Chapter 641

One step outside the gate, one step inside, and it was already two different worlds.

The main hall was towering and deep. Only by stepping into it could one truly appreciate its grandeur and vastness. It was like looking at a distant mountain; one does not know its height until one reaches the foot of the mountain and realizes it is a thousand zhang tall.

From the outside, the kingdom's main hall seemed capable of containing an entire city. When Little Wei Yuan stepped into the hall, he discovered that a city was indeed hidden within.

The interior of the hall was several hundred zhang high, far taller and larger than it appeared from the outside; it must contain spatial mysteries.

The ceiling of the hall flickered with tiny nether lamps, like sparks, illuminating the world within the hall. A small city was indeed situated here, seemingly inhabited by several thousand Shaman people. They stopped their work one after another and looked at Little Wei Yuan, their eyes filled with numbness, anger, or fear.

Before Little Wei Yuan was a road leading straight to the center of the city, where a mansion stood. The main building appeared to have only three stories; even a wealthy family in an ordinary town could afford such a house.

Little Wei Yuan held up his umbrella and walked toward the mansion, paying no heed to the gazes of the Shaman people on both sides. Under the umbrella, he was like a nether shadow, his face hidden in the darkness, difficult to see clearly.

When Little Wei Yuan stood before the gate, a slightly short Shaman figure walked out from within. This Shaman performed a human-style salute and said: "The master's incarnation has fallen; you must be the new master of this place, right? Please follow me; the master has already given instructions."

Little Wei Yuan felt no fear and calmly stepped into the mansion, following the Shaman to the study. The Shaman presented two maps and introduced them: "This one is a map of the kingdom, marked with mineral resources and some important locations. However, the master said this map is not exhaustive, and many places have not been carefully surveyed."

"The second one is a map of the town within the hall. This city was built according to the Shaman style. The master's intention is that if you do not like it, you may tear it down and rebuild it. The Shaman people in this city are all in a state of Primordial Spirit and have no physical bodies outside. If you find them unpleasant, you can send them outside the kingdom to fend for themselves."

"Here is the information regarding the resources and industries within the hall. There are three Shaman-treasure forging rooms, ten Shaman-treasure embryo cultivation rooms, and three medicine gardens, one of which is dedicated to planting Nether-Glow Grass. There is also one elixir workshop, two blacksmith shops, three workshops, and two wineries. There are three warehouses, though they do not contain many items."

After Little Wei Yuan checked them one by one, he asked: "What is your name?"

"This small one is named Wu Li."

"Wu Li, take me around the city."

"My lord, please follow me."

Little Wei Yuan first visited the Shaman-treasure forging room, which had two smaller rooms and one extremely spacious one. Inside the room was a fire pool several zhang in diameter, burning with dim black fire.

Strangely, there was no feeling of heat in the room; instead, it exuded a hint of icy cold. The forging room was equipped with seven seats arranged around the fire pool. When necessary, the Shaman array here could accommodate seven blacksmiths forging simultaneously.

Yu Yu Zhizhuo's voice sounded at this moment: "This Shaman array is of an extremely high standard, and the creator's level is even above mine. Even if placed in the Heavenly Craft Hall, it would count as a first-class forging room. With slight modifications, this place could forge magic treasures for our human race. Moreover, the environment here is special, significantly reducing the difficulty of forging many nether-attribute magic treasures. Some treasures that were originally difficult to forge have a possibility of success here."

After hearing this, Little Wei Yuan could not help but be moved.

The Supreme Tai Tai Chu Gong is different from other sects; it does not place particular importance on magic treasures. After all, once one reaches the Master Yu Jing Realm, the role of magic treasures becomes minimal, and one needs to use corresponding spiritual treasures.

Moreover, for a magic treasure to exert its true power, it requires years of nourishment. Cultivators from some small sects often spend over a hundred years nourishing a treasure to enhance their strength. However, the genius disciples of the Supreme Tai Tai Chu Gong scoff at this; each of them believes they will surely attain the Master Yu Jing Realm, so they all advance bravely, relying on their Dao Foundation and Dharma Forms to roam the world, with no time for meticulous nourishment of treasures.

This Master Shu Li was clearly a master of magic treasures, and Little Wei Yuan had personally experienced the power of an opponent covered in them. If magic treasures could be like magic tools—needing no nourishment, ready to use upon acquisition, simple to manufacture, and capable of mass production—that would naturally be for the best.

