The weapon refiner is not doing her job properly

Chapter 98 Marrow Cleansing
Su Ninglong is too idle. Is there anyone who can keep her in check?

Thinking of this, he glanced around the yard but didn't see Xingyuan. Wouldn't Xingyuan be worried?
Xingyuan was indeed having a headache at this moment, as he was busy dealing with Assistant Liang.

Unlike Assistant Yu, who was easy to talk to, Assistant Liang was more assertive and efficient, and her words always seemed to exert pressure.

They openly and secretly hoped that Suninglong could increase production; if that didn't work, they would take on apprentices.

In just two hours, Assistant Liang was bombarded by hundreds of old friends (hunters).

She had foreseen that this task would be a hot potato when she first accepted it.

However, in order to leverage this opportunity to enhance their company's reputation, they ultimately gritted their teeth and accepted this tricky deal.

"Didn't Teacher Yun tell you that Su Ninglong's ability to create sacred artifacts stems from her special ability?" Xingyuan explained to Assistant Liang for the third time. "Pushing her won't help. It depends on whether that girl is willing or not. I won't force her in the slightest."

Assistant Liang clenched his teeth, wishing he could drag Yun Fei to his side and strangle him.

He made no mention of the low production of sacred artifacts, let alone the risk of "no successors."

Now, not only is Assistant Liang irritable, but Xingyuan is also feeling a bit down.

He pinched the bridge of his nose. According to Su Ninglong herself, her divine sense was injured, meaning her soul had a crack, and she could not frequently refine weapons.

But why did Suninglong sell the sacred artifact at this time?
Su Ninglong certainly had her own ideas. Scarcity increases value, and a keen hunter would definitely come looking for her during this period.

Hunters who believe she is capable must be insightful, knowledgeable, and intelligent, and they must also have plenty of money.

Su Ninglong can't work under Principal Yan and Yun Fei's protection forever; putting all her eggs in one basket is too risky.

Of course, she couldn't just abandon her clients after using them.

When customers come to her directly and then pay through Yunfei, it's a different story. It may seem like there's an extra layer of procedures, but in reality, the customer is hers, and such customers are often more discreet.

Loyal customers have more potential than casual customers and are also key personnel for her to expand the scope of her "experiment".

The reason all of this was accelerated was that she saw the most mysterious aspect of the Mystic Spirits—the Dominator, a creature whose strength surpassed that of a Mahayana-stage ancestor.

Therefore, Suninglong decisively changed its future plans.

After drinking a bowl of medicine, Su Ninglong felt that the repair of her consciousness was accelerating, and she was moving from a snail to a tortoise taking strides.

She sat down to meditate and began her practice, her breath flowing naturally.

The sparse spiritual energy around her gradually became active, entering her meridians and merging with the spiritual energy in her dantian.

Lei Qingya was in much more pain; at this moment, she was enduring the torment of both ice and fire.

At first, the medicinal bath soothed her muscles and bones, and she felt as if she were soaking in a hot spring.

Within ten minutes, the drug began to take effect, and a dense, stinging pain, like thousands of ants gnawing at my bones, burrowed into my bone marrow through my pores.

"Ning... Ning Long, I feel something's wrong with my whole body, like something is eating my flesh and blood, is this normal?"

Su Ninglong remained seated cross-legged in the chair, her eyes closed, her eyelashes not trembling at all.

“Raise your hand and smell your wrist pulse. Is there any dirt or foul smell?”

Lei Qingya sniffed her hand suspiciously. It was like a septic tank exploding; she was choked and crawled to the edge of the bucket to vomit. Brown medicine dripped down her feverish body, forming strings of beads.

"Why does it smell so bad?"

"When the water in the medicine tub turns black, the first bath is complete. You must continue to bathe every day afterward. Only when your body no longer has this smell will your bath be considered successful. Once successful, you will have a high chance of becoming a special ability user." Su Ninglong suspected that the interstellar people's inability to cultivate like her might be due to the influence of their divine sense.

For some reason, their perception of divine sense is negligible. However, cultivation techniques require the perception of divine sense and constant refinement of it; otherwise, there will be significant drawbacks when advancing in cultivation.

The medicinal herbs not only cleanse Lei Qingya's body and marrow, but also enhance his spiritual strength and presence.

Every minute Lei Qingya spent immersed in the water was accumulating data for the experiment. If she couldn't even master the most basic cultivation techniques, the weapon-refining tradition of this world might truly be cut off in her hands.

Su Ninglong's persuasion roused Lei Qingya, "I can persevere." She gritted her teeth and immersed herself in the pungent medicinal bath once again.

Lei Qingya herself was unaware that a mist had been blown away from the place in her chaotic sea of ​​consciousness where the mark had been imprinted, quietly awaiting her transformation.

