"What if you want to live? What if you want to die?" Li Xiu was quite interested in these highly intelligent demons and asked while hiding inside the door.

"On a dark, windy and rainy night, it's easy to die. You just need to try blowing on the longevity lamp, and you will know what will kill you." The demon under the umbrella said slowly.

Li Xiu's face changed slightly when he heard this, and he had a bad feeling in his heart, but he did not blow the longevity lamp, but just said: "It seems that you have been eyeing me for a long time."

The demon under the umbrella did not answer Li Xiu's question, but continued: "If you want to live, just hand over the sword embryo."

"Sword embryo? What sword embryo?" Li Xiu was a little surprised. This evil spirit actually came for the sword embryo of the big sword he got. He thought that this evil spirit wanted to break out of the trial place.

Li Xiu stayed here for a month and saw more than a dozen sword embryos, but most of them were useless. This was the only one he brought back.

The demon spirit asked him to hand over the sword embryo, and it could only be this one.

"Of course it's the shining sword embryo on your body." said the evil spirit.

"What glorious sword embryo? The sword embryo I brought back was as black as ink, without even a hint of light." Li Xiu said.

"You ignorant human, a glorious sword embryo refers to a sword embryo that can withstand the power of light. It has nothing to do with whether it can glow or not." The demon said disdainfully.

"When you talk about the power of light, do you mean the light energy of brilliant quality?" Li Xiu asked.

"You can say that." said the demon spirit.

"So, the sword embryo should be divided into four qualities: flowing color, shining, dazzling and brilliant?" Li Xiu asked again.

"That's right." The demon replied.

"What do you want to do with this sword embryo?" Li Xiu continued to ask.

"You have so many questions. I don't have time to talk nonsense with you. If you want to live or die, just say it." The demon spirit snorted coldly.

Li Xiu did not say anything, but just blew quietly at the flame of his longevity lamp.

The originally dim flame of the lamp, after being blown by Li Xiu, turned into a strange blue color. Not only was it not blown out, but it became bigger.

"It turns out it can't be blown out." Although Li Xiu had already guessed that this might be the result, he was still a little surprised.

The evil spirit could actually keep the Eternal Lamp from going out. This was the first time he had encountered such a situation and he had never heard of it before.

"It actually possesses such terrifying abilities. What level is this evil spirit?" Li Xiu frowned secretly. He couldn't run away now. If he didn't hand over the sword embryo, he might not be able to defeat this evil spirit.

The main reason is that we don’t know the ability and level of this evil spirit, and it is too dangerous to fight with it.

Li Xiu tried blowing a few more times, but not only did he fail to blow it out, but the more he blew, the more it burned, and the flame of the Longevity Lamp was about to turn into a small blue torch.

"You can continue blowing." The evil spirit outside seemed to know that Li Xiu was blowing the Longevity Lamp, and said with a sneer.

"I can give you the sword embryo, what do you want to exchange it for?" Li Xiu gave up the idea of ​​blowing out the Longevity Lamp and said to the outside.

"You're about to die, and you still want to bargain with me?" The demon's voice became colder and colder.

"Why can't we bargain? If you could rush in, you would have rushed in long ago. Why are you standing outside and talking so much nonsense to me? Since I can't run away and you can't come in, negotiating the price... is not a normal thing..." Li Xiu was stunned before he finished speaking.

The door of the workshop creaked open, and the demon holding an umbrella pushed the door open with one hand and walked in.

"Go on." The evil spirit stood in front of Li Xiu and said mockingly.

The atmosphere was a little awkward. Li Xiu coughed and said, "A demon spirit like you who is so well-mannered shouldn't steal my things, right?"

"What do you think?" The umbrella in the demon spirit's hand was slightly lifted up, revealing a beautiful face that seemed to be both happy and angry, and a pair of charming eyes, looking at him with a smile.

"That shouldn't be the case?" Li Xiu said.

"Since you've said that, I'm a well-mannered demon spirit. Of course I won't steal your things." The demon spirit smiled and nodded, but then continued, "But taking things from a dead person is not called robbing, but picking up, don't you think?"

