Zhang Yuanqing swiftly snatched the staff that clearly belonged to a Wind Manipulator, while Zhai Cai chose the knight's straight sword, which was also his profession.

Uncle then beckoned the puppet over.

The staff's abilities were hurricane and flight, as well as powerful area-of-effect damage and rapid speed over long distances!

Zhang Yuanqing quickly finished reading the item's attributes and put it away in his inventory. "Hurricane isn't very useful to me. For long-distance dashes, I have Teleportation and Jade Talismans. For short distances, there's Star Escape, Dream Leap, and Night Roaming. All of them are both stealthy and quick, so there's no need to fly..."

"The hurricane's area-of-effect damage isn't bad, but hurricanes are for clearing out mobs. Against experts of the same level, only giant wind blades can cause considerable damage. Hurricane damage is too dispersed..."

After a moment of analysis, Zhang Yuanqing realized it wasn't his cup of tea, so he turned his attention to the knight's straight sword in Zhai Cai's hand.

"Here!" Zhai Cai tossed the sword over, shrugging. "Its abilities overlap with mine, so it's not very useful."

Zhang Yuanqing caught the straight sword with one hand and tossed the staff with the other. He concentrated for a few seconds, and the item information appeared.

[Description: A sword with the power of contract. Any contract it witnesses is guaranteed to be valid. Violators of the contract will be punished by the Sword of Contract. The Sword of Contract can sense the location of the violator, and no matter where they flee, punishment will be delivered.]

[Note: Integrity is its only cost.]

"Equivalent to a knight's 'Contract' and 'Punishment' skills. A sword with two core skills is a medium-to-high quality item, and the cost is only integrity, which is so insignificant it can be ignored." Zhang Yuanqing praised.

"Yeah."

"Good stuff!"

"Good stuff," Zhai Cai said, stroking the staff with affection.

The two skills, flight and hurricane, perfectly hit his G-spot. Knights are notoriously bad at speed and lack area-of-effect damage skills.

"It seems you two are both satisfied with the items in your hands, so the puppet is mine." Mr. Chairman flipped his wrist, and the grinning puppet disappeared.

"What are the puppet's attributes? Are you secretly hiding a rule-based item?" Zhang Yuanqing squinted at his uncle.

Zhai Cai looked at Yuan Shi Tian Zun with some shock, thinking, "Is this how you treat demigods? You're just an ordinary Night Walker, why are you more confident than me?"

"It's just an item for the Drunkard profession. Its function is to reverse the sense of direction." Uncle snorted.

After distributing the spoils, Zhang Yuanqing couldn't wait to bend down and use the power of the Sun God to dispel the seal array on the box, then he poked a finger and broke the iron lock.

*Clatter!*

The iron lock fell to the ground. Zhang Yuanqing opened the wooden box and saw a gilded pot inside, six inches (20 centimeters) tall. The pot's body was carved with vine-like patterns, and the spout had a beautiful curve. The craftsmanship was very fine.

Zhang Yuanqing carefully picked up the gilded pot. After a few seconds, he found that there was no item information.

"Huh, this thing doesn't have item information? Is it not an item produced by The Way of the Extraordinary?"

Zhai Cai heard this and came over, saying, "Open it and take a look."

He reached out and lifted the lid of the pot. The next second, both of them closed their eyes and fell to the ground with a "thump," emitting neat snores.

Mr. Chairman picked up the gilded pot and tilted the S-shaped spout, a drop of pitch-black liquid dripped into his palm and quickly evaporated.

*Thump!* Not far away, the vampire also fell to the ground, emitting harmonious snores like a duet.

Mr. Chairman sniffed the evaporated liquid, suddenly understood, put down the gilded pot, and swung his palm, giving each of them a physical way to wake up.

Zhang Yuanqing and Zhai Cai woke up groggily.

"So sleepy, why do I feel so weak?"

Zhai Cai yawned.

"It's been a long time since I've felt this kind of fatigue from staying up all night playing games... Uncle... is this what made us fall asleep?" Zhang Yuanqing originally wanted to ask his uncle what this thing was.

But as the words reached his lips, his mind suddenly cleared, and he reined himself in at the last moment.

"This is a high-level material for the Evernight profession, Eternal Night. One drop can put a Ruler into a coma. It can be used to refine Sleeping Talismans, Sleeping Pills, and so on."

Uncle shook the gilded pot, listening to the loud sound of water, and said, "There's a little more than half a pot here. You can't use this stuff, it's mine now. If you need it in the future, you can borrow it from me."

This stuff is too strong. Although it's a material, it can have unexpected effects if used to influence enemies during a fight.

Zhang Yuanqing opened the second box. Inside the second box was a heart that constantly emitted poisonous smoke. It wasn't an item, but a material.

