"Wow! Boss Qin Feng is selling tier-1 weapons!"
"Holy shit! And he's selling them in bulk! Boss Qin Feng, where did you strike it rich? How do you have so many tier-1 weapons?"
"I know why Boss Qin Feng's name has been gray all this time. He must be hiding somewhere secret, forging equipment there. He probably forged all those tier-1 weapons himself."
"Oh, right! I was wondering why Boss Qin Feng wanted to buy tier-0 novice daggers."
"Boss Qin Feng, did you awaken a blacksmith talent?"
"To the person above, how could it be a blacksmith talent when Boss Qin Feng produced so many tier-1 weapons this quickly? He must have awakened a divine smith talent!"
"Who cares about all that? I just want a tier-1 weapon now!"
"Boohoo! I want one too! I'm so jealous of everyone with a tier-1 weapon!"
"But I have nothing to trade! Boss Qin Feng, could you give me one? Please!"
Just then, Qin Feng sent another message.
Qin Feng: "You can trade three level-4 ferocious beast corpses for one steel blade, or one level-5 ferocious beast corpse!"
Boom!
The chat erupted into an uproar again.
"Holy shit! Just three level-4 ferocious beast corpses can get you one!"
"My God! One level-5 ferocious beast corpse works too! That's so tempting!"
"Boohoo! Too bad I can't even beat a level-3 ferocious beast, let alone level-4 or level-5 ones."
"Boss Qin Feng, you're way too far ahead of us!"
"Big Brother Qin Feng, do you want a wife? Just give me a steel blade as a betrothal gift, and I'm yours."
Reading this, Qin Feng smiled without a word.
His next goal was to head straight to the level-6 ferocious beast area and kill level-6 ferocious beasts.
He couldn't be bothered to kill level-3 to level-5 ferocious beasts himself, so he wanted to use these trades to have others deliver their corpses to him.
He immediately left the chat channel, entered the trading channel, and listed those thirteen steel blades for sale.
[Notice: Liu Xuan traded tier-1 equipment-Strength Bracelet-for your tier-1 Fine Steel Blade.]
Huh!
He had only just listed them, and one had already sold.
Qin Feng was pleasantly surprised.
He hurried into his personal trading page and retrieved the item.
The next second, white light flashed.
A black bracelet appeared in his hand. Its material was neither gold nor iron, and strange runes were carved into it. It looked sleek and cool.
That was the Strength Bracelet.
[Strength Bracelet: +7 strength, tier-1 equipment.]
"Nice! Nice! Another piece of equipment!"
Delighted, Qin Feng hurriedly put it on.
An invisible force spread from the bracelet throughout his body.
He immediately felt his strength surge.
The sensation was incredibly refreshing.
At the same time, his strength stat appeared in his mind.
[Strength]: 91+7
After reading it, Qin Feng understood. The +7 after his strength stat came from his equipment.
Of his four stats, strength was the lowest.
Now that he had this bracelet, it made up for that weakness somewhat.
He now had three pieces of equipment: a tier-1 Strength Bracelet, a tier-1 Storage Ring, and the tier-2 Blood Wolf War Blade.
No one in the entire novice village could compare!
In fact, 90 percent of the people didn't even have a single piece of tier-1 equipment.
"Time to set out!"
With a cigarette between his lips, Qin Feng slung the Blood Wolf War Blade over his back and prepared to leave...
Just then, the Heavenly Dao issued a notification.
[Emergency announcement: Novice Village No. 137 has activated a Wager Token, forcibly connecting to Novice Village No. 911 and initiating a resource wager!]
Novice Village No. 911?
Wasn't that his own novice village?
A resource wager?
What did that mean?
The Heavenly Dao issued another notification.
[Resource wager: The losing side will have all resources halved, and everyone will lose 20 stat points. The winning side will have all resources doubled, and everyone will gain 20 stat points.]
Boom!
Everyone was stunned by the news.
Holy shit!
This was actually a huge gamble over resources!
Losing would carry a very severe penalty!
What on earth was Novice Village No. 137 doing?
At that moment, everyone in Novice Village No. 911 panicked...
Just then, the Heavenly Dao's notifications sounded again.
[Competition objective: The first novice village to produce a level-5 powerhouse will win this wager.] [Notice: The first person to reach level 5 and win this wager will receive an additional reward of 50 stat points and one Silver Treasure Chest.] [Notice: The chat channels of the two novice areas are being linked...]
Holy shit!
Something like this could actually happen!
Stunned, Qin Feng hurried into the chat channel.
At that moment, the chat channel was in complete uproar...
"Holy shit! What's going on? What is Novice Village No. 137 doing?"
"Damn it! They're actually challenging us to a resource wager! If we lose, we're screwed! Everyone will lose 20 stat points!"
"Boohoo! Boohoo! I'm only level 1, and all my stats combined don't even add up to 40 points. If I lose 20 stat points, how am I supposed to live?"
"Sigh! Miss, that's not even the scariest part. The scary part is that the losing side gets all its resources halved. How are we supposed to pass the novice assessment then?"
"Holy shit! With our resources halved, our leveling speed will definitely plummet! Then most of us won't be able to pass the novice assessment!"
"We're doomed! We're doomed this time! I don't want to die yet!"
"Hey, you above! Don't panic yet! We haven't lost!"
"Exactly! The competition hasn't even started, and you're all already being so pessimistic."
"Right! The objective is to see which novice village produces a level-5 powerhouse first. Who in our Novice Village No. 911 is closest?"
"Do you even have to ask? Boss Liu Xuan, of course!"
"Yes! It's Boss Liu Xuan! Whether our Novice Village No. 911 can win this time depends on him."
"Boss Liu Xuan, every villager is counting on you! You have to lead our novice village to victory!"
At that moment, everyone's hopes rested on Liu Xuan.