Chapter 33 (2/2)

Indeed, adding attributes was an extremely difficult task for Old Craftsman, but it was as easy as eating and drinking for Ou Yangming.

After dealing with the old man, Ou Yangming finally felt a bit tired.

Even though he had plenty of blood and flesh in the dense forest to replenish himself when he cultivated, and the martial-art squat helped him get rid of the exhaustion, it did not mean that he could really live without sleeping at all.

Ou Yangming used his Military Fire to draw the attributes from his arm guards and greaves, then put the equipment set in a corner.

Details determined success or failure. Old Craftsman nagged him about this numerous times, so he always bore it in mind.

Ou Yangming was deep asleep shortly after he got on his bed.

The next morning, he stretched his body when he woke up, and the weariness from the last few days was gone.

He strode out of his courtyard and headed to his smithing workshop to begin working.

However, he was unaware that a figure sneaked into his courtyard by going over the wall not long after he left.

The person covered his face using his sleeves. It was Han Changling, the person who blamed Ou Yangming in the past but ended up being beaten by Sui Hezhi. Due to that incident, not only did he get beaten up for nothing, but he also offended Old Craftsman indirectly. If not for Zhang Yinfan from the Provision Camp who stood up for him, Kang Weibo would have added insult to his injury too.

After all, as long as one was not a fool, one would know who to pick between Old Craftsman and Han Changling.

Han Changling walked carefully without touching anything. He searched Ou Yangming’s room and courtyard carefully as if he was looking for something.

“Did sir make a mistake? How can this fella have a cylindrical Fire-absorbing Badge? But what exactly is a Fire-absorbing Badge…” He rubbed his neck after a long time as he mumbled. He did not find anything unusual even after searching for some time, but he suddenly noticed a pile of armaments in a corner.

Han Changling approached the pile carefully, then picked up a greave to look at it closely. At the spur of the moment, his face changed as he exclaimed, “High Grade equipment!”

In actual fact, the greave was already at the peak of High Grade, but Han Changling could not distinguish that through his naked eyes.

He measured the greave’s size by comparing it with his body and confirmed that the greave was smithed to fit Ou Yangming.

Following that, he put the greave down then picked up the arm guards, the armor, the helmet, and the military saber.

Though the Unique Attributes in those pieces of equipment had been withdrawn by Ou Yangming, the fact that they were of Good Grade was shocking.

In the end, Han Changling was even trembling a little.

‘How long has Ou Yangming been using the Military Fire? It has only been three months at most.’

‘He actually smithed pieces of Good Grade Attribute Equipment in three months, though people are saying that it was Old Craftsman who smithed them.’

Han Changling had only taken it by a pinch of salt, but after seeing the pieces of High Grade equipment with special specifications, he became skeptical about it.

‘Is it true that it wasn’t Old Craftsman who forged the pieces of Attribute Equipment, but Ou Yangming?’

‘If that’s the case, the young fella has a bright future, and it won’t be wise for me to go against him…’

Han Changling hesitated for a while, then placed everything back to where they were as though they were never s.h.i.+fted at all.

Subsequently, he left cautiously without making a sound, then headed to the Provision Camp to meet Zhang Yinfan.

“Sir, I’ve searched everywhere, and I didn’t see the Fire-absorbing Badge in his house or his smithing workshop,” Han Changling mentioned respectfully, “But I found a few… Pieces of High Grade equipment in his room.”

Zhang Yinfan frowned. “What’s so odd about a few pieces of High Grade equipment? Old Craftsman even smithed a number of Fine Grade ones before.”

Han Changling smiled bitterly. “Sir, I suspect that it wasn’t Old Craftsman who smithed them.”

“What?” Zhang Yinfan was stunned. His face changed slightly. “Did Ou Yangming smith them himself?”

“It’s very… Possible,” Han Changling answered hesitantly.

Zhang Yinfan’s face darkened a little. He obviously understood what Han Changling meant. It was not just very possible, because it was definitely it.

“Sir, he’s not ordinary, and I’m afraid that he’ll be very successful in the future. In my opinion, no matter what happened in the past…” Han Changling glanced at Zhang Yinfan carefully when he spoke, but the moment he noticed the fierce look in Zhang Yinfan’s eyes, he was so scared that he quickly stopped and left.

Zhang Yinfan was the only one left in the room.

He mumbled as he furrowed his eyebrows. “Does Hanyu’s disappearance really have nothing to do with him? But there mustn’t be a mistake from the Fire-absorbing Badge no matter what!”

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