35: The martial arts world is not just about fighting and killing; it's about human relationships and social interactions.

Sages Gift (Ring): gold legend.

Equip Requirement: Rank 10, Mage Class.

Effect 1: Spell Damage +500

Effect 2: Spell Critical Hit +35%

Effect 3: Casting Speed +1

Effect 4: movement speed +5

Effect 5: health Recovery Effect +50% (excluding percentage-based effects).

Effect 6: Casting Spell attacks carries Spell True Damage effect; True Damage = 10% of spell power.

Durability: 100

Holy shit!

Seeing the ring's attribute effects, Lin Yue was utterly shocked.

Following the first-kill of the Mechanical Minotaur King boss, the second piece of gold legendary equipment had appeared.

Combining Spell Damage, Spell Critical Hit, Casting Speed, and movement speed—all top-tier attributes—into one, all of Lin Yue's previous worries vanished.

Top-tier!

A definite top-tier item!

The most crucial special effect, Spell True Damage, had appeared here.

The so-called Spell True Damage means the same as Physical True Damage; damage dealt that ignores all defenses is collectively known as True Damage.

With this layer of True Damage, even if Lin Yue encountered the Apothecary again, this time, he was guaranteed to beat the crap out of him.

Even activating a Magic Shield wouldn't help.

This is the charm of True Damage; in one word, exhilarating!

In his past life, no one in the Novice Village had ever obtained gold legendary equipment, yet Lin Yue had obtained two at the very start of this life, making him invincible in the early stage.

Equipment is categorized by Rank: White Common, Blue Advanced, Purple Rare, gold legend, dark gold epic, black gold ancient, and red gold divine artifact.

Lin Yue hadn't encountered any Ranks higher than that in his past life; in fact, he had only wielded a dark gold epic staff.

Lin Yue felt refreshed all over; it seemed the last Treasure Trove was purely due to bad Luck, as the items from these two chests were both top-tier.

With the Luck bonus, the trait of Luck was also reflected in the Treasure Trove.

Next, his gaze turned to the king-tier talent reset stone.

As the name implies, it can reset a player's talent to King-level, which is truly Heaven-Defying.

Because aside from being able to reset talent at the start, the Drop Rate of talent reset stones in the Land of the Final End is extremely low—terrifyingly low.

Ordinary talent reset stones are useless, and the Drop Rate for Advanced reset stones is almost zero.

This is why during the Late Stage when the Invasion of Ten Thousand Races occurs, your talent determines your ultimate fate.

So when creating his character, Lin Yue would rather spend several hours and a hundred million to roll for a Hidden Talent, because there are almost no ways to obtain one in the Late Stage.

He never expected that the treasure of the gods would yield a King-level Talent Awakening Stone.

Lin Yue thought for a moment; he certainly didn't need it now, but Fatty and Old Bai would.

One of them has a Platinum Talent and the other a Gold Talent; giving them this king-tier talent reset stone would allow them to become strong quickly.

A pity there's only one; if only there were another!

Lin Yue thought greedily, unaware that being able to pull one out was already a stroke of extreme Luck from his ancestors.

Alright, quit while ahead.

Lin Yue contentedly put on the Sages Gift; the purple shadow set only requires 8 pieces to activate the Set Effect, meaning Lin Yue could still replace three Individual Pieces.

His Combat Power increased once again.

Lin Yue hummed a happy tune as he left Novice Village No. 4444.

The remaining four treasures of the gods were located in the Novice Villages with Repeating-digit Numbers: 5555, 7777, 8888, and 9999.

The mission progress for collecting all the treasures was already more than halfway complete.

Striking while the iron was hot, Lin Yue didn't head to Novice Village No. 5555, but instead went to Novice Village No. 8888.

This was the Novice Village where players in his past life had first discovered the treasure of the gods; just in case, Lin Yue planned to get the treasure from this village first before moving on to the remaining ones in order.

Entering the Novice Village, Lin Yue headed to the village Tavern.

The Proprietress, who still retained her charm, was attending to guests; upon seeing Lin Yue, her eyes lit up, and she pulled him in with a warm greeting.

"Oh my, young Adventurer, this equipment of yours is worth a fortune!"

Walking into the Inn, Lin Yue unhurriedly found a table, sat down, and poured himself a cup of coarse tea.

"Proprietress, has anything good happened in this village lately? Let's hear it."

"Oh, guest, in this ordinary Novice Village, what good news could there be?"

The Proprietress joked, her eyes fixed longingly on Lin Yue's backpack.

"A jug of drunken flower brew and two catties of beef."

He placed two silver coins on the table, and the Proprietress grinned so wide her wrinkles showed.

"Waiter, bring the food! You know, it just so happens there really is a happy event in the village."

"Go on."

"It's quite strange; Widow Wang from the east end of the village married Hunter Li. Who knows what merit they accumulated in their past lives, but on their wedding day, an Auspicious Beast actually ran down from the back mountain. This Auspicious Beast was carrying a gold coin in its mouth; it spat the coin onto the ground and then vanished."

"Oh?"

Lin Yue nodded, put the beef and drunken flower brew served by the Waiter into his backpack, and smiled at the Proprietress:

"Thank you, Proprietress. I shall take my leave then."

With that, he left another silver coin on the table.

"Adventurer, come back often!"

With the silver coin in hand, the Proprietress was as warm as fire, watching Lin Yue leave with reluctance.

"Ding! You have received a clue regarding the Auspicious Beast."

Lin Yue's eyes narrowed slightly; this Auspicious Beast was the key to unlocking the treasure of the gods in Novice Village No. 8888.

Walking from the Tavern to the Hunter's house, before he even reached the door, he saw a dark-skinned middle-aged man coming out with a longbow.

"Wife, I'm heading up the mountain; I'll be back soon."

"You old devil, come back early."

"..."

Newlyweds are nice; they're stuck together like glue.

Lin Yue smiled slightly and stopped the Hunter.

"Adventurer, what is this?"

The Hunter looked at Lin Yue warily, his hand already reaching for the longbow on his back.

"Don't misunderstand, brother. I heard about your recent wedding and brought a small gift to congratulate you."

Lin Yue pulled out the drunken flower brew and the beef. The Hunter's eyes went wide, and he immediately pulled Lin Yue into the house.

"Little brother, there was no need for gifts! Wow, isn't this beef from the Minotaurs in the Gloomy Ruins? Good stuff! And this drunken flower brew... you're very thoughtful."

Though his mouth said no, his body was very honest; the Hunter happily accepted the items and called Widow Wang to taste them together.

Lin Yue smiled slightly; even NPCs couldn't escape the ways of the world.

"Adventurer, your strength is quite impressive. Tell me, what else do you need from me?"

Having accepted the food, the Hunter wasn't foolish; he could see Lin Yue had business with him.

Lin Yue didn't waste words and got straight to the point: "I want to know where the Auspicious Beast is."

As the words fell, the Hunter, who was eating beef, paused and examined Lin Yue seriously. After a while, he took a sip of the drunken flower brew and said:

"Very well, perhaps your strength can earn its recognition. I will take you there."

"Ding! You have gained the Hunter's recognition. You have acquired the quest: Find the Auspicious Beast."

"Quest Penalty: None."

"Quest Reward: None"