Chapter 647 - 417: Reveal
Chapter 647: Chapter 417: Reveal
"Speaking of which, if you hadn’t provoked me with your words, I really might not have been able to break through in one breath."
This was truly a heart-wrenching remark. Hearing this, Du Ziming’s body trembled slightly; he couldn’t believe he was the one who had helped Xu Yang.
Xu Yang’s gaze swept over Lu Ren, who lowered his head, not daring to meet his eyes. Fang Xu also guiltily turned his head away.
Xu Yang laughed heartily and strode away with Sun Tao and the others.
"We shouldn’t have fallen out with him back then." In the crowd, Liu Rumei whispered softly.
Back then, when Xu Yang was unwilling to help them plead with Gu Qingfeng, Zhang Jun fell out with Xu Yang in a fit of anger. The three of them had been strangers ever since. She hadn’t agreed with Zhang Jun’s actions in the first place, and now that Xu Yang’s momentum was growing ever fiercer, she regretted their past actions even more.
"He..." Zhang Jun uttered a single word, unable to say anything else. Xu Yang hadn’t possessed this kind of talent back then. Who could have thought that in just over a year, Xu Yang’s progress would be so immense? He was already on the verge of becoming a second-tier genius.
Before long, the news of Xu Yang’s breakthrough spread.
"I didn’t expect him to actually succeed." Beneath the Ancient Pine, Jin Yu looked surprised. He hadn’t expected Xu Yang to break through either.
"This kid always exceeds expectations. It’s quite interesting," Chu Nanguai said with a smile. In truth, he hadn’t expected Xu Yang to break through either; it was a pleasant little surprise.
"Since he can break through, he isn’t considered trash. If he really couldn’t even break through to the Celestial Essence Third Layer, wouldn’t it make me, Huo Xiaochen, look incompetent?"
When Huo Xiaochen heard the news of Xu Yang’s breakthrough, he was only slightly surprised and didn’t care at all. Even if Xu Yang had broken through to the Celestial Essence Third Layer, to him, he was still just an ant that could be crushed at any moment.
Three days passed in the blink of an eye.
After Xu Yang finished "consolidating" his Cultivation, he went straight to the Logistics Hall to collect the credits awarded for his breakthrough. Then, taking the Spirit Medicine he needed to sell and the materials from the Exotic Beast, he left the Celestial Strategy Academy and headed all the way into the city.
The Celestial Essence Fourth Layer Fire Bear gallbladder, along with other materials and Spirit Medicine, fetched him a total of nearly four hundred Spirit Coins.
Xu Yang wasn’t in a hurry to exchange this money for Elixirs for cultivation. Instead, he turned and went to a place called the Hundred Weapons Workshop. This establishment specialized in Spiritual Soldiers, offering both the purchase and customization of various Weapons. Although he leaned toward asking students of the Celestial Strategy Academy to help forge Weapons using Celestial Star Tungsten Steel, he wanted to gather some information in the city first.
"How may I help you, sir?"
As soon as he entered, a middle-aged man greeted him with a smile. Xu Yang got straight to the point and stated his requirements. The response he received was that they would charge half of the Celestial Star Tungsten Steel as payment, and they wouldn’t take responsibility if the materials were ruined.
Forged Soldier wasn’t a hundred percent guaranteed to succeed, and the materials would be ruined in the event of failure. Hearing that they wanted half of the Celestial Star Tungsten Steel, Xu Yang didn’t want to say another word. He turned his head and left.
He consecutively asked at a few more shops and received basically the same answer. Upon hearing that the raw material was Celestial Star Tungsten Steel, these people didn’t want Spirit Coins at all; they only wanted half of the Celestial Star Tungsten Steel.
"It seems I can only go back to the Celestial Strategy Academy to ask around."
If they took no responsibility for ruined materials, who knew if these people would pull a bait-and-switch? They might collect the materials and tell him later that the forging had failed. Furthermore, he couldn’t bear to part with half of the Celestial Star Tungsten Steel as payment.
Turning around, he went to the Spirit Treasure Workshop to buy Spiritual Essence Pills and Tiger Essence Blood Marrow Pills before returning to the Celestial Strategy Academy.
"I still need to return to the Purple Sun Sect as soon as possible."
The twenty-year-old Starlight Grass he had saved was reserved for Xu Qing, meant to improve her talent. He simply didn’t trust anyone else with this kind of item and could only deliver it to the Purple Sun Sect personally.
However, before going to the Purple Sun Sect, he planned to resolve the matter of the Celestial Star Tungsten Steel Forged Soldier. His Extreme Prison Heaven-Slaying Technique had reached the Seventh Layer, but he still didn’t have a handy saber, which greatly impacted his Combat Power.
[Weapon Forging Skill Lv.2 (2513/4000)]
"If all else fails, I’ll do it myself." Xu Yang summoned his panel.
He had never given up on the Weapon Forging Skill and had been constantly studying and deducing it. However, because he lacked practical operation, his skill progression was very slow. Now, his Weapon Forging Skill was only one thousand five hundred progress points away from reaching level three. As long as it leveled up to level three, he would be able to forge Middle-tier Spiritual Weapons himself.
It was just that a top-tier material like Celestial Star Tungsten Steel could only yield a Middle-tier Spiritual Weapon, which made him a little unwilling. Furthermore, forging it himself would take a long time. Forged Soldier wasn’t like Alchemy. A batch of Elixirs could be refined in a few Hours, but forging a Weapon, especially at the level of a Spiritual Soldier, was generally measured in months.
"I’ll ask around first."
With that thought in mind, Xu Yang stepped out of the courtyard.