Immortality: Raising an Ant Queen to Cultivate by increasing stat points

Chapter 466: Chapter 458 Upgrading Weapons_1

After exiting, Qin Niu made a beeline for the carriage. Tang Cai Xian was still seated inside.

She was pregnant, and Qin Niu had not wanted her to come, but she wished to accompany him to the city. So he had let her.

It was a good opportunity to take her to see the newly purchased quadrangle and those shops.

“Cai Xian, all the family’s fields and shops have been transferred to Wan Yan’s name. Are you sure you have no objections? If we need to make changes, there’s still time. I can have Mr. Niu transfer the shops to your name.”

Qin Niu treated both his wives equally.

Only, the official wife naturally had certain advantages.

In some wealthy families, the concubines had a very low status, just a bit higher than that of a servant girl.

Yet Tang Cai Xian received the treatment of an equal wife in the Qin Family.

“We are all one family, what objections could I possibly have? Besides, Sister Wan Yan has always been kind to me. If it’s in her name, would she deny me and our child food? I have no interest in managing family properties. As long as I can live a life of love with you, I’d be willing to work the fields every day.”

Her heart was full of love, and she had no interest in competing for the family property.

Her greatest wish was to spend a life of love with Qin Niu.

“To marry both you and Wan Yan in this lifetime is indeed my good fortune. Sit tight; I’ll stop by the Cultivation Market first.”

Qin Niu drove the carriage straight to the Cultivation Market.

He even went out of his way to visit the mute girl Bei Bing in her talisman shop.

Her grandfather still hadn’t returned.

During their conversation, it was evident that she was deeply worried about her grandfather’s safety.

Due to the war between three sects, roads were blocked, and her grandfather couldn’t return.

Now that the war was essentially over, Qin Niu believed her grandfather would soon return safely. He comforted her with a few words before driving to Master Ou’s smithy.

Tang Cai Xian refused to show her face in public, so she stayed inside the carriage compartment, waiting for Qin Niu.

Upon entering the smithy, Master Ou was sitting behind the counter, carefully examining a narrow sword, while his apprentice worked tirelessly in the forging room, pounding away with a heavy hammer.

Learning blacksmithing skills must start with the basics.

Hammering was a compulsory lesson for every blacksmith.

Not only did repeated hammering refine the impurities out of the raw materials, making the metal more compact and hard, but it also improved the blacksmith’s forging level.

The final shape of a blade, whether the edge is even—all of these require relentless effort and continual experience to achieve a higher standard.

Inferior blacksmiths often produce weapons with poor designs, loose material structure, uncoordinated proportions, and inadequate tempering, leading to terrible user experiences.

For a seasoned blacksmith like Master Ou, using the weapons he forged was a true delight.

“Master Ou, busy as always!” Qin Niu greeted him with a smile.

Master Ou’s gaze shifted from the narrow sword in his hand and he looked up at Qin Niu.

“Ah, it’s you! I must say I was once blind to greatness, not realizing that you were the well-known Insect Master Qin Niu.”

Qin Niu didn’t expect that Master Ou, who spent all day cooped up in his shop forging iron, would be aware of his identity.

“You flatter me! I’m just a country youth.” Qin Niu was humbly modest.

“If I hadn’t seen you break the enemy’s Insect Formation on the battlefield that day, who would have thought that someone so ordinary-looking like you could be so capable. A true hero indeed! What brings you here today? Do you wish to purchase an Insect Jar or to have weapons forged?”

Master Ou gestured towards a stool in front of the counter.

“Please, have a seat!”

The stool was old and dirty; one really couldn’t be too choosy in a smithy.

“I’ve come today to ask you a few questions.” Qin Niu spoke and placed the Ink Blade directly on the counter.

“Do you remember this blade?”

“Taking one look at its design, I knew it was forged by my own hand.” Master Ou glanced at it and immediately recognized it as his work.

However, he had forged so many weapons that he couldn’t clearly remember when he had made this particular blade.

“Please take a closer look,” Qin Niu hinted calmly.

Upon hearing this, Master Ou reached out with a puzzled look to pick up the Ink Blade.

Immediately, he sensed a strong resistance emanating from the blade, along with a heart-palpitating murderous aura and a chilling breath.

“This blade has already evolved its own consciousness; it has actually become a spiritual weapon, which is too inconceivable,” exclaimed Master Ou, his face a picture of shock as he looked at the Ink Blade.

In the end, a faint red glow shone on his hands, and he forcibly picked up the Ink Blade.

Qin Niu’s heart trembled slightly, who could have thought that this old blacksmith had such profound cultivation. He must be at the peak of the Innate Realm, or possibly at the early stage of the Spirit Qi Realm.

Hidden dragons and crouching tigers.

Many masters seemed to hide in the city, taking on the roles of blacksmiths, Talisman Masters.

Master Ou, the owner of the dark talisman shop, they were all masters.

“Such a powerful Blade Spirit. Although I don’t remember when I forged this blade for you, I am certain that it was not more than a year ago. For you to be able to nurture it into a spiritual weapon in such a short time, there must be a great opportunity,

Blades are instruments of killing and inherently fierce.

Its evolutionary direction is a bit evil and murderous, and you must beware of the Blade Spirit’s backlash in the future. Prolonged use of this blade can easily affect your mind,” Master Ou advised Qin Niu.

“Then, is there any way to resolve it?”

Qin Niu asked.

“The evolutionary direction of a weapon is generally beyond anyone’s control. For any weapon to evolve from an ordinary weapon to a spiritual one requires an extraordinary opportunity, which is almost impossible to replicate. The fact that your blade has evolved in an evil and murderous direction does not necessarily mean it is a bad thing. For instance, I once saw a spear that evolved in a direction of brightness and ferocity, favoring the fire attribute, but its owner used it to kill many innocent people.

Eventually, the spear’s owner was killed by an immortal from the Immortal Sect, vanishing into oblivion.

That spear then changed hands.

After passing through several owners, when I saw it again, it was by chance. A young man in his twenties had it and used it to help villagers deal with a green snake about to turn into a demon.

So, whether a weapon is evil or righteous isn’t so important.

What matters is whether the weapon’s owner is righteous or evil.

As long as you steadfastly adhere to the path of righteousness, it will be hard for this blade to influence you.

There’s no need to think about changing its evolutionary direction.

Because doing so might ruin it.

Just like forcing a child who naturally enjoys business to farm instead, which would ultimately ruin that child’s future,” Master Ou, who has spent his life forging various weapons, viewed each weapon as a child.

Perhaps in Master Ou’s eyes, each weapon had its own life.

“Thank you for your guidance, senior!” Qin Niu bowed deeply, his gratitude genuine.

“I have another question. When this weapon was originally forged, I was short on funds and used very ordinary materials. I only used fine iron and a small amount of Hundred-Tempering Fine Steel. Do you think it’s possible to add some higher-grade metals to upgrade it?”

Upgrading weapons was a fairly common practice.

“Yes! But the risk of upgrading it is very high; one careless move could lead to its destruction. And now that it has become a spiritual weapon, to upgrade it, you would need at least metals of very high quality such as Mystical Iron or Meteoric Iron. These materials are rare and usually hard to come by,” explained Master Ou, advising him against upgrading the Ink Blade.

If it were to be ruined, it would be a great pity.

“Would this Red Iron Chain material be suitable?”

Qin Niu took out the Red Iron Chains and laid them on the counter.

“Red Iron! This iron is naturally fiery and considered a top-class Mystical Iron. Using it to upgrade this blade would indeed be well matched,” said Master Ou, