[Me: Consider it a gift to congratulate you on finally reaching 100 Combat Power.]
Ye Fei could guess that this Junior Schoolmate had entered the World Channel and was hurrying to learn what was going on.
He was actually rather helpless about making someone supply their own materials for a gift, too. After all, he was so poor now that he only had a little over ten thousand points left.
[Grassland/0090-1144-3656 (Lu Heng): Then I won't stand on ceremony, Senior. Thanks for the effort!]
Lu Heng quickly bought the materials and sent them to Ye Fei through a designated transfer, then, blushing a little, truly prepared to latch onto his powerful backer.
He had no choice, either. Poverty limited what he could do. Even if he wanted to pay a processing fee, he had neither money nor materials left.
With only seven hundred-odd points remaining, Lu Heng sat on his Homestead's Courtyard Wall, passively resigning himself to doing nothing.
[Me: You'll see the result by dinnertime. Save up some spiritual energy. Refining a magical artifact for your use consumes spiritual energy.]
Ye Fei accepted the materials, went beneath the tree, opened the Artifact Refining Furnace, and put them all inside.
He converted some of the Homestead's Stored Energy, consuming over thirty thousand energy.
"Don't advance in rank this time, either. Just refine the current materials as thoroughly as possible. We're out of money, and we can't afford to pour more materials into you after an advancement..."
Leaning against the Artifact Refining Furnace, Ye Fei patted it with a hand wreathed in spiritual energy and roughly laid out his expectations.
The recipe was still the Windbreaking Blade, but the materials had gone up a grade. All the purple materials had been upgraded to orange quality, and after refining them to their