Chapter 67: Finding a Young Servant

  Beautiful day with a long wind, inside the city streets.

  Hearing Xia Jia's disdainful tone, Hua Gongzi leaned lazily against the wall with a thoughtful expression.

  After a moment, his eyes sparkled with a faint smile, and the light in his eyes was so captivating that it was almost impossible to look away. He also had an aura that was hard to grasp. Then, he spoke in a leisurely tone, "Are you the great alchemist of the Xia family?"

  "Not bad, I am the refiner of the Xia family." The refiner said proudly with his head held high and chest out, "In the Xia family, I am ranked second only to one person, and I am the top among the rest."

  "I've long admired you." The Flower Master gazed at him with enchanting eyes, their gazes met, and in the smile that followed, his eyes seemed to hold a deep strategy.

  "Alright, alright." The chief alchemist's heart skipped a beat as he was unintentionally swept by his gaze. He thought to himself that it was fortunate that he was an older man, for the young man before him was simply too captivating and enchanting. If a woman were to see this person, she would likely go mad with infatuation and endless passion.

  But then a man's voice was heard, as gentle as a zither, his eyes gleaming with a sly charm: "I've heard that you're quite skilled in your craft, perhaps my artifact can be repaired by you?"

  "This, even if it's fixed, will still be useless." The chief refiner slowly shook his head. Since the Xia family said it couldn't be repaired, no matter what the reason was, it would probably be difficult to repair, and he didn't recognize this person at all. He thought that such a good-looking man who wasn't famous was probably not from a good place, let alone the Xia family had always been picky and wouldn't make anything for customers they looked down on.

  This person may have been intentionally excluded by the Xia family, and it is also possible that they deliberately said that the repair was not good.

  "Oh? But I've heard the details." The thin and refreshing sunlight shone on the man's neck and lower jaw, with a beautiful arc that had a jade-like texture.

  "This...". The chief alchemist hesitated for a moment.

  However, under the watchful eyes of everyone, he humiliated that young man from the Su family for a while, and now he had to say something reasonable.

  Then, the chief artifact refiner slowly said: "Because every artifact refiner's birth and growth require a lot of effort, personal quality requirements must be very high. Talent only accounts for one part, after all, only powerful families can cultivate one or two. Not only do you need to understand various spiritual arrays, but also be good at manipulating your divine sense. Moreover, the materials used for artifact refinement are extremely valuable. One careless mistake would render all previous efforts useless and completely destroy a magical artifact. Therefore, in terms of artifact refinement materials, ordinary sects simply cannot afford it. It's as difficult for an individual to cultivate artifact refinement as it is to reach the sky, so the Xia family is unparalleled in this aspect."

  "Oh!" The demonic man's eyes were focused, his head slightly raised, as if listening very seriously.

  Probably influenced by him, the eyes of the surrounding crowd also turned to this alchemist, giving him a kind of indescribable sense of pride.

  Who says that a refiner must be in the background, now everyone's gaze towards him is filled with reverence, this feeling is really great.

  "The birth of a master equipment craftsman requires an unimaginable amount of money and time, it's the accumulation of countless crafting materials, the higher the rank, the more so, and the experience of failure is also immeasurable."

  "Ah, that makes sense." The demonic young man gave a charming smile, suddenly becoming incredibly alluring, as if countless halos were fluttering around him.

  "But it's essential to know that repair and refinement are completely different, and not just any refiner can repair a law instrument."

  "Oh? Why?" The man narrowed his eyes, his voice charming.

  The chief artifact refiner smiled proudly and said, "Because in terms of array patterns, each family has one or two untransmitted array patterns as the main array pattern for their own family's artifact refinement. It is precisely because the main array patterns are different that the refined artifacts have different effects. The artifacts refined by different families are completely different."

  The man's eyes, like black jade, floated with a hint of seductiveness. He changed to a more comfortable posture and leaned lazily against the wall, then asked: "So, your meaning is that if there's a problem with the main array pattern, people from different families can't repair each other's refined artifacts?"

  The chief artifact refiner said slowly: "It's not entirely for this reason, because repairing artifacts requires absolutely formidable strength and also requires extensive knowledge."

  As he spoke, he reached out and tapped his own forehead, saying: "Not only must you understand various array patterns, but your divine sense must also be strong enough."

