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Over the next month, Yan Yu proceeded steadily, using only S-level equipment blueprints to forge equipment, and was never captured by a black hole again.
During this period, the blueprint purchasing mall was opened a total of 6 times, and Yan Yu successively purchased 10 SS-level equipment blueprints and 8 SSS-level equipment blueprints (SSS-level Golden God Crown equipment blueprints, Vulcan Crown equipment blueprints, Frozen Crown equipment blueprints, Thunder God Crown equipment blueprints, etc.).
But the so-called Phantom Crown still could not be found among them.
Yan Yu had also tried various methods to fuse the eight S-level crowns or SS-level crowns except the Phantom Crown, but the results were equally unsatisfactory, which made her doubt the authenticity of the information Brody saw.
Fortunately, apart from her, it was obvious that the other 99, oh, now there were only 60 candidates left. They were also confused about the God-level King's Crown. They had made countless attempts, but they were just helping Yan Yu eliminate the wrong options one by one.
In just one and a half months, the "King's Arrival" challenge had become so cruel that more than 30 candidates died, including the third elder of the Netherworld Clan.
Before the Third Elder of the Netherworld Clan could seek revenge for the murder of his son, his identity as a candidate was exposed in advance by Mevlik, leading to his own death. This saved Yan Yu from having to face the Third Elder, a somewhat formidable opponent.
Yan Yu kept a low profile during this period, rarely leaving the equipment store and rarely appearing in public. After all, the equipment store had the highest level of protection system, so her safety was still guaranteed.
This made the super-large equipment chain mall that suddenly became popular throughout the floating world seem even more mysterious, especially the identity of the person behind the scenes, which made all players speculate endlessly.
During this period, Yan Yu forged a total of 162,000 new pieces of equipment, including 125,800 S-level pieces, 34,000 SS-level pieces, and 2,200 SSS-level pieces.
Apart from the 500 pieces of SSS-grade equipment that were left behind, all the other new equipment, the S-grade and SS-grade equipment originally in the storage ring, and the equipment obtained from the Aura Revival dungeon and the Highway Survival dungeon were sold. After deducting the expenses for purchasing forging materials and high-level spirit crystal cores, a total profit of more than 3 million orange crystals was made!
Yan Yu's strength soared through day-to-day forging and training, and she directly rose to the fifth level of the Soul Condensation Realm. Now look at her attribute panel:
Name: Yan Yu
Level: Soul Refining Realm Level 5
HP: 5000000/5000000
Strength: 400,000 (+34,170)
Constitution: 380000 (+39100)
Agility: 492000 (+43480)
Spirit: 530000 (+44200)
Talent: SSS-level God Maker
Equipment: Immortal-level Soul Devouring Whip, Immortal-level Clone Belt, Immortal-level Green Spirit Skirt, Immortal-level Thunder God Wristband, Immortal-level Water God Crown, SSS-level Vulcan War Boots, SSS-level Vulcan War Armor, SSS-level Treasure Spirit Necklace, SSS-level Puppet Finger Gloves, S-level Storage Ring (enhanced)
Skills: Draw a Prison (Advanced Enhancement), Advanced Detection, Advanced Camouflage, Advanced Teleportation
Account: 3290000 Orange Crystals 88 Blue Crystals
Reputation: 2300
As Yan Yu's equipment empire became famous, it became the most popular No. 1 in the floating world in just forty or fifty days. As the boss behind the scenes, she also became the most sought-after person.
"Yan Yu," a name relatively unfamiliar to all players in the Floating Realm, gradually appeared on various rankings, such as the Wealth Ranking, the Strength Ranking, the Equipment Ranking...
Even if she doesn't appear in public, her identity has been guessed - the mysterious owner of the equipment store and a candidate for the "King's Coming" challenge.
Trouble also follows.
However, during this period, not only Yan Yu's strength soared, but Song Fa, Yao Dongxin, Liu Zhi and others, as well as Brody who won the championship in the Mechanical City Challenge, entered the Soul Refining Realm one after another after continuous fighting.
Especially Song Fa, who has reached the third level of Soul Refining Realm, which is much higher than Yao Dongxin and others.
