Ye Xinglan was already at rank-40 and with Tang Wulin supplying her with the spirit alloys, she began helping their companions to make their one-word battle armor. According to Tang Wulin's plans, he planned for Ye Xinglan to forge himself a set of one-word armor first to build up her own strength before forging them for the others.
Ye Xinglan should have had started forging herself a right armguard along with a vambrace by now. After those two were completed, she would become more consistent when forging battle armor and have a higher success rate. That alone was reason enough to make reaching rank-40 a pressing matter that had to be achieved as soon as possible.
As long as he could become a one-word battle armor master with battle armor forged from spirit alloy, entering the inner court would not pose him any problems.