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"This……"

She opened her mouth, looked at Yu Qi's determined expression, sighed, and stopped trying to persuade him.

Chapter 4 Yu Qi and Forging on a Whim (k)

Looking at the expressions of Bai Zhu and Xiang Ling, Yu Qi naturally understood their thoughts. They just thought that they were daydreaming and whatever they thought was wrong, but he didn't care much.

After all, he naturally understood that Xiangling and the others were really thinking about him.

Indeed, every industry has its own market conditions. As a country that excels in minerals, Liyue's weapon forging industry is second to none among the seven countries, and the market structure has been stable for thousands of years.

Unless a fierce dragon really comes out, wins by quality, and beats the Black Rock Factory and a number of old blacksmith shops with unparalleled craftsmanship, otherwise, it would be extremely difficult to get involved and successfully establish yourself.

But the key is...

"I think you don't know that my craftsmanship is very poor!" Yu Qi muttered to himself, shook his head, and did not say anything more about this matter. Let the facts prove everything.

They continued chatting happily like this. After lunch, Yu Qi took a rest on a stone nearby. He looked at Bai Zhu who was busy organizing his notes, and then looked at Xiang Ling who was busy playing with the set of kitchen utensils that she had exchanged with him. For a moment, he felt a little bored.

I don’t know if it’s because I slept too much in the past two days, but Yu Qi felt his body a little stiff after just lying down for a while. Plus he was really bored, so he couldn’t help but want to stand up and move around, and take a look at the surrounding scenery.

"Tsk, I am such a loser. I was exhausted from walking before, but now that I finally get a rest, I find it uncomfortable to lie down..."

Muttering softly, Yu Qi raised his head and looked around, his gaze quickly locked onto a gentle slope not far away, which extended beyond the cliff and looked like a protruding brim of a hat.

The green grass is dotted with various red, blue, purple and yellow flowers. On the top of the slope grows a lush fruit tree. Under the slanted crown of the tree lies a square stone. It looks like a man-made viewing point, which perfectly fits Yu Qi's idea.

He walked towards that direction. After taking two steps, Xiangling seemed to notice Yu Qi's movements and looked up at him curiously: "Mr. Yu Qi, what are you doing?"

"Oh, I'm just a little bored and can't sleep, so I thought I'd go sit over there and take in the scenery."

Looking in the direction of Yu Qi's finger, apart from the possible danger of being close to the edge of the cliff, there were no other dangers such as monsters.

Moreover, that place was not far from here. Even if there was any danger, she would definitely be able to react and take action. Therefore, Xiangling did not think much about it and nodded, "Oh, then Mr. Yu Qi, please be careful and safe."

"Okay, I'll pay attention."

Nodding, Yu Qi strolled up the slope, stretched his body a little under the tree, and then sat down on a stone lazily.

Looking into the distance, a gray land appeared before our eyes. From afar, we could see lush trees at the foot of the mountain, and even vaguely saw giant Hilichurls wandering around. The smaller ones were pitch black and held rock shields, while the larger ones were gray, with groups of shorter Hilichurls beside them.

According to Xiangling's description, those should be Hilichul thugs, and the larger one is the Hilichul Rockhelm King, which are all relatively elite monsters.

Looking at the Hilichurls from a distance of several kilometers, Yu Qi found it hard to imagine that a monster as huge as the Hilichurl King was actually the same creature as the short Hilichurls around him.

"Tsk, but that's right. In a fantasy worldview, there seem to be quite a lot of settings where monsters' forms change dramatically after evolving." With his arms on his knees, Yu Qi supported his chin, his eyes wandering aimlessly in the mountains and forests. Looking at the vast world, he seemed to feel that his body and mind could not help but relax a lot.

I don’t know how long it took, maybe ten minutes, maybe half an hour, a mountain breeze blew, and Yu Qi suddenly woke up from his daze for some reason, his eyes shook, and it took him a moment to come back to his senses.

"Hmm~" He rubbed his knee which was numb from being pressed by his elbow uncomfortably. His eyes accidentally swept across the stone under him, and then paused slightly.

"Huh? What is this?" Looking at the two strange things, one black and one white, growing next to the stone with some surprise, Yu Qi reached out his hand tentatively to touch them. The cold touch made him slightly stunned.

After hesitating and touching them a few more times, Yu Qi quickly recognized the true nature of the two objects - iron blocks!

Honestly speaking, considering that Liyue has many mines as we have repeatedly emphasized before, the unexpected discovery of some scattered open-pit iron ore is not something surprising. Of course, Yu Qi was not surprised either, he was just a little curious.

