Han De didn't leave imdiately. Instead retreated to a safe distance and observed the reaction from Ning Bi through the Reality Sense. Naturally, he didn't use his spiritual sense. He wanted to confirm Ning Bi's safety, not spy on them!
After waiting for 10 minutes with no response, he was finally, mildly convinced.
The trusty lackey froze, did he hear the voice transmission correctly? Long Ai? As in, the old ancestor of the Long family?
Silence from lackeys was always an indication of sothing being wrong. With intuition honed from many events, Han De noticed the lack of response at once.
Old Peng silently gulped.
The voice transmission line cut off before Han De could respond.
"Y-Young master, we can proceed."
Once Han De nodded at the tailor, an illusory robe appeared around him.
'Of course This is a perfect use case for illusions. Why waste ti manually wearing everything!'
While Han De instinctively inspected the illusory techniques, he saw Long Yani shook her head with the corner of his eye. Then the robe dispersed and another one took its place.
'Maybe this banquet is more important than I thought'
If he had ti to choose clothing, he had ti to do research. Lately, ti had beco especially precious. Did he lack ceremonial robes? Of course not.
However, considering how Long Xiu 'hired' the best tailors from 12 realms, he thought playing along wouldn't hurt. Rather than letting his mother explode from pressure, it was better to appease her with short bursts like this one.
Unexpectedly, one of the designers started murmuring. "The complexity of this design is being overshadowed by the young master"
Long Yani nodded once, as if she agreed with her.
Another illusory robe appeared.
"Even if we use the One Thousand Void Weave technique, we can't match the depth of young master's eye color"
And another one.
"How could I have produced such a lacking design"
A few tis Long Yani didn't even let the designers speak.
"My lord Han De need not tolerate lesser designs."
"My lord Han De won't be satisfied with just that."
"My lord Han De"
'Why the F#$% does she keep calling lord?'
Under Han De's increasingly dubious gaze, an hour passed by. Finally, Han De settled on one of the simpler white robes. Once the novelty of seeing different ceremonial clothes wore off, the decision ca easily.
"Yes! The elegance of this design will further enhance the natural handsoness of the young master! Normally I would recomnd so accessories, but I doubt we can't find anything that can match the young master's temperant in such short notice!"
"Start at once. My lord Han De needs to attend the banquet in 25 hours."
Under Long Yani's stern gaze the servants hurriedly bowed and left with quick steps. Han De swallowed his relief. In the last few hours, he had witnessed the textbook definition of 'Feverish Gaze' over and over again.
Han De shook his head. If he were narcissistic enough, he could interpret the last few hours in a different light, Long Yani's speech patterns included.
"I need forging equipnt and basic array materials. Including"
As Han De listed dozens of materials in quick succession, Long Yani felt awkward inside. She was brought here by her cousin Long Xiu, as Han De's future concubine. In simple terms, her mission was to slowly seduce him and bear at least 3 of his children after he reached the Immortal Realm.
The combination of her yin-fire roots and the Han family's otherworldly yang roots had a high chance of creating unique roots, bloodlines, or constitutions. In Han De's case, potentially having opposing roots and having cultivated the Endless Slumber Scripture, the result would be nothing short of heaven-defying.
This was the information provided by Long Xiu. Since Long Yani had the Long surna as well, through her own channels, she received the news of the banquet, and heard that Long Ai was paying special attention to Han De.
As far as political marriages went, this wasn't as bad as she first thought.
"2 cubic ters of crushed high-quality spirit stone dust. 25 cubic ters of each: regular iron, spiritual iron, iron essence, regular lead, and regular gold, all in similar sized ingots"
At the start Han De appeared to be very interested in her, but why was he ordering random things now? Was this supposed to be so sort of hazing ritual? Long Yani couldn't tell. He seed very serious as he listed the ingredients.
An idea appeared in Long Yani's mind. Though there were other possibilities, it seed as if Han De simply wasn't conscious of the opposite sex.
He had heaven-defying beauties as disciples that he didn't touch. And he just ignored a room full of blushing beauties and their flirty glances, for an hour straight no less. His heartbeat didn't accelerate once. Most importantly, he was engaged to Wen Jiayi. A person notorious for seeking 'purity' in her potential husband.
Long Yani couldn't help but snort at her cousin from the inside. Long Xiu wasn't worried that Han De would do sothing rash. She was worried that Han De would never be able to do sothing rash!
"Finally, bring a copy of the Starfall Mountain Standard Forging Scripture Volu 1 along with materials. Instruct the archive elders to bring copies of the remaining volus later."
Long Yani sweetly smiled. "Of course, my lord."
As Long Yani left with a confident stride, she felt Han De's gaze on her. It seed that her first impression wasn't as poor as she thought.
Han De's thoughts were different.
'I see. She is the latest one.'
No wonder Long Xiu was excited. She hadn't given up but doubled down instead. Now the candidate was from the Long family, even. He upgraded Long Yani's danger level by 1. The woman was definitely aware of Long Xiu's plans.
Unexpectedly, Long Yani returned less than a minute later.
"My lord Han De, would you like to visit the forges?"
Han De shook his head.
"Have everything set up in the biggest empty enclosed space. Use bunker formations with extra kinetic resistance. Ask Peng, he'll know what I an."
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