Half an hour later, the medicine turned black. Lei Qingya got out of the medicinal bath, her bones cracking. She clenched her fists, feeling as comfortable as she had just been in pain.

Su Ninglong was right; if she just endured it, her body would visibly feel much lighter.

She went to change her clothes, then carried the sleeping Su Ninglong to the workroom and handed her over to Xingyuan.

From then on, Lei Qingya spent every day in a miserable bath, experiencing a rollercoaster of sensations between hell and heaven.

Su Ninglong was also drinking bitter Chinese medicine, three doses a day. If it weren't for the star coins she earned from selling sacred artifacts, she would have become a penniless pauper again.

During this period, Su Ninglong did not engage in weapon forging. She spent all her spare time studying and creating impractical robots.

The adjective "not very practical" is actually an overstatement of the robots produced by Su Laozu.

These robots exhibit a wide range of bizarre and inexplicable abilities (and flaws).

One of the robots, for some reason, had a particular fondness for sheep dung. It rushed into the sheep pen, carried out the dung, and threw it at other passing robots.

It fell apart on the spot afterwards, leaving the intelligent robot with no way to complain.

Two other robots were practicing spinning in place, and sparks flew up after a while, igniting the pile of cardboard that had just been prepared for disposal at the entrance.

After Su Ninglong re-entered the new code, the alarms suddenly went off when people passed by, startling passersby and even causing children to cry for their mothers.

"Ning Long, are you too idle?" Yang Zhu has been reported more than once for strange noises in the yard. The information department has also complained to Principal Yan. Although they don't know who the culprit is, they hope that the principal can teach the troublemaker a lesson.

Su Ninglong was innocent. Since there were always some malicious prying eyes around her, and she wasn't good at weapon crafting, she naturally practiced what she was least skilled at.

Today is the tenth day since the sale of the sacred artifact. Many of the covetous eyes have disappeared, and she plans to play with it for a while longer.

"If I don't test robots here, where else can I test them?"

Yang Zhu pointed in the direction of the executive department, "There's a rocky beach and a stream behind the school. You can go there and do whatever you want."

Su Ninglong's eyes lit up; she had been looking for an excuse to go out and have fun.

"But I don't have permission to leave the school." A few days ago, I wanted to go fishing, but I was stopped by the police.

Yang Zhu patted his belly and said, "This is easy to solve, I'll help you."

Two hunter friends asked him for a favor, which he had refused many times, but they finally agreed to help him find a lead dog later.

This is truly an irresistible temptation.

The weather was perfect. Su Ninglong, carrying a small bamboo basket and holding her magical fishing rod, pulled a cart and happily went to the back door, with Yang Zhu and Xing Yuan following behind her.

At the back gate of the campus, they happened to "run into" two fishing enthusiasts, Zhao Piku and Tong Zi. They were fully equipped, using the smallest fishing lines and rods available.

One can imagine how tiny the fish would be in the stream within the rocky beach area.

"Little guy, are you going fishing too?"

"correct."

"Let's go together." Su Ninglong quickly walked out the back door, followed by Zhao Piku and Tong Zi. Along with Xing Yuan, Yang Zhu, and Qi Rui, this combination was enough to sway even an entire battalion of enemies.

Seeing this, the Star Police officer at the back door did not stop them anymore.

Upon reaching the rocky beach, Su Ninglong handed the fishing rod to Lei Qingya, while she placed her robots on the ground, letting them bounce around like madmen.

She happily squatted down and picked up pebbles.

The little girl's radiant smile touched Tong Zi. "Want me to help you pick it up?"

"Yes, I want this kind of stone. Pure color, flawless like white jade." It was the quasi-spirit stone she had seen before, except that the stones here stored more spiritual energy than before. Perhaps in a few hundred years, this place might really become a spirit vein.

The Star Alliance truly is a blessed land.

The vast, rocky beach was dotted with countless quasi-spirit stones, all free, which made Su Ninglong picky.

I picked up a piece, about the size of my thumb, with small specks of color on one end. It lacked spiritual energy, so I tossed it aside.

It's about the size of a fist, with no blemishes, and a slight coolness seeps into my fingertips. Not bad, I'll take it.

After observing for a while, Tong Zi figured out what she was probably looking for, so she started to help.

She picked more carefully, so Su Ninglong didn't need to pick again. She dumped everything into the cart, searched one area, and then moved to another.

There was no one around, the view was wide open, and no birds were circling overhead.

Tong Zi finally couldn't help but ask, "Ning Long, what do you think of the earrings that have been sold recently at the Star Alliance camp?"

"I think it looks great." Su Ninglong was very confident in her aesthetic sense.

"I heard that the manufacturing requirements are very high, and we don't know where the source is. Yunfei and Principal Yan are bothered by this all the time, and they've even gotten a few more gray hairs."

"Of course, with great power comes great responsibility." Su Ninglong pretended to be naive, and after almost filling the cart, Tong Zi opened her palm and placed a beautiful, lustrous stone in her hand.

