Chapter 1354

Only in that way could he gradually unfold the grand ambitions in his heart.

After several weeks of day and night research into improving the magic crystal internal combustion engine, Lin Cheng finally made tremendous progress on the improvement of the magic crystal internal combustion engine. He discovered a new combination of inscriptions, but it required adding the original inscriptions together with the elven race's inscriptions to achieve it, thereby boosting utilization and reducing energy consumption by multiples.

After that came a complete redesign of the magic crystal internal combustion engine. Because the brand-new inscriptions and the elven race's inscriptions had been added, the original design of the magic crystal internal combustion engine no longer met the conditions. This also meant that, at present, probably only Lin Cheng could manufacture this improved version of the magic crystal internal combustion engine, and producing an entire production line would be even more difficult.

During this period, Li Li Changan truly could not stand Miss Qianhui's showing off any longer. After the Iron Fist three returned, she found an excuse and left directly, though she would not give up.

Her return to the imperial capital for now was only because of her father emperor's summons; she would come back!!! Besides Li Li Changan's return to the imperial capital, there was another matter that surprised Lin Cheng.

It was that a Spirit Weapon had actually been truly obtained in someone's hands.

Because of this, Lin Cheng even deliberately stopped the research in his hands on the artificial intelligence-impaired, and went out to see exactly who it was, who had such great ability to obtain a Spirit Weapon's recognition.

Others might not know the difficulty of this kind, but Lin Cheng was very clear just how great the difficulty was. The original inheritance light orb directly gave you the inheritance, then gave you the trial—equivalent to getting on the train first and buying the ticket later.

But after the system upgraded and he forged it into an inheritance Spirit Weapon, it was no longer about getting on the train first and buying the ticket later.

One could only pass the trial, and then obtain the inheritance and the Spirit Weapon!

By comparison, the former was more lenient—the inheritance was already in hand, and as for the trial, it could be completed at any time; the latter, if you did not complete the trial, you simply had no way to deal with the Spirit Weapon at all.

It was a red-eyed mercenary with thick brows and large eyes, looking fierce and vicious. Lin Cheng had no impression of him. He had obtained the Berserker Dian Wei's inheritance Spirit Weapon—a body-length berserk giant axe.

Hearing from other mercenaries, this red-eyed mercenary was a lone-wolf mercenary, famously unsociable and extreme, and extremely bloodthirsty! Whether against magical beasts or people! Anyone who provoked him would almost certainly meet a bad end.

Within the city there were city guards keeping order, so the other party did not dare cause trouble, but once outside the city, the grudges between mercenaries were not governed by the empire at all. Coupled with his powerful strength, this caused his notorious reputation to spread, and almost no one dared to provoke him.

Even some powerful mercenary groups would not easily provoke him. This lone-wolf mercenary, if they could not kill him in one strike, would inevitably bring long-term retaliatory strikes against the mercenary group thereafter.

"How much money?"

Just as Lin Cheng was still surprised, that fierce-looking mercenary turned his head to look at him. An icy gaze, a startling aura of viciousness, almost came rushing at him. Even though it was not deliberately directed at him, that aura still made Lin Cheng knit his brow involuntarily.

Dian Wei's inheritance Spirit Weapon choosing this person was not without reason. After all, Dian Wei had been called a mad dog in the canyon before; he had no doubt this person had the same temperament.

Thinking this, Lin Cheng considered the pros and cons, then calmly spoke.

"You are the first person to obtain a Spirit Weapon's recognition. My shop's rule is that anyone with affinity may have it—take it away."

The red-eyed mercenary planted the body-length long-handled giant axe upright on the ground, producing a heavy thud as it struck the floor, and his gaze toward Lin Cheng was extremely firm, so much so that it could even be called stubborn.

"How much money! I have it!"

"Alright."

Since the other party was a stubborn person, he probably did not want to owe his own people. In that case, Lin Cheng could only quote a normal price.

"Spirit Weapons are priceless; they should be a million gold coins. Since you were chosen by the Spirit Weapon, one hundred thousand gold coins will take it away."

"Uh…"

He had no money.

A few hundred gold coins he could still scrape together, but one hundred thousand gold coins… he did not have them.

Was he supposed to rob someone? He never did such things. Even if it were a weapon extremely suited to him, he would not forcibly take it.

From the red-eyed mercenary's silence, Lin Cheng knew the other party could not produce that much. A full one hundred thousand gold coins, for a lone-wolf mercenary, was simply an astronomical figure. But the materials and inheritance light orb provided by the system were only sold for one hundred thousand gold coins, and he really felt it was a bit of a loss.

However, the system also did not restrict him on the selling price of inheritance Spirit Weapons—everything was up to him.

Just at this moment, the red-eyed mercenary spoke again in a cold voice.

"I don't have that much money. I can do things for you, whatever is within my ability."

"For example?"

"Killing people!"

The instant the red-eyed mercenary spoke those words, Lin Cheng only felt the temperature in the shop drop several degrees. Along with the spread of killing intent, a chill crept up everyone's back, and quite a few people began, intentionally or not, to distance themselves from the red-eyed mercenary.

"That won't be necessary. Help me hunt magical beasts. I want high-quality magic crystals, the higher the better, for a period of five years! After five years, this Spirit Weapon will be yours." Lin Cheng considered for a moment, then said with a headache what he currently needed.