Ordinary person: What to do with unused treasures? (On Zhuanzhuan)

Chapter 108 Nine Netherworld Hundred Forging Hammers

Time flies, and a full eighteen years have passed.

Today, a regular customer visited the blacksmith shop located in the northwest corner of Tianxing City.

"Qin the Blacksmith!"

"With your incredibly skilled weapon-forging techniques, why do you insist on fixating on that damn hammer?"

"Here I have some materials from a third-tier demonic beast. Could you please take a look and see if they can be forged into a sharp sword?"

A young monk stood in the center of the hall.

"Get out of here! You have no manners!"

"What? You think you're so great just because you unexpectedly broke through to the early stage of Foundation Establishment?!"

"I've watched you grow up with my own eyes! How dare you call me 'Blacksmith Qin'?"

Qin Fang, his face bearing the marks of time, said in an annoyed tone.

This was, of course, Qin Fang's cover-up. Back in Yanjiabao of Yue Kingdom, Han Li had gone to great lengths to thank Qin Fang for his help.

This included a youth-preserving pill.

"and----"

"What's so great about knives and swords anyway!"

"You ignorant fool!"

Qin Fang looked extremely displeased.

This unlucky fellow, why bring up the very thing he shouldn't have! He himself was already somewhat resentful that his natal magic weapon could only be forged into one Hundred-Forging Hammer.

Hehe~

"Among cultivators, seniority is determined by cultivation level. Uncle Qin, although you are older than me, your cultivation level is not as high as mine."

"As for the sword—"

"What cultivator venturing out into the world wouldn't want an incomparably handsome and sharp sword?!"

"Uncle Qin, your hammer is good, but it doesn't look very imposing!"

The young man, without any regard for seniority, sat down on the forging platform, picked up the herbal tea, and drank it down.

"Tsk tsk~"

"I don't know who it was, but they harassed me for days before I finally managed to get those hammers on credit—"

"What? Now you're looking down on that top-grade mother-and-child hammer?"

Qin Fang didn't care. He opened a shop among mortals and didn't hide the fact that he was a cultivator. He just suppressed his cultivation to the Qi Refining stage.

This resulted in ordinary people around him hardly daring to come and talk to him casually. Over the years, he had become quite lonely, and it would be nice to have someone to chat and amuse him.

"Uncle Qin~~"

"I'm already a Foundation Establishment stage cultivator, and I even carry a high-grade magic weapon when I go out—"

"Wouldn't it be embarrassing for you if word got out?"

The change in the young man's tone.

"so?"

Qin Fang snorted coldly.

"There's no need for you, Uncle Qin, to forge this precious sword—"

"But, could the Nine Nether Hammer possibly work?"

The young man rubbed his hands together.

"So you've got your eye on that top-tier magic weapon, the Nine Nether Hammer?"

"Hehe~"

"Give me the spirit stones, and the hammer is yours!"

Qin Fang reached out his hand.

"I—I'm not—"

The young man immediately became shy and awkward.

"Are you trying to get something for nothing again?!"

Qin Fang maintained his cold, sneer expression.

"What nonsense!!"

"I, Zhang Xiaobai, was raised under your watchful eye, Uncle Qin. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that you were the one who guided me into this path—"

"But I only recently broke through to the next level, and I don't have many spirit stones on me yet—"

"You know about my father's illness, Uncle—"

"It seems there's some kind of mission going on in the sect recently, and the reward is a precious medicine to cure my father!"

"I was planning to go out, but I don't have any valuable items on me, so—"

Zhang Xiaobai spoke with a wry smile.

"Uncle Qin, how about this? I'll leave the materials from this third-tier demon beast as collateral with you."

"Once I've earned enough spirit stones in the future, I will definitely repay them as soon as possible."

Zhang Xiaobai pushed the materials on the table.

"No way!"

"I advise you not to go out and wander around recklessly! The Chaotic Star Sea has been quite turbulent lately—"

"Don't think that everything will be fine just because you've broken through to the early stage of Foundation Establishment! Every year, many cultivators as naive as you die."

