Ever since the Wu siblings moved into Juxing Village, the backyard was no longer as quiet as it used to be.
Shopkeeper Duan had also been busy recently. He often bought a lot of materials back and worked overtime in the furnace room.
He didn't even take a step out, as if this wasn't his home. He just worked around the furnace.
He also constantly forged magic tools. Some of them simply weren't enchanted.
Yi Tian only found out later that these were first-level magic tools that weren't enchanted. They were all used to fool people.
For example, his maiden work, the Meteor Gilding Roller, had two inscriptions attached to it before it could be called a second-level magic tool.
Also, it seemed that Yi Tian was too serious when he enchanted it, and it was a little too powerful. In the end, it attracted the attention of Chiyang School's Ning Yuxuan.
In Duan Yugang's words, it didn't matter how good the enchantment was. The key was to have good materials.
Yi Tian didn't argue with him. It was meaningless to reason with a rough old man.
Instead, he helped him forge more cheap first-level and second-level magic tools. Anyway, he had recently reached the fifth level of Qi Refinement. After his cultivation stabilized, he couldn't advance for the time being.
It was probably because he lacked the application and understanding of spiritual power. When he was free, he might as well help Duan Yugang smelt materials.
In any case, he would be walking this path in the future. Hard work came from hard work.
Also, Yi Tian's cultivation had surpassed Duan Yugang's, so it was awkward to watch him smelt materials.
Usually, he would finish smelting materials in eight hours. That was why he took the initiative to help.
Duan Yugang saw that there was free labor to be ordered around, so why not?
He was only responsible for shaping, engraving, and sharpening. The smelting was all left to Yi Tian.
From time to time, he would praise Yi Tian and point out where Yi Tian made mistakes in the smelting process.
For example, the timing, the ratio of materials, the order of materials, the intensity of spiritual power, and the rhythm of the output.
Under Duan Yugang's guidance, Yi Tian's smelting skills improved by leaps and bounds. After three days, he didn't have any problems.
From the fourth day onwards, Duan Yugang no longer came to the stove. He only focused on his own matters.
Now, Yi Tian's smelting quality was better than his, and his speed was also faster. If he continued to guide him, he was afraid that he would have nothing to say.
Yi Tian also felt the benefits of smelting materials. He now knew how to carefully control the output of spirit qi, thus stabilizing the quality of the smelting.
Moreover, he also thought that if it was used in a competition with others, it could also be used to distribute spiritual energy reasonably to achieve the best results.
After a month, Yi Tian's own cultivation had also increased. He had already reached the middle of Qi Refining Stage Five. He believed that if he continued to cultivate like this, he would be able to reach the peak of Qi Refining Stage Five in half a year.
However, there were no more materials in Juxing Village for Yi Tian to smelt. Fortunately, Duan Yugang had found him a new job to help him shape, copy, and sharpen the blade.
In Yi Tian's words, shaping and copying were no problem, but sharpening was unnecessary. No cultivator would be stupid enough to hold a knife and watch a duel between cultivators.
However, Duan Yugang despised him. "Didn't you just chop off Tian Fei's head when you killed him? Don't think that I fainted at that time. I was just too tired to move."
It turned out that this guy knew everything. Yi Tian secretly swore that he would look at those big black guys clearly in the future.
Maybe he was the kind of person who looked careless but was actually very narrow-minded.
In the next few months, Yi Tian learned sharpening from Shopkeeper Duan. In fact, in Duan Yugang's opinion, sharpening was the most difficult part.
Not only did they have to grind on the grinding wheel, but they also had to pay attention to the angle and thickness. In addition, they couldn't destroy the inscriptions. Otherwise, the whole magic weapon would be scrapped.
Yi Tian learned from Duan Yugang for the first month. Later, he felt that Duan Yugang's movements were too slow, so he took on all the work himself.
What should have been a three-month construction period was compressed to two months.
Fortunately, it gave Shopkeeper Duan more time to find a few more tenants.
Fortunately, the Wu siblings had said that no one could enter their east and west rooms.
Therefore, the people who came first had to live in the firewood room, the main hall, and finally the furnace room.
Now, Yi Tian couldn't continue refining. He just didn't know if the guy living next to the furnace could withstand the high temperature.
In the end, Yi Tian prepared enough materials to make two eight-chopped knives for himself. He added light and fast inscriptions and stuck them on his waist, making him look like a person from the Jianghu who came to collect debts.
The other one was the Gigantic Sword with a wide handle. After sharpening both sides, Yi Tian still felt that it wasn't enough, so he added a blood groove.
He engraved toughness and sharpness. This was something that Yi Tian wanted to sell, so he made it with a lot of weight.
There was still a month before the three sects started to recruit disciples. The number of people coming to Pushan Square began to increase.
The owner of the square, Pushan Dao, received a secret order from the sect to maintain the three sects' disciple selection and not let the other sects take advantage of it.
Therefore, more people were sent. The number of people in the patrol team doubled, and they were all core members of the seventh or eighth level of Qi Disciple.
In any case, this matter had nothing to do with Juxing Village. The month before the three sects' disciple selection was the busiest time for Pushan Square.
Usually, those pill and weapon shops would take out the goods that they had accumulated over the years to sell, taking advantage of this opportunity to make a big profit.
Even the Wu siblings rented a stall in a street stall in Xi City.
It was said that they spent ten spirit stones to buy a month's management rights for the stall.
This Wu Xing had a knack for making money. He had learned a little alchemy at home and knew how to make qi-gathering elixirs.
To Yi Tian, cultivation was to rely on oneself bit by bit. That way, one's foundation would be stable and one would be able to go far in the future.
In the eyes of many others, taking shortcuts by taking pills was something that could be tried occasionally, but over time, one would become addicted.
Wu Xing refined qi-gathering elixirs at home every day, while his sister was in charge of hawking at the stall.
After a few days, the spirit stones in his pocket bulged. After all, there were many people who came specifically for shopping. If they did not use it themselves, they could leave it for the younger generation of their family.
However, Wu Xing was happy for only ten days before he lost hope. The major pill shops only sold finished pills and did not provide raw materials.
In the end, Wu Xing also followed his sister to hawking at the stall every day.
Juxing Village's market was too poor, so there were not many people on this street.
Duan Yugang had gone to the market two months ago to register his stall in the west market. Coincidentally, it was right across from the Wu siblings.
Duan Yugang was afraid that they would spend all their money if he was late, so he rented an ox cart a month ago. He packed all the artifacts that he had refined in the past six months onto the cart and sent them directly to the stall in the west market.
He also ingeniously moved a piece of granite that was taller than a person and had a radius of twenty feet, and placed it in front of the stall as a sword testing stone.
He claimed that as long as the weapons in his stall could not leave a mark on the sword testing stone, or if they were damaged after leaving a mark, the price would be two to one.
In a short time, many people came to test the weapons. When they saw that the weapons were genuine, they generously bought them.
Most of them were people who wanted to go to the Iron Sword Gate. It was said that the disciples of the Iron Sword Gate had to pass a test. The newcomer had to use all their strength to strike the sword testing stone. They only had to leave a mark, and they could bring their own weapons or use the standard ones provided by the sect.
Wu Min's heart itched as she watched. Unfortunately, each weapon cost more than ten spirit stones. Furthermore, the light weapons were only long swords, short swords, and short knives. The heavy weapons were the ghost head knife, mountain splitting knife, and tiger knife types. Girls did not like them.
Yi Tian was bored at home. He only saw the Wu siblings two or three times in the past ten days.
As for Duan Yu, he had not seen him at all in the past ten days.
Thinking about it, he was also bored at home. Moreover, the new tenants had filled the front yard and the furnace room, making him feel like an outsider.
Fortunately, there was nothing to do at home, so he simply went to the West City District to take a look. In any case, cultivators sometimes did not sleep. If they were tired, they could just sit there and take a spirit stone to recover.
After running to the West City District, Yi Tian saw that shopkeeper Duan had listened to his suggestion and really followed it. Now it seemed that the effect was surprisingly good.
Most of the magic weapons had been sold. This time, he had made a lot of money. He estimated that he would not have to worry about money for the next five years.
The Wu siblings opposite him had almost sold all of their weapons. The rest could be used by himself. When the time came, it would not be bad to give them a favor.
When he saw Wu Min, he found that she was unhappy. After asking, he found out that she did not have a suitable magic weapon.
When the time came to participate in the Iron Sword Gate's sword testing, he was afraid that he would not be able to perform well and would not be able to occupy a good position once he entered the gate.
Wu Xing also awkwardly spread out his hands. There was no other way. He had already shopped around the West City's stalls.
Everything that was worth looking at cost more than a hundred spirit stones. This time, after deducting the cost, he had only earned so much. If he spent all of it, he would be in a passive position when he went to the sect.
When Yi Tian heard this, he pondered. This Wu Xing knew alchemy. Moreover, he had also entered Chiyang School.
Perhaps in the future, they would be in the same sect. If they did not stick together now, it would be even more difficult in the future.
He turned around and handed the two Eight Chopping Blades on his belt to Wu Xing. He also explained that these things were originally used by him to decorate his shop.
Now that it seemed that Wu Min also had a use for them, he directly gave them to Wu Xing.
However, there were two conditions. First, he could not test the blades here. Second, he could not tell others that Yi Tian had refined them himself.
Wu Xing smiled and took the Eight Chopping Blades. He revealed a 'you know what I mean' expression. Then, he excitedly went to find his sister to tell her.
Chou Renjiu was a direct descendant of the Chou Clan. This time, he came to Pushan Square to participate in the three sects' disciple selection.
Along the way, they had encountered quite a few people who tried to stop them, but they had all been dealt with.
However, after using the Chou Clan's Dragon Stirring Sword many times, his weapon could not withstand the spiritual pressure and broke.
Like all the participants, Chou Renjiu also wanted to get a good name.
He heard that the Iron Sword Gate's Sword Testing Stone directly affected the benefits and status of those who entered the sect.
If he could leave a three inch mark, then he could get an extra set of spirit stones. A seven inch mark was the true selection for the outer sect disciples.
If he cut it, he did not know what would happen. At least, it had not been recorded before.
However, this Pushan Square did not have any suitable magic tools. He had plenty of spirit stones in his wallet.
Most likely, he was robbed on the way. Now, he had spirit stones, but nowhere to spend them.
He heard that there was a stall in Xi City that sold magic tools that could be tested on the spot. Chou Renjiu also came to try his luck.
However, things did not go as he wished. The stall owner with a full beard and dark skin kept raising the price, unwilling to give up.
This was not the main point. The stall's heavy magic tools were all sabers, but he wanted a sword. It would be best if it was a heavy sword. No matter how much he spent, it would be worth it.
Seeing the two people arguing over there, Yi Tian also came over to watch the show.
After hearing Chou Renjiu's words, he also felt that this matter was difficult. Duan Yugang simply ignored him and went to greet the others.
Seeing Chou Renjiu turn to leave, Yi Tian patted his shoulder, indicating that he should follow.
Then he quickly left. Chou Renjiu also understood. He snorted and followed Yi Tian.
After a while, the two arrived at De Xing Restaurant. Yi Tian called for a private room. He turned around and waved at the door, then went in and sat down to wait.
Chou Renjiu immediately pretended to be looking for someone and also walked into the private room.
The two sat down as the host and guest. After ordering the dishes and waiting for the waiter to deliver, they told him not to disturb them.
After closing the door, Yi Tian was the first to speak. He introduced himself to Chou Renjiu as a delivery man.
When he saw that Chou Renjiu wanted a heavy sword, he happened to have one here.
Chou Renjiu wanted to inspect the goods first. Yi Tian had no choice but to take out the Jujue Sword from his storage pouch and give it to him.
After receiving the Jujue Sword, Chou Renjiu weighed it. It was very heavy, about a hundred kilograms. He could use it, but he did not know its quality.
Yi Tian indicated that he should try it. Chou Renjiu took out a large saber from his storage pouch and chopped at the Jujue Sword. With a 'ka' sound, the saber's head was cut off like tofu by the Jujue Sword. Chou Renjiu knew the quality of the saber. His own sword had been cut off by it.
The waiter outside was afraid that something would happen. He immediately knocked on the door, but when he heard Yi Tian say that it was fine, he did not care. As long as they did not tear down De Xing Restaurant, who would care what they did?
Seeing Chou Renjiu's burning gaze, Yi Tian felt that it was time to reveal his true intentions. He stretched out five fingers, scaring Chou Renjiu.
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