Chapter 197: Chapter 158: Old Yang’s Blacksmith Shop
On the way back, Ye Bai made a phone call to Zhang Lingxue.
Calmly, he informed Zhang Lingxue about Assassin Z’s attempt to hunt him down, and how the Beautiful Country had organized an event to hunt high-talent targets.
Assassin Z, following orders from the Beautiful Country, initially wanted to kill Li Weiyang, but was thwarted by Ye Bai, so Assassin Z harbored deep hatred towards Ye Bai.
Beside him, Assassin Z, who was in a state of paralysis, almost popped his eyes out in disbelief.
If looks could kill, Ye Bai would have been cut into a thousand pieces.
Wait, how does this guy know so much? This is bad, could it implicate the organization?
God, I’m going to be the sinner of the organization.
Assassin Z’s emotions were all over the place, not knowing what fate awaited him.
When Ye Bai returned to Jiaying City, he entrusted Assassin Z to President Wang as per Zhang Lingxue’s request.
President Wang would personally escort Assassin Z to the Provincial City Union, to extract more insider information from Assassin Z.
However, Ye Bai was very interested in the super alloy metal on the shell of the Scythe Beetle.
He stored the carcass of the Scythe Beetle in his Pet Beast Space.
The Scythe Beetle’s body was so large, it almost took up all of Ye Bai’s Pet Beast Space.
Once back at the laboratory, he began to submerge the Scythe Beetle’s body into the Blood Pool.
The Blood Pool emitted a terrifying suction force.
The flesh of the Scythe Beetle was stripped away bit by bit, leaving behind only the metallic armor.
The flesh on the metallic armor vanished without a trace,
"Little Charcoal Dog, I’m assigning you a task."
"Use flames on this shell continuously."
"Once you can melt the shell into a solid iron piece, you’ll be considered successful."
Little Charcoal Dog spewed flames at the shell.
The shell remained unmoved by the flames, without even a singe mark, a long road ahead indeed.
It seems an extremely high temperature is necessary to dissolve the metallic armor and transform it into solid iron pieces.
The Scythe Beetle was a Tier Four Pet Beast, while Little Charcoal Dog was only at the peak of Tier Two.
If it could manage to melt the shell into solid iron, it would prove Little Charcoal Dog’s flame temperature is extremely high.
Its ability to control fire would also reach a state of consummate skill.
The Ten Thousand Changes Silkworm looked tearful, its buttocks still swollen, and Ye Bai applied some potion on its behind, causing a cool sensation and making the Silkworm show a comfortable expression.
At this moment, Ye Bai felt like saying a heartfelt statement to the Ten Thousand Changes Silkworm.
"Ten Thousand Changes Silkworm, there’s always someone better, a sky beyond the sky, your defense can withstand Pet Beasts of the same tier."
"But against Pet Beasts stronger than you, this amount of defense is insufficient."
"You need to elevate your defense to the extreme."
"You should have seen that Scythe Beetle."
"Its defense couldn’t even be pierced by the Sunflower Emperor’s Slaughter Saber, yet it was slapped on its neck by Big Gray."
"If you face a Pet Beast with strength equal to Big Gray, wouldn’t you also get your head slapped onto your neck, although there’s not much distinction between your head and neck?"
"So, you should stack your defense fully and amplify your defense with skills that enhance it."
"This should be the direction of your training."
The eyes of the Ten Thousand Changes Silkworm filled with terror, but soon, a determined look flashed across them.
It decided to enhance its defense and speed to effectively dodge enemy attacks.
The Ten Thousand Changes Silkworm planned to practice running every day to increase its speed.
As long as you work hard, an iron rod can be ground into a needle.
The Ten Thousand Changes Silkworm planned to improve itself by making a little progress each day.
It now had a sense of crisis and couldn’t let Little Charcoal Dog surpass it, or else where would its dignity go?
Simultaneously, it planned to chew on some metals to enhance its Steel Skill.
The Ten Thousand Changes Silkworm discovered that by gnawing on metal, its proficiency with the Steel Skill soared, and after this incident, the Silkworm estimated it would practice the Steel Skill constantly until it transformed the skill into a Passive Skill.
Seeing the Scythe Beetle get taken down right in front of it, a shadow was cast in the Ten Thousand Changes Silkworm’s mind; if this happened to it, it would surely die without a doubt.
It needed to grow stronger, to not become the weakest link in the team nor rely on Big Gray for everything.
If Big Gray got entangled by another Pet Beast, what would happen to its Pet Beast Master when facing a formidable enemy?
Just like this time, if it weren’t for Big Gray saving the day, its Pet Beast Master would have been doomed.
Having signed an Equal Contract with its Pet Beast Master, if the Master fell, so would it.
After all, no one had much of the Nether River Water in their hands.
The Sunflower Emperor was holding two broken Slaughter Sabers, eyes filled with tears, and lay on the ground weeping pitifully.
It truly loved this Slaughter Saber, even sleeping with it often.
"Sunflower Emperor, don’t be sad. After some time, I’ll go find the old blacksmith to have your cleaver repaired and perfected, okay?"