  The demon boy smiled lightly and said, "That's right, everything in this world has a rule, the formation pattern is the most mysterious rule, without a strong divine consciousness, it can't be manipulated."

  The chief artifact refiner felt that the other party was seeking his help, so he was indirectly complimenting himself. He smiled proudly and said: "For example, if you want to repair a set of four-grade artifacts... To repair such high-grade artifacts, our Xia family must have done some research. While it's not good to just talk about it on paper, we also need to analyze it carefully. Unlike some inexperienced people who rush into repairing artifacts without thinking, they might end up ruining the artifact without even realizing it."

  He had a hint of meaning in his words and glanced at Su Mo's direction, seeing that the other party was holding a device in his hand, fiddling with the four-product artifact of Qingyun Sect.

  He snorted with laughter, what a ignorant child.

  When the time comes and the whole set of methods is ruined, how will he end it?

  Then, the chief equipment refiner of Xia's family began to talk endlessly about some equipment-related terms, boasting his own talent with a flood of words. He analyzed eight theories from one array pattern and finally concluded that it was absolutely impossible for Huagongzi to repair.

  "What a pity!" The demonic man hooked his lips, and his thin lips had a kind of enchanting luster.

  "It's a pity, but in any case, Xia Jia's refining skills are unmatched and can't be compared to those casual refiners."

  "Is that so?" The man chuckled and suddenly looked at the opposite side, saying: "Then why... can this young Su repair something that you guys can't?"

  "What? That's impossible." The chief alchemist immediately turned around in astonishment and looked towards Su Mo's direction.

  "Alright, your flying sword has been repaired." Su Mo walked forward with a calm and confident gaze.

  "What? How can it be so fast?" The messenger of Qingyun Sect was shocked.

  His face was slightly red and his ears were hot, because just now his attention had been completely absorbed by the garrulous performance of Xia Jia's alchemy master.

  The people around him naturally also came back to their senses, and they couldn't help but look at each other in surprise, whispering to each other and discussing: "Just now I didn't notice how he did it, this set of artifacts the young master of the Su family actually repaired so quickly in front of so many people? How did he repair it? Didn't see him make any big moves?"

  The Xia family's refiners were extremely shocked. After all, Su Mo was really too young and in their eyes, he wasn't a qualified refiner at all.

  No matter what technical profession, only older people give a sense of reliability.

  The value of experience cannot be compared with money and youth.

  Of course, ordinary artifact refiners usually quietly repair in a secret room.

  How is it possible for this young man to have accomplished such a feat without using any large-scale tools, and in full view of everyone?

  The vast majority of artifact refiners prefer a secluded and isolated environment, which allows them to focus their minds and concentrate on refining artifacts with utmost attention, lest their divine sense goes awry.

  Only when one's spiritual power has reached a certain level can they no longer avoid crowds.

  However, it is also possible that the refining master who opened a shop here was no different from an ordinary ironwork shop, and customers could come and go freely, only because conditions did not permit.

  Of course, their suspicion and distrust are secondary. What's important is that even an exceptionally skilled equipment refiner wouldn't be able to repair a set of artifacts in such a short period of time.

  Unless the artifact was refined by himself and he is familiar with any of its links.

  So, there must be something fishy going on here.

  Then, everyone's gaze at Su Mo was filled with suspicion and disdain.

  At this time, Su Mo had already placed the magic weapon in front of the messenger and said calmly: "Alright, you can give it a try."

  "Ah, okay, okay." The messenger came back to his senses after a while, smiled awkwardly, and hastily poured spiritual energy into the artifact.

  As soon as the spiritual power was injected, twenty-four pure golden flying swords immediately emitted dazzling light and floated in front of him in an orderly manner.

  Not bad, none were missing. The deputy sect master could only control eight handles that day. This set of flying swords was short of sixteen, and it lost its greatest significance.

  He was overjoyed in his heart, and from now on, as long as he manipulated any one of the flying swords, the other twenty-three flying swords would also have a hint of mysterious tacit understanding, following the first flying sword to tremble and float, as if waiting for orders at all times. The twenty-four flying swords, no matter how they changed their formation, could always maintain their tacit understanding with each other.

  The envoy was overjoyed in his heart. In a moment, the twenty-four flying swords formed the Four Symbol Star Formation, and in another moment, they formed the Forest Deer Million Image Formation.

  Mysterious and unpredictable, with endless changes.

