“Thank you very much, guys!”

  In the Temple of Providence, young Zhao Yun, whose real body was condensed, spoke to the players and heroes of the Temple of Providence fort with gratitude!

  Zhao Yun was truly grateful.

  That was because it wasn’t easy for a high-level hero like him to arrive at a settlement, which required a “Special” or “Transcendent” offering and it had to be “Perfect” in quality.

  Although every Battlefield of Providence had yielded a certain number of Perfect/Special/Rare offerings thanks to the reward of the Land of Inheritance, their total number wasn’t really great!

  It must be noted that the southwestern province had about ninety million residents, which was about one-hundredth of the world population, yet only five Special offerings were yielded in this ground!

  It meant that the settlements all over the world likely received five hundred Perfect offerings. Considering the odds that the heroes might fail the test to arrive, maybe only two hundred Transcendent heroes had a chance to arrive at a settlement.

  On the other hand, there were clearly more than two hundred Transcendent heroes, even with the restraint of them being “Perfect”, from all sorts of backgrounds and civilizations over the world.

  For that reason, every “Special” offering was extremely precious. It was safe to say that many top Transcendent heroes would be competing for it the moment the ritual began!

  However, because the Twin Dragon Mount fort chose to summon a hero who was set in the settlement’s background with the Snow Spear, few people met the requirements, and since the test of arrival was highly challenging, Zhao Yun finally had a chance to arrive.

  “Thank you, Master!”

  After that, Zhao Yun, who was entirely clad in white, held his Snow Spear and paid respect to Ji Ye alone.

  The Extraordinary Rank-7 Soul of Civilization that summoned Zhao Yun came from the Eagle Man Boss that was killed by Ji Ye, and the Snow Spear was taken back from the Battlefield of Providence by Ji Ye too as his spoils of war, even though its master was killed by Zhou Botong’s sniper rifle!

  After his arrival, Zhao Yun learned the origins of the two items.

  “General Zhao, no need to thank me!

  “Now that you’ve arrived at the Twin Dragon Mount fort, the aliens will be taught a good lesson on how awesome the Han heroes are……”

  Zhao Yun looked at Ji Ye with a smile and said, “Master, you can call me Yun. I don’t deserve to be called ‘general’!”

  Zhao Yun, however, hurriedly declined the style of address.

  Obviously, he hadn’t joined Liu Bei’s team yet before he arrived.

  Although he had received the memories of his fate, they were just some memories, and he wouldn’t be arrogant just because of that.

  That was quite a relief for the players of the Twin Dragon Mount fort.

  After all, the top heroes from Three Kingdoms were mostly from the upper class, unlike the Water Margin heroes who were generally from the bottom level of the society. Even Lu Junyi, who had the highest position as an official, wasn’t really given much power.

  Zhao Yun’s humble attitude suggested that the heroes from Three Kingdoms wouldn’t consider themselves superior.

  “Zilong, you have the capabilities to command an army……”

  Ji Ye opened his mouth and changed the way he called Zhao Yun.

  But of course, he didn’t call Zhao Yun by his given name, but by his courtesy name, as the people back in the time of the Three Kingdoms did.

  When he said “Zilong”, Ji Ye had a sense of satisfaction as his childhood dream had finally been fulfilled.

  As a matter of fact, Ji Ye was much more familiar with Romance of the Three Kingdoms than he was with Water Margin. He had enjoyed its TV adaptation and the original novel more than once

  When he was a boy, he had always envied Liu Bei who called “Zilong”, “Hansheng[1]”, “Yunchang[2]” and “Yide[3] and sent them to battle, winning the amazement of other lords!

  The other heroes such as Wu Song, Lu Zhishen, Yang Zhi, Lu Junyi, and Gongsun Sheng were all much older than him, so he always addressed them formally. Now that he had run into a young Zhao Yun, he finally had a chance to enjoy himself.

  Also, did this count as poaching from Liu Bei? After all, Liu Bei was unlikely to arrive at the Twin Dragon Mount fort!

  It escaped Ji Ye’s attention that he had become much more relaxed than before since the adventure in the Battlefield of Providence.

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  It was because the Twin Dragon Mount fort had reached a new height and welcomed abundant Superior and Perfect heroes, which gave it an absolute edge in the competition with the aliens.

  Now that a Transcendent hero had arrived, the odds of winning were even higher, so naturally Ji ye was unprecedentedly relieved.

  “Relay my order. I want the No. 9 spoils of war to be assigned to Chief Zhao!”

  Then, Ji Ye asked several soldiers to fetch something for Zhao Yun from the “treasury”, which had been specifically constructed behind the Temple of Providence in these days.

  A thousand spoils of war had been obtained from the Battlefield of Providence. Half of them were offerings, and the other half were assorted weapons and gears. The number nine one was a set of silver full armor.

  “Isn’t this……”

  Looking at the armor that the soldiers carried back, Zhao Yun found it rather familiar.

  “That’s right. It’s exactly the East King’s battle armor……”

  Ji Ye nodded.

  [East King’s Armor]

  [Level: Extraordinary Rank-7]

  [Rarity: Superior]

  [Description: This was the East King’s armor. It has been repaired by the master of the Twin Dragon Mount fort after being broken, and it contains remarkable Extraordinary power.]

  Actually, the East King’s armor wasn’t alone.

  The armors of the South King and the Yuan emperor had both been fused with other spoils of war and taken out of the Battlefield of Providence at a cost of Civilization Coins by Ji Ye.

