373: I'll stake my life on it! And get top marks again!

"Brother Bai, forget it! We wouldn't dare get involved in the grudge between you and Brother Zhang Ke!" Liu Yilong tugged at Bai Tianyu's robe, advising him in a low voice.

Uncle Sun immediately backed down.

They had already decided to retreat.

The animosity between Bai Tianyu and Zhang Ke was well-known within the Mist Survivors Guild.

It was an old grudge.

As a Deacon, Zhang Ke's status was one rank higher than theirs as Guide Envoys.

Liu Yilong and Uncle Sun had no backing, so they naturally dared not get involved.

Bai Tianyu looked at the promotion token Zhang Ke took out, his eyes filled with fanaticism.

He said to Zhang Ke, "Brother Zhang, you're really willing to part with it!"

"Hehe! I just want to strike you down! I just want to seize all your resources! I just want to devour you!" Zhang Ke laughed, looking at Bai Tianyu and pressing, "Junior Brother Bai, if you don't follow through, regardless of the outcome of this gamble, everything you've pledged will be mine! Hahaha!"

The reason he dared to be so arrogant was because in the Survivor Guild, whether it was a Survivor or a Spirit Servant like them, any transaction or bet had to be fair.

What is fair?

It means the value of both parties' stakes must be equal.

If one party's value is lower than the other's, then the mist rule will directly judge the lower-valued party as a failure.

Overall, it means that to bet in the Guild, the assets of both betting parties must be equal; otherwise, it would be giving money to the other party for free.

Only with equal assets are they qualified to enter a real gamble.

Zhang Ke became a Spirit Servant of the mist rule a thousand years before Bai Tianyu, so he naturally accumulated more than Bai Tianyu.

"Bet! I, Bai Tianyu, will bet this life and all my resources with you!" Bai Tianyu also became ruthless, speaking directly.

These words startled Zhang Ke.

He then laughed, "Good! Good! Good! Your life is indeed worth this promotion token!"

...And at this moment,

"Buzz!" Su Lie arrived in a completely enclosed room.

The room had no doors or windows; only a moonlight pearl on the dome illuminated it.

At this moment, a prompt appeared in Su Lie's vision.

"Welcome, Su Lie! Next, you will undergo the first Treasure Refining trial!"

"Please select the type of treasure you wish to refine: 1. Elixir; 2. Armor; 3. Weapon; 4. Building; 5. Other types of items." Su Lie immediately chose after reading: "Elixir!"

"Buzz!" The next second, a new prompt appeared in Su Lie's vision.

"Please select the treasure you want to refine: 1. strength god pill; 2. speed god pill."

"Note: Materials for refining treasures are provided by the mist rule."

"Note: If you have a Treasure Refining tool that matches your profession, you can use it to complete the task."

"Note: You only have one chance to summon a Treasure Refining furnace."

"Note: Please complete the Treasure Refining requirements within the specified time limit."

"Note: After your selection, the Treasure Refining recipe will become your Permanent Treasure Refining blueprint."

Su Lie looked at the prompt before him, thought, and made his choice: "I choose the strength god pill!"

The reason for choosing this divine pill is that the strength attribute is directly related to unarmed damage; it is the only attribute that can cause substantial damage to monsters.

Buzz! The next second, a blueprint for the strength god pill appeared in Su Lie's Permanent Treasure Refining blueprint library.

Su Lie looked at this blueprint.

"strength god pill: Red God-level Quality; Refining Materials: 100 kg of god-tier fierce beast meat, 10 liters of god-tier fierce beast blood, 1000 level 5 monster crystals, 1 star moon grass, 1 yellow rainbow. Success Rate: 50%; Efficacy: Increases Strength attribute by 5 million points. Note: The strength god pill can only be used once per life."

"Good stuff! Good stuff!" Su Lie immediately laughed, "The refining success rate is useless to me now!"

And at this moment, a light flashed on the empty ground before him.

A storage ring materialized on the floor, and next to it was a small sacrificial array.

Su Lie saw a prompt.

"Buzz!" "Treasure Refining Task Requirement: Within 12 hours, refine 10 billion strength god pills, and place them into the storage ring to sacrifice to the mist rule. The task can be completed after judgment."

"Countdown begins: 11:59:59" Su Lie's eyelids twitched after reading, and he grabbed the storage ring.

He saw that the ring contained all the materials needed to refine 10 billion strength god pills.

Su Lie's eyelids twitched: "If I use the Purple Gold Eight Treasures Furnace to refine these elixirs, wouldn't I get 200 trillion strength god pills?"

Thinking of this, he dared not delay, and directly communicated with the Purple Gold Eight Treasures Furnace of the Great Joy Tower in his territory.

Buzz! The next second, the Purple Gold Eight Treasures Furnace was summoned into the room.

Su Lie poured all the resources from the ring into the elixir furnace, then entered the Permanent Treasure Refining blueprint library and selected the strength god pill.

Since he had already put a spiritual flame in as fuel for the elixir furnace when he arrived, he didn't need to add another now.

Buzz! A dozen seconds later, under the special effects and passive Skill blessings of Su Lie's Purple Gold Eight Treasures Furnace, all the medicinal materials for these 10 billion strength god pills had been refined into strength god pills.

When Su Lie's Spirit touched the Purple Gold Eight Treasures Furnace, a prompt appeared in his vision.