  It's really fixed! The messenger's eyes gleamed with joy, and he continuously manipulated his spiritual power. Twenty-four flying swords revolved around him like a galloping horse, their rhythmic arrangement flashing and fluttering, as if floating clouds and silk threads had formed an impenetrable defensive formation.

  "Awesome, it's really too awesome!" He couldn't help but exclaim loudly.

  "Not bad, it's indeed fixed." The flower gentleman smiled with a radiant smile, his sparkling eyes shining like jewels.

  Wen Renyi's gaze remained fixed on Su Mo, his eyes involuntarily lighting up.

  He was the only one who saw clearly from start to finish how his opponent repaired the law device, and he was extremely shocked in his heart.

  And he slowly walked up to Su Mo, stretched out his sleeve and wiped her sweat for her.

  Everyone saw Dongling Wei's commander-in-chief treating this young man from the Su family with such kindness and was even more afraid to underestimate him.

  "Indeed, indeed." At this time, the shopkeeper of Shangmeng came out again, couldn't help but lightly clapped his hands. Just now when Su Mo and Xia Jia were making trouble, he didn't show up, after all, it had nothing to do with Shangmeng. As a merchant, he only cared about profit and knew how to protect himself. Now that he saw something beneficial, he immediately came out, exclaiming in admiration: "The young master of the Su family is so young yet has such strength, and is uniquely skilled! I took a closer look just now, twenty-four flying swords attacking and defending with ease, mysterious and unpredictable! The young master must have done extensive research on formations, right?"

  "The shopkeeper's praise is misplaced, I only know a thing or two." Su Mo smiled faintly and raised her eyes.

  Recalling her past life, after meeting Ah Tuan, she saw that he had quite a few jade slips with arrays drawn on them. Since she never forgot what she read, she naturally remembered many of them.

  The opponent's jade slip contains a profound and complex formation, changing unpredictably, making it difficult to comprehend.

  The formation pattern on this set of artifacts is simply too easy for her.

  "I didn't expect that the other party could repair this artifact with just a little knowledge." The Flower Master smiled leisurely, his eyes flowing like the gentle light of the moon, and said softly: "It seems that your summer family's instrument maker is indeed not very good at their job, especially fond of talking on paper."

  At this moment, the face of the Xia family's chief artifact refiner was quite colorful.

  But his face was thick to an immeasurable degree, and he immediately sank his face and said: "Everyone, this can't be the one he fixed, this must be a scam."

  The other alchemists chimed in unison: "That's right, it's a scam, that envoy is just a pawn."

  Except for the people of Qingyun Sect, the surrounding crowd did not understand these things and felt that what the alchemists said was very reasonable. After all, that young man was too young.

  The Qingyun Zong messenger wanted to step forward and argue, but was blocked by Su Mo with a hand gesture.

  All she saw was her calm and composed demeanor, her eyes at ease, making the messenger feel that this young man was indeed of a mature temperament.

  The chief artifact refiner then looked up and retorted, "You see, that artifact must be a good artifact after all. Just now, I haven't even inspected whether this artifact has any problems or not. They said it was fixed, but they were just talking to themselves."

  "A mere outsider, daring to deceive in this place, even if refining equipment, one must put on some appearance."

  "It's unheard of and utterly absurd to repair a broken artifact with just a wave of one's hand."

  "So young, what do you understand? Have a famous teacher to teach? Have experience? Have seniority?"

  Many craftsmen rely on their own reason and speak recklessly, forcing others.

  The messenger turned pale with fright, and it's said that these alchemists have always been the most troublesome people to deal with since ancient times. Indeed, this was not an exaggeration.

  The chief alchemist coldly said: "Nowadays young people are becoming more and more ridiculous, more and more unaware of the words 'shame'."

  Finally, Su Mo turned around with a smile, her smile deep and charming. "What a shameless person! I will return your words to you unchanged. Wasn't it you who said from the beginning that you wouldn't give the Su family the method to refine the artifact? And isn't it also you who said just now that there's no way to inspect this artifact? You are indeed someone who can argue with both logic and illogic, and your words are truly overwhelming. It seems that all the reason in the world has been monopolized by people like you."

  "Kid, you're really arrogant." The alchemist's face was filled with anger.

  "Don't be deceived by this young Su, he's just pretending to be mysterious. I, the old man, guarantee with my honor as a member of the Xia family,"

  At this time, Wen Renyi's eyes were cold without a hint of warmth, "So the Xia family still has dignity?"