"It doesn't seem to be a problem." Li Xiu sighed lightly: "It seems that it is better to give this sword embryo to you, so you don't have to go through so much trouble to pick it up."

"It seems that you also have a human with quality." The demon spirit smiled.

"There's just one thing I don't quite understand. Could you please help me solve it?" Li Xiu said.

The sound of rain outside the door was getting louder and louder, and the thunder and lightning were roaring continuously, rumbling as if the sky was about to collapse.

The demon spirit turned his head and glanced outside the door, then said calmly, "I don't have much time left, and neither do you. It's still not too late to hand over the sword embryo. Otherwise, even if I don't want to kill you, you won't survive."

"Who else wants to kill me besides you?" Li Xiu asked.

"You are such a troublesome person. It seems that it is easier to pick up things." The demon spirit said as he was about to walk towards Li Xiu.

Li Xiu's eyes narrowed slightly, ready to use the ghost-blinding technique.

Since the con man's illusion uses the phantom sword as a carrier, it can only be used in combination with light energy and spiritual consciousness.

Li Xiu was able to make the con man fall into an illusion by taking advantage of the opportunity of touching the phantom sword and using his spiritual consciousness to counterattack the power of the illusory sword. He himself did not have the ability to combine light energy and spiritual consciousness yet, and could only use spiritual consciousness alone, or light energy alone. He did not have the ability to integrate the two, so he could not use the illusory sword.

Just when Li Xiu was about to use the ghost to cover his eyes, he suddenly saw the figure of the bride-to-be flash by, and she floated away from Li Xiu and landed next to the longevity lamp.

"My husband, do you need me to blow out the lamp for you?" The bride-to-be, her face covered by a red veil, said as she approached the longevity lamp.

Her red veil swayed slightly, and the pearl pendants underneath fluttered, bringing up a slight breeze. The breeze actually made the flame of the Longevity Lamp sway. The flame, which was originally as big as a small torch, was blown by the wind and suddenly shrank a lot, almost returning to its original size.

The demon spirit that was originally walking towards Li Xiu suddenly stopped and looked at the bride-to-be with some confusion.

"Who are you?" The demon looked at him for a long time, still with doubt in his eyes.

The bride-to-be ignored her and continued to ask, "Husband, should I blow out the candle for you?"

"You get ready first, I want to say a few words to her." Li Xiu was pleasantly surprised. He didn't expect that the bride-to-be had such ability.

The bride-to-be nodded lightly and stood beside the longevity lamp, ready to blow out the flame at any time.

"Can we have a good talk now?" Li Xiu looked at the evil spirit and said.

The demon sighed and said, "We can negotiate the price."

"There's no rush. Can you tell me your name?" Li Xiu asked the demon spirit.

"Mute." The demon replied.

"What?" Li Xiu looked at Mo Ling in confusion, thinking he had heard it wrong.

"My name is Dumb." The demon said again.

"But you are not a mute. Not only are you not a mute, you also have a very nice voice." Li Xiu said.

"Being able to speak doesn't mean you're not dumb." The demon said calmly, "Whether you're dumb or not depends on whether what you say has any effect. If what you say is of no use at all and has no influence, then what's the difference between you and a dumb person?"

"That makes sense." Li Xiu nodded slightly: "Just call you a mute. Where are you from? A demon like you should not be an unknown person among the demon clan, right?"

"I come from Changsheng Island." said the mute.

Li Xiu wanted to ask something else, but the mute glanced at the dark clouds outside the door and said, "We both have no time left. Now you have only two choices: blow out the longevity lamp and never come here again, or give me the sword embryo, and then everything will have nothing to do with you, and you can continue to live your previous life."

"What's there?" Li Xiu also looked at the dark clouds outside the door. The dark clouds were like mountains, as if hanging above the workshop, making people feel extremely depressed.

"It's hard to explain in a few words. By the time I explain it clearly, it will be too late." The mute looked at Li Xiu and said, "What do you want in the last bit of time?"

"What can you give?" Li Xiu asked back.

