Chapter 1 What about Two or Three Percent?

Miao Wuyin listened to Shi Feng's tone, which seemed confident about her promotion, and her heart was full of confusion and curiosity.

The promotion of a lifestyle profession is not like the promotion of a player's tier, which only requires passing a test. Instead, it requires not only meeting the profession's proficiency requirements but also creating a blueprint or recipe corresponding to the level.

To be promoted to an Advanced Alchemy Grandmaster, one must create an Advanced Grandmaster recipe, but creating an Advanced Grandmaster recipe is several times more difficult than a regular Grandmaster recipe. It's no longer a simple matter of mixing materials. It also involves magic arrays, control of magic power, and so on.

Therefore, the promotion to Advanced Grandmaster cannot be accomplished simply with more resources and guidance.

She had a two to three percent chance of success entirely because the Research Workshop provided guidance and the Recipe of Life Dew. Coupled with her previous accumulation, she could roughly grasp the direction of research. However, this required a lot of time for continuous experimentation and modification, which could not be done in just six or seven days.

"That's not a sure thing, but if you have a two or three percent chance, then in the remaining time, you should have a seventy to eighty percent chance," Shi Feng said with a smile.

"Seventy to eighty percent?" Miao Wuyin's voice couldn't help but rise a few notches, as she looked at Shi Feng in disbelief.

Creating an Advanced Grandmaster recipe was no easy task. Even if the various super forces took out their entire fortunes for her to research and experiment, it would be a stretch to increase her success rate by one or two percent.

To increase the success rate from two or three percent to seventy or eighty percent at once would make those alchemy grandmasters laugh at Shi Feng as a madman who knew nothing about the profession.

However, Shi Feng was not an amateur. He was a genuine Intermediate Forging Grandmaster, a figure standing at the peak of the forging profession, and also one of the earliest to become a lifestyle grandmaster. His understanding of lifestyle professions was probably unmatched by anyone in the Candlelight Trading Firm.

"You'll know then. Now, go to the Research Workshop and study the Recipe of Life Dew carefully. If you can thoroughly understand the Recipe of Life Dew, it might even help you further in creating an Advanced Grandmaster recipe." Shi Feng didn't say more because the secret of the Void Stones was too important. If it were leaked, it would definitely cause a sensation throughout God's Domain.

Reaching the Advanced level from the Intermediate level after a sub-profession reaches the Grandmaster rank is a huge threshold. It can be said that more than 90% of grandmasters are blocked before the gate of Advanced Grandmaster.

This is no longer just a matter of technical skill but also involves the player's spiritual level.

The easiest way to improve the spiritual level is to increase the player's tier. The higher the tier, the greater the player's spiritual level improves. This is why the top lifestyle players in God's Domain are all at high tiers.

Currently, Miao Wuyin is only a Tier 2 class, and her level is only 97, quite a distance from level 100, let alone advancing to Tier 3 to improve her spiritual level.

And in God's Domain, there are very few items that can improve a player's spirit. The Void Stone is one of them. This secret was only discovered after the mainstream player level reached 150 or 160.

Because of this, the major super forces at the time frantically snatched up Void Stones, no longer regarding them as simple items for increasing the concentration of magic power, but as items for combat players and lifestyle players to learn and improve.

Although the Void Stones do not increase the spiritual level by much, only about 20% to 30%, it is already very valuable to players. After all, each tier advancement is only slightly better than this.

If Miao Wuyin has no problems on the technical level, then generally, as long as she reaches the spiritual level, breaking through to become an Advanced Alchemy Grandmaster can be said to be a natural result.

Afterward, Shi Feng let Miao Wuyin stay in the Research Workshop wholeheartedly to study the Recipe of Life Dew, while Shi Feng waited for the cooldown time to retrieve items from the guild warehouse. At the same time, he promoted some of the Candlelight Trading Firm's shops to three-star sub-shops, such as the Candlelight Trading Firm in Dark Night City, Black Dragon City, Apocalypse City, and Twin Tower City.

The five major three-star shops are fully deployed in five locations, which will provide great convenience in terms of absorbing lifestyle players and obtaining materials.

