Celestial being

After a while, the fire master held the spirit stone in his hand and started to imbue the soft armor with the secret method.

Soon, the spirit filling was completed, and the runes on the snake scale soft armor lit up. A layer of cyan light slightly protruded outside the soft armor, and then quickly shrank and disappeared.

"Not bad, not bad." Master Huolian held the soft armor and inspected it carefully before nodding with satisfaction.

On the side, a bald man immediately brought over a ceramic tea cup, which contained bright red and bright strong tea.

Master Huolian put down his soft armor, picked up the tea cup, took a sip, stood up slowly, and stretched his muscles.

"Turn around, turn around." Yuan Ming muttered silently in his heart.

Unfortunately, his thoughts could not influence Master Huolian. The latter just stretched his waist and sat down again.

Yuan Ming estimated that the possession time was about to end, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, and his doubts were difficult to resolve.

But at this moment, the "clang" sound behind him suddenly stopped, and the voice of the bald man came:

"Master, it's ready."

Yuan Ming was a little surprised when Master Huolian finally got up and turned around.

As his eyes turned, Yuan Ming also looked over.

However, except for the bald man, there was no other person behind Master Huolian.

Next to the bald man, there was a six-foot-tall "Tin Man" who looked roughly humanoid, but was clearly not human.

The Tin Woodman is wrapped in blue-black iron skin. He only has a human-shaped outline, but no human facial features. Even the body structure seems a bit rough, except for two finely crafted arms.

One of the arms does not have a human palm structure, but is directly connected to a huge casting hammer.

Regardless of whether it is the casting hammer or other parts of the Tin Man's body, there are dark red indented circles distributed on the surface, and there are detailed lines connecting each circle. It looks like one or several circles magnified several times. , a unique rune that is severely deformed.

"It's actually this thing that's refining the embryo?" Yuan Ming was even more surprised.

When he had this question in his mind, the bald man gave the answer: "Master, although this mechanical puppet is easy to use, it has too many limitations..."

There was some complaining in his words.

"You can eat as much food as you want and serve as many bowls as you want. What's there to complain about? Being good at making low-grade magic weapons is enough in this Black Rock City." Master Huolian glared at him and said.

"But the embryonic iron it refines can actually reach the middle-grade level. Your craftsmanship in carving talismans and filling spirits is not to mention. Why don't we take over the business of mid-grade magic weapons? This revenue can be increased by at least five times. Here." said the bald man.

"How many times have I told you this? The level of this puppet is not high. Even if it can refine mid-grade embryonic iron, it is not of the best quality. So the magical weapon it creates is just a waste of money?" Master Huolian He frowned and shouted.

"You are just too striving for perfection." The bald man knew that he was angry, so he only dared to mutter in a low voice.

"Hey, if I hadn't been injured in a conspiracy in my early years and couldn't swing the hammer to refine the embryo, why would I have needed to buy Baijimen's embryo-refining puppet?" Master Huolian sighed quietly.

Yuan Ming listened with great interest, and it turned out that there was a puppet who could specialize in embryo refining.

What kind of sect is Baijimen? A sect that specializes in producing puppets? I haven’t heard of it in southern Xinjiang, maybe it’s a sect from the Central Plains?

Just as Yuan Ming was thinking wildly, his vision began to become blurry and he fell into darkness again.

…

On the second day, Yuan Ming retrieved the snake scale soft armor and Bagua mirror from Master Huolian.

Although the Snake Scale Soft Armor was a low-grade magic weapon, its appearance and quality were fine, and the Bagua Mirror was also repaired extremely well. Yuan Ming was very satisfied with it, and left after paying the money.

After leaving Black Rock City, Yuan Ming patted the spirit beast bag on his waist, and a green light flew out.

Where the green light fell, a clear crane chirped. The Qingyun Crane stretched its wings and jumped and danced on the spot. Compared to sleeping in the spirit beast bag, it obviously preferred to stay outside.

Yuan Ming stepped forward and stretched out his hand. Qingyunhe immediately lowered his head obediently and rubbed the palm of his hand gently, appearing extremely obedient.

"gone."

Yuan Ming jumped on Qingyun He's back, sat down with his legs crossed, and gave a soft drink.

The Qingyun Crane immediately let out a long cry, spread its wings, and waved powerfully to stir up the airflow, sending its body high into the sky and flying towards the east.

Just two days.

Qingyun Crane pressed down on its cloud head and landed towards a town below.

After landing outside the city, Yuan Ming put away the Qingyun Crane and walked outside the city gate.

"Iron Tiger Town, I never thought I would come here again!" Looking at the familiar plaque, he chuckled.

After saying that, he quickly walked into the city gate.

After entering, Yuan Ming subconsciously glanced at the notice board next to him, and saw that the paper posted on it had faded, and the latest one was a recruitment list for some kind of painter.

Yuan Ming didn't pay much attention. He came to Tiehu Town this time mainly because he wanted to meet the person sent by his father to take care of him.

Although Yuan Ming didn't know if they were still there, he still decided to make this trip.

It was almost noon, the busiest time in the city. Yuan Ming passed by Lao Yandai's inn, only to find that it had been closed and operations had been suspended.