Various assassination attempts against Yan Yu continued one after another, and Song Fa stayed by her bedroom and did not leave the store unless necessary.
At the same time, Song Fa arranged for the members of the First Guild of Blue Star to take turns on duty to protect the place where Yan Yu lived so tightly that not even a fly could easily fly in.
Under their unanimous protection, Song Fa killed and captured no less than a hundred assassins.
Brody was responsible for intelligence gathering and prisoner interrogation. After finding out the mastermind behind the assassinations, Yan Yu directly blacklisted the mastermind, the places and players under the other party's jurisdiction, and refused to sell any equipment to them.
Just kidding, Yan Yu doesn't have the habit of aiding the enemy.
When the blacklist policy came out, it didn't have much impact on the elite children and senior leaders of those powerful organizations, but it was like a bolt from the blue for the middle and low-level players who could only buy equipment from the Blue Star Equipment Store. They complained about the city lords, elders and the like, causing them to lose a lot of popular support.
Yan Yu could be said to have killed two birds with one stone, and was happy to see it succeed.
As soon as this move was made, many players who felt that their city lords had no hope of winning directly called out to them, asking them to simply withdraw from the challenge and not to make any stupid moves.
Especially don’t be like other city lords and elders who think that Yan Yu doesn’t have enough cards and is weak and can be bullied, only to end up hitting a thick iron plate!
Some candidates listened to the advice very well and directly announced their withdrawal from the challenge. After all, their chances of winning were very slim. Instead of dying in the middle of the challenge, it would be better to make plans early and choose to support someone with a higher chance of winning.
If the candidate they choose to support wins the championship in the future, they can be considered as heroes and will receive many benefits.
You can choose to exit the "King's Arrival" challenge at your own will, but your reputation value will be reset to zero after exiting, which will be considered as a punishment.
Players who do not withdraw will compete to determine the final winner. Except for the final winner, all remaining candidates will be eliminated.
The competition system is cruel.
After the blacklist incident, the 60 candidates were quickly reduced to 40, and the remaining 20 basically withdrew voluntarily and almost became vassals of other candidates.
Among them, three or four high-level players contacted Yan Yu, wanting to become her supporters.
After Yan Yu conducted background checks on them through Brody, she accepted two of them into her faction.
These two people are the mayors of the new urban area, and the player city under their jurisdiction happens to be the second location selected by the Blue Star Equipment Store.
After becoming Yan Yu's subordinate, she simply gave the two a 10% discount on the purchase of equipment, and at the same time gave a 95% discount to the players under their jurisdiction to win over the people.
Although the discount is not big, the equipment sold in the Blue Star Equipment Store are all high-end equipment with high attributes and high prices. A 95% discount can save players a lot of money.
This move successfully tied them completely to her ship.
The blacklist incident and the discount incident made Yan Yu even more famous. These two incidents also demonstrated Yan Yu's clear attitude of rewarding and punishing.
In fact, for the majority of players, who becomes the master of the floating world has little impact on them. But now, Yan Yu has put the benefits directly into practice, how can they not be excited?
Yan Yu pretended to be ignorant of everything happening in the outside world, and began to forge new equipment using the SS-level equipment blueprints step by step.
This time, her spiritual attribute has increased to 530,000, and it is impossible for her spiritual power to be drained by the fairy-level equipment.
Perhaps, she could use the black hole to forge more immortal-level equipment. After all, in order to devour her soul, the black hole had deliberately increased the forging rate of a lot of immortal-level equipment.
For more than a month, Yan Yu worked hard on the SS-level equipment blueprints. During this period, she was captured by the black hole countless times, but she always made a feint and ran away after taking advantage of it.
Immortal-level equipment came out in large quantities, but he never fell into life-and-death crisis again. Of course, SSS-level spirit crystal cores were also very expensive, and he almost spent enough to go around the equipment store ten times.
Fortunately, the results are extremely encouraging.
In 40 days, Yan Yu forged a total of 40,000 pieces of SS-level equipment, 10,000 pieces of SSS-level equipment, and a full 7,000 pieces of Immortal-level equipment! !