"Buzz!" "Congratulations on successfully triggering the Treasure Refining critical strike of the Purple Gold Eight Treasures Furnace! This Treasure Refining has yielded a total of 200 trillion strength god pills!" Su Lie quickly opened the furnace.

Buzz! A long river of elixirs flew out of the furnace.

Su Lie directly guided this long river into the storage ring in his hand.

Finally, he took out a strength god pill and examined it carefully.

He saw that the strength god pill was a god-tier elixir, exactly as shown on the blueprint.

The reason he could achieve 100% success in Treasure Refining was due to the Purple Gold Eight Treasures Furnace's passive Skill, which grants a ten thousandfold increase in Treasure Refining success rate.

Therefore, this trial was nothing to him.

"Good!" Su Lie excitedly put the elixir into the ring.

Just as he was about to place the ring on the sacrificial array, Su Lie's hand trembled slightly.

A strong thought and greed surged in his mind.

"Since the task rule requires refining 10 billion elixirs... I only need to sacrifice 10 billion strength god pills!"

"The other elixirs... I can use them to benefit my subordinates and Enhance my Vassals!"

"I can also sell them to other Survivors in the Guild to earn more resources!"

...This intense thought influenced his mind.

And at this moment, his rationality attribute value was dropping little by little.

"No!" Suddenly, Su Lie shook off the greedy thoughts in his mind: "This place is only monitored by the mist rule, and all my gains are seen by the rules!"

"Although it stipulated that 10 billion strength god pills must be refined, in the end, it is not judged by the number of divine pills... but requires identification by the mist rule to determine whether the mission is successfully passed!"

"And what is the mist rule's identification? Honesty? Elixir refining speed? Or..." Thinking of this, he gripped the ring in his hand: "I have already obtained the blueprint for refining the strength god pill. After leaving, as long as I get the other materials, I can refine this divine pill!"

"There's no need to get a bad evaluation because of these resources now!" After understanding, Su Lie made a choice.

At this moment, his rationality value automatically returned to 100 points.

Buzz! When the ring landed on the sacrificial array, a light emanated from the array.

"Buzz!" A line of text condensed in the light.

"Congratulations on successfully completing this Treasure Refining trial mission!" "Trial Evaluation: A+!" ... "Because you received an A+ evaluation in the Treasure Refining trial, a rule reward has been triggered!"

"Reward: 100 star moon grass seeds!" "Phew! Indeed!" Su Lie's heart skipped a beat, realizing he had guessed correctly.

This stage not only tested the ability to refine treasures but also tested whether a Refiner could withstand temptation.

As he pondered, a portal to the second stage appeared.

Su Lie looked down at the star moon grass seeds in his hand.

"star moon grass seeds: red god-tier; god-tier plant, can grow star moon grass after planting. star moon grass can be used for elixir refining, and when consumed alone, it can purify pollution and slightly increase the Strength attribute value."

"Not bad!" Su Lie smiled slightly, putting the seeds into his ruyi pouch.

Then, he stepped into the portal leading to the second stage.

Buzz! The next second, Su Lie stood in a grand hall with twelve portals.

And at this moment, the prompt that Su Lie had completed the first stage and entered the second stage materialized on the stone tablet outside the Class Change Hall.

"He's in the second stage!" At the entrance of the Class Change Hall, Sun Bai exclaimed in surprise.

Liu Yilong, eyes wide, pointed at the stone tablet and cried out, "A+!" The other Spirit Servants gathered around were all stunned, turning to look at the stone tablet.

"Holy crap! It really is A+!"

"Awesome! This must be the only A+ in the last decade!"

"Don't rush! Don't rush! He's only in the first stage!"

"This kid is a bit stronger than I was back then, I hope he can pass!" ...Amidst the discussions, Bai Tianyu and Zhang Ke, who were bickering, both paused.

They simultaneously turned their heads to look at the stone tablet next to the hall.

The lowest layer of the three layers of light on the stone tablet was now glowing golden, indicating that Su Lie had completed the first trial, and with the highest A+ evaluation.

This made Bai Tianyu secretly sigh in relief: "Su Lie! Su Lie! You truly are my lucky star!" Zhang Ke, after seeing it, scornfully sneered, "What's that worth! There are still two stages left. Even if he's a genius in the beginning, if he fails in the third stage, it's still a failure! By then, don't blame me for taking your life with my own hands! Hahahaha!"

And at this moment, a young Taoist walked to Zhang Ke's ear.

After he whispered a few words, Zhang Ke's smile became even more rampant.

He looked at Bai Tianyu and said excitedly, "Tianyu! Your fate is mine! Just wait to become a true puppet!" Their bodies and souls as servants had long been sold to the mist rule; the only thing they could still influence was their 'fate.' This 'fate' was not about their lives, but their destiny.

Once lost, they would be unable to control their own destinies, becoming servants 100% controlled by the mist rule.

And after losing their fate, the thoughts and consciousness of such servants would dissipate.

Zhang Ke had finally seized such an opportunity, his goal being to completely eliminate Bai Tianyu, because Bai Tianyu was his only enemy in the Mist Survivors Guild!

"Hmm?" Bai Tianyu's eyes narrowed after hearing this, and the light and shadow in his hand flickered, a Rune appearing and disappearing in thin air.

Soon, a voice sounded in Bai Tianyu's ear.

This made Bai Tianyu's face slightly serious, and he suddenly looked up at Zhang Ke and said, "Despicable! You are indeed as despicable and shameless as ever!"

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