Chapter 72: The Ring's Advancement

  Undoubtedly, looting equipment from a corpse is a very sacred thing.

  To ensure that high-end equipment can be exploded, the guy responsible for touching the corpse usually has to burn incense and bathe, eat vegetarian food for three days, and not get close to women for a month. Okay, the above is purely feudal superstition, in the end it's just one sentence, the key is to look at people's character!

  It was precisely because of this that, considering his own eccentric personality, Lin Taiping looked around at everyone present and finally, under Tulou's expectant and fervent gaze, pointed a finger without emotion: "Decided! Ye Ge, it's your turn this time!"

  "Why not me?" Toru complained, sulking. Yega was taken aback for a moment, then became enthusiastic and rolled up his sleeves, squatting down beside the corpse of Shiyan. "No problem, dear, your choice is absolutely correct. You see, in the past, I've been responsible for cleaning up battlefields... uh?"

  It turns out that although the dark elf onee-san is a standard softie, her character isn't much better than Tull's. Who would have thought that the first thing she managed to pilfer from Dead Flame was a small fireball scroll? Yes, it's that kind of beginner-level magic scroll, worth at most several tens of gold coins.

  Sweat, Lin Taiping suddenly had a very bad premonition. Roast you clear steam ah, Ye Ge your hand is so black, unexpectedly able to get from an eighth-level fire system mage and important member of the pirate group, this kind of low-level scroll that even primary magic apprentices may not look at?

  "Unexpectedly, it's just an unexpected thing." Ye Ge couldn't help but wipe the cold sweat and continued to search unwillingly, "Don't worry, the really valuable good stuff should all be in his storage ring... Look, I found the storage ring, next we just need to open it and we'll immediately find... uh?"

  A burst of clanging and rattling, accompanied by the radiant glow of the storage ring. A dozen or so items poured out like a flood, including several gold tickets with denominations less than one hundred, dozens of broken and cracked magic crystals, a beginner's guide to fire magic, five or six coarse navigation maps... and that was it. Nothing else.

  Very good and very powerful. As the saying goes, "In the black there is a black hand", the Yangtze River pushes forward with its dark waves, and the front wave dies on the sandy beach!

  Everyone present was thoroughly speechless at this scene, and Tulu couldn't help but roll his eyes wildly: "What the... Ye Ge, I'm not trying to discourage you or anything, but your luck seems even worse than mine. I remember when I last washed up that Blood Eye, I at least managed to get two pieces of magical equipment out of it."

  "Shut up!" Ye Ge's face twisted in a scowl, his teeth clenched in frustration as he grabbed the storage ring and shook it wildly like a madman. "Damn it, this guy is clearly penniless, yet he still has to bring along a storage ring? I don't believe it! Is there really not a single good thing inside the entire ring?"

  Tears streaming down her face, Lin Taiping watched with tears in his eyes, finally unable to bear it and grabbed Ye Ge's arm: "Alright, alright. Sister, you should go rest on the side, I now understand why your Dark Elf tribe is so poor, it's because they always let you be responsible for cleaning up... huh?"

  The words had barely fallen when the storage ring, which was being shaken violently, suddenly shook and a light "ding" sound was heard. A silver-white horn suddenly fell out of the ring, hitting the ground with a loud crash and emitting a faint blue glow.

  "I'm so lucky!" Night Song exclaimed, rushing over to grab the half-horn. "Who dares say I have bad luck? Open your eyes wide and take a good look! Just by looking at the craftsmanship of this half-horn and the magical glow it emits, you can tell it's definitely a magical equipment."

  This is a typical dead duck's hard mouth, Lin Taiping expressed extreme skepticism, but still took over the half silver-white horn, pondering it as if he had something on his mind.

  This half silver-white horn, as if made of unknown metal casting, has a layer of artificially carved black magic lines connected to each other, with faint marks left by the tide washing. On the top of the horn's metal outer layer, there is also an line of unrecognizable ancient text, and it emits a weak blue light.

