Chu Fu immediately chose to equip everything.
A small round bowler hat appeared atop her head, its black leather texture rich and refined, complete with a bow tied at the front.
Below her neck hung a gemstone necklace the size of an egg, radiating dazzling brilliance.
The upper part of the dress featured a high collar and puff sleeves, while the skirt billowed in layers like a beautiful cake, flowing past her knees.
Beneath the skirt were leggings made of dragon scales, greatly increasing her defense.
The waist area was arranged with finely layered dragon scales, significantly boosting the equipment’s defensive power and adding a touch of sharpness.
It was paired with a matching belt, and at the buckle position sat a ferocious dragon head.
The gloves were also dark green, complemented by bone bracelets brimming with oppressive aura and wrist guards inlaid with dragon scales.
On her feet were a pair of dragon-leather martin boots, securely protecting her calves and leaving only her flexible knees exposed.
The most distinctive piece, however, was a pair of dragon-wing attachments.
The wings actually occupied the position of a cloak, and when spread open, they made Chu Fu untouchable, with an overwhelming ferocity radiating from her presence.
In the game, rare equipment represented power and uniqueness.
Of course, Chu Fu also kept some of her own accessories—her forehead ornament and earrings.
But paired with the dragonhide set, they seemed to blend together perfectly.
"Wow!!!"
Bitter Melon King immediately let out an exclamation.
"Oh my god, so beautiful, so cool, she looks like a top-tier player."
"Hahaha, Chu Fu, you’ve become the Evil Dragon Princess!" Jiao Jiao Bu Jiao added.
"Gorgeous!" Shen Chi’s eyes were soft, with no hint of insincerity in his compliment.
Xie Lin quietly removed his eyepatch.
Chu Feng also looked on with admiration, snapping photos with his camera.
"This is the design I personally provided—I designed this!"
That master-level tailor had been extremely reluctant to turn a dragonhide into a puffy skirt.
In her eyes, it was a shameless waste.
She thought it should have been made into a mage robe, like a burlap sack, just something to slip on and go.
Chu Feng flatly refused.
His little sister had been beautiful since childhood, with many, many princess dresses that their parents had bought for her. After lying in a coma for three years, Chu Feng was determined to make up for every dress Chu Fu had missed.
"Cute, though the color is a bit dark. Next time, I’ll look for a poisonous dragon with colorful scales."
"Brother, you actually killed a dragon! What level was that dragon?"
In fact, Chu Fu knew that Dragonfall was a feature from the late-game version.
Dragons were usually level 60, each one a world boss, and they rarely respawned—fewer and fewer existed with each kill.
Chu Feng said, "A level 45 juvenile dragon—lucky to run into it!"
The higher the level, the greater the gap in stats.
Her brother had killed a boss 10 levels above him—that was truly impressive.
Moreover, crafting this entire set was nowhere near as casual as Chu Feng made it sound.
At the very least, getting a master-level tailor to work on it required raising favorability and spending a fortune on materials.
If a common dark-gold equipment piece was worth around 500 gold, this entire set would cost 6,000 gold!
Not to mention the [Soul-Stealing Ring].
Growth-type equipment was legendary, just like her own [Slightly Poisonous Staff].
"Fu Fu, do you like it?"
"Of course!" Chu Fu said loudly. "This set can carry me all the way to level 40. And once I outgrow it, I’ll keep it as a collector’s item—I would never sell it!"
This was something Chu Feng had worked so hard to create.
Naturally, he was delighted.
If Chu Fu was happy, he was happy.
"I also have some seeds I gathered—take them all. I still have things to do. Once you all reach level 20 and can use the city teleportation arrays, we’ll hunt bosses together and level up!"
"Alright, brother, go do your thing! Don’t worry about us—we can level fast on our own, too! By the time we catch up to your level, maybe we’ll even be leveling faster than you!"
Chu Fu spoke the truth.
After all, Chu Feng was a class based around assassination.
When it came to grinding mobs, he really wasn’t as fast as Chu Fu, who was magical.
But he could teleport to other cities and snatch bosses. His current levels all came from stealing boss kills.
Her brother’s reputation for being ruthless had already spread across the entire game.
If she fought alongside him and their skills were exposed in front of others, there would be risks.
Of course, Chu Fu also had a notorious reputation, and she hadn’t even tried to hide it.
They really were family!
Chu Feng knew that Chu Fu’s little team was quite capable. Reassured, he took his leave.
Once he was out of Chu Fu’s sight, Chu Feng summoned a cloak, draping it over his entire equipment set, while the ID above his head changed to something new.
ID: Lu Xing.
Current world ranking: No. 1.
Linjiang City ranking: No. 1.
Level: 35
...
"Come on, let’s go finish the quest!"
Chu Fu waved her hand and led the group to the granary administrator.
The man had been staring at them for a while.
Why were the awakened ones just chatting among themselves without turning in the quest?
It was driving him crazy.
Finally, Chu Fu came over.
After a brief exchange, Chu Fu handed over bags of rice totaling 25 million jin.
"Thank you to this wood-element awakened one for delivering the grain. The quality is excellent, and the timing couldn’t be more perfect. On behalf of Linjiang City, I thank you all for your aid."
Then, a system reward notification sounded in everyone’s ears.
Chu Fu was enveloped in white light.
She reached level 18!
Level 20 was just around the corner.
"Let’s go hit the auction house and sweep up some deals. In half an hour, we set out—we still have three more cities to visit, and time is tight."
Chu Fu summoned the task mount Shi Dacang had given her: a copper-hide rhino.
The iron-hide rhino was stored in a beast pouch; clicking the beast pouch in her inventory automatically summoned it.
Chu Fu and her group of ten climbed onto the iron-hide rhino, rumbling off toward the auction house.
The Hengtong Auction House was connected world-wide, said to utilize spatial technology to link auction houses in every city.
At present, servers [001] through [9999] in district 1 were hitting their level 30 peak. With around 100 level-30 players per server, that meant a million players in total.
Gold-tier equipment options were almost dazzling to the eye.
And as more level-30 players appeared, more people were cashing out their power.
What used to be a secret was now, inevitably, no longer one.
While Chu Fu was flipping goods at the auction house and grinding dungeons—
on the 8888 server forums—
a flood of shocking posts appeared.
The forum had a main section and sections for each server. The 8888 section represented Linjiang City, covering five towns and 43 newbie villages, with over 600,000 real registered players.
Thousands of posts were made daily, with an active-player count that was nothing short of terrifying.
What’s more, server 8888 was home to the world’s number one assassin, Lu Xing, drawing players from other servers to come and argue.
They studied his talent, even hurling accusations that Lu Xing must be cheating.
And on top of that, the very first village-defense war live stream had been broadcast here.
Some people were even fiercely debating whether one of the grown ones, if they became a plant, could actually take on Lu Xing in a fight.
