relationships with NPCs like them.

After Nalan Yanran appeared, the threshold of the Floating Cloud Inn had nearly been trampled flat, yet barely any Players had even gotten to see her.

And even those who did were sent straight to the resurrection point by a single sword strike from Nalan Yanran.

Now, someone had suddenly claimed that Nalan Yanran and Ya Fei had gotten into an argument over a male Player.

The contrast was simply too stark. Who could accept that?

So, after the post's replies surpassed three hundred, the most common line in the comments became:

He really deserves to die!

At this point, nearly half of the forum's trending discussion posts were related to Yang Shan.

The weight of being the number-one Player was truly on full display.

As the instigator of it all, however, Yang Shan had no time to browse any forums.

He was too busy counting money until his hands went numb!

It was now the nineteenth day since the server opened.

A total of fifty-eight Body Tempering Pills had been sold on the Game Exchange.

The highest price had been 42,000, while the lowest had been 27,000! Yang Shan's bank account had gained a full 1.8 million RMB!

Besides that, because he had entered into deep cooperation with Ya Fei, Yang Shan temporarily had no need to obtain too many Spirit Stones from the exchange.

Thus, the listed price of Gathering Yuan Pills had been changed from two hundred Spirit Stones to one hundred RMB.

Even so, facing the entire server's Player base, Gathering Yuan Pills remained in short supply.

Yang Shan had sold a total of six thousand pills. Even after fees, he had still earned 540,000 RMB! By relying on alchemy alone, Yang Shan had even raised his level to Six-Star Dou Shi! He was not far from Seven-Star Dou Shi, either!

In eight days of real time, he had earned 2.34 million RMB.

If this continued until the end of the launch version, Yang Shan could immediately declare himself financially free!

Unfortunately, the current output of metal-attribute magic cores from Tier 2 Elite magical beasts was still too low, and the success rate for refining Body Tempering Pills had remained poor.

Yang Shan had already bought out all the magic cores on the exchange. Next, he had to find a way to acquire more magic cores!

Just as Yang Shan was preparing to log off and rest, someone knocked on his room's door.

Yang Shan assumed it was a Maidservant from the Cloud Frost Branch and casually said:

"The door isn't locked. Come in."

Yet when the door opened, the person who entered his sight was Ya Fei, whose face and figure were both exceptionally pleasing to the eye! "Young Master Yang, I didn't disturb you, did I?"

Ya Fei was dressed rather plainly today. She had lost a little of her usual seductive charm, but gained a touch of the feeling of a virtuous wife and loving mother. Regardless, he should first take a few photos from good angles and save them to his collection!

Yang Shan answered while taking pictures:

"Since Miss Ya Fei came to see me personally, there must be something important, right?"

Ya Fei said, "It's nothing major. I merely saw how hard Young Master Yang has been working on alchemy these past few days, so I specifically came to visit you."

Over this period, Yang Shan had also handed Ya Fei twenty-four Body Tempering Pills and twelve hundred Gathering Yuan Pills.

Yang Shan had not asked how Ya Fei handled the operations, but the smile on her face had increased quite a bit lately. Presumably, life at the Cloud Frost Branch had become easier than before.

Because of that, Ya Fei's favorability toward Yang Shan had continued to rise, breaking through thirty from twenty-three in one go!

"Thank you for your concern, Miss Ya Fei. Please, sit."

After Ya Fei sat down, she went straight to the point. "Besides paying you a visit, I also brought Young Master Yang a few things."

As she spoke, Ya Fei took a fiery red robe and a cold, gleaming Side Blade from her Storage Ring!

"These are the pieces of equipment Young Master Yang previously asked Master Yao to have made. They've now been completed!"

Yang Shan accepted the robe and Side Blade, and the attributes of the two pieces of equipment appeared before his eyes:

Fire Cloud Robe

Quality: Hundred Refinements (Purple)

Defense +55
Speed +15
Special: Fire Attribute attack damage reduced by 20% (Ineffective against Dou Wang and above.)
Durability: 150/150
Description: A robe crafted from the hide of a peak second-tier King of Beasts Fire Cloud Leopard, inheriting a portion of the Fire Cloud Leopard's bloodline power.

Thunder Guiding Blade

Quality: Hundred Refinements (Purple)

Attack +75
Speed +15
Special: Lightning-attribute blade technique Dou Technique power increased by 25% (Ineffective at Dou Wang and above.)
Durability: 140/140
Description: A Side Blade meticulously crafted by a fourth-grade artificer using the rare third-tier material Lightning-Attracting Steel as its main component. Not only is its blade exceptionally sharp, capable of severing hair with a breath, but it can also resonate with lightning, further enhancing the combat power of lightning-attribute cultivators! Look!

Look!

What a pleasing panel! Its attributes crushed those of fine-grade equipment. This was Hundred Refinements Grade equipment that even a Dou Ling expert would not feel ashamed to carry! In the current Version 1.0, Hundred Refinements equipment could not possibly be produced through normal means.

Only gold-tier quest rewards had a chance of being Hundred Refinements Grade equipment.

Or, like Yang Shan, one had to obtain the necessary materials, pull some strings, and spend a fortune hiring a high-level blacksmith to forge them.

At present, there were not even that many purple fine-grade pieces of equipment revealed on the forums.

Hundred Refinements Grade equipment with Purple Word Seals—such overpowered items were very likely the first two in the entire server!

And now, both of them lay quietly in Yang Shan's hands.

Yang Shan's thoughts immediately began to stir again.

Perhaps, before this launch version came to an end, he could become "The World's Number One Great Fighter"!