Legendary Token!
It's a true Legendary Token!
A Legendary Token that could only be found in folklore stories and historical rumors, now appeared right before their eyes!
Pharmacist's Wish, Ying Rushi, and even Shang Xinlei instinctively wanted to stand up, but if it weren't for the Thief's House forcing them to keep their hips glued to the chairs, they would definitely have started fighting.
It's not that they wanted to take it for themselves; they just wanted to get a little closer to admire this Legendary Artifact!
For these messengers who grew up listening to various historical rumors and know the tokens like the back of their hands, not to mention touching a Legendary Token, just seeing and smelling it is enough to bring them physical and mental joy, prolonging their life!
"What a powerful ability…" Pharmacist's Wish said, trembling: "It's truly worthy of being Zhou Taizu's sword… it actually is a Legendary Token…"
"So this is what legendary means?" Ying Rushi murmured: "Even if it's just a First-Turn, it's much more powerful than any Third-Turn Token I've seen."
"Black Wolf, now do you know you were wrong!" Shang Xinlei suddenly said: "Yellow Dog just said there'd be a Legendary Token reward, and you didn't believe it!"
It sounded like Shang Xinlei was standing up for Yan Qing, but Pharmacist's Wish and Ying Rushi immediately realized—yeah, Yan Qing was very certain earlier that there'd be a Legendary Token reward. How did he know?
But Yan Qing was actually more surprised than they were.
"You guys know the Thief's House so well, don't you know that it transforms stolen goods into Legendary Tokens?" Yan Qing asked, "Has no one ever successfully completed a mission before?"
Pharmacist's Wish and the others looked at each other in bewilderment.
"I only know that the Thief's House can traverse the world."
"Me too. Everyone speculates that mastering the Thief's House equates to being able to descend anywhere in the world, including the Outer Realm beyond the Central Plains…"
"I've really never heard of the Thief's House successfully stealing anything…"
Yan Qing was also taken aback. According to their accounts, the Thief's House has appeared many times, and many people knew various details about it. Yet, in all these theft missions, no one has ever succeeded?
However, upon further thought, he realized this might indeed be the truth.
After all, given their drooling attitude over the Legendary Token, if past thief missions had been successful even once, the information that 'the Thief's House can transform objects into Legendary Tokens' couldn't have been concealed. The messengers would not view the Thief's House as a 'functional secret realm that can transport to anywhere,' but rather 'a resource secret realm that consistently produces Legendary Tokens.'
As for why Yan Qing knew about the Bingzi Pepper Forest transforming into a Legendary Token…
Isn't it obvious? He designed this instance!
That's also why he set the level range for this instance between levels 10~39—players at Foundation Establishment level 40 can easily acquire Legendary Tokens, so an instance that produces Legendary Tokens wouldn't be very attractive to them.
But for lower-level players between levels 10~39, it's difficult to acquire Legendary Tokens through conventional means, except for this newly designed instance by Yan Qing!
Furthermore, Yan Qing suggested that the power entries of these low-level Legendary Tokens should be drawn from the T0 entry pool, instead of the T2 or T1 entry pools, to increase attractiveness.
The legendary entry pool has three tiers: T2, T1, and T0, in increasing order. Most Legendary Tokens have one entry each from T2, T1, and T0. A graduate Legendary Token has two T1 entries and one T0 entry. As for one with one T1 and two T0 entries, it doesn't exist because balancing the power would be too hard.
However, the Legendary Tokens produced by the Thief's House would only be First-Turn to Third-Turn. No matter how powerful the effects, they'd become useless at Fourth-Turn. Thus, why not give the Thief's House Legendary Tokens three T0 entries? After all, First-Turn to Third-Turn is just a transition period for players, and a Legendary Token with three T0 entries, no matter how strong, would still be just a toy.
To his satisfaction, Yan Qing found that his suggestion was adopted.
Each effect from Bingzi Pepper Forest, if isolated, could already serve as the main entry of a regular Legendary Token: 'Feudal' greatly enhances teammates' combat power, 'Pillar of the Country' greatly enhances one's own combat power, while 'Heaven-Covering' is the most outrageous, being top-tier even in the T0 entry pool, adding attack power, increasing attack range, and granting an unshakable super armor state. Although it only lasts for one battle, it's sufficient to completely turn the tide.
And the problem is, the scenario he imagined also appeared.
The greed on Black Wolf, White Fox, and Red Snake's faces was almost undisguisable. Everyone was eagerly gazing at Bingzi Pepper Forest, and Yan Qing had no doubt that once they got it, they would dash back to their rooms to 'log off' to reality, never returning to the Thief's House again.
Commonly known as gear-dropping.
As they say, once the Brotherhood Sword is drawn, there are no brothers left.
That's why Yan Qing suggested such a ridiculously designed mission reward—only something outrageous could incite player infighting. The core gameplay of this instance is to have players intrigue against each other, backstab, get envious and mad, overtly seeming like a PvE but actually being a PvP.
Yan Qing truly thought his design was genius.
It would be better if he didn't have to participate in this instance.
"I've learned some information about the Thief's House from other secret realms," Yan Qing said offhandedly to them.