It seemed that time was really tight. The mute didn't want to waste time talking to Li Xiu. He pulled out something from his hair and threw it to him: "Use this to exchange for the sword embryo. If you want to exchange, give it to me. If not, we'll go our separate ways. I'll leave and you'll blow out the candle."

Li Xiu caught the thing she threw over and saw that it was a thin stick like amethyst, round at one end and square at the other. It looked like chopsticks no matter how you looked at it, and there was only one.

"Is this chopsticks?" Li Xiu asked, holding the thin stick.

The mute did not answer, but turned and walked out the door, saying as he walked: "May the best be to you."

"Next." Li Xiu held the chopsticks and hesitated for a moment, then threw the blank of the two-handed sword in his hand towards the mute.

The mute didn't even turn around, but caught the sword with her backhand. The sword, which weighed a thousand pounds, seemed as light as foam in her hand. She held the sword in one hand and held an umbrella in the other, and walked out of the workshop door.

"Don't lose your things. It will benefit you." A mute voice came from the rain. When the voice fell, the person had walked a long way even though he had only taken a few steps.

As the mute walked away, the dark clouds that were pressing down like a mountain gradually rose higher, the rain gradually slowed down, and the thunder slowly faded away.

When Li Xiu could no longer see the purple light on the dumb umbrella, the thunderstorm had stopped, the dark clouds in the sky dispersed, and the world outside the door returned to its former clearness. The rain on the ground disappeared without a trace, as if never a drop of rain had ever fallen.

If he hadn't been holding the purple crystal chopsticks in his hand and the sword embryo had disappeared, Li Xiu would have thought that everything that had just happened was an illusion.

"What a strange demon." Li Xiu had many doubts in his mind, but unfortunately he didn't have time to ask.

He took a look at the amethyst chopsticks in his hand. There was a faint strange purple light flowing inside, but it was not strong, only a very weak light energy fluctuation.

It doesn't look like a contract, and has nothing to do with the devil. It seems to be a kind of devil material.

Unable to figure it out, Li Xiu had no choice but to put it away and planned to take it back to have the old official tested.

Li Xiu looked at the bride-to-be next to the longevity lamp, but found that she had disappeared. He lowered his head and found that she had turned into a ring back into his hand without him noticing.

Li Xiu walked out of the workshop door and looked around. The sky outside was clear and he did not find any trace of evil spirits nearby.

Li Xiu had no choice but to return to the workshop according to the original plan, blew out the Longevity Lamp that had returned to normal, and in the blink of an eye he was back outside the Sword Soul Gate.

Li Xiu returned to Yard No. 7. Except for the con man, there was no one else in Yard No. 7.

After asking, I found out that they had all gone to different trial gates and no one knew when they would be able to come back.

"Old Qian, where exactly is the sword-making workshop in the Land of Sword Soul?" Li Zheng really wanted to ask Old Qian about the Land of Sword Soul.

"I don't know." The old con man shook his head and said, "Those sword-forging workshops look like the work of the Demon Country, but no traces or writings of the Demon Country were found there, so no one knows whether those sword-forging workshops were built by the Demon Country. We have sent people to study it before, but in the end, no conclusion was reached."

"According to those who studied it, the material used to cast the sword blanks might have been pumped up from underground by the machines in the workshop, and that material was very unstable, so the sword blanks that were eventually cast were good and bad. For this reason, they specially collected a lot of sword blanks. Originally, they wanted to study them and hope that they could be used as materials for magic armor. As a result, they found that the material properties of the sword blanks were very strange and could not transmit inactive magic light, so magic armor could not use that material, and the matter was left unresolved."

"The inability to transmit inactive magic light means that only the magic light of living demon spirits can be transmitted in the sword embryo?" Li Xiu asked.

"That's roughly what I mean." The con man nodded.

"That's really strange." Li Xiu repeated his experience of encountering the storm and the mute.

The old swindler was a little surprised when he heard this: "I have been guarding the Sword Soul Land for three years, and I have never seen it rain there. I have seen many demons, but I have never seen the kind of demon you are talking about."

"It seems that the storm is indeed related to that evil spirit." Li Xiu pondered.