Moreover, with the five major three-star shops deployed, it won't be long before the scale of Zero Wing's lifestyle players exceeds those of the super forces, allowing Candlelight to develop into a true merchant guild, capable of competing with those merchant guilds formed by super forces in various NPC cities, rather than forcibly using the Stone Forest City temporary residence to attract those large guilds.

However, if Candlelight wants to become a competitive merchant guild and earn a lot of gold coins, simply having enough lifestyle players is far from enough. It also needs good enough goods.

"It seems it's time to study these forging design drawings." Shi Feng glanced at the ancient parchment scroll, also sealed, in his backpack.

In addition to dropping some materials and weapons and equipment, the Twilight King also dropped quite a few design drawings and recipes, as many as fourteen. They were all Grandmaster-level design drawings and recipes, among which the most precious, besides the Life Dew, was a complete set of forging design drawings.

Scarlet Twilight!

A set of advanced magic equipment consisting of six design drawings!

Although it is only a Tier 2 advanced magic equipment set, it may not be comparable to those dark-gold equipment sets above level 100, but for current players, it is also equipment that is hard to come by. Moreover, it is an advanced magic equipment set that players can continue to use until level 120. In terms of basic attributes, it is completely no less than those fine-gold equipment sets, allowing players to fully transition to Tier 3 class, a truly top-quality equipment set.

Thinking of this, Shi Feng directly found a Primary Meditation Room and began to make Scarlet Twilight.

Originally, he wanted Sorrowful Smile and others to make it, but Sorrowful Smile and the other forging grandmasters still needed to manufacture airship parts, so they didn't have that much time to make Scarlet Twilight. Moreover, for Shi Feng, what he needed most to be promoted to Advanced Forging Grandmaster was not creating design drawings but forging proficiency.

Sets of equipment increase proficiency the fastest, not to mention magic equipment sets.

"The creation of magic equipment sets is really complicated. No wonder few of the super forces in the previous life researched them." Shi Feng took a deep breath after unsealing and checking the design drawings.

Normal dark-gold equipment sets below level 100 are already very difficult to make, but advanced magic equipment sets are several times more complicated. The forging techniques and skills involved are very high. There are no more than three grandmasters in the entire Candlelight who can make them. The most important point is that it requires players to have a very high control over magic arrays, at least advanced magic arrays.

I'm afraid that even if those forging grandmasters obtained the design drawings, they wouldn't learn how to make them. Even Shi Feng spent a full five hours learning.

"The basics have been mastered, and the next step is to try, but the material cost is really fierce. If it were any other guild, they would probably collapse." Shi Feng smiled bitterly as he looked at the materials needed for production.

The main materials for making Scarlet Twilight are magic crystals and magic crystal stones. The number of magic crystals needed to make a set of Scarlet Twilight is as many as forty. If it weren't for having the Philosopher's Stone to synthesize magic crystals, simply relying on the guild to obtain magic crystals would make it impossible to make even a few pieces.

But even so, the cost of magic crystal stones is very high. If a guild without a magic crystal stone mine obtained the design drawings for the magic equipment set, they would probably collapse.

After Shi Feng confirmed the materials, he began to make it.

All the equipment of Scarlet Twilight is like a whole. All six pieces of equipment need to be made at the same time. If a player with a low spiritual level came, even if they learned how to make it, they wouldn't be able to make it. Fortunately, Shi Feng's original spirit was very high, and coupled with becoming a Tier 3 class, his spiritual level was further improved.

However, the first time, it failed halfway through because the magic array was not drawn well enough.

The second time, it was identified as a waste product because it was not made finely enough.

The third time was also a waste product.

...

After making it a full six times in a row, all of them failed. Even Shi Feng felt a little heartache.

"This time, it must succeed!" Shi Feng gritted his teeth and nervously clicked to appraise the Scarlet Twilight in front of him again. If it failed again, he would have to give up making Scarlet Twilight.

As Shi Feng clicked the appraisal button, the six dark-red pieces of equipment on the stone platform suddenly bloomed with colorful light, and the surrounding magic power gathered involuntarily.

System: Congratulations to player for creating Scarlet Twilight, forging proficiency +180, experience value +1,200,000.

System: Congratulations to player for triggering the Black Iron Emblem effect, Scarlet Twilight attributes have been improved.