"Yellow Dog," Pharmacist's Wish suddenly said, "In this mission, you undoubtedly have the most credit."
Upon hearing this, Yan Qing sighed inwardly.
With someone like Black Wolf, arguing is usual, so when they thank you, you know it's definitely not a good thing.
"But if you want to compete with me for Bingzi Pepper Forest, I definitely won't hold back," Pharmacist's Wish swept a glance around, "The same goes for all of you."
Ying Rushi gave a slight smile but said nothing, merely quietly grasping the hilt of the Brave General Sword.
Seemingly scared by Pharmacist's Wish, Shang Xinlei shivered, but she pulled out her flying circular weapon as she trembled, looking both cowardly and fierce.
"Put down your weapons." Yan Qing said calmly, "You won't be able to use them."
Almost as though responding to Yan Qing's words, new text appeared on the Thief's House's light screen:
"The Bingzi Pepper Forest Theft Case"
"Mission Difficulty: Extremely Easy"
"Task Completion: Sweat Significant Contributions (Ratings from low to high are Not Worth Mentioning, Fell Short of Expectations, Sweat Significant Contributions, Extraordinary, Great Achievements)"
"Task Completion Reward: 30 Thief Points"
"Thief Points can be accumulated, can only be spent at the Thief's House, cannot be traded, and will reset to zero once you lose the qualification to enter the Thief's House."
At the same time, a line of numbers appeared in front of everyone, showing 30, representing the Thief Points everyone currently possessed.
Then the light screen continued to change, but this time it was different for everyone, Yan Qing could only see his own:
"Yellow Dog's Task Settlement List"
"Uncover An Guo Temple's Underground Jail: 5 points"
"Save Innocents: 5 points"
"Burn An Guo Temple: 10 points"
"Milestone Progress as follows: Suspect 1/10, Demolition Team 1/1"
"You get an additional 20 Thief Points"
Yan Qing's Thief Points soared to 50 points, he glanced at the others, Red Snake had 30 points, indicating no extra points as she hadn't contributed much beyond inciting trouble in this task;
White Fox had 33 points, probably because she provided the snake skin rope;
Black Wolf had 40 points, clearly because Black Wolf killed four Martial Monks head-on, completing the only battle of the task.
Everyone looked at their own and others' Thief Points, then glanced at the Bingzi Pepper Forest in the center of the stone table, vaguely guessing at something.
Crack.
The 'disc' responsible for lighting up the ceiling of the Thief's House suddenly opened, and three items fell from it, a ring, a secret manual, and a bottle of elixir.
"Based on the completion of the thieves' tasks, the Thief's House selected three items from the treasury as extra rewards."
"Storage Ring"
"Grade: First-Turn Ordinary"
"Effect: You obtain a shortcut bar, allowing you to take out items from the Storage Ring at any time."
"Evaluation: Better than nothing."
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"Random Advanced Skill Introduction Secret Manual"
"Usage condition: Must have mastered any basic skill"
"Effect: Allows you to immediately comprehend an advanced version of a basic skill"
"Evaluation: The master leads in, cultivation depends on the individual. Without the master's guidance, you won't understand it in a lifetime."
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"Comprehension Pill"
"Quantity: One pill"
"Effect: Increases comprehension by 30 points, lasting seven days."
"Evaluation: You'll regret it after taking it."
Each of these three items has its own uses. Although the Storage Ring is of the lowest grade, in this world, even in the game, a Storage Token that can provide a shortcut bar is a rare item. Unlike players who have a system warehouse, people in this world don't have such convenient storage means, so a Storage Ring that can store key items is of exceptional value.
The Advanced Skill Introduction Secret Manual refers to advanced skills that are not common like the Thunderbolt Saber Technique, but genuine advanced saber techniques, advanced footwork, many advanced tokens will require advanced skills to use, so you can't miss out on it once you see it.
The Comprehension Pill is the simplest and most direct, a 30-point comprehension increase provides a 30% experience boost, lasting seven days, if you're willing to grind, the value of this pill could even surpass the other two.
But no matter how good these three things are, they can't compare to the Legendary Token of Bingzi Pepper Forest!
"All the reward items for this task are as follows: Bingzi Pepper Forest, Storage Ring, Random Advanced Skill Introduction Secret Manual, Comprehension Pill"
"Now it's the auction phase, you can use Thief Points to bid for items, the minimum bid is 5 points, each raise must be at least 5 points. Thieves who have already won an auction item have priority in the next round of bidding."
"The first item is Bingzi Pepper Forest, please place your bids, thieves"
Ying Rushi's eyes flashed after reading the rules, and she immediately shouted, "Black Wolf—"
But before Black Wolf could speak, Yan Qing was the first to say:
"I bid 36 points!"
"Yellow Dog bids 36 points for Bingzi Pepper Forest"
"No one present can outbid 41 Thief Points for Bingzi Pepper Forest, it goes to Yellow Dog"
Under the intense glares of the other three almost spitting fire, the Bingzi Pepper Forest floated slowly in front of Yan Qing, who reached out to grasp it!
Bingzi Pepper Forest, acquired!