Ta Tian Qing
Chapter 21 Epic-Level Pet, Nine-Star Crafted Equipment, God-Slaying Array!
When a Beast Master's *Yu Shou Jue* (Beast Controlling Skill) reached its peak, they could control hundreds of pets of all sizes, but this required sufficient Spirit stats to manage them.
Moreover, pets could also be used for body possession.
After possession, a character's attributes would receive a proportional boost based on the pet's quality, level, and stats.
A single pet could boost all attributes by up to 45%.
The Zhu Niao (Vermilion Bird) was the highest tier of pet.
Lin Chen opened all one hundred Prism Eggs in one go.
He established a Spirit Beast Base within the inner circle of Tianyue City, recruited thirty top-tier beast tamers, and spent sixty million gold coins. Pets that he couldn't use himself could be temporarily kept there.
Lin Chen placed all Perfect quality pets in the base first.
It should be noted that although a maximum of three pets could be deployed in battle, there was no limit to the number of pets one could soulbind with.
Lin Chen soulbinded with every single pet.
Then, he clicked on the Spirit Beast Base and set the nurturing budget.
Maintaining one hundred spirit beasts would cost a million gold coins per month.
In the past, Lin Chen definitely couldn't afford it.
But now, it didn't matter.
Then Lin Chen began to check the quality of these pets one by one.
His luck was not bad.
At least, it wasn't terrible.
But no Mythical pets appeared.
Out of one hundred Prism Eggs, he hatched ten Transcendent pets.
Among them, six were Legendary, and four were Epic.
Lin Chen selected some, first choosing two for himself, and then three for Liu Mengyao.
The three pets for Liu Mengyao had a relatively reasonable class composition. The Epic-grade Tank pet would replace her Sword Dragon, and the other two were Warrior and Mage classes, respectively. This way, Liu Mengyao wouldn't have to worry about lacking damage output when facing solo quests in the future.
As for Lin Chen himself, he planned to maximize damage output!
Therefore, he chose another Mage-class pet.
[Snow Maiden]
[Soulbound: Lin Zhong Chen Xi]
[Quality: Epic]
[Overall Growth Rating: SS]
[Level: 1]
[Constitution: 120]
[Strength: 80]
[Spirit: 160]
[Agility: 120]
[Free Attribute Points: 10]
[HP: 1440]
[Physical Attack: 800]
[Magic Attack: 2880]
[Movement Speed: 1.2 yards/second]
[Talent Skills: Supreme Goodness is Like Water, Ice Heart, Serenity of Mind]
[Supreme Goodness is Like Water: When water is present in the surroundings, any spell damage from the Snow Maiden has a 10% chance to stun enemies for one second. All damage dealt by the Snow Maiden is increased by 10%]
[Frozen Body: The Snow Maiden lowers the surrounding temperature (Passive). Active: After the Snow Maiden uses this skill, she enters a frozen state, and her body is covered with thick ice. Any attack is ineffective against her, lasting for five seconds. Mana Cost: 300, Cooldown: 30 seconds!]
[Serenity of Mind: Immune to any negative status effects that affect rationality. She cannot be bewitched or controlled. Puppet techniques have no effect on her!]
This was a Water-attribute pet.
Moreover, it leaned towards control, but the magic attack growth coefficient reached 18, making it suitable for dealing damage. It also had strong survivability and immunity to negative status effects.
Lin Chen could definitely use it.
As for the last pet, Lin Chen chose a non-magic pet.
[Flying Rat]
[Soulbound: Lin Zhong Chen Xi]
[Quality: Epic]
[Overall Growth Rating: SS]
[Level: 1]
[Constitution: 120]
[Strength: 120]
[Spirit: 80]
[Agility: 160]
[Free Attribute Points: 10]
[HP: 1440]
[Physical Attack: 1440]
[Magic Attack: 800]
[Movement Speed: 7.88 yards/second]
[Talent Skills: Stealth, Soaring Wings, Immunity to All Poisons]
[Stealth: The Flying Rat can conceal its figure, becoming visible after being attacked or initiating an attack. Stealth lasts for 1 minute, Mana Cost: 100, Cooldown: 1 minute (Usable in possession state)]
[Soaring Wings: The Flying Rat's movement speed is permanently increased by 5 yards per second, doubled in flight.]
[Immunity to All Poisons: Immune to all poison damage.]
Undoubtedly, this pet was for survival.
The Assassin-class Flying Rat wasn't particularly strong in terms of damage output. Its talent skills didn't include any damage-related talents. However, the Flying Rat's Constitution growth coefficient reached 12, and its Agility growth coefficient reached 18. After possession, Lin Chen would still be in stealth, and all his attributes would be boosted by around 40%, which was excellent.
At level one, the Flying Rat's speed reached nearly 8 yards per second, which was incredibly fast!
As a Wind Mage, besides spell damage, speed was his lifeline.
With the pets settled, next was identifying equipment.
Because there were no level 110 or 120 crafting recipes yet, everyone could only craft level 100 handcrafted equipment.
Lin Chen directly used Advanced Identification Charms. After working for half an hour, he finally identified all two thousand sets of handcrafted equipment.
His luck was quite good.
He actually got eight Nine-Star handcrafted pieces!
But what made Lin Chen speechless was that none of them were usable.
But that didn't matter.
Lin Chen took out the Celestial Crafting Crystals and directly extracted attributes from other equipment.
Nine-Star handcrafted equipment didn't have set effects.