Ye Bai advised Sunflower Emperor, but Sunflower Emperor didn’t seem very happy and appeared somewhat excited.
"What’s wrong Sunflower Emperor, just tell me if there’s anything."
Sunflower Emperor shook its head and released Bai Luo for online translation.
"You big fool, it wants you to immediately go to the blacksmith shop and have its cleaver repaired; otherwise, it doesn’t know how it will sleep tonight."
"I’ve often seen Sunflower Emperor strutting around with this thing, showing it off everywhere; it seems to really love it."
Ye Bai nodded, "Alright, alright, I’ll go find the blacksmith and integrate the teeth of the Poisonous Flood Dragon and Black Water Giant Flood Dragon into the cleaver right away."
"By then, probably only Tier Six Pet Beasts will be able to withstand your cleaver."
The teeth of the Black Water Giant Flood Dragon were kept, and the teeth of the Poisonous Flood Dragon were kept too. Ye Bai planned to merge the teeth into each of their respective cleavers to ensure they didn’t interfere with each other.
"Speaking of which, where exactly is Old Yang’s Blacksmith Shop?"
Ye Bai searched for the location of Old Yang’s Blacksmith Shop and found that it wasn’t far from the school.
He took the cleaver fragments and the heartbroken Sunflower Emperor to the blacksmith shop.
Old Yang’s Blacksmith Shop was located in a remote area, not far from the garbage mountain of Jiaying City.
The garbage mountain here was filled with various discarded and scrapped waste.
Old Yang’s Blacksmith Shop was ablaze as they were incinerating metal scraps, turning them into a pool of molten iron.
The molten iron quickly congealed into a lump, dropping into cold water with a sizzling sound.
Ye Bai found the location and boldly paid a visit.
Old Yang wearing his reading glasses, took a look at the fractured cleaver and exclaimed loudly, "Amazing, this cleaver was actually forged from extraterrestrial meteorite iron."
"Too bad the crafting technique is so crude, wasting such good meteorite iron."
"Kid, I ask you, do you want to bring your own materials, or have us provide them?"
"The materials provided by the shop will be more expensive, but they are more comprehensive. If you don’t need this service, you won’t have to pay for it."
Ye Bai pulled out two exquisite boxes and pushed them in front of Old Yang.
Old Yang opened the boxes to find two pairs of sharp poison fangs inside.
"The materials are great, truly great. I think with these four poison fangs, the cleaver could be upgraded to a Tier Four artifact."
"How do you want to refine them?"
Ye Bai said earnestly, "I want to place the teeth of the Black Water Giant Flood Dragon into one cleaver separately, and the Poisonous Flood Dragon into the other cleaver. Can it be done?"
Sparks from the fire floated up, reflecting Old Yang’s excited face.
"No, the effect would be too singular like that; placing one poison tooth in each cleaver would be better."
"These days I’ll first explore how to forge a cleaver with spirituality. You can go back first, leave me a phone number, and I’ll call you once I figure it out."
"Don’t worry, I won’t misuse your materials, don’t worry."
Old Yang said cheerfully; indeed, the poison fangs of the Poisonous Flood Dragon and Black Water Giant Flood Dragon are very precious materials.
He had long wanted to try it but lacked the courage.
"The meteorite iron is good, but the refining technique is too crude; otherwise, how could a cleaver made from meteorite iron break?"
Old Yang quickly came up with an idea, writing and drawing on paper.
When Ye Bai returned to the research institute, Zhang Lingxue looked at Ye Bai anxiously.
"Ye Bai, if there’s nothing major, remember not to leave the research institute, just keep to the school-research institute-cultivation house triangle."
"Otherwise, you might be ambushed by assassins; it’s unclear who bears such a grudge against you."
"They’ve actually posted a bounty of ten million Alliance Coins on the dark web."
"Money makes hearts move; I don’t know what those guys might do."
Zhang Lingxue babbled several case studies.
"By the way, Ye Bai, the things you mentioned earlier, I’ve already found them for you."
"The Secret Realm of Burrowing Rats has a vast amount of Earth Crystal Cores and Earth Crystal Stones. I’ve already subdued the Burrowing Rat, the rest is up to you."
When Ye Bai obtained the Earth Crystal Cores and Earth Crystal Stones, he looked at the Hundred-Change Silkworm, which possessed a high Earth Attribute, with the evolution path appearing.
[Giant Rock Butterfly: Earth Crystal Stone*4, Earth Crystal Core*4, dig a pit in a place teeming with Earth Energy to evolve the Giant Rock Butterfly.]
"It seems the experiment needs to be conducted in groups to explore the evolution mystery of the Hundred-Change Silkworm."
For this, Ye Bai prepared ten Hundred-Change Silkworms, planning to split them into two groups.
The first group was to study how Hundred-Change Silkworms become Thunderlight Butterflies.
The second group was to research how Hundred-Change Silkworms evolve into Giant Rock Butterflies.
If I can publish the evolution method before the Beautiful Country’s announcement, the entire research team there might vomit blood.
Big Gray and Sunflower Emperor were busy at the site, while the Hundred-Change Silkworm was training in the training room of the Little Charcoal Dog Research Institute.
"Come on, let’s start the experiment."