Chapter 514: Sick And Extraordinary
Translator: TYZ Editor: TYZ, KLKL
"....At that ti, our family had obtained two of them in total. We did not know what they were used for. It just so happened that you were coming of age and we needed to find a good teacher for you. We gave one of them to Grandmaster Dai in the hope of getting him to accept you as his disciple. Grandmaster Dai gave his consent cheerfully. If this item can be so coveted by a Grandmaster, it’s definitely an extraordinary artifact. We hid the other one in our secret chamber and we didn’t dare to tell anyone about it. Subsequently, Grandmaster Dai asked us about it and we acted as if we knew nothing and told him there was only one. This item is of great importance, you must keep it by your side at all tis. Before you find out what it is, don’t show it to anyone. Follow the path of [Viridescent Flower] and you will have no trouble becoming a Master. Of course, becoming a Grandmaster is an extrely arduous feat. If this artifact can assist you in doing so...."
Duanmu Huanghun had already destroyed the secret letter from his ho. He had morized every single word in the letter. His family had taken great pains to send the wooden box to him. They actually used Lu Mingxiu as a cover to send it. Rather than the Duanmu family, the Lu family was actually the family that Grandmaster Dai truly trusted.
After reading the secret letter, Duanmu Huanghun understood a lot of things.
It turned out that Grandmaster Dai had accepted him as a disciple to fulfil a transaction.
No wonder why his teacher practically did not care about him at all. His teacher always treated him differently from First Senior and Second Senior.
However, Duanmu Huanghun discovered that he wasn’t too disappointed. He understood what was going on. His teacher was unconcerned with him. Likewise, he was unconcerned with his teacher.
Duanmu Huanghun was a proud and arrogant individual. He felt that he could still progress, even if he did not have a teacher. At the end of the day, he had to find his own path for himself.
Now, he was glad that he had been "kidnapped" by Shi Xueman. It was at Central Pine Valley where he could truly relax himself. He could finally keep himself away from the internal strife in Jadeite Forest.
Now, he could spend all his energy and talents on his training.
This was the best mont of his life.
He had found his path, the path that belonged to him, the path of [Viridescent Flower].
In the bamboo forest, Duanmu Huanghun was sitting cross-legged on the ground with both his eyes tightly closed. His palms held the archaic wooden box, looking as if he was asleep.
A beautiful pattern of a viridescent flower was revolving beneath his body.
The wind was rustling and bamboo leaves were drifting through the air. However, any leaf that drifted within ten ters of Duanmu Huanghun’s body would be repelled by an invisible force.
The revolving pattern of the viridescent flower beneath Duanmu Huang’s body changed its shape every one hour.
Everyday, there would be twenty-four changes to the pattern of the viridescent flower. Every new pattern was completely different from the previous one.
After twenty days had passed, Duanmu Huanghun had created four hundred and eighty different types of [Viridescent Flower].
Duanmu family’s [Viridescent Flower] had a long history. It could be traced back to the distant Cultivation Era. The Duanmu family had a collection of more than two thousand types of [Viridescent Flower], but most of them had lost their uses by now.
Every ti the pattern of the viridescent flower changed, the elental energy around Duanmu Huanghun’s body beca more concentrated.
It was as if there was an enormous archive in Duanmu Huanghun’s head. Right now, he was breaking it apart, destroying it, and rebuilding it over and over again.
This was only the beginning. This was destined to be a very long process.
Duanmu Huanghun was filled with expectation.
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Lou Lan was doing his best to prepare elental soup for everyone. Right now, the mbers of Sword of Lightning were in the tal Basket Sword Pagoda that they were embarrassed of in the past. They were going through the simple sword moves that they used to mock and complain about, over and over again.
‘Nothing is more convincing than an actual battle.’
These bloody words on the wooden slab in Lemon Camping Ground were the first declaration they made to the world using swords, and it had shocked every city. They were shocked by their own powers as well. They had a new understanding of the tal Basket Sword Pagoda and themselves.
When they had completed this process, a transformation would take place.
They did not understand what was going on. All they understood was that they could beco stronger.
Because Ai Hui was injured, Gu Xuan occupied his grez position for the ti being. It was the first ti he experienced the imnse pressure that Ai Hui always faced in the past. Gu Xuan wasn’t a weak individual. He did not give up easily. Like a whetstone, the pressure he faced forced him to improve every day.
Nowadays, Fishback City had sufficient resources. Every day, they would be provided with sufficient elental soup. Everyone knew that such an environnt was hard to co by in tis of chaos.
Without needing to be prompted, everyone was training frantically.
There was a person beside the tal Basket Sword Pagoda. It was Blind He.
He bore a heavy responsibility.
By building tal Basket Sword Pagoda, he had rely completed the first phase of his task. Right now, he was trying to complete the second phase of his task.
This ti around, rather than forging a gigantic sword, he was supposed to forge a sword for every mber of Sword of Lightning.
Right now, everyone was using a different sword. Most of their swords had been used for a very long ti. It was alright for them to use their current swords for training. However, for an actual battle, their swords would pose a problem.
Taking this issue into consideration, Ai Hui gave Blind He the task of forging a sword for everyone.
There was a total of three hundred n in Sword of Lightning. As such, three hundred swords would have to be forged for them. To prepare for the scenario where a sword might be damaged and had to be replaced, Blind He had to forge at least five hundred swords to keep so as spares.
Quantity wasn’t the main issue. The biggest problem that perplexed Blind He was to figure out what kind of sword suited the mbers of Sword of Lightning the best. As a weaponsmith, he had high expectations for the weapons he forged. Every weapon he made had to be top-quality.
Even though he had made the tal Basket Sword Pagoda, he was still baffled by it. It was only until he witnessed its might during the last battle that he understood how it could be used.
These few days, he had been staying around the tal Basket Sword Pagoda to get a feel of how it operate and how the mbers trained.
After observing quietly for a few days straight, a rough idea began to form in his mind.
He returned to the furnace and started the forging process.
He sprayed the White Cluster Flas over a piece of tal. Like an ice cube, the piece of tal lted into a puddle of molten tallic liquid easily. He then started to add various materials into it. His movents were fluid like water, graceful and beautiful. Every ti he added in a material, an elental energy ripple of a different color would streak across the surface of the molten liquid. Colorful elental energy ripples began to gather and intertwine on the surface of the molten liquid. Eventually, gorgeous and dazzling elental energy ripples were ford.
Blind He was very focused. The faint glow from the eyes on his palms engulfed the molten tal. Every change taking place in the molten tal was under his control.
The elental energy ripples on the surface of the molten tal continuously undulated.
The glow released by the eyes on his palms suddenly turned cold as a layer of frost appeared on the surface of the molten tal. The molten tal had solidified into an ingot. The gorgeous and dazzling elental energy ripples looked as if they were frozen on the surface of the ingot, creating extrely beautiful patterns.
Blind He did not stop. He picked up the snow lava that he had prepared earlier and poured it over the tal ingot.
Sizzle.
A loud and clear sizzle resounded through the air when wisps of white-colored, scorching flas rose from the tal ingot. Densely-packed cracks began to appear on the surface of the tal ingot.
Blind He picked up a iron hamr and hamred the tal ingot. The surface of the tal ingot was as crispy as a biscuit. Very soon, its surface broke down and revealed a silvery white tal within it.
It was a silvery-white, half-transparent tal ingot that resembled a silvery-white crystal. Soft and thin flower petals were frozen within the tal ingot. They were ford layer upon layer, looking extrely beautiful.
The petal-shaped patterns contained glittering silver powder, which made the tal ingot dazzle when it was placed under the sun.
A satisfied look appeared on Blind He’s face as he muttered, "Pearblossom Dazzling Silver. From today onwards, you are called Pearblossom Dazzling Silver. I have no regrets in my life anymore, I have no regrets in my life anymore!"
The snow-white petals in the tal ingot resembled pear blossoms.
Luckily Ai Hui did not have the ti to care about him, otherwise he would have co up with another ugly na for it again, like "White Cluster Flas". If that were to happen, Blind He would vomit blood.
Blind He was very emotional. Up to now, this tal ingot had the highest grade among all the tal ingots he had ever created. It was every weaponsmith’s dream to be able to create his own material, na it, and leave his mark on history.
He had no choice but to admit that, even though Ai Hui was lacking in his ability to na things, his White Cluster Flas and snow lava were remarkable inventions.
Without these two powerful tools, he would not have been able to create Pearblossom Dazzling Silver.
Due to his excitent from creating Pearblossom Dazzling Silver, Blind He no longer felt tired and began to forge the swords. He already had a rough idea of the sword’s design in his mind. The success in creating the Pearblossom Dazzling Silver implied that the most difficult problem had already been solved.
Very soon, he forged the first sword. He furrowed his eyebrows and destroyed it.
He destroyed the second one as well.
It was as if he wasn’t getting tired at all. He continued to forge the swords one by one. However, he was satisfied with none of them.
The rush of excitent he’d felt earlier had disappeared. The consecutive failures added on to his fatigue.
He stopped and sat beside the furnace in a daze.
Without Blind He noticing it, night had descended. The stars in the night sky gave off a bright glow while the night breeze blew silently.
"He Wei, here is your elental soup," Lou Lan said as he sent a bowl of elental soup to He Wei.
Blind He returned to his senses and took over the bowl of elental soup. A smile appeared on his cold face. "Thank you, Lou Lan."
"There’s no need to thank , He Wei. In the future, Lou Lan wants to learn weapon forging from He Wei," Lou Lan said.
"No problem," Blind He agreed imdiately. As he was drinking the elental soup, he asked casually, "Lou Lan, why do you want to learn weapon forging?"
Lou Lan tilted his head and thought for a while before he answered, "So I can make money. In the past, Lou Lan and Ai Hui used to forge weapons to make money."
Blind He burst into laughter. He did not remind Lou Lan that Ai Hui was so poor now that he was only left with money. The snow lava that Central Pine Valley had accumulated was like a mountain of gold now. Even when the prices of various resources had soared, Central Pine Valley was able to maintain an abundance of resources. Central Pine Valley was no longer that poor valley in the past.
"Lou Lan has to work hard then," Blind He smiled and said.
Lou Lan nodded his head forcefully and replied, "Lou Lan will definitely learn from He Wei seriously."
After drinking the delicious elental soup and hearing Lou Lan’s cheerful voice, Blind He felt that the fatigue in his body had disappeared without a trace.
When Lou Lan saw Blind He had gone into deep thought again, he did not disturb him and left silently.
Before Blind He had concluded his thought process, he discovered where his problem was: He did not abandon the usual weaponsmiths’ train of thought.
Whenever one wanted to forge a weapon, he or she would first consider the issues of how to stimulate elental energy and how to channel them. However, this train of thought was not suitable for Sword of Lightning.
The sword moves that the mbers of Sword of Lightning executed were very simple. These moves did not need to take into consideration elental energy. What did the mbers need the most? After observing them for several days, Blind He clearly knew the answer to this question. It was synchronization!
Synchronization was the key factor to Sword of Lightning’s might.
This was the biggest difference between Sword of Lightning and other combat divisions. Never before had he seen a combat division that downplayed individual capabilities and emphasized teamwork to such an extre extent.
It was a sick and extraordinary concept!
It was only right for such a sick and extraordinary combat division to have a sick and extraordinary weapon!
Blind He was overwheld with emotions.
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