Chapter 1307

Moreover, the garments had only just been crafted and had not yet undergone preliminary improvement.

The result was that as soon as improvement began, it failed again.

All the materials were wasted.

Feng Xiu broke out in a sweat from the anxiety.

Zhao Chi knew she had not failed on purpose—after all, her sincerity level had already reached 10 points.

"It's all right, Feng Xiu. I'll take you through the crafting once more. Just follow me."

"All right. I'm truly sorry—my ability is just too poor…"

"It has nothing to do with ability. Your tailoring skill is already past 110 points. It must be a difficulty issue."

Zhao Chi personally piloted her body and walked her through it five times.

When she crafted it on her own, she could indeed succeed some of the time.

But the failure rate was still very high.

Feng Xiu was nearly frantic enough to cry.

Zhao Chi laughed and said, "What's there to cry about? Don't you usually love fooling around and laughing with Tang Ruan?"

Feng Xiu cried as she wiped her tears: "I feel I've let you down. You've trained me so carefully, yet I can't even stably complete the most basic improvement. I can't help you, and I feel deeply guilty."

From the moment Feng Xiu had failed three times in a row, Zhao Chi realized this garment's difficulty was probably higher than he had imagined.

Feng Xiu's current profession rank was Advanced Tailor.

Although her professional skill value had reached Expert level, she was still an Advanced Tailor.

And Li Ruanyu had previously told Zhao Chi that even Master-level tailors had a low success rate with the stockings he crafted.

Although those Master-level tailors had never had the chance to receive guidance from Zhao Chi like this, they were still Master-level after all.

A full two tiers above Feng Xiu, yet their success rate was just as low.

Then one couldn't blame Feng Xiu.

It was mainly because of the materials.

The spider-girl silk produced by Gu Qing, and Tang Ruan's jade armor—both belonged to extremely special materials.

Gu Qing's silk thread was extremely fine, and its elasticity was excellent.

The "fineness" alone sent the difficulty soaring.

The weaving method was also very different.

Feng Xiu only had two hands; weaving such soft, delicate thread was indeed very hard.

And Tang Ruan's jade armor was the same.

Although her jade armor was essentially soft skin at its core,

once it hardened, it had nothing to do with softness at all.

It became extremely tough, brittle, and hard.

When crafting high heels, one needed an extremely deft sense of just the right degree; otherwise it would simply shatter.

In short, the difficulty was also very high.

Looking at it this way, an Advanced Tailor was indeed not enough to craft Zhao Chi's garments.

As for the blacksmiths like Ding Dang, the reason they could manage was that they only faced ordinary materials.

They only performed improvements on ordinary iron equipment and refined iron equipment.

So they were still up to the task.

Unfortunately, 17 improvement points had already been spent converting those 201 points of professional skill into tailoring.

If it were switched back to forging, another 17 points would have to be spent.

And after the writing was finished, Zhao Chi would still have to switch it back to tailoring, wasting 34 improvement points for nothing.

It felt a bit of a pity.

Zhao Chi currently had a Master-level Forging Insight in hand, which could instantly raise his own forging skill by 50 points.

But Zhao Chi did not want to use it.

After all, gaining professional experience was now much easier than before.

Low-tier skill values could be raised very easily.

Using the artisan insight felt somewhat wasteful—after all, each profession's insight could only be used once. Better to hold onto it for now.

Then forget it.

No change.

Continue crafting Master-level Tailoring Insights.

Because this item could not only be used by himself, but also sold.

Zhao Chi had checked before: both Forging Insights and Tailoring Insights were worth 200 contribution points.

After all, for other lords, the leather armor crafted by tailors was also very important and had an extremely high usage rate.

Then no change—continue crafting.

However, it was clear that Feng Xiu was still very unwilling to accept it.

Two days later, just as Zhao Chi had finished settling things for Gu Qing and the others, Feng Xiu grabbed Zhao Chi at the door and pulled him to the tailor shop.

"What's wrong? In such a rush?"

Zhao Chi had no time to go to the Carefree Spring to wash, and followed Feng Xiu into the tailor shop.

"My lord, look—would this be of any help to your progress?"

On the tailor's table lay four types of half-finished garments.

Stockings, high heels, blouses, and pajamas—all half completed.

The fine craftsmanship within hadn't been touched at all, but the overall framework and the main veins were all completed.

Zhao Chi only needed to handle the most core, most precise steps.

It's like a date between a man and a woman.

Feng Xiu helped Zhao Chi with the preliminary stages: chatting, eating, watching a movie, booking a room, bathing, even getting the emotions right.

Zhao Chi only needed to complete the main event.

Although she couldn't finish a qualified improved-style garment, it did save quite a bit of time.

Generally speaking, making a pair of stocking-style garments takes about 2.5 hours; the improvement requires an additional 1.25 hours, and the super-improvement another 1.25 hours.

The difficulty increases step by step.

The final super-improvement is the hardest, so Zhao Chi left it for himself to do.

Originally, the plan was to have Feng Xiu and the others complete the improvement step.

But Feng Xiu and the others simply didn't have the ability; they couldn't even complete the first 2.5-hour step with quality and quantity guaranteed.

But she could finish the simplest part of that first 2.5 hours.

About 50% or so.

This way, Zhao Chi could save 1.25 hours.

One could say that the original 5 hours of stockings, with Feng Xiu's semi-processing, became 3.75 hours.

Production time directly reduced by 25%.

Although it's still quite a gap from the previous plan, it's still not bad.

At least it shows that Feng Xiu really is doing everything she can to help Zhao Chi.

Then this is enough.

Worth promoting a few more senior tailors.

Up to today.

30 senior tailors, 100 senior blacksmiths.

Still have 25 Master Tailor Insights and 10 Master Blacksmith Insights in hand.

He'll take these to the exchange later and see if they can be sold.

Zhao Chi only knows that this kind of Master-level insight is exchanged for 200 contribution points, but doesn't know how much it'd be worth converted to gold coins.

Feels like about 200 gold coins, right?

At least he's never seen this kind of thing through channels like the exchange, so there's no reference for now.

He'll go to the exchange later to take another look.

Today is already November 12th.

Zhao Chi has been soaking in the Teaching Hall for this half month.