That evening, Liu Zhaodi pleaded with him to stay.
Is it this stone?
"You don't need to bother, I can carry it myself!"
"It must be this one!"
Inside the underground palace, Liu Zhaodi was unusually busy. She had several pieces of ore in her arms and several more in her hands. Although she was so busy that she was dizzy, she was full of satisfaction.
"You can't even distinguish between different ores, so don't make things worse!" Jiang Yuan said helplessly to Liu Zhaodi.
However, Liu Zhaodi didn't mind and simply said, "Then teach me! If you teach me a few more times, I might be able to get the hang of it! That way, I can help you with your weapon forging in the future!"
"I have someone to help me out, I don't need you!" Jiang Yuan refused without any courtesy.
“But others may leave you, but I will never!” Liu Zhaodi assured him confidently.
Jiang Yuan scoffed and said, "Believe me, the vast majority of women don't like blacksmiths, a profession that involves brute force and dealing with ores all day long!"
“That’s the vast majority. Someone as extraordinary as me is different!” Liu Zhaodi rolled up her sleeves to help, completely unconcerned about the expensive clothes she was wearing.
"Would you like to learn how to identify these ores?" Jiang Yuan casually patted a purple ore the size of a human head next to him.
"Yes!" Liu Zhaodi nodded repeatedly.
"Come here!" Jiang Yuan reached out and grabbed Liu Zhaodi by the back of the neck, pulling her forcefully in front of him. "Look into my eyes!"
Liu Zhaodi clearly hadn't expected love to come so quickly; her trembling eyelashes fully revealed her inner turmoil.
However, just as she was looking forward to it, a glint flashed in Jiang Yuan's eyes, and then, nothing more happened!
"Is that all?" Liu Zhaodi, like a restless kitten, desperately wanted to pounce into the other person's arms.
"That's about it!"
Jiang Yuan nodded. He had obtained the Eye of Insight from killing Wu Yong. Moreover, due to his talent, the skills captured by the Heavenly Eye could only be transferred through the Heavenly Eye and could not be used but only increased.
"Are you hungry? Let me heat up some food for you!" Liu Zhaodi tried to break the awkward silence. This method was hardly effective for identifying minerals, so she took Jiang Yuan's behavior as a slightly straight-man flirting tactic.
"I'm not hungry, but are you sure you don't want to try it first?" Jiang Yuan saw Liu Zhaodi's concerns; it was clear she didn't trust him.
Liu Zhaodi was also a little confused. She thought to herself, "You didn't teach me, how could I possibly recognize what kind of ore this is!"
"Take a closer look at that ore!" Jiang Yuan instructed directly. The Eye of Insight still needed to be activated before it could be used, and Liu Zhaodi had to use energy to see it.
“This is the Golden Rock Under the Blazing Sun!” Liu Zhaodi blurted out, but then she paused, realizing her mistake. “Wait, I just said…”
“Let’s look at the others!” Jiang Yuan said calmly.
Liu Zhaodi was skeptical, then looked at the other ores.
"This is a strange metal called the Iron-Cutting Stone!"
"And this is blue sand crystal!"
"Red Steel!"
"Azure Sky True Soil!"
"That's enough! Do you think this is some elementary school student reciting a book?" Jiang Yuan grabbed Liu Zhaodi.
"What's going on? I seem to be able to see through the essence of these things all of a sudden!" Liu Zhaodi guessed that it was Jiang Yuan's little trick just now that gave her such a strange ability.
"Go back and study it more, and you'll understand!" Jiang Yuan didn't want to explain. The difference between his Heavenly Eye and the Eye of Insight was huge, and he had no right to speak if he didn't understand.
Liu Zhaodi's face fell, and she pouted, "Are you trying to get rid of me again?"
"This is my house! If I don't kick you out, am I supposed to be kicked out too?" Jiang Yuan raised an eyebrow and retorted.
"That's not what I meant. I want to stay!" Liu Zhaodi stated her purpose very directly.
“Let me tell you, my wife might be back anytime! If you don’t want her to misunderstand, you can stay here as long as you want!” Jiang Yuan turned around and continued to study the ore ratio.
Liu Zhaodi was unimpressed by Jiang Yuan's threat. She didn't say anything, found a mining platform, and started to retrieve the food she had eaten earlier. She even used her spiritual energy to heat it up when she took it out.
Soon, the food began to smell delicious as it warmed up.
"Food is as essential as iron, so if I'm going to leave, I need to eat my fill first!" Liu Zhaodi picked up her rice and began to eat slowly.
Jiang Yuan smiled silently, ignoring Liu Zhaodi's little tricks. He had enough resistance to do so, and just continued forging his weapon.
During this period, he specifically obtained a lot of weapon blueprints, the highest of which was a ninth-tier spear blueprint. The spear was a weapon he particularly liked, and he planned to equip the members of the Changgan Gang with it as melee weaponry. As for ranged weapons, he also had his choices: a ninth-tier Spirit Returning Crossbow and a seventh-tier Kinetic Rifle. However, both of these weapons required the embedding of Holy Spirit Stones to be used, so their consumption would be much higher than that of ordinary weapons.
Moreover, after a day of forging experience, he discovered that the weapons he forged had subtle differences from those obtained from the core.
Take blueprints for example. These blueprints cannot bring out the best in a weapon because the materials used for forging are never exactly the same. So, even if you make a weapon with the same blueprint and the same forging techniques, the result will be different. Unless the blacksmith makes some minor adjustments, most of them will not be perfect. But if you make minor adjustments, you can't mass-produce them. So, having flaws is one of the most obvious drawbacks of standard weapons.
"A ninth-tier Spirit Returning Crossbow is still a bit lacking!"
The lump of material in Jiang Yuan's hand melted into slag, which meant that the forging attempt had failed.
"Forging weapons isn't just about having experience; you have to personally understand the properties of each mineral to master every step of the forging process!"
That being said, it was still extremely difficult. Just as Jiang Yuan was about to close his eyes and rest for a while before continuing his mission, he caught a glimpse of Liu Zhaodi.
Why haven't you left yet?
Liu Zhaodi looked over, her cheeks were still stuffed full, and she couldn't say a word for a moment.
"Aren't you bothered by the dirt? I'm forging weapons here, and you're eating with such relish!" Jiang Yuan said speechlessly. Although becoming a weapon forger meant he could control the impurities produced during the forging process, leaks were inevitable, so dirt was unavoidable.
"I'm just getting used to it in advance. I'll be working as a helper under Master Jiang Yuan in the future!" Liu Zhaodi swallowed her food with a gulp, then patted her chest and said with difficulty.
"Why be so humble? Can't you tell I don't like you?" Jiang Yuan said bluntly. "Leave here, there are plenty of handsome and gentle young men chasing after you. There's no need to waste your time here!"
"Whether you like me or not is your business, but I like you!" Liu Zhaodi's eyes darted around as she poked at the rice grains in her bowl with her chopsticks.
"So unique?" Jiang Yuan turned around and looked at Liu Zhaodi with an elegant and refined demeanor.
Liu Zhaodi blushed under his gaze, poked at the bottom of her bowl, and changed the subject, saying, "Want a bowl?"
Jiang Yuan shook his head and suggested, "I'm going to the West Gate tomorrow to hunt ninth-tier spirit beasts. Do you want to come along?"
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