As the Holy Grail War ended, the Xuanyuan Sword was also close to its reset time.
So, the answer would be known with a little wait.
Soon, time ticked by, second by second.
The time for the gacha machine's reset arrived, and the Xuanyuan Sword vanished.
However...
The Xuanyuan Sword in the Gate of Babylon remained!
"It worked!"
Bai Ye couldn't help but swing his arm. He had successfully exploited a bug again. Weapons from the gacha machine could indeed be used to fill the Gate of Babylon.
Still, there were some issues.
Firstly, the Gate of Babylon valued quantity over quality.
Simply put, the golden-quality weapons Bai Ye drew from golden gachas using Divine Stone Fragments, and a casual white-quality weapon, were indistinguishable to the Gate of Babylon; they simply added +1 to the quantity.
This was a significant difference from the Steel Slime.
But overall, it was a good thing. It meant he had a daily chance to replenish the Gate of Babylon.
Secondly, not all weapons could be engraved by the Gate of Babylon; only melee weapons could.
Currently, Bai Ye still had the Pulse Dual Guns.
Firearms were weapons, of course, but the Pulse Dual Guns would not be engraved into the Gate of Babylon, indicating that only melee weapons could be engraved.
Thinking about it this way, Bai Ye felt the Gate of Babylon was passable.
Bai Ye's ultimate desire was undoubtedly the Ea Sword, but the Gate of Babylon, with enough weapons, was also terrifying.
After all...
The quality improvement had no upper limit!
This meant that golden quality was not the ceiling for the Gate of Babylon. As long as enough weapons were engraved, it could become a super-quality treasure.
Therefore...
Good news: As long as enough weapons were engraved, even dealing with mechs would be no problem.
Bad news: A large number of weapons needed to be engraved!
Bai Ye once again felt the bittersweet pang of joy and pain.
"Let's draw some gacha to calm my nerves."
Bai Ye threw out the gacha machine and began to draw.
A green one...
A blue one...
Another unremarkable day.
The good news was that the green gacha was a set of arm blades, and the blue gacha was a flying sword named Fei Yan, both of which could be engraved into the Gate of Babylon and swallowed by the Steel Slime.
It could be considered a good omen for an otherwise unremarkable day.
Then...
A golden gacha!
It was impossible to feed the Steel Slime to golden quality using Divine Stone Fragments, at least not currently. Bai Ye's Divine Stone Fragments were completely insufficient.
However, 500,000 growth value...
Bai Ye felt that with effort, it wasn't hopeless.
As for the Divine Stone Fragments themselves...
To say Bai Ye didn't feel a pang of regret would be a lie. Divine Stone Fragments were precious, and collecting them to form Divine Stones was the key to leaving the world battlefield.
But this was relative. By consuming Divine Stone Fragments, he could continuously become stronger. After becoming stronger, he could then find ways to obtain more Divine Stone Fragments.
Bai Ye deeply understood the principle that one couldn't catch a tiger without entering its lair.
In his past life, Bai Ye had often wondered if he hadn't wasted so many Divine Stone Fragments on the gacha machine, would he have been able to enter the central area, that central tower, and leave the world battlefield sooner?
The answer was no.
Because if Bai Ye hadn't spent so many Divine Stone Fragments on the gacha machine, he wouldn't have survived!
As Bai Ye pondered, he spun the gacha machine.
With the machine's rotation, a golden gacha soon dropped out.
Nanming Lihuo (Immortal Sword) (Gold): Forged from Western True Gold and Southern Li Fire. During refinement, gold and fire are fused, transforming from substance to essence through nineteen cycles.
Effect: Rainbow Sword's Edge (When the sword is unsheathed, it transforms into a long rainbow attack, exceptionally brilliant.)
Exorcism and Evil Repulsion (Has a restraining effect on all demons and evil spirits.)
Flowing Light Across the Heavens (Sword light explodes, turning into one hundred and eight streams of dazzling light for attack.)
Li Fire Shakes the Heavens (Forms a sword array with Li Fire, integrating offense and defense.)
Bai Ye's eyes lit up as he looked at the item in the golden gacha. This was an immortal sword no less powerful than the Xuanyuan Sword. It required no reinforcement or amplification; the Nanming Lihuo Sword itself was synonymous with power.
Bai Ye tossed the sword to the Steel Slime, and then...
"Steel Slime has consumed Nanming Lihuo and gained consumption growth."
"Steel Slime consumption growth, current growth value: 125550/500000"
A single Nanming Lihuo sword increased the Steel Slime's growth by seventy thousand, equivalent to several ordinary golden-quality items.
If he had this kind of luck every day, Bai Ye would not only quickly raise the Steel Slime's quality to red, but he would likely have plenty of Divine Stone Fragments to spare.
"Wait..." Bai Ye's eyes suddenly brightened. "If I use the Steel Slime to synthesize, can I create a new weapon to add to the Gate of Babylon?"
Bai Ye acted on his idea immediately. He instructed the Steel Slime to materialize the Ningshuang Sword and the Nanming Lihuo, then began the synthesis.
"You have initiated synthesis, success rate: 95%"
"What the heck!" Bai Ye stared at the screen in shock. "There's a success rate?"
Then...
"You have completed weapon synthesis and obtained a new weapon: Nanming Lihuo (Frost)."
Bai Ye looked at the screen. After synthesis, the Nanming Lihuo had not changed much, only gaining a Frost effect.
Frost: When the flying sword attacks, it carries a chilling aura, with a certain probability of triggering slow, frostbite, and freezing effects.
The tier difference between the Ningshuang Sword and the Nanming Lihuo was too great. It was less of a synthesis and more of an added characteristic of Frost.
However, the key was...
The Gate of Babylon...
Currently engraved weapons: Nanming Lihuo, Nanming Lihuo (Frost).
Current quality enhancement: 8/15.
Among the weapons engraved in the Gate of Babylon were both Nanming Lihuo and Nanming Lihuo (Frost).
"Aha!" Bai Ye's excitement surged. "I can cheat again!"
Bai Ye had already figured out how to quickly improve the Gate of Babylon!
The synthesis of the Steel Slime...
Could be dismantled!
Bai Ye dismantled the Nanming Lihuo (Frost), and it reverted into two weapons. Immediately after, Bai Ye chose other weapons to fuse with Nanming Lihuo, but...
"What's going on?"
Bai Ye froze, staring at the screen.
"You have initiated synthesis, success rate: 5%"
Bai Ye chose to fuse the renowned sword Bloodthirsty with Nanming Lihuo, but...
The success rate was only a meager 5%, leaving Bai Ye dumbfounded. What was the difference between this and being told directly that the synthesis failed?
Bai Ye refused to believe it and switched to the Shadow War Axe, then he was utterly speechless.
"You have initiated synthesis, success rate: 1%"
Good heavens, it dropped from 5% to 1%.
Bai Ye stroked his chin and pondered. He then changed the synthesized weapon back to the Ningshuang Sword.
"You have initiated synthesis, success rate: 100%"
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