This isn’t even a question of whether I can swing it or not!
Do you have to be this stingy?
Not willing to waste a single scrap?
Liu Qiutian panicked. “No way! Your blade work is so strong! Not using blades would be a complete waste!”
“Besides, do you even know how to use a meteor hammer?”
Jiang Nan grinned. “Of course I do! Why wouldn’t I? I’ve got loads of ultimate skills! Blade work is just something I practise for fun!”
“Meteor hammer it is!”
Liu Qiutian: !!!
“I’ll forge blades for you! Blood-Drinking Blades! Eight of them! Eight-blade style! You’d look insanely cool! Fangirls would scream the moment they saw you!”
Jiang Nan shook his head. “Meteor hammer!”
[Resentment from Liu Qiutian +1000!]
[From…]
“A meteor hammer can’t even show off my exquisite forging skills! Anything but a meteor hammer, pick something else!”
Jiang Nan looked hesitant. “How about you just fit a handle onto this Blood-Drinking Southern Red for me, Grandpa? I can use it straight as a hammer!”
Liu Qiutian: (ꐦᵒ̌皿ᵒ̌)
I’ll fit a bloody hammer handle for you!
So not only do I get nothing, I have to throw in a handle too!
[Resentment from Liu Qiutian…]
“Grandpa! I’ll call you Grandpa, alright? This chunk of Blood-Drinking Southern Red is massive! We can make loads of weapons! I can custom-design them for you and the teammates!”
“Please pick something normal!”
Jiang Nan counted on his fingers. “Twin maces! Pumpkin hammers! Green Dragon Crescent Blade! Eighteen-foot serpent spear! Heaven-Painting Halberd!”
Liu Qiutian: “Heaven-Painting Halberd! Heaven-Painting Halberd it is!”
He finally got it. Jiang Nan wasn’t considering anything else!
The only thing he cared about was using as much material as possible! The more the better!
Nobody is this much of a cheapskate!
Jiang Nan grinned. “Fine! What about my teammates’ weapons?”
He did have his own reasons!
For close combat he already had the Holy Scallion Sword. Embarrassing, yes, but powerful enough!
A long-handled weapon would be nice too; it could cover his shortcomings to a certain extent.
The Heaven-Painting Halberd was a solid choice!
Liu Qiutian: “Have them come over themselves! I need to know their ability attributes, fighting styles, body data, and so on!”
“Shame there isn’t more material! Otherwise we could make a full set of Blood-Drinking battle armour!”
“Back during the Spirit Catastrophe, if you wore armour forged from this… heh! An unstoppable killing machine! Insanely cool!”
Jiang Nan’s eyes sparkled. “Battle armour? This isn’t enough material?”
Liu Qiutian: “Full-body armour! This amount isn’t nearly enough! You’d need at least five chunks this size. Don’t think armour uses less material just because it’s thin! Armour is the hardest to forge!”
Jiang Nan licked his lips and started craving it.
Full-body crimson battle armour? That would be lethally handsome!
Getting hit actually restores stamina? Hiss~
Jiang Nan was hooked! Looks like he’d have to go back to Thousand Island Lake and gut a few more Cang Dragon beasts!
While thinking, Jiang Nan hopped onto a nearby workbench and opened the CAD software on the computer.
Liu Qiutian blinked. “What are you doing?”
Jiang Nan: “No need for my teammates to come. I know them best! I’ll design the weapons myself!”
Liu Qiutian’s old face darkened. “Are you joking with me? Custom weapon design? Without twenty or thirty years of experience you can’t design shit!”
Jiang Nan ignored him.
[Skill triggered! Weapon Design: LV0!]
[Adding skill points: 111,100 points!]
[Skill upgraded! Weapon Design (Master): LV0!]
A flood of knowledge about cold weapon manufacturing and design poured into his brain!
Jiang Nan still had over three hundred thousand skill points left! Of course he was willing to spend them!
Recalling the knowledge plus Zhong Yingxue’s and Xia Yao’s fighting habits, he quickly formed blueprints in his mind.
Then he rapidly drew them in CAD!
At first Liu Qiutian stood with arms folded, smirking coldly, ready to tear Jiang Nan’s designs apart once they were done.
But soon he stopped smirking!
Because every weapon Jiang Nan designed was perfect, from centre of gravity, edge angle, grip and wearing method, anti-slip, everything flawless!
He had even considered ergonomics!
Liu Qiutian was stunned. Even he would need three to five days of careful thought to perfect something like this!
Yet Jiang Nan produced five weapon blueprints in twenty minutes!
Jiang Nan patted his little hands, looking satisfied. “Done!”
Liu Qiutian rushed over to check the drawings, growing more shocked the more he looked, scalp tingling!
