"This Order Faction… really is something else!"
"If I play my cards right, won't my future stat boosts and talent ability be all set?"
"It's basically my personal stat bank!"
Lin Bei thought, the corners of his mouth slowly curling up.
He waved his hand, telling Zhang San and Ye Liangchen to lock the unconscious crowd in the jail—except for Xue Yi.
There was no other way; although he'd upgraded the outpost's restraints, they could only handle Survivors with fairly low Combat Power.
Against an Epic Level being like Xue Yi, they were useless.
So he simply took out his Survivor Bracelet and opened the Reputation Shop on it.
The Spiritual Old Man had unlocked this function for him before leaving.
As long as he spent reputation, he could exchange for all kinds of goods.
The feature seemed to have been improved; items he bought weren't limited to the Underworld.
Even after bringing them into the Survival World, the items' effects still worked.
It was just that inside the Underworld the items received extra stat bonuses and became significantly stronger.
Soon, Lin Bei's gaze landed on a blueprint.
[Galactic Seal Lock Blueprint: a blueprint to craft a Star River Seal. Quality: Extraordinary. durability: 10/10. Cost: 100,000 Reputation.]
[Star River Seal: seals all power within the target (Combat Power ≤ 1 billion) for 2 hours. Note: single-use, unrepairable.]
"Not bad; a bit pricey, but it'll solve my urgent problem."
"Two hours is short, but it's enough to last until I trigger Super Lucky State a second time."
"Then I'll harvest the kid—no need to keep him locked up."
Without hesitation, Lin Bei exchanged for the Galactic Seal Lock Blueprint.
He glanced at the required materials—thankfully, although they were high-quality, he had them all.
He even had star stones by the truckload, the main ingredient.
In no time he crafted ten sets of Star River Seals using the blueprint.
The blueprint dissolved into motes of light and vanished.
Unconcerned, Lin Bei took out one set and clapped it onto Xue Yi.
star stone energy spread out, forming shackles that locked every acupoint inside Xue Yi's body.
Lin Bei observed closely, nodding repeatedly.
"So that's how it works."
A few minutes later, understanding dawned on his face.
He'd more or less grasped the principle; if he ever needed to seal someone's power again, he was confident he could do it himself.
But for now it was only theory—true mastery would take plenty of practice.
He wasn't in a rush; the outpost jail would provide plenty of test subjects, and he'd definitely learn to seal acupoints.
"All right, drag him away too."
Lin Bei waved, ordering someone to take Xue Yi away.
Then he returned to his cabin alone and buried himself in tinkering with the lucky pendant again.
In the blink of an eye, an hour passed.
As he kept draining star stone energy, the dim pendant in his hand finally trembled and emitted a soft, brilliant golden glow.
At the same moment, he heard the long-awaited system prompt.
[Notice: lucky pendant repair progress 1% reached—Stage-Four objective completed!]
[Notice: your Luck stat has increased by 1,000!]
[Notice: you have obtained the "Lucky Set Blueprint"!]
The pleasant chime rang out; Lin Bei's lips curved in a smile.
Although the pendant-repair rewards couldn't trigger Critical Hit, he was still very satisfied.
With this extra 1,000 Luck, his total hidden Luck had to be over 2,000 now!
From experience, any future Critical Hit would guarantee at least 200–300× multiplier.
That was more than enough for him.
Instead of checking the Lucky Set Blueprint right away, he fed more star stone energy in, wanting to see if repair efficiency dropped after the 1% milestone.
He soon had his answer.
star stone efficiency had fallen even further.
At first, 100 star stones restored 1 durability; later, 1,000 were needed for the same point.
And now?
Restoring 1 durability actually demanded 10,000 star stones!
Bear in mind, 10,000 durability restored only 0.1% of the pendant's total.
In other words, to repair another 1% he would need a full billion star stones!
"This lucky pendant… is a real money-guzzling beast!"
"A billion star stones for 1% durability—ridiculous."
Lin Bei couldn't help complaining.
Even for him, scraping together that many star stones in a short time was pure fantasy.
Unless… he pulled off something huge!
Making money was never that fast.
Plundering was the quickest way to obtain star stones.
Lin Bei sighed and shook his head in resignation.
For now, he could only hope that when he activated Super Lucky State in an hour and slew those Order Faction players in jail, they'd be generous.
If they dropped plenty of loot, he wouldn't have to hunt their comrades.
"Forget it; I'll take it one step at a time."
Lin Bei murmured, then turned his attention back to the lucky pendant.
The stage-five reward had already been displayed ahead of time.
[Stage-Five Objective: reach 10% repair completion.]
[Stage-Five Reward: permanent +1,000 Luck, lucky bit fragment ×1.]
"Hmm, still 1,000 Luck?"
Puzzled, he focused on the lucky bit fragment that followed.
Another prompt popped up before him.
[lucky bit fragment: core item for the Lucky Faction to break through to Legendary Realm.]
The description was only a single line, yet the shock it gave Lin Bei rivaled that of the Lucky Set Blueprint.
"So you need extra items to enter Legendary Realm?"
Lin Bei muttered.
He'd truly broadened his horizons.
But Legendary Realm was still a long way off; no need to dwell on it now.
His Combat Power hadn't even reached 1 billion yet—
utterly ordinary.
Worth noting, though: after 1% repair, the pendant's stats had changed.
The number of special effects hadn't increased, but every effect had been slightly enhanced!
The boost wasn't huge, yet Lin Bei could hardly contain his excitement.
Each of those effects was already broken; even a small increase was terrifying in his eyes.
"These past few days have been worth it!"
Lin Bei beamed, eyes fixed on the pendant's stats without blinking.