  Perhaps it was because he had dealt with Mu Bo's wrist too heavily, and also the notorious name of Dongling Wei, which had a deterrent effect.

  It's said that this person's strength is terrifying, able to kill without spilling blood. The arrogant air of the many alchemists immediately dissipated by half.

  They can still be arrogant in front of others, but they cannot be in front of this person. The other party is a sword cultivator and is said to be from Kunlun Mountain.

  All famous swords in the world come from Kunlun, where did they have the chance to refine them, and if one is not good, it's likely that they will be severely punished by each other.

  In short, Alchemists are still theoretical, but Sword Cultivators are all about practicing with swords first and then theorizing.

  But seeing the crowd's gaze, he calmly and coldly said: "Only today did I realize that the Xia family's equipment refining technique is actually spoken with their mouths. As they say, a gentleman moves his mouth but not his hands, while an equipment refiner moves his hands but not his mouth. You all shouldn't be called equipment refiners, but rather should be called mouth refiners."

  The crowd of alchemists was suddenly speechless, each unable to utter a word.

  Su Mo didn't expect Wen Ren Yi to be so overbearing, and a playful smile flashed in her beautiful eyes. She turned back to look at the shopkeeper of Shang Meng and asked lightly, "Boss, I heard that your Shang Meng can introduce alchemists to people, and also evaluate alchemists, right?"

  The shopkeeper of the Merchant Alliance immediately said with a bow: "That's right, but the Merchant Alliance can only evaluate and qualify refiners below fourth rank. After all, higher-level refiners are already rare in the Jianghu world, and those from major hidden sects won't appear here either, making our evaluation useless."

  Su Mo said: "Since it's convenient, then give me a qualification as an equipment refiner today, how about that?"

  The shopkeeper of the Business Alliance smiled and said: "It's possible, but you must refine it once in front of everyone."

  The Su Mo's eyes turned and looked at Hua Gongzi, slowly saying: "This young master, just now you said that there is a set of artifacts that need to be repaired?"

  "Not bad, does Su family's young master have a way?" The man leaning against the wall asked in a casual tone.

  "Why don't you take it out here and see how the Xia family's equipment masters can handle it?"

  The many Refiners immediately turned gloomy, this little one was openly provoking them.

  Is this a challenge to the Refiner of the Xia family?

  The head equipment master of the Xia family secretly thought: The magic weapon of the demon boy in front of him might not be anything special, perhaps it was just that the Xia family didn't want to repair it.

  Of course, it's true that the other party's artifact is difficult to repair. So they brought five incredibly powerful artifact refiners from the Xia family. Even if nothing else, with their combined strength, they should be able to fix it.

  "Alright, this young master will take it out then."

  "Let's see whether it is us who can mend or him who can mend?"

  "Not bad, let this little one take a look at what a true alchemy master is."

  In the city, everyone could see clearly what was happening here. The crowd had already formed a dense circle, with people packed in three layers inside and out, and even more onlookers craning their necks from the upper floors. But then they saw the charming smile spreading across the face of the young master as he pulled out a long box from his hand and said calmly, "Since you all can't agree, to prove that you're not just bragging, I'll take out this set of tools. Let's see who can fix it!"

  The man slowly opened the box, and what was revealed inside was not an ordinary attacking instrument, but a beautiful musical instrument.

  Everyone's eyes lit up in front of them, a sixth-grade magic weapon, this is no longer a matter of three six nine grades.

  This instrument is the Phoenix Vina, a fine product among the six products.

  There is a way that the sound-attacking category of Daoist treasures are hard to come by, let alone this Feng Huang Yan Yin which uses rare materials refined into shape, with sounds changing unpredictably, high and low pitches reaching the heavens and entering the earth, able to break seals and dispel illusions.

  The Xia family's refining masters saw this object and their eyes widened involuntarily. This was the most extraordinary magical treasure they had ever seen.

  Everyone couldn't help but speculate about what material the phoenix's elegant sound was made of.

  They have never seen these materials before.

  Now, the highest level of refiner in the Xia family is sixth grade.

  That is to say, they can refine six-grade artifacts, but they cannot repair six-grade artifacts.

  But at present, they haven't even seen this sixth-grade artifact, and it really makes them feel that they are ignorant.

