As the Holy Grail War concluded, it was almost time to reset the Xuanyuan Sword.
Therefore, the answer would be known with just a short wait.
Soon, time ticked by, second by second.
The gacha machine’s reset time arrived, and the Xuanyuan Sword vanished.
But...
The Xuanyuan Sword in the Gate of Babylon remained!
"It worked!"
Bai Ye couldn't help but swing his arm, having successfully exploited a bug. Weapons from the gacha machine could indeed be used to fill the Gate of Babylon.
However, there were still some issues.
First, the Gate of Babylon prioritized quantity over quality.
Simply put, for the Gate of Babylon, there was no difference between a golden-quality weapon obtained from a golden gacha using Divine Stone fragments and a random white-quality weapon pulled with a single draw; both just added +1 to the count.
This was very different from the Steel Slime.
Still, it was ultimately a good thing, as it meant he had a chance to replenish the Gate of Babylon every day.
Second, not all weapons could be inscribed into the Gate of Babylon; only melee weapons could be inscribed.
Bai Ye currently still had the Pulse Pistols.
Firearms were undeniably weapons, but the Pulse Pistols would not be inscribed into the Gate of Babylon, indicating that only melee weapons could be inscribed.
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 with enough weapons.
After all...
There was no upper limit to quality enhancement!
This meant that golden quality was not the upper limit of the Gate of Babylon. As long as the Gate of Babylon inscribed enough weapons, it could become an ultimate treasure.
So...
Good news: As long as there were enough inscribed weapons, even going head-to-head with mechs was no problem.
Bad news: It required a lot of inscribed weapons!
Bai Ye once again felt the pain mixed with joy.
"Let's draw from the 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 "Fei Yan," both of which could be inscribed into the Gate of Babylon and devoured by the Steel Slime.
It was considered a good omen for an otherwise ordinary day.
Then...
A golden gacha!
It was impossible to evolve the Steel Slime to golden quality using Divine Stone fragments, at least not at the moment; Bai Ye's Divine Stone fragments were completely insufficient.
But fifty thousand growth value...
Bai Ye felt that with effort, it wasn't entirely 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 a relative matter. 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 deeply understood the saying, "You can't catch a wolf without going into the mountains."
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 sooner if he hadn't invested so many Divine Stone fragments into 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!
Thinking as he spun the gacha machine.
As the machine whirred, a golden gacha soon dropped out.
Nanming Lihuo (Xianjian) (Golden): Forged from true Western gold and Southern Li Fire, it fuses gold and fire during refinement, transitioning from substance to essence over nineteen cycles.
Effect: Sword Rainbow Unrivaled (When the sword is unsheathed, it transforms into a long rainbow attack, exceptionally brilliant.)
Exorcise Evil and Ward off Disaster (Has a suppressive effect on all demons.)
Flowing Light Through the Heavens (Sword light explodes, transforming into one hundred and eight dazzling rays for attack.)
Li Huo Shocks the Heavens (Forms a sword formation with Li Huo, integrating offense and defense.)
Bai Ye's eyes lit up as he looked at the contents of the golden gacha. This was a celestial sword no less powerful than the Xuanyuan Sword, requiring no enhancements or boosts. The Nanming Lihuo Sword itself was a symbol of power.
Bai Ye threw the sword to the Steel Slime, and then...
"The Steel Slime has devoured Nanming Lihuo, gaining devouring growth."
"Steel Slime devouring growth, current growth value: 125550 / 500000"
A single Nanming Lihuo sword increased the Steel Slime's growth value by seventy thousand, equivalent to several ordinary golden-quality items.
If he had this luck every day, Bai Ye would not only be able to quickly raise the Steel Slime's quality to red but would likely have plenty of Divine Stone fragments to spare.
"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, having the Steel Slime materialize the Ning Shuang Sword and the Nanming Lihuo, then began the synthesis.
"You have initiated synthesis, success rate: 95%."
"What the hell!" Bai Ye stared at the screen, stunned. "There's a success rate?"
Then...
"You have completed weapon synthesis and obtained a new weapon: Nanming Lihuo (Cold)."
Bai Ye looked at the screen. After synthesis, the Nanming Lihuo hadn't changed much, except for the addition of the "Ning Shuang" effect.
Ning Shuang: When the flying sword attacks, it carries cold air, with a certain probability of triggering slowing, frostbite, and freezing effects.
The quality difference between the Ning Shuang Sword and Nanming Lihuo was too great. It was less of a synthesis and more of an addition of the Ning Shuang characteristic.
But the key was...
The Gate of Babylon...
Currently inscribed weapons: Nanming Lihuo, Nanming Lihuo (Cold).
Current quality enhancement: 8 / 15.
Among the weapons inscribed in the Gate of Babylon, there was both Nanming Lihuo and Nanming Lihuo (Cold).
"Aha!" Bai Ye immediately became excited. "I can cheat again!"
Bai Ye had figured out how to quickly enhance the Gate of Babylon!
The Steel Slime's synthesis...
It could be dismantled!
Bai Ye dismantled Nanming Lihuo (Cold), and it reverted into two weapons. Immediately, Bai Ye chose other weapons to fuse with Nanming Lihuo, but...
"What's going on?"
Bai Ye stared blankly at the screen.
"You have initiated synthesis, success rate: 5%."
Bai Ye chose to synthesize the famous sword "Bloodthirsty" with Nanming Lihuo, but...
The success rate was only a mere 5%, instantly bewildering Bai Ye. What was the difference between this and being told the synthesis failed?
Bai Ye, refusing to believe it, switched to the Shadow War Axe, and then Bai Ye was utterly dumbfounded.
"You have initiated synthesis, success rate: 1%."
Good heavens, it dropped from 5% to 1%.
Bai Ye stroked his chin and pondered, then changed the synthesized weapon back to the Ning Shuang Sword.
"You have initiated synthesis, success rate: 100%."