Tianbao Arsenal, as an important place for the Tang Kingdom to treasure all kinds of secret martial arts. Naturally, it is not for ordinary people to enter when they want to. Even if you have an official status, you have to get a certain rank in the annual martial arts hunt before you can be allowed to enter the arsenal.

And the so-called martial hunt is to hunt monsters, this year's martial hunt will be held in the beginning of autumn, counting it, there are probably less than three months left.

At that time, there will naturally be officials from the imperial court to inform Ma Teng.

After understanding this information, Ma Teng was not in a hurry. Now all he has to do is how to deal with the errand of this town guard, and improve his strength as soon as possible.

Although he hadn't hunted monsters for a long time, he relied on the passivity of the Gem of Knowledge. The number of his gold coins still exceeded 1,200. As for the experience, it is still a lot short of breaking through the fifth level.

Previously, due to various reasons, he didn't have time to upgrade the equipment, but now that he has settled down, he naturally wants to mention the equipment.

Opening the system panel, looking at the six pieces of equipment in the equipment column, according to the original plan, Ma Teng directly purchased two power belts.

Suddenly, four Life Gems disappeared from the equipment slot, replaced by two heavy belts.

According to the crafting formula, the Belt of Strength requires two Life Gems and three hundred gold coins. Its stat is to directly increase health by 1,000.

As a result, although Ma Teng's equipment slot was vacant by two, his health increased by eight hundred, reaching three thousand nine.

However, he didn't plan to stop there, after all, there were two empty equipment slots, which was a waste.

This time, however, he hesitated when he opened the store. It stands to reason that he could choose to buy two more Life Gems to fill the gap. The remaining more than six hundred gold coins are also completely sufficient.

It's just that if you want to upgrade other equipment in the future, especially those that don't need life gems for the crafting process. The process is certainly not very smooth, and it is possible that you will need to sell your existing equipment to come out empty.

According to the synthesis path, if you want to upgrade the Overlord and reload, you only need to buy another Life Gem and Refreshing Crystal. It seems simple, but the gap in the middle is too long, and the price of the Overlord reload is a bit expensive among the many defensive outfits. So the first big piece definitely can't be a hegemon reload.

In addition, if he wants to upgrade to Burst Armor, he will also need to buy cloth armor. The Red Lotus cloak also requires cloth armor. The Anti-Wound Spike doesn't even require Life Gems at all, just two pieces of cloth armor and a Thunderblade.

So now it seems that it's time to think about other gear as well. For example, it only costs 220 gold coins to buy two pieces of cloth armor.

This way, it will be convenient to upgrade to the Anti-Wound Thorn Armor that can reflect damage in the future, or the Burst Armor that can increase both damage and movement speed.

Thinking of this, Ma Teng no longer hesitated, and directly purchased two pieces of cloth armor and equipped them in the equipment column.

The attribute of cloth armor is to increase physical defense by 90 points, and two pieces are 180 points.

According to Ma Teng's guess, the so-called physical defense is to defend against those injuries that directly act on the body. For example, the attacks of the current warriors should all be within this defensive category.

It doesn't react directly to his body like his health, so Ma Teng can't feel what kind of benefit this 180 points of physical defense can bring to him.

The only way he could think of a test was to pull out a dagger and slam it into his palm.

In fact, according to his current health strength, and realm. Even if he didn't have the Iron Body Skill, this steel dagger would not be able to pierce half of his skin.

However, what he didn't expect was that the dagger had not yet stabbed his palm before it was faintly resisted by some special force. It's like an invisible film.

Thinking of the setting in the game, Ma Teng probably guessed the role of the physical defense value.

In the game, the amount of damage taken by the character is the specific damage value minus the armor value.

That is, if someone hits Ma Teng with 50 points of physical damage, and Ma Teng's physical defense value is exactly 50, then it is equivalent to not breaking the defense, and the system will only determine one point of forced damage. True damage is excluded.

And now that Ma Teng has one hundred and eighty physical defense, then anything less than one hundred and eight physical damage will not be able to break Ma Teng's body surface defense.

Even if it can be broken, it will be attenuated by the defense value.

As for the level of physical damage of one hundred and eighty, Ma Teng had no way to test. But I guess it won't be more powerful than a pistol.

All in all, although these two pieces of cloth armor cannot bring about a change in strength to Ma Teng like the Life Gem, they can make Ma Teng more resistant to beating.

The equipment was also bought, and the gold coins were almost spent. Feeling the power of the surge again, Ma Teng felt that he could do it again.

Just when he was about to take Tie Xinyuan to find the trouble of the elders who had been driven away by him, the trouble found him in advance.

"Door master, the Demon Suppression Division sent someone over to say that there were traces of monsters in the east of the city, and I hope we can send someone to deal with it."

Tie Xinyuan ran to Ma Teng's office with an anxious face.

"Can't they handle this kind of thing themselves?" Ma Teng frowned.

"They said that they are now in charge of the affairs of the Martial Academy, and they can't spare manpower."

"Then why not entrust it to the Witcher Society?"

"It's not that I'm reluctant to be paid." Tie Xinyuan's mouth froze.

"It's true that we're free labor." A sneer came out of Ma Teng's mouth.

"Well, who asked me to take over the task of guarding the town?"

pretended to be reluctant, but Ma Teng didn't have much resistance in his heart.

In fact, it's okay that the Demon Suppression Division has provided him with free monster information, and no other demon hunters have mixed in. He rightfully pocketed the monster. Anyway, as long as he has experience and gold, he is not in vain.

"Xinyuan, arrange a car, and bring a few loyal disciples to the east of the city with me."

After giving instructions to Tie Xinyuan, Ma Teng didn't make much preparations.

Five minutes later, together with the three Skin Membrane Realm disciples, Ma Teng and his party headed directly to the east of the city.

According to the information provided by the Demon Suppression Division, Ma Teng soon came to an old residential area.

As soon as I got out of the car, I saw several yamen officials evacuating people.

After revealing the identity of the town guard, Ma Teng also probably knew some information.

There are indeed two monsters in this old residential area, and according to eyewitnesses, they are two monsters that resemble centipedes, can burrow into the ground, and move quickly. Several casualties have already been laid.

That's not enough to tell what kind of monster it is. But judging from the casualties, it should not be too serious.

"Brother, what should I do, how are we going to lure those two monsters out." Due to the lack of information, even Tie Xinyuan didn't know how to deal with these two monsters.

"What to do, since those two guys like to hurt people, then they will naturally come out when I go in."

After saying this, Ma Teng didn't care about the reaction of the people behind him, and strode directly towards the residential area. This is in stark contrast to the people who are fleeing.

When he walked into the residential area, he found a stool and sat down.

Seeing this scene, those who didn't know Ma Teng's identity were stunned, and some even wondered if Ma Teng was a fool. Of course, there are also some witchers who rushed to hear the news. are also waiting to see Ma Teng's jokes.

More than ten minutes passed quickly, just when everyone wondered if the monster inside had escaped.

From beneath the earth, however, there was a strong tremor.

In the next second, two huge monsters with a body length of nearly ten meters came out of the ground below Ma Teng.

The faces of everyone who saw the appearance of the monster did not change, even the demon hunters.

"It's a red-pupil-level monster thousand-legged black beetle!"