As soon as the Human Emperor Banner came out, I became the Lord of the Old Ones

Chapter 52 Master

Xu Yan spoke frankly.

He explained the inside story clearly to the uncle.

The uncle suddenly realized.

Perhaps due to the assimilation of the "Bull-Head Iron Guard", his eyes were instantly bloodshot, and visible airflow spurted out of his nostrils, which had been magnified three to five times.

"I knew it!"

The uncle snatched back the seal card and said indignantly, "No wonder this place is called 'Black Heart Street'!"

Without waiting for him to turn around, Xu Yan moved as fast as lightning and copied the seal card over again.

"Blackheart Street, that's them."

Looking at the confused uncle and his coworkers, Xu Yan smiled slightly and said, "Please sit down and wait for three minutes."

"Click, click, click."

Xu Yan took out a mechanical music box from under the counter and wound the spring three times.

Inside the semi-open music box, the gears mesh precisely and rotate smoothly.

Cheerful and light music sounded.

Xu Yan stared at the music box; his gaze, breathing, and mood were as precise, stable, and calm as a clock.

The spring turned a third of a turn.

He placed the seal card into a 5% solution of blue octopus blood.

After soaking for five seconds, use tweezers to gently peel off the surface film.

As soon as the spring turned half a circle, he used a mixture of alcohol and detergent to wipe away all the remaining ink in the deep of the structure, leaving no residue even in the smallest gaps.

Although the uncle and his coworkers did not know how to make cards, they had seen card makers in action when doing maintenance at other companies.

They had never seen such gentle hands, such focused eyes.

It was as if he was not a Black Iron civilian card with the lowest maintenance level, but an artist facing a masterpiece he had created with painstaking efforts.

The clockwork turned a circle, and Xu Yan picked up the talisman pen.

His technique is very special.

A large talisman pen is held between the thumb and index finger, and a small talisman pen is held between the ring finger and little finger.

The two talisman pens fell at the same time and instantly turned into dozens of afterimages.

The brush moves like a dragon and a phoenix, deepening and broadening the dull and scattered patterns, making them extremely clear.

The uncle and his co-workers saw the smooth and flowing movements. They felt as if time had stopped and the world around them had disappeared. All they could see was the talisman array that was constantly expanding like a spider web, and their ears were filled with the rustling sound of the talisman pen engraving the patterns.

The spring turned one and a half turns.

The melody of the music box gradually became higher and higher.

Xu Yan's fingers danced lightly, and the talisman pen changed its direction from the sharp end to the hollow threaded structure, which was used to dip the talisman ink.

Five fingers stroked the strings of a musical instrument, two talisman pens danced lightly in the twenty-four-grid talisman ink box, and seven or eight kinds of talisman ink were spread over the cards, like a colorful rainbow rain.

No matter how the "raindrops" splashed, they could not escape Xu Yan's control and fell obediently into the depths of the structure, injecting abundant spiritual energy into the talisman formation.

The spring turned twice.

The uncle and his co-workers saw a flash of light and realized that the "rainbow rain" had ended without them noticing.

Talisman ink, talisman pen, brush, test tube, tweezers, all kinds of tools are put back in their places.

Only circles of colorful psychic energy ripples remained, still floating above the card for a long time.

Xu Yan placed the card that had completed maintenance into the blue octopus blood solvent.

"Ah-"

A slightly fishy and sweet aroma wafted through the air.

He fished out the card and put the sealing film back on after it had regained its elasticity and luster.

The spring turned two and a half revolutions.

Xu Yan withdrew his hand, closed his eyes, and shook his head slightly to the rhythm of the music box.

"Small……"

The uncle thought about it and changed the address, "Master?"

"Wait another half minute."

Xu Yan said calmly, "I like this song." The spring turned three full circles.

The gears in the music box stopped turning.

The last note was like a smoke ring, dissipating in the air.

Xu Yan breathed a sigh of relief, and held the brand new seal card in front of the uncle.

"Is this my 'Minnaruto Guard'?"

The uncle couldn't believe his eyes.

Even the workers behind him were blinded by the dazzling light emitted by the black iron card and blinked repeatedly.

"Give it a try."

Xu Yan smiled.

The uncle took a deep breath, inserted the card back into the card reader, tensed his muscles, and punched hard.

The translucent energy body with a bull head and a human body appeared behind him again.

It is larger and clearer, and the details including the hair are extremely vivid.

But he didn't look angry and out of control at any time.

Instead, it looks calm and loyally waits for its master's orders.

"My strength seems to have grown!"

The uncle felt the surging power in his body, surging like a wave.

His nostrils were no longer flared, and the bloodshot in his eyes was much less. He seemed to have suddenly become ten years younger, full of energy and effortless. "My joints don't hurt anymore, and I'm not as irritated anymore!"

"Brother Wang, try it with me!"

The co-worker next to him, who was even more muscular than the uncle, stretched out his big hands covered with calluses and as big as a palm-leaf fan.

A guardian spirit in the shape of a hippopotamus emerged behind him, which was even larger than the "Bull-Headed Iron Guard".

The uncle squeezed lightly without exerting much strength, and the "Bull-Head Iron Guard" didn't even open his eyes.

Then I heard the "crackling" sound of bones moving.

The burly worker blushed and begged for mercy.

The guardian spirits in hippopotamus form were all grimacing, as if they were being crushed by an elephant.

"It's really gotten stronger, even stronger than when I first opened the card!"

The burly worker bared his teeth and looked at Xu Yan with shining eyes. "Master, how about you fix my cards too?"

"can."

Xu Yan took out the price list and said, "We are an old shop that has just opened, so we are offering discounts. If there are a lot of you, I suggest you do a group purchase. If you think the craftsmanship is okay, you can become a member and enjoy extra discounts!"

“The price is really affordable.”

The uncle and his coworkers nodded repeatedly, "However, members..."

"Three months is enough. I don't know how long I can stay in Rolling Stone Castle."

Xu Yan said, "Three months, twenty passes. I recognize the card, not the person. I'll teach you some maintenance tips. After all, it's just a black iron card used under normal working conditions, so maintenance is not complicated. When the time comes, you can go to the vegetable market to buy some raw materials and maintain it yourself on the construction site."

"Wet market?"

The uncle and his coworkers looked at each other.

"Of course, the chicken feathers, duck blood, live fish and shrimp in the market are all alive and kicking. They are bought and killed right away. They are so fresh that even their souls are still in them. They are perfect for basic maintenance."

Xu Yan said, "It's not easy for you to earn your hard-earned money. There's no need to use extraordinary materials to maintain a mere Black Iron Card."

The uncle and his coworkers nodded repeatedly.

We jointly applied for a membership card.

He also called on his friends and helped Xu Yan attract seven or eight new customers.

By the time everyone's seal cards were brand new and they left with profuse gratitude, it was already noon.

Xu Yan's stomach growled and he suddenly smelled the fragrance of rice.

"Uncle Li!"

Looking at the old man carrying a lunch box at the door, Xu Yan grinned.

(End of this chapter)