Signing-In: The Lazy Moon Goddess-Chapter 346: Armament Refining (2)

In the smithing room, Yue Xuexia was working on rune engraving that will add weight control to the white whip artifact she created for her sister, Yue Jixia. After finishing one up, she finally comes out and helps everyone cook the mutated sparrow that they caught. As for Shen Jueyang, he was milking the gluttonous brats for some more materials. After all, not all parts of mutated beings can be eaten, and most of these parts are good materials for armament making.

It seems impossible to make a beggar chicken with how huge the size of the mutated sparrow is. Thus, the sparrow meat was minced into sizable pieces, and Yue Xuexia decided to make a Karaage and some other chicken dishes. Even a burrito was made together with some chicken salad. When Tan Bingyu arrived for reports, a chicken feast was waiting for her. Half the dishes were sent to the Yue family and the Xia Clan’s old mansion by the spirit beasts.

Tan Bingyu appeared beside his mistress, who was resting in her hammock, while Shen Jueyang and Taiyang watched over the chicken barbecue she told them to grill.

"Mistress, this is the progress report on your subordinates. Thanks to the resources you left in Hidden Tan Clan, the number of Yuanying (Nascent Soul) and Jindan (Golden Core) realms had increased a lot. Most elders had reached Peak Jindan realm and some had broken through the Yuanying realm," reported Tan Bingyu.

Yue Xuexia asked, "How about the Xia Clan and the Yue family?"

"I don’t know the exact numbers; however, there is indeed an increase of strength among them, especially those with special physiques like the boy, Su Nui, you accepted before. He has reached the Peak Foundation realm and is about to reach Jindan as well."

"Mistress’ siblings had gone stronger as well thanks to their last adventure in the Moonlight Forest. Xiao Ji had properly reached Jindan Realm and Ruru finally reached Peak Innateness realm. Their growth is the fastest in their generation. Uncle Yue’s cultivation can’t see through it. Aunt Yue had reached the Yuanying realm. I don’t know how she did it though. Old Madam Su had reached the Golden core as well, but her prowess is that of Yuanying as her husband seems to have shared his dragon bloodline with her. Senior Xia had reached the Mid-God Transformation realm as well." Tan Bingyu reported.

Yue Xuexia said, "Sister Bingyu, you are in the Peak Golden Core realm. After I am done with making a new artifact for you, reaching Yuanying should be possible."

"Artifact?" Tan Bingyu was stunned by the words of her mistress.

Yue Xuexia said, "What kind of weapon do you prefer? I saw you using a sword, but if you have any requests, I will make it in the kind you like. Show me your current weapon."

Tan Bingyu didn’t hesitate and gave her silver sword to her mistress. Yue Xuexia used appraisal on it.

[Weapon name: Cold Steel

Type: Steel Sword

Elements: Partial Ice Element

Grade: Silver

Description: A sword made from refined cold steel. It had the ability to accept ice elemental qi, amplified the sword’s durability, and caused a slight freezing effect. This sword is at its limit and would break after a hundred more swings. Owner: Tan Bingyu.]

Yue Xuexia said, "Sister Bingyu, this sword is at its limit. Hundred swings more and it would break. Do you prefer swords?"

"No. I only use this as it was given by the Heavenly Sword Sect to Inner Disciples. My former master gave it to me. If possible, I want a soft sword instead. The kind that would harden once I run my qi in it," said Tan Bingyu. "But if that is not possible, I’m okay with a normal sword, Mistress."

"Your current sword is only silver grade, and your cultivation is too high to bear your qi. The only reason it still hasn’t broken until now is because of how soft you use it. So you wanted it to be more flexible. Then I need to add the ice ore stone to the dragon tendon. I should also make a short sword for close combat for Xiao Ji. The whip before can be used for long range attacks," Yue Xuexia started mumbling that she forgot about Tan Bingyu, stunned beside her.

Taiyang pats her shoulder and says, "Xue’er has been like that these days. She seems too focused on making weapons. I guess she plans to go to Cultivation Realm with us next year."

"You two watch the grill. I need to feed her without breaking her concentration," said Shen Jueyang.

Tan Bingyu asked Taiyang, "Does the Mistress truly know how to make a weapon? No, she just said Artifact just now."

"She had been going around the world looking for good materials. Even though she didn’t need one herself, Xue’er said she wanted to make some for her family and friends. Yes, she knows how to make one. Though she can’t make divine grade ones, king grade will be enough for her current level. Her first artifact was semi-divine grade. A whip for her sister, you want to see it?" Taiyang asked.