He had seen many iron products in his daily life, but this kind of raw iron ore was the first time he had seen it. Combined with his thoughts during the previous meal, Yu Qi gradually showed a thoughtful expression on his face.

"Well, it's not impossible to give it a try!" Yu Qi murmured, stretched out his hand to grasp the edge of the iron ore, shook it tentatively, and wanted to break it off the stone.

Unfortunately, it was impossible for him to do that with his strength, and the iron ore growing out of the stone did not move at all.

A gust of cold wind blew by, and Yu Qi silently withdrew his hand, but there was no sign of disappointment on his face, because he still had a trick up his sleeve.

"Two-star card: Steel Scale."

With a casual flip of his hand, a crescent-shaped dark black 'scale' the size of an ordinary person's arm appeared in his hand. He tentatively pinched the 'scale', and the hard feel made Yu Qi nod with satisfaction.

Then, he raised his arm high and swung it down hard towards the edge of the stone.

"Bang!" A muffled sound was heard. Xiangling and Bai Zhu in the distance raised their heads instantly and looked at Yu Qi at the same time, and saw him picking up the rubble from the ground.

Although they were a little confused, they felt relieved when they found that Yu Qi was not in danger and went back to their own work.

On the other side, Yu Qi put away the Steel Scale and rubbed his numb palm. He was quite satisfied with its hardness, but he couldn't help but complain: "Are you sure you can eat this? It's so hard that if you really take a bite, I'm afraid your jawbone will be cracked."

As he spoke, he reached out to pick up the iron ore that had fallen on the ground. After weighing it for a while, Yu Qi put away the silvery-white iron ore, took the dark black iron ore, stood up and walked back to the temporary camp.

She looked up at Yu Qi curiously, her eyes lingering on the iron ore in his hand for a moment. When she saw him walk to Guoba and mutter something, Xiangling could no longer hold back her doubts and asked, "Mr. Yu Qi, you, this is..."

"Oh, I suddenly had the idea of ​​making something, so I asked Guoba for a favor." Yu Qi said casually after weighing the heavy iron ore.

"Oh."

Nodding in confusion, Xiangling continued to study the kitchen utensils, but this time her attention was not as focused as before. She raised her head from time to time and secretly glanced at Yu Qi to see what he was doing.

After discussing with Guoba and successfully convincing him to help with the last bucket of rice porridge, Yu Qi decisively started to get busy.

With quick movements he built a crude stove out of stones, stuffed the iron ore into it, and then asked Guoba to stand by and breathe flames into the stove.

The blazing flames continued to burn the ore, and soon the originally dark iron ore was dyed with a scorching red light.

Seeing this, Yu Qi nodded with satisfaction. This was probably one of the advantages of the fantasy world. If you wanted to smelt iron, you didn't need to build a blast furnace. You could just burn the fire element and it would be done.

Not to mention heating the iron to a red heat, even melting the iron ore completely would not be a difficult task for Guoba.

As the ore gradually melted, Yu Qi saw that it was almost done. Just as he was about to nod at Guoba to signal him that he could stop, he suddenly thought of something.

He stood up and poured himself a glass of water, then took out a jade bottle that looked heavy and poured a drop of bright yellow viscous liquid into the glass. In an instant, a strong and layered aroma spread out, mixed with visible spiritual energy. Upon careful identification, there were actually hundreds of floral scents.

"Two-star card: Honey of flowers".

This made Bai Zhu, Changsheng and Xiangling, who followed him out of curiosity about what he was doing, couldn't help but look sideways and look at the honey water in Yu Qi's hand in surprise.

After looking at the honey in his hand with satisfaction and seeing Guoba looking at him greedily, Yu Qi couldn't help but smile and added another cup for him. Then he poured a cup of honey water for Baizhu, Changsheng and Xiangling respectively - a little bit wouldn't make a difference anyway.

Even though the bottle of flower honey looks small, its actual capacity is not much smaller than a water tank. After all, it is something from the world of immortal cultivation and should not be underestimated.

Holding the honey water, Yu Qi nodded at the rice crust, signaling him to stop, and at the moment the flame went out, he suddenly opened his palm and grabbed the molten iron in the temporary furnace!

"Boom~bang!" A purple light flashed, and the remaining fire elemental power and the lightning elemental power at Yu Qi's fingertips collided and reacted with each other. The explosion caused by the overload reaction instantly blew the makeshift stove to pieces.

Without waiting for Xiangling and Bai Zhu to exclaim, Yu Qi decisively stepped back, avoiding the suddenly hot stones that were collapsing and scattering. Lightning flashed on his palm, and a ball of fiery red magma was suspended above the lightning, flowing slightly and emitting a scorching temperature.

