Chapter 219 - Suit Secret Technique (2/2)

He already had another plan for that matter, hence he did not want to argue with Ni Xuehai.

“Thank you for your pointer, senior, but I already have a plan for that.”

Ni Xuehai shook his head helplessly. “Forget it. Master Ou, study the Suit Skill well. If you’re able to perform a full set upgrade, perhaps… You’ll have some hope.”

Ou Yangming voiced out when a thought crossed his mind, “Senior, I’d like to clear a doubt.”

“Go ahead.”

“From your point of view, I suppose you wouldn’t want a cheap equipment set to be improved by a huge margin, am I right?”

Ni Xuehai pondered and responded, “You’re right. The imperial family and the military are the ones who will benefit the most from it, whereas the Ni family’s gain is insignificant and inversely proportional to theirs.”

Ou Yangming raised another question, “If that’s the case, why do the three great ancestors and you seem happy for this to happen? In fact, you’re encouraging it.”

“We’re not helping Master Lu.” Ni Xuehai laughed.

“But you’re not restricting him too,” Ou Yangming uttered sternly, “Master Lu learned the Suit Runes Skill from the Ni family, but he used it on pieces of equipment for the military. Heh, if the Ni family didn’t help, I’m sure Brother Yunhong couldn’t have brought more than ten sets of Good Grade arm guards to the Immense Forest Military Fire, right?”

“Master Ou, you’re incredibly smart.” Ni Xuehai looked at Ou Yangming in astonishment. He sighed and told the truth, “Honestly, Master Lu isn’t the one who found a way to upgrade pieces of ordinary equipment from the Suit Runes Skill.”

Ou Yangming laughed. “As I expected, it originated from your clan, but I’m curiouswhy are you doing this?”

Although Master Lu was also a powerful Military Fire Blacksmith, he couldn’t suppress the generations of smithing experts from the Ni family.

The technique to refine pieces of ordinary equipment certainly did not exist ten years ago, but Master Lu was able to create it after he learned it from the Ni family. No matter how one looked at it, it simply seemed too coincidental.

After all, Master Lu was a normal person without a.s.sistance from the purple Military Fire.

“It’s a long story, but you’ll naturally find out in the future. You should start reading the Suit Runes Skill.” Ni Xuehai sighed. He looked deeply at Ou Yangming before he left. Ou Yangming frowned and grumbled, ‘The Ni family has been carefully researching Suit Runes for generations, and they accidentally stumbled on the skill to upgrade a piece of equipment’s grade and rank. From an aristocratic family’s perspective, they shouldn’t announce it to the world.

‘But they did the opposite and led Master Lu to leak the skill to the military.

‘I don’t believe that they don’t have other intentions.”

Ou Yangming could not figure it out despite having racked his brain. He sighed and gave up helplessly because he could not infer what the clan was thinking.

When the young fellow took a glance at the bookshelf, his eyes slowly brightened.

At the end of the day, Ou Yangming was a blacksmith, thus he could not help but feel excited when the unique skill was right in front of him.

Many books were placed on the bookshelf, but they were arranged in order.

Ou Yangming retrieved the main book from the shelf, then he became immersed in reading it.

Just as he was fully focused on the Suit Skill, several horses galloped into the prefecture. Ni Yinghong, He Liangce, and other people were riding the horses. Once they entered the prefecture, Ni Yinghong nodded and said, “Elder Brother He, thank you for escorting me back, I’ll make a move now.” He Liangce smiled gently. “Younger sister, please go ahead.”

With that, Ni Yinghong sped back to her clan’s residence. As soon as she met Ni Yunhong, she asked, “Elder Brother, has Lil’ Ming come back?”

“Young Sister, don’t worry, Brother Ou returned a long time ago, but…” Ni Yunhong answered and hesitated for a while before he continued, “The great ancestors sent him into the library to look at the Suit Secret Technique, so he probably won’t be out soon.”

Ni Yinghong gritted her teeth, but she was relieved.

“I’m going to meet the great ancestors!” Ni Yinghong was determined. “I want to ask what exactly is going on!”

Ni Yunhong was taken aback, but he decided to follow her. Nevertheless, before they left the room, a flash of a figure was seen at the door as Ni Xuetian showed up.

“Yinghong, it’s time to let you know now. Let me take you there,” Ni Xuetian said with a deep voice. He later reached out to hold Ni Yinghong’s hand, then they soared into the sky and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Ni Yunhong was stupefied for some time. He mumbled, “Why? Am I not allowed to know?” He looked at his hands and eventually looked resolute.

[1] Author originally wrote ‘half a month’, but as stated earlier, the process takes half an hour. We’ve corrected it for the context

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