  Alright, if only judging from the blue glow, this half-only horn indeed has a weak magical fluctuation, but the problem is that everyone present looked at it for half a day and couldn't figure out what it was used for. In fact, no one even recognized the text on it.

  "This must be magical equipment!" Ye Ge said with a swollen face, gritting his teeth fiercely. "I swear on the honor of the Dark Elf clan that this thing is definitely magical equipment, and it's very powerful magical equipment. Do you have any objections?"

  What can be said, seeing her fierce expression with the wolf-toothed club at any time, all the people present could only nod desperately and claim that this half-numbered horn must be a magical equipment, and it's the kind that shocks heaven and earth. Maybe just taking it out and swinging it around would be enough to conquer the entire world immediately.

  "That's right, it must be that way." Ye Ge finally nodded in satisfaction, but then concluded with a hint of regret, "The only pity is that we have to find the other half and merge them together to truly understand its purpose."

  It had to be this way, Lin Taiping sighed helplessly. No matter what, the half-only horn did give him a very strange feeling, but it was just a feeling after all. Perhaps only by finding the other half that he didn't know where it was could he finally unlock the secret of the horn.

  "I'm also looking forward to it, and you'll see just how amazing my luck is at that time." Ye Ge shook her two pointed ears and casually kicked the corpse of Shi Yan, which had already been looted clean. "Also, we can't waste this guy's corpse either. We can take it to exchange for a reward, I'm sure the nobles on Ivory Island will give us a good price."

  "Of course, I think so too." Lin Taiping expressed his agreement with a pleasant smile, and then looked around at the pirate corpses. "However, before that, we need to find all the valuable things, this glorious task is left to you."

  As soon as the words were spoken, everyone present immediately dispersed in excitement and began to search for the pirates' corpses. In the middle, Tu Lu could be heard shouting: "Make way, make way! All the corpses on this side are mine! I'll use my hooves to prove it, I'm the luckiest one!"

  And so, a large group of Minotaurs and Dark Elves dispersed, even Kirsten walked away to a distance. Lin Taiping smiled as he watched them leave, suddenly putting away his joyful smile, lost in thought, lowering his head to examine the gradually cooling corpse of Dead Flame.

  Yes, although the corpse of Shi Yan had been charred black, but if one looked carefully, they could still discover on his left chest a small-scale fire-element magic array. More importantly, at the core position of this magic array was a slight bulge, as if something was hidden beneath the skin.

  "So?" Lin Taiping slightly raised the corner of his mouth, suddenly pulled out a dagger and deeply stabbed it into the core position of the magic array. He then cut open all the surrounding flesh with one swift motion.

  Alright, this was obviously not a pleasant experience, but he still gritted his teeth and continued the dissection. Just a moment later, as the blood and flesh on the left chest of the dead flame were completely cut open, a shiny symbol stone hidden under the sternum suddenly appeared without warning.

  It's obvious. The texture of this glowing rune is exactly the same as the one on Blood Eye, and what's more, the smooth surface of this rune is also densely covered with strange symbols. The energy fluctuations emitted from these symbols are even stronger than those from Blood Eye's...

  "Is that so?" Lin Taiping narrowed his eyes slightly, turning to look around. After making sure no one was paying attention, he finally took a deep breath and raised the Ring of Gods towards the Shining Rune Stone.

  Without any surprise, the God Ring seemed to have a feeling, and immediately shot out a silver-white light. Under the cover of the silver-white light, the entire symbol stone shook violently. After resisting for only a moment, countless symbols automatically fell off and were completely absorbed by the God Ring.

  Immediately afterwards, the Ring of the Gods seemed to have gained a powerful energy. A violent tremor started, and the bright red color on the ring's surface began to spread from its original quarter position at a visible speed, and in just a few minutes, it had dyed the entire ring surface bright red.

  At this moment, the entire ring turned bright red like blood and scorching hot as if flames were burning fiercely. Lin Taiping endured the scorching sensation transmitted from his fingertips, and the thoughts in his mind stirred slightly, immediately entering the Temple of Gods.