Qin Fang refused without hesitation.

Although he didn't know what Zhang Xiaobai was going to do, he had watched the boy grow up since he was a child, and his spiritual root aptitude was quite good.

Some time ago, he was even taken in by Baiyu Island and became a Foundation Establishment Steward stationed in Tianxing City.

"Your father's illness—"

"There's no cure! Why don't you believe me?"

Qin Fang was helpless.

Although he wasn't an expert in medicine, he was quite skilled because he had refined many elixirs over the years.

It's not like they can't even accurately diagnose the illness of an ordinary person.

"We know how formidable Uncle Qin is—"

"Just as a son—"

Zhang Xiaobai's tone became dejected.

How could he not know that all his efforts were in vain?

My father is already old. Even if there were some kind of treasure that could cure the disease, what would be the point? My father will eventually reach the point where his lifespan ends.

He was not giving up, and even sought out a famous doctor in Tianxing City!

The result, however, greatly disappointed him—unless a Nascent Soul stage expert was willing to intervene, his father's strange illness could not be cured at all.

Asking a Nascent Soul cultivator to treat a mortal without spiritual roots is simply impossible.

"Hmm? Uncle Qin————"

Zhang Xiaobai suddenly felt a chill coming from in front of his lowered head. He looked up and saw the top-grade magic weapon, the Spirit Hammer, which was dark blue-black in color and had been on his mind for many years.

"Here you go~"

Qin Fang spoke calmly.

It was just a practice tool; it meant nothing to him.

He repeatedly refused simply because he didn't want to see this young man take risks.

He understood all too well the principle that possessing a sharp weapon naturally breeds murderous intent!

However, it seems that even without this top-tier warhammer, this young man would probably still be willing to take the risk. Therefore—

I should give away this precious hammer.

"Uncle Qin~ I————"

Zhang Xiaobai was deeply moved.

"The method for controlling this hammer is contained within!"

"After you take it back, remember to properly refine it—"

"There are many dangers when you're out and about, so please be careful!"

Qin Fang took out a jade slip and handed it to Zhang Xiaobai.

To be honest, Zhang Xiaobai's ability to successfully establish his foundation at the tender age of eighteen with his three spiritual roots was completely beyond Qin Fang's expectations!

In the Chaotic Star Sea, the cultivation aptitude of those with three spiritual roots, while not terrible, is not particularly good either.

If it weren't for a stroke of luck, this child would never have been able to advance to the Foundation Establishment stage so quickly!

He had only given the boy some pointers out of boredom, but in just over ten years, the boy had grown from a pheasant child into a young man, and his cultivation had improved far faster than he had expected.

If Qin Fang hadn't used the spinning tool to investigate countless times, he would have suspected that this boy possessed some kind of hidden spiritual entity.

"Thank you so much, Uncle Qin!!"

"Uncle Qin, you're so good to me! Don't worry, since you have no direct descendants, you can treat me as your grandson from now on!"

"Having returned from this mission—from now on, I will take care of you in your old age and see you off in your final days!"

Zhang Xiaobai's tone was excited.

"Go away~"

"What unlucky talk! Even if you die, I won't—I don't need you to take care of me in my old age!"

Qin Fang waved his hand.

Zhang Xiaobai assumed that Uncle Qin meant "bad luck" in the phrase "to provide for one's old age and send off one to the end," but he didn't know that Qin Fang was referring to "returning from a mission within the sect."

"Well then, Uncle Qin, I'll go back and refine this hammer to familiarize myself with it."

"My elderly father is staying at home, so I'd appreciate it if you could take care of him, Uncle!"

Zhang Xiaobai was clearly impatient.

Go then—

After Qin Fang finished speaking, Zhang Xiaobai, as if granted a pardon, picked up the dark blue-black top-grade magic weapon, the spirit hammer, and walked out of the blacksmith shop, stroking the Nine Nether Hammer with great care as he walked.

Watching Zhang Xiaobai leave, Qin Fang was unable to come back to his senses for a long time.

—After a while.

"Is it because of the face you're currently concealing?"

