Chapter 594: The Mountain Peak
Ou Yangming slowed down and walked toward the crystal wall.
Nonetheless, he was slightly surprised when he and Big Yellow arrived.
Mount Liang Wolf King was standing at the center. Ou Yangming did not know what it promised the high-rank spirit beasts, but their eyes lit up when they saw him. Some of them even had jade green eyes that penetrated one’s mind.
Ou Yangming twitched his mouth and looked at Mount Liang Wolf King.
The high-rank spirit beast, which benefited from him, trembled. It jumped over to the young fellow and explained with a smile, “Master Ou, everything’s settled. They’re all willing to present a set of materials and spirit ores to you.”
“All of them?” Ou Yangming was stunned. He glanced at the spirit beasts in confusion.
“Yes, all of them!” Mount Liang Wolf King raised its greave joyfully and tapped the armor on its body. “With these pieces of equipment as a base, they’re confident in you.”
If there was only a piece of equipment, perhaps Ou Yangming was only lucky. Since 2 pieces of equipment with notable properties were smithed in a row, the young fellow surely had genuine talent.
Ou Yangming nodded and uttered, “My requests.”
Mount Liang Wolf King lowered its voice and responded, “Master Ou, I’ve already told them everything. They’ll be providing the basic materials, so you only need to provide White-Silver-level spirit ores and the engraving of skills. Also…” A subtle voice was heard as the spirit wolf added, “Every piece of equipment will be paid with 1,200 spirit ores.”
It winked at Ou Yangming with a showy and flattering look on its face.
Ou Yangming was startled for a while before he nodded. Since he could obtain more spirit ores, he would not decline the offers.
Following that, Mount Liang Wolf King shouted, “Everyone, Master Ou’s here. 9 of you—those of you that are willing to offer 1,200 spirit ores and basic materials, please come out.”
“Me!”
“Get lost, I was here first!”
“Pfft, who said it’s going to be first come, first served? The highest bidder gets to go first!”
There was instantly a clamor as many spirit beasts glared furiously at each other, causing the atmosphere to tense up too.
Ou Yangming’s face changed, and he warned the spirit beats loudly, “Don’t forget where you are now. If you’d like to fight, you should just leave the mountain.”
Many spirit beasts were dumbfounded at first, then they stopped being so hot-tempered as they were embarrassed.
Indeed, they would be courting death by causing a disturbance here.
“How about this? Regardless of how many of you agree to meet the requirements, I’ll treat you equally by smithing a piece of equipment each for you but…” Ou Yangming suggested as he looked around, then he continued after a short pause, “I’m sure Mount Liang Wolf King has told you that I’ll be smithing according to your needs, so I’ll have to first get to know your innate abilities. If you’re not willing to do that, you can forget about it.”
Many spirit beasts exchanged glances. Other than a few hesitant ones, the others were indifferent about it.
Given their cultivation bases, they definitely had their respective gifted abilities. Those were their greatest powers and reliance, but they did not mind if they were leaked or not. This was because they were confident that external powers could not be mentioned on equal terms with their hard-earned skills.
“Master Ou, I’ll go first!” The spirit bear yelled.
Ou Yangming chuckled and replied to it, “Okay, come with me.”
He brought the spirit bear to the empty ground. After gaining its innate Skill Runes, he gave him the same choices too.
The spirit bear left happily after several hours. Subsequently, the other spirit beasts took turns to meet the young fellow.
When the humongous spirit elephant arrived, Ou Yangming could not help but furrow his eyebrows.
Although the fellow’s build was far from that of Multi-armed King Kong, it was still a massive creature. If Ou Yangming were to smith a piece of equipment for it, he would certainly spend far more time and energy.
Seeing as Ou Yangming was frowning, the enormous spirit beast guessed what he was thinking. It let out a hollow laugh and asked, “Master Ou, do you think I’m too gigantic?”
Ou Yangming nodded without any hesitation. “Yes, you’re oversized. If I were to smith a piece of equipment for you…”
The spirit elephant shook its head and expressed, “Master Ou, it might be more difficult to smith an ordinary piece of equipment for me, but it’ll be much easier to smith a piece of Skill Equipment!”
“What?” Ou Yangming was taken aback.
The elephant curled up its trunk and explained, “That was what I heard from human blacksmiths like you; they said that smithing pieces of equipment for me is the least troublesome job, so they’ll usually attempt using large pieces of equipment when they smith.”
Ou Yangming pondered and was deep in thoughts when he looked at the elephant’s considerable body.
The materials needed to smith pieces of equipment for the elephant would be 100 times more, but it would be comparatively easier to engrave a Skill Rune on the equipment. In particular, there would be a much higher tolerance for the error rate if one were to practice newly-learned runes.
Perhaps this was the biggest reason the mountainous spirit beast could acquire pieces of high-grade equipment.
