A divine breath fell on Assam.

Cao Xing felt that the knight's aura was growing rapidly.

After a while, a powerful aura burst out from him!

A system prompt appears.

[Your territory member: Asam has received the blessing from the Lady of the Lake and has successfully upgraded to a Tier 3 boss creature. All attributes have increased by 30%, and he has learned a new skill: Glory Praise]

[Glory Praise: After activating this skill, all attacks in the next 100 seconds will have 50% light attribute attacks attached to them, and each attack will cause five negative states to the enemy in sequence: armor -20%, attack power -20%, movement speed -20%, attack speed -20%, hit rate -20%.

When a single enemy has 5 negative states at the same time, all negative states will be detonated, causing 150% light damage to the enemy. Skill cooldown time: 10 minutes.

…

“What the hell!”

Upon seeing the attributes of [Glory and Praise], Cao Xing exclaimed in amazement.

He was shocked on the spot.

Every five attacks, it deals 150% explosion damage, plus 50% light attribute attack.

This is equivalent to directly increasing Assam's output capacity several times!

The most important thing is that this skill is still in a continuous state.

In other words, it has a high probability of being enhanced by [Eternal Power] and becoming permanent!

"Isn't it too fierce?" Cao Xing sighed.

With this skill, Assam's output capacity is likely to be on par with Andrew, or even surpass him!

At this moment, the Lady of the Lake continued, "You have passed three of the five tests."

"And the last two are generosity and bravery."

"But these two virtues cannot be demonstrated through words, only through actions."

"So next, please help five people who really need help and prove your generosity."

"Then, kill a beast one level stronger than you by yourself to prove your heroic character."

The goddess in the lake looked at Cao Xing.

"As this knight's lord, you can assist him in completing this mission."

"Of course, you can also choose to end it here."

The next moment, a system prompt appeared.

[Do you accept the trial mission of the goddess of the lake? ]

Seeing the system prompt, Cao Xing sighed.

"This trial of the Lady of the Lake is really troublesome..."

It took a lot of effort to complete the first three tests.

In the last two trials, he was asked to take on tasks.

However, Cao Xing also knew that this was normal.

After all, this involves a complete legendary weapon, which is more powerful than the broken Magdel in his hand.

Speaking of which——

The difficulty of the prerequisite tasks for starting this Knight Trial is off the charts.

The first thing is that you need a snow demon tongue of at least leader level.

This one item alone has stumped countless people!

Then comes the second difficulty.

The goal is to catch king salmon.

You need a fishing rod of at least gold quality, and it must be strong enough.

After all, the king salmon's strength in the water is terrifying, and it can also spray a very deadly water column.

If it weren't for Qinong, a powerful man whose exact strength was unknown, they could only watch the King Salmon escape, and they might even be wiped out.

The third difficulty is releasing the king salmon.

This is also a test that tests one's heart very much.

Under normal circumstances, if Cao Xing hadn't known about it in advance, he would never have let the king salmon go.

And Cao Xing, after a series of coincidences, successfully opened this knight trial.

Now, after Assam's efforts, he has passed the first three tests.

It has come to this point, Cao Xing will definitely not give up.

So, he just clicked accept.

At the same time, a system prompt appears.

[Successfully accepted the mission: The Five Virtues Trial of the Lake Goddess]

[Mercy, honor, and wisdom tests have been completed, the remaining: generosity, heroic tests have not been completed. ]

[Trial of Generosity: Help 5 people who really need help. Current progress: 0/5]

[Heroic Trial: Have the Assam Knight kill a creature of the same level with a strength of more than 10 levels alone. Current progress: 0/1]

…

Seeing the task prompt, Cao Xing thought for a moment.

"Help 5 people in need, and kill a boss creature 10 levels higher than Assam?"

These two trial tasks are both difficult and easy.

After all, thanks to Cao Xing's various blessings, Assam should have the strength to fight against opponents of higher levels.

The difficulty lies in how to find the right opponent.

There is also this [Trial of Generosity], which helps 5 people who really need help.

How would Cao Xing know who the hell is the person who really needs help?

But now that it has come to this, we can only take it one step at a time.

At the same time.

The enchanting goddess of the lake whispered, "When you have completed the remaining two trials, you can come to Snowfall Lake and call me again. I will then give you the legendary weapon: Alondigit."

"Good luck to you..."

After saying this, she sank into the lake again.

The crowd was left staring at each other.

After becoming the leader, Assam came back and stood respectfully beside Cao Xing.

Cao Xing praised: "Well done, Asam."

Others also expressed encouragement to Assam.

Asam humbly said: "It was the Lord's encouragement that gave me strong confidence, so I was able to pass these two tests."

At this moment, Qinong said, "Lord Cao Xing, the knights chosen by the goddess of the lake in the past generations will become famous throughout the Ice Crystal Kingdom in the near future."

"As the lord of this knight, I have a feeling that it won't be long before I hear your name again."

With a slightly emotional look on his face, he looked at Cao Xing.

Cao Xing smiled and said, "Mr. Qinong, you are joking."

"It's getting late now. You should go back and take care of your wife as soon as possible."

