Chapter 2271 Divine Forge Workshop

Luo Jia looked at Lin Xun in confusion. Only when the latter pointed at the unconscious Luo Xing did she realize it. She had been so concerned about the safety of the clan that she forgot about this ‘little traitor’!

“I just checked and found that his spirit has been planted with a Spiritbinder Parasite. But I also found the resolution from Wu Fatian’s memory,” Lin Xun said as he handed a jade slip to Luo Jia.

“Thank you so much, Brother Lin.” Luo Jia's beautiful eyes were flooded with heartfelt gratitude. She was also deeply moved.

She knew very well that if Lin Xun hadn’t come to save her, she would have ended up very miserable this time.

“Hey, you were just overwhelmed by stress because you care too much,” Lin Xun warmly comforted her. “I will be staying in this inn for a while. If you run into trouble again, make sure to come and find me before anything.”

“Mhm,” replied Luo Jia, her heart dancing in a wave of unprecedented good feelings. This kind of care and concern from a friend filled her with warmth.

Lin Xun smiled and patted her shoulder. “Don't ever be afraid of troubling me like you were before. And don't forget that eighth realm Emperors can’t even bear more than one strike from me.”

Luo Jia bit her lips, and as if having mustered up enough courage, she suddenly opened her arms and hugged Lin Xun tightly.

Lin Xun stiffened as he felt a kind soft elasticity pressing against him. In fact, he could have dodged this, and he would have if he had known that she would unexpectedly give a big hug...

Luo Jia soon released him. Her pretty face was now glazed with rosy clouds as her limpid eyes lowered, making her look extraordinarily charming.

Pretending to be calm, she teased, “If I didn’t know that you already have Miss Jingxuan, I might just fall for you.

“Of course, don't overthink this. I just want to give you a hug. There was no weird intention behind it.”

Saying that, she seemed a little shy. She hastily grabbed her unconscious brother and left.

Lin Xun was stunned. A wisp of orchid fragrance still lingered around his nose. He smiled and said to himself, “After knowing that I’m going to be a father...how could I dare overthink stuff like this...?”

There was a hint of lament in his voice.

With regards to the danger that the Celestial Phoenix Clan was facing, an outsider like Lin Xun couldn’t just carelessly get involved.

However, if possible, he would like to meet the big shot from the Luo Clan on the other side of the cosmos who was going to arrive in three months.

In the end, he made up his mind, “That's it, I’ll stay in Thousand Flame Imperial City a while longer.”

He then got up and walked out of the inn.

Before coming here, Ao Xingtang had told him that the Divine Forge Imperial Clan was the best in the world when it came to crafting tools, and that its founding ancestor had even held the title of Blacksmith Emperor.

Lin Xun also wanted to see if he could take this opportunity to get his life-bound Emperor weapon forged.

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Thousand Flame Imperial City was extremely vast, prosperous, and populated as the number one city in the Celestial Phoenix World.

The Divine Forge Imperial Clan, who was under the command of the Celestial Phoenix Lineage, was the ruler of this city.

In the different streets here, one could see signboards with ‘Divine Forge Workshop’ written on them hanging everywhere.

This workshop was the Divine Forge Imperial Clan's unique business.

Soon, Lin Xun entered a Divine Forge Workshop numbered ‘C79’ that he had randomly found.

It was a large-scale shop with an ancient and elegant style. The orderly arranged counters displayed a variety of treasures that brightened the whole room with their colorful auras.

An attendant came forward, refined and courteous as she welcomed Lin Xun.

The Divine Forge Workshop sold all kinds of treasures and also accepted custom orders. By spending a considerable amount of money, customers could even appoint the master blacksmith they wanted to make their order.

The attendant said, “Senior, Divine Forge Workshop C79 currently has over nine hundred custom orders to process, so you will have to wait a while should you want a customized treasure.

“Of course, you can also spend a certain amount of Celestial Phoenix Stones and invite a specialized blacksmith to attend to you.”

According to the attendant, this workshop was presided over by three master blacksmiths of the Divine Forge Imperial Clan, who didn’t bother with normal orders and only worked on expensive ones.

Lin Xun’s interest was piqued. “How much would a custom Emperor weapon cost me?”

The attendant was dumbfounded, and the way she looked at Lin Xun immediately changed. She respectfully confirmed, “Senior, you would like to order an Emperor-grade weapon?”

Lin Xun nodded.

The attendant pondered, “To be completely honest with you, only the grandmasters of the Divine Forge Imperial Clan can craft Emperor-grade tools. So if an Emperor weapon is what you need, then your destination is among the top ten ‘class A’ workshops. As long as you can afford the price, I believe that the skills of our grandmasters will not let you down.”

From her explanation, Lin Xun understood that Workshop C79 was far from being capable of forging Emperor-grade tools.

However, he didn't intend to let others take part in the crafting of his own life-bound Emperor weapon. He only came to the Divine Forge Workshop to have a look at their mastery in this profession.

As it turned out, the foundation of the Divine Forge Imperial Clan was indeed quite deep.

Just a workshop labeled C79 already had over nine hundred custom orders lining up. One could imagine how many treasures all the Divine Forge Workshops in this huge city had to produce every single day!