“Kid, how the hell do you know this? How old are you? Is this… a family craft passed down?”
Jiang Nan giggled. “Not bad, right? Just treat it as decent!”
Family craft? I don’t even know who my ancestors were!
The more Liu Qiutian looked at the designs, the darker his face became!
Do these designs have to be this complicated? Some even have mechanisms?
Certain parts completely overturned his understanding!
And the material usage was insanely precise!
Not a single bit wasted!
“Grandpa Liu! What do you think?”
Liu Qiutian gritted his teeth. “If I make everything you designed, I’ll lose three months of my life!”
“One slip of the hand and I’ll have to throw in extra material myself!”
“Scram scram scram! Get out! Come pick them up before the end of the year!”
Jiang Nan kept giggling!
…
The principal’s office was absolutely packed right now!
Forty or fifty instructors had all gathered here!
Xiao Chuihuo, Zhao Dezhu, Guan Hu, everyone was present!
They crowded around Xiong Er, staring nonstop as if they had discovered a new continent!
Pulling apart his fur to look! Guan Hu even pried open Xiong Er’s mouth and stuck his own head inside!
“Holy crap! It really is a bear!”
“Platinum one! What breed of black bear is this? Nothing recorded in the spirit beast encyclopaedia!”
“Where did Jiang Nan pick this thing up? Can control its own size? Extremely rare!”
“Its intelligence is way too high! This is insane!”
Xiong Er looked utterly speechless. “What are you lot doing! I’m gonna charge you blue!”
The one sticking his head in my mouth, you’re going too far!
One sentence left everyone dumbfounded!
It really can talk!
This bear is about to defy the heavens!
Guan Hu: Σ(Ŏ凸Ŏ٥)
Both Xiao Chuihuo and Zhao Dezhu looked as if they had seen a ghost!
“Old Xiao, this discovery is going to make a lot of jaws drop!”
“We always thought spirit beasts lacked high intelligence and were mostly violent, unruly, acting on instinct! But now…”
Xiao Chuihuo could barely hide his excitement. “This isn’t just ‘has intelligence’ level!”
“If it’s really true! Does that mean certain spirit beasts can be domesticated as spirit pets?”
“Just like how our ancestors domesticated horses and camels?”
Zhao Dezhu’s eyes blazed. “If it really works! The era will change because of it. The power humanity commands will break free of its shackles and reach a whole new peak!”
Tao Xinyi covered her mouth, face full of shock. “What Jiang Nan has done might, in a certain sense, be changing the entire era!”
Xiao Chuihuo took a deep breath and immediately rang Jiang Nan.
“Come to the principal’s office! Xiong Er is with me!”
Jiang Nan: !!!
Oh no! Xiong Er’s been exposed?
Even Principal Xiao knows? We’re done for. If they won’t let Xiong Er enrol, what then?
“Hmm~ not many people should know about this yet, right?”
The moment that thought appeared, evil rose in his heart, malice surged to his gallbladder!
The smile on his face grew increasingly perverted!
He pulled out a pair of Passion Burning Gloves and slipped them on!
Since you’ve all found out! There’s no other way!
Time for you to feel enthusiasm as fierce as fire!
Jiang Nan teleported straight into the principal’s office!
His body instantly stiffened!
Over fifty people were crammed inside, all staring straight at him!
Jiang Nan: ???
Damn! This many people?
The atmosphere feels a bit serious! So it really is exposed?
This is going to be tricky to pull off!
But no fear! Open a space wormhole, multi-target operation!
Subduing Dragon Ten Palms! Lightning Five Successive Slaps! Just slap their faces!
If they don’t dodge, they’re definitely getting hit! Memory wiped! Mission complete!
Jiang Nan raised his hand, ready to strike!
Xiao Chuihuo: “What reward do you want?”
Jiang Nan’s slap froze mid-air!
“Eh? There’s a reward? What’s going on?”
Xiao Chuihuo explained their earlier speculations.
Jiang Nan was stunned. “You’re not banning Xiong Er from enrolling? You scared me half to death! I nearly…”
Zhao Dezhu rolled his eyes. “We wish you’d bring us a few more! What you’re doing might change the entire era!”
“If spirit beasts really can be tamed…”
Jiang Nan was speechless. “What do you mean ‘if’? Someone already succeeded ages ago!”
“The handsome uncle chief of the Kabu tribe rides a platinum-rank giant lion-griffin! It flies and breathes fire! Super cool!”
“Loads of young people in their tribe ride them too! He even said he’d give me a lion-griffin egg as a mount! Not sure if he forgot!”
[…]
[…]
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At that moment everyone shot to their feet, staring at Jiang Nan like they wanted to eat him alive. “What? What did you just say?”
Jiang Nan looked baffled. “No need to make such a big fuss, is there?”
