Three days passed quickly, Ning Cheng wasn’t half anxious, he didn’t have anything to do in the first place. Staying here with Sister Shu to refine pills was not bad, now he could completely refine Three Pole Pills without using his Dan Skill. Or rather, he was now a veritable Three Extremes True Pill Master.
“Huh, you’re still a rank four True Dan master?” Lan Shu’s clear voice rang out, and only then did Ning Cheng realise that Lan Shu had come out. Moreover, she had changed into a light green dress, and even the hoarseness of her voice had disappeared.
Seeing the extremely high quality of the Three Extremes True Pill that Ning Cheng had refined, Lan Shu rightfully assumed that Ning Cheng was a Level Four True Pill Master.
“Sister Shu, you’ve gotten better.” Ning Cheng put away the Dan Furnace and said joyfully.
Lan Shu unexpectedly revealed a smile, “Hmm, thank you for the Violet Heavenly Glazed Marrow, without it, I would still be sitting on a chair right now.”
Seeing Lan Shu who revealed a smile, Ning Cheng froze for a moment, he had never thought that Lan Shu was so beautiful when she smiled. This kind of beauty was far inferior even to that purple-skirted woman.
“Ning Cheng ……,” Lan Shu called out.
Ning Cheng instantly understood that he had been a little rude and said somewhat awkwardly, “I’m sorry, Sister Shu, I was a little rude just now.”
Lan Shu didn’t get angry and still said softly, “It’s none of your business, or maybe it’s because you think I’m too beautiful to be like that.”
Ning Cheng was puzzled as to why Lan Shu spoke in this way, he still gave a hint and said, “Yes, Sister Shu’s smile is a beauty I have never seen before. It’s a beauty that enchants people.”
Lan Shu sighed and said, “To me, all this is irrelevant now. When I first met Yuchen, I was just an ordinary looking woman, but Yuchen didn’t dislike me …… Enough about that, where is your fiancée now?”
Ning Cheng had been thinking about this Luo Fei, and now that Lan Shu asked, he hurriedly said, “My fiancée’s name is Ji Luo Fei, before I went to the Angry Axe Valley, she was waiting for me at the Divine Wind Academy in the Huazhou Continent. But when I returned to Divine Wind Academy again, Divine Wind Academy was destroyed and she was saved by a friend of mine. Now I don’t know where she is, and I plan to return to the Huazhou Continent to wait for her after I return from the Rule Road.”
Lan Shu gestured for Ning Cheng to sit down, and she also sat down and said, “My cultivation technique has the effect of preserving the skin, and it is the best technique for women to cultivate. When you find Concubine Luo, you bring her to my place and I will pass it on to her. Now, let’s go to the blacksmith shop. Of course before we go, we have to disguise ourselves.”
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After walking out of Dragon Phoenix Academy with Lan Shu, Ning Cheng still had some disbelief that he had become a slim uncle in his thirties just by virtue of Lan Shu’s disguise art. Even with his own divine sense checking, it was hard to find out a truth.
Looking at Lan Shu again, where was there any semblance of that supreme beauty? Apart from her eyes, which still had a familiar charm in them, Lan Shu had long since become a middle-aged woman, with a dusty and slightly tired face, making it obvious at first glance that this was a casual cultivator living at the lowest level.
Seeing Ning Cheng looking around, Lan Shu said, “My disguise technique is not worse than those concealment and concealment spells. Even some high-level cultivators may not be able to see it. If you want to learn it, I can also teach you.”
“To learn.” Ning Cheng said without hesitation, this thing was just too useful to him.
Lan Shu took out a jade slip and handed it to Ning Cheng, “Take a look at this jade slip first, and when we return from refining, you will follow me and learn for a few days.”
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The Dragon Phoenix Academy was originally located in the middle of Dragon Phoenix City, and Ning Cheng did not see the outside of Dragon Phoenix City. It was only now that he followed Lan Shu and walked in the middle of Longfeng City that he secretly marvelled at the prosperity of Longfeng City in his heart.
Or because Rule Road was gathered from the Longfeng Academy Square, where there were especially many people coming and all sorts of auctions were advertised as you went back and forth.
Lan Shu led Ning Cheng around seven corners and soon left the noisy and busy street and arrived inside an extremely small alleyway. This reminded Ning Cheng of the place where the white-haired old woman lived, back then that white-haired old woman also lived in this kind of remote place, could it be that these high achievers all liked to live in corners?
As expected, Ning Cheng had just entered the small alleyway when he heard a clanking sound of ironworking. The sounds were dense and incomparable, and it was obvious that business was good.
Walking up to the doorway making this clanking sound, Ning Cheng finally saw a small inconspicuous sign that read ‘Harvest Blacksmith Shop’.
Entering the blacksmith shop, Ning Cheng saw that there were surprisingly quite a few people inside, three men and a woman sitting on iron stools inside the blacksmith shop. Two bare-headed teenagers, one was hard at work hammering the weapon embryos in his hands, while the other was pulling hard on the bellows. Ning Cheng was sure that he was not mistaken, what these two teenagers were hammering was weapons, there was no half-heartedness in them.
The three men and one woman were dressed similarly to Lan Shu, their cultivation levels were not high, but they were brawny and outwardly exposed, so they should be more powerful adventurers. They were sitting there, presumably waiting for the weapons they were building.
