bestfiction Chapter 346 Didn't you just run right into my field?
Chapter 346 Didn't you just run right into my field?
The Immortal Master Li Huo had already given him the order to leave. Zhong Ming vaguely sensed that he was extremely anxious and desperately needed time and results. He was so anxious that he was unwilling to haggle or find materials.
The other person respectfully took his leave and exited the door, while Zhong Ming asked, "Immortal Master, is there anything I can do to help?"
Master Li Huo glanced at him, chuckled, and casually said, "Here, turn these mid-grade magic artifacts into high-grade ones."
"Yes, I can."
"If you can't do it, get out... Wait, what did you say?"
The person was just saying it casually, but received an unexpected reply.
Zhong Ming never expected that you would walk right into my line of fire.
"What a joke, get lost!"
"Flame Wolf Army Maintenance Team, Number 34." Zhong Ming flashed his identity card, his face beaming with pride, as if to say, "How dare a mere Foundation Establishment cultivator underestimate the talents of the world?"
Unexpectedly, Immortal Master Li Huo slapped his forehead, "That's right, how could I not have thought of that? We should have asked the maintenance team for help!"
He grabbed Zhong Ming's hand, his voice a mixture of surprise and delight, "Is your captain here? Find your captain, no, anyone at the Foundation Establishment stage will do, I have important matters to discuss with him."
“My captain is not here. Fellow Daoist, please tell me what the problem is, and I will think of someone who can solve it.”
He looked displeased. "Even if you're in the late stage of Qi Refining, you're still just a Qi Refining cultivator. Putting aside your abilities, your spiritual energy can't withstand it."
"I want to upgrade all of these magical artifacts by one grade. Can you do that?"
Zhong Ming glanced at it. "Upgrading from high-grade to top-grade is a bit difficult, but upgrading from mid-grade to high-grade shouldn't be a problem. Why are you in such a hurry..."
"I'm anxious, of course I'm anxious! My master is about to emerge from seclusion." Immortal Master Li Huo's face was full of despair. "I didn't meet the task my master assigned me. It's my fault, my fault. At our level, refining magical artifacts should be a piece of cake. That's why my master set a task for me. But I've been on many adventures in the past few years and have been recuperating for quite some time. I've missed the deadline."
Master Li Huo was extremely anxious. If his master came out of seclusion and was not satisfied, not only would he be expelled from the sect, but he would also certainly not pass on some secret techniques to him. After all, there were disciples who were more obedient and had made more artifacts.
Zhong Ming immediately understood and said, "I can give it a try. If I do it properly in eighty days, I might be able to upgrade the grade of thirteen or fourteen magic artifacts."
"In this way, if you can upgrade the grade of a mid-grade magic weapon, I will deduct fifty military merit points from your score. Of course, you can't tell anyone that I crafted these, and they were originally this grade." Immortal Master Li Huo wasn't picky; something was better than nothing.
"If that's the case, I can let you refund my money."
Zhong Ming meant it as a joke, but unexpectedly, the Immortal Master Li Huo slapped his thigh.
"Refund is fine, no problem."
A mid-grade magic weapon costs about 100 military merit points, while a high-grade magic weapon costs 200. If we upgrade the grade, each of us can earn 50 points. What's wrong with that? We can split it 20/80.
If you can upgrade a superior grade to a top grade, you can earn 200 military merit points.
If the materials are complete, this kind of magical artifact can be completed in ten days. The key is that his master set a high standard for him. Zhong Ming's upgrade of a mid-grade magical artifact is equivalent to saving him ten days of hard work.
If we upgrade by twelve items, we can save four months of time.
"You have no joke!"
"Use armor as collateral!"
The two hit it off immediately, and Zhong Ming rushed out... to spend the money.
Zhang Youcai, don't blame me. If you train for a longer period of time, I, the captain, will give you extra pay!
The man who had been running out to ask the weapon refiner to forge the bone hammer felt much better when he saw Zhong Ming rushing out in such a hurry. He walked with his head held high and an air of arrogance.
Zhong Ming ignored him.
He rushed to the seclusion room for Zhang Youcai and extended it for another fifty days.
Then he rushed back to the weapon-refining room.
"Immortal Master Li Huo, I've come to retrieve the magical artifact."
"No need, we can refine it right here."
"Ah, here..." Zhong Ming looked around. It was too small, making things quite difficult.
“Sit on my stone bed,” he said, stamping his foot. A curtain rose from the stone bed, silent and pitch black, enveloping the stone bed and the row of shelves.
Instead, he jumped directly onto the furnace and started roasting himself on the iron plate.
Zhong Ming didn't know if he could hold his own squatting on the stove like a lion statue, but he just kept doing his work.
"My unique technique, I'm afraid, is not suitable here..."
"Then set up another array plate inside."
"Inside?" Zhong Ming didn't think there was any space to put an array plate in such a small place as the stone bed.
But as soon as he stepped inside, he was stunned; the space inside was actually larger than it appeared from the outside.
Isn't this a storage ring?
“This, this, this…”
"Hey, you maintenance team member, haven't you ever seen a spirit pet bag before? Even giant beasts several meters in size can be easily put into a small bag. It's just a bit more complicated than a storage bag."
"Huh? A spirit... human bag?"
Zhong Ming looked completely ignorant. As a "poor man" sitting in the lowest-class cabin of the flying boat, he had no idea how wealthy cultivators enjoyed themselves.
He squatted down on the stone bed, casually set up a set of array plates, took out a mirror polishing brick and started working, and reached out to take a jade ruyi from the shelf and examined it.
As the Immortal Master Li Huo said, these flawed products did not utilize the best properties of the materials and had much room for improvement.
He stroked it and saw that the words "Li Huo" were engraved within the small patterns of the jade ruyi.
Zhong Ming skillfully channeled the power of the mica, which began to flow through the jade ruyi.
The tasks of a weapon refiner are either to refine magical artifacts for others to earn "bounty list points" or to refine magical artifacts themselves to sell for military merit points.
Both of these were included in the workload assigned by his master. However, the bounty board points only recorded what type and grade of treasure he had crafted, without calculating the specific value of the treasure. Therefore, he sought quantity over price when it came to bounty board tasks.
As the days passed, Zhong Ming decided to leave himself some leeway. By the fifty-eighth day, he had already completed the upgrade of all twelve magical artifacts he had promised.
His gaze fell on the shelf of high-grade magic artifacts; he hadn't yet tried upgrading a high-grade magic artifact.
These tasks are all rigorously calculated. A cultivator in the late stage of Qi Refining can earn ten military merits for a day trip, such as escorting a thousand-year-old pine tree.
He spent five days upgrading a mid-grade magic artifact to a high-grade magic artifact, which is equivalent to earning twenty points per day, demonstrating the special nature of a professional.
Now, he's decided to take on the challenge.