“How much defense do you have?” Chu Chenghao asked Xu Yan, who was standing next to him. Xu Yan was quite high-level and a suitable main shield warrior candidate. Since defensive stats were very important, Chu Chenghao asked the question.

Xu Yan, Fei Zhe, and Xia Tianyu exchanged glances. Fei Zhe and Xia Tianyu nodded. Since they were forming a team, they had to be open and honest. These important figures couldn’t be concealed.

Having received Fei Zhe and Xia Tianyu’s approval, Xu Yan spoke, “I just changed some equipment. My current defense is probably over seven thousand.”

“Damn, over seven thousand!” Chu Chenghao stood up abruptly, exclaiming in surprise, “Are you sure it’s over seven thousand? You didn’t misread it?”

The surrounding students couldn’t help but be moved. Over seven thousand was an insane number for Xu Yan's current level.

“With over seven thousand defense, we can completely go to the Spider Cave. Not to mention the Spider Cave, we can even go to the Underworld Night Canyon!”

“Seven thousand defense is enough to be a main MT in some of the big guilds.”

“As expected of the people from the Niuren Tribe, they’re all monsters. With over seven thousand defense, he can’t even be an MT in a second-rate team.”

They naturally attributed the reason to Xu Yan being from the Niuren Tribe. He could get good equipment from the Niuren Tribe, so his defense was so high. With such a powerful shield warrior, within five days, the equipment of everyone in the team could be raised by at least two levels.

“Damn, with your current defense level, Fu Guangtao is no match for you at all,” Chu Chenghao exclaimed. “If I were you, I would have beaten him up a long time ago.”

Next, Chu Chenghao asked about Fei Zhe and Xia Tianyu’s situation, and after listening, he was completely stunned.

It was understandable that Xu Yan’s defense was high, but why were Fei Zhe and Xia Tianyu, who weren’t from the Niuren Tribe, so powerful as well? These stats made everyone present feel ashamed of their inferiority.

Xia Tianyu and Fei Zhe glanced at Nie Yan, who was sitting in the distance, but didn’t reveal the reason.

“We’ll have to rely on you in the future. Actually, the students in our commanding department are quite talented, but we’ve never had a good team. I think our team will definitely be able to develop. Choose one of the three of you to be the captain,” Chu Chenghao said. After knowing the strength of Xu Yan, Xia Tianyu, and Fei Zhe, he gave up directly, not competing anymore.

“Let Xu Yan be the captain, and Chu Chenghao be the vice-captain,” Xia Tianyu suggested.

“I agree too.”

“I agree!”

Chu Chenghao didn’t expect Xia Tianyu and the others to nominate him, and was a little surprised, “I can’t, how am I qualified?”

“Chu Chenghao, don’t decline.”

“We trust you.”

Under everyone’s strong demands, Chu Chenghao had no choice but to agree.

In this way, this group of people united, and Zhao Shiyu, Fu Guangtao, and others became isolated.

Nie Yan smiled knowingly when he saw Xu Yan and the others pulling these students over. These students in the commanding department would definitely be able to grow into elites in various fields in the future. Pulling this group of people together and building a good relationship with them would definitely be very helpful in the future.

Having lived two lives and experienced a lot, Nie Yan understood that a network of relationships was very important. Xu Yan and the others were helping him do something very important. What Nie Yan had to do was to build a good relationship with these students and consolidate his position in the class. Nie Yan’s future goal was to become the leader of these people, and if possible, to have these people work for him.

Nie Yan chatted with these students about everything under the sun. He was ranked first in the class, and his strength was obvious to everyone, so these students were a little flattered, and naturally very happy to interact with him.

For the whole day, Nie Yan got along quite well with these students from the commanding department.

In the evening, Nie Yan entered the game and continued to do quests in the Ancient World to improve his strength.

The Ancient World was full of dense jungles, and beams of light projected down from the gaps between the leaves, leaving mottled shadows on the ground. This was a magical world.

Nie Yan sorted out the items he had obtained from killing monsters these past few days. The number of various production profession skill books inside had reached more than one hundred and eighty, with all kinds of types. There were also some relatively rare production profession skill books, and he hadn’t studied the use of these things. In addition to these production profession skill books, there were also several large-space backpacks. Nie Yan replaced them, and the backpack space had reached an astonishing 720 slots, which was definitely enough in normal circumstances.

The low-level herbs Nie Yan had collected before were getting less and less, and he had used them all to make various potions to train his Potion Expertise skill. The low-level herbs were gradually becoming insufficient, so he could only continue to collect Jinlan Grass at the old place to gather raw materials. After accumulating some Jinlan Grass in his backpack, Nie Yan continued to use these Jinlan Grass to make potions. Although he had never done the work of a potion maker before, Nie Yan quickly became familiar with the process of making potions, and bottle after bottle of Magic Recovery Potions were born in his hands, and then thrown away by him.

