As the Holy Grail War concluded, the Xuanyuan Sword was also nearing its reset time.
Therefore, the answer would be known with a short wait.
Soon, time ticked by.
The gacha reset time arrived, and the Xuanyuan Sword vanished.
However...
The Xuanyuan Sword within 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 also be used to fill the Gate of Babylon.
Still, there were some issues.
First, the Gate of Babylon prioritized quantity over quality.
Simply put, whether Bai Ye drew a gold-quality weapon from a gold gacha using Divine Stone fragments or a white-quality weapon with a casual pull, there was no difference to the Gate of Babylon; it was just +1 to quantity.
This was quite different from the Steel Slime.
But, it was still a good thing, as it meant he had a chance to replenish the Gate of Babylon every day.
Second, not all weapons could be recorded by the Gate of Babylon; only cold weapons could be recorded.
Currently, Bai Ye still had the Pulse Twin Guns.
Firearms were certainly weapons, but the Pulse Twin Guns would not be recorded into the Gate of Babylon. This showed that only cold weapons could be recorded by the Gate of Babylon.
Thinking about it, Bai Ye felt the Gate of Babylon was acceptable.
What Bai Ye wanted most was undoubtedly the Ea, but the Gate of Babylon was also terrifying as long as it had enough weapons.
After all...
There was no upper limit to quality improvement!
This meant that gold quality was not the upper limit of the Gate of Babylon. As long as the Gate of Babylon recorded enough weapons, it could become a super-quality Noble Phantasm.
So...
Good news: As long as enough weapons were recorded, even confronting mechs and similar things would be completely fine.
Bad news: Enough weapons needed to be recorded!
Bai Ye once again felt the pain mixed with happiness.
"Let's draw a gacha to calm my nerves."
Bai Ye threw out the gacha machine and began to draw.
One green...
One blue...
Another ordinary day.
The good news was that the green gacha yielded an arm blade, and the blue gacha yielded a flying sword called Feiyan, both of which could be recorded into the Gate of Babylon and consumed by the Steel Slime.
It was a good omen for an otherwise ordinary day.
Then...
A gold gacha!
It was impossible to feed the Steel Slime to gold quality by relying on Divine Stone fragments, at least not currently. Bai Ye's Divine Stone fragments were completely insufficient.
However, with fifty thousand growth value...
Bai Ye felt that with effort, it wasn't hopeless.
As for the Divine Stone fragments themselves...
It would be a lie to say Bai Ye wasn't heartbroken. Divine Stone fragments were precious, and collecting Divine Stone fragments to assemble a Divine Stone was the key to leaving the world battlefield.
But this was a matter of perspective. Only by consuming Divine Stone fragments could he continuously become stronger, and only by becoming stronger could he find ways to obtain more Divine Stone fragments.
Bai Ye understood the principle that one couldn't catch a wolf without sacrificing a child.
In his previous life, Bai Ye had often wondered if he could have entered the central area, the central tower, and left the world battlefield earlier if he hadn't spent so many Divine Stone fragments on the gacha machine.
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 thought, he spun the gacha machine.
As the machine spun, a gold gacha soon dropped.
Nanming Lihuo (Immortal Sword) (Gold): Forged from Western true gold and refined with Southern Lihuo. During refinement, it fused gold and fire, transitioning from tangible to intangible, requiring nineteen complete cycles.
Effects: Sword Rainbow Unrivaled (When the sword is unleashed, it transforms into a long rainbow and attacks, exceptionally brilliant.)
Exorcism and Evil Repulsion (Has a restraining effect on all demons.)
Flowing Light Through the Heavens (Sword light explodes, transforming into one hundred and eight radiant beams for attack.)
Lihuo Shocks the Heavens (Uses Lihuo to form a sword array, integrating offense and defense.)
Bai Ye's eyes lit up as he looked at the item in the gold gacha. This was an immortal sword no less powerful than the Xuanyuan Sword. It required no enhancements or buffs; 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 Devouring Growth."
"Steel Slime Devouring Growth, current growth value: 125550 / 500000"
The Nanming Lihuo sword increased the Steel Slime's growth value by seventy thousand, equivalent to several ordinary gold-quality items.
If he had this luck every day, Bai Ye would not only be able to quickly upgrade the Steel Slime to red quality but might even have plenty of Divine Stone fragments left over.
"Wait..." Bai Ye's eyes suddenly lit up. "If I use the Steel Slime to synthesize, can I create a new weapon and add it to the Gate of Babylon?"
Bai Ye acted immediately. He had the Steel Slime manifest the Ning Shuang Sword and the Nanming Lihuo, then began to synthesize.
"You initiated synthesis, success rate: 95%"
"Holy crap!" Bai Ye stared at the screen, astonished. "There's a success rate?"
Then...
"You have completed weapon synthesis, obtaining 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 is accompanied by cold energy, with a certain probability of triggering slow, frostbite, and freezing effects.
The grade difference between the Ning Shuang Sword and the Nanming Lihuo was too large. It was less of a synthesis and more of an added frost characteristic.
But the key was...
The Gate of Babylon...
Currently recorded weapons: Nanming Lihuo, Nanming Lihuo (Frost).
Current quality improvement: 8 / 15.
Among the weapons recorded in the Gate of Babylon, there were both Nanming Lihuo and Nanming Lihuo (Frost).
"Aha!" Bai Ye became excited. "I can cheat again!"
Bai Ye had already figured out how to quickly improve the Gate of Babylon!
The Steel Slime's synthesis...
It could be disassembled!
Bai Ye disassembled Nanming Lihuo (Frost), and it reverted into two weapons. Immediately after, Bai Ye chose to fuse other weapons with Nanming Lihuo, but...
"What's going on?"
Bai Ye stared at the screen, stunned.
"You initiated synthesis, success rate: 5%"
Bai Ye chose to fuse the famous sword Bloodthirsty with Nanming Lihuo, but...
The success rate was only a mere 5%, leaving Bai Ye dumbfounded. What was the difference between this and being told the synthesis failed?
Bai Ye refused to believe it and switched to the Shadow Battle Axe, then Bai Ye was completely dumbfounded.
"You initiated synthesis, success rate: 1%"
Good heavens, it dropped from 5% to 1%.
Bai Ye touched his chin and pondered, then switched the synthesis weapon back to the Ning Shuang Sword.
"You initiated synthesis, success rate: 100%"
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