Bai Ye said, "Whether this matter is true or false has not yet been determined. I'll investigate. You just proceed as planned. With so many people dead at Marineford this time, your opportunity has arrived. Seize it well. The higher your position, the more you can uncover."
Yimi nodded, "Understood."
Bai Ye casually handed the Shadow-Shadow Fruit to Yimi, saying, "I got this from defeating Moria. It's of no use to me. Eat it and enhance your strength."
Yimi nodded.
Bai Ye continued, "Contact me if anything comes up. I'll be going ahead."
Yimi didn't stand on ceremony and, after taking the Shadow-Shadow Fruit, replied, "Alright!"
Bai Ye unfurled his Kagune and flew off into the distance.
While flying, Bai Ye opened his status screen to review his gains and sighed, truly a large-scale forbidden zone. He had given the Shadow-Shadow Fruit to Yimi.
However, Bai Ye still held six golden-quality items in his hand!
Five hundred kill counts could be exchanged for a random golden-quality item. Bai Ye's kill count had exceeded two thousand. Destroying twenty Pacifistas would yield a random golden-quality item, and Bai Ye had destroyed fifty-nine.
This number left Bai Ye displeased because the total number of Pacifistas was sixty. Bai Ye had dismantled almost all of them using his Mechanical Reconstruction, but some scoundrel had destroyed one before he could finish, causing him to miss out on one golden-quality item.
"Achoo!" Li Jia Yi's beautiful assistant rubbed her nose and looked at Li Jia Yi, "Why did I suddenly sneeze? Is someone thinking of me?"
Li Jia Yi pouted, "Even if someone is thinking of you, it's probably about you causing trouble for someone again."
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After cursing the person who destroyed a Pacifista, Bai Ye began the random item draws.
He didn't have high expectations, as they were all random. With his luck, Bai Ye was quite Zen.
Soon, the first golden-quality item appeared, and then...
Bai Ye's eyes lit up!
Super Gene Modification Cell Fluid (Item) (Gold) x1: A gene fluid that can strengthen the body by altering gene sequencing. Upon consumption, all physical attributes will randomly increase by 30-100 points. It requires at least four gene gates to be opened before use. It has a 100% chance to unlock the fifth gene gate, a 70% chance to unlock the sixth, a 35% chance to unlock the seventh, and a 10% chance to unlock the eighth. There's a 50% chance to unlock two gene gates consecutively, a 5% chance to unlock three consecutively, and a 0.5% chance to unlock four. If gene gate unlocking fails, gene sequencing recombination side effects will occur.
This item would be wasted on anyone else. Although it was a gene fluid item for modifying physical attributes, it only targeted gene gates.
Furthermore, it could only be used after opening four gene gates...
Bai Ye couldn't use it either, but he had opened three gene gates. He only needed to open one more to be able to use it.
Therefore, the probability of it gathering dust was not high.
However, was this good luck or bad luck?
This item could be considered a bit of bad luck. Unlocking gene gates was a gradual process, requiring the use of gene fluid items from beginner to intermediate, intermediate to advanced, and advanced to super, with quality increasing accordingly.
If he hadn't used it before, this item would be useless.
But Bai Ye had coincidentally opened gene gates before...
Never mind, he would consider it his good fortune!
He continued to draw the remaining golden-quality items.
The second item was a great sword from a magic world, no surprise.
The third item was a demon hunter's robe from a supernatural zone, no surprise.
The fourth item, Bai Ye finally mustered all his attention.
His luck had turned!
Mechanical Heart (Item) (Gold): A mechanical artifact created by the legendary God of Machines, bestowing the user the favor of the God of Machines.
Bai Ye truly hadn't expected to draw the Mechanical Heart at this time!
With this, his Mechanical Reconstruction ability would be perfected!
Of course, in a way...
This was another item that made him question if it was good luck or bad luck, because without Bai Ye, this item would be useless.
Only because Bai Ye possessed the Mechanical Reconstruction ability did this item have value; otherwise, he could only look at it!
But regardless, for Bai Ye, this was undoubtedly the most valuable item!
Bai Ye couldn't help but glance at his status screen. His Mechanical Reconstruction proficiency was over 2000 away from reaching golden quality. Then, with another 500,000 proficiency points, he could use the Mechanical Heart. The emergence of the former God of Machines was within reach.
And was proficiency a problem?
Proficiency was truly not a problem!
This item could be "cheated" with, or rather, there was a way to increase it rapidly.
Find a future technology zone map, and then, no matter what it was, dismantle any mechanical product relentlessly!
Although proficiency was increased through usage, compared to combat, Mechanical Reconstruction, as long as mechanical products could be found, could be continuously farmed until mental energy was depleted.
Of course, the proficiency requirement for Mechanical Reconstruction was indeed quite high. For the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, it was tens of thousands. Although the number of upgrades was high, Mechanical Reconstruction directly required two hundred thousand, then five hundred thousand, which was indeed a bit outrageous...
However, overall, it could be farmed quickly because Bai Ye had done this in his previous life.
At that time, it only took Bai Ye a month and a half to max out his Mechanical Reconstruction proficiency, but finding the Mechanical Heart had taken a full year.
"I must find another future technology zone!"
Bai Ye decisively set his next goal.
After the appearance of the Mechanical Heart, Bai Ye's luck returned to normal.
The fifth item was an item called Sticky Spirit Jelly. This item could strengthen slime-type spirit beasts or enhance an ability called Slime Bomb.
Like the Mechanical Heart, it was a purely directional enhancement item.
Bai Ye had neither slime-type spirit beasts nor the Slime Bomb ability, so he could only set the item aside to gather dust or trade it.
However, items with such strong directional effects were not easy to trade, as only a select few people would need them.
But getting the Mechanical Heart was good luck. If the rest were trash, Bai Ye didn't care.
He was rich!
The sixth item was an unremarkable trinket.
Twenty-Four Bridges Moonlight Night (Sword Skill) (Gold): Supreme sword technique, one sword transforms into twenty-four, capable of cleaving the moon's reflection in a well. It is the world's most unparalleled fast sword.
Effects: Moon Cleave (When using this move at night, power increases by 50%, and attack speed increases by 50%).
World's Fastest Sword (When using this sword skill, if all twenty-four swords hit, it will inevitably shatter defenses).
Sword Without Shadow (If this sword skill is used to kill someone, the attack speed of the next sword will increase by 30%, stacking up to three times, and can stack with the Moon Cleave effect).
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