Chapter 350: Black Silk and Skin Silk

The entire production cycle looped for 36 hours.

Until 3 p. m.

During those 36 hours, Zhao Chi consumed a total of 120 Quick-Work Talismans.

He produced 200 pairs of standard-quality stockings.

Among them, 190 pairs were ultra-thin ultra-silky stockings, and 10 pairs were ultra-thin ultra-elastic stockings.

【Ultra-Silky Type】 Movement Speed +20%, Defense +100%, Durability 50 points

【Ultra-Elastic Type】 Movement Speed +70%, Durability 50 points

As he crafted, his technique grew increasingly practiced.

After all, he had figured it out on his own; the first few dozen times were clumsy, but now he had over 350-odd experience points, so his technique was quite familiar.

Add to that Tang Ruan's nimble fingers, and now even when producing standard quality, he could keep the production + improvement time down to 6 hours.

As a result, Zhao Chi's Tailoring skill and Stocking Specialty both increased quite a bit.

Both reached 12 points.

It had only been a few days, yet the numbers had already reached what an ordinary tailor would need over a year to achieve.

After all, everything Zhao Chi produced was super-improved fashion gear, and the difficulty was extremely high.

After all, he had consumed 120 Quick-Work Talismans, equivalent to 1,200 work hours.

Both time and difficulty were there.

The rapid improvement also matched Zhao Chi's expectations.

However, Tang Ruan was even happier.

During this period, Tang Ruan's main job was praising Zhao Chi in her heart and cheering him on.

Anyway, Tang Ruan had nothing else to do.

Zhao Chi didn't mind either.

Although during work, it was still best to concentrate fully.

But long hours of work had to be regulated; for instance, those female craftsmen all worked cheerfully.

Compared with fully concentrated work, this approach was indeed slightly less efficient.

But this way, one could keep going for a long time.

Whereas fully concentrated crafting couldn't be sustained for too long.

Besides, having a cute girl cheering you on beside you, singing a line or two from time to time, was still quite nice.

When the two of them entered the dazed state, Tang Ruan became even livelier.

She even took the dirty jokes Gu Qing had told her and shared them with Zhao Chi.

Though quite a few of them were originally told to Gu Qing by Zhao Chi.

That doesn't matter.

After these 120 Quick-Work Talismans' worth of work time, although Tang Ruan didn't have Zhao Chi's ability to see the hidden grey data, she had nevertheless learned seven or eight tenths of Zhao Chi's technique.

After all, the vast majority of weaving techniques were repetitive.

Tang Ruan had been crafting alongside Zhao Chi the whole time, so even just watching she could pick up quite a bit.

She had even reminded Zhao Chi of technique issues a few times.

Moreover, Zhao Chi was using her body to craft, so she had muscle memory.

In the end, Tang Ruan's Tailoring skill and Stocking Specialty also both increased by 2 points.

She had advanced even ahead of those diligent female tailors in the tailor shop.

This made Tang Ruan even more delighted.

She blew Zhao Chi's rainbow farts even harder.

Zhao Chi naturally didn't mind; listening to her chatter endlessly in his heart actually made the crafting not feel too tedious.

The previously miserable Quick-Work Talisman usage time now actually had a few more bits of fun in it.

Now, at last, the crafting was finished.

The two of them could finally relax.

Tomorrow was the day the battle would begin.

What they had made now was enough to fully equip all the women, including those arriving tomorrow.

Although Zhao Chi hadn't bought equipment for them directly, these stockings actually had extremely strong attributes, far stronger than ordinary equipment.

Moreover, they could protect the entire long leg and both feet, and even the buttocks and half the waist.

Wearing them was absolutely no worse than equipment.

Besides the defense-boosting ones, he had additionally crafted 10 pairs that boosted movement speed.

The movement-speed ones weren't of much use for now; they were mainly a precaution just in case.

Although Gu Qing had produced quite a lot of white silk, yellow silk was still the most plentiful.

Zhao Chi still consumed the yellow silk first.

But yellow silk worn on the body always gave a dirty, worn-out feeling; the dye wasn't expensive either, so Zhao Chi dyed those defense-boosting ultra-silky types into skin color.

Although it was called skin color, it was actually closer to white.

Those women's legs were very fair.

Zhao Chi compared Tang Ruan's thigh color and adjusted for a long time, before finally discovering that for them, pale white was skin color.

He only needed to add a tiny bit of skin-color dye to the white pigment.

If he used skin-color dye directly, the color would be too yellow and too dark for these women.

As for those 10 pairs of movement-speed-boosting ultra-elastic stockings, Zhao Chi dyed them black.

But because they were too thin, the fair, tender skin on her legs was still clearly visible through them.

However, black stockings really did look different on the legs.

Tang Ruan was soaking in the Carefree Spring when Zhao Chi suddenly flew out, landing right in the spring water for a bath.

Tang Ruan asked, "My lord, shall we keep going in a bit?"

Zhao Chi shook his head. "No need, that's enough. Later, just distribute all those stockings to everyone."

Tang Ruan nodded. "Alright, with such good attributes, everyone will definitely be happy. There are only ten pairs of the black ones — should we distribute those too?"

"Mm, distribute those as well, but only give one pair each to you and Qi Yue. Give the rest to Gu Qing to hold onto, and hand them out temporarily if needed in the future. We probably won't need them for a while."

"Hehe, there's a pair for me too?"

"Of course there's yours. If they wear out, you can come to me anytime for more, or go to Gu Qing."

"Mm, I understand."

As they spoke, Qi Yue swam over from the side.

Zhao Chi happened to call out to her, "Qi Yue, where is Gu Qing?"

"Sister Gu Qing? She's tidying up in your room. She said you'd be going to find her later."

"Good. Qi Yue, how has your practice been these past two days?"

Qi Yue stopped.

Her snow-white body stood upright in the water.

"Thank you, my lord, for the Shoubashou Sect's personal guidance. My blade art has already improved by one point — that's a very fast rate of progress, but it's mainly thanks to your efforts, my lord."