Chapter 104: Crowdfunding for a knife

Repeating this sentence over and over, his eyes full of obsession, Ye Changqing even doubted whether this guy still had consciousness.

He waved his hand in front of his eyes, but there was no reaction, he just kept muttering.

"Give me a bite, a bite, just one bite..."

As he spoke, this guy didn't know where he got the strength, pushed Ye Changqing away, and he actually stood up, then walked tremblingly toward Zhao Zheng's large pot.

Seeing this scene, Ye Changqing was completely speechless. You're about to die, and you're still thinking about eating.

After finally reaching the large pot, Zhao Zheng saw this, perhaps out of his responsibility as a Senior Brother, and painfully shared a shrimp shell with this disciple.

The meat had long been eaten, leaving only a thin, transparent, dry shrimp shell.

Even then, Zhao Zheng was solemn, first helping the disciple sit down, then handing him the shrimp shell and saying.

"Junior Brother, as Senior Brother, this is all I can do. Eat well, and recover well after eating."

Such a warm scene made the surrounding disciples deeply moved, and they praised the Senior Brother one after another.

"Senior Brother is great!"

"This is our Divine Sword Peak's Senior Brother!"

"Senior Brother's action is quite like the ancient sages cutting their flesh to feed the eagle!"

Listening to everyone eating while praising him incoherently, Ye Changqing didn't want to say anything anymore.

That's a shrimp shell! And you can compare that to cutting flesh to feed an eagle? Do you think the flesh cut to feed an eagle is inferior to this shrimp shell?

Picking up his large tea mug, Ye Changqing walked straight to the side courtyard, where ingredients were stored.

Coming to the dragon corpses, he intended to process them first. After all, it was his first time. Although through the system, Ye Changqing already knew how to cook dragon meat, he hadn't practiced it yet.

He pulled out the kitchen knife tucked behind his back.

"First remove the scales, then pull the tendons and remove the bones..."

He muttered softly, then struck the dragon scales with the knife. Then, as sparks flew, the dragon scales remained unscathed.

"Damn."

He tried a few more times, and finally, Ye Changqing determined that the kitchen knife just wasn't good enough.

After all, it wasn't a divine weapon; wanting to break through dragon scales was indeed asking too much of the knife.

"Looks like I need to get a new knife."

As the ingredients improve, the tools must also be upgraded.

Just like a true swordsman must have their own peerless sword,

a true chef must also have their own peerless kitchen knife.

Just as Ye Changqing was thinking about where to get a new kitchen knife, Zhao Zheng, Xu Jie, and the others, who had finished eating and washing the pots, walked in.

Seeing him standing alone in front of the dragon corpse, Xu Jie asked curiously.

"Junior Brother Changqing, what's wrong?"

"This dragon corpse is too hard, my knife can't handle it, I need to change to a higher-grade knife."

Change the knife? Hearing this, Zhao Zheng and the others patted their chests and said.

"I thought it was something else. Changing a knife? Just wait for Senior Brother to go to the Artifact Refining Peak and have one made for you."

"Are you stupid? Can you go to the Artifact Refining Peak for this? Definitely go outside to have it made."

How can you go to the Artifact Refining Peak to make a knife? Reminded by Zhao Zheng, Xu Jie also reacted and nodded repeatedly.

"Yes, yes, yes, can't go to the Artifact Refining Peak, then go to the Blacksmith Valley."

Don't let the name fool you; Blacksmith Valley is the largest artifact refining sect in the Eastern Continent, a gathering place for numerous artifact refiners.

In terms of technology, it's even above the Dao Yi Sect's Artifact Refining Peak.

Hearing this, Zhao Zheng nodded.

"Blacksmith Valley is not bad, but those old guys' prices are not low."

Wanting to ask Blacksmith Valley to forge a weapon, one must pay a price, and the price is not small.

And not everyone has that kind of face.

But these naturally couldn't stump Zhao Zheng and the others. Soon, several people started crowdfunding to change the knife for Ye Changqing.

"How about this, let's each pool together and see what good artifact refining materials we have to help Junior Brother Changqing change the knife."

"Okay, I have a piece of thousand-year profound iron, an excellent material for forging weapons."

"Good, I have a tiger tendon of the Earth Demon level here, which can also be used for artifact refining."

"I have gold-patterned sand here..."

"I have the single horn of a Black-Horned Demon Bull."

"I have a black chicken claw."

Everyone took out their treasured items and placed them on the table in front. For a moment, the light of the treasures overflowed.

It looked valuable, but on top of such a pile of treasures, a pitch-black chicken claw suddenly appeared.

Zhao Zheng, Liu Shuang, Xu Jie, Lu Youyou, Wang Yao—they were all stunned. Where did the black chicken claw come from?

Turning to look, they didn't know when other disciples had followed them in. An outer disciple had just thrown the black chicken claw onto the pile of treasures.

Facing the gaze of the personal senior brothers and sisters, the outer disciple smiled sheepishly.

"I also want to contribute a little bit."

"Get lost."

"Okay."

"Come back."

"Does Senior Brother have anything else?"

"Take your black chicken claw."

"Oh."

Such trash, and you have the nerve to show it off? We are preparing materials for Junior Brother Changqing to change his knife, what's the meaning of adding a black chicken claw? To forge a black chicken knife?

Taking a deep breath, Zhao Zheng and the others continued to calculate the materials for forging the precious knife.

After some discussion and matching, they finally nodded with satisfaction.

"Should be enough. Although it can't forge a divine weapon, it should be enough to forge a precious weapon."

Weapon levels are divided into: mortal weapon, spiritual weapon, precious weapon, divine weapon, and each level is divided into high, medium, and low grades.

"Then who will go to Blacksmith Valley?"

With materials, the rest is the question of who will make the trip.

Hearing this, among the disciples, an inner disciple walked out and volunteered.

"Senior Brother, I'll go."

Looking at this person, Zhao Zheng nodded.

"Junior Brother Chen Mu is willing to make the trip? That's great."

Chen Mu's strength is not weak, enough to rank in the top ten among inner disciples.

"Senior Brother, rest assured, Junior Brother guarantees to complete the task. The knife stays, I stay."

"Good, in that case, let's not waste time. Junior Brother, set off immediately. By the way, Junior Brother Changqing, let Bai Bai take Junior Brother Chen Mu, it will be faster on the way."

Watching them decide on changing his knife on their own, Ye Changqing nodded blankly. The efficiency was too fast, right? He only said one sentence, and it was less than a quarter of an hour?

Calling Bai Bai, he let it take Chen Mu to Blacksmith Valley. At first, this guy didn't want to, glancing at Chen Mu with disdain, but finally, Ye Changqing said that without the knife, he couldn't eat dragon meat, so Bai Bai reluctantly agreed.

It's just that in the end, it wasn't Chen Mu riding Bai Bai, but Bai Bai grabbing Chen Mu with one claw and flying away directly.

"Senior Brothers, rest..."

He was still talking when a claw grabbed Chen Mu's body, then soared into the sky, disappearing into the horizon instantly. A moment later, a loud shout came.

"...assured!"

Watching the person and crane that had disappeared, Ye Changqing couldn't help but worry.

"Nothing will go wrong, right?"