Inside the shattered jar were two small green bottles.
Item: [Instant Teleportation Potion] ... Effect: [After use, allows teleportation to any designated location.]
Normally, Lin Xiao would not have minded getting Instant Teleportation Potions.
Instant Teleportation Potions had a wide range of uses. They were truly essential for home and travel, hunting Soul Rings, and fleeing for one's life.
But there was nothing normal about this situation, was there?
The first nine jars had all contained Magic Juice, and the final payoff was two of these things. That was why Lin Xiao had nearly exploded.
"Calm down. I have to stay calm."
"There are still twenty-four jars. According to the law of 'you'll eat your words,' the good stuff is always in the next jar."
Lin Xiao struggled to calm himself. With a thought, he took out another ten jars.
"If luck won't do it, numbers will make up the difference. I'll open ten more. Let's see if I still can't get anything good!"
Lin Xiao believed that enough quantitative change would bring about a qualitative change.
Crack, crack, crack.
Three jars, three flashes of white light.
After his earlier results, Lin Xiao remained expressionless this time. His hand did not even tremble as he smashed the fourth jar.
At last.
A different light appeared again.
"Purple."
Lin Xiao's heart stirred, and he hurriedly looked over.
Item: [Enhancer] Grade: [Rare] Type: [Untradeable] Description: [Equipment enhancement has been converted into Soul Ring enhancement.] Effect: [Can enhance any designated Soul Ring. Upon successful enhancement, increases the Soul Ring's maximum age based on its original age. The higher the enhancement level, the greater the multiplier. (Note: ...)]
An Enhancer can improve my strength. Not a loss... Lin Xiao's mood instantly brightened considerably. Hadn't his luck just turned around?
He continued.
Unsurprisingly, the next two jars both contained Magic Juice.
However.
The seventh and eighth jars turned things around again...
"Two more Enhancers..."
"It's fine if you don't give me Level-Up Tickets. It's just another way to improve my strength. I wanted to see whether enhancing my First Soul Ring to +10 could make it a thousand-year ring anyway."
Lin Xiao found this result acceptable.
He kept opening.
With two cracks, the last two jars in this batch shattered.
The ninth jar contained utterly unremarkable Magic Juice.
The tenth jar, however, made Lin Xiao's eyes light up.
Item: [Level-Up Ticket] Grade: [Rare] Type: [Untradeable] Description: [Character level increases have been converted into soul power level increases.] Effect: [After use, increases soul power by one level.]
"Things really do seem to be looking up... The double-reward jar actually gave me two Level-Up Tickets."
With such a bountiful haul, Lin Xiao finally smiled. "Three Enhancers and two Level-Up Tickets. This batch was worth it."
Immediately, Lin Xiao tore up the two Level-Up Tickets, and his soul power level rose from twelve to fourteen.
Had a Soul Master been present, they would have been utterly stunned. Gaining two levels of soul power in the blink of an eye-such a rapid increase in strength was absolutely unheard of.
"Strike while the iron is hot. While my luck is good, I'll open all the remaining jars."
With another thought from Lin Xiao, all fourteen remaining jars appeared on the counter.
"I'm not asking for much this time. Just give me another batch like the last one."
With that thought, Lin Xiao smashed the jars one after another.
Crack, crack, crack...
In the blink of an eye, nine jars had been opened.
White, white, purple, white, white, purple, purple, white, purple.
That meant the nine jars contained five common items and four rare items.
"Not bad..."
Lin Xiao put the items away one by one, fairly satisfied with the result.
The nine items were five Magic Juices, three Instant Teleportation Potions, and one Enhancer.
"Any rare item will do for the tenth jar..."
This time, Lin Xiao was in a much better frame of mind.
Crack.
Just as he had wished, a burst of purple light flashed.
When he looked at the items inside, Lin Xiao smiled. "Two Suo Ye Puppets. Not bad."
In no time, of the thirty-four jars, only the four on the counter remained.
I'll just open them casually, then go to bed... Lin Xiao felt rather tired after all this fuss.
He opened the next jar with a thoroughly casual attitude.
Yet its light was somewhat dazzling.
Pink!
"Heavens, an artifact!?"
Lin Xiao's eyes suddenly widened. He had not expected another surprise windfall.
He hurriedly looked over.
At once, he lost his composure.
Item: [+7 Equipment Enhancement Scroll] Grade: [Artifact] Type: [Untradeable] Description: [Equipment enhancement has been converted into Soul Ring enhancement.] Effect: [After use, enhances the designated Soul Ring to +7 with a 100% success rate. (Note: If the Soul Ring already has an enhancement level, this enhancement will overwrite it rather than stack with it.)]
"An Enhancement Scroll?"
"They really exist! And this one has a hundred-percent success rate!"
Lin Xiao was both surprised and delighted.
In Dungeon City, Enhancement Scrolls came in two varieties. One relied on probability, with seven grades: black iron, bronze, silver, gold, platinum, jade, and diamond. Their success rates were 1%, 5%, 10%, 30%, 50%, 70%, and 90%, respectively.
Those were strictly for the emperors of luck.
Because if your luck was rotten enough, even a diamond scroll with a ninety-percent success rate could fail. And it had happened more than once.
Lin Xiao had had the honor of experiencing that himself... It had been such a deliciously agonizing experience that he had wanted to quit the game on the spot.
Fortunately.
He had smashed his computer first, so Dungeon City had not lost this warrior.
The other variety guaranteed successful enhancement, specially made for the luckless...
As for its value, that went without saying.
At the same enhancement level, a scroll with a hundred-percent success rate was certainly worth more.
"Just as I suspected. It was saving up something big for me."
Lin Xiao beamed with delight.
"Let's try it first and see how many years a +7 Soul Ring gains."
As he thought this, a Lightsaber formed in his right hand, and a Yellow Soul Ring rose beneath his feet. Then he silently commanded, Use!
The next moment, the +7 Enhancement Scroll glowing pink in his hand turned into a streak of light and landed on his First Soul Ring.
Lin Xiao noticed the Soul Ring's color growing darker.
It was a sign that its age was increasing!
Moreover, he could clearly feel the soul power within his body growing stronger too...
In the blink of an eye, the Soul Ring Age passed five hundred years...
Six hundred years...
Finally, it stopped after passing seven hundred years...
"About seven hundred and fifty or sixty years..."
Lin Xiao did the calculations in his head. "In other words, enhancing it to +7 gives an increase of almost ninety percent?"
"If this keeps up, wouldn't +8 double its age? At +9 at most, I'd have a Thousand-Year Soul Ring!"
"So powerful."
Honestly, the success rate of this enhancement had already exceeded Lin Xiao's expectations.
Thinking of the four Enhancers he still had, Lin Xiao felt he could try pushing for +10.
As for +11, without an Enhancement Protection Scroll, Lin Xiao would not consider it for now.
"Once I finish opening the remaining jars, I'll try enhancing it with the Enhancers I have."
With that thought, he could hardly wait.
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