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Chu Chen entered the Copper Market and looked carefully. Pieces of copper, ores, and ingots of different colors were placed on the ground.
Crimson Fire Copper, Mysterious Jade Bronze, Deep Water Purple Copper, Thick Earth Brass, Cold Ice Blue Copper … Chu Chen was dazzled by the copper pieces with different colors and attributes.
These copper pieces were good materials for forging weapons, magic treasures, and protective armors. Therefore, they were very expensive. The cheapest copper piece cost dozens of spirit stones. The good ones were even more expensive and boundless.
Forging medicinal furnaces was different from forging weapons. The more expensive the copper, the better it was. A truly good medicinal furnace had to have good thermal conductivity, allowing the alchemist to precisely control the temperature of the fire. On the other hand, these copper pieces couldn't have any attributes.
For example, Crimson Fire Copper was a copper piece dug out from the bottom of a volcano. It naturally had dense fire spiritual energy. If it was forged into a weapon, its power would be incomparably tyrannical. During a battle, it could even summon underground flames to assist it.
However, if it was forged into a medicinal furnace, its fire attribute would appear too fierce. The dense earth core's fire energy would completely incinerate the entire medicinal pill if one wasn't careful.
Chu Chen decided to open his spiritual perception to look at the quality of these copper pieces. Once he opened his spiritual perception, he discovered that most of the copper pieces emitted gray or white gas. Some of the more famous copper pieces, such as Mysterious Jade Bronze, were green, while Crimson Fire Copper was blue.
Chu Chen's gaze continued to roam and search. In the end, he discovered a cloud of purple gas!
Gray, white, green, blue, red, purple, gold. There was actually a copper piece emitting purple gas.
When Chu Chen walked in front of a black copper piece the size of a washbasin, purple gas continuously emitted from its body. What a powerful gas.
"Boss, how much is this copper piece?"
Chu Chen discovered that this was the only copper piece in the entire store that didn't have a price tag. Perhaps the boss didn't plan to sell it because it didn't look impressive.
"This copper piece is not for sale."
The shopkeeper of this copper store was a young man. His expression was calm and emotionless. It was as if this store didn't belong to him. Everything was done according to the procedure and there was no room for discussion.
He sat behind the counter and dozed off. He opened his eyes for a moment and closed them again to continue sleeping.
"Why not?"
"This copper doesn't have much value, and we don't know what type it is. We don't want to cheat our customers."
Chu Chen's questioning made the young shopkeeper a little impatient. He opened his eyes and frowned, "This shop has a lot of good copper. Choose something else."
"Boss, you're a shopkeeper. I like this piece of black copper very much. Give me a price." Chu Chen naturally wouldn't let go of this piece of good copper that was emitting purple gas.
"Alright, if you insist on buying it, then I can make it clear that there are no returns." The young shopkeeper looked at Chu Chen as if he was looking at a fool. "I'll give you the lowest price, one spiritual stone per kilogram. There's a scale on the side. You can weigh it yourself."
Chu Chen placed both of his hands on the piece of black copper. A strange aura immediately passed through his palms and into his body. It was as if he was holding a washbasin-sized "other world" in his hands.
What was worse was that this "other world" was very heavy. When he placed it on the scale, the weight was too much for Chu Chen to bear. It was 506 kilograms.
"506 spiritual stones. If you want it, I'll charge you a round number. 500 spiritual stones. The cost is small, but the profit is small. All the metals in this shop are non-negotiable. If you're not satisfied, you can go to another shop."
The young shopkeeper glanced at Chu Chen. He guessed that he wouldn't buy it after seeing the price, so he leaned against the shelf and closed his eyes, preparing to sleep.
"Boss, I'll buy it."
Although it was a little painful, Chu Chen didn't hesitate. 500 spiritual stones was enough to refine some pills. However, this copper that was emitting purple gas was something that could only be found by chance.
After receiving the 500 spiritual stones from Chu Chen, the young shopkeeper was still in a daze. He didn't know if this young man was a fool to be willing to pay this price.
However, if he knew the truth about this copper, the young shopkeeper would probably curse himself for being a fool!
After paying all the spiritual stones, Chu Chen put the copper into his storage ring and left the copper shop. The next step was to find a blacksmith to forge a medicine furnace.
As he came to the market square more and more, Chu Chen was already very familiar with this place. Without much effort, he entered the blacksmith shop in the market square.
The blacksmith shops in the sect were different from those in the mortal world. Most of the blacksmith shops in the mortal world were used to forge tools like scissors, sickles, hoes, and so on. However, the blacksmith shops in the sect specialized in forging flying swords, magic weapons, armor, and so on. These things were the most important life-saving things for cultivators. Naturally, they were very important.
Therefore, the blacksmith shop was also one of the richest shops in the market square.
Every blacksmith shop was magnificent and looked like a small ancient palace hall. In fact, it was basically impossible to open a blacksmith shop in the market square of Biquan Xianzong if one didn't have a few skills.
When he arrived at the most magnificent blacksmith shop in the entire market square, Chu Chen excitedly walked in. "Shopkeeper, I want to forge a medicine furnace!"
However, he found that there were all kinds of cultivators in the shop. There were men, women, old, and young, all of them lined up in an orderly manner.
"Sorry, there are too many customers in this shop. If you need to forge something, please line up first."
A young girl in a yellow robe who looked very lively stopped Chu Chen and pointed to the long line.
Chu Chen could only line up at the end of the line without any temper. A famous shop was a famous shop. If you could forge something good, naturally there would be a lot of customers. Of course, the price would also be high-end.
Chu Chen could only rejoice that he only needed a few dozen spiritual stones in advance at the beginning. Otherwise, he wouldn't even have the qualifications to line up now.
Two hours later …
"Little Brother, where did you get this fragment?" The old blacksmith with a head full of white hair frowned as he looked at the purple-gold fragment in his hand. He helplessly shook his head. "No matter what method we use, we can't melt this purple-gold fragment. If we can't melt it, how can we forge it? Forgive this small shop for being incompetent. You should find someone better. "
The biggest shop in the market square actually said that he was incompetent and couldn't melt it?
Then did he still have any hope?
Chu Chen's head was filled with black lines. He could only quietly leave the blacksmith shop with the purple-gold fragment in his hand.
Although he was happy to get the fragment of the Laojun Furnace, he didn't think of a very important problem. This fragment of the Eight Trigrams Furnace hadn't decayed after hundreds of millions of years. Based on this quality alone, he was afraid that ordinary people wouldn't be able to melt it!
If he couldn't melt it, the fragment would always be a fragment. Besides being a little sharp, it had no other use.
What should he do?
With no other choice, Chu Chen could only try his luck at another blacksmith shop. This blacksmith, who didn't have any customers waiting for him, didn't say anything. He opened the furnace and picked up the hammer, causing sparks to fly everywhere.
The result was as expected. After using all methods, this blacksmith shop was still unable to deform the purple-gold fragment in the slightest.
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