My Items Can Upgrade

"Ah?"

Jiayan was puzzled but complied nonetheless.

Soon, they moved out three chairs.

Yang Yuan said, "Sit down next to the black smoke and don't move. Oh, Yiyi, remember to watch the smoke and don't let it escape."

"?"

Although Jiang Yiyi was confused, she answered earnestly, "Yiyi will definitely keep an eye on it, but it seems to be slowly dissipating."

"Will it dissipate on its own?"

Yang Yuan immediately stopped making more evil-breaking arrows, holding a new one along with the initial one, he joined the two women at the entrance.

From afar, a few soldiers stood bewildered at the scene from atop the city gate tower.

"What are they doing?"

"You ask me, who should I ask?"

"Aren't they afraid of dying?"

"Isn't that still considered the entrance, not exactly outside the house...right?"

Several soldiers looked perplexed at the scene, unable to understand the actions of the three, they could only report the incident truthfully.

"Yiyi, is it still there?"

"It's still here."

...

"Is it still there? Why does it feel less cold?"

"It's still here, but there's significantly less of it now."

Yang Yuan asked every now and then because the experience points of the protective talisman were increasing slowly.

Eventually, he noticed the experience points weren't accumulating quickly anymore and asked the two women about their feelings. They only felt the chill, with no other discomfort.

Right, they have late-stage human-level strength, they couldn't be so fragile.

He then asked Jiang Yiyi to point out the location of the smoke and directly had the two women sit within the black smoke.

As expected, the chilling feeling returned, and the experience points for the protective talisman rose rapidly.

Finally, as dawn was approaching, all three protective talismans were filled with experience points.

The evil-breaking arrow's experience was naturally full too.

"It's done, let's go back inside."

Yang Yuan retreated with the chairs while upgrading the protective talisman on himself.

In less than a minute, the upgrade was completed.

[Marvel · Protective Talisman lv.11: 0/4 (Protective Buddha Light, Evil Avoidance; Cannot be upgraded)]

At the moment of upgrade completion, at the moment the talisman became a marvel, suddenly the wooden protective talisman glowed like a wooden Buddha.

At the same time, a light appeared on the surface of his body, a warm feeling rose in his heart dispelling the previous chill completely.

"Hey, your body..." Jiayan looked over in surprise.

Only a second before the light vanished.

And at that moment, Jiang Yiyi suddenly said, "The black smoke is gone."

Yang Yuan's eyes flickered, picked up the evil-breaking arrow from the ground, pulled down the roller shutter door, bolted it, and laughed, "Let's go sleep."

Jiayan pondered, pulling Jiang Yiyi along to follow.

As they walked to the second floor, Yang Yuan upgraded the protective talismans for the two women to marvel grade too.

"Hey, suddenly my heart feels warm, what's happening?"

Jiayan was surprised, for there was no evil spirit nearby, the talisman wouldn't glow, so she didn't know what had happened.

Jiang Yiyi felt similar, the warm feeling in her heart, she liked it quite a bit, like when she was with her parents back then, her heart always felt warm, without worry about any external harm.

"Your talismans became marvels too, these marvels have Protective Buddha Light, Evil Avoidance, ordinary evil spirits won't be able to harm us in the future."

Yang Yuan finished speak and let out a sigh of relief, as a burden in his heart dissipated.

Because evil spirits cannot be killed with physical attacks, it had been troubling him for a long time.

Now, finally, this concern was resolved.

"Marvel..." Jiayan pinched the wooden talisman hanging from her neck, indeed finding it more exquisite and feeling warmth in her palm.

That night, the three slept soundly.

Until daylight urged them awake.

Yang Yuan glanced at the rented wooden knives from yesterday and found the experience was just short for an upgrade, so decided to rent again, having crafted more yesterday.

When he opened the roller shutter door, outside had gathered a large crowd.

"The door's open, it's open!"

"Master Yang Yuan, you finally opened the door... Are you renting marvels today too?"

Lango was among them, calling out expectantly.

"Of course renting, same rules as yesterday, queue orderly, anyone cutting will be blacklisted."

One sentence from him made everyone behave, as they knew marvels were indeed rented here, nobody wanted to be blacklisted.

The wooden knives with greater quantity today were still fully rented in just over an hour.

This was due to necessary registration time, otherwise, they would have been snatched up in an instant.

"Mr. Yang Yuan, may I ask what you were doing at the entrance last night?"

Deputy leader Lingde came again, but today didn't rent marvels, just came specifically to inquire about last night's reported incident.

Yang Yuan pondered briefly, then truthfully answered, "Last night we killed an evil spirit, researching the lingering yin energy left behind from it."

"Mr. Yang Yuan, do you think you can fool me?" Lingde frowned.

"..."

Yang Yuan looked at him in surprise and said, "Alright, I'll be honest, we were intrigued by the knocking, and tussled with it at the entrance, fortunately staying resolute and not lured outside."

Lingde's expression softened somewhat, replying, "What comes out at night should be an evil spirit, but perhaps the Mountain God has bestowed some power upon it, making it unlike ordinary evil spirits, even the Mental System superpowers can't see or sense it, but it's capable of attacking us, leaving us with only passive defense."