Normally, a refining workshop should refine weapons, which naturally requires fire; the temperature should tend to be scorching.
This refining workshop is too strange, not hot but cold instead.
Su Chen looked ahead and found something even more strange; a young person, or rather, a child, who appeared to be only about ten years old!
However, Su Chen could feel that this child was far older than just ten years old!
Su Chen stared at this person in shock, his mind racing wildly, utterly astounded.
Suddenly, Su Chen thought of someone, the Tianshan Child Grandmother.
Could it be that this person also practiced something like the Eight Desolations and Six Harmonies and then rejuvenated?
"Child, do you want to refine something?" Su Chen stared at the child, who appeared to be a hundred thousand years old, and that person also stared back at Su Chen before he spoke, "You can call me Old Soldier." The most update n0vels are published on NoveI[F]ire.net
His voice was unexpectedly aged, sounding like it was filled with the decaying weakness of someone close to death.
"Old Soldier?" Su Chen’s mouth twitched, calling a child with the appearance of a ten-year-old Old Soldier, but indeed, the child was old enough and had a voice old enough, it was absurd.
"To refine once, a hundred thousand Black Xuan Stones." Then, Old Soldier continued.
"Brother Su, let’s go! I finally know why his business is so, so, so deserted!" Qin Li immediately became angry. Did they think Brother Su was a fool? Even a fool has limits, right?
A hundred thousand Black Xuan Stones?
Was this childlike elder trying to rob them?
Even the entire Qin Family’s annual revenue didn’t amount to but one or two out of those hundred thousand Black Xuan Stones!
"Goodbye, I won’t see you out." Old Soldier said indifferently, closing his eyes.
Su Chen, however, did not leave; instead, he frowned and said, "Jiuyou, tell me, is he genuine, a hidden expert, or just putting on an act, trying to swindle Crystal Stones?"
"I don’t know, but he is definitely special. You can try." Jiuyou smiled and said, "If he really is a swindler, you can just take back the Crystal Stones later. Besides, you’re not short of Black Xuan Stones now."
Su Chen had spent the morning accompanying Qin Li shopping and looking for refining workshops, but he had also done something else: he had sold the treasures from his Azure Mysterious Ring.
His Azure Mysterious Ring had accumulated many treasures, after all, he had slain Yu Tai, Tyrant Rat, Yu Zhenghuang, and others, plundering their storage bags and the three large chests of treasures from the War God’s Tomb.
He had sold a third of these items.
And had made a total of six million Black Xuan Stones.
A mere hundred thousand Black Xuan Stones was nothing.
Su Chen was now the tycoon of all tycoons.
"I want to refine a Dao Artifact, and moreover, you have to refine it according to my specifications," Su Chen stated firmly.
"Do you have the materials?" Old Soldier opened his eyes again, but he didn’t say that Su Chen was crazy; instead, he just asked this question.
"Brother Su, you... you... you want him to refine a Dao Artifact for you?" Qin Li was dumbfounded. A Dao Artifact could be refined? In this era, even Divine Artifacts were seldom crafted by artifact refining masters, weren’t they?
Those genuinely powerful Divine Artifacts mostly came from some ruins, left over from the Primordial Ancient Times or the Ancient Era.
As for Dao Artifacts.
Qin Li felt the urge to die.
"Materials, I have them," Su Chen nodded. He had obtained so many unparalleled materials from the Ancestral House Secret Realm, although he had used some to craft three Heavy Divine Swords, there was still enough left.
"Bring out the materials," Old Soldier said indifferently.
Su Chen stepped forward.
"Brother Su, are you serious?" Qin Li asked anxiously.
"Li Er, be good. Brother Su knows what he’s doing!" Su Chen said as he approached Old Soldier. His mind stirred, and he placed two items on the table.
One was a storage bag containing 100,000 Black Xuan Stones.
The other was a Star Ice Stone.
"Huh?" Old Soldier stared at the Star Ice Stone, finally showing a trace of emotion. He lifted his gaze to Su Chen and asked, "Kid, where did you get such a large piece of Star Ice Stone from?"
Su Chen’s heartbeat quickened slightly as he thought, as expected, this peculiar Childlike Elder is no ordinary figure—he recognized the Star Ice Stone immediately. Very impressive, as not many people are familiar with it.
"From an ancient ruin." Su Chen didn’t see any reason to hide.
"Lucky you. What kind of weapon do you want me to refine?"
"A spatial container," Su Chen replied solemnly. "Do you have a pen and paper?"
Old Soldier produced a beast hair brush, an extremely thin piece of pale beast skin paper, and an inkstone filled with fresh blood of a Demon Beast.
Su Chen picked up the beast hair brush, dipped it into the Demon Beast’s blood, and began to draw on the beast skin paper.
It took about three hundred breaths.
Su Chen put down the brush, and on the beast skin paper was a necklace, exquisitely beautiful!!!
Not that Su Chen had learned painting, but his Divine Soul Power was so strong. He remembered some of the top designs from the famous international brands like Tiffany, Harry Winston, and Van Cleef & Arpels from Earth. With his terrifying Divine Soul Power, he replicated the design drawings like a printer.
"Craft it according to this design, with a spatial container, and make it a Dao Artifact," Su Chen instructed gravely.
"Possible!" Old Soldier actually nodded.
"Can it be done by Tomorrow?"
"Possible, come and get it tomorrow afternoon," Old Soldier said indifferently, then dismissed them, "You can leave now."
"Alright." Su Chen looked deeply at the elder, unable to fully trust him, but that was all he could do for now.
"Brother Su..." As they left the ’Dao’, Qin Li hesitated to speak.
"You want one too?" Su Chen said with a smile, patting Qin Li’s little head, "Wait for your twentieth birthday, Brother Su will give you a treasure no less amazing than this necklace."
"Brother Su, you’re really nice." Qin Li’s face lit up with surprise. She wasn’t envious of the ’Stellar Ice Crystal material’, ’Dao Artifact’, or ’spatial container’ that Su Chen mentioned but was purely in awe of the necklace’s design, which was truly beautiful.
Women really can’t resist it.
Although Earth is among the Low Martial Planes of the Low Martial Plane, it reaches the pinnacle in some aspects like necklaces...
In the Divine Martial Continent, where everyone practices martial arts and cultivation accounts for 99% of a person’s life, these necklaces, earrings, and other decorative items do exist, but their designs are not very appealing—at least, to Su Chen, who had once lived on Earth, they weren’t pretty enough.
Those top designs by international brands from Earth were irresistible to Qin Li.
Su Chen, accompanied by Qin Li and Qin Du, went in search of an inn.
After all, they needed to find a place to stay.
Finding an inn proved to be really difficult!!!
The three of them searched through about thirty inns and finally managed to secure three rooms, one for each person, even though it was expensive.