"Tsk, isn't this a bit unreasonable?!" With a twitch of the corner of his mouth, Yu Qi glanced at the purple ball that he secretly hung around his neck, and secretly complained in his heart: "Although I have understood the generation principle of physical phenomena such as electromagnetism, I have returned that knowledge to the teacher a long time ago; but now I just thought about it in my head and I really rubbed out a strong magnetic field with my bare hands?

Isn't this a bit... too idealistic?"

Although he had made use of the power of the 'Three-Star Card·Heart of Thunder Wolf', it had to be said that Yu Qi was still surprised to be able to achieve this.

This can be considered as a rough application of the power of cards that Yu Qi obtained after a little research.

In addition to being food, many of the things he drew, especially the three-star cards, contained extremely powerful and special powers. Perhaps because of his ownership of the cards, after a little research on Yu Qi, he found a way to utilize this power.

Although the method is crude and the energy utilization rate is low.

Ignoring the shocked looks of the two people and two beasts beside him, Yu Qi picked up the honey water and drank it in one gulp. After throwing the cup away, he moved his hand and the strong magnetic field generated by the element of thunder changed rapidly with his thoughts.

The deep red molten iron was wrapped in the magnetic field and kept changing its shape as Yu Qi controlled it. Soon, a long liquid iron bar appeared in front of them.

After waiting for the molten iron to cool down, Yu Qi kept one hand raised, manipulating the magnetic field to stabilize the iron bar.

Feeling the elemental power in his body being constantly consumed and restored, he took a deep breath, then raised his other hand with his fingers together. A faint flash of lightning flickered at his fingertips, and then countless sparks appeared on the iron sheet. Fine lines that were completely indistinguishable to the naked eye continued to appear on the iron bar as Yu Qi's fingertips moved.

Sweat was dripping down his forehead. Since it was his first time trying forging, Yu Qi didn't dare to be distracted at all. He focused on etching the circuit on the iron sheet with the power of lightning element.

Yes, circuits!

Although he didn't know the principles, the knowledge in his mind told him that if he wanted to create equipment that could be used by ships, he had to etch into it circuits that looked more fancy than magic circles and seemed to have no effect no matter how he looked at them.

Such knowledge made Yu Qi unable to help but complain in his heart: "If you want to be an idealist, just stick to idealism. Why do you insist on relying on technology... Is it really magic technology?"

Complaints aside, when it came to the actual practice, Yu Qi did not dare to be careless and patiently used the power of lightning to engrave circuits on the surface of the iron bar.

Fortunately, I don't know if it was the experience of controlling the thunder element inherited from Fushe in my mind that came into play, or the effect of the 'Heart of the Thunder Wolf' hanging on my body, or maybe Yu Qi's talent was really good.

Although it was only the first time for Yu Qi to control the element of lightning, he completed such extreme micro-manipulation in a nearly perfect state. It took him a full half an hour to successfully complete the etching of the circuit.

"Hu~" Yu Qi put down his hand with a pale face, shook the wet hair on his forehead, exhaled, moved his hand again, and squeezed out a trace of spirit from his exhausted mind, controlling the magnetic field to heat the iron bar again, and then shaping it into the shape of a long sword.

He did not care whether such behavior would destroy the circuit he had just etched, because according to the knowledge he had gained, as long as the circuit was etched, it would be effective, and no matter how it was operated later, as long as the object was not completely destroyed, it would not fail.

With a clang, the hot iron sword fell to the ground, and Yu Qi sat down on a stone beside him, looking at his debut work at his feet, his face full of joy.

"Mr. Yu Qi, this is..." Xiang Ling, who had watched the entire process with bated breath, did not dare to ask until this moment.

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Chapter 4 Yu Qi and Hen N Shin N (k)

Looking curiously at the sword that seemed to be still steaming on the ground, Xiangling looked up at Yu Qi and couldn't help asking, "Is this Mr. Yu Qi? Are you going to sell weapons?"

"What an outrageous way of making it!" Changsheng muttered softly, raised his tail and scratched his scalp, feeling his head itchy for the first time.

Honestly, it has never seen a mortal forge such an outrageous method. Do you think that this is something that an ordinary person who was bedridden due to the erosion of elemental power two days ago can do? Bullshit!

It would be better to say that this was forged by a thunder elemental demon god - it would be more reasonable if this were the case!

"I guess so." After taking a deep breath, Yu Qi poured himself a cup of honey water, took out some coffee candy, chewed it slowly and said, "It was just a whim. I saw two pieces of iron ore, so I thought of forging a weapon to try my hand."

"Is that so~" Xiang Ling nodded in confusion. Although she didn't quite understand Yu Qi's previous forging performance, as a chef who traveled through mountains and rivers and often had to fight monsters, she actually had some understanding of weapons.

