Chapter 362 Industry (2)
Yu Huan raised his head slightly and forced a big laugh, saying, "No matter how you change, you are still extraordinary. In this Danxue Mountain Range, I have never seen a dragon more handsome and benevolent than you."
They arrived at the entrance of the Refining Sect's snake-head gate, exchanged a few words with the Refining Sect apprentice guarding the mountain, and then Yu Huan stopped and bowed devoutly to Jiao Jue once again.
Jiao Jue took out a jade box from the storage ring around his neck, placed it on Yu Huan's head, and drifted away.
As soon as they passed through the gate, Ji Zhi hurriedly swam out to greet them personally. After they sat down inside, Ji Zhi asked her disciples to serve some spiritual meat, vegetables, and fruits. She took some wine from her storage ring and served some to Qing Pingzi and Shan Shui, saying, "Grandmaster, life in the mountains is tough, please bear with us."
After they had eaten and drunk their fill, Ji Zhi led them to visit the magical artifact workshop, the book-carving workshop, and the art workshop located at the end of the Refining Sect.
Qingpingzi and his party stood at a distance from the entrance of the finished product room of the magic weapon workshop. They saw that the walls of the workshop were covered with magic weapons, and various knives, axes and heavy swords stood in the corners.
On the ground, a dozen or so assemblers were gathered around baskets of iron pipe spearheads. The spears they were assembling were none other than the "Ruyi Spear" that Qingpingzi had touched in the market earlier and broken into nineteen sections. He couldn't help but ask, "Nephew Jizhi, is this kind of spear popular?"
Ji Zhi nodded happily and said, "Yes, Master Uncle, this kind of spear-shaped magic weapon is very popular among junior cultivators because it can change size at will. Whether it is insect cultivators or beast cultivators, they all love to carry it. Bird-type junior cultivators prefer swords and knives, while aquatic cultivators prefer hammer-shaped magic weapons."
As she spoke, she swam to the inner room, stopped a fox cultivator apprentice in the mortal demon realm who was inspecting the goods, and then asked a bird cultivator in the mortal demon realm who was assembling a magic gun to take the swords, axes, spears and hammers that had been forged not long ago and start wielding them.
The fox cultivator picked up the eight-foot-long "Ruyi Spear," circulated his spiritual energy, pressed the handle, and shouted "Grow bigger!" The spear shot out ten feet away. He then circulated his spiritual energy again, pressed the handle, and shouted "Shrink smaller!" The "Ruyi Spear" shrank to three feet in length. It could grow big or small at will, catching people off guard.
The sword wielded by the bird cultivator who was fighting against him was a replica of Ji Rong's "Three Swords," with twelve small swords inside. The fox cultivator stretched out his spear, intending to stab the bird cultivator in the air down from the sky, but the bird cultivator dodged it. Before the bird could even regain its footing, it drew a sword and threw it at the fox cultivator's face.
The back-and-forth between the two meant that the fight during this brief rest period was no longer limited to hand-to-hand combat and innate magical techniques.
After they had all performed with their magical weapons, Ji Zhi ordered the fox cultivator to disassemble the spear. It was revealed that the spear, like the body of an arthropod cultivator, was composed of nineteen ordinary iron pipes of varying sizes.
The top part is made of refined iron, which is very sharp. The tube is engraved with simple adsorption array patterns and ordinary iron stone. The handle can hold three spirit crystals, and the button is a piece of spirit wood used to block the array patterns from absorbing the spirit energy of the spirit crystals.
Ji Zhi picked up the spirit wood piece with great delight and said, "Master Uncle, please look. This spirit wood piece is used to isolate spiritual energy, and the material is easy to obtain."
If fully closed, the spear will shrink to three feet in size; if half-open, it will extend to about eight feet in length; and if fully open, it can extend to nearly two zhang (approximately 6.6 meters).
Even if this spirit wood piece is damaged, it can be easily replaced. It's very easy to repair and is both cheap and useful for minor repairs.
I've heard that because of our low-level magical artifacts, quite a few cultivators at the Mortal Demon Realm and Profound Spirit Realm have opened repair shops in various state cities.
Qingpingzi, seeing Jizhi talking non-stop, asked politely, "Did you come up with this? It is indeed ingenious."
