Chapter 733 - Do You Want Them? (1/2)

Within the Flaming River Castle, the hammering sounds meant as disguise had ceased. No one knew what the result of the hammering was, Flaming Horn did not bring anything out either.

Everything slowly returned to normal but occasionally, someone would bring up the ‘rock from the sky’. Some speculated that the Flaming Horns fashioned an incredible weapon out of it but must hide it from thieves while others thought the Flaming Horns must have gotten nothing out of it, maybe even ruining the rock in the process. They were just keeping quiet out of embarrassment.

No matter what people said, Flaming Horn maintained their silence. Some Flaming Horn warriors were also curious but none of their leaders seemed to want to talk. If they asked, the leaders would just stare at them with an odd expression until they stopped asking.

At this moment, Zheng Luo, who was in charge of the trading point, was in the Flaming River Castle with Duo Kang who had just delivered a batch of fearsome beast meat. Both of them were studying the newly made knife, Zheng Luo even tested it on a bronze container.

When the knife split the container in half, Zheng Luo gasped in surprise. This was a new material that could substitute bronze!

“What is this called? Shao Xuan said the previous one was called bronze, what about this?” asked Duo Kang.

Zheng Luo shook his head. “I don’t know. To think of it, has Shao Xuan locked himself in the secret chamber again?”

“He seems to be thinking about something.”

Meanwhile, within the underground secret room beneath Flaming River Castle.

Shao Xuan stared at the results of his calculations and circled one of the symbols. It was also once marked on the Yi family ring formulae diagram.

Heaving a long sigh, he rolled up the scrolls on the table, then tied up all the other cloths he had used for rough calculation work. Those would be burned later, all he needed was the final result.

Although he had obtained his conclusion, it was built on several hypotheses. If those were true, then the crystal core from the centre of the crystals were mainly composed of iron.

Although Shao Xuan had already recognised it as a type of alloy, he had not been able to confirm it. Now he could.

“Iron wares…“

Shao Xuan sat by the stone table, tapping with his fingers, deep in thought.

Iron forging technology was limited here, or bronze would not be so popular here. Even the popularly talented Gongjia family worked on copper. From this, it could be understood that melting iron was not easy. Shao Xuan could not do much either because he was no expert on iron. Plus there were many special conditions in this world, for example the existence of a core seed.

The Flaming Horns were not very talented in this field either- they were late in utilising metal, not very mentally flexible, shaky foundations in forging… There were too many factors against him. Training new talent required time.

Shao Xuan was still thinking when Duo Kang came looking for him.

“What’s the matter?” asked Shao Xuan, pushing the stone door open.

“Someone’s looking for you?” Duo Kang looked solemn.

“Who is it?”

“Someone from Changle.”

Changle?

Again?

Haven’t Wu He and the rest been released already? According to the agreement? And they were much more well-behaved now too so the Flaming Horns did not capture them again.

No matter what, this was odd. The fact that they specifically named Shao Xuan was even stranger.

When Shao Xuan entered the room, he saw a person radiating intense anger. He did not look very muscular, even slightly thin, but his gaze was as sharp as a blade. It felt like a blade swinging past when he turned to look at Shao Xuan.

There was no murderous intent but this person might as well have the word ‘impatient’ written across his face. He must be in a very bad mood to behave like this here.

After a short pause from catching the person’s gaze, Shao Xuan dragged a chair over and took a seat. “I didn’t expect the chief of Changle to be here again.”

This was Chief Su Li of the Changle people, Wu He had told Shao Xuan their chief’s name a while ago. Su Li had visited the Flaming Horns the last time to negotiate the release of his people but Shao Xuan did not expect him to be here again. If he was here to rob the Flaming Horns, he would never act in such a high-profile manner, even asking for Shao Xuan personally.

When he heard Shao Xuan, Su Li exhaled hard from his nostrils. “HMMPH! You think I WANT to be here?!”

Since they had previously met, Su Li did not confirm Shao Xuan’s statement on his identity. He fished inside his clothing and brought out a cylindrical copper tube, tossing it at Shao Xuan. “It’s for you!”