Chapter 758: Recover
Ou Yangming picked several types of materials from the ones scattered on the floor. He released his Military Fire to melt them and began a new round of equipment smithing.
In actuality, after reading the core records of the Beast King Sect’s former blacksmiths from the library, Ou Yangming had a good understanding of how he should smith High Grade and even Fine Grade magic tools. If he were to smith those pieces of equipment at the moment, he would be confident about succeeding as long as he was provided with sufficient materials.
Even if the young fellow failed, as long as he was given some time to try, he would be optimistic about smithing those 2 types of magic tools with the help of his Military Fire’s unique power.
Nonetheless, when Ou Yangming attempted to smith a piece of Tool Spirit Equipment and the equipment in his hands at the moment, instead of adopting those smithing techniques, he only selected ordinary materials to smith Good Grade magic tools.
Among all of the magic tools, Common Grade and Good Grade ones were the most common ones in the Spiritual Realm. In fact, even Advanced Spiritualists mostly used Good Grade magic tools. At most, they would use Good Grade magic tools with the highest qualities.
The reason being the price to smith Good Grade and Fine Grade magic tools was too high.
It was worth noting that the smithing of those 2 kinds of magic tools involved more than one’s smithing technique and experience. Without better basic materials, one could forget about smithing them.
Good Grade magic tools were already separated by a huge barrier from High Grade magic tools, let alone Fine Grade ones.
Given Peng Yanbing’s status and identity, the fact that he only had Fine Grade magic tools in his treasure room was enough to prove the problem.
Ou Yangming had learned the corresponding smithing techniques, but top-notch materials were hard to come by. The best resources should be used in the most important areas, after all, hence there was no need for him to waste them on these experimental items.
As Ou Yangming’s Military Fire rose, all of the materials fused slowly and turned into a military saber.
Ever since the young fellow entered the Spiritual Realm, he rarely smithed this type of standard equipment. Even so, military sabers were unquestionably one of the types of equipment that he liked the most and was adept in.
Seeing as the military saber was slowly taking shape in the fire, Ou Yangming’s eyes flickered, and he flickered the smaller piece of the white ore to the saber.
The white ore quickly assimilated into the military saber like ice being melted by fire. It happened so fast that even Ou Yangming found it weird.
This was his first time refining such an unusual material, thus he was well-prepared before he tossed the white ore into the fire. Should anything happen, he would rather destroy the equipment than let the precious, self-recovering material be harmed.
Who knew, the white ore’s melting point was so long that it melted in a split second. Ou Yangming was flustered by the unforeseen change.
Despite that, he immediately curbed his thought and cast his doubt aside, then he focused his mental conception on the military saber again.
Peculiar energy directly invaded every inch of the military saber and naturally integrated itself into the equipment.
Even when Ou Yangming followed the entire process closely, he could not identify any abnormalities in the military saber after the integration.
He could not help but feel helpless at this time.
Before this, regardless of the materials he used for equipment smithing, they would all be burned by his Military Fire and merged according to his allocation. The young fellow was always the deity like how Gu Jiacheng could perfectly control the situation in front of his furnace without letting anything affect himself and his masterpiece.
This time, it was different for Ou Yangming.
The small white ore had not only vanished in the blink of an eye, but it also avoided his control and naturally fused into the equipment.
It would be fine if the fusion was flawed, but Ou Yangming was disappointed and shocked because it was perfect. Even if he were to take charge, he could have only done so much.
The white ore seemed to have not existed at all, but it also seemed to be born to merge with the newly-smithed military saber; there were no signs of them being bound.
Ou Yangming was amazed by his good luck of stumbling upon the ingenious workmanship, and he found it difficult to understand.
He must admit that nature’s uncanny workmanship might be the most astounding thing in the world. For the time being, he had only unveiled a part of the mystery.
Ou Yangming inspected everything carefully. Apart from the melted white ore, he could not find anything unusual anymore.
He turned his wrist to curb his Military Fire, but the military saber’s properties were displayed in his mind at the very last second.
[Item: Military saber]
[Equivalent Rank: Magic Tool, Good Grade, Rank Five]
[Attributes: Toughness +30, Durability 30]
[Unique: Self-recovery (1 point of Durability is recovered every day)]
Ou Yangming’s eyelids twitched. He was overwhelmed by an indescribable feeling.