Ji Zhi shook her head and smiled sheepishly, "I created the idea that Lord Ji gave me."
"But the cost of my creations is too high, and I haven't sold a single one yet." As she spoke, she took a black iron spear that gleamed with a cold light from the wall filled with magical artifacts;
This spear is also eight feet long and weighs two hundred catties. It requires the cultivator's own spiritual energy to activate, and it can extend and retract freely. Qingpingzi took the spear, weighed it in his hand, and then circulated his spiritual energy to wield it for a while. He said with satisfaction, "This is a true weapon."
After saying this, he couldn't help but glance at the group of apprentices in the inner room and the iron pipe spearheads lying on the ground. This glance made the apprentices tremble.
Qingpingzi couldn't help but sigh in his heart, "The world has changed, and so have the times."
There was a time when cultivators below the Profound Spirit Realm could only do menial tasks at the Jade Void Palace, and any slight mistake would result in them being sent to the execution workshop.
Now, with the support of the new generation of disciples and grand-disciples of the Jade Void Palace, they are able to make magical artifacts suitable for their own cultivation levels.
Along the way, Qingpingzi finally understood why Ji Rong said he stood too high and could not compile a true grand encyclopedia of all races. He felt enlightened and a great joy welled up in his heart. He felt as if the wind was blowing around him and wanted to ride away.
Jiao Jue, however, waved away the mist that Qing Pingzi had gathered, and smiled with narrowed eyes: "Senior, Lord of Mountains and Rivers, let's go see the various plantation mountains in the Danxue Mountains next."
"A plantation mountain?" Kiyohirako asked疑惑地, "What kind of plants are there?"
Jiao Jue replied, "Of course I'll plant anything, senior. Plant whatever is suitable for the land."
They came to a high place again, and Jiaojue pointed out one mountain peak after another to Qingpingzi with its claws, saying, "Senior, look at where the Danshui River flows. Between the overlapping magic arrays, the low-lying areas on both banks are planted with spirit grains."
Above the Spirit Valley, in the fertile and abundant soil, spirit vegetables are grown;
On the land of spiritual vegetables, where the slopes are steep and trees are sparse, spiritual fruit trees are planted. Further up, spiritual herb seeds are scattered according to local conditions.
In the shady part of the mountain, some shade-loving spiritual trees are planted, providing not only a place to rest but also shelter for the lesser cultivators.
Qingpingzi looked at the hills and counted nine in total. He exclaimed in astonishment, "So many have been planted?!"
Jiaojue's eyes narrowed to slits as he said, "That's right. The Rainbow Bird said that they often went hungry when they were young and wandered outside. She hopes that the young cultivators will not have to suffer from hunger in the future, so she wants to plant more trees."
After visiting the plantation mountains, Jiaojue took them to see the mines. Nowadays, in addition to the Iron Flakes Mountain and the River Mountain, which are being mined, the Danxue Mountains also have Heyang Mountain for fire crystal mining and Huangtu Mountain for copper concentrate mining.
The mining scale of Heyang Mountain and Huangtu Mountain is not large. The copper mined from Huangtu Mountain is mainly supplied to the alchemists. The fire crystal content of Heyang Mountain is not high. Half of the fire crystals mined are supplied to Xitong, and the other half are transferred to the Canglan Mountains and water veins for storage.
Having surveyed all the existing industries in the Danxue Mountains, Jiaojue said, "Senior, Lord of Mountains and Rivers, let's go and see the other fortifications in the Danxue Mountains next."
They manifested their Dharma bodies and sped through the low sky. Qingpingzi keenly noticed that along the way, all the cultivators in the Danxue Mountains wore Dharma artifacts and affixed talismans. These cultivators had glossy fur, solid muscles, and smiles on their faces.
Upon seeing the horned jade, they would drop what they were doing, prostrate themselves on the ground, and become extremely devout.
The trip was a success. When Qingpingzi heard Jiaojue say that he had finished reading, it was as if he had heard heavenly music. He said that at this moment, there were endless worldly truths in his mind, and he had to go to the Shoudao Palace immediately to carve them with both claws to finish writing them.
So, this group of immortal cultivators flew directly towards Dragon Phoenix Mountain.
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