Sets had three attribute lines: stats, traits, and skills. Handcrafted equipment could stably have four stats. Besides stats, it could have three trait lines.
Moreover, Celestial Crafting Crystals were definitely used to craft with maximum stats.
Therefore, many players would choose to equip six handcrafted pieces if they didn't have a satisfactory set.
The key point was that handcrafted equipment could be designed with the desired attributes.
The only downside was that handcrafted equipment didn't have skills.
In short, each had its advantages and disadvantages, depending on how one chose.
Lin Chen definitely wouldn't replace his set. Four pieces meant four skills, which was too good.
Therefore, Lin Chen crafted four such handcrafted pieces.
[Red Moon Belt]
[Quality: Mythical]
[Level: 100]
[Stats: Constitution +250, Spirit +500]
[Trait 1: Skill Casting Time Reduced by 30%]
[Trait 2: Skill Effect Enhanced by 20%]
[Skill 3: Group Damage Reduction by 5%]
Undoubtedly, this piece of equipment was for Liu Mengyao.
Every attribute line was maxed out for her!
In the past, each attribute line on this piece of equipment would have been worth hundreds of thousands of RMB, not counting the cost of the Nine-Star handcrafted mold. If that was included, this one piece of equipment could have bought a house in a third- or fourth-tier city.
[Priest's Cloak]
[Quality: Mythical]
[Level: 100]
[Stats: Constitution +250, Spirit +500]
[Trait 1: Mana Consumption Reduced by 20%]
[Trait 2: Control Resistance Increased by 10%]
[Trait 3: Healing Effect Enhanced by 15%]
Again, all the attribute lines were maxed out. Combining the two pieces of equipment would enhance Liu Mengyao's healing skill effects by 30%. A single Healing Spell would originally heal for 10,000, but now it could heal for 13,500.
It could be said that these two pieces of equipment were enough for a Priest to be fully geared!
Lin Chen's own equipment was also top-tier Nine-Star.
[Windwalker Belt]
[Quality: Mythical]
[Level: 100]
[Stats: Spirit +550, Agility +200]
[Trait 1: Skill Casting Time Reduced by 30%]
[Trait 2: Skill Effect Enhanced by 20%]
[Trait 3: All Skills Increased by 1 Level]
……
[Mage's Wild Imagination Cloak]
[Quality: Mythical]
[Level: 100]
[Stats: Spirit +550, Agility +200]
[Trait 1: Wind Force Field Effect Enhanced by 50%]
[Trait 2: All Skills Increased by 1 Level]
[Skill 3: Skill Damage Effect Increased by 15%]
These were the two sets of equipment Lin Chen custom-made for himself.
Adding the set effects, all of Lin Chen's skill levels now reached level 13. The enhancement was enormous. Coupled with the skill enhancement and skill damage increase effects, Lin Chen's current damage output could rival a Fire Mage's.
Lin Chen immediately took the four pieces of equipment to enhance them.
All of them were enhanced to +18!
Then, he equipped the handcrafted pieces.
Lin Chen opened his stat panel.
[Lin Zhong Chen Xi]
[Class: Mage (Wind)]
[Level: 115]
[Experience: 200 million/1.5 billion]
[HP: 17000]
[Mana: 170,000]
[Magic Attack: 79000]
[Physical Attack: 1800]
[Movement Speed: 34.2 yards/second]
[Constitution: 1700]
[Spirit: 15800]
[Strength: 1200]
[Agility: 3120]
His Magic Attack was only a thousand away from reaching 80,000.
It was expected to break through the 80,000 threshold upon reaching level 120.
If Lin Chen switched to Fire Mage now, he could break through 100,000 Magic Attack.
In addition, Lin Chen's speed was already terrifying.
He was almost in the range of running 100 meters in three seconds.
He was truly a man of the wind!
When Lin Chen finished all of this, Liu Mengyao came online.
Lin Chen handed the equipment and pets over to her. At the same time, he put all the items Zhang Chunlin had mailed into the warehouse and paid for them. Lin Chen said to Liu Mengyao, "Another five hundred Supreme Treasure Maps have arrived. Let's continue digging for treasures and level up our pets!"
"Okay!"
Liu Mengyao nodded, but also said, "How about we stop when they reach level 100? I want you to take me to tour the Heavenly Palace."
"No problem!"
Lin Chen naturally agreed.
Now that the handcrafted equipment was done and the pets were sufficient,
there wasn't much room for improvement on Lin Chen's account. He could spend some time doing other things.
The items that could be dug up from Supreme Treasure Maps weren't of much significance to Lin Chen now, so he didn't have any expectations. But reality was often like this. When you wanted something, it wouldn't come.
Now that Lin Chen had no expectations, he actually dug up ten Eternal Crystals from two hundred maps.
He even dug up a page of a Formation!
[Fragmented Page of the God-Slaying Formation]
[This is one of the fragments that makes up the ninth-level city-protecting formation, the God-Slaying Formation. Legend has it that the God-Slaying Formation is extremely powerful, capable of trapping gods to their death, so it was destroyed by the gods and divided into six pieces. This is just one of them.]
Wow, the God-Slaying Formation!
A ninth-level city-protecting formation!
This was a good thing!
Lin Chen quickly put it away.
At the same time, he sent a message to Zhang Chunlin, "Help me keep an eye out for fragments of the God-Slaying Formation. If you find any, buy them for me. You can decide the price. I'm willing to pay ten times the price!"
Lin Chen had to get this formation.
If there were no fragments on the market, then he would continue digging for maps.