Demon King: Hero, don’t run away!

Without needing a reminder from Yang Yu, [Dragon God’s Might] took the initiative, revealing the technique of exchanging items for points and using those points to purchase goods.

If Legendary Equipment is not required or there are other urgent items to exchange for, this operation can be completed.

Originally, Yang Yu wanted to teach others this method to prevent participating adventurers from being at a disadvantage.

Since [Dragon God’s Might] mentioned it first, Yang Yu saved himself some effort and began to seriously search for what he wanted.

Due to using the complete Treasure Vault when he won at the Dragon God Conference last time, searching for things on this trimmed-down interface was not difficult for Yang Yu.

Soon, Yang Yu locked onto the equipment he wanted:

[Klotka’s Soft Armor

Quality: Legendary

Attributes: Max HP +10%, +5% Damage Reduction, Defense +15%, Special Defense +15%, Defense +500

Passive Skill - [Unbreakable]: When Life Value is below 40%, gain an additional 10% Damage Reduction.

Active Skill - [Dissolve]: Consumes 10% of current HP to block the HP damage of the next three attacks, duration 30 seconds; after blocking is complete or duration ends, cooldown is 60 seconds.

]

This piece of equipment, in low blood volume situations, can divide blood volume into three parts for use, synergizing with the passive of the equipment to enhance tanking in a disguised manner, and can control blood to cooperate with skills, extremely suitable for Yang Yu.

This equipment, Yang Yu had wanted since receiving an award at Panlong Peak.

But because there were many things to investigate and he had to prioritize ensuring his companions’ strength, Yang Yu did not choose this expensive equipment as a reward.

Now that Bai Jin and the others are more or less formed, as the main tank, he also ought to think about himself.

In the event of encountering a crisis in the future, Yang Yu does not know if he can think of a way to escape again.

The situations using the [Unyielding to Despair] title and [Escape Expert] are probably only going to increase.

Entering a do-or-die situation with the tense mindset of ”accidentally might die” each time, even for Yang Yu, cannot guarantee his mindset won’t have some issues.

With this equipment increasing the margin for error after extremely low blood volume, while it doesn’t entirely solve the tension, it can at least slightly ease it.

However, this equipment is still terribly expensive, almost 2.2 times the cost of ordinary Legendary Equipment.

Without hesitation, Yang Yu still acquired Klotka’s Soft Armor.

The remaining points were just enough to outfit Lotcar with a piece of Grude Plan Equipment.

[Grude Plan’s Iron Plate Boots:

In Human Form, Defense +10%, Special Defense +10%, -200 fixed damage when hit.

In Beast Form, Defense +15%, Special Defense +15%, HP +10%, +5% Strength, gain Passive [Iron Hoof]: After entering battle, increase Defense and Special Defense by 1% every 10 seconds, stackable up to 20 times, decrease by one stack every 5 seconds after leaving battle, with a 20% bonus damage to Kick techniques after fully stacked.]

A mediocre piece of equipment, Lotcar mostly maintains a large Beast Form, and the bonuses are not bad.

But the fact that this pair of boots does not increase Speed is truly puzzling.

It is estimated that this [Grude Plan’s Iron Plate Boots] is designed for those Subhumans that can transform into draft horses.

Once the equipment was selected, Yang Yu, like the other adventurers, queued to collect his rewards.

Hei Luo extended his hand, summoned a giant Treasure Box, and as the box opened and closed, distributed rewards one by one to the adventurers.

Yang Yu successfully obtained the two pieces of equipment he wanted.

[Island Drifting] was right behind Yang Yu; they didn’t opt for Legendary Equipment, instead exchanging for three Skill Scrolls and a relatively inexpensive Potion.

The Ocean Duchy is littered with various Sea-dwelling Species. Rather than a country, it’s more like a loose federation. Due to the lack of an effective communication system, many industries languish here, including the skill scroll manufacturing that lacks technical skills.

If one wants a skill that suits themselves, and the people around aren’t proficient with it, they might have to travel to several Sea-dwelling Species territories, spending years to gain favor with a race that holds that skill just to learn it themselves.

Therefore, in the Ocean Duchy, Skill Scrolls have become one of the highest-priced tradable commodities among adventurers.

Sometimes, because Skill Scrolls are extremely precious, they’ve lost their original purpose, turning into high-value exchange items like renowned artworks and paintings.

[Island Drifting] doesn’t lack money; exchanging these Skill Scrolls isn’t for market circulation. They genuinely want to get stronger.

Having received their reward, Lingshan took the initiative to approach Yang Yu and engage him:

”Was your conversation with [Dragon God’s Might] smooth?”

Yang Yu just happened to want to talk with [Island Drifting], but he was more interested in speaking with Lang Yi rather than Lingshan.

In Yang Yu’s view, if he invited Lingshan to join in subduing [Count Blood], she would certainly agree without a second thought.

But if Lang Yi extended the invitation to [Island Drifting] to conquer [Count Blood], Lang Yi would surely carefully weigh the pros and cons, then make a decision that best aligns with their team’s interests, rather than an individual capriciousness.

Yang Yu certainly didn’t want to see those battling alongside him flee or defect to the enemy.

Though Yang Yu didn’t assume [Island Drifting] would do such things.

”[Dragon God’s Might] is lukewarm, maintaining neutrality toward my ideas, perhaps unable to handle my issues promptly.”

Yang Yu began by clarifying the danger of what needed to be done, then proceeded to request a change in conversation representative,

”This is a very dangerous Task, and if I can’t find capable people, I might abandon it.

Your [Island Drifting] is quite capable, and we’ve collaborated before.

I wish to invite you to help me address my issue, but because it’s too dangerous, I don’t want to compel anyone.

I need someone in your team able to think calmly.

After hearing what I have to say, join me in considering the feasibility of the strategy.”

”That’s no problem. Lang Yi, can you take over?”

Lang Yi was not far from Lingshan, observing her to prevent her from causing trouble everywhere.

Hearing Lingshan’s call, Lang Yi walked over to Yang Yu and suggested:

”It’s pretty noisy here. Shall we move to a quieter place?”

Yang Yu nodded slightly at Lang Yi before following his steps to a tranquil seaside.

Once confirming there was no one around, Yang Yu signaled Bai Jin to cast a Soundproof Barrier.

Gripping the Magic Wand, Bai Jin chanted the spell for the Soundproof Barrier.

Yet, before the Soundproof Barrier completely unfolded, a small white fish slowly swam out from under Bai Jin’s clothes.

This is Hualan from [Corpse Collection Coffin], who purposely left a Spiritual Body to maintain contact with Yang Yu and the others.

This Spiritual Body was always inside Bai Jin’s Crystal Ball, and its emergence now indicates there is news regarding the [Curse Sect] from the [Corpse Collection Coffin] side.