The Blue Star Equipment Store temporarily stopped selling S-level equipment, but instead limited the sale of 20 pieces of SS-level equipment per day, and auctioned one piece of SSS-level equipment every 6 hours, making a crazy profit of 7.6 million orange crystals.
Adding in her previous earnings, she now had over 10 million Orange Crystals! She instantly topped the wealth rankings!
Yan Yu did not intend to sell those fairy-level equipment. Instead, he awarded one to three pieces to each of the members of the Blue Star First Guild, Brody, and the new vassals according to their performance and contributions. They were so excited that they almost took out their hearts to express their loyalty to Yan Yu.
Later, this matter somehow got out, and more and more high-level players came to support Yan Yu, which made the other candidates jealous.
In response to Yan Yu's sudden rise, many powerful candidates even put aside their past grudges and worked together to organize people to assassinate her. Unfortunately, they were all intercepted by Song Fa and his men.
As a result, Song suffered many injuries, including new and old ones, and almost died several times.
He never said a word and never took credit for anything.
For him, Yan Yu's life safety is more important than anything else.
As time went on, the competition became more intense, with assassinations and other attacks being completely exposed. Several times, Yan Yu was dragged into super SSS-level dungeons by the candidates, and it was Song Fa who led his men, risking their lives several times, to clear a bloody path for her, and successfully returned with countless trophies.
With them around, Yan Yu could devote himself to forging and forge so many high-level and super-level equipment one after another.
In the final ten days of the "King's Arrival" challenge, the struggle intensified, reaching a point where no one could stop.
Some city lords launched city wars against other candidates, resulting in heavy losses on both sides; some candidates betrayed their friends and provoked civil wars within their clans, forcing countless people to be involved, and the entire floating world was almost in chaos.
Yan Yu shook his head: "This is not the selection of the Lord of the Floating Realm, it's simply the game system deliberately provoking a world-destroying crisis."
"But where exactly is that God-level King's Crown? What does it look like? Does it really exist? Are they deliberately trying to trick us?"
Yan Yu's doubts are also the doubts of other candidates and all residents of the floating world.
Suddenly, Yan Yu felt something strange in his heart, and he quickly probed his spiritual sense into the spirit pet space. Only then did he discover that the object protected by the two strange beasts was actually a very familiar ball of light.
...a ball of light?
A pure white ball of light! Wasn't this the little creature that had saved her? Who would have thought it was the child of those two living ancestors?
At this moment, the two strange beasts were extremely anxious. They circled around and almost rubbed their hooves into fire.
The ball of light also seemed a little unstable, with the light flickering, as if it lacked energy?
Yan Yufu was inspired and began to continuously transfer her mental power to the ball of light. With her consent, the two strange beasts also picked out a lot of fairy-level equipment for it.
It was not until it swallowed up all 1,000 pieces of fairy-level equipment from Yan Yu and almost drained her mental power that the ball of light suddenly expanded more than ten times, burst out with an extremely dazzling white light, and "broke out" from the shell.
Before Yan Yu's vision recovered from the blinding white light, a soft ball suddenly jumped onto her chest, shouting childishly, "Master, Master!"
Yan Yu caught the dumpling in confusion. It actually didn't look like its parents. Maybe it was because it was still in its juvenile stage, but it looked like a chewy glutinous rice ball, making people want to pinch it.
It also has a palm-sized crown on its head, emitting an extremely dazzling light.
Tuanzi smiled widely, took off the crown and put it on Yan Yu's head.
At this moment, the system's mechanical sound suddenly resounded throughout the floating world:
[Congratulations to candidate Yan Yu for receiving the Divine King's Crown and becoming the Lord of the Floating Realm! ]
Yan Yu adjusted the crown, her gaze returned to Tuanzi, and she blinked: "Did I win without doing anything?"
Then she raised the corners of her lips and revealed a bright smile.
At this moment, she finally succeeded in taking control of part of her own destiny and was no longer trapped in the infinite survival game, unable to stop for a moment.
Yan Yu and Song Fa, who had been standing by, smiled at each other, and everything was said without words.
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