Chapter 154


    It was precisely what Cheng Yang wanted . He put it into his ring and then left the instance dungeon . <hr>


    Of course, the instance dungeon provided other benefits as well . Five pieces of purple equipment dropped . Of which, Cheng Yang took a ring and a pair of boots . The other went to Yu Kai for distribution . Until arge number of cksmiths were trained, this was the only source of good equipment .


    On their way back to Silkworm Mountain, Yu Kai and Cheng Yang engaged in small talk . It quickly devolved into Yu Kai pestering Cheng Yang about his decisions . Although he knew he couldn’t change Cheng Yang’s mind, Yu Kai wanted to make sure his friend knew what he was doing .


    “How is your training going, Yu Kai?” Cheng Yang asked once they were back .


    “I’m about halfway to leveling up . I’ll probably only need another ten days . ” Yu Kai said, “The Experience Fragments you gifted to me were really helpful . ”


    Cheng Yang nodded . It was a satisfactory amount of progress . Yu Kai was among the very peak of humanity . Thebination of near-endless funding and the Nirvana Feather granted the Phoenix Empire’s leaders a tremendous advantage . <hr>


    “Make sure to focus on your training even more than before . We need everyone to take hold of this opportunity . ” Cheng Yang said . “If we can assemble a team of Pinnacle-Grade soldiers, we’ll be able to sweep across the entire Cloud City area . ”


    “We could do that now, couldn’t we?” Yu Kai was confused by Cheng Yang’s warning . “The soldiers in the safe zone hardly pose a threat to us . ”


    “I’m not talking about just the safe zone but the entire Cloud City Area, including nearby cities, viges, counties, and townships . ”


    Yu Kai was stunned . As someone who led soldiers on the front lines every day, he knew all too well the dangers posed by the wilderness . Although Pinnacle-Grade monsters were impossible to find near the viges, once you got ten kilometers away, they were asmon as maggots . Not to mention that the Standard-Grade monsters almost outnumbered the Low-Grade ones .


    If Cheng Yang wanted to dominate the entire area, it wouldn’t be easy .


    “I’ll try to make sure everyone focuses on training . ” Yu Kai said tentatively .


    “That’s all you can do . We can give them everything they need, but if some idiot wants to waste their potential, there’s no way to stop them . ” Cheng Yang sighed . “At the very least, once we only need an army of High-Grade soldiers topletely ignore the Cloud City safe zone . It would be for the best if we didn’t need toe into direct conflict with them . ”


    Although Cheng Yang was vicious when dealing with his enemies, he saw no reason to exterminate weaker opponents . Although he would be marginally safer, enough people were dead already . There was no reason to increase the body count .


    After that, Cheng Yang began his return journey to Phoenix Vige . This time, Cheng Yang had Ei guard him as he collected various alchemicalponents . Since the Experience Fragments for monsters killed by a pet went to their master, this was killing two birds with one stone .


    As soon as Cheng Yang returned to the vige, he isted himself in his Meditation Hall and started brewing potions . Tonight, Cheng Yang would be a High-Grade Alchemist and obtain the qualifications to make Magic Amplification potions .


    After the fiasco with the Bone-Eating Ants, Cheng Yang had be less greedy with regards to selling his potions . Now he only sold the twenty percent promised by the contract between him and the Alchemy Tower manager in the Cloud City safe zone . Of course, histest source of ie helped him ovee the temptation to oversell .


    It was almost to the point that Cheng Yang considered nullifying the contract since the profits were small . However, he knew better than to antagonize someone rted to the gods . It was always better to be on their good side .


    Once he had expended all of his Energy, Cheng Yang’s Profession was on the verge of leveling up . Then, after midnight, his Energy was replenished .


    Once he used half of that, Cheng Yang became a High-Grade Alchemist .


    Once he did, he took the Magic Amplification potion recipe out of his ring and used it . The scroll dissolved into light as a new option appeared under his Alchemy system pane .


    The Magic Amplification potion had thirteen ingredients . Twelve were rathermon, and Cheng Yang would only need an hour or so to gather arge supply . Thest one was somewhat more difficult . It was called the Eight Treasures Flower, and it was considered a High-Grade Ordinary material .


    Although it was harder to find that the other ingredients, that didn’t put it on part with once in a century Natural Treasures . It wouldn’t be a problem for someone to find one or two a day if they focused on searching for it .


    However, that was uneptable for Cheng Yang . Thankfully, he wouldn’t need to gather them personally . A person’s Harvesting skill only needed to be at the High-Grade level to harvest the flower perfectly . Even with a Low-Grade skill, a person would seed fifty percent of the time .


    Cheng Yang visited the QuestHall and posted a fetch quest for Eight Treasures Flowers . Each one could be exchanged for ten Experience Fragments and ten territory contribution points . Since he was the Lord of Phoenix Vige, rewarding contribution points was a unique privilege he held .


    He also had the option of using his Adventurer points from when hepleted the God Quest . However, Cheng Yang had no desire to part with them . He wanted to raise his Adventurer Rank, so they were too important to squander .


    Once he’d sorted out a supply chain, Cheng Yang began training