Nine Lives: Unbeatable Dragon Blood

Chapter 43 Chen Lian

When it came to the experts of refining magic weapons in the market of Dikun Island, the owner of Chen's Weapon-Refining Shop in the west of the market was the most famous.

When Chen was young, he got a low-grade spiritual fire of Xuan Rank by chance, Stone Jade Fire. Later, with Stone Jade Fire, Chen made great progress in refining weapons and gradually became famous, but the rumor that he got the spiritual fire also gradually attracted the attention of some people with ulterior motives.

When the young Chen didn't know what to do, an Immortal Senior of the True Spirit Sect at Blood Dissolving stage who had been saved by him and got his damaged natal magic weapon repaired with the help of Chen entered the Alchemy stage and became the core disciple of the True Spirit Sect after he recovered from his injury. This Zhenren spread the news that he would protect his life-saving benefactor, which made those people stop casting covetous eyes on Chen's spiritual fire.

Later, this Zhenren was stationed on Dikun Island, and Chen also came here and opened Chen's Weapon-Refining Shop in the market. With his exquisite refining skill and the help of Stone Jade Fire, his business became more and more prosperous.

As Chen became more and more famous, his original name was forgotten. People who were familiar or unfamiliar with him just called him Chen.

When Lu Ping came to Chen's Weapon-Refining Shop, a young man in his twenties dressed in the uniform of the True Spirit Sect was in the shop. Lu Ping felt the fluctuation of magic power from the young man and realized that he was a cultivator at the Blood Dissolving stage. Lu Ping didn't dare to ignore him but walked up to him and bowed, "I'm Lu Ping, the third level disciple of True Spirit Academy. Nice to see you, Immortal Senior!"

The young man smiled kindly and said, "Oh, there's no need for that. I just reached the Blood Dissolving stage, and I'm a senior disciple to you. Are you here to refine magic weapons?"

Lu Ping didn't dare to call him senior disciple. He said politely, "Yes, if possible, I want Mr. Chen to refine a set of inner armors and improve the grade of a magic weapon for me."

The young man looked at Lu Ping was still kind of reserved and said with a smile, "My name is Chen Lian, the son of Chen you are looking for. You can call me Senior Chen. I'm not used to it when you call me Immortal Senior. My father is processing a newly refined magic weapon in the rear weapon-refining room. I'm afraid you have to wait for a while."

He was not a reserved person. Lu Ping would look affected if he kept being overcautious like this, so he said, "Thank you, Senior Chen. Then I'll wait here."

The two sat together and talked about some interesting things in their academy. An old man with gray hair and red cheeks came from the rear of the shop. Seeing the two people in the shop, he said to Chen Lian, "You're back?"

Chen Lian chuckled and said, "There is an auction soon, right? I guess you would have a lot of customers at that time. So, I came back to help you. It happened that one of my junior disciples is here to find you. He wants you to refine a weapon for him."

Chen didn't respond to Chen Lian, but directly asked Lu Ping, "What magic weapon do you want to refine? Have you prepared all the materials?"

Lu Ping took out the skin of the sea snake. Chen Lian's eyes lit up, and he said, "Oh, it's the skin armor of a sea snake at the middle stage of Blood Dissolving. It's so large but it has been damaged a lot. So, it only can be made into two medium-grade inner armors."

Chen looked at the snakeskin and said, "That's right, but the skin armor of a supernatural beast at the middle stage of Blood Dissolving is not equal to a medium-grade magic weapon. I need to add some other things to it. They are on me, but I'll take the skin armor that's leftover. What do you think?"

Lu Ping nodded, then took out "Landslide" and a piece of dark iron.

Chen Lian tutted and said, "It's impressive. All the three Prohibitions of your 'Landslide' are pure attack attributes. If this magic weapon isn't refined into a high-grade one, it will waste this piece of dark iron."

