The cost of the Reforging Stone was extremely expensive. A single legendary grade Reforging Stone cost 500,000, and tens of thousands of forging fees had to be paid on top of it to reforge a weapon.

Aside from Apostles with an abundance of Lingxes to spend, regular people wouldn’t choose to reforge their weapons. Of course, inveterate gamblers aren’t considered regular.

There was no need for Lin Xun to pay the forging fee, but the cost of a 500,000-value Reforging Stone was unavoidable.

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[You have used the ’Legendary Grade Reforging Stone’ for the ’Shadow Slayer Fist Sword’ reforging process!]

[Estimated reforging time: 13 hours 13 minutes 25 seconds...]

[Do you want to proceed with the reforging?]

[Reforging weapon, please wait patiently...]

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The reforging time was half of the total forging time, but the forging fee charged by the ’Book of Trade’ was just as much as developing a whole new weapon.

It had to be said, the game devisers were shrewd business people, heartless and ruthless.

After waiting for most of the day, Lin Xun finally received good news.

[Equipment reforging successful!]

[You have received the ’Shadow Slayer Fist Sword’ (Legendary Grade Weapon)!]

[Due to the special effect of your forging tool ’Hammer of the Imperial Swordsmith’, this weapon has obtained a special skill!]

[’Shadow Slayer Fist Sword’ (Legendary Grade Weapon): ...]

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[Weapon Special Skill — ’Hidden Dragon Killing Chaos’: Upon activating this skill, a ’Shadow Slayer’ mark will appear on the designated enemy without alerting them, which you can choose to detonate at any time. When detonating the ’Shadow Slayer’ mark, you will vanish, not suffering any damage during this period, and then appear behind the enemy in an instant. Your next attack or skill will definitely cause up to 250% critical hit damage!]

[This skill can be released up to three times, and the ’Shadow Slayer’ mark can be stacked up to twice on the same enemy. The special skill of the weapon will reset when the Shell dies or refreshes.]

"Holy shit!"

Lin Xun stared wide-eyed, asking the ’Book of Trade’ to appraise this assassin’s artifact.

The ’Book of Trade’ suggested a selling price of 4.8 million Lingxes, which was much higher than that of his ’Rotating Stars Immortal Sword’.

This was just the suggested price. If he took this weapon to auction, given its awesome special skill, the selling price could rise even more.

"Now I understand how those people who are reluctant to give me materials to forge weapons feel."

"If a weapon of such caliber is actually forged, it would truly test someone’s heart."

Lin Xun sent the ’Shadow Slayer Fist Sword’ to his female boss.

Without much delay, he received a call from Li Xingyue.

"Lin Xun, you worked hard. I really like this weapon." The female boss was obviously very excited, "Did you forge the special skill in one go?"

"Of course. I’ve never lost to anyone when it comes to craftsmanship."

Li Xingyue said, "Great job! The value of the special skill alone is worth more than the entire weapon... How can I thank you?"

"You shouldn’t act like a stranger, boss."

"How could I? Let me think..."

"The innocent girl has nothing to give, but to repay you with my body?" Lin Xun couldn’t help but tease.

"In your dreams!" Li Xingyue on the other end of the phone scoffed, "Wait for another surprise I have for you after the election of disciples."

Li Xingyue hung up the phone and opened the game’s inventory, looking at the weapon’s description, the more she looked, the more she liked it.

The time Lin Xun took to forge the weapon far exceeded the usual duration.

Given his personality, he would certainly send it to her as soon as the weapon was done, and if the time was so long, it must have been due to an unexpected event.

Li Xingyue stared blankly at the weapon’s special skill, appearing to have realized something.

"A reforging, huh?" Her lips twitched into an unconscious smile, her eyes twinkling, "Playing hard to get..."