"Well, I may have become a little rusty since it's been quite a while since I've last made a really good weapon, but I think that I can still probably produce something on the Low Heaven grade!"
"Really? Then..."
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"Then, could you make me a new artifact?" Su Yan coldly asked, immediately taking out a sword seemingly made out of ice. "This is the old artifact that the precedent blacksmith of the sect made for me but it can't keep up with my strength anymore, so if you could make me a new one, you would really have my gratitude."
"The previous blacksmith of the sect? You mean my father, Luo Bao, the Harmonious Blacksmith, right?"
"Yes," the Ice Queen responded, not showing surprise even in the slightest, even though she had no idea that the Harmonious Blacksmith had any sons.
"Well, to be honest, I don't know how to refine artifacts, but since I still have my old man's artifact refining techniques with me, I can still give it a try, if you're okay with this, that is."
"Just don't expect anything great from me."
"Ok, then, but what about the price?" Su Yan asked, the expression on her face still remaining emotionless so far.
"Well, just because it's you, I'll give you a discount! Only t-" but Mo Fan wasn't given even the time to finish his sentence that Su Yan slammed a huge bag on the counter. "Are sixty thousand contribution points enough?"
Immediately, at the sight of so much money, Mo Fan's eyes started to intensely brighten up, and a thread of saliva began to descend from his mouth. "Yeah, yeah, sixty thousand contribution points will be more than enough for your artifact, hehehe..."
"Now, please tell me what properties and abilities you would like your artifact to have," Mo Fan said, quickly grabbing the bag of contribution points and instantly hiding it under the counter.
"Sigh..." Su Yan sighed at the sight of the golden-haired kid's greed, but didn't give much weight to it and just answered his question. "I want it to have icy properties and if possible I want it to also have an ability that enhances my Ice Qi attacks when I use it."
"Icy properties and enhancing abilities..." Mo Fan quickly wrote down her requests on a piece of paper before again turning his head towards Su Yan with a smile. "I think I can do it... I'll just need a sample of your Qi, and I'll have everything needed."
"Does this work?" The cold beauty asked while transforming her external Qi into an ice crystal and showing it to Mo Fan.
"Yes, this will be perfect," the golden-haired kid remarked, Su Yan then placing it on the counter. But as Mo Fan went to take it, he was stopped by the cold-hearted warning of the beauty. "I think that it'll be better if you gather your Yang Qi in your hands if you don't want them to be completely frozen by my solified Qi."
"Ah, y-yes..." Mo Fan awkwardly said, immediately gathering up all of his scroching Yang Qi in his hand and only then picking up the ice crystal and putting this behind the counter as well. "Thanks for warning, Su Yan."
"I'll get your artifact ready in a week," Mo Fan said with a bright smirk on his face, which made the girl strangely smile as well.
"Wow..." Mo Fan's eyes were totally locked on her beauty; he had been totally mesmerized by her incredible smile.
"Cough... cough..." Su Yan broke the awkard situation with fake coughs, making Mo Fan immediately return to reality. "Thank you for accepting my commision, now I am gonna go."
"Y-yes, sure, see you in a w-week!" Mo Fan nervously said, the embarrassment of having just stared at her making him eat his words a little.
"Ah, and if you need anything else, just come find me at my hut," Su Yan added while heading towards the exit door of the workshop, and once she reached the threshold of the door, she once again turned towards Mo Fan with a charming smile. "Su Mu will tell you where it is."
And then she closed the door, leaving the golden-haired kid all alone in the shop.
"Breath... breath... fuck! What was that?" Mo Fan immediately started to intensely breathe when she left, the air missing for some unknown reason.
~Badum~
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"Why is my heart beating so fast? Wait! Don't tell me that... I, the great Mo Fan, fell for a woman just because of her beautiful smile? Fuck!"
"Anyway, it doesn't matter. I don't have time for chicks; I only have time for cultivation!" Mo Fan exclaimed and immediately got up from the counter to start searching for his old man's artifact refining techniques.
"Where did I let them?" Mo Fan was now throughotly checking all of his shelves. "Did I let them here? Or perhaps here?"
"They aren't in this shelf as well... and nor in this..."
"Ah, right! I left them in my room!" And so, Mo Fan immediately ran to the stars of the workshop and got on the first floor, where his room was.
"They should be here somewhere..." Mo Fan said, searchinh inside of an old box with the with the writing 'Important Things' on it.
"This is not it... and this isn't it either." A lot of things started to fly out of the box: books, martial skills, secret arts, and a lot of other things.
Only after having almost emptied out all of the box did Mo Fan find what he was searching for. "Yes! Finally I found it! The Harmonious Hammer technique and the Harmonious Artifact Refining Arts!"
"Thanks, old man, you still manage to help me even without being here..." Mo Fan thought, turning his head upwards to look at the sky, the ceiling unfortunately preventing it. "Really thanks..."
"But now, I think that I've wasted enough time. It's time to learn artifact refining now!"
...to be continued
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Sorry if this chapter wasn't that good, but I wrote it in quite the rush. Hope you like it anyways.
Remember to check my other work "Uniqueness Emperor", I have been putting a lot of effort on it recently.