The con man couldn't explain it clearly, so Li Xiu had to give up.

"How are you doing now?" Li Xiu asked.

"I still haven't figured it out." The con man shook his head.

"Then take your time to think about it. There's no need to rush." ​​Li Xiu took a shower and had a good sleep. The next morning, after Sha Chu came back, he gave her the talent gems, magic rings and skill rings and asked her to exchange them for resources.

Li Xiu went to Sun Tianlei again and bought some artificial diamonds from last time and fed them to the synthetic capsule.

The result surprised Li Xiu a little. The synthetic capsule did not eat the artificial diamonds, but instead made two artificial diamonds synthesize into a larger diamond, and then spit it out.

Li Xiu tried it a few more times out of curiosity and discovered that artificial diamonds can be synthesized infinitely. Small diamonds can be synthesized continuously to make large diamonds.

There is just a certain amount of consumption during the synthesis, and about a quarter of the gems will be consumed during the synthesis.

Li Xiu tried to synthesize some other types of gems. There were no restrictions either. Natural gems such as sapphire and ruby ​​could be synthesized. The consumption was a little higher than that of artificial diamonds, about one third.

Such synthesis does not have much significance for ordinary gemstones.

Small gems can be used in the same way, there is no need to synthesize large gems.

However, during the synthesis process, the synthesis capsule was actually upgraded to a higher level, from E to D. In addition to the level upgrade, no new talent skills were awakened.

"I wonder if synthesizing magic gems will have any special effects." Li Xiu plans to try making some magic gems in the future.

After packing up his things, Li Xiu returned to the Gate of Sword Soul and went through the trial again. He tried three times in a row before he got the admission ticket by chance and entered the Land of Sword Soul.

The Land of Sword Soul hadn't changed much since I left, except for some evil spirits that had gathered outside the workshop.

Li Xiu continued to kill the evil spirit with the Fire Lotus Sword, trying to condense all of its light veins.

As he searched for the evil spirit day after day, the light veins of the Fire Lotus Sword slowly condensed one by one.

A month passed quickly. Because there was no light-based demon spirit encountered, the Fire Lotus Sword's light veins did not condense quickly, only reaching twenty, still four short of perfection.

I got some sword embryos in the middle, but I never encountered a sword vein like the two-handed greatsword.

There seemed to be no light-based demons nearby, so Li Xiu had to take the Fire Lotus Sword and go to a farther place.

"The Fire Lotus Sword has killed more than a dozen super spirits, but how come it hasn't produced even a super spirit gem? Could it have swallowed them all?" Li Xiu watched as the Fire Lotus Sword killed another super spirit, but left nothing behind, and couldn't help but secretly doubt.

Given the unique personality of the Fire Lotus Sword, this is very possible, otherwise it would be impossible for it to have killed more than a dozen super spirits in the past two months without even getting a super spirit gem.

If it is really that unique, Li Xiu has to consider solving it himself when he encounters a super spirit.

Boom!

Li Xiu was thinking about it when he suddenly heard a thunderclap in the blue sky. When Li Xiu looked up, the sky was completely covered with dark clouds.

The sky suddenly darkened, lightning flashed through the clouds, thunder rumbled, and dark clouds as big as mountains and seas gradually lowered, and it seemed that another storm was about to hit.

"Here we go again!" Li Xiu quickly summoned the masked emperor, stepped on the accelerator to the bottom, and rushed out.

Li Xiu was wrapped in a golden cycling suit and helmet, blending into the golden motorcycle, like a golden lightning running across the plains.

The clouds were getting lower and lower, and thunder continued to sound in the sky.

Li Xiu walked too far and had no time to return to the workshop before the rain began to pour down.

"I haven't got the high-level sword embryo yet, why is it coming again?" The heavy rain hit Li Xiu and the masked emperor. Although it didn't hurt, the surroundings were vast and they couldn't see anything. They could only ride forward relying on their sense of direction.

A huge lightning bolt like a lightning dragon appeared across the sky, illuminating the dark sky. Li Zhengzheng stared at the front. Under the light of the lightning, he saw a terrifying figure emerging from the clouds.