"Do I actually feel a bit old-fashioned?"

"As expected, we can't live like this for too long!"

After making a strange remark, Qin Fang turned to look at the location of the Spirit Gathering Array.

"The last piece of the 'Nine Netherworld Mountain-Suppressing Stone' is about to finish absorbing spiritual energy."

"It's time to forge my own natal magic weapon!"

Qin Fang's eyes suddenly became infinitely sharper, and all traces of his previous lifelessness were gone.

Two days later.

A golden light rose into the air from the entrance of Tianxing City and headed straight for the distant sky.

Not long after—another dark gray streak of light, seemingly by coincidence, sped off in the direction where the golden light had disappeared.

—On the horizon, amidst golden light.

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Qin Fang stood on the back of the python, staring at a jade slip in his hand.

"They're not far apart."

After speaking in a low voice, Qin Fang urged the python beneath his feet to move at full speed.

After more than a decade of training, the python has now successfully advanced to a level five demon beast! It already possesses the combat power of the early Core Formation stage.

Qin Fang has now refined three spiritual apertures and suppressed three spirit dragons within them.

Apart from "Little Yellow Python," the other two have not changed much over the years, especially compared to Little Yellow.

The dragon in the second spiritual aperture is still at the level of a level four demon beast. Even though it has reached its peak, it still has a long way to go before it can break through to the fifth level.

The mother dragon in the third spiritual aperture is still at the fifth level of cultivation, and even though it has improved compared to before, the difference is not significant.

Over the years, Qin Fang has focused his energy on refining his natal magic weapon and has had no time to cultivate spirit beasts! The reason for his slight improvement is that Qin Fang has endowed them with dragon bloodline, which has indirectly improved their demon bloodline.

As for the python-dragon Xiao Huang, it had followed Qin Fang the longest and seemed to have the strongest dragon bloodline.

Even without much resource assistance, relying on its own talent, it broke through to the level of a fifth-level spirit beast in just over ten years after Qin Fang stopped suppressing its cultivation level.

Qin Fang's departure from Tianxing City this time was not for any other reason, but solely for the purpose of refining his natal magic weapon.

According to the records in the Hundred Meridians Refining Treasure Manual, the refining of this precious treasure seems to trigger certain celestial phenomena.

Therefore, it is not appropriate to refine one's natal magic weapon in the city!

He didn't want to attract the attention of the Nascent Soul stage monsters in Tianxing City by forging this "Nine Netherworld Hundred Forging Hammer"!

The so-called "Nine Netherworld Hundred Forging Hammer" —

It is a hundred-forged hammer made primarily from the "Nine Netherworld Mountain-Suppressing Stone".

Because of the different materials, the names are also somewhat different.

Qin Fang had already secretly collected all the other auxiliary materials, and now only the final step of refining remained!

If it weren't for the fact that the Nine Netherworld Mountain-Suppressing Stone obtained from the Xuan Kong Realm required a long period of absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, he probably would have already started refining this treasure.

Over the years, Qin Fang has used ordinary materials to simulate the forging of the Nine Netherworld Hundred Forging Hammer more than once. The one that Zhang Xiaobai took away before was one of them.

After countless attempts, Qin Fang is now absolutely confident that he can forge the Hundred-Forging Hammer!

This hammer has a great reputation, but it is not too difficult to forge, after all, it is only prepared for Core Formation cultivators.

The key to this hammer lies in the precious materials that were continuously added to it in the future, which caused a dramatic change in its power.

Of course, Qin Fang doesn't need to think about these things right now that he's in the human realm!

His natal magic weapon is enough for him! There is absolutely no need to pursue the "Heavenly Treasure" level, let alone the "Acquired Profound Heaven Treasure" level.

Even if he wanted to pursue it, the most crucial point is that he couldn't find the necessary refining materials in a resource-scarce place like the human realm!

—After seven or eight days of continuous flight, a golden beam of light slowly came to a stop on a deserted island that was hundreds of miles in size.

"This is it!"

Qin Fang scanned the deserted island with his divine sense and confirmed that there was no one else on the island.