Chapter 517 (1/2)

Chapter 517: 517

“What is this?” asked Meng Qi, looking at the beautiful case .

“Haha, beautiful miss, please have a look!”

Long chen opened the case, revealing an exquisite hairpin inside . Meng Qi involuntarily exclaimed, “How beautiful!”

The hairpin was seven inches long and completely golden . Complicated lines had been carved into it . At the head of the hairpin was a beautiful flower . It had eighteen petals and thirty-six pistils, looking just like a real flower .

What made Meng Qi the most surprised was that even the extremely fine pistils were covered in decorative designs that would have required immense skill to carve . It was so beautiful that Meng Qi instantly fell in love with it .

“Is this really for me?” asked Meng Qi .

“Of course . It took me a long time to carve and polish this gift . It took a lot of effort,” said Long Chen .

“Thank you, Long Chen!” Meng Qi tightly embraced Long Chen . She was filled with delight when she looked at the hairpin . There was no woman who could resist such a beautiful ornament .

However, if Guo Ran heard Long Chen’s words, it was unknown whether or not he would take his hammer and smash his most, most respected boss .

It was true Long Chen had spent a great deal of time creating and polis.h.i.+ng the design of this hairpin . But to say it had taken him a lot of work to make it was a bit shameless, as that hairpin was something Guo Ran had worked day and night for half a month in order to create .

“Oh?” Meng Qi suddenly let out a startled cry when she carefully held the hairpin in her hand .

“What? It feels a bit similar, right?” Long Chen smiled .

“This…” Meng Qi was a bit bewildered .

“Hehe, yes, it was created from the golden page,” laughed Long Chen . He explained, “This hairpin is now a true soul item . The eighteen petals and thirty-six pistils, along with the main body of the hairpin, can all be separated and used as weapons .

“Each piece has soul imprint runes carved into them . As long as you nourish them with your soul, then your soul energy can send out even a single pistil to kill someone silently . ”

Soul items were extremely precious, and apparently, even the Wind Spirit Pavilion’s master had only possessed one soul item, a ferrule that was extremely powerful .

But regretfully, Long Chen hadn’t gotten to see it . Under that lightning tribulation, all of them had been completely exterminated, their bodies turned to dust .

Perhaps it was possible for an absolutely supreme spatial ring to survive, but Long Chen had been heavily injured, so he hadn’t had any time to clean up the battlefield .

Only someone on the level of the pavilion master had had the qualifications to possess a soul item, so it could be seen how precious they were .

“Could it be that Guo Ran made this? Creating a soul item must have been very taxing . ” Meng Qi finally recalled how Long Chen had asked her for the golden page that day, and then immediately gone to find Guo Ran .

Taxing? Of course it was taxing . Otherwise, that little fellow wouldn’t have almost turned hostile against him . Creating it was nothing, but the taxing part was carving those runes .

If it had been an ordinary soul item then it would have been fine, but to carve runes onto those tiny, fine pistils was incredibly difficult .

It was fortunate Guo Ran had a shocking talent when it came to forging . He had also comprehended some tricks from the Ethereal Crafting Secret Record . Although it was an extremely shallow understanding, runes were something a forging master had to have mastered, and so it was something he was capable of doing, but it was incredibly difficult .

Just creating this small hairpin had been more difficult for him to create than his entire armor .

“For the next few days, you should pause your cultivation and focus on refining the hairpin with your soul energy . Once you brand your spiritual imprint on it, you’ll have another trump card,” said Long Chen .

If she was fighting an enemy, Meng Qi could use Magical Beasts to protect herself and then stealthily send out a flower pistil to one-shot her enemy .

This hairpin was made of soul gold, and that was something only Xiantian weapons, or material on that level, could block . But Xiantian weapons were incredibly precious, and less than one in two Xiantian experts possessed one .

As for Xiantian armor, that was practically unheard of . But without a Xiantian armor, how would you defend against this soul item?

It could be said that once Meng Qi could use this hairpin, she would become capable of killing Xiantian experts, and her killing power might become the highest of all of them .

After talking with Meng Qi for a while longer, Long Chen didn’t hold her up from refining the hairpin any longer . He returned to his own residence to enter seclusion .

Taking advantage of this time when no one was disturbing them, he began to crazily devour medicinal pills . When Meng Qi had tried to persuade him to retire from the cultivation world, he had felt immense pain from the bottom of his heart .

He couldn’t watch as the people around him were killed . He also couldn’t give up on finding his biological parents . Then his only choice right now was to get stronger, stronger, and even stronger!

Whether it was for the people by his side, his parents, or even that mysterious voice that rang in his head occasionally, he had to get stronger .

He had no retreat path . He had to charge forward all-out, because as soon as he slowed down, he would lose the companions he cherished .

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