Mortal: Fairy Song Yu has issued you a task.

Chapter 118 Star-Weaving Silver Bracelet

The pale blue flames danced silently, illuminating the bottom of the alchemy furnace, and the rich aroma of medicine permeated the entire alchemy room.

"rise!"

Lin Jingchu gave a low shout, raised his hand and gestured, and the furnace lid flew off.

Dozens of golden rays shot out of the furnace, hovering in mid-air. These were forty-three golden pills, each the size of a longan and shimmering with light.

"Good! This time the number of pills produced is so large, and the quality is even better than expected." Lin Jingchu's eyes were full of satisfaction.

This was the second batch of "Dui Ning Dan" he had refined.

On the day he took over the cave dwelling, Lin Jingchu used the "Thousand Appearances Technique" to change into several different forms. He spent more than 7,000 spirit stones to buy six level-five demon cores in one go, one of which was of the metal element and was specially used to refine the Dui Ning Pill.

When I first tried to refine this unfamiliar pill formula that used demon cores as the main ingredient, my technique was not skilled enough, and I only managed to make a little over thirty pills, and the quality of the pills was inconsistent.

This time, the furnace was opened again, and the technique was more skillful. The control over the heat and the fusion of medicinal power was also improved a lot, resulting in a significant improvement in the success rate and quality of the pills.

Lin Jingchu rolled up his sleeve, and a gentle suction force drew all the pills into the white jade bottle he had prepared beforehand, where he carefully stored them away.

After refining the elixir, Lin Jingchu did not rush to cultivate but got up and left the alchemy room, going to the hall.

The hall was quiet. On the moon gate leading to the right corridor, a simple restriction was flashing faintly, indicating that Song Yu was still in seclusion.

A tiger-headed puppet, holding a communication talisman, strode forward to greet them.

Lin Jingchu raised his hand, and the sound transmission talisman flew into his fingertips.

"I am Lü Huiran from Hai Tian Zhai. Senior Lin, the Heart-Entangling Jade and Star Silver Iron you requested have arrived at our store. If you have time, you may come and pick them up at any time."

A gentle and charming female voice clearly came from the transmission talisman.

Song Yu's magical artifact, the Ice Soul Azure Needle, was lost when she encountered the ghostly mist. Although Lin Jingchu still had a set of the same flying needles in her system's settlement panel, it was clearly not something she could give to her.

So, Lin Jingchu bought a blueprint for a top-tier magical artifact—the Star-Weaving Silver Bracelet—at the Kuixing Island Market.

This bracelet can split into eighteen extremely sharp silver threads, making it a unique flying needle magic weapon. Not only is it offensively powerful, but it can also weave a star net, and its own water elemental shield provides double protection.

However, this magical artifact not only requires expensive materials, but is also extremely difficult to forge. Even master-level artifact refiners can only succeed two or three times out of ten.

Therefore, some weapon refiners simplified it to nine silver threads to reduce the difficulty of refining. Even so, this simplified version is still worth about two thousand spirit stones.

Lin Jingchu valued another feature of it: the complete version could be split into two simplified versions using a special method, but this process was irreversible.

In this way, the Star-Weaving Silver Bracelet obtained as a reward for completing tasks in the future can be broken down into a simplified version and sold without being too conspicuous.

A streak of blue light soared from the sea-viewing terrace, skimming over the surging waves and jagged rocks below, and flew towards the bustling market town of Kuixing Island's main city.

A moment later, Qinghong returned the way she came and went back to the Guanhai Pavilion on Tianxiao Peak.

Inside the weapon-refining room, Lin Jingchu took out a jade box from his storage bag.

The box was opened, revealing a fist-sized metal ingot that gleamed with a sharp silver light, and nine small gemstones as blue as the ocean.

With just these materials, plus the final payment totaling over five thousand spirit stones, he had almost exhausted his meager savings.

Lin Jingchu took a deep breath, calmed his mind, and opened the lid of the refining furnace in front of him.

When the furnace lid was opened again, Lin Jingchu expressionlessly raised his hand and grabbed a silver bracelet with a distorted shape and a dim spiritual light.

He casually tossed it aside, then continued to throw the spiritual materials into the furnace without hesitation.

Time passed quietly, and half a month later.

An exquisite silver bracelet floated silently in front of Lin Jingchu.

Eighteen delicate silver threads, as fine as hair, are wrapped around a bracelet adorned with three azure gemstones, shimmering and radiant, full of spirituality.

The complete "Star-Weaving Silver Bracelet" has finally been forged.

This magical artifact was indeed exceptionally difficult to forge. Even with Lin Jingchu's skill in crafting artifacts, he failed twice before finally succeeding on the third attempt.

Lin Jingchu played with it for a while, reluctant to put it down, before putting it into his storage bag and getting up to leave the weapon-refining room.

He walked through the corridor to the main hall and saw Song Yu sitting at the tea table by the window.

The beautiful woman held a white porcelain teacup in her delicate hands, gazing intently at the vast and magnificent seascape outside the window amidst the rising aroma of tea.

It wasn't until Lin Jingchu sat down opposite her that Song Yu came to her senses and turned to look at him.

"You've emerged from seclusion?" Song Yu put down his teacup, took out a jade slip, and pushed it over. "This is the refining guide for the Azure Wave Pill. This pill uses a fifth-grade demon core as its main ingredient, and it requires a high level of skill in controlling the fire. The quantity and quality of the pills I produced in the first two batches were not ideal, and I only barely mastered it in the third batch."