If nothing else, at least she can tell whether it is useful or not.

Although the long sword forged by Yu Qi cannot be picked up for a closer look now, it is still qualified in terms of texture and appearance, and can at least be considered a weapon of exquisite grade.

As for whether it can reach the rare level, it depends on many attributes such as the strength of the sword body, the toughness and sharpness of the blade, etc.

These will have to wait to be tested.

Unlike Xiangling who was concerned about the quality of the weapon, Bai Shu was concerned about other things, such as...

"Mr. Yu Qi, it seems that your craftsmanship is indeed good enough to make a living in Liyue Harbor. However, if every forging is like today, it seems that you are not making enough money to cover the expenses?!"

Glancing at the honey water in Yu Qi's cup, and then at the bag of coffee candies beside him, Bai Shu said meaningfully, "Such a sword would only cost a few thousand (exquisite) to tens of thousands (rare) Mora in Liyue Harbor, but the things you consumed to replenish your physical strength and elemental power are worth far more than what you gained!"

This is just an implicit statement. If a doctor with a bad temper were here, he would definitely scold Yu Qi on the spot for wasting food.

After all, whether it is flower honey or coffee gummies, they are both considered "magic medicine" in their eyes.

Especially the honey of various flowers. The "vitality" contained in one drop is comparable to the "vitality" content in dozens of tangerines. Coffee gummies are slightly inferior, but because of their special ability to replenish mental strength, they can be sold for nearly a thousand Moras each.

As a result, in order to forge such a long sword, Yu Qi used at least three drops of honey from hundreds of flowers and a dozen coffee gummies. After a slight conversion, it was equivalent to spending hundreds of thousands of Mora's "cost", but in the end, he only made a weapon worth nearly ten thousand Mora...

Fortunately, Bai Zhu saw things clearly and was not the kind of person who was too arrogant and meddlesome, otherwise he would have probably criticized Yu Qi for his wasteful behavior.

Facing Bai Zhu's implicit reminder, Yu Qi smiled slightly and nodded at him to show that he understood. He naturally understood that Bai Shu said this for his own good, so he felt no dissatisfaction in his heart, only gratitude.

Seeing that Yu Qi seemed to know what was going on, Bai Zhu stopped talking and picked up the honey water beside him, slowly savoring this rare and delicious taste full of vitality.

The mellow floral fragrance wafted into the air, and the mouth was filled with sweetness. After drinking a sip of honey water, the weakness and fatigue on Baizhu's face due to staying up late and working day and night disappeared a lot.

Xiang Ling scratched her cheek after looking around at Yu Qi and Bai Shu who were both silent. Although she didn't quite understand what they were talking about, she looked at the sword on the ground again, then followed their example and silently picked up the honey water, sipping it to taste it.

Never mind. Mr. Yu Qi should have his own ideas anyway. As a cook, she doesn't know much about the affairs of the blacksmith shop. She might as well just watch the fun.

"Hululu~" While sitting quietly with his eyes closed, Yu Qi suddenly felt something pulling his trouser leg hard, and at the same time a vague cry sounded in his ears.

Looking down, he saw a sticky trace of rice crust hanging on the corner of its mouth. Its round paws were holding an empty cup in front of him, and its chubby cheeks were full of greed.

"Mm, lur lur~"

Seeing Yu Qi looking at him, Guoba barked even more happily, and his furry head nodded up and down, as if he was planning to get into Yu Qi's arms and rub against him. Obviously, he had been completely conquered by the taste of the Baihua Honey Water and wanted another cup.

Looking at Guoba who was hugging his legs and acting cute and coquettish, Yu Qi couldn't help but reach out and rub its round head. The furry and soft touch made Yu Qi's mouth curl up slightly, and a (*′ω`*) expression gradually appeared on his face.

"Mmmm...Mm...Mm..." Perhaps it was because Yu Qi's rubbing was really comfortable, Guoba gradually stopped making a fuss, and his round body was like a ball of rice cake, lying softly at Yu Qi's feet, allowing him to touch from his head to his belly and then to his back, making soothing snoring sounds.

Xiangling, who was watching from the side, was very jealous. It was obviously her own bear, but when she usually kneaded the rice crust, it never showed such a comfortable expression! !

She couldn't help but pout and glared at Guoba fiercely.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight...

It's a pity that Guoba, who was obsessed with Yu Qi's 'Hand of Kato Eagle', didn't feel the resentment of his little master at all. Instead, the expression on his face became more and more lazy. There was even a bubble on the tip of his nose, and it seemed that he would fall asleep at any time.