  At this time, the chief artifact refiner of the Xia family finally understood that this man was not rejected by the Xia family, but indeed could not be repaired. A big shot who can own such a high-quality artifact will naturally become the guest of honor of the Xia family. Unfortunately, he and several other artifact refiners were not present at that time, so they didn't know what this man's background was.

  "The Flower Master, I'm afraid this method won't work for the Xia family." The boss of Shangmeng walked over.

  "Oh, you think so." The flower gentleman raised his eyes and gave him a faint glance.

  "Not bad, you are the number one supplier of my business alliance, so the rare equipment in the world is all provided by you. This thing looks like a rarity at first glance, and nothing from your place is not an extremely rare treasure."

  Upon hearing the words of the merchant alliance's shopkeeper, Xia family's chief artifact refiner narrowed his eyes, and the other party's identity was on the verge of being revealed.

  This person was once the most mysterious supplier in the seven countries, and the goods he provided were all rare items.

  Moreover, this person's identity is absolutely mysterious, no one knows his true origin, and no one knows what kind of background he has.

  However, he can go to places where ordinary people cannot reach, likes to be carefree and unrestrained, and enjoys traveling the world.

  He is said to be rich beyond compare, yet he views money as dirt; he acts on a whim, yet he is also extremely pragmatic.

  He is said to like all beautiful things, but he especially dislikes beautiful women.

  It is said that there is no instrument in the world that he cannot play, but this person uses his heart as music.

  Wherever he went, he was an object of reverence for all people, and even royal relatives were no exception.

  This person is the mysterious - Huā Xī Róng.

  At this moment, just as the head of the Xia family's refining equipment was shocked, Su Mo had slowly come forward to check.

  "She glanced at it for a moment, then slowly analyzed and said: 'Young master, this instrument should be forged with fierce fire, the material is also extremely rare, can make the sound of the music become very wide in range. The flame forging has three points of ferocity, but it's easy to damage the material, you can see that the forging was too violent, although the power increased greatly, it's easy to make the array invalid, as long as the array is restored, it can be used again.'"

  Huā Xī Róng's gaze slowly turned to Sū Mò, seemingly thoughtful: "What you said seems reasonable, but can you restore the formation pattern?"

  Su Mo said calmly: "Alright, if you're willing to trust me, I can fix it for you."

  Hua Xirong gazed at Su Mo steadily for a moment before nodding and saying, "Alright, you can fix it then."

  However, at this time, several alchemists from the Xia family immediately came out to intercept: "Hua Gongzi, wait a minute, wait a minute."

  Hua Xiurong smiled lightly and said, "What's going on here? Can you all fix it too?"

  The chief refiner's face turned red and said, "No, you mustn't be deceived by this person. Although people can't be judged by their appearance, have you ever seen a six-grade refiner as young as him?"

  Others said: "Yes, your law instrument is worth a fortune at first glance. Why do you want to let a child repair it for you? Isn't that too risky?"

  "Not bad! What if he accidentally destroys this entire artifact, wouldn't that be a huge loss?"

  "Flower gentleman, think thrice before acting, or else you will regret it later."

  "Oh? You're all so concerned about me, aren't you?" Huā Xī Róng's beautiful face curved into a faint, cold smile, with a hint of sarcasm.

  Several people looked somewhat embarrassed at this...

  Upon hearing this, Su Mo smiled faintly, "Flower Master, if you feel uneasy, you don't have to find me for repairs."

  "Xia family's chief artifact refiner was previously embarrassed, but now he has come to his senses. 'Flower gentleman, look at this young man who doesn't even have confidence in himself, why do you need to find him? He just wants to prove that he is stronger than us old people and then show off, without considering the consequences, unlike us who take responsibility for every artifact.'"

  Hua Xirong curved the corner of her mouth, but seemed to say indifferently: "Actually, this instrument is not the best for me, you are making a big fuss over nothing. This thing is just temporarily needed, if it can't be used, it's no different from destroying it. It's better to let him repair it."

  Since Hua Gongzi has said it to this extent, the Xia family members also couldn't refute him.

  "Can Su Family's young master change to a quieter place for his practice?" asked the shopkeeper of Shangmeng.

  "No need, this place is fine." Su Mo smiled lightly.

  At this moment, the Xia family's refiners couldn't help but look down on him with disdain.