If this had been the case for countless years, then their clansmen should have been forging away almost their entire time. Since this was no different from improving their skill every day, it would be hard not to become formidable.

“Looks like I need to gain a deeper understanding of their inner workings.” Lin Xun contemplated for a while and left Workshop C79.

Currently, he already had a rough idea for the life-bound Emperor weapon he wanted. It only needed some further improvements to be perfect.

After all, the life-bound Emperor weapon was a treasure that would be intimately related to one’s own dao cultivation. Any mistakes in crafting it would make it impossible to bring out one's full power in combat.

Since the Divine Forge Workshops produced countless treasures on a daily basis that came in all sorts of shapes and sizes, they might give Lin Xun a lot of inspiration.

Fifteen minutes later, in Divine Forge Workshop A10.

Any workshop with the character ‘A’ in its name was already considered a core place of the Divine Forge Imperial Clan. It only received guests with special identities, while ordinary people weren’t qualified for entry.

Lin Xun's identity was not special, but his cultivation was. He got himself into the shop without any obstruction after slightly revealing his Emperor aura.

On top of that, he got his own one-on-one attendant.

“You are here to customize your own item, Senior?” The attendant was a woman with top-notch temperament and beauty. She was clad in a well-tailored scarlet dress and wore her ink-black hair in a bun. Not only her appearance, but her demeanor was also impeccable, even just in the way she pursed her red lips and slightly exposed her perfect teeth.

She introduced herself as Yao Tao.

Lin Xun said, “I'll take a look around first.”

He browsed his way through the counters. Nearly every item in display was an Emperor-grade treasure, and all of them were covered by an obscure restrictive power.

Emperor-grade treasures were divided into three grades. From the lowest, they were mythic, spirit, and divine grades.

Each grade was further divided into three tiers: upper, mid, and lower.

These were the total of three grades and nine tiers.

The most commonly seen was mythic-grade Emperor treasures.

Spirit-grade Emperor treasures had their own artifact spirit, which was why they were extremely precious and often be called ‘treasures of nature.’

As for divine-grade Emperor artifacts, which were also often known as Emperor Dao Ultimate Weapons, they were incredibly powerful, capable of crushing worlds. At this point, any of these was a legend in itself.

Their availability was also just like that of the legends: extremely rare.

Since the beginning of his cultivation life until now, Lin Xun had seen his fair share of exotic, powerful treasures, but only a few of them fell in the category of divine-grade Emperor weapons.

“All of these Emperor-grade tools came from the hands of the Divine Forge Imperial Clan grandmaster smiths?” As Lin Xun walked along the big counter, he saw that all the products were mythic-grade, and there wasn't anything more powerful.

However, he could tell that the forging techniques used on each and every of them were superb, even transcendent, to the point that everything from his knowledge could hardly compare. Some of the conceptions demonstrated in these treasures were so marvelous that they opened his eyes.

Yao Tao respectfully answered, “That is correct.”

Lin Xun commented, “Not bad.”

As he was about to resume browsing, there was a cold snort. “Hearing your comment, Esteemed Guest, I suppose you also know a thing or two about smithing?”

The person’s voice carried displeasure, faint, but it was definitely there. At some point, a black-clad woman had appeared and was walking toward Lin Xun. She had long, fiery-red hair, and fair, almost glistening skin. Along her petite frame, fire sparks streamed up and down with a divine glow.

Yao Tao hurriedly introduced the woman to Lin Xun in a respectful manner.

As it turned out, the black-clad woman was Lian Hongxiu, one of the three great grandmaster smiths of the Divine Forge Workshop business and the owner of Workshop A10. She was also a high-ranking elder of the Divine Forge Imperial Clan.

“It was just a mindless comment. Please don’t take it seriously, Fellow Daoist. Should I have offended you, I hope for your forgiveness.” Lin Xun smiled good-naturedly. He knew very well that alchemists and blacksmiths in general were very proud and conceited people.

Lian Hongxiu furrowed her brows. “I just want to know, what do you mean by ‘not bad’? Could it be that these Emperor-grade tools on the counter just barely have your approval?”

Obviously, Lin Xun's previous comment made her quite upset.

As a grandmaster smith of the Divine Forge Imperial Clan, she was well known throughout the Celestial Phoenix World and was looked up to by countless experts. Even a good number of big figures of major clans had to be on their best behavior in front of her.

This was the status of a grandmaster smith.

Furthermore, Lian Hongxiu was no ordinary grandmaster smith. During her long career, she had crafted nearly a hundred pieces of Emperor-grade weapons. Having attained a godly level of skills on par with Creation, she had won the respect of many Emperor experts.

Many Emperors had come to the Divine Forge Imperial Clan to specially ask her to forge for them, and they were even willing to wait many years for it!

“Do you really want to hear my honest opinion?” Lin Xun originally intended to laugh it off, but seeing how serious Lian Hongxiu was, he knew this matter could not be glossed over.

“Speak.” Lian Hongxiu’s tone was rigid, and her eyes carried anger. It was as though she hadn’t expected that Lin Xun would really want to challenge her in the way of smithing.

Lin Xun was not offended by her attitude. After thinking for a moment, he said seriously, “You have encountered a bottleneck in smithing that you cannot overcome no matter what, am I right?”

Lian Hongxiu was dumbstruck.