It took them more than seven hours from the time they set out to fish in Snow Lake in the morning to the end of the trial.

There was only one hour left before dark.

Qinong nodded and said, "You are right, Lord Cao Xing. I will go back to take care of my wife next."

"With the golden salmon you gave me today, my wife should be able to regain her strength."

"Next, I will take her to the main city of Everfrost, and we will probably settle there in the future."

"One day in the future, if Lord Cao Xing comes to Yongshuang City, you can come find me. I will definitely have a drink with you."

Hearing this, Cao Xing nodded and said, "Okay, I also look forward to the day when I can meet Master Qinong again."

After saying that, both parties left.

Looking at the old figure of Qinong.

Cao Xing always had a premonition that one day in the future they might meet again.

When Qinong disappeared from everyone's sight.

Cao Xing glanced at the temperature and countdown above his head.

【Current temperature: -53℃】

[Countdown to nightfall: 1:13…]

Cao Xing chuckled and said, "Let's go. It's getting dark. We should go back."

"As you command, Lord!"

The group of people marched forward towards the destination in a mighty manner.

As for the wild beasts on Luoxue Lake, they had all been scared away by the noise of the goddess appearing in the lake.

This made Cao Xing's idea of ​​slaughtering some wild animals for an extra meal tonight go awry.

However, his harvest today was already quite amazing!

On the way, Cao Xing was also summarizing today's work.

First of all, the biggest gain is naturally the [Crazy Fishing Rod] in my hand.

As an epic item, its value is almost limitless!

This is also the third epic prop Cao Xing has obtained.

Then, the nearly 12-kilogram [Golden Salmon] had been slaughtered by Cao Xing and cut into fish meat.

A total of 11 pieces of [golden salmon meat] were obtained.

It sounds like a small amount, but if it is sold at 100g, a total of 110 portions can be sold.

But the price of this thing is too high.

It is estimated that there are few survivors in the entire 174th District who can afford it.

After that, there were 11 silver salmon, about 92 kilograms.

In total, 87 pieces of [Silver Salmon Meat] were decomposed, which is a total of 870 portions.

Worth at least 170,000 Ice Dragon Marks!

The remaining blue and green quality fish are pretty good.

All together, it can be sold for tens of thousands of Ice Dragon Marks.

In other words, these catches alone are worth at least two golden treasure chests.

Liu Muxue, who was behind them, also knew how much they had gained this time.

She was a little excited and asked, "Ah Xing, are we going to the market to trade this time?"

After thinking for a moment, Cao Xing smiled and said, "Let's talk about it tomorrow."

"There are only 30,000 people in District 174 right now, and I guess they don't have many good things on hand."

"After the merger tomorrow, people from all 10 districts will be together."

"At least several hundred thousand people. I might be able to sell this batch of goods at a higher price."

After listening to Cao Xing's analysis, Liu Muxue also felt that it made sense.

Then he nodded and said, "Yeah!"

While they were talking, everyone had already returned to the territory.

As night falls, the citizens who were gathering resources are returning one after another.

The chieftain Cao Yi had been waiting here long ago and reported: "Lord."

"Today we have collected 8764 pieces of wood, 6122 pieces of stone, 1754 pieces of coal, 1024 pieces of iron, and 433 pieces of copper."

Cao Xing nodded and said, "Yes, these mining sites around our territory, are there enough resources?"

"My Lord, we have already mined a medium-sized iron mine and a small copper mine near the territory, and there is only one medium-sized coal mine left that can be mined for another two days."

"In the near future, we may need to look for new resource points or suspend mining."

After hearing this, Cao Xing thought for a moment.

I didn't expect that several resource points near the territory would be mined so quickly.

Before new resource points are refreshed, you can only look for them in farther places.

He did know the location of a resource point.

It is the moleman mine that was discovered before.

There are rich treasures of precious minerals, [Mythril], [Magic Crystal], etc.

But it is a bit far from the territory, about seven kilometers away.

It is impossible to lay railroad tracks over such a long distance.

"However, tomorrow is the seventh day of the official period, and a new batch of resource points will be refreshed."

"First check the status of the refreshed resource points, and then decide whether to mine that mine."

So, Cao Xing nodded and said, "Okay, I understand."

"Tomorrow a new batch of resource points will appear near our territory. Let Kanter and Kandal explore them first."

"Then I will decide where to arrange for you to collect resources."

Hearing this, the leader Cao Yi nodded respectfully.

"As you command, Lord."

Although refreshing resource points was a bit beyond their understanding.

But by the end of the novice protection period, I had already experienced it once.

So Cao Yi was not that surprised.

At the same time, Kantor and Kandar also came over.

They were on their horses, each carrying a cloth bag.

After seeing Cao Xing, they were excited.

"My mighty lord, you are back!"

"This is what we got from killing the Icebrood monsters these past two days. Please take a look."

After the two centaurs finished speaking, they dropped the bags on their backs onto the ground.

Cao Xing immediately saw a large pile of ice dragon marks and other materials on it.

[Obtained: Ice Dragon Mark*8921]

[Obtained: Glacial Fragment *4723]

[Obtain: Ice Dragon Horn (Small) *4]

[Obtained: Ice Dragon Horn (Medium) *1]

…

"Well done, Kantar, Kantar."

