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Chapter 345 The Anxious Weapon Refiner
On this day, Zhong Ming staggered out of the wine vat, his mind somewhere between delirium and motion sickness.
Now, he sees points of light flickering in front of him in everything he looks at.
After so many days of practice, he has learned it...
Ok.
Even with your eyes closed, you can accurately hit the target.
Controlling the two turbulent currents is extremely difficult; no wonder this technique is so expensive. He now feels a bit regretful, wondering if he can even learn it.
The two turbulent currents consumed a significant amount of their spiritual energy as they moved forward.
While catching his breath, he glanced around and was surprised to see He Guang's large wine vat, which was open but empty.
Perhaps he went out to buy materials?
Thinking this way, he felt he should go out for a walk; it wasn't good to just sit in this dark and gloomy wine cellar watching the wine glitter.
Just then, as he stepped out of the isolated wine cellar, a small stone on his body suddenly trembled a few times. This was a message from the bounty board; someone had accepted his job.
He walked out of the heavily guarded wine cellar and casually asked the guard about He Guang's whereabouts. The guard didn't know exactly where he had gone, since He Guang had no obligation to report to him.
The bounty board area is still packed with people. Even if you don't have the skills to take on the mission, you can still watch the excitement. It can even be used as a free information hub.
Zhong Ming hurriedly arrived here, looked around, and found a counter with a short queue to wait. Half an incense stick later, he learned the location of the weapon refiner who was taking orders.
Going up, a Foundation Establishment stage weapon refiner has their own weapon refining room.
Following the instructions, Zhong Ming found his way there and saw someone waiting in front of the room.
"Um, sir, may I ask if you're waiting for... Immortal Master Li Huo?"
"Yes, you're here to have him refine your weapon too? That's unfortunate, he just removed my bounty, so you'll have to wait a bit."
"Uh, but he also peeled mine off."
The two looked at each other, wondering who should go first.
Zhong Ming didn't stand on ceremony. He plopped down on a small chair by the door, facing the man, gave a fake smile, and asked, "What kind of treasure are you going to refine, sir?"
"I fought hard in the east for many days, and my equipment was already tattered. I just replaced whatever I had. It didn't matter if I had nothing else."
Zhong Ming gave a forced smile. "Since you've come from the east, you must have quite a few sea beasts and merman corpses on hand. How about setting up a stall and we trade?"
"Ha, what a boastful tone." The man's spiritual energy also seemed to be at the peak of Qi Refining, but he might actually be at the Foundation Establishment stage and had concealed his spiritual power. He didn't think the other party had enough resources to do business with him.
"If you think I'm being too boastful, how about this: you take out one item first, and I won't bother with any other treasures of equal value. I'll just put out the military merit points. Whether you accept it or not is up to you."
Zhong Ming had over a thousand military merit points, so he wasn't worried at all.
"That's out of the question. The treasures I brought today were all crafted by the Immortal Master Li Huo, so there's probably no surplus."
Just as the two were discussing, another person entered from outside.
"Hey, brother, are you also here to see Immortal Master Li Huo?"
"I asked him to forge a magical artifact, and he told me to come and pick it up today. I wonder if it's finished yet." This man was not polite at all. He walked right between the two of them and started knocking on the door.
Physical knocking.
The two frowned and simultaneously took a few steps to the side.
It was his rudeness, it has nothing to do with us.
"Immortal Master Li Huo? Is my halberd ready yet?"
The door to the weapon-refining room swung open with a bang, revealing a man dressed in a dark blue-green Daoist robe, adorned with rare, large patches of crimson fire patterns that shimmered with spiritual light, making his face appear rosy.
This person was none other than the Immortal Master Li Huo, a Foundation Establishment stage cultivator specializing in weapon crafting.
He casually tossed a magical artifact to the man, and a tiny "needle," about the size of a toothpick, flew out of his hand, growing larger and larger in the air until it reached the man's hands, where it was already over eighteen feet long.
"Good, good, good! This is the kind of weapon I want."
"If you're satisfied, pay and leave." The Fire Immortal Master's eyes were empty, as if he were a machine without emotion.
The man wasn't angry. So what if a weapon refiner has a bad temper? Good quality is the most important thing.
"Alright, alright, I'll come back to you again if I find any new materials."
The man left like the wind, heading straight to the training ground to practice with his new weapon.
"And what about you? Master Cuihong and... Master Hongdao?"
Zhong Ming bowed his head, and the man returned the gesture of a martial artist's fist salute.
"Exactly," they both said in unison.
The Immortal Master Li Huo made way for the two of them to enter. The weapon-refining room was very small, consisting of a Qi-refining furnace, a ball of floating flame, a stone bed, and a row of cabinets. After the two of them entered, there was not even enough room for them to sit down, let alone stand.
"Don't mind it, good steel should be used where it's needed most. I used all my military merit points to buy a furnace."
The Immortal Master Li Huo was swaying precariously. Only then did Zhong Ming take a closer look and see that the Immortal Master's face was pale and he even had faint dark circles under his eyes. He looked weak and listless.
"Immortal Master, what's wrong with your health?"
"I'm fine, I'll stop here. Time is of the essence, please take out the items."
Zhong Ming looked around. "Here?" he thought. "I've taken it out, but there's nowhere left to stand."
The other person did the same, but the Immortal Master Li Huo urged them repeatedly, so the two had no choice but to comply.
A headless merman corpse (used to verify the merman's death) and a large stack of merman bones were placed in the weapon-refining room, leaving no room left in the already crowded room.
Immortal Master Li Huo glanced at them and immediately said, "To make a long story short, you don't have enough materials. You should have advanced more money. Your armor is not enough at 1,000, you need about 1,600. Your Qimen Flower Bone Hammer is also not enough at 1,600, you need at least 2,000. But I have seen that you can use your surplus materials together."
He pulled out the corpse Zhong Ming had given him. "You only want the scales, so you're giving him the bones inside the body? Do you have a problem with that?"
He then brought over a pile of goods from another person, saying, "Can you accept the scales here for him? If he does, I'll start refining them at the original price. If not, either raise the price or find someone else."
"Agreed." Zhong Ming agreed without even thinking; his budget was even higher than 1,000 military merit points.
The man hesitated for a moment before asking, "Then whose magical artifact should we forge first?"
"yours."
Upon hearing this, he looked at Zhong Ming provocatively.
However, Zhong Ming noticed that the way the Fire Immortal Master looked at him was a little strange, as if he was trying to persuade him to agree.
"I....."
"Pay more or leave."
"When should I come to pick it up?" Zhong Ming asked casually.
"About eighty days later."
Forty days to refine two spiritual weapons is already a very tight schedule. Normally, even if we don't say eighty-one days, it would still take forty-nine days to refine them.
Eighty days is a bit short for you to refine two items.
"Eighty days... Immortal Master, your body..."
"It's just refining a spiritual weapon, not like refining a magic treasure that takes three years or ten years to nurture. Let me make this clear first: my name will be engraved on the treasures I refine. If you can't accept that, just leave and don't bother me while I'm working."