This blacksmith shop was not small, but it had long been darkened by smoke and fire. There was no other sound inside the entire shop apart from the sound of two bald-headed teenagers beating iron.
When Lan Shu and Ning Cheng walked into the blacksmith shop, they did not cause anyone inside to be surprised, and the four customers even looked at the two, while the two teenagers who were beating iron were even more concerned about the weapons being built.
“I’m looking for Master Nong to beat an axe that I want the master to personally build.” Lan Shu spoke in a very thick voice.
The teenager who was beating iron looked up at Lan Shu and Ning Cheng and started hammering up the weapon embryo in his hand again, while saying carelessly, “Please, boss, beat the axe, no gold coins and only spirit stones, ten times the price, order first and take later.”
“I know the rules.” Lan Shu still spoke back in a gruff voice.
“Go in.” The teenager said casually before continuing to forge the weapon embryo in his hand.
Lan Shu led Ning Cheng to the corner of the room and turned in through a small door in the corner. This small door was very inconspicuous, and if it wasn’t for Lan Shu leading the way and not using his divine sense to check, Ning Cheng would definitely not have known that there was a small door here himself.
After entering the small door, Ning Cheng saw a man who was also bare-headed, except that his face was covered in a beard. This man was calcining an inconspicuous piece of material on the flame, and Ning Cheng did not recognise what this material was. But that flame he was sure was not a powerful flame, but a very normal kind of flame.
Ning Cheng did not use his divine sense to check the man, he felt that the man’s cultivation level was not inferior to that of Sister Shu, and was even slightly better. At the same time, Ning Cheng was wondering in his heart, if Sister Lan Shu did not come along and he was alone with the Taixu True Devil Gold to refine the magic treasure, would he be hacked off by this man? Would it even be difficult to save his little life?
“No business today.” The bald man had already refused first without waiting for Lan Shu to speak.
Lan Shu gestured for Ning Cheng to take out the wooden sign, and then threw it in front of this bald man, “Master Nong, just this once.”
“Huh.” The bald man finally raised his head when he saw the wooden card and looked at Ning Cheng and Lan Shu carefully for a while before putting it away and saying, “What do you want to refine?”
“An axe head.” Lan Shu gestured to Ning Cheng.
Inside, Ning Cheng took out the large piece of Tai Void True Devil Gold from his ring and threw it on the ground.
“Taixu True Devil Gold?” The man moved and said, then shook his head, “My refinement level is limited, so this Great Void True Devil Gold is probably unable to be refined into a high-level magic treasure. If you must give me this Tai Void True Devil Gold to refine, it would be a waste of something.”
“To what extent can you refine it?” Lan Shu asked in a deep voice.
The bald man pondered for a moment and said, “If I’m lucky, I can refine this Taixu True Devil Gold into a medium-grade true weapon, but afterwards, this Taixu True Devil Gold will not be able to continue to be upgraded, which means it’s the same as being refined by me.”
Ning Cheng and Lan Shu both knew clearly in their hearts that the Great Void True Devil Gold was only refined into a medium grade true weapon, so it was not too much to say that it had been refined and broken.
The bald man paused for a moment, and then deliberately looked at Ning Cheng and Lan Shu before continuing, “But I can still refine this Taixu True Devil Gold into a top grade spirit weapon embryo. The embryo is unsightly, but it is better than destroying the Taixu True Devil Gold, and after meeting a real expert in refining, this Taixu True Devil Gold can continue to be refined again. Once this Taixu True Devil Gold is refined into an extremely high quality true weapon, or even something that surpasses the extremely high quality true weapon, it can be upgraded without limit in the future.”
“I just need to have an artifact embryo.” Ning Cheng hurriedly said when he saw Lan Shu looking at himself. True Weapons were still too high grade for him right now, and he couldn’t use them. An upper grade spirit weapon would be enough, and wouldn’t it be better if he found a more powerful artifact smith in the future and the Tai Xu True Devil Gold could be upgraded.
The bald man nodded and said, “There is also a weakness in refining to become a top grade spirit weapon, that is, the devilish nature of the Taixu True Devil Gold is stronger, if one’s heart is a little weak, they will be directly swayed by the Taixu True Devil Gold.”
Ning Cheng said calmly, “Master Nong only cares about refining, if I cannot contain the devilish nature of the Taixu True Devil Gold, then that is my problem.”
Ning Cheng had already seen that this Nong Zhen and Lan Shu did not know each other, and the reason why Lan Shu was able to get the other party to do it was because of that one wooden token.
At the same time, Ning Cheng was sighing in his heart, even Tai Shu True Devil Gold could only refine a medium grade true weapon, and he had to be lucky, so he could see that this Nong Zhen was not a great artifact refining master either. Not being a great artifact refining master, he could be so dragged, so it was evident that artifact refiners were more desirable than alchemists.
Originally, Ning Cheng had planned to use some of the remaining materials in his hand, such as the Foreign Desolate Extreme Essence and Burning True Star Sand, to let this Master Nong refine a few small axes, but now he had also voluntarily given up.
When Nong Zhen began to refine the Taixu True Devil Gold, he did not ask Ning Cheng and Lan Shu to leave. But he also did not use that original flame again, instead he sacrificed a green-coloured flame after throwing out a few formation flags.
As soon as this green-coloured flame was sacrificed, Ning Cheng felt his star river pulsate, and he hurriedly suppressed the pulsating star river.