Nevertheless, regardless of a piece of equipment’s size, the engraving of a Skill Rune would not be much different for Ou Yangming.
When the spirit elephant retrieved a big pile of materials, Ou Yangming was extremely glad to have requested the spirit beasts to provide the basic materials. If not, he could not have gathered this many materials even if he emptied his interspatial bag.
It was his first time smithing a piece of large-scale equipment. As expected, he spent a much longer time on it.
Throughout the smithing process, Ou Yangming realized that there were slight differences between pieces of large-scale equipment and ordinary equipment. In fact, there was a higher demand for the qualities of the former’s materials. Even so, the spirit elephant seemed to have known this beforehand, thus the materials prepared by it did not disappoint the young fellow at all.
With that, Ou Yangming stayed here for 3 days.
During the 3 days, he had smithed a Good Grade magic tool each for the high-rank spirit beasts.
Even though the magic tools’ equivalent ranks were not the best, he included a White Silver Attribute and a Skill Rune in every single one of them.
Needless to say, Ou Yangming did not suffer any losses as he learned 1 or 2 innate skills from every high-rank spirit beast.
After turning those skills into runes and releasing them, though they were not as mighty as when the spirit beasts performed those skills themselves, they enriched his storage of runes very much.
In actuality, Ou Yangming could even gain more Rune Skills from the spirit beasts if he exploited them more, but he yearned for the scenery at the peak. Therefore, after smithing a piece of equipment for each of them and dealing with them, he bid his farewell.
Of course, before he left, he intentionally asked for Mount Liang Wolf King’s address and agreed on a time to meet in the future.
The spirit wolf’s selling ability was beyond Ou Yangming’s imagination, by which it helped him to earn 200 more spirit ores for every piece of equipment. The young fellow’s interspatial bag was already bulging, and he became much richer than the high-rank spirit beasts.
Despite being jealous, the high-rank spirit beasts dared not scheme anything against Ou Yangming.
After producing the last equipment, Ou Yangming entered the crystal wall again.
He could also continue upward by going around the crystal wall, he still entered the place beyond the wall obediently.
This was because Mount Liang Wolf King warned him that if he headed to the peak without the permission of the crystal wall’s guard, he would suffer a fatal disaster.
Ou Yangming did not believe that the 10,000 Beasts Venerable One would kill him but he rather believed it to be the truth than not, hence it would be better for him to be more careful.
He immediately saw the macaque after he entered the crystal wall.
However, it was different this time because there was a fundamental change in the macaque’s attitude.
It bowed at Ou Yangming with respect and asked, “Master Ou, are you planning to climb to the top?”
Ou Yangming was astounded, but he answered with a smile, “Yes.”
“Okay, please come with me.” The macaque did not say anything else, but it did not leave through the crystal wall’s entrance too. Instead, it brought Ou Yangming deeper inside.
Ou Yangming hesitated for a while, then he quickly followed the macaque with Big Yellow. After walking for 15 minutes, the macaque pushed a door open and said, “Master Ou, please.”
The young fellow could not help but laugh bitterly after he walked out of the door and looked for a brief moment. It turned out that there was a secret path beyond the crystal wall, and it could lead one to the peak.
When Ou Yangming looked up, it was as though the peak was right in front of him.
Having said that, forceful and fearsome pressures came from the peak, each one as oppressive as a towering mountain, which was unbearable.
The macaque nodded and continued forward.
Ou Yangming took a deep breath. He wondered as he found it strange, ‘This macaque doesn’t look like a spirit beast at all, but why can it withstand the powerful suppressions? Has it endured the appearance of the dragon and the phoenix as I did? Is it because it has spent a long time with the 10,000 Beasts Venerable One and can totally ignore such oppressions now?’
Just as Ou Yangming was about to go forward, he sensed something odd behind him. When he turned to look, he realized that Big Yellow was already laying on the ground and would not move an inch forward no matter how much he urged it to.
“Master Ou, you can leave it here,” the macaque suggested with a smile, “If you force it to go up there with you, it might not be a good idea for it.”
After some thought, Ou Yangming decided to order Big Yellow to stay here on its own.
Later on, the macaque led the way, and they arrived at a flat ground on the peak.
The area had been flattened long ago, hence it seemed like a giant platform. 6 spirit beasts could be seen on the platform, where 3 of them were humongous while the other 3 were far from them.
That said, the levels of intimidation of their oppressions were not based on their builds. Among them, a purely-white fox was the smallest, but it sat at the center of the platform and seemed more majestic than the other spirit beasts.
Seeing as the macaque brought a human blacksmith to the top, they turned to look at the same time.
Ou Yangming paused for a bit and was surprised.
He suddenly realized at this moment that the frightening pressures disappeared in an instant.
The 6 potent top-grade spirit beasts were able to control their powers almost perfectly.