A Unique Attribute—another Unique Attribute.
Before he refined a piece of Tool Spirit Equipment, he did not know that this kind of equipment contained Unique Attributes, which had various odd abilities.
As said by Peng Yanbing, pieces of Tool Spirit Equipment were also close to being categorized as spirits. Judging from how several Venerable Ones fought over the poisonous pill’s spirit, one could imagine how significant this sort of attribute was.
Ou Yangming happened to discover a second Unique Attribute within the same day.
He found it hard to believe his discovery.
‘Self-recovery—1 point of Durability is recovered every day
‘This attribute…’
Ou Yangming fell silent for some time. He could not help but smile bitterly.
Faced with such an unconventional attribute, he did not know to cry or to laugh. Nevertheless, the Self-recovery attribute was probably quite hard to come by for ordinary people.
Every piece of equipment could be considered costly, but such a costly item would be slowly weakened and destroyed over time. At this time, the equipment would need to be fixed or it would turn into scrap once its Durability dropped to 0.
Despite that, it would not be easy to repair pieces of equipment. It would be fine if it was a normal piece of equipment but if it was a good quality one with various attributes and skills, the difficulty would be increased by a huge margin.
Not to mention ordinary people, even potent blacksmiths would be troubled by areas that they were not familiar with.
Therefore, the Self-recovery attribute would be great news for most people.
Having said that, this attribute was somewhat worthless for blacksmiths like Ou Yangming. This was because they could already repair pieces of equipment; they would at most spend a bit more time and have to top up some materials, but it would not be a difficult task.
Ou Yangming weighed the military saber in his hands and thought, ‘This Unique Attribute probably doesn’t have a bright future.’
However, he suddenly slowed down, and his eyes lit up.
This was because a question crossed his mind. ‘This Self-recovery won’t play an important role in this normal military saber, but what if it appears on pieces of powerful equipment?’
For instance, the Fine Grade magic tools in Peng Yanbing’s treasure room. Each of them has its strengths and most importantly, several special and rare materials would be required to either smith or fix them.
If not, no matter how skillful one was, one would not be able to perfectly fix them.
What if a bit of the white ore was incorporated into those precious pieces of equipment, causing them to possess the Self-recovery attribute?
Ou Yangming’s heart pounded. He finally understood that no attribute in this world was useless. One would only think that an attribute was worthless because one had not found the right way to use it. If one could find a way to fully unleash the attribute’s power, the attribute might help one to benefit unexpectedly.
The young fellow raised his eyebrow. Numerous thoughts crossed his mind, and he quickly found the best way to use this attribute.
One would only benefit the most by selling the best things to the people that needed them the most.
Ou Yangming released his Military Fire again. This time, instead of smithing a piece of equipment, he wanted to use the fire’s unique ability to draw the attribute from the military saber.
Nonetheless, he was instantly surprised by something else.
Just as his Military Fire burned and invaded the military saber, the white ore, which had become one with the saber, seemed to be able to sense his intention. The ore’s power detached itself from the equipment without warning and restored its original state.
It was only for a brief moment, but Ou Yangming spotted a white ore inside his Military Fire and on the military saber, and it was the treasure that had melted onto the saber earlier.
That said, instead of being drawn out by Ou Yangming, the white ore had escaped under the Military Fire’s pressure.
Yes, it escaped on its own as if it was not willing to be destroyed together with the military saber.
Ou Yangming did not know to cry or to laugh as he looked at the military saber in his hand. If he was not certain that the equipment did not have wisdom and was only a mineral, he would even suspect that it was transformed from a living being with intelligence.
He fell silent for some time before he sighed and reached out to remove the ore, then he carefully placed it in a lone space.
The object was too strange, so he had to be careful even if he wanted to use it.
After somewhat tidying up the room, Ou Yangming turned and left toward the biggest peak in the sect.
The peak was resided by the Beast King Sect’s spiritual sustenance—Yuqi the Venerable One.
It was a forbidden area for everyone in the sect, such that even great elders and sect elders could not set foot on it without permission.
Nevertheless, Ou Yangming was not from the Beast King Sect, and he had a special identity, so he did not need to care about that.