A smile appeared on Cao Xing's lips.

Today's harvest is not bad.

His Ice Dragon Mark reserves once again exceeded 70,000.

Cao Xing thought to himself, "If I trade again tomorrow, my Ice Dragon Mark might be worth over 300,000, and then I can redeem the remaining two gold treasure chests!"

"Next, I need to collect another 300,000 Ice Dragon Marks so that Mu Xue can open three golden treasure chests, haha!"

Cao Xing thought happily.

Then he asked the two centaurs to continue their patrol.

At this time, a system prompt appears.

[Your territory member: Harold Iceberg has devoted himself to forging. Through unremitting efforts, he has finally mastered more advanced forging techniques and has acquired a new skill: Advanced Forging Mastery]

…

At this moment, a look of surprise appeared in Cao Xing's eyes!

"Oh my god, Harold has become a senior forger so quickly?"

"It's been less than a week since he joined my territory, and this time I've really found a treasure!"

Cao Xing was extremely excited, and rushed into the [Blacksmith Shop] impatiently.

At the same time.

Harold seemed to have a premonition that Cao Xing would come over. With a happy smile on his face, he waited silently beside the forging table.

"My Lord, you are here."

Cao Xing smiled and said, "Yes."

"Congratulations, Harold."

"You have an amazing talent for training."

Harold shook his head quickly and said humbly, "Harold is stupid. Thanks to the help of the Lord, I was able to learn new forging techniques so quickly."

Cao Xing laughed and patted his shoulder.

Then start looking at Harold's attributes.

【Knowledge Seeker: Harold Iceberg】

[Race: Dwarf]

[Level: Level 15 (Second-level common creature)]

[HP: 4140/4140]

【Attack power: 252~277】

[Skills: Frost Hammer, Iceberg Smash

Advanced Forging Mastery (with rich forging experience, you can create rare quality equipment, and increase the forging speed by 30% and the forging success rate by 10%)]

[Talent: Craftsman (When forging equipment, the success rate increases by 10%)]

…

"Great, great! I've increased the forging speed by 10% and the forging efficiency by 10%!"

Cao Xing sighed deeply.

Because this way, Harold can also guarantee a higher success rate when creating purple equipment.

Moreover, Cao Xing still remembered that there was a note on Assam's golden weapon, [King's Blade].

You can ask a senior forger to remove the [Golden Gem] and [Earth Gem] on it and inlay them on new weapons.

Although the specific qualities of these two gems are unknown, their properties must be strong.

"Very good, Assam is already level 25 and will soon reach level 30."

"Then he can equip the Broken Legendary Weapon, Magdel, and the King's Glaive will be eliminated."

"As for those two gems, Harold can take them down and reuse them!"

Cao Xing thought with satisfaction.

At this time, Harold continued to report: "My Lord, I have basically been forging that large sickle these two days."

"Of the eight materials you gave me, five were successful, and the remaining three failed."

"terribly sorry!"

He said apologetically.

After all, three failures mean the loss of three rare materials.

It is also mixed with a large amount of refined iron and a small amount of mithril.

The loss is still relatively large.

If it were an ordinary blacksmith, these three materials alone would be enough to bankrupt him.

Fortunately, Cao Xingcai was rich and generous, so he allowed Harold to squander his money.

Cao Xing didn't care. "Don't mind it, Harold."

"It's worth paying a little bit of materials to accelerate your breakthrough to a higher level."

"Besides, didn't you succeed in getting 5 copies?"

Encouraged by Cao Xing, Harold also showed a gentle smile on his face.

Then he said gratefully, "Thank you for your support, Lord."

"Shall I give you these five sickles first?"

"I am personally quite satisfied with these sickles."

Hearing this, Cao Xing also became interested.

Then he followed Harold to the storage box.

As the storage box opened, Cao Xing saw five pitch-black sickles emitting a faint black aura lying inside!

Including the handle and the large hook at the front, the length is over 1.7 meters.

Especially the sharp claw at the tip, which flashes with a cold light and looks very sinister.

Cao Xing simply put away the five sickles.

[Obtained: Soul-Eating Monster Sickle (Purple) *5]

Look at the attributes.

[Soul Eater Sickle (Purple)]

【Quality: Rare】

[Level: 30 and above]

【Attack power: 542~594】

[Attached special effect ①: Strength +80, Agility +50]

[Attached special effect ②: Cutting Blade (When attacking, increases attack power and crippling effect by 20%)]

[Additional Effect ③: Soul Suppression (When attacking spirit enemies, an additional 50% damage is caused)]

(Equipment introduction: A sickle made from the large claws of the Soul Eater, with some mithril added to it. It has a significant suppressive effect on spirit-type enemies.)

…

After reading the properties of this sickle, Cao Xing's face showed joy.

"Not bad, not bad!"

"No wonder Harold is also pleased with these sickles."

The attributes of [Soul Eater Sickle] are strong enough and the level is high enough.

The most important thing is that this sickle has a special feature that can suppress spirit enemies!

…

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