  Still the altar of fierce flames burning, still dozens of towering statues of gods, but different from the past is that at this moment, the temple of gods, was completely enveloped in a golden glow, those dozens of towering statues of gods, were bathed in the golden light, began to surge unbelievably, and grew to nearly a hundred meters high in the blink of an eye.

  Right after that, the emotionless hollow voice suddenly sounded without warning: "Devout believer, the gods have sensed your devout faith and decided to bestow more glory upon you..."

  "Guessed it! Until this moment, Lin Taiping finally let out a sigh of relief and tentatively raised his head to ask: "Listen, I want to know what kind of blessing can I get now?""

  No sooner had the words fallen than a silvery white light descended from the sky, enveloping him completely. Hundreds of lines of dense text, like surging waves, poured out continuously, appearing one by one in his mind.

  Compared to before, the blessing options that appeared in his mind this time had almost doubled, not only did many new contents appear that originally didn't exist at all, even the original blessings that already existed had risen from primary to intermediate.

  Mortals, offer a sincere sacrifice to the God of War, and he will grant you the intermediate right of racial transformation.

  Mortal, offer the sea god a devout sacrifice, and he will grant you the power to summon storms, tearing apart all obstacles before your eyes.

  Mortal, offer a devout sacrifice to the Dark God, and the Dark God shall grant you the initial right to summon spirits, driving a certain spirit of the dark race to fight for you.

  So, the new blessing content that appeared in his mind was a complete transformation, far surpassing the original old blessing content... Of course, to get these new blessings, the amount of magic crystals required is also several times more than before, starting with thousands as the unit.

  "Hmm, just as I thought." Lin Taiping let out a long sigh of relief. He could finally confirm that the God Rings weren't fixed and unchangeable, but could actually be upgraded to become stronger through some sort of advancement. This was undoubtedly good news for himself, who was currently facing the threat of pirates.

  However, the downside is that this special promotion must absorb the Flashing Stone, but so far, it is still unclear what this stone is, where it comes from, and what kind of power it has.

  The only thing that can be confirmed is that the clown should have a small amount of flash stone in his hand, and use this stone to transform ordinary pirates, just like Blood Eye can transform into an octopus sea monster with the help of the stone, and Dead Flame can obtain stronger fire magic talent with the help of the stone...

  "So, if I want the ring to continue advancing, do I have to defeat the clown?" Lin Taiping thought for a moment, stroking his chin, and finally decided what he would do next.

  It seems that only by thoroughly defeating the clown can we get more sparkling stones and learn about their true origin... Well, dear Mr. Clown, it looks like we're really going to become sworn enemies, this can't be helped, although I'm a pacifist, but fate's red thread is just so wonderful, as they say, a thousand miles of marriage... Pfft pfft pfft!

  "Lin, we've finished cleaning up the battlefield." He was lost in thought here, but on the other side, Tuluo and Yege had already returned. Tuluo was even carrying a large pile of old weapons and armor, muttering with a gloomy face, "Damn it, those pirates are really poor, we only found a few hundred gold coins in total."

  "It's okay, I think we've gained enough already." Lin Taiping replied with a smile, glancing at the ring on his left hand. The bright red glow on its surface had completely faded away, and it had returned to its original dull and unremarkable appearance. However, only the person wearing it could feel that at this moment, the internal space of the God Ring was emitting an astonishingly turbulent magical fluctuation...

  What harvest, Kirsten and Tululu looked at each other, completely unable to see where there were any valuable spoils of war. Instead, Yege still held that half silver-white horn, very stubbornly insisting on it until the end. It seemed that before confirming this thing was a divine instrument, she would not let go even if she died.

  "No explanation, you'll get a surprise soon." Lin Taiping turned his head leisurely, gazing at the distant Ivory Island port still burning fiercely. Just a moment later, he suddenly turned his head with a smile, facing everyone's puzzled gaze, revealing eight white teeth, smiling so kindly and harmless.

  "You know? I suddenly feel like we should prepare a gift in return and give it to Marquis de Glangta..."

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