Chapter 726

Chapter 726: Nine Directions in Weapon Refining

The house rented by Wang Chen is located in the Seven Mountains of Qianxing Immortal City.

It is equivalent to the Seventh Ring.

Currently, the entire Qianxing Immortal City has a total of thirteen Sanqun Family, with the Seven Mountains being quite close to the core area, thus the rent is very expensive.

The term “Sanqun” actually means “skirt,” referring to the fringes.

The dragon tortoise supporting Qianxing Immortal City grows larger every hundred years, and its shell’s edges simultaneously sprout new fringes.

The Qianxing Immortal City has expanded to its current scale in this manner.

The closer one gets to the inner Sanqun, the higher the quality of the buildings, and the lower the density of houses.

The opposite is also true.

The property rented by Wang Chen is a part of a ninth-level tall building, which includes a standard-sized storefront along with a fully equipped small forging workshop.

Additionally, he has the rights to use ground fire!

Wang Chen is planning to open a talisman shop.

Besides the store and workshop, the second floor has several rooms available for living, cultivation, bathing, and relaxation.

To be honest, with Wang Chen and Su Ziling alone, there would still be enough space even with a few more people.

The annual rent of five hundred thousand spirit fragments seems expensive, but compared to other storefronts in the same area, it is actually quite reasonable.

Wang Chen is lucky; the previous Tenant of this shop went bankrupt due to poor management and still owes the landlord a sum of spirit stones. It was just listed for sublease a few days ago.

If Wang Chen had come a day or two later, he might have missed out.

After all, a shop that allows for "instant move-in" is quite rare.

So, despite spending a fortune, Wang Chen is in a very good mood.

Having a place to settle brings a sense of happiness that is deeply engraved in his soul from his previous life.

This feeling cannot be erased, no matter how many times he has crossed over!

Even happier than Wang Chen is Su Ziling, the young girl who starts cleaning up their new residence with a cloth and dust bucket, filled with excitement.

Wang Chen lets her be while he heads to the ground fire chamber.

He holds a talisman in his hand, infusing it with magical power, activating the fire summoning formation.

A wave of scorching flames instantly bursts forth from beneath the ground furnace.

Wang Chen summons the Little Cauldron, asking, "What do you think of this ground fire?"

The Little Cauldron, just waking up, peeks at the ground fire in the room and snorts, "It’s just average."

Wang Chen knows its standards are high and smiles, "As long as it can refine spirit tools, that’s enough."

Wang Chen came to Qianxing Immortal City and spent so many spirit stones to rent a shop with the primary goal of earning wealth to buy condensing elixir treasures.

His support comes from the Cultivation Panel and the Life Creation Cauldron!

However, having unique abilities and powerful tools, Wang Chen, as a "little" Purple Palace cultivator, must still act cautiously.

So, he has set his sights on spirit tool-level items.

The reason he aims to earn spirit stones through refining spirit tools, rather than relying on his strongest expertise in talismans, is that he found the talisman business to be overly competitive during his previous shopping trips.

If he were to refine talismans for sale, even if his success rate were higher than others, most of the spirit stones earned would have to be returned to local merchants for purchasing materials.

The talisman market is quite transparent, leaving little room for creativity, and the profits are very slim.

Especially for a small trader like him, it is completely unprofitable.

Weapon refining, although competitive, allows for innovation and customized creations for others, and, most importantly, many materials can be gathered or mined by himself.

The profit margin is significantly greater.

Therefore, Wang Chen weighed the pros and cons and ultimately chose weapon refining.

Of course, before officially opening for business, he needed to improve his weapon refining skills.

This turned out to be the simplest task.

In the following days, Wang Chen explored every street and alley of the Qianxing Immortal City, collecting a large amount of low-level refining materials.

For example, black iron, wind copper, silver sand, beast horns, and rhinoceros hide, among others.

These materials belong to the bulk trading category in Qianxing Immortal City, and as long as the purchase quantity meets the standard, he can get them at wholesale prices, making experience gathering very cost-effective.

Additionally, Wang Chen bought a weapon refining classic — "Nine Directions in Weapon Refining" — from the Four Seas Trading Association!

It is worth mentioning that both the Four Seas Trading Association and Wanbao Pavilion have branches in Qianxing Immortal City, and these two are not members of the Qianxing Merchant Alliance, yet they still thrive, showcasing their immense background.

"Nine Directions in Weapon Refining" is said to be a legacy from the number one weapon refining sect in the Haotian Realm, which existed ten thousand years ago, known as the Nine Directions Sect.

However, the Nine Directions Sect has long since vanished into the annals of history, and the "Nine Directions in Weapon Refining" manual has spread everywhere, having undergone countless iterations, much like Wang Chen’s practice of the Five Element Technique, which has diverged significantly from its original version.

But for weapon refiners, the "Nine Directions in Weapon Refining" is undoubtedly an excellent introductory and advanced guide.

This text covers the fundamental refining methods for magic tools, spirit tools, and treasures, including both theory and practical techniques, along with thousands of refining recipes covering all sorts of armor, weapons, and auxiliary tools.

Moreover, "Nine Directions in Weapon Refining" is reasonably priced, making it a widely accessible textbook for weapon refiners.

The Four Seas Trading Association sells its revised edition at a slightly higher price, but with more detailed and comprehensive content.

After obtaining it, Wang Chen devoted himself tirelessly to studying it.

In fact, the easiest way for Wang Chen to earn spirit stones through weapon refining would be to toss the materials to the Little Cauldron, letting it handle the refining with the Life Creation Cauldron, which wouldn’t require him to lift a finger.

But now, Wang Chen prefers to master the skill himself.

This way, he will know exactly what he’s making in the future, without fearing that the Little Cauldron will demand sky-high prices.

It’s better to have control over something like the Life Creation Cauldron!

Also, weapon refining aligns with the way of cultivation.

It is worth learning.

Wang Chen has always been determined; once he made a decision, he devoted all his time and energy, aside from daily cultivation, to weapon refining.

In the workshop’s ground fire chamber, the scorching ground fire burns for four to five hours daily.

This ground fire is not free; like the natural gas pipes of Wang Chen’s previous life, he pays based on actual usage.

The "fire meter" for the ground fire is the formation set up in the chamber.

Every activation is recorded.

Over the month, Wang Chen’s expenses for refining materials and ground fire usage have added up to a significant amount.

However, his "Nine Directions in Weapon Refining" has not only been integrated into the skill category of his panel, but its level has also been raised to advanced, just shy of reaching the basic level.

Determined, Wang Chen continued to acquire materials and gain experience points, quickly breaking through to the basic level.

But once he reached this level, the rate of gaining points slowed significantly.

This is mainly due to the improved quality of materials used for refining, which increases the difficulty, naturally slowing the accumulation of experience points.

Although Wang Chen has invested heavily up to this point, he has yet to sell a single item from his shop.

But he remains calm, continuing to practice at his own pace.