Mr. Chairman said it was the heart of a giant demon, most likely hunted by a high-ranking member of the Holy See in a dungeon and brought back to be handed over to the Holy See.

The heart could be used to make items or to collect the leaked poisonous smoke as consumables.

Zhang Yuanqing and Zhai Cai weren't very interested, and the poisonous smoke was quite strong, easily corroding its owner, so they also handed it over to Mr. Chairman to handle.

Mr. Chairman agreed to compensate the two with a Ruler-level item, and the two of them could decide how to divide it.

Then, Zhang Yuanqing opened the third bronze box.

The moment the box lid opened, a bright blue electric light reflected in Zhang Yuanqing's eyes.

Inside the box were two lightning balls, the core was burning blue, constantly collapsing inward, and the outer layer emitted arcs of electricity.

Zhang Yuanqing's eyes lit up. He stretched out his hands and held the two lightning balls in his hands. Soon, the item information appeared:

[Name: Boots of Lightning]

[Description: They are items forged by an indescribable existence using the core of lightning, possessing considerable attack power and speed.]

[Item Skills: Lightning Strike, Flash of Lightning]

[Note 1: They are part of the Thunder God Armor. The remaining four pieces are: Gauntlets, Armor, Helmet, Spear. With all five pieces, you can obtain the power of the Thunder God.]

[Description: They are items forged by an indescribable existence using the core of lightning, possessing considerable defense and magnetization abilities.]

[Item Skills: Electromagnetic Barrier, Magnetization.]

The Thunder God Set was indeed in the Holy See's Vault. Zhang Yuanqing's heart was pounding wildly, and his blood was accelerating.

It was like an ordinary person buying 100,000 lottery tickets and successfully clearing the jackpot, without even having to pay taxes.

The excitement was off the charts!

What was the concept of a Ruler-level set?

Except for Level 9 Rulers and Demigods, everyone else was trash!

The Thunder God Set's gauntlets and armor were Saint-level items, while the Thunder Spear, Boots of Lightning, and Thunder God Helmet were Ruler-level items.

Such a set was extremely rare in the entire The Way of the Extraordinary world.

Zhang Yuanqing had never seen a set where all the pieces were Ruler items. Even the Sky Offering Set had one Extraordinary item, one Saint item, and two Ruler items.

"These two items are mine, and the item Mr. Chairman is compensating you with is yours." Zhang Yuanqing looked at Zhai Cai. "With these, I'll have the complete set."

"Complete the set!" Zhai Cai couldn't help but raise his voice a few notches, his face full of envy and jealousy.

"These two pieces are both Ruler-level. What level is your set? What kind of dog shit luck did you step in?"

Zhang Yuanqing scoffed, "You think the nickname 'Item Heavenly Venerate' came for nothing!"

Seeing that Zhai Cai didn't object, Zhang Yuanqing couldn't wait to put the two items into his inventory and read their functions and costs.

The Boots of Lightning's two main functions were Lightning Strike and Flash of Lightning. The Lightning Strike function wasn't very outstanding. It was equivalent to the full-force strike of a Thunder Bishop's Ruler-level Thunder Mage.

For a normal Ruler, this was a pretty good attack method, but for the Item Heavenly Venerate, the full-force strike of a Thunder Bishop could only be described as decent.

On the other hand, the other function, "Flash of Lightning," was an extremely powerful life-saving and dashing ability. With Flash of Lightning, the owner's body could turn into pure electricity and travel a distance at the speed of light, about three hundred meters, during which they would be immune to any physical attacks.

Escape techniques had a pre-cast time of a few tenths of a second. In a battle between experts, a few tenths of a second was enough to kill or interrupt an enemy.

But Flash of Lightning was instantaneous. Once activated, it was the speed of light, and no attack could be faster than the speed of light.

With this skill, he would no longer fear being ganged up on.

The Thunder God Helmet's two main skills were: Electromagnetic Barrier and Magnetization.

The former overlapped with the Thunder Gauntlet's defense function, but the gauntlet's defense was at the Saint level, while the helmet's protection was at the Ruler level. Following the Golden Dragon Shield and the Violet Gold Shield, he now had another Ruler-level defense ability.

But what pleased Zhang Yuanqing the most was Magnetization. This skill allowed him to magnetize metal within a radius of sixty meters. The magnetized metal would be under his control and influence.

It was a divine skill for dealing with Enchanting Demons and Scouts, these close combat professions.

Of course, item skills were just extras.

What Zhang Yuanqing yearned for the most was the set effect. That was the meaning of collecting a set.

"I'll try the set skill."

Under Zhai Cai's envious gaze, he took out the remaining three pieces from his inventory and was about to put them on when, at that moment, a dignified and upright aura like mountains and seas came from behind them.

At the same time, Zhang Yuanqing heard the spiritual fluctuations of a spirit body behind him.

"Trespassing in the Holy See's Vault deserves punishment!"