I Can Gain One Skill Point Per Second

Chapter 1191: Chapter 1191: Headache-Inducing Materials

Mr. Gongsu really had no idea what kind of Enhancement Level the full Yinglong set had reached.

However, he could still deduce it from Yinglong’s status in that era.

The Immortal King, leading a host of Divine Beings, ended that age when four primordial great gods carved up the world.

When consolidating resources, they discovered this thing called equipment enhancement; at that time, the Immortal King enhanced all his gear to max level, and then did the same for his right?hand men.

As the top enforcer among All Gods of that era, Yinglong’s full set being enhanced to max level was basically a sure thing.

Snatching equipment from Luo Bingxin’s hands was indeed a decent option, it’s just that the Four Corpse Kings at his side were really a pain to deal with.

That day, the crucial decisive battle.

When the Dark Rising Organization was defeated, the Immortal King’s avatar also burned through all of its Divine Power; helpless, it could only take Lin Yi and the Fu Xi Talisman and withdraw from the battlefield.

Getting Lin Yi to defect was no easy feat, and the Fu Xi Talisman had only just fallen into his hands and was incredibly rare; the Immortal King’s Divine Power avatar had no choice but to let Luo Bingxin go.

The War God from the East and his Divine Soldiers did fight like monsters, but stopping the Four Corpse Kings was clearly beyond their pay grade, so they could only let Luo Bingxin and the others leave.

After this battle ended, Luo Bingxin’s outcome was miserably tragic.

He and Old Xuan became targets wanted by All Gods; they betrayed the Dark Rising Organization and had let the Four Corpse Kings sabotage Dark Rising so many times, so naturally Dark Rising Organization wasn’t going to let her off either.

Poor Luo Bingxin could only take Old Xuan and skulk around, hiding everywhere, struggling to survive in the cracks.

After that, the Four Corpse Kings completely vanished without a trace; trying to find them was pretty much the same as fishing a needle out of the ocean.

"Forget how hard those Four Corpse Kings are to deal with; just finding Luo Bingxin alone, don’t you know how hard that is? If we could really track them down, the Immortal King’s intelligence network might as well be thrown in the trash."

Mr. Gongsu certainly understood this.

But what could he do?

What, have Lin Yi lay hands on the Immortal King’s people? In the All Gods Camp, only those old?guard Upper-Rank Gods had enhanced gear, and only the most monstrously strong of the old?guard Upper-Rank Gods were qualified to own a full set enhanced to +100.

Snatching their gear and then dismantling it was going to be more than a little difficult.

That was max-level enhancement that could never be replicated again.

Their equipment was directly tied to their combat power; robbing this gear was no different from taking their lives. If they wanted to grab it by force, there was only one way:

Kill them outright.

Setting aside whether Lin Yi’s current strength could even pull that off, even if he could, doing it without a sound, leaving no trace behind, you could imagine how hard that would be.

There were, however, other old?guard Divine Beings who had a piece or two of gear enhanced to max level; if they robbed an Upper-Rank God, wiped them out, and did it cleanly, they might be able to keep it under wraps.

The problem was, robbing just one Upper-Rank God wouldn’t be enough to enhance Lin Yi’s entire set of gear; they’d still have to make multiple moves later.

If they did that, how could they guarantee they wouldn’t get caught?

Obviously, neither of these plans would work.

"So, old man, this job just can’t be done?"

"We’ve swallowed our pride and put up with this for so long, and we finally find a chance to close the gap between us and him. If we can’t seize this chance, our odds of winning in the future drop again."

Mr. Gongsu could certainly hear what Lin Yi was really saying.

But he, Mr. Gongsu, really had no way.

He’d never been the best cook in the village to begin with; now they weren’t giving him rice, meat, or vegetables, yet still expected him to whip up a banquet fit for a state dinner—where was he supposed to pull that from?

"Don’t nag me over this. Even if you mutter in my ear every day, odds are I still won’t solve this. If you think you can, I’ll teach you every Enhancement Skill I’ve mastered; how much you can digest is up to you. If you still can’t fix it, then we’re truly out of options."

Mr. Gongsu putting things this bluntly showed he really had done all he could.

This wasn’t the kind of problem you could solve by pestering and wheedling.

Seeing Lin Yi’s expression dim, Mr. Gongsu wasn’t feeling much better either.

The two of them weren’t just friends across generations; they also shared the same goal.

Lin Yi wanted to defeat the Immortal King and overthrow his rule over the Three Realms and Six Paths, and Mr. Gongsu wanted the same thing—he wanted to kill the Immortal King and avenge his family.

After thinking it over, Mr. Gongsu proposed another idea.

"You took part in that war ten years ago, right? In that war, were any high-tier Upper-Rank Gods killed? If so, for the ones who died, can you maybe loot something off their corpses?"

This kind of thing was basically just wishful thinking.

Equipment at max Enhancement Level was rare across the entire Three Realms and Six Paths. Even if an Upper-Rank God carrying such a rare piece fell on the battlefield, the Immortal King would definitely reclaim it; there’s no way it would ever be Lin Yi’s turn to scheme for it.

Unless...

Unless the place where they fell was somewhere even the Immortal King couldn’t retrieve it from!

"Come to think of it, there really is one!"

In the ten years since he’d joined the All Gods Camp, Lin Yi had pretty much figured this camp out inside and out.

"All Gods" referred to the various factions’ Celestial Divine Beings.

The Divine Beings of each faction were all scheming against each other, fighting openly and in secret for their own interests.

That was precisely why the Dark Rising Organization had been able to seize the Desire Realm for a time.

As time passed, the Divine Beings of each faction grew significantly stronger, especially the leaders of each faction; once they felt their strength had surpassed the Immortal King’s and that they could replace him, the weight of the Immortal King’s orders plummeted.

During that period, only Lingming Ancient Buddha of Spirit Crossing Mountain was still leading his followers in support of the Immortal King.

Sadly, Lingming Ancient Buddha fell by accident while helping the Immortal King seize the Nuwa Spirit.

This supposedly heroic self?sacrifice spread far and wide throughout the All Gods Camp; the Immortal King even put on a big show of posthumously honoring and rewarding him because of it.

On the surface, Lingming Ancient Buddha’s death looked perfectly normal, a heroic sacrifice made for the leader’s cause.

But those higher?status, still clear?headed Divine Beings all understood that Lingming Ancient Buddha hadn’t "heroically sacrificed" anything; he’d simply failed to recognize his own position and ended up offending the Immortal King, which led to that result.

Given Lingming Ancient Buddha’s status, he was definitely clad head to toe in max-level gear, which fit Mr. Gongsu’s requirements for dismantling equipment.

Second, Lingming Ancient Buddha had fallen in the Secret Realm where they went to obtain the Nuwa Spirit.

If someone of his strength got taken out in there, there was no need to mention those weaker members; just getting the Nuwa Spirit safely into the Immortal King’s hands was already no small feat.

Trying to recover Lingming Ancient Buddha’s gear from a Secret Realm riddled with danger was basically impossible.

After obtaining the Nuwa Spirit, the Immortal King probably couldn’t care less about that Secret Realm dungeon anymore, nor did he worry about Lingming Ancient Buddha’s full set falling into anyone’s hands inside it.

Letting a full set of +100 Mythical Equipment just rot inside a Secret Realm was indeed a pity, but once the Nuwa Spirit was removed, the Secret Realm could no longer be opened; if no one could get the gear, then neither could the enemy.

When he got halfway through talking about Lingming Ancient Buddha’s story, Mr. Gongsu had been in quite a good mood, but once he finished, his face darkened.