Chapter 729 - Flying Stone (1/2)

Chapter 729

Flying Stone

“What’s this?”

Everyone in the forging room crowded around immediately. Based on their experience, Shao Xuan would not show them an ordinary rock.

“This is from that place, isn’t it?” An older man pointed at the cave with the core seed.

Everyone understood immediately.

“I heard there were changes but I didn’t know it changed this much!” They rubbed their palms. They were not afraid of change, just very curious about all kinds of peculiar phenomena.

“Hold it first.” Shao Xuan gave the slab of crystal to the older man.

“It’s heavy!” The man’s expression changed, his brows knitted with thought.

Impatient, everyone quickly passed the crystal around before he could react.

“It IS heavy!”

“Grand Elder, why is it so heavy?”

“Regular rocks would change too but never this much. This crystal is indeed very strange,” commented another.

Everyone in the room made similar comments, though the older man turned to Shao Xuan to ask, “Grand Elder, what do you think?”

“Crack it open, let’s look at its core.” Shao Xuan was very direct.

“Understood!”

Everyone perked up and brought over the required tools. Ever since they made green bronze, even their tools had been modernized.

The outer layer of almost transparent crystal was neither thick nor too hard so it was quickly hacked off using their bronze tools.

“Eh? What’s this?” They studied the crystal core curiously.

The heart of the crystal still had colourful pieces of crystal stuck to it, which were the patches Shao Xuan previously saw and much harder than the transparent layer.

“These colourful pieces are pretty. Let’s knock those off and store them.” Many of them came from the other side of the ocean and were aware that these were valuable. After hacking these pieces off carefully from the crystal heart, they were kept in a box.

After another half hour, the crystal heart about half an arm long and one palm wide remained. Most of the outer layers had been hacked off and most of the heart was already exposed.

“It’s black?” Shao Xuan wondered what this black substance with a metallic shine was.

“Grand Elder, there’s still a lot of crystal stuck to it that we can’t knock off. Do you think we should just melt it?” Usually, ore would be melted to remove impurities so the metal remained.

“Alright, do that.” This chunk was meant to be experimented on anyway, they could do whatever they wanted.

Someone came looking for Shao Xuan so he left first. Gui He had sent a messenger who heard from another person that Shao Xuan was here. Since it was not urgent, he told Shao Xuan to only go up the mountain when he was done.

By the time Shao Xuan returned to the forging room, they had already placed the black crystal heart in the cauldron. He looked around and asked, “Is this the set of tools you usually use?”

This set was used to melt ore during weapon-making. Now they were melting an unknown substance!

Everyone suddenly realised it after his question. They had put the crystal heart into the cauldron out of habit but had not thought about the consequences of putting an unknown substance inside.

It should be fine… right?

The thought came right before Shao Xuan yelled, “MOVE AWAY!”

Shao Xuan had felt a chill before he yelled for them to move. There was no time to save the crystal heart in the cauldron.

An explosion ensued, the roof torn off by the shockwaves and all the tools in the room blasted into a mess. Stone chips and dust flew.

Alarmed, everyone guarding outside the room quickly ran over after the explosion. They did not know what had happened but everyone inside was in charge of making weapons and important to the tribe. Plus the Grand Elder was inside too!

Occasionally, little accidents would happen in the forging room as they continued to improve their forging techniques plus the blacksmiths would experiment every now and then. However, the roof had just fallen in! This was no small accident!

And they saw something flying out of the room…

Regardless, they rushed into the forging room to check on everyone inside.

“Grand Elder! Grand Elder, are you alright?” someone yelled from outside.

‘I’m fine!” Shao Xuan pushed a few bricks off himself and got up to pat the dust off himself. Then, he helped drag the rest of the blacksmiths from the ruins.

Thank goodness for his warning, and him pulling a few nearby away from the cauldron or it could have been disastrous.