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At noon the next day, when Jiang Lin woke from his stupor and moved his body, the pain immediately twisted his face into a grimace.

It took him quite a while to recover before he crawled to the entrance and quietly observed the Blue Eagle outside. Seeing it squatting properly in the shed like an old hen, he felt slightly relieved. Then, looking at the tattered armor on his body, its shattered fragments nearly embedded in his wounds, he could not help but feel conflicted.

After thinking it over, Jiang Lin ultimately chose to carefully remove his armor. However, he kept his battle boots on. That way, if the Blue Eagle decided to be a naughty little coo, he could turn and run at once.

Looking at the dense wounds and bloodstains covering his body, Jiang Lin sighed softly. These injuries had basically all been inflicted by Pei Suo. The enemies before him had merely worn down the armor's durability, but when he reached Pei Suo, the Black Knight Armor's durability had been completely depleted.

As for Rock Tiger, he had not actually caused Jiang Lin much injury. His powerful and heavy fists had all slammed against the Flame Burst Armor-Slaying Sword. Jiang Lin had said before that because the Flame Burst Armor-Slaying Sword specialized in offensive power, its intricate interior left it with very low defensive power. After several punches from Rock Tiger, the sword's durability had plummeted, and its blade had been chipped by the intense collisions. Then, one of Pei Suo's three covert Dou Qi arrows had pierced straight through the Flame Burst Armor-Slaying Sword from the side. All of that had laid the groundwork for the sword's later explosion.

"A year's worth of savings, gone in a single day! Damn it! Fuck!" In the cave, Jiang Lin found some medicinal powder he had prepared beforehand for bruises and injuries. As he applied it to himself, he could not help cursing. His armor was ruined, and his greatsword had exploded into fragments. He was no longer the invincible Dou Zhe he used to be! Sob, sob, sob!

He had once been able to stare down Dou Masters without fear, but now, when facing one, he could only be a beast of burden for the children! Ah!!!

But Pei Suo's affair had taught Jiang Lin a lesson: in this world where the strong reigned supreme, many things simply did not need to make sense.

Getting greedy for profit, stabbing people in the back, forgetting friends for profit, getting horny at the sight of beauty—such things were far too common. Hm? Had something strange slipped in there??

Pei Suo's killing intent toward Jiang Lin had been just that illogical. He thought he could kill him, so he dared to do it. He caught Jiang Lin completely off guard, left him utterly baffled, and even wiped out all his possessions!

"If your smug, idiotic ass doesn't drop enough Gold Coins to make up for my losses, I'll be fucking wasted!"

After applying medicine to the wounds on his body and wrapping them with white cloth strips, Jiang Lin changed into a set of gray hemp clothes, pushed aside the large stone, and walked out.

When the Blue Eagle saw him emerge, it turned to look at him, then turned back and continued pretending to be an old hen.

"Holy shit! After one night, how did his little Kun Kun get dissolved from soaking? Could he actually be a woman? And that chest flat as his back too... Oh, who flipped him over?"

Jiang Lin walked over to the Alchemy Pool, intending to inspect the gifts Pei Suo had left him. When he accidentally glanced into the pool, he was immediately startled. He rubbed his eyes and looked again. Damn it, he had seen wrong.

However—

Jiang Lin turned back and glared viciously at the Blue Eagle, pointing at the rope around its old-hen neck. "Did you come over here yesterday? Your rope clearly isn't that long! You naughty little coo, you disobeyed again!"

Blue Eagle: .

No, how could you be so presumptuous??

Jiang Lin stood on the moral high ground, pointed at the Blue Eagle's beak, and gave it a fierce scolding before starting to rummage through Pei Suo's belongings.

Having suffered such severe losses, Jiang Lin was in an extremely bad mood. Everything he looked at displeased him.

That was until he pulled a pale silver ring from the clothes. He raised it high above his head, his eyes shining as his expression turned incomparably devout.

"Brother Pei Suo, the best, smartest, most handsome, and most dashing man in the world! Don't worry! I will definitely save you!"

"Brother Pei Suo, you are practically an angel sent by the heavens to save me!"

"No! You're not an idiot, you're an angel! I'm the idiot for failing to understand your painstaking intentions, Brother Pei Suo!"

"Don't worry! I will definitely save you! I'll get you back on your feet, and we'll roam the continent together!"

"Revive! My Brother Pei Suo!!"

Watching Jiang Lin swing wildly between grief and joy like a madman, holding up a Storage Ring and shouting, the Blue Eagle immediately became a little frightened. It took small steps and moved toward the spot farthest from Jiang Lin.

Naturally, the Blue Eagle could not understand Jiang Lin's tumultuous emotions, going from completely broke to suddenly rich. The ring in Jiang Lin's hand was a Storage Ring! A Storage Ring he had desperately wanted but had never had a way to obtain!

Did he enjoy carrying a greatsword whenever he went out? Did he enjoy putting on heavy armor every time he left home?

Did he like it? No! He had no choice!

If he had even one Storage Ring, would Jiang Lin still carry a greatsword on his back?

No, no, no. He would be able to carry at least two greatswords! Uh, no—he would be able to have more equipment and arrange it more flexibly.

Therefore, the moment Jiang Lin saw this Storage Ring, all of the losses he had suffered last night were completely recouped.

If his equipment was gone, he could slowly forge new pieces later.

But a Storage Ring was not some high-end toy that the current Jiang Lin could get his hands on.

