bookbashuk Chapter 440 The Legacy of the Master Craftsman
Chapter 440 The Legacy of the Master Craftsman
Chapter 440 The Legacy of the Master Craftsman
Outside the quiet courtyard of the Chaos City Lord's Mansion stands a stone tablet that has remained unchanged for countless epochs, bearing the three characters "Chaos Ruins".
With one step, time and space twisted, stars shifted, and Zhou Ze entered a vast and desolate world.
On the endless land, there were still corpses of various alien races everywhere. To be honest, even now, Zhou Ze still doesn't understand where this place is.
"Zhou Ze, what brings you here?" The Chaos City Lord asked the same question, just like an NPC, for all eternity.
He was burly, standing three meters tall, and still wore an incredibly complex and ancient dark red battle armor, trailing a scaled tail of moderate length.
"Senior Chaos, it's been a long time!" Zhou Ze said with a smile.
"Very short!" the Chaos City Lord sighed. "It's not even been an epoch—"
"Haha, that's certainly true for you, but it's been a long time for me—" After saying this, Zhou Ze felt like he had become an NPC, and every time he greeted the Chaos City Lord, it was always a long time.
"Senior Chaos, this is a treasure I crafted. Take a look—" Zhou Ze handed over a world ring containing an ordinary treasure he had crafted during this period.
With a thought, the Lord of Chaos City summoned all the treasures within the World Ring, each shimmering with a different color and possessing an aura unique to these treasures.
"The quality is so perfect! I don't know how you did it!"
The Lord of Chaos sighed slightly. If it were before Zhou Ze appeared, he would have been extremely surprised, but now he could remain calm and was immune to this level of surprise.
There was no way around it; Zhou Ze had given him too many surprises.
"What's so difficult about that? With a complete lineage in place, you can just follow the example. The real challenge is creating and innovating!" Zhou Ze laughed. "By the way, senior, you said you'd find me a high-grade treasure-forging lineage. How's that going? Thousands of years have passed; have you forgotten?"
The Lord of Chaos City smiled slightly and said, "Didn't you say you didn't care at first? Why are you so impatient now?"
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"What you're saying is—" Zhou Ze said speechlessly, "If it doesn't exist, then so be it. If it takes a lot of effort to find it, or even to pay a high price for it, I don't think it's worth it. But if it's readily available, I might reluctantly take a look."
The Lord of Chaos City laughed, "You make it sound so easy. I put in a lot of effort, haha. But I was lucky. Originally, the God of Craftsmen absolutely refused, but as soon as I brought you up, he immediately agreed!"
"The God of Crafts?" Zhou Ze was stunned. "What price did you pay? It wasn't necessary. Let's make this clear first. You promised that after I finished refining the Origin Treasure, I wouldn't become a blacksmith. I'd just practice in my spare time."
"There's no price to pay, I'll just agree on your behalf—" The Chaos City Lord's eyes were calm with a hint of a smile.
"Replace me? Could it be that the God of Crafts wants me to be his mentor?" Zhou Ze guessed.
"No—" The Chaos City Lord shook his head slightly: "He just wants you to guide him if you can surpass him in weapon crafting in the future."
"Uh—" Zhou Ze couldn't help but laugh, "That Master of Craftsmen is quite something; even at his status and position, he still maintains the heart of an apprentice!"
The Lord of Chaos City said, "Not entirely. It's just that when he asked me about the purpose of his inheritance, I mentioned your name and then told him about your experience in weapon crafting. After that, he agreed and made the request I mentioned."
"Okay." Zhou Ze nodded without saying anything more.
Anyone who heard about his weapon-forging experience would be astonished. He estimated that even the Primordial Ancestor who was secretly "peeping" would be extremely shocked.
You should know that crafting artifacts is much more difficult than simply cultivating. Yet, in just a few thousand years, I have reached the level of perfectly crafting top-tier treasures. If word got out, it would scare a lot of people.
Not to mention, he has now perfectly mastered the crafting of ordinary treasures, which is the level of the Chaos City Lord, leaving everyone else dumbfounded.
Even the worst of the treasures is still a treasure. Even if some top-tier treasures are comparable to or even surpass treasures, fundamentally, one is a treasure and the other is a treasure!
"What about the weapon-forging inheritance of the God of Crafts?" Zhou Ze stretched out his hand to the Chaos City Lord. "Why won't you give it to me?"
The Lord of Chaos City grinned slightly, blinked, and said, "Isn't this a surprise for you? —"
If people saw the Lord of Chaos City with this expression, it would shock countless people.
You see, the Chaos City Lord wasn't usually aloof, but the combined aura of someone truly in charge of a top-tier race, possessing the strength of a supreme universe master, and exuding a cool and serene demeanor, was awe-inspiring, making one afraid to utter a single wrong word in front of Zhou Ze—
"Alright then—" Zhou Ze said casually, "I'll head back now."
"Well, I'll give you 20 Treasure Points for these treasures—" said the Chaos City Lord.
"Uh, so many?" Zhou Ze's eyes widened slightly.
He thought he would only get 10 Treasure Points at most. He didn't spend a penny on the materials for these treasures. All of them together would only amount to about one or two hundred Treasure Points. Unexpectedly, the transaction fee gave him 20 Treasure Points.
"I've even undercalculated for you—" The Chaos City Lord smiled slightly, "Supreme treasures are rare to begin with. For even the most ordinary supreme treasure, several Venerables might die."
"Refining a supreme treasure might seem easy to you, but for many weapon refiners, it's incredibly difficult! And there's a significant chance of failure, resulting in wasted materials!"
"That's true." Zhou Ze had initially felt a little guilty, but after the Chaos City Lord's explanation, he understood a bit.
This is a win-win situation!
In addition to gaining experience in weapon crafting, he also received a reward.
The clan has more than a dozen additional treasures. Even the most ordinary treasures are still treasures. Among them, treasures such as flying palaces, soul defense, and domains are far more valuable than ordinary high-level treasures.
"Then I'll be going now, Senior Chaos!" Zhou Ze bowed slightly and then disappeared into the Chaos Ruins space.
"As expected of one of only three weapon refiners in the primordial universe capable of crafting top-tier treasures—" Zhou Ze exclaimed as he browsed through the legacy of the God of Craftsmen. "Hmm, the God of Craftsmen received guidance from the Mountain-Sitting Guest, and his weapon-refining skills are firmly among the top three weapon refiners. It is precisely because of the Mountain-Sitting Guest's guidance that his weapon-refining techniques bear a trace of the Mountain-Sitting Guest's influence, following the path of secret runes—"
Zhou Ze calmed down and began to study the legacy of the God of Crafts. Soon, he finished reading the legacy of the God of Crafts.
"This master craftsman is quite pure; he didn't hold back at all, giving me all his weapon-refining skills—"