These Magic Recovery Potions could only be used by himself, but he was a thief and didn’t need any magic, so these Magic Recovery Potions were useless and simply thrown away to not take up space.

It was estimated that it was very rare to be able to complete the entire process from collection to production by himself. Nie Yan gradually realized how powerful it was to combine production professions and combat professions. Having this kind of systematic production profession skills could give a player a strong field endurance ability. Ordinary players had to return to the city after staying in the wild for five or six days, because their consumables would often be insufficient, but after learning collection and potion making like Nie Yan, if they encountered herbs or something while leveling in the wild, they could collect them and make them into potions. If they went to some places with rich herbs, he could even never return to the city and be self-sufficient.

Nie Yan’s gaze fell on the item bar, and there were still several skill books inside that were obviously very useful, such as Scroll Making Master, Mechanic, etc. Without exception, all of these production profession skill books stipulated that the things made could only be used by themselves.

This gave Nie Yan some ideas. Learning these production profession skills and using the items made with these production profession skills could make himself stronger.

In the Ancient World, various materials were very abundant. Collecting these materials and training production profession skill levels should be very fast. At worst, he could stay in the Ancient World for a longer period of time and rush all these production profession skills to master level or grandmaster level and above, which was estimated to make him a thief with super abnormal endurance ability. This would give him more confidence to successfully job-change to Holy Shadow Dancer.

Nie Yan analyzed the professional system of each production profession. Herb collecting and potion making were a system, which could provide him with potions using wild-grown herbs. Blank Scroll Making and Scroll Making Master were a system. The various cloth scrolls that players obtained when fighting monsters could first be made into blank scrolls of various qualities, and then used the Scroll Making Master skill to make them into various types of scrolls. In addition, ore collection, metallurgy, forging, and mechanics were a system. Players collected ore, which could be smelted and forged into various weapons, or forged into metal semi-finished products and then deep-processed by mechanics into various devices.

In addition to these systems, there were some other systems, such as Decomposition, Enchanting, Alchemy, etc.

If he could really rush the skill levels of these production skills all up, he would truly become an all-professional master! It could play a supporting role and greatly improve players’ combat power.

Nie Yan collected along the area where Jinlan Grass grew, and gradually passed through a rocky beach around a stream, and a piece of green grassland appeared in his vision. Under the sunlight, these plants looked like they were carved from jade, translucent, and so tender green that they seemed to drip water.

Seeing these plants, Nie Yan’s eyes lit up. It was Emerald Jinlan Grass. These herbs were one level higher than Jinlan Grass and could be used to make high-level and master-level instant recovery potions. They were also raw materials for many intermediate and high-level potions. If he could collect a large amount of Emerald Jinlan Grass, Nie Yan estimated that he could raise his Potion Expertise master skill to high level today!

Emerald Jinlan Grass was everywhere here!

However, on that grassland, there was a wandering ghost. It floated in the air, wandering around, and from time to time emitted bursts of cold air. The plants on the nearby ground were immediately covered by patches of frost.

Nie Yan didn’t know what rank this ghost was. Nie Yan slowly stealthed over and stopped more than thirty yards away from the ghost, throwing a Scout at it.

Frost Spirit: Rank 3 creature.

The Frost Spirit's health was probably more than 500,000. Nie Yan frowned. It was actually a Rank 3 creature. He didn't know how strong the Frost Spirit was and whether he could deal with it. Until now, the strongest creature he had encountered was only a Rank 2 Elite, which was only slightly stronger than an ordinary Rank 2 creature. It was obviously not on the same level as this Frost Spirit.

Nie Yan hesitated for a moment and made a decision. He would have to start dealing with Rank 3 creatures sooner or later, so he might as well try it now.

This Frost Spirit was obviously an ice-type monster, and its resistance to ice was estimated to be relatively high.

Fortunately, Nie Yan had learned several skills to increase ice resistance before, and he had the Frost Orb on hand. If his ice resistance was high, it would be much easier to deal with ice creatures. In addition, he also had some master-level ice resistance potions in his backpack, so he was well-prepared.

Nie Yan stealthed towards the Frost Spirit, following far behind it, looking for a suitable opportunity.

The Frost Spirit's vacant eyes looked around.

Even from a distance, Nie Yan felt the surrounding temperature drop sharply by more than ten degrees, and his body felt a chill. His movement speed was also slightly slower. The most difficult thing about ice creatures was the slowing effect.