The most valuable part of this magic tool forging room is the pool of eternal nether fire. According to Yu Yu Zhizhuo, this should be a natural fire eye, which is why the forging room was built here. Secondly, the Shaman array capable of accommodating seven people simultaneously is also extremely rare. Although the Heavenly Craft Hall has a large array capable of accommodating twelve people, that was left by the founding Immortal Lord, and no later generations have been able to replicate the immortal miracle. The rest are only one array for nine people and one for seven.

This Shaman array has a certain probability of raising the rank of magic treasures below the Heaven-rank during forging, so Yu Yu Zhizhuo estimated its value at five million. If sold to the Heavenly Craft Hall, that would be the price. This forging room alone is enough to compensate for Little Wei Yuan's losses in this battle, and the two small rooms can be considered gifts.

Wu Li could not hear Yu Yu Zhizhuo's words because Yu Yu Zhizhuo's spiritual sense was transmitted from the umbrella.

Little Wei Yuan held his umbrella and followed Wu Li to the Shaman-treasure embryo cultivation room. This place fully displayed the Shaman style; one by one, the Shaman-treasure embryos were either swimming in individual pools on the ground, lying quietly in cocoons hanging in mid-air, or crawling on small trees.

These Shaman-treasure embryos looked as if they had life, not at all like dead objects. Little Wei Yuan could also see that these embryos already possessed a hint of spirituality, and once forged into Shaman treasures, their quality would certainly be top-notch.

Wu Li added: "There is a cultivation room here that the master kept for his own secret use; please follow me."

Little Wei Yuan followed him to an open space, which was empty except for two trees. Wu Li began to chant, and a water-wave-like portal appeared between the two trees; he walked in first.

Little Wei Yuan did not act immediately; a Dao Foundation warrior appeared beside him. After the warrior stepped into the portal first to confirm there were no anomalies or ambushes, Little Wei Yuan followed him in.

The space behind the door was not large. The ground was painted with an extremely complex Shaman array, with as many as thirty-seven nodes of various sizes, each node holding different Shaman tools or spiritual objects. In the center of the array was a transparent tank containing a pale red liquid like diluted blood, with an embryo floating inside. This embryo looked like a human girl, but with three long tails coiled behind her and a pair of wings folded on her back, curled into a ball. She seemed to sense Little Wei Yuan's gaze, slowly lifted her head, opened her eyes, and surveyed Little Wei Yuan with bright red eyes.

Little Wei Yuan frowned slightly; he could clearly feel that this so-called magic treasure embryo was watching him and seemed to be thinking about something.

"Is this a Shaman-treasure embryo? Is it alive?"

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"It has vitality and spirituality; it is indeed a living thing. However, most Shaman-treasure embryos are living things, at least here with us," Wu Li replied.

"Uncle-Master Yu, is forging with living things harmful to the harmony of heaven?" Little Wei Yuan asked via spiritual sense.

"No!" Yu Yu Zhizhuo replied very crisply, then seemed to feel his response was a bit rash and added, "To be precise, the key lies in how you handle the materials."

"Many immortal golds and spiritual irons possess their own spirituality, and some also contain vitality. If this is the standard, then they are also living things. If this is considered harmful to the harmony of heaven, you might as well ask Xu Henshui how many medicines in the Creation View's medicine storehouse are alive?"

Xu Xu Henshui took over: "Whether the medicine is alive is not important; the key is to handle the karma well. Most medicines do not produce karma, and even if they do, there are ways to deal with it. Our Creation View's alchemists have a secret method for 'Karma-Eliminating Elixir,' which is specifically used for this. It's just that this elixir is actually made using karma as the material; the forging difficulty is extremely high, and it must be forged by oneself to be effective."

The two of them spoke one after another, saying a lot. Little Wei Yuan understood that, in the final analysis, the point lies in how to eliminate karma. However, no one knew what was in the tank, and Wu Li did not know its purpose either. Thus, Little Wei Yuan left the place, sealed the gate, and under Xu Xu Henshui's urging, hurried to the medicine garden.

The medicine garden was located on the other side of the small city and required passing through the city. Little Wei Yuan followed Wu Li through narrow streets and finally arrived at the gate of a medicine garden. Wu Li turned around and said: "My lord is truly bold; are you not afraid that I might arrange for some dead soldiers to ambush you?"

"I trust you," Little Wei Yuan said.

The expression on Wu Li's face was somewhat subtle, as if saying "I don't even trust myself," but he naturally would not say this out loud.

Wu Li opened the medicine garden gate and walked in first, with Little Wei Yuan following closely behind. Little Wei Yuan naturally would not tell him that several powerful cultivators were hidden in the umbrella, along with a magic blade and an immortal sword. As long as he held the umbrella, he had nothing to fear.

(End of this chapter)