Tan Bingyu nodded her head and said, "Can I?"

"You can look after eating. The finished products are at the warehouse," said Taiyang.

After dinner, Yue Xuexia only rested for half an hour and finally entered the smithy once again with Shen Jueyang working as her assistant. In the warehouse, Taiyang and Tan Bingyu were looking at the gorgeous white whip with an emerald leaf pattern and a world tree branch crown at the handle.

Tan Bingyu was amazed. Though she can feel what grade this whip is, she can feel a powerful aura of water, wood, and dragon properties. Also, when she tried to touch it, she was rejected by it. Taiyang wasn’t surprised that Tan Bingyu was rejected by the artifact.

"It rejected me just now?" said Tan Bingyu.

Taiyang said, "Of course. That’s a semi-divine artifact. Even though it’s soul hasn’t fully been born, it has consciousness. It was born and created for one person. Except for its destined owner, only gods who can overpower it and its creator can touch it."

He grabs the white whip that suddenly wilts after it was picked up by Taiyang. It seems that this semi-divine weapon knows it can defeat Taiyang and can only allow the bastard to touch it. But for Tan Bingyu, who can’t overwhelm it, the artifact isn’t willing to be picked up by her.

Taiyang teasingly said, "Do you want to touch it? If I hold it while you try to touch it, you should be able to... Urgh~"

Whooshed!

The semi-divine artifact rebelled. It used its thorns to strangle Taiyang in anger. As if saying to Taiyang, if you dare to let her be touched by Tan Bingyu, it would pull his head off with her.

Taiyang clicked his tongue and said, "So fiesty~ Alright I’m kidding around."

It was only when Taiyang placed the artifact back in its display location that it retracted its thorns and returned to normal. Tan Bingyu was amazed that a weapon can move on its own. It seems the legend about divine artifacts having their own soul is real. Even though the white whip is just a semi-divine artifact, it can grow into a divine grade and give birth to its own awakened soul.

Tan Bingyu wasn’t offended that she couldn’t touch the whip and instead was amazed by it. "You’re amazing! I’m the second young miss who will definitely like you well."

The white whip inside the display case slightly waves its tip as if greeting Tan Bingyu. Tan Bingyu was delighted by such an event and greeted it as well. Before saying her goodbye and taking her leave. She still needs to train in preparation for her breakthrough to the Nascent Soul realm.

Inside the smithy, Yue Xuexia is now making her second artifact. She wanted to create the soft sword Tan Bingyu requested of her. Since she already made a design and a plan during dinner, Yue Xuexia only needed to do as she imagined before. This time she left the handling of the ice ore stone to Shen Jueyang while she handled the tendon. She needs to make it not too soft and not too hard. Just with the flexibility and sharpness of a sword.

On Shen Jueyang’s side, the ice ore stone in his hand started emitting frost at each strike of the hammer. His hand would be covered in ice at each contact with the ice ore. However, as someone known as a God of the Sun, this kind of frost can easily be melted by him. Though he made sure that his heat wouldn’t affect the ore during his handling. After flattening the ice ore into a thin sword, Shen Jueyang called Yue Xuexia to help her merge the thin ice ore with the dragon tendon. The two created the balance between cold and heat until the two materials melted into one.

Sigh~

Yue Xuexia said, "Jueyang, compress it. Then I will start the rune engraving afterwards."

"Okay. I will call you once it is completely compressed and merged. You can begin the other artifacts you plan to make in your mind. By the way, both your sisters have the same Lightning God physique as yours. If you are going to make a short sword for your second sister, use a material with lightning elements. The Lightning Golden Bamboo from before is a perfect material for it," said Shen Jueyang.

Yue Xuexia said, "I want to focus on water elemental material first. The third artifact... a bow should do. For Granny... Granny has wind and water roots. So I need materials with wind and water properties. I wonder if we still have enough dragon tendon for the bow string. The bow main body can be made with the world tree branches and dust it with wind elemental ore. Hm? I don’t remember gathering any wind element materials."

"Don’t worry. That Taiyang had taken out that wind sparrow. Though it’s only a nascent soul realm, it should be enough for someone with dual elemental roots. However, your youngest sister is a high-grade wind root possessor. With only Nascent Soul realm materials, her weapon will stop at Spirit grade at most," said Shen Jueyang.

Yue Xuexia said, "So I need to find a way to get wind elemental materials, at least God stage."

The long-missed system once again rang in Yue Xuexia’s head.

[Ding! The system had found that the mistress wanted to gather wind elemental materials. Please sign in to the Azure Dragon Nest to get what the Mistress wishes to find.]