Chapter 50

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Chapter 50: Second-Tier Precious Artifact

At the entrance of Sha Diao’s artifact crafting shop, Xu Fan hung up the sign for repairing and customizing precious artifacts.

In the Town of Zhenhai, there was a bustling commercial street, and Sha Diao’s artifact crafting shop was located in the most prosperous area, with a daily rent of 200 spirit stones.

Inside the crafting shop, Xu Fan and Sha Diao enjoyed tea and chatted happily, laughing heartily as they discussed topics that excited them.

“Junior Brother Xu, if only I had met you earlier! I’ve been crafting artifacts for over ten years, and now I’ve finally found a kindred spirit,” Sha Diao said sincerely. He had a natural talent for crafting from a young age and later became a disciple of a master craftsman from the inner sect, which set him on an unstoppable path.

He realized that among the younger generation of the Que Tian Gate, there wasn’t anyone as skilled in artifact crafting as he was.

“Your talent in artifact crafting truly impresses me, Brother Sha,” Xu Fan praised. “What you have is talent; what I have is luck. It’s all good in admiration.”

At that moment, a Golden Core cultivator entered the shop.

“Can you help me craft a fishing net type of artifact? It would be best if it’s a second-tier precious artifact,” the Golden Core cultivator said as he stepped inside, having noticed many Golden Core and Nascent Soul stage beasts in the nearby waters and wanting to hunt a batch.

“Do you have the materials?” Sha Diao asked lightly, remaining indifferent toward strangers.

“I have prepared Qiankong steel, silk bags from Nascent Soul stage water spiders, golden silk cloth, and spirit rhinoceros crystals…” The Golden Core cultivator listed a series of materials.

“Quite well-prepared. Junior Brother Xu, what do you think we should do to craft it?”

“Qiankong steel, silk bags, spirit rhinoceros crystals, thunder gold stones, and heart-piercing wood—these are enough for making a fishing net,” Xu Fan answered after thinking.

“You just leave these materials here. Come back tomorrow to pick it up. The crafting fee and some leftover materials will be 50,000 spirit stones; a 10,000 spirit stone deposit is required first,” Sha Diao said to the Golden Core cultivator, as crafting a second-tier artifact was just his ordinary level of skill.

“Alright, I’ll come back tomorrow to collect it.”

The Golden Core cultivator didn’t waste any words and directly left the deposit and materials before leaving.

“Senior, we haven’t discussed what is needed,” Xu Fan said, looking at the pile of materials on the table.

“For this type of niche artifact, as long as it maintains its basic powers, it will do,” Sha Diao said carelessly, noting that these materials were guaranteed to make a second-tier precious artifact.

“If we add some more materials, we can each get 20,000 spirit stones,” Sha Diao said with a smile.

Xu Fan was taken aback, looking at Sha Diao. “So much? Is that the fair price?”

He hadn’t expected to make so much from crafting such a simple precious artifact.

“This will definitely be a bit more expensive than at the Que Tian Gate; the cultivators from the Floating Sky Ship are all wealthy. If you can take advantage, why not? They might earn this back in the blink of an eye.”

“Alright then.”

Looking at the pile of materials, Xu Fan said, “Brother Sha, how should we craft it?”

“That’s easy. I’ll handle the material processing and initial crafting; you just need to take care of inscribing the rune formations on the precious artifact.”

“I’m not as good as you at rune formations, but we can divide the work effectively; crafting this precious artifact will take just half a day.”

As he spoke, Sha Diao gathered the materials and walked toward the backyard’s crafting area.

“Junior Brother Xu, you keep an eye on the shop. I’ll call you once the first step of crafting is done.”

Xu Fan watched the lively street outside, with cultivators coming and going, and suddenly felt as if he was doing business in the mundane world.

“For a fishing net type of precious artifact, we can just make it into an electric net without adding any flashy features,” Xu Fan thought to himself. Life detection, current sensing, and energy capture weren’t necessary; of course, unless he was crafting it himself.

As Xu Fan pondered how to inscribe the rune formations, a slender figure walked in.

“Excuse me, can this place repair an alchemy furnace?” a soft and sugary voice echoed.

Upon hearing the voice, Xu Fan looked up and saw a beautiful girl, as if she had stepped out of the picturesque waters of Jiangnan, dressed in a blue floral long dress with a slender figure.

Why are there so many beautiful women in the alchemy field?

“Are you an alchemist?” Xu Fan smiled, displaying patience toward attractive women, as long as there wasn’t deep communication involved.

“Yes. I brought a spare pill furnace when I boarded the Floating Sky Ship. The first furnace exploded, and the one I have left now cracked yesterday,” she explained.

“So I would like you to see if you can help me repair it.” The young lady looked at Xu Fan with hopeful eyes. If this furnace exploded, she wouldn’t be able to complete her tasks on the Floating Sky Ship.

Xu Fan narrowed his eyes; sometimes just listening to a voice was a pleasure, especially a soft and sweet one like this.

“Let me take a look at your furnace.”

After examining the pill furnace, Xu Fan quickly realized that the young beauty was just a novice alchemist, and this furnace was only slightly better than the first one he had bought.

“50 spirit stones, and I’ll fix it for you,” Xu Fan stated, keeping business as business, even if the person in front of him was a beauty.

The girl’s eyes lit up at the mention of 50 spirit stones, and she quickly took them out, placing them on the table.

“When you gather the leftover materials from the small mining vein on the Floating Sky Ship, you can bring them to me, and I will repair it for you.”

So a pile of leftover materials was added to the table.

Xu Fan levitated the pill furnace, and one fire attribute spirit stone turned to dust as the surrounding fire attribute spiritual energy surged.

A flame appeared beneath the furnace, beginning the repair process.

Another layer of spirit fire ignited, and Xu Fan casually picked out a few pieces of spirit ore from the pile of scraps, tossing them into the spirit fire, then the spiritual energy hammer appeared, starting to refine the spirit ore.

Xu Fan worked with ease, as if he were a university student solving elementary school problems, effortlessly managing the task.

The girl nearby looked on with admiration, which made Xu Fan quite pleased, thinking he might enhance the furnace further for her.

As the furnace softened under the spirit fire, Xu Fan erased the runes inside, and under his control, the furnace fused with the refined spirit ore liquid.

Xu Fan freely engraved 36 runes into the alchemy furnace.

Shaping and changing color, soon a pink alchemy furnace shrank and landed in Xu Fan’s hands, like a newly crafted and enhanced version.

After this transformation, the value of the furnace had at least doubled.

“You didn’t lose your 50 spirit stones,” Xu Fan handed the pink alchemy furnace to the young beauty with a smile, his tone rather playful.

The young lady’s face instantly turned a rosy shade, and shyly, she took the furnace back and flew out like a butterfly.

“Hey, you haven’t taken your materials yet!” Xu Fan called out, realizing those items were worth quite a few spirit stones.

Surprisingly, upon hearing Xu Fan’s voice, the young beauty ran even faster.

An icy mirror appeared before Xu Fan, reflecting his plain and ordinary face.

“Am I really that terrible?”