Crafting equipment was incredibly time-consuming. If he focused on commissioned crafting, he would hardly have time to tackle Chapters and elevate his own strength.

His train of thought was clear; Spirituality was important, it could buy top-grade equipment and items, but it absolutely couldn’t buy a Shell!

Even if he saved enough Spirituality to buy divine equipment, it would be futile without a compatible Shell.

Lin Xun’s goal wasn’t to make money, but to improve his own strength by earning Spirituality. If the goal of earning Spirituality conflicted with self-improvement, he would undoubtedly choose the latter.

The current small-batch orders hit right where he wanted. He could make a little extra by crafting equipment, solving the urgent issue of insufficient Spirituality, and once he had the required Spirituality, he could advance to the next difficulty level and continue to enhance his strength.

Commissioned forging was only the first piece of information from Li Xingyue. The real deal was the second one.

The New World organization was about to hold the competition for the twelfth disciple!

Just like before, the election involved all the disciple candidates entering the ’Easter Egg Chapter’.

If everything went as usual, the Easter Egg Chapter would follow the brutal and bloody ’Slaughter Mode’.

To become the twelfth disciple, one must defeat all competitors.

According to Li Xingyue, the twelfth-disciple seat was usually reserved for those at the end, composed mostly of five-difficulty Apostles, but also included a few four-difficulty and six-difficulty Apostles.

The competition for the last seat wasn’t as intense as that for the seats in the middle or top. It was said that the lowest level of the main contestants for the top disciple seat in the New World was seven, with some eight-difficulty Apostles participating.

Li Xingyue said, "Indeed, you are very strong among the five-difficulty level, but never underestimate the higher-difficulty Apostles."

"Due to the danger of the Slaughter Mode in the Easter Egg Chapter, there is no room for carelessness or indifference. I have already applied for a tool from headquarters. If you cannot persist, never take risks, decisively use this tool to leave the Easter Egg Chapter."

"The twelve-disciple election is not as important as you!"

Saying this, Li Xingyue materialized a thin, long strip of a bookmark.

[’Escape Bookmark’: No matter what dangers the Apostle is in, use this bookmark and you can immediately return to the Library.]

[Please note that using this bookmark is equivalent to ending the Chapter, and the Apostle cannot re-enter the escaped Chapter!]

The female superior believed in his strength, but continuously stressed caution and care. Even if he didn’t succeed, that doesn’t matter, what’s important was to ensure his own safety. Her words overflowed with deep concern.

He didn’t act carelessly, promising her boldly that he would secure the disciple’s position, instead, he solemnly accepted this rare and valuable bookmark.

"Team leader, don’t worry, I will surely return unscathed!"

Seeing his seriousness, Li Xingyue finally relaxed, then gave him a playful look, "Don’t make promises so casually... I’ll send the crafting materials and blueprints to you later."

"Alright, there’s nothing else in the unit, continue to take your leave."

"Remember to inform Amos about breaching the seal, he’s the eleventh disciple, he participated in the disciple elections, he must have more precise information..."

Lin Xun agreed to all her points, then stood up, bid farewell to his superior, and left the Intelligence Team building.

Watching his departing back, Li Xingyue sighed, "Once he secures the position of the last disciple, he will leave Wencheng and join the headquarters."

"Wencheng is too small to contain him in the end..."

Li Xingyue stood up and walked to the window. The hustle and bustle of the city was just like yesterday as she murmured, "Maybe it’s time for me to leave too..."

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When Lin Xun reentered the game, it was already the next day in the evening.

’Imperial Swordsmith’ finally finished crafting the exclusive weapon for ’Star Lord Canis’.

During the forging, Lin Xun could not browse the ’Book of Letters’ to accept the forging orders sent by his superior.

Not to mention entering the Disciple’s Sanctuary to contact his male superior ’Amos’.

[Equipment successfully crafted!]

[You have obtained ’Rotating Stars Immortal Sword’ (Legendary Grade Weapon)!]

[Due to the special effects of your forging tool ’Hammer of the Imperial Swordsmith’, this weapon gains a special skill when equipped!]

