Chapter 187 - Malicious Scheme in the Dark (1/2)

Ch187 – Malicious Scheme in the Dark

Bai Susu was extremely fearful of Bai Yichen, so she didn’t dare to say anything more as soon as she heard his name.

Bai Honghu also remained silent. Although reforging wasn’t his strength, as a member of the Bai family, and especially a member of the more valued portion, he had naturally practiced reforging before, so he could still compete with the others.

Moreover–

Attack weapons that required reforging were more p.r.o.ne to causing uncontrollable and unpredictable accidents in the crafting process. Even if someone was accidentally injured or killed, it wouldn’t be anything out of the ordinary.

Since the remaining six Bai family craftsmen onstage didn’t put forth any opinions, the others would naturally not say much either. The majority of craftsmen looked to the Bai family as the authority on crafting.

Huangfu Jin secretly thought that this Bai family’s young master, who rarely ever made an appearance, indeed held an extraordinary and supreme position within the Bai family. He gave out a compet.i.tion topic so difficult that even a layman like Huangfu Jin felt that this was too inconceivable, yet these Bai family craftsmen actually didn’t even dare to make a single objection.

He clicked his tongue in admiration. Someday, when he had time, he would go to this Bai family’s young master to ask for some advice on releasing such a sovereign and imposing aura without even needing to be angry.

Huangfu Jin deliberately spoke to Lin Xuanzhi, “If Craftsmen Lin has any opinions, let’s hear them.”

Lin Xuanzhi thought in his heart, the content of this compet.i.tion was obviously determined already, so there’s no way anything would be changed just because of a single disagreement from him. Clearly, Huangfu Jin still has a bone to pick with him.

So Lin Xuanzhi calmly replied, “I have only one question.”

“Let’s hear it.” Huangfu Jin’s eyes twinkled slightly. He waited for Lin Xuanzhi to express his dissatisfaction so that Huangfu Jin could grab onto that opening and mercilessly slap his face with it–

These days, he didn’t know whether Leng Jixue had fallen under an enchantment or some other form of possession, but he unexpectedly brought up Lin Xuanzhi’s name multiple times without rhyme or reason, which infuriated Huangfu Jin so much that his lungs were about to burst from anger.

Lin Xuanzhi didn’t express any dissatisfaction, as if he had seen through Huangfu Jin, and instead asked, “I want to know — if these broken treasures are completely destroyed in our hands, will we have to provide compensation?”

Huangfu Jin, “…”

Huangfu Jin glared at Lin Xuanzhi as the corners of his lips twitched, “Of course not. The Huangfu family has not yet reached the point where we can’t even afford to part with these few items.”

It seemed that these treasures, which were close to becoming complete trash, were sponsored by the Huangfu family.

“Then what if they were successfully reforged?” Lin Xuanzhi continued to ask, “Would the items belong to us, or to the Huangfu family?”

Huangfu Jin stood with both his hands clasped behind his back and looked askance at Lin Xuanzhi as he spoke with some disdain, “As I said, the Huangfu family hasn’t yet reached the point where we can’t even afford to part with these few items.”

Lin Xuanzhi turned a blind eye to it, as if he hadn’t seen Huangfu Jin’s contempt and the laughter coming from the audience below. He nodded, “In that case, I can rest a.s.sured.”

Huangfu Jin’s eyelids twitched — rest a.s.sured? What are you rest a.s.sured about? How come I suddenly don’t feel a.s.sured?!

Regardless of whether Huangfu Jin felt a.s.sured or not, Lin Xuanzhi had already thrown out the forged stones he prepared in advance when the hourgla.s.s began to count down, simultaneously using his soul force to lift up the broken longsword and starting to form his hand seals…

Huangfu Jin wanted to rush over and take back the broken sword, but his reasoning was still there. He fought back the strong urge and took a deep breath to calm down.

Like h.e.l.l he could calm down!

He’s probably the most nervous person on the stage right now.

Not one of, but the most.

Baili Yunshan was so agitated that he scratched at his head. He had never done anything like this before and couldn’t find anything even after probing with his soul force.

Ordinary mortals’ swords and spears could be forged by hammering away at the metal, but cultivators’ treasures required vigorous refinement by soul force and various exquisite craftsmans.h.i.+p techniques in order to be crafted.

Baili Yunshan tried again and again, but when this treasure with only a broken section of bamboo strip released a “kaka-bang” sound, it finally completely turned into a pile of gray ash and wasted materials, and only then did Baili Yunshan stop as he scratched his head and guiltily touched his nose.

Baili Yunshan subconsciously glanced down towards the audience.

Only to see his Dage looking at him with a smile and subtly nodding his head in praise.

Baili Yunshan suddenly seemed as though he had been shot full of chicken blood and proudly raised his head–

Wasn’t it just a treasure that had already been broken? If it’s destroyed, then just let it be destroyed. In any case, his family didn’t hold any high expectations of him anyways.

Baili Yunshan turned to study Lin Xuanzhi beside him with this thought in mind.

For Lin Xuanzhi, reforging wasn’t difficult at all.

In his past life, in order to successfully repair the Revert World Mirror that had been broken and unrepaired for innumerable years, he had practiced reforging on countless broken treasures.

It could be said that in the dull thousand years of his past life, he had crafted very few treasures himself, but he had reforged and repaired a higher number of treasures.

The rules of this round coincidentally suited his strengths perfectly.

Lin Xuanzhi deftly held the forged engraving pen as he picked out those fine slivers of spiritual and soul force little by little and covered the materials necessary for repair with them. He then drew, piece by piece, the materials that had been refined into liquid over to the places where the longsword was nicked and used his soul force to press it into a solid state.

The small cracks and nicks were considered repaired and looked completely intact from the outside.

The forged stones continued to emit spiritual qi.

After he repaired the details, Lin Xuanzhi began to repair the biggest problem with this longsword — the sword body that had completely broken into two pieces.

For this kind of attack weapon that had already completely broken into two parts, Lin Xuanzhi preferred to melt the entire sword down before crafting it again. However, his current conditions inevitably didn’t allow for the sword to be melted down. Therefore, Lin Xuanzhi could only step back and settle for the second-best method. He directly picked up a piece of the exact same material used for the body of the sword and started to refine it.