  They thought that refining equipment was a noble and unparalleled technique, especially for such a high-quality six-product artifact. It's actually being repaired in this noisy environment, what's the difference between it and those street vendors who refine equipment? Just like cooking, how can a roadside stall compare to a master chef in a restaurant? This kid is so disdainful of the art of refining equipment, and everyone's face twisted in disgust.

  "How can he start practicing on the streets? What's the difference between him and those street practitioners?" someone couldn't help but say.

  "These Xia family people actually look down on us." Several street-refining masters who were watching the commotion furrowed their brows, "I hope this young man can win a round and take a look."

  Su Mo took out a Ling Stone and flicked his finger, igniting a flame on his index finger.

  In an instant, the people around had clearly felt the temperature drop sharply, and Su Mo's fingers had already been covered with white frost.

  What a formidable Frostfire! Everyone's gaze was fixed on Su Mo, their eyes shining with incredulity.

  The faces of the surrounding alchemists were extremely pale, and the young man in front of them actually had such a fierce flame. They could see that this was a rare kind of fire, how did the other person's luck get so good, even having this rare ice-cold fire.

  Su Mo furrowed her brow, and her spiritual sense and divine power slowly probed into the array patterns of the artifact. In the next instant, a complex pattern diagram appeared before her eyes.

  Her consciousness quickly split into countless ones, like a net slowly opening up.

  After a continuous influx of spiritual energy, at the same time she saw that a section of the formation pattern had changed.

  Slowly, the spiritual energy surged forth, and the damaged areas in that array pattern were precisely where the spiritual energy could not pass through.

  After the first inspection step was completed, Su Mo concentrated her energy, visually inspecting the damaged array pattern, thinking about how to repair it. Then she slowly and steadily continued to input spiritual power into it, while also slowly placing the icy flames on top of it, quickly driving out the impurities inside the artifact.

  Suddenly, Su Mo's fingertips moved, her finger technique was mysterious and indescribable.

  At this moment, everyone only felt that Su Mo's ten fingers were no longer ordinary fingers. They fluttered up and down, intertwined with each other, as if ten perfect, slender white elves were dancing together, entwining and bewildering people, charming and elegant. Everyone's gaze was already fixed on the tip of each other's fingers, their faces filled with incredible expressions.

  Her fingertips were like a wonderful dance, and also like a perfect brush, drawing the ever-changing patterns of the array.

  Those slender fingers are incredibly beautiful, with a wonderful rhythm and cadence.

  Those icy flames seemed to have ignited countless stars in the Phoenix's Sanskrit, each strand of spiritual energy seemingly becoming a part of Su Mo's fingertips...

  Everyone's heartbeat seemed to move in sync with the rhythm of the young man's fingertips, and it was only then that they felt the extraordinary craftsmanship of this Su family youngster!

  Fingertips like handprints create a dazzling dance of colorful ribbons, those soft hands, those beautiful hands, like fluttering butterflies, spreading wings like phoenixes, involuntarily attracting everyone's gaze.

  His finger movements were extremely fast, causing everyone's eyes to be dazzled and their minds to be bewildered.

  Lian Hua's eyes also became slightly deeper!

  Su Mo took a light breath, and the flame on his fingertips shot up, accompanied by a crackling sound in his ears.

  The flame in her hand made a "hissing" sound, and the white flame suddenly surged, although it was fire, but it was extremely cold and hit the embryo of Feng Huang's voice. The fusion of cold and heat, in an instant, the light pattern of the array method appeared clearly, only to see that the pattern diagram from head to tail was drawn out by her with the tip of her spiritual power, truly perfect and flawless, the spiritual power flowed smoothly in the instrument, coming and going lightly, without any hindrance.

  But the surface color of the Phoenix Mantra gradually emitted a bright glow, and exquisite five-colored flower patterns appeared around it.

  The light flashed in this instant, looking extremely luxurious and noble.

  "Look, the young man has actually fixed it. I really didn't expect that this young man... would actually repair a sixth-grade artifact? He's actually succeeded." The people around him were all incredulous, each of them deeply shocked in their hearts.

  "Could it be that someone who refines instruments in a place where people come and go actually has such an exceptional instrument-refining technique?" The surrounding instrument-refiners who understood the trade couldn't help but look at Su Mo with disbelief.

  "This is art! It's really too amazing!" Someone was so shocked that their eyeballs were about to drop out.

