Lin Yuan had, of course, come prepared.
After learning the basic rules of this Instance Tournament from the research institute, he had begun preparing for it.
The Life Bud he had unexpectedly obtained when discovering Healing Water was the foundation of those preparations.
Because the Life Bud could grow in any environment, pairing it with Healing Water, which accelerated plant growth, effectively gave him an inexhaustible supply of materials.
And because wood combined sturdiness, flexibility, and good compatibility with transcendent power, it had always been the finest all-purpose material on this Transcendent Sea.
Although wood from a Secondary Tree of Life was not as powerful as the main timber of a Tree of Life, it was still unquestionably high-grade wood material.
With top-tier raw materials like these, everything else became much easier.
After the journey to the East Pole Sea, Little Black had accumulated ample experience in machine design and could now design machines that used wood as their primary raw material to manufacture all sorts of equipment.
With the Divine Artisan Forge's help, these machines could produce powerful Transcendent Equipment entirely on their own, unlike other teams, which needed Artisans to craft it by hand.
Together, these factors gave Lin Yuan the confidence to choose whichever teleportation region he pleased.
That was why he had dared to consider only the number of Fog Zones when choosing, disregarding the effects of the region's terrain itself.
"Here's another barrel of Dragon's Blood. It can improve the quality of wood and give both the wood and anything made from it the ability to repair themselves."
"Use it as you see fit on the most critical parts of the base."
Lin Yuan handed the Dragon's Blood to Rose and the others and gave them some instructions.
Then he left the four of them