Splash!
Snowflakes floated under the sky that had already darkened.
It started to rain when night fell. The sleet, mixed with the freezing wind, was too much even for the horses that were pulling the wagons.
“Look! Isn’t that an inn up ahead?”
“Is that still open?”
“I don’t think so. It looks like an abandoned inn. Let’s take shelter there.”
At this moment, Ji Ye’s team was only about a hundred kilometers away from Xiangyang City.
The closer they were to their destination, the fewer people they could find. They found an inn next to the road, but nobody was in there at all.
Fortunately, their wagons carried all the things they needed. Everybody was fine now that they had found a shelter.
“Hu… Even the Yuan army won’t be deployed in such weather, right?”
“Looks like we’ll be safe tonight!”
After they settled down, An Quan seemed greatly relieved.
“We can’t be more careful. We’ll watch the night in different shifts. Don’t sleep too tightly!”
Ji Ye, however, was as cautious as before.
“Wu Qiao, you’ll be responsible for the first half of the night with Qin Yueyu.”
After that, Ji Ye said to Wu Qiao and Qin Yueyu.
As a beta tester who passed the trial, Wu Qiao was as vigilant as Ji Ye himself.
Of course, Ji Ye spared himself from the night-watch duty only because he had something else to do.
It had been seven days since he fused the Mirage Dragon Pearl, and the talent had cooled down again in the afternoon.
Ji Ye decided that he would waste no time fusing Transcendent items again exactly in this inn.
However, what should he choose to fuse this time?
Considering the Viral Staff that he acquired from the short black-robed player, Ji Ye had three Transcendent items that hadn’t been fused yet.
“The Viral Staff is an item that demands soul power. My soul power is still very low, so I shouldn’t consider this item yet.”
“The ‘Void Ring’ on the other hand, is clearly an ancillary item… So…”
Inside a room in the inn, Ji Ye picked up a mallet that looked old if not ragged.
[Yellow Mallet]
[Level: Special]
[Rarity: Common]
[Description: A mallet made of the rare yellow wood in the Forest Monster territory, which contains a mysterious power. It is said that anything struck by it will break, but no one knows how to really draw out this force!]
“Fuse!”
Triggered by Ji Ye’s thought, white and silver lights rose from the mallet.
Perhaps because the Yellow Mallet was only of Common rarity, its fusion took a much shorter time.
About four hours later…
“I didn’t expect…”
Opening his eyes, Ji Ye looked at the mallet that looked the same as before when the light was gone. He was surprised and delighted.
Whoosh!
Under his eyes, the yellow mallet was covered in a sheen of yellow light. Then, it floated and stopped above his head.
Hum!
Then, the yellow mallet, which was about one foot long, quickly expanded in the yellow light exponentially.
That’s right, the first ability of the Yellow Mallet after the fusion was that it could be mentally controlled like a flying sword and expanded like a legendary magic weapon of the cultivators.
Well, it wasn’t something that Ji Ye hadn’t foreseen.
After all, a special resource like the Forest Monster Wine that could bestow wisdom upon creatures largely fell in the category of cultivators.
Besides, the mallet was actually made of Transcendent materials that were even better than the purple wood in the Forest Monsters’ territory. It had the purple wood’s abilities and had better attributes.
Hum!
Under Ji Ye’s eyes…
The one-foot-long Yellow Mallet expanded to ten feet long. One smash of such a mallet would definitely be destructive.
“This is fearsome enough even if it can only be thrown at a target without any other functions. It’s almost like a car!”
Ji Ye smiled.
Then, he controlled the Yellow Mallet to reduce its size.
When it was about five feet long, Ji Ye smashed it at the wall in the room.
Pa!
The impact of such an enormous mallet on the wall should’ve been enormous, but the wall that was just hit showed no reaction at all!
“One, two, three…”
However, Ji Ye wasn’t anxious.
He simply stared at the smashed wall and carefully calculated things in his head.
About ten seconds later…
Boom!
Yellow light radiated from the area on the wall that had just been smashed by the mallet.
Then, in a deafening explosion, a large piece of the wall was shattered into pieces and dust!
This mallet was definitely worth a high price.
“Young Master!”
His room was opened, and Nie Xiaoqian looked at him anxiously. She was greatly relieved to find that Ji Ye was fine.
“Master Ji, what happened?”
Yang Guo and Reverend Yideng came too.
“Whoa, Brother Ji, why did you tear down the wall? Were you practicing any new martial arts?”
Zhou Botong, who was holding a sniper rifle, emerged from the wall that had just been razed.
Ji Ye only performed the fusion with great reassurance exactly because he was under the protection of top experts.
“Sorry, I just had an epiphany and failed to control myself well.”
Ji Ye put on an apologetic expression at Yang Guo and Reverend Yideng.
“I just created something, but I don’t think you can play it, Old Kid.”
Then, he shook his head at Zhou Botong who was apparently curious.
It was true that Zhou Botong couldn’t play with the Yellow Mallet.
To some extent, the Yellow Mallet had been sort of bound to himself, exactly like the Mirage Dragon Pearl and the Soul Mask were.
Only he could activate the Yellow Mallet’s special abilities, both the expansion of the size and the detonation!
That’s right. The hidden ability of the Yellow Mallet had been found by Ji Ye too.
He could concentrate the all-destroying Transcendent power on other items and make it burst out at the moment of his choosing with the control of his mental power.
This function apparently corresponded with the last sentence in the description of the Yellow Mallet.
“With this ability, it means that I can create ‘grenades’ and ‘remote-controlled bombs’ anytime.”
Ji Ye thought to himself.
The power of the Yellow Mallet could theoretically be placed into most solid items. It could even melt into special solid structures such as energy shields.
It meant that metals, rocks, and trees could all become hidden bombs after they were hit by this mallet.
Then, they could launch fatal explosions when they were triggered by mental power!
The fracture of the wall just now didn’t seem to have caused much damage only because Ji Ye purposefully minimized it by destroying the power he transmitted in.
Besides, the whole wall had been shattered into pieces. If it were a real rock, it would’ve been reduced to a bunch of splashing pebbles after the fracture, and the shrapnel would be as powerful as that of a real grenade!
“Its only shortcoming is that it’s only Common rarity, and it contains less Transcendent power than other items, so it can’t be used as a regular weapon! However, it’s definitely enough to support one battle.
“Also, after my Fusion talent advances to ‘Transcendent’, I’ll be able to fuse and analyze Transcendent powers, and this can be used as a regular way of battle!”
Ji Ye was very satisfied with the result of the fusion.
“Huh?”
While he was considering, Ji Ye suddenly sensed something and looked out of the hole on the wall that was caused by the Yellow Mallet.