  "Tsk tsk, refining equipment is one of them, this technique, I don't even know what to say in praise."

  "After all, we street alchemists aren't completely useless." The crowd's gaze towards Su Mo was like that of an idol.

  "With Su Jia's young master as a model, who says that street style can't represent art?" The crowd felt that their own value had increased significantly.

  At this time, the alchemist of the Xia family had already put away his disdainful expression. Since everyone was an alchemist, they naturally knew who was better and who was worse. Defeated was defeated, their pride was thoroughly crushed. When the opponent's strength exceeded theirs by several times, what else could they say? They could only silently prepare to leave.

  "Uncle and aunts of the Xia family, wait for me, please take me with you." Xia Yuer begged pitifully beside them.

  "Fine, here are two second-grade crystal stones, consider them the ransom for the young mistress." The chief artifact refiner put down the crystal stones.

  "Fine, take her away then. Leaving her here is just a waste of time." Su Mo's eyes narrowed, the smile not reaching his eyes.

  Xia Yu'er pouted and swung her sleeves, her face darkening. Su Mo looked at her with a meaningful smile, Xia Yu'er's heart skipped a beat as she felt he didn't intend to let her off easily. Unbeknownst to her, he would soon do something that would completely destroy her status as the eldest daughter of the Xia family, making it impossible for her and Xia Ze to turn things around in the Xia household. At this moment, she suddenly saw Wen Renyi's ice fox staring at her chest, and she jumped back like a startled rabbit.

  "Oh dear, unfortunately I forgot something." Suddenly, Su Mo said with a drifting gaze.

  "What's going on?" Wen Renyi stood with his hands behind his back and asked in a soft voice.

  "I forgot to make a bet with these alchemists; if they lose, it's better to leave behind a few more spirit stones."

  "I didn't expect you to be a money lover." Wen Renyi looked at her and couldn't help but curve his lips.

  At this time, the shopkeeper of Shangmeng hurried forward and said: "Young Master Su, your refining skills are quite good this time. Although I can only give you a fourth-grade refiner's token, you must have more than that. This is the refiner qualification token of our Shangmeng. From now on, you will be recognized as a refiner by Shangmeng. It's really an honor to cooperate with you in the future!"

  Su Mo took over the sign and smiled lightly, "Very good, I hope we have more opportunities to cooperate in the future."

  "Alright, alright, from now on, having this token means you're officially a Refiner, and it will bring many conveniences." The shopkeeper nodded repeatedly, after all, he was a businessman who understood the significance of cooperating with a Refiner, and naturally wanted to curry favor with a Refiner with boundless prospects.

  "By the way, Young Master, my compensation for repairing the magical artifact is one-tenth of its value." Su Mo turned his head to look at Hua Xican, with a brilliant light in his beautiful eyes and a charming smile on his lips, and continued: "I'm a bit tired this time, so just give me the silver note, Young Master, and I'll be off."

  Hua Xirong smiled lightly and slowly pulled out a gold ticket worth 100,000 taels, stunning everyone present.

  One hundred thousand taels of gold, just a slight movement of the hand, high-ranking refiners are indeed a lucrative profession.

  Watching Su Mo and Wen Renyi leave, Hua Xirong lazily sat in a nearby teahouse, poured herself a cup of tea, and said softly: "Interesting."

  The shopkeeper of the Shangmeng came to him and said politely, "I don't know what the Flower Master wants to do outside this time, specially coming out from his family?"

  Hua Xirong's expression was listless, and she said in a light tone: "You don't know, in my family, there are maids everywhere. Looking around, it's all flowers and brocade, although it's not the imperial palace, it's comparable to the three palaces and six courtyards. It's really annoying. I came out to find a decent little servant boy."

  The shopkeeper of the merchant alliance smiled obsequiously and said, "I think the young man that Master Hua has taken a liking to must also be someone extraordinary."

  Hua Xirong nodded, "Not bad, I think that young man from the Su family was quite good earlier."

  The shopkeeper of the merchant alliance couldn't help but laugh and said, "It's hard for you to find a young man outside, I heard that in your place it's a Buddhist country, all the young men have become monks."

  Huā Xī Róng yòu yōu lǎn de yī zhī shǒu zhī zhe miàn jiá, cè pā zài zhuō shàng, lěng bīng bīng dào: "Nǐ cuò le, wǒ nà li bù shì fó guó dù, ér shì mó guó dù."

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