Chapter 225: Chapter 226: Whom to Worship Before Armor Crafting?


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    Fang Niannian did indeed bring back the Dragon Silkworm Silk and Ice Pattern Skin required by Zhu Minng, and with such a capable little assistant, Zhu Minng even considered giving her a raise.


    While Dragon Silkworm Silk and Ice Pattern Skin are not extremely rare items, finding those that meet Zhu Minng’s current crafting needs requires spending a lot of time searching the markets. A slight time-saving method is to offer a reward for their purchase, which often costs several times the original price.


    Finding them in such a short period wasn’t easy!


    With all materials ready and the blueprint memorized perfectly, what remained was to start working!


    The armor Zhu Minng nned to craft didn’t have high requirements for the furnace or the forging table, so any random casting workshop would suffice.


    No sooner said than done, Zhu Minng first went looking for Mr. Jinli.


    Mr. Jinli is the mascot of Zhu Gate, and the elders would mostly invite it over whenever they needed to make some divine armor or holy clothes.


    Even though Zhu Minng was a young man who very much believed in the Heavenly Method, Dao Method, and Human Method, and not in those ignorant mysticisms, he still felt it would be much better to have Mr. Jinli present considering the expensive materials.


    After looking around, he didn’t see Mr. Jinli.


    This posed a bit of a problem for Zhu Minng, had the koi been taken away by someone in the kitchen?


    At that moment, Zhu Minng suddenly thought of someone else.


    “I must be out of my mind, why believe in such boring stuff? Why not just ask Miss Xinghua for a prophecy?” Zhu Minng pped his forehead and quickly went upstairs.


    He knocked on the door and greeted politely.


    Only then did the door gently open, instantly a fragrance wafted out. Zhu Minng focused his gaze and saw the Prophet’s younger sister with her wet hair, droplets of water on her pale, smooth skin sliding down from her delicate and beautiful neck to her frail corbone…


    She appeared to have just bathed, and the color of her skin was particrly alluring due to the steamy warm water, exuding a bewitching charm reminiscent of a seductress. This made Zhu Minng suddenly recall that dim ce, those blushing cheeks, moving towards him like a dream.


    “Young Master?” Li Xinghua looked at him, asking with a trace of confusion.


    “Ahem, well, I was hoping that Miss Xinghua could give me a prediction because I n to cast a very expensive Dragon Armor, and due to my not so skilled craftsmanship, there’s a higher risk of failure,” Zhu Minng said, using his cough to cover hispse of focus.


    This was too much to handle.


    It was the same person.


    Why must the heavens torment me like this!


    A double ordeal wasn’t enough, it had to be quadruple, and I’m certainly not one of those still-water monks.


    This agony wasparable to lying with a flower-like beauty, yet separated by a veil that could never be torn away.


    “Young Master, I’m sorry, but I am not Yunzhi,” Li Xinghua seemed to notice Zhu Minng’s expression, both revealing her affection and restraining herself in a way that deceived herself.


    “The one who should apologize is me,” Zhu Minng replied awkwardly, turning his cheek aside and avoiding to look at her.


    “If you do it during the extreme cold of the autumn night, you should seed,” Li Xinghua said.


    Zhu Minng calmed down and considered it.


    His materials inherently carried some ice attribute, which meant that even a subtle difference in the surrounding temperature could affect the entire process of crafting the armor.


    What a great reminder!


    It hadpletely slipped his mind.


    “Thank you, Miss, you’ve been a great help,” Zhu Minng expressed his gratitude joyfully.


    “Hmm.”


    Zhu Minng turned and walked away, and after he had gone some distance, he couldn’t help but chuckle bitterly.


    What a challenge, truly daunting!


    As the prophet auntie advised, wait until the coldest part of an autumn night to forge.


    Indeed, the process went very smoothly that night; Zhu Minng managed to perfectly cut out the outline pattern on the Ice Pattern Skin to fit Little Bai Qi, and sessfully stitched together several materials…


    There were no mes beside the furnace, but rather an extremely low-temperature blue fire.


    Zhu Minng stood by the blue fire, pouring his spiritual power into each and every millennium feather.


    The craft of a casting master can be crudely likened to that of a tailor.


    However, the casting art of Zhu Gate was never about sewing and weaving with needle and thread. When spiritual power flowed evenly into each feather, they seemed toe to life, dancing around Zhu Minng before slowly settling onto the Ice Pattern Skin.


    The Dragon Silkworm Silk was also manipted with spiritual power, moving like fish leaping out of the water’s surface, rising and falling, quickly binding all the millennium feathers and Ice Pattern Skins together.


    “The inscription process will be done tomorrow, not sure if it’ll go smoothly,” Zhu Minng murmured to himself. Lying next to the furnace was Little Ice Morning White Dragon, already nodding off, yet still forcing its eyelids open to keep Zhu Minngpany as he worked.


    The next day, at the coldest part of the autumn night again, Zhu Minng began inscribing the armor with inscriptions.


    The inscriptions are the soul core of this Dragon Armor, rting not only to the intrinsic effects of the armor when born but also to the sess of the White Misty Feather Armor.


    Without inscriptions, the armor at best could only withstand attacks from Lord-level creatures and would be a w in the expensive materials, useless to the Ice Morning White Dragon.


    Zhu Minng took deep breaths, once again using his spiritual sense to capture the Inscription Fragments dispersed in the air.


    The Inscription Fragments came from the millennium feathers.


    The millennium feathers, being an essential part of the Holy Spirits, could change shape at will and swap attributes. As Zhu Minng extracted the Inscription Fragments, he sensed the elements of thunder, ring light, me, and frost around him.


    He did not need the other three; he had to extract the Frost Insignia. This step was extremely difficult; if he had not reshaped his spiritual power in Spirit Realm, it would have been very hard for Zhu Minng to achieve.


    While performing this step, Zhu Minng became even more conscious of how important the prophet auntie’s reminder was; the autumn chill naturally made the millennium feathers appear as solid ice, emphasizing the frost attribute. Zhu Minng guided them, branding the entire Dragon Armor with them, thus smoothing the process considerably.


    “Perfect!”


    “The most difficult step is already taken care of.”


    “Tomorrow, the final integration can bepleted: wings, feathers, ws, body, tail. With five parts, there should be enhancements; it wille out of the furnace tomorrow!” Zhu Minng said.


    Whether the inscriptions were branded on can only be confirmed when the armores out of the furnace.


    What kind of additional effects will be born in the five parts can only be known once the armor is out of the furnace.


    Sess or failure will also depend on tomorrow.


    Even the finest casting masters find it hard to control all the properties and effects of a full set of armor; they can only guide in one direction. That is probably why the Zhu Gate is so fond of Jinli.


    In fact, to craft something of the highest quality, one must prepare ten or twenty sets of materials.


    If one attempt doesn’t work, after ten or twenty tries, a masterpiece will emerge.


    If this time it doesn’t work out, consider it practice.


    A good casting master throws in as much money into the furnace as a mountain is high!