Thwack! Crack! Thud!
“Ouch! Ow! Stop!”
“Great Sect Master, listen to my—my nonsense—”
“Great Sect Master, I was wrong!”
Amidst Xue Wuchang’s pleas for mercy, Lu Ming rained down a flurry of punches and kicks.
He had long found this guy’s handsome face annoying and just couldn’t find a proper excuse to beat him! Now that he had finally found an opportunity, there was no way he was letting it go.
“Great Sect Master, you have to help me! I’ve been following him for so long without any status or recognition!”
“Not only does he refuse to marry me, but he won’t even consummate our relationship... Waaaah! I’m so miserable!”
While Lu Ming was busy pummeling Xue Wuchang, Feng Qingqing stood to the side, weeping like a pear blossom in the rain as she filed her complaint!
What?
Marriage? Consummation?
Lu Ming was the Great Sect Master of several sects—where exactly was he inferior to a pretty boy like Xue Wuchang?
And yet, this guy actually had a beautiful woman begging to consummate their relationship.
The most infuriating part was that he actually refused!
This was truly a case of the well-fed not knowing the hunger of the starving.
“I’ll teach you to let her down! She gave you her heart and soul, her very lifeblood...”
Feng Qingqing, who was pretending to wipe away tears, quickly corrected him.
“Great Sect Master, it’s ‘poured her heart and soul out’!”
“Oh... right, right... she poured her heart and soul out for you, and you didn’t even appreciate it! You’re like a sheep dropping on a dinner plate, pretending to be a gourmet meatball!”
Xue Wuchang was completely dazed from the beating. Why exactly was he being hit again?
How did the conversation suddenly turn to consummating a marriage?
Suddenly, Xue Wuchang roared, “With my cultivation so low, how could I ever have a family!?”
As soon as the words left his mouth, Feng Qingqing’s sultry voice rang out.
“Dual cultivating with me will raise your cultivation!!”
“Exactly! If you want to raise your cultivation, then dual cultivate with her!” Lu Ming chimed in.
After Wang Defa fed Big Yellow a recovery pill, the three men and the dog—including Bao Duoduo—sat in a row, watching the scene with wide grins.
A moment later, Lu Ming looked at Xue Wuchang’s bruised and swollen face with great satisfaction.
“You’re just jealous of me! You’re just taking out your frustrations on me...” Xue Wuchang sobbed.
“What do I have to be jealous of? Jealous that your cultivation isn’t as high as mine? Jealous that you can’t beat me in a fight?” Lu Ming asked dismissively.
Xue Wuchang opened his mouth to retort but realized the Great Sect Master actually had a point.
He was the Great Sect Master of multiple sects, his cultivation was higher, and he was better at fighting!
There really wasn’t anything for him to be jealous of...
“Oh my, look at how bruised your eyes are. Come here, let me put some medicine on them.” Feng Qingqing smiled, her eyes crinkling as she gently began to apply ointment to Xue Wuchang’s face.
Seeing this, Lu Ming gnashed his teeth in envy.
“Tell me, why did you get beaten up?” Lu Ming asked Big Yellow, who was still happily watching the drama.
“Uh... it was nothing,” Big Yellow replied dismissively.
Lu Ming was surprised by the evasive answer. Since when did this dog become shy?
He turned to Feng Qingqing, who was still tending to Xue Wuchang. “Let Old Man Wang finish up with the medicine... You, tell me what happened.”
“I’m on it! Old Wang is here!” Wang Defa happily took the medicine from Feng Qingqing’s hands.
“Little Xue! Old Man Wang is very gentle...”
“Get lost! I’m not letting you touch me... I’ll just take a recovery pill...” Xue Wuchang growled, stuffing a pill into his mouth.
Wang Defa withdrew his hand with a look of regret, muttering, “Ungrateful brat!”
“After we were captured and brought here to forge, we were given a choice of tasks... one was refining ore, and the other was forging finished weapons...”