Seeing that Chen Lian was doing his job for him, Chen didn't look displeased, but he didn't agree with what Chen Lian said, either. He just said, "What are your requirements for this magic weapon?"

Lu Ping liked "Landslide" very much. Hearing this, he said, "I want you to improve its grade on the basis of keeping its characteristics as much as possible."

Chen pondered for a while and said, "In this case, it's really difficult to upgrade it to a high-grade magic weapon. Anyway, such extreme magic weapons that only pursue attack power are rare. Moreover, it's really a waste of this piece of dark iron if it isn't be upgraded to a high-grade magic weapon. I'll do my best."

Lu Ping said happily, "Thank you, Senior."

Chen said, "By the way, the main materials for upgrading this magic weapon to be a high-grade one is enough. However, the refining of this pure killing magic weapon is extremely demanding, and it requires the mixing of several spiritual materials to keep it from breaking down when Prohibitions are put into it. So, I have two requirements."

Lu Ping said, "Please go ahead."

Chen said, "I can provide the several matching spiritual materials, but you need to pay for them with spiritual stones. Plus with the service fee, it's 470 spiritual stones. In addition, the service fee of the two inner armors is 160 spiritual stones. It's 630 spiritual stones in total. You can just give me 600 spiritual stones."

Lu Ping nodded and handed over 600 spiritual stones. He exclaimed secretly. Refining weapons was also a profiteering industry, but he couldn't bother about this at the time.

Chen then pointed to Chen Lian and said, "I also need him to participate in the refining of these magic weapons."

Lu Ping looked at Chen Lian with a hesitant look, but Chen Lian was eager to have a try. Fortunately, Chen continued, "My son has acquired all my skills of refining weapons under my expert tutelage, and he has entered the Weapon Refining Pavilion of the True Spirit Sect to learn weapon refining. Now he's almost a skilled professional."

Before Lu Ping could speak, Chen continued, "Moreover, I see that you have a special preference for 'Landslide', and you might want to upgrade it again in the future. At that time, I may have transmitted this shop to him, and you will need him to help you upgrade it. After all, only the person who has refined this magic weapon is the best person to upgrade it."

Lu Ping was convinced by Chen, so he nodded and agreed. Chen Lian was very excited and said, "If you want to upgrade it to a top-grade magic weapon in the future, you'd better use deep-sea cold iron as its main refining material. And you can also use spiritual materials such as golden-black iron and wind dust iron."

Lu Ping nodded to show that he understood, and then asked, "When can I get these three magic weapons?"

Chen calculated the days and said, "I have another two deals. In this case, you can come to get them in a month."

Lu Ping said directly, "Then I'll come back to get them when I attend the auction after three months. It can save me a trip."

In the evening, Lu Ping returned to Huangli Island. These days, the True Spirit Sect and the Xuan Spirit Sect began to be restless again. The cause was that the five disciples of the Xuan Spirit Sect were killed in the war on that reef island.

Originally, that war was started by the disciples of the Xuan Spirit Sect who ambushed the disciples of the True Spirit Sect. But in the end, a supernatural beast at the Blood Dissolving stage stepped in. The three disciples of the True Spirit Sect, Hu Lili and her two companions, escaped and brought back the truth, and the five disciples of the Xuan Spirit Sect were killed.

The Xuan Spirit Sect was surpassed by the True Spirit Sect again. What made the Xuan Spirit Sect even angrier was that one of the dead disciples was an elite disciple of a powerful family in their sect, and he had been secretly designated as an inner disciple of the Xuan Spirit Sect by its senior management, which made the Xuan Spirit Sect even more embarrassed. Therefore, the Xuan Spirit Sect deliberately confused the truth and accused the True Spirit Sect of setting a trap to lure their disciples to carry out that action and colluding with the demon race to cover up their crime.

The True Spirit Sect naturally did not want to be a pushover, and the two sides were locked into a bitter dispute again. Fortunately, both sides were very restrained this time, and neither of them took extreme action.