[’Rotating Stars Immortal Sword’ (Legendary Grade Weapon): A skyward sword forged from numerous precious materials. The Big Dipper and a particularly dazzling star, known as the Star Lord Canis, are inscribed on the blade!]

[It is a weapon that adapts to your will, wavering in size under the control of ’True Element’. It can shrink to the size of a silver needle, hiding under your tongue or within your ear, or enlarge to an earth-shattering giant sword, destroying everything with a single swipe.]

[Using ’True Element’ type energy can greatly enhance the weapon’s attack power and slightly increase the speed of your Sword Flight.]

[Weapon Special Skill - ’One Sword Freezing Fourteen States’: Releasing this skill requires a certain time to gather energy so that your next sword strike has a ’Formation-breaking’ effect! It converts a single-target attack into an unchanged multi-target attack and can cause extra damage to defensive magical techniques.]

"Custom-made exclusive weapons are truly badass!"

Standard weapons dropped by monsters have a slightly higher chance of having special skills than exclusive weapons, but overall the chance of Legendary Grade weapons having special skills is not high.

This Legendary Grade weapon not only enhances attack power, but also increases Sword Flight’s speed, and it even has a group damage skill ’One Sword Freezing Fourteen States’ along with a ’Formation-breaking’ effect.

The ’Sumeru Mustard Seed’ that Lin Xun had previously obtained could only transform the weapon according to the size of his own shell.

If Star Lord Canis did not master a similar ability to ’Earth as it is in Heaven’, ordinary weapons would seem like toys against large monsters.

This weapon is adaptive to combat situations, able to transform into a giant sword to attack enemies. It is indeed a rare Excalibur type flying sword.

Lin Xun liked it the more he looked at it, even materializing the flying sword in the real world.

The sword was so cold and sharp, the temperature in the rental house plummeted as soon as it was materialized.

The sword body had seven dazzling stars arranged in the shape of a ladle, just by looking at the appearance you could tell it was an immortal treasure.

Unfortunately, Lin Xun did not possess any True Element, unable to alter the size of the flying sword, he could only take advantage of Star Lord Canis’s shell to indulge.

One moment he shrank the flying sword down to the length of a fingernail, the next moment he enlarged it so much that it almost broke through the living room wall.

After playing around with it for a while, he finally nodded with satisfaction and sent the flying sword back to the game.

Without another word, Lin Xun moved the flying sword into Star Lord Canis’s equipment slot.

[You have equipped the ’Rotating Stars Immortal Sword’ (Legendary Grade Weapon)!]

[You’ve become even more powerful!]

After sorting out Star Lord Canis’s weapon, Lin Xun planned to forge a weapon for the ’Nine-Tailed Fox’.

The ’Nine-Tailed Fox’, as his most powerful combat force at the moment, had been casting spells empty-handed, while Lin Xun had purchased weapons for his other summons, including ’Valkyrie’ and ’Sly Ghost’, even the weakest ’Snow Woman’.

In order to be fair, the ’Nine-Tailed Fox’ obviously couldn’t go into battle empty-handed.

As for the Three-headed Lion... it did not have the ability to equip items, otherwise Lin Xun would even go so far as to get it an item.

Now, he only had 580,000 Spiritual Energy left, not enough to forge a weapon, he would first have to earn some money through crafting, save up enough Spiritual Energy and then forge a weapon for the Nine-Tailed Fox.

Clicking on the ’Book of Letters’, he collected materials and blueprints sent by his female boss.

There were four blueprints in total, three for weapons, and one for armor.

According to the contents of the blueprint, the ’Imperial Swordsmith’ can create exclusive weapons.

According to the price set with his female boss, the forging fee for the equipment is one-tenth of the total price of the equipment, which is a bit cheaper than the ’Book of Craftsman’.

If a special skill is generated, the forging fee will be doubled!

He possessed the ’Imperial Swordsmith’ and found that the forging time for each item was not the same. The Heart-protecting Mirror took the shortest time, more than 24 hours. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

The forging of the rest weapons exceeded this time, with the longest taking just over thirty hours.

Lin Xun sighed heavily and stopped his work.

He decided to first report to Amos about the completion of the level, and by the way ask about the easter egg rules of the ’Slaughter Mode’.