The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#341 - Raising a Sword

"How much?" Lu Jing still had over ten thousand taels of silver on him, so when it came to money, he felt he had some confidence.

But then Chi spat out a number, "Five hundred thousand taels."

Lu Jing suspected there was something wrong with his ears, and after a moment, he said, "Didn't you tell me that the most expensive job you ever took was only two hundred thousand taels of silver?"

"Two hundred thousand taels is just the labor cost," Chi said, "The materials were provided by the other party. I said that crafting those two items for you wouldn't cost any labor, so this time the five hundred thousand is just the cost of the materials."

"What materials are so expensive?" Lu Jing gasped.

Chi found Lu Jing's question strange, "How many people have you seen with flying swords?"

After being reminded by Chi, Lu Jing also realized that, if Gu Zhongling in Another World wasn't counted, he didn't seem to have seen a second person cultivating a flying sword in the entire academy.

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Lu Jing weakly said, "Isn't that because the Sword Control Technique is difficult to practice?"

"The Sword Control Technique being difficult to practice is indeed one aspect, but the lack of flying swords is also a very important reason," Chi said, "Otherwise, everyone would have the thought of trying it out, after all, the Sword Control Technique is recognized as the best of all techniques. I've always wanted to personally forge a flying sword, but unfortunately, I don't have the materials on hand.

"Now, the two flying swords I have here, one is my master's work in his later years, and the other is a relic left by my father, so five hundred thousand is not expensive... In fact, the materials for refining flying swords have always been priceless and unavailable for purchase," Chi said.

Lu Jing was stunned, and after a pause, he said, "Isn't there a cheaper option?"

"How much money do you have?" Chi asked.

"One… twelve thousand taels, I guess." Lu Jing never thought that one day he would be carrying a huge sum of ten thousand taels of silver, and that the words he spoke would be so lacking in confidence.

"That's a bit short, but if you really need it urgently, I can give you this flying sword first," Chi said.

"Really? But these two swords should be very important to you, right? Is it okay for you to just take them out and sell them to me?"

Chi didn't think there was anything wrong with it, "It's normal, aren't magical artifacts meant to be used? Leaving them here to collect dust is a real waste of natural resources, it's better to give them to someone who really needs them... However, you came to me to buy a flying sword, is it because you can now cultivate secret power?!"

"Give me half a year."

"What if you can't make it up after half a year?" Chi asked back.

Lu Jing sighed, "Then I'll learn weapon refining from you, but let's make it clear first, learning is learning, I won't move in and live with you."

"We are comrades, not a teacher and student relationship. The things you gave me before were very useful, we can continue to study them together," Chi corrected.

Although Lu Jing seemed unwilling to move into this cave and live with her, it could be seen that Chi was still very happy and was already thinking about helping Lu Jing pull the bellows after half a year.

She went into a stone room on the other side of the cave, and after a while, she came back holding two wooden boxes and asked Lu Jing, "Which one do you want?"

Lu Jing didn't really have any requirements for the quality of the flying sword. He just wanted to use the Sword Control Technique to quickly consume the large amount of secret power in his Niwan Palace, so he casually pointed to the one on the right.

Chi opened the wooden box, "This sword is named Lake Light, one foot and six inches long, and was made by my master Ouyang Pei. It is a work of his later years after his refining skills reached their peak. The reason why it is called this name is because when flying, the sword body will have flowing light, like the shimmering waves of a lake."

Lu Jing took the small sword from Chi's hand. The first feeling in his hand was that it was light. According to Chi, flying swords are very light in order to minimize the secret power consumed by the flying sword during flight.

Moreover, the sword body is much shorter than ordinary long swords, about the size of a dagger, because it does not need to be held in the hand to fight the enemy, the handguard and hilt are very thin.

Lu Jing had fought against Gu Zhongling before, so he was no stranger to flying swords. He also subconsciously compared Lake Light with Gu Zhongling's two small swords, one green and one silver.

He found that Lake Light was not as chilling as those two small swords, but it looked more elegant.

Lu Jing learned from Gu Zhongling and put the small sword into his sleeve, and then thanked Chi.

Unfortunately, Gu Zhongling's move was the Hidden Sword Style in the Sword Control Technique. The flying sword hangs in the sleeve, but it does not come into contact with the arm and clothes, which is very magical, while Lu Jing purely relied on the high defense brought by the Fire Scale Armor to stuff the flying sword in.

Chi then handed over the sword box as well, "Take this too. If the flying sword is damaged, it can be slowly repaired by placing it in the box."

After getting Lake Light, Lu Jing didn't delay any longer and immediately returned to his residence to seclude himself.

According to the records on the first half of the Sword Nurturing Chapter of the Clear Light Moon Shadow Sword, he put Lake Light on his forehead.

He didn't know if it was because there was too much secret power in his Niwan Palace, but as soon as Lu Jing began to meditate, wanting to establish a connection with the flying sword in his hand.

The secret power in his body began to stir, which made Lu Jing breathe a sigh of relief.

Then, following the trend, he controlled a part of the secret power to drill into the newly obtained flying sword, walked around in it, and then divided it into two, one part stayed in the flying sword, and the other part returned to the Niwan Palace.

Repeated in this way, a sword shadow gradually condensed in the Niwan Palace.

On closer inspection, it was somewhat similar to Lake Light on Lu Jing's forehead.

This also meant that Lu Jing had initially established a mental connection with this flying sword.

So far, everything was going smoothly.

And then came the most important part. Lu Jing needed to project his mind into that sword shadow, and then induce the surrounding secret power to warm the sword shadow.

At first, Lu Jing carefully mobilized the secret power according to what was said in the sword manual.

But soon cold sweat broke out on his forehead again, because he didn't know whether Xuan Ji had exaggerated the consumption of secret power by the Sword Control Technique, saying that ordinary cultivators could barely establish a connection with the flying sword on the first day, and then the secret power cultivated every day could only warm it for an hour at most, and then they would be powerless.

Anyway, the current Lu Jing was still far from being powerless. He calculated a little and found that at the current rate of consumption, he could probably only consume less than a quarter of his secret power before dark.

This obviously could not save his life, so Lu Jing had to grit his teeth and arbitrarily increase the sword shadow's absorption rate of secret power.