Could he possibly pick one up in some random cave in the Monster Mountain Range? Don't joke around. How could a Storage Ring be something so casually found just because one wanted to pick it up?

The Storage Ring in Jiang Lin's hand was the lowest-grade kind, with only one cubic meter of storage space. But to Jiang Lin, it was already enough to make him happy.

Since Jiang Lin had been in poor condition last night, he had only brought Pei Suo's corpse back. As for the Golden Feather Bow and that shield, he had not had the energy or time to bring them back.

Thus, the things he had stripped from Pei Suo were only a set of clothes, a somewhat damaged inner armor, a ring, and some miscellaneous items.

Since Pei Suo had already died amid Jiang Lin's sorrowful laughter, the restriction on his Storage Ring had disappeared. Now that Jiang Lin was a Dou Zhe, he merely gathered a little mental power, and his consciousness entered the Storage Ring.

The space inside the Storage Ring was not large, only around one cubic meter. But it was not a fixed cube. The interior was more like a shifting bubble, capable of becoming square or round. Jiang Lin saw three blueprints, several golden arrows, several pieces of ore, two small bottles of pills, a Dou Technique manual, a notebook, and a badge.

Jiang Lin rubbed his hands together like a fly and sat beside the Alchemy Pool, taking out the three blueprints.

Just as expected, they were three Dou Artifact blueprints similar to Alchemist pill formulas. They were Dou Artifact blueprints that Pei Suo had either not fully mastered or whose number of uses had not yet been exhausted.

Jiang Lin glanced at the names on the three blueprints. Reading the contents of Dou Artifact blueprints and pill formulas consumed Soul Power, but reading their names did not.

The three Dou Artifact blueprints were: Yellow-grade High-tier Battle Weapon: Azure Feather Bow; Yellow-grade intermediate Battle Weapon: Adamantine Soft Armor; and Yellow-grade intermediate Battle Weapon: Mystic Underworld Shield.

The Azure Feather Bow was the upgraded version of Pei Suo's own Golden Feather Bow. Pei Suo had been unable to forge the original Azure Feather Bow, so he had settled for forging a Yellow-grade intermediate Golden Feather Bow. He also had an assistant who carried a Yellow-grade low-tier Battle Weapon bow, one of Pei Suo's earliest practice creations. However, Jiang Lin had blown that assistant's head off after using him as an example.

When he saw the three Dou Artifact blueprints, Jiang Lin wanted nothing more than to haul Brother Pei Suo up on the spot, skip the soaking process, and directly "revive" him with the Mystic Armor Puppet Technique!

Revive, my love. Dear Brother Pei Suo! You are my long-lost real brother from different fathers and mothers!

As long as Jiang Lin could completely master these three Dou Artifact blueprints, they would be enough to promote him to a Yellow-grade High-tier Artifact Forger!

Filled with boundless respect for Brother Pei Suo, Jiang Lin took out everything else as well.

Of the two bottles of pills, one was called the Bone-Growing Pill, a Second-grade Healing Pill. The other was called Qi Gathering Powder, a Third-grade Pill. A Third-grade Pill?

If the Blue Eagle had not been watching from the side, Jiang Lin would have wanted to kowtow to Brother Pei Suo's corpse right then and there.

Big Brother had worried he would be injured, so he had deliberately prepared healing pills in the Storage Ring to let Jiang Lin recover quickly.

He really... I'm crying my eyes out!

The Qi Gathering Powder left Jiang Lin somewhat puzzled. Brother Pei Suo was already a Three-star Dou Master, so why was he carrying a pill that allowed Dou Qi to break through into a Dou Zhe?

"Could there be a worthy nephew back at home?" Jiang Lin's heart leaped with joy. He had been worrying about how to repay Big Brother's kindness. Don't worry! I will definitely deliver this Qi Gathering Powder into worthy nephew's hands!

But after Jiang Lin looked through Pei Suo's Artifact Forger's Notes, he shook his head in disappointment. Such an outstanding big brother was actually a bachelor. The reason he had kept the Qi Gathering Powder was simply because this kind of breakthrough pill was hard currency, useful to keep around in case it was ever needed.

"Ah, Xiao Yi Xian seems to be at Eight-segment Dou Qi? Then I can only give it to her." Jiang Lin casually flipped through the Artifact Forger's Notes, then placed it in the Storage Ring, planning to read it slowly when he had time later.

But then Jiang Lin belatedly realized that this, too, was Big Brother's kindness.

"Really... Big Brother is single himself, yet he was still thinking about my little companion." Jiang Lin felt his eyes growing misty. He really... I'm crying my eyes out!

The Dou Technique manual in the Storage Ring was also extremely precious—so precious that it even surprised Jiang Lin.

Mystic-grade Low-tier Dou Technique, "Azure Feather Archery"! A Mystic-grade Dou Technique paired with the Azure Feather Bow Dou Artifact?!

Jiang Lin stared blankly at "Azure Feather Archery," then took out Brother Pei Suo's badge. The badge had a flame relief around its outer edge, a transparent square in the middle, and starlight shimmering within it.

Two stars beneath it were lit up, along with a line of small words:

Artifact Forgers' Guild issued: Second-order Artifact Forger, Pei Suo!

This... Second-order Artifact Forger... was that a new form of address?

However—

With hands clasped together—

Thank you, Big Brother, for finally helping him find an organization!