“But the Second Sect Master insisted on forging...”
Hearing this, Lu Ming and Wang Defa all turned to look at Big Yellow.
“You know how to forge?” Lu Ming asked curiously.
Big Yellow blinked. “I’m the cross-species sworn brother of the protagonist! I thought I’d be able to!”
Lu Ming: “...”
What a great ‘I thought’!
The problem is that you’re the protagonist’s brother, not the protagonist!
My protagonist halo doesn’t extend its light to you!
He turned back to Feng Qingqing. “Continue...”
“The Second Sect Master took the forging job and insisted on doing it just like you. He said he had to show off his skills to the ghost supervisor...”
Lu Ming could already guess what happened next.
Feng Qingqing continued, “In the end, he blew the whole thing up while showing off. Not only did he blow up several small ghosts, but he also collapsed the building. Most importantly, he managed to singe all his fur black and curly...”
Lu Ming and Wang Defa stared at Big Yellow with wide eyes.
You bastard, you absolutely deserved that beating!
It’s a miracle they didn’t whip you to death!
At the same time, they finally understood why some of the buildings were collapsed when they arrived.
It turns out Big Yellow had blown them up!
“Woof! That was an accident! If you don’t believe me, I’ll forge something right now...”
“Don’t you dare!” Lu Ming barked, immediately refusing.
If he blew up again, he might take the rest of them with him!
Crack!
Just then, the sound of a whip rang out.
“What are you all doing standing around? If you don’t finish your quota, you’ll be forged into the weapons themselves!”
Lu Ming and the others turned to see the Ghost Supervisor, who had returned after settling the Tianqi Ancestor and the others.
“Right away! We’re just familiarizing ourselves with the workflow!”
“Yes, yes... we’re starting now!” Wang Defa and the others chimed in.
Following that, Xue Wuchang and the others began refining spirit stones, while Lu Ming and Wang Defa started forging weapons—specifically, the standard long spears used by ordinary ghost soldiers.
Seeing Lu Ming and Wang Defa’s practiced movements, the Ghost Supervisor nodded. Then, he pointed at Big Yellow.
“That dog is forbidden from forging!”
“Understood, understood...” Lu Ming and the others nodded repeatedly.
Big Yellow looked utterly dejected. On what grounds!?
Seeing that everyone was compliant, the Ghost Supervisor finally turned and left. Having just become a supervisor, he didn’t want to be as lax as the previous one.
“This isn’t actually that tiring,” Bao Duoduo muttered as he refined another piece of ore.
Big Yellow wagged its tail. “You don’t feel tired because we have the spirit stones the boss gave us to replenish our energy...”
“We can’t absorb the yin energy here...”
Hearing Big Yellow say that they couldn’t absorb the yin energy, everyone immediately understood.
If they couldn’t absorb energy and their storage bags had been taken, they would have no way to replenish themselves. Once a cultivator ran out of spiritual energy, their combat power would plummet.
Lu Ming’s heart stirred at their discussion. Was it really impossible to absorb?
Why not try?
Lu Ming began to circulate his technique.
As he did, streams of icy energy entered his body and flowed into his dantian.
Aside from being a bit cold, there was no discomfort. It seemed the energy didn't have much of a negative effect on him.
...
While Lu Ming and the others were forging, Ghost General Mo Tuo returned to the residence of Ghost King Hei Dun.
As soon as he entered, he saw Ghost King Hei Dun fondling a massive saber that was half-gold and half-yin, looking at it with absolute adoration.
“Lord Ghost King, I’ve replenished the laborers at the Artifact Forging Pavilion...”
“Very good!” Ghost King Hei Dun nodded, then showed off his saber to Mo Tuo. “Mo Tuo, what do you think of my blade?”
“It’s ugly. What kind of crap color is that? It’s not pleasing at all. Black looks much better...” Mo Tuo replied without a second thought.
Ye Fan: “...”
What the hell do you know? This is a symbol of my status and a manifestation of my power!
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