There is a line of text below the stone.

"Five pairs, 150,000 star coins per pair." Tong Zi stated almost bluntly that she wanted to buy earrings, and the price was increased fivefold.

The Star Alliance camps are often sold at prices lower than the market price. Tong Zi knew that buying at the original price was impossible, so he could only try to buy at a higher price.

Su Ninglong picked up the stone from her palm. "Sister, you mustn't tell anyone else that I picked up the stone. I don't want anyone to take the stone from me."

"If you like, I can help you pick them up again."

"Come with me next week to pick up the rubble and find Teacher Yun."

Tong Zi looked at the little girl's profile; she was round and chubby, like a mochi, and quite pleasing to the eye.

With the deal settled, Su Ninglong was in a very good mood. As expected of a three-star hunter, efficient and with top-notch comprehension skills.

Truckload after truckload of stones were moved back to the workshop, and mountains of white stones piled up in front of the door.

Yang Zhu rubbed his aching back, somewhat regretting agreeing to his friend's request.

With the navigator nowhere to be seen, they started tormenting him relentlessly, making him a free laborer for Suninglong.

"I'm so tired, Xiao Ninglong, can you please behave for a few days?"

“Haven’t you heard?” Su Ninglong said matter-of-factly, “When a child is quiet, they must be up to no good. If I’m clearly going to work, they won’t cause any trouble.”

The foreign teacher chuckled, his tall shadow looming over the little guy, and warned, "Don't make any more noise. If I receive any complaints from anyone, I'll confiscate your robot."

Su Ninglong pouted, "I won't be tinkering with robots or messing with rocks these past two days, okay?"

I really want to say it's not quite possible.

But can the worst-case scenario be any worse than before?
Yang Zhu had no choice but to let Su Ninglong play again.

In the days that followed, Su Ninglong indeed stopped messing with robots and started playing with stones instead.

Every day when I close the workshop door and open it again, a pile of stone dust comes out.

To be more environmentally friendly, Xingyuan and Lei Qingya filled a mold with stone powder, mixed in water and a little cement, added bark to create texture, and then laid it on the grass after it solidified.

There was originally no path on the grassland leading from the studio to the ranch, but thanks to the efforts of Su Ninglong and the other two, a stone path was created.

After finishing his work, Lei Qingya would go to the warehouse to record the materials every day, organize the material list, and replenish them before they ran out.

Three days later, Su Ninglong successfully obtained a bracelet made of colored gemstones.

She tossed it up and caught it again. It was a high-grade artificial spirit stone that could store spiritual energy. Its mottled colors were a sign that it lacked spiritual energy.

Unfortunately, it can only be considered a semi-finished product. It can only store spiritual power ten times before it becomes useless.

If she has reached the Foundation Establishment stage, this bracelet can become a top-tier spirit stone, which can be reused multiple times.

In order to be filled with spiritual power, she must eliminate the secret spirit in reality, and she must complete this within a month. Otherwise, given Lei Qingya's current progress in preparing the medicine, the first stage will soon come to an end.

Taking orders privately is too dangerous. "Xingyuan, ask Yunfei for me if he can help me enter the contaminated area to eliminate the secret spirit. Just say I need to test the new sacred artifact. I also have thirty pairs of earrings that I can give to him. You can use your skills to negotiate with him."

"Aren't you still not ready?"

"It's not fully healed yet, but I can't let it delay my sacred artifact experiment. This experiment is related to increasing the chances of ordinary people gaining special abilities."

A quarter of the betting time has already passed; if she doesn't act soon, she's likely to lose.

She couldn't possibly bring Charlie into the simulator, could she? That guy wouldn't last five minutes.

Xingyuan straightened up: "Someone like me can obtain it?"

"I don't know. So I need to enter the contaminated zone and eliminate the Mystic Spirits once. I don't need to do it myself; I just need to have a Mystic Spirit die in front of me."

A strange request.

Xingyuan considered for a moment, then said, "Okay, I'll ask for you." He then asked Assistant Yu if Yun Fei was available.

Assistant Yu: [Is there something you need?]

Xingyuan: [My little darling wants to enter the contaminated area.]

"Pfft!" The latte that Assistant Yu was talking about sprayed two meters away. Assistant Liang glanced at him and said, "Watch your mouth."

"Feel sorry."

Assistant Yu: [Why is your little darling coming to my boss if she wants to enter the contaminated area?]

Xingyuan: [Alternatively, you could summon a secret spirit and destroy it in front of her.]

Assistant Yu: [No, what is Su Ninglong trying to do?]

Xingyuan: [Ten pairs.]

Ten pairs? Assistant Yu thought for a moment, ten pairs of earrings.

[As long as the spirit is destroyed in front of her, it's fine, right?] Assistant Yu precisely extracted the information.