"I've used up all the demon cores you gave me. I was planning to go to the market to find two more as spares. How did the refining of your Azure Wave Pill go?"

Lin Jingchu took the jade slip, scanned it with his divine sense, and replied, "I had quite a few Water Elemental Elixirs left over, so I haven't started refining them yet."

The jade slip records the alchemy process in great detail: from controlling the heat when processing demon cores and spiritual plants, to the key to fusing medicinal power, and finally to the perfect completion of the pill and closing the furnace, everything is recorded.

A moment later, Lin Jingchu put down the jade slip, flipped his hand to take out a jade box, and gently pushed it in front of Song Yu: "Inside are two 'Frog-Algae-Seabream' demon cores. Senior Sister, please take them first."

Song Yu frowned slightly, looking at the jade box, but did not reach out to take it. The ghost mist inhalation incident happened suddenly, and she didn't have many spirit stones on her to begin with, less than six thousand in total.

My junior brother probably doesn't have much left. The three demon cores used to refine the Azure Wave Pill were already bought with his money; how could I accept them again?

She said softly, her voice gentle yet firm: "Junior brother, now that we have become Daoist partners, we should support each other on our cultivation path."

But cultivation resources are extremely expensive, and there should be a give and take; how can it always be like this—”

"Senior sister," Lin Jingchu interrupted her, his expression unusually serious, "Precisely because we are Daoist partners, we don't need to worry about these things."

"You have a Heavenly Spiritual Root, so your cultivation speed is already very fast. With these resources in your hands, you can convert them into cultivation even faster."

"The faster your strength increases, the more stable we can be in this chaotic star sea, and the faster we can establish ourselves. All I can do for you now are these small things."

He softened his tone, adding a touch of teasing: "I just hope that after Senior Sister forms her Core, she won't look down on Junior Brother for his low cultivation level, thinking he's not good enough for you."

Upon hearing this, Song Yu's long eyelashes trembled slightly. After a moment of silence, she finally reached out and put the jade box into her sleeve, whispering, "How could I—"

When Lin Jingchu saw that she accepted it, the serious expression on his face immediately turned into a bright smile.

He raised his hand and patted the storage bag. A streak of silver light flew out, spinning and landing in his palm. It was the Star-Weaving Silver Bracelet.

"Senior sister, try this on. Didn't you lose your flying needle magic weapon? This is something I specially made for you."

Song Yu's gaze fell on the exquisite silver bracelet, and her beautiful eyes instantly lit up.

She raised her fair wrist and let Lin Jingchu put the bracelet on her wrist.

Her fair skin, complemented by a bracelet shimmering with silver light and adorned with sapphires, perfectly accentuated her slender and graceful wrist.

Song Yu flipped his wrist, his slender, white fingers gently caressing the bracelet, unable to put it down.

When she looked up at Lin Jingchu again, her beautiful eyes were filled with a tender affection that could almost drown a person.

"My husband—"

Hearing that soft, tender call, Lin Jingchu felt a tremor in his heart, feeling even more intoxicated than if he were in the "Enchanted Land".

He coughed lightly to steady himself: "Ahem, senior sister, the dormitory room you arranged for me before—I just went to see it, and I feel there's something I'm not quite satisfied with."

"What's wrong? Didn't I arrange it exactly according to the layout of your Bamboo Valley Cave?" Song Yu got up in confusion and followed Lin Jingchu toward his bedroom.

"Because—" Lin Jingchu waited for her to enter the room, then closed the door behind her, simultaneously activating the restriction, and turned to look at her with a smile. "Because you're missing, Senior Sister."

Song Yu blushed instantly, even her ears turned crimson: "You—where did you learn these mushy words from—" She scolded him, but half-heartedly, she was pulled by Lin Jingchu toward the bed.

"Dear senior sister, I've recently acquired a cultivation technique called 'The Maiden's Yin-Yang Manual,' which is incredibly profound—why don't we study it together?"

Several hours later.

Lin Jingchu used all his skills and finally got what he wanted.

[Task Discovered]

【Task Name: Harmonious Union】

[Task Description: Fairy Song Yu is still not satisfied; please continue your efforts, great hero!]

[Quest Reward: The magical artifact "Star-Weaving Silver Bracelet" possessed by Song Yu.]

Lin Jingchu discovered this new method of completing tasks in Storm Mountain.

He also discovered a unique feature of the system: if the target was completely naked, the rewards were nothing more than intangible things like experience points.

But what if the target only has one item on them?

Therefore, in the spirit of scientific exploration and diligent research, and in order to make fuller use of and develop the potential of the system, Lin Jingchu went to great lengths to persuade Song Yu to reluctantly agree to have the Azure Rainbow Rope wrapped around his hand.

Unfortunately, perhaps because the Azure Rainbow Rope was too valuable, Song Yu insisted on refusing to accept it. The system determined that the item did not belong to the person performing the task, so the physical reward was never triggered.

Lin Jingchu glanced at the silver bracelet on Song Yuhao's wrist, then turned his gaze back to his lower body.

The beautiful woman's slender, rosy neck was covered with fine beads of sweat, which glistened under the light of the pearl above her head.

Here, she was missing an accessory to complement her. However, for now, "completing the mission" was the priority.

Lin Jingchu snapped out of his thoughts, kneading the white jade hill in his hand, and leaned down to whisper in Song Yu's reddened ear, "Senior Sister, what did you just say?"

Xin Songyu opened her large, bewildered eyes, her voice barely audible: "————I want more."