He didn't care, and planned to go directly across the street to the lord's mansion to find out the news.

Just walking in the streets, the aroma of wine and food came from both sides. After a while, Yuan Ming moved his index finger and the gluttons in his stomach began to scream.

He picked a restaurant with a small number of people and walked in.

He saw a dark-skinned young man with a frown on his face, trotting up to meet him.

"There are private seats upstairs in the guest cabin, please..." The thick-browed young man frowned before he finished speaking. He looked at the guest in front of him and felt that he looked more and more familiar, but for a moment he couldn't remember who it was. .

"Hu Tu, long time no see." Yuan Ming was the first to be happy, "hehe" and said with a smile.

Hearing Yuan Ming's voice and taking a closer look at his features, Hu Tu immediately realized: "Are you Yuan Ming?"

He looked surprised at first, then turned to guilty, and then his eyes started to dodge.

"Hey, have you become the boss?" Yuan Ming teased.

He could tell at a glance that although Hu Tu was dressed simply, the material was not something that a waiter could wear.

"I...this, this is just a small restaurant, Yuan...Brother Yuan, follow me upstairs, let's talk upstairs." Hu Tu talked incoherently for a while, and finally calmed down and took Yuan Ming up. Second floor.

The two entered a private room. Hu Tu ordered the waiters to serve a banquet according to the highest standards, and then closed the door.

After turning around, Hu Tu immediately bowed his head to Yuan Ming and said with guilt and gratitude: "Brother Yuan, I have been looking for you for a long time. Unfortunately, there has been no news from you since that goodbye."

"What do you want from me?" Yuan Ming pretended not to know.

"To apologize and to repay a favor. When I had the intention to harm you, instead of blaming you, you actually left ten silver coins for me. Otherwise, I would never be where I am today. It would be weird for someone else to not sell me for mining. ." Hu Tu said with a solemn expression.

Yuan Ming thought to himself, in fact, I also sold it, but I just snatched it back.

"Okay, if you hadn't brought me out from the cemetery, I might have died. Everything is a matter of cause and effect." It was also based on this that Yuan Ming did not actually sell Hu Tu. go.

"This time, no matter what, let me thank you." Hu Tu was overjoyed when he saw that Yuan Ming didn't mean to blame him.

After a while, the waiter brought a table full of good wine and food. Hu Tu stopped caring about business and ate and drank with Yuan Ming.

He told about his experiences after breaking up with Yuan Ming, how he worked hard with those ten silver coins, and finally became rich step by step. Finally, he took root in Tiehu Town and opened the "Ming'en Building" .

Speaking of which, in fact, when Yuan Ming came to Tiehu Town last time, this restaurant had already opened. Yuan Ming even passed by the door, but the two missed it and never met again.

After some conversation, the two laughed away their grudges.

Just when Hu Tu asked about Yuan Ming's experience, before Yuan Ming could say anything, there was a sudden noise downstairs.

Yuan Ming listened carefully and heard the sound of soldiers and armor clashing. There were about ten people in the group.

Before he could hear clearly, the noise below escalated to the sound of tables being lifted, shouts of curses, and panicked shouts from guests.

"It's okay, I'll go down and take a look."

Hu Tu frowned, comforted Yuan Ming, and hurriedly got up and went downstairs.

When he got downstairs, he saw the group of soldiers wearing armor and immediately recognized them as soldiers of the Lord's Mansion of Tiehu Town, and his face immediately became a little ugly.

"Sir, what are you doing? I am the owner of this restaurant, and I am friends with Manager Wu Lin in the lord's house. Please give me some respect. No matter what the problem is, let's sit down and talk slowly." Hu Tu After a pause, he quickly put on a smile and went forward.

"It's you, you little bastard, I'll fuck you!"

The leader was a strong man with a full beard. He slapped Hu Tu angrily, causing him to stagger and fall out.

"That bastard Wu Lin introduced the original liar among them, saying that he was a court painter who was personally inherited by Wu Daozi. He defrauded the lord of a large sum of money and ran away. He had been beaten half to death. He confessed that he was you. The kid introduced that liar to him, right?" the sturdy man scolded angrily.

"Ah...it's not me..." Hu Tu was shocked when he heard this and quickly defended himself.

"I don't care if it's you, that liar named 'Wu Liao', does he live here with you?" the sturdy man asked.

"He moved to the Lord's Mansion the day before yesterday and never came back..." Hu Tu said immediately after hearing this.

That Wu material moved in half a month ago. He ate and drank at his place for several days, always paying bills on credit.

Hu Tu went to urge him, and the man said that he was a direct disciple of Wu Daozi, a painter from the state of Wu, and a royal painter. Any painting he painted could be worth the price of his restaurant.

Hu Tu didn't believe it, and planned to report the man to the officials, but Wu Liao, the clinker, said that he saw the city gate recruitment, and the lord's mansion was looking for a painter. As long as he accepted the task, wouldn't he be able to pay back the money?

The result was that Hu Tu once again suffered the losses of the Central Plains people and was deceived by Wu Liao.