  Even the North King of Yuan, who was a female and didn’t wear any armor, was robbed of several Extraordinary items by Ji Ye, who then refined them into spoils of war numbering from ten to twenty.

  After all the fusions, Ji Ye became more familiar with the forging knowledge that he learned from Tang Long even than he was with the medical knowledge that he learned in the Hundred Flowers Valley.

  “An Quan, you and Guo Wei will take Zilong on a tour of the fort. The rest of you will perform rituals with the other offerings and increase the population of the fort!”

  After naming Zhao Yun the Chief of Calvary and asking him to teach spear techniques to the soldiers in the fort, Ji Ye spoke to the others.

  He wasn’t really interested in summoning the common folk.

  It was also because the Fusion talent had cooled down! ……

  “What to fuse this time?

  “The special items that needed fusing had mostly been fused back in the Battlefield of Providence. However, I did obtain two new items after I left the Battlefield of Providence…… Well, let’s do you!”

  Inside the Master’s room that was protected by two guards that were covered in gray armor with iron swords hanging from their waists, Ji Ye sat cross-legged on the ground. The Void Ring on his finger flashed, and a brush whose holder seemed to be made of jade appeared in his palm.

  [Eye Painting Brush]

  [Level: Special]

  [Rarity: Perfect]

  [Description: Zhang Sengyao drew four dragons on the walls of the Anle Temple in Jinling without painting their eyes. He kept saying, “They’ll fly away if I paint their eyes.” Other people found it ridiculous and insisted on him painting the eyes. A moment later, lightning broke the walls, and two dragons soared to the sky!]

  Because it was a reward from the Battlefield of Providence, the Transcendent power in the Eye Painting Brush could be directly used without fusion.

  But it was one thing to use it, and another thing to fully carry out its abilities, especially for Ji Ye who didn’t know the first thing about ancient painting.

  Therefore, he decided to fully master the Eye Painting Brush through “Fusion”!

  “Fuse!”

  Triggered by Ji Ye’s thought, the Eye Painting Brush in his hand gave off a white glow that was mixed with the light that represented Transcendence, and the light was much thicker than ever before!

  After all, the Eye Painting Brush was a rarely-seen “Perfect” item!

  “Huff……”

  The fusion took almost half a day.

  After the radiance dispersed, Ji Ye opened his eyes with more delight than tiredness. He was even happier than when he fused the Soul Slasher on the Battlefield of Providence.

  “As expected of a Perfect Transcendent item…… Such an ability deserves to be called a ‘divine technique’!”

  Ji Ye held the brush with his left hand and picked up the Jade Dragon Sword with his right one. Then, he filled the abundant Dragon Aura into the Jade Dragon Sword!

  “Well, this should be enough!”

  After so much Dragon Aura was filled in that the Jade Dragon Sword seemed to be covered by a Flood Dragon, Ji Ye squeezed out a drop of Flood Dragon Blood from the tip of his left index finger and directed it to the Eye Painting Brush!

  Pa!

  After that, he pointed the brush, which had a red tip, on the locations of the eyes on the Dragon Aura that covered the Jade Dragon Sword, creating two red spots that resembled eyes.

  “Roar!”

  After the Eye Painting Brush was moved away, two streams of red light beamed from the red spots swiftly.

  In the next moment, together with a dragon roar, the brilliance of the Jade Dragon Sword transformed into a real dragon that slithered around Ji Ye!

  It was not the hideous black Flood Dragon caused by the Sea Stone plus the Flood Dragon Blood, but a white dragon more than three feet long. Its jade claws, eyes that looked like red jade, and tiniest scales were down to every detail.

  “Attack!”

  The glowing jade dragon, after wandering for two circles in the room, jerked and crashed towards the wall under Ji Ye’s telepathic command!

  Clang!

  After a flash, a hole that had a very smooth edge appeared on the wall in Ji Ye’s room that had been specifically fortified to more than one foot thick.

  “What happened?”

  “Protect the Master!”

  The two iron-armored soldiers outside of the room quickly ran to the hole.

  They were Extraordinary Rank-5 soldiers summoned with the offerings that the Iron Buddhas, bodyguards of the Yuan emperor, had dropped.

  Although they were only rated as Elites, they were originally from Yue Fei’s army, and they were clearly much better militarily-trained than the soldiers of the Twin Dragon Mount fort were!

  “Everything is fine. Return to your positions.”

  Ji Ye spoke softly behind the thick wall, yet it sounded as clearly as if he were next to them.

  “Yes, sir!”

  The two guards accepted the order and backed off.

  Hum!

  The glowing dragon, on the other hand, came back into the room through the hole that it caused. It circled around Ji Ye again before it returned to the initial form of Jade Dragon Sword in his hand!

  That was exactly the Transcendent ability that he perceived from the Eye Painting Brush after the fusion.

  Supposedly, it was difficult for Ji Ye to carry out the power of the Perfect Transcendent equipment due to his ineptness in painting.

  However, after the fusion, Ji Ye found that he could paint with the Dragon Aura as ink and then highlight the eyes with his blood. In doing so, he could let the brush carry out even more remarkable abilities than it could in regular painting!

  Such an ability did not require that he drew a dragon first; he could turn anything into a dragon by painting the eyes!

  After one touch of the brush, he could turn a lifeless item into a living creature, and the “dragon” he transformed could even use some of the Extraordinary power it used to have!

  This kind of ability could undoubtedly be called a miraculous technique!

  [1] Huang Zhong’s courtesy name

  [2] Guan Yu’s courtesy name

  [3] Zhang Fei’s courtesy name