Douluo: Starting from the Nine-Curved Vine Dragon

Chapter 35 Return
In the past two years, the two of them have been wandering around the streets and alleys of Gengxin City every day.

Of the three things that the Duke asked them to find, so far they have only found the yellowish, turbid crystal.

It was one month after the two of them had arrived in Gengxin City. They were wandering in an inconspicuous street and bought this item from a vendor for only five copper soul coins.

I thought I would find one of the three things I was looking for in just one month.

The remaining two items are still in the hands of the same vendor, and it won’t take long to complete the task assigned to them by the Duke.

However, it turned out that they had thought things were too simple.

Gengxin City is the metal capital. It doesn’t have much else but plenty of metal.

All the big and small merchants who sell metal in Gengxin City have huge stocks of metal in their hands.

Even those mobile vendors have a lot of scrap metal in their hands, and the items displayed on the stalls change almost every day.

This situation caused great trouble to their search mission.

They are not big customers who purchase metals in large quantities and cannot let the vendors put all their stocks in front of them for them to choose from.

What's more, if the remaining two items were in the hands of mobile vendors, they would go to great lengths to force them to take out all the scrap metal in their hands so that they could choose.

It would be okay if it was just one or two vendors, and they could still fool the idiots, but with so many vendors in Gengxin City, if they all did the same thing, everyone would know that there was something wrong with them.

Therefore, the two of them could only wander the streets and alleys of Gengxin City every day to try their luck.

I never thought that two years would pass after this stroke of luck.

In the east of Gengxin City, there is an old tavern.

The two brothers, Lao Wang and Lao Li, drank strong liquor and took a short rest.

"We haven't found the alley in the north of the city yet. Let's go check it out after we finish this bottle of wine!"

"Yes, it rained a little yesterday and there was a rainbow this morning. I hope I will have good luck!"

……

A month later.

Tiandou City, Duke Lin’s Mansion.

"So, when you two left Gengxin City, Tang San and his group were still there."

"Your Excellency the Duke, the carriage of the Nali Clan has been parked at the Blacksmith Guild until we found the three items and were ready to leave. It has not moved."

Listening to the answers of the two secret guards, Lin Rong leaned back in the armchair, pondering the intention of Tang San's action.

Tang San went to Gengxin City for only two things: purchasing metals and subduing Lou Gao.

Why not go earlier or later, but choose to go a few months before the four single-attribute clans are about to gather.

It seems that Tang San has great ambitions on this trip!

Facing the other three of the four clans with single attributes, Tang San is unable to "convince them with reason", so is he planning to "convince them with force"?

Among the Tang Sect's hidden weapons, only three can do this: Buddha's Wrath Lotus, Torrential Pear Blossom Needle, and Peacock Feather.

In the world today, the only people who have the ability to forge deep-sea silver are Tang Chen, Tang Xiao, and Tang Hao.

Now, Tang Chen is sinking in the City of Slaughter, Tang Xiao is hiding in the Haotian Sect, and Tang Hao is injured again.

Well, among the three hidden weapons, the Rain of Pear Blossom Needles can be directly ruled out.

There are only two hidden weapons left, one is the Buddha's Wrath Lotus and the other is the Peacock Feather.

Tang San had the experience of successfully making the former in his previous life, but not the latter. Anyone with a normal brain would choose the former.

"So, Tang San is planning to work overtime to create the Buddha's Wrath Tang Lotus before the four single-attribute clans gather?"

"But will we make it in time?" "Four months. Just rushing back from Gengxin City will take at least a month."

"Wanting to create the Buddha's Wrath Lotus within three months, is Tang San too confident in himself, or is he too trusting in Lou Gao?"

From the perspective of his own interests, Lin Rong does not want Tang San to obtain a weapon as powerful as the Buddha's Wrath Tanglian so early.

That's why Lin Rong sent people in advance to get the three things that Ning Rongrong discovered in the original book.

Without the hundreds of kilograms of cold iron essence, with the limited stock in Gengxin City, the Buddha's Wrath Tanglian could only produce one or two at most.

And Tang San will definitely use one of them to intimidate the other three of the four single-attribute clans, so that there will be only one Buddha's Wrath Tanglian left at most, or even none left.

As for the Rain of Pear Blossom Needles, there was no need to even think about it, as there was no gift of the Cold Heart Iron Essence.

The only place Tang San wanted to get deep-sea sunken silver was the Sea God Island, where the "Tidal Body Refining" was tested.

Lin Rong didn't believe that in the original novel, Tang San had no idea about those deep-sea silver pillars.

The fact that the Torrential Pear Blossom Needles require the maker to sacrifice his own life to temper them was something Tang San learned only after Lou Gao's death.

Before that, Tang San must have hoped that he could make the Torrential Pear Blossom Needle by himself.

But Tang San, the descendant of the Sea God, didn't get even a bit of deep-sea silver from Poseidon.

Not to mention the current Tang San, who doesn’t even know what Sea God Island is.

Only the Peacock Feather was left, which Tang San had no experience in making.

If Lou Gao relied on his own research without Tang Xiao's assistance, it would take at least several years to make the Peacock Feather.

With a few years of buffer time, even if the Peacock Feather is successfully produced, it will be within the controllable range.

"Okay, I already know about this."

"You two did a great job on this mission. Go down and claim your reward!"

Lin Rong waved his hand to let the two secret guards go away, and turned his attention back to the four things in front of him.

First, there are two pieces of cloudy crystal the size of a human head.

One was bought by the secret guard from Flanders for two hundred gold soul coins, and the other was bought by the secret guard from a vendor in Gengxin City for five copper soul coins.

The volume of the two plate crystals is not much different.

In the original novel, Tang San was able to extract more than 20,000 dragon whisker needles from Flanders' plate crystal.

Now, Lin Rong has two plate crystals and hair crystals in his hands, which means he has more than 40,000 dragon beard needles at least.

The dragon beard needle is as thin as a hair and about three inches long.

It ranks eighth among the 100 hidden weapon solutions in Xuantian Baolu.

The stronger the user's own soul power, the more powerful the dragon beard needle will be.

Lin Rong naturally wanted to keep this good thing for himself.

Although his accuracy is definitely not as good as Tang San who has been practicing hidden weapons since childhood, but as long as the number of dragon beard needles is sufficient, why bother about the accuracy!

Then, Lin Rong turned his gaze to the Hanxin Iron Essence and Deep Sea Silver.

These two things are completely useless to him, but to Tang San they are rare treasures in the world.

Therefore, when necessary, they could use Tang San's desire for these two things to achieve the effect of forcing Tang San to have the ore.

As for whether Tang San would include himself in the list of those who "are destined to die", Lin Rong didn't care.

If you want to take his life, it depends on whether Tang San has the ability to take his life.

(End of this chapter)