The Legend of Fangren

Chapter 170 Collecting Enchantments

Over the next few days, Fang Shi started a scrap metal recycling business. To avoid attracting too much attention, he set up his business at the foot of the mountain. Longque Mountain had a wide area with many branching paths leading up the mountain, but he only chose one of them.

In fact, there are many repair shops along the roadside around Longque Mountain, which mainly repair ordinary artifacts or first-order Xuan artifacts. These small businesses don't make much money. If they all flocked to the mountain, even the largest fire platform couldn't accommodate them all. It's better to distribute them out so that the apprentices who have paid money can also have some opportunities to practice.

Fang Shi deliberately chose a remote and desolate location to avoid competing with others for business, thus maintaining a low profile while still being able to fully utilize his abilities.

A small wooden hut can be easily built by simply piling up stones and wood. Inside, a bed and a chest can be placed for a comfortable sleep. Outside, a stone circle can be built using stone blocks, with wooden fences supporting poles at the four corners. A wool carpet can then be laid on the ground. By placing the wool carpet in different positions, the material can be connected, and when lifted up, it becomes a large blanket that can be placed over the poles to block the sun. Then, a furnace and a blast furnace can be embedded into the stone circle, and a weapons repair stall is complete.

Aside from a whole truckload of those broken magical artifacts, many cultivators also bring their own magical artifacts to the Li Huo Palace for repair.

Over the past few days, Fang Shi has also learned to judge the quality of the Qi channels. Some Xuan artifacts only have their outer shell damaged, which is just a matter of adding some materials. However, if the Qi channels are damaged, even if the appearance is intact, the cost of repair is very high.

This is the most awkward situation. The money spent on repairs could be enough to build a new one, but if you don't repair it, some of the materials in this artifact are still usable. Destroying it might not allow you to retrieve them, and it's inconvenient to find a new one.

"You think this can really be fixed?"

"Of course, why not?"

A cultivator with thick eyebrows and big eyes stood in front of the repair stall. He carried a large, wide sword on his back. The blade had many nicks and even the body of the sword was slightly bent. It was clear that he was going to take it to Dragon Sparrow Mountain for repairs.

Fang Shi intercepted him halfway and started talking to him: "Uncle, don't let my youth fool you, my hammer is no joke when it comes to snatching."

He showed off his arms, which didn't look particularly intimidating, and tapped the stone platform with a small iron hammer, the force of which sounded quite decent.

The uncle looked up at the distant hillside and felt a sense of hope. If the repairs could be completed here, he wouldn't have to go through the trouble of climbing the mountain.

"Look closely, although this knife is only of the first rank, two of the materials inside are of the second rank. Don't break it."

"Okay, no problem."

Fang took the broadsword and the way he easily weighed it surprised the uncle. He hadn't expected the kid to be so strong. Then he saw Fang tap the blade twice, precisely correcting the curvature of the blade.

"Great!" The uncle looked at it and was immediately relieved that he had made the right bet.

However, after the knife was repaired, his face fell instantly when he heard the price quoted by Fang Shi.

"No, why is it so expensive? You only hammered it a few times. Even if it's just to repair a nick in the blade, you don't need to spend this much on materials, do you?"

Fang Shi replied skillfully, "Hey, uncle, look at that Longque Mountain in the distance. You would have had to go through a lot of trouble to climb to the top to find someone to repair it. Now I'm saving you the journey of two or three thousand miles back and forth, so it's normal to charge a little more."

But the middle-aged man still puffed out his beard and glared, "It shouldn't cost three thousand dollars, right?"

"Hmm—" Fang Shi pretended to think for a moment, "How about this, I'll also give you a weapon maintenance package?"

"What maintenance? You'll just charge me more later. This is enough. I'll nourish it myself with my own Xuan Qi." The uncle seemed convinced that Fang Shi was a shrewd businessman and refused to hand over the knife no matter what.

So Fang Shi tried to reason with him: "Uncle, you are also someone who is used to using mystical weapons. You must know that the energy channels in mystical weapons will also wear out. As the saying goes, every ten minor repairs will eventually lead to a major repair. Repairing the blade is a small matter, but if it happens a few times, you will eventually have to repair the energy channels, right? Then you will have to spend a lot of money. But my maintenance can make the energy channels of mystical weapons more durable and smoother, so that you can spend less money."

"You're just trying to bluff me. Do you think I don't know that repairing the gas line costs more than three thousand? You're definitely trying to make a profit. You'll definitely have to pay more after the repairs are done."

"How could that be?" Fang Shi had his own purpose. After much persuasion, he finally convinced the uncle to hand over his knife.

"Okay, uncle, please sit down and rest for a while. I'll return the knife to you in a bit."

After saying that, Fang Shi took the knife and went into the small wooden house at the back.

"This knife looks really good. The blade is reddish and extremely hot. Maybe I can get a good enchantment from it."

That's right, that was actually Fang Shi's real purpose. He set up this stall not to make money, but to collect enchantments.

He skillfully placed the knife into the fish bucket, and in the blink of an eye, he arrived at the spiritual space, placing the old knife on the anvil.

The anvil block, used as a repair tool in the game, has a very expensive recipe that requires three iron blocks and four iron ingots to craft. It looks like the kind found in blacksmith shops and is very heavy.

Fang Shi's so-called repair and maintenance actually involved utilizing the power of the anvil.

Like other functional blocks, various magical artifacts cannot be deconstructed into items and placed into the block space, but they can still exert the block's power through direct use.

The anvil has three main powers in the game, and its internal space also has two inputs on the left and one output on the right.

One method is to forge and fuse two weapons of the same type, and to combine their enhancement effects, which is called enchanting. Some enchantments in the game conflict with each other, but based on his experience over the past few days, Fang Shi can confirm that most weapon patterns in reality can be merged by an anvil.

The second function is to forge the enchantments from the enchantment book onto the weapon, which is similar to the previous function.

The third function has a very low presence in the game, but it has an extremely powerful role in reality: it can be used to repair magical artifacts with the corresponding materials.

Based on the power of dissolution, the reshaping and repair can naturally repair damage to the appearance or internal energy channels. This is absurd, meaning that for Fang Shi, the damage to a Xuan weapon, whether inside or out, is the same. He only needs to add the corresponding materials and consume some Xuan Qi (experience orbs) to instantly repair a broken Xuan weapon to its most complete state.

This isn't maintenance at all! It's clearly a trade-in program! Fang Shi was even moved by his own actions. He had such an amazing ability, yet he didn't become a swindler and only charge people three thousand dollars for maintenance.

Fortunately, he wasn't entirely selfless; as mentioned earlier, his purpose in repairing tools was to collect enchantments.

So before repairing the knife, he had to grind the enchantment onto the book using a grinding wheel, then place the enchanted book on the enchanting table, and then take out a blank book and place it on the enchanting table as well. This is the only thing on the enchanting table besides weapons and tools that can be enchanted. After gaining the power of targeted enchanting, this action naturally became "copying".