117: Refining the Mystical Spear

Long Yuan also reacted upon hearing this, and said, "That makes sense. Then let's switch to a more Advanced Xuan Beast oil and fat!"

"Hmph, do you really need so many Materials to refine a Xuan Gun? These will cost a lot of money!" He Sui said again.

"Money is not an issue! Whatever the cost, so be it!"

"Oh, you're not here to show off, are you?"

"Think whatever you want, just hurry up and get it, don't interfere with my Artifact Refining!" Long Yuan said, casually pulling out a superior xuan stone and handing it over.

"Hmph, you just wait!" He Sui took the superior xuan stone and stormed out, slamming the door.

Long Yuan found this woman's mood was like spring rain, coming and going unpredictably, which was quite troublesome.

After quite a while, He Sui finally arrived, pushing a small cart piled with many Materials. However, looking at her expression, she didn't seem as angry as when she slammed the door; instead, she had a pleasant, amiable look, as if bathed in a spring breeze. In fact, she could secretly earn one-tenth of the xuan stone from this single order, which was one-tenth of a superior xuan stone, equivalent to a thousand low-grade xuan stone. There was nothing that a thousand low-grade xuan stone couldn't satisfy! This was more than she would earn in a year of part-time work here, so she was overjoyed! She also understood a principle: providing service was much more satisfying when serving the wealthy!

"The Materials are here! I carefully selected this black armored pig oil and fat for you from the Xuan Beast oil and fat you requested. What do you think?" He Sui said.

Long Yuan looked at the friendly, slightly fawning smile on her face and said nothing. He took the jar of oil and fat, opened the lid, and a fragrant aroma wafted out. His eyes lit up, and he found the pig oil and fat as crystal clear as Hetian mutton fat jade. It seemed he had underestimated the pig oil of this world; its quality was far superior to even whale oil and fat on Earth!

His mood was a little joyful, and he nodded, "Very good, thank you!"

"Hehe, as long as you're satisfied! If you need anything else, just press this button by the door, and I guarantee I'll be there whenever you call! Oh, by the way, my name is He Sui, and my grandfather is the president of the Refiners Guild. There's nothing here that I can't solve!" He Sui said with a smile.

"Okay! Thank you!"

After seeing He Sui off, Long Yuan closed the door and began his Artifact Refining...

First, he melted the Ore to extract the essential minerals, then created a mold to cast it into a rough blank. Next, he hammered the rough blank, continuously passing it through Xuan water during this process. The alternation of hot and cold made the rough blank more resilient. As the Impurities were removed, the rough blank gradually became more refined, finally forming useful components ready for use...

Long Yuan was confident. Components of various sizes and shapes were arranged on the workbench, growing in number, almost turning into an exhibition stand!

At this moment, Qi Da, the vice president of the Refiners Guild who was on duty, was intently staring at a screen displaying the situation in Long Yuan's Artifact Refining room. Although there were over a dozen other people undergoing Artifact Refiner certification simultaneously, Long Yuan's arrival and the start of his refining gradually caught Qi Da's attention. The main reasons for this, besides him being the youngest, were that the work he intended to refine was somewhat unexpected to Qi Da.

"Long Yuan? For his first certification, he chose to refine a Xuan Gun?" Looking at the registration form and refining information He Sui gave him, a hint of suspicion appeared on Qi Da's face.

Most people, for their first Artifact Refiner certification, would choose to refine relatively simple items, such as a sword, a saber, or a long spear—common, simple items of this kind. As long as they could be formed and meet certain usage requirements, they could pass. This would significantly reduce the difficulty of certification, making it arguably the wisest choice.

Because if one chose to refine complex works, the difficulty would inevitably increase accordingly, and the probability of failure would also climb sharply. This would be very difficult for ordinary Entry-Level practitioners to handle.

And something like a Xuan Gun, while seemingly not very powerful, was extremely troublesome to produce. For Entry-Level contestants, it was absolutely not worth the effort!

This was also why the Xuan Gun had never received much attention. It was troublesome to refine and had little power, so many Artifact Refiners had long since excluded it from their works!

However, Long Yuan not only chose to refine a Xuan Gun but also purchased a large quantity of Materials. It seemed he intended to go all out, and clearly, the work he was refining was quite complex, which left Qi Da very puzzled.

A young boy, surely lacking in Artifact Refining experience, yet he wanted to challenge a high difficulty. The chance of failure would be very high. If this certification failed, not only would he have to wait three months to re-participate, but he would also lose a superior xuan stone. Was his Family really that wealthy?

If that were the case, it would be understandable, after all, he was there to practice. Perhaps after refining a few more times, he might succeed. It was truly enviable that someone so young could receive such strong support from his Family...

Qi Da couldn't help but shake his head at this thought. Why didn't he have such a fate? He had worked his way up to a three-star Artifact Refiner only in his seventies or eighties. If he had received such Family support when he was young, with his talent, he estimated he could at least have pushed for a four-star Artifact Refiner, right?

Sigh, if that were the case, he could stand shoulder to shoulder with President He Hao. Perhaps he could even be sent by the Refiners Guild to another place to be a proper president, and his income could easily multiply several times...

Just as he was lost in thought, he saw that Long Yuan seemed to have finished refining all the components and was checking them one by one. This made Qi Da's eyes light up. He really wanted to see what kind of Xuan Gun Long Yuan would ultimately refine, considering the cost alone would be a superior xuan stone. Of course, that little girl must have profited quite a bit from it...

Qi Da watched Long Yuan's Artifact Refining room with great interest. He decided that even though Long Yuan was very young, seeing his skilled refining techniques and his ability to handle various Artifact Refining tools and Materials, if he could truly refine a Xuan Gun, as long as it could kill—oh no, injure a common beast, then he would let him pass. After all, it was only Entry-Level, and the Guild also needed some fresh young blood to replenish its ranks...

However, as Qi Da watched Long Yuan's next actions, his gaze gradually became more serious!

Long Yuan did not rush to assemble. After re-examining all the components, he discarded one-third of them. Some were re-refined, some were finely tuned, some were thickly coated with pig oil, and some components were even strangely shaped, which made Qi Da feel a bit baffled, wondering what purpose those components served. It seemed the Xuan Gun Long Yuan was refining was somewhat different from any existing Xuan Gun in the Great Ming Dynasty...

No wonder Qi Da's attention was now completely drawn to Long Yuan. As he watched, he imagined what this Xuan Gun would look like once assembled, what kind of power it would possess. It wouldn't even be able to kill a chicken, would it...?

After all, the components he saw were much smaller than the standard Xuan Gun components in the Great Ming Dynasty, so after assembly, its power would likely be much smaller. It would probably be normal if it couldn't even kill a chicken...

"It seems he's about to start assembling, right? Actually, he's used very little time, only four hours. Others would probably still be hammering rough blanks at this point..." Qi Da thought to himself...

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