When they came out of the iron birch forest, the group was all smiles; their haul this time was truly bountiful.

"How many cores are there in total?" Little Fatty immediately came over, quite curious about the number of cores.

Jiang Yuan piled all the cores onto a flat area, counted them twice, and then said, "Not bad, the number of cores this time exceeded my expectations!"

He hadn't expected to kill all the shelled monsters in Iron Birch Forest. This was equivalent to clearing out all the monsters in an entire dungeon. He couldn't have had such a great haul!

"How many? Can we get a set of armor?" Little Fatty was eager to know the result, and his obsession with armor was the deepest among them. After all, the most important things for a shield warrior are a shield and a set of armor. As long as you have these two things, the shield warrior will have confidence.

"A set?" Jiang Yuan's expression changed. "You're so unambitious!"

"Could there be two more sets?" Little Fatty looked at Jiang Yuan uncertainly.

"Do you know how many cores we got this time?" Jiang Yuan smiled mysteriously.

"Do I need to ask if I already know? You've been keeping me in suspense!" Little Fatty was furious. He had asked several times already, and this guy was still keeping him in suspense.

Jiang Yuan held up two fingers and said, "This number!"

"Twenty?" Little Fatty guessed low.

Jiang Yuan shook his head!

"It can't be two hundred, can it?" Little Fatty said, uttering a number that even he himself didn't quite believe.

Based on the normal drop rate, you would need to kill at least two thousand monsters to get two hundred cores. However, with only Jiang Yuan busy all day, it was impossible for them to kill that many monsters.

Iron Birch Forest is not like other places. In this kind of place, the strong prey on the weak, and weak monsters will be quickly eaten by other monsters. Therefore, the fifth and sixth level monsters that remain here make up nearly half of the population. Even if Jiang Yuan is strong, human strength has its limits, and he simply cannot kill so many monsters.

"To be precise, it's two hundred and fifty!" Jiang Yuan said with a smile.

However, Little Fatty didn't know that Jiang Yuan had more than 500 cores in his possession. He just didn't want to shock the world, so he concealed half of the number. Otherwise, if he had revealed the number of 500, Little Fatty would probably have been stunned on the spot!

The Heavenly Eye talent can't be hidden for long, but Jiang Yuan can still keep it a secret for as long as possible. After all, he's not qualified to ignore all enemies yet. If someone with ulterior motives targets him, even with two divine skills, he won't be able to protect himself.

"So many!" Little Fatty didn't realize anything was wrong; he was simply amazed by the sheer number of cores.

"Let's activate it!" Jiang Yuan sat on the ground, preparing to activate the core. "Today's goal is clear: armor tattooing! So, let's see what we've gained!"

Jiang Yuan naturally took the lead in opening the core. He was the most reliable person to do this with his Heavenly Eye. However, what others did not know was that he had already filled the bottomless pit of treasure hunting with a huge number of Holy Spirit Stones, and his current supply of Holy Spirit Stones was severely insufficient.

One by one, the cores were activated. Jiang Yuan didn't care what the boxes would give out, because he had seen each core and knew what it should and shouldn't give out.

"Fragments of armor!"

"More armor fragments!"

"It's still a fragment of armor!"

The boxes kept opening, and exclamations of surprise kept coming. The fact that nearly one-fifth of the boxes contained fragments of armor completely stunned Little Fatty. He had never seen such a wild treasure-opening scene before.

"So this really is a special event for armor fragments!" Little Fatty looked at the armor fragments that kept appearing in his hand with suspicion. He couldn't figure out how there could be so many armor fragments.

"Shut up!" Leng Yue struggled to move the mountain of boxes. Just imagining how much space those two hundred boxes, each half a person tall, must take up was enough.

"I'll do the physical work!"

Little Fatty also had excellent eyesight. In no time, he threw the box that the core had conjured up a long distance away. This kind of box was made of spiritual energy and would disappear without a trace if left in the wild for a few days. It wouldn't pollute the environment, so he threw it away casually.

Jiang Yuan kept opening the cores, but after opening all 250 cores outside, he specifically selected a portion of the cores containing armor fragments, opened them, and took out the armor fragments.

The oath involves four people, which means four sets of armor. A basic set requires twelve armor fragments. Even if each set is made of spirit, soul, or other elements, it would still require thirty-six fragments. Considering the current average drop rate of armor fragments, forty-eight fragments would be far from enough to get a second set of duplicate armor.

After all, you can't just get whichever type of fragment you want, so Jiang Yuan's need for armor fragments is always better the more he has.

"Finally finished!"

Finally, when Jiang Yuan stopped, Little Fatty breathed a sigh of relief. He said happily, "Wow, I've never experienced such a wild treasure hunt before. What have we been doing for the past hour and a half?!"

"Don't make a fuss!" Jiang Yuan said calmly.

"You have no idea! I used to think that opening just one core was a great honor. But look at us now, we've opened so many cores in an hour and a half, I'm almost getting tired of it!" Little Fatty complained bitterly, but he complained with a bit of arrogance, and the smile on his face betrayed his true feelings.

"Aesthetic fatigue! I remember you looked at beautiful girls every day in school for more than three years and you still didn't get tired of them!" Jiang Yuan teased the chubby boy.

"Damn, you can't just say things like that! Especially in front of a beautiful lady like Leng, do you think your chubby brother is that kind of lewd person? Back then, all the beauties looked at me, I didn't look at anyone else, don't slander a scholar like me out of thin air!" Little Fatty's face changed, and he quickly told Jiang Yuan to shut up.

"You're getting impatient, you're getting impatient!" Jiang Yuan chuckled.

"Alright, stop fooling around. It's getting dark, and we need to go back after we're done tidying up!" Ning Yanlan said, trying to calm the two who were bickering.

Jiang Yuan stopped, then took out the armor fragments he had previously possessed, along with the armor fragments he had just opened in his personal space. "There are a total of fourteen armor fragments here, including those of the spiritual, physical, and spiritual elements!"

"These are the ones we just opened, they're all here. See if you can put together a few sets!" Little Fatty handed over the fragments of the armor he had just opened, leaving the other treasures aside for the time being.

Jiang Yuan took it and, after several rounds of counting, said, "Not bad!"

"How many sets of patterned armor can you collect?" Leng Yue asked impatiently.

"A total of sixty-four armor fragments, including twenty-seven earth armor fragments, twenty-five steel armor fragments, and twelve sky armor fragments!" Jiang Yuan separated the three types of armor fragments, his gaze falling on the sky armor. "Soul energy armor fragments are the rarest; you can't even put together a complete set without good luck!"

The distribution of the three elements—spiritual energy, soul energy, and spirit energy—is as normal: the strength element is the most abundant, followed by the spiritual energy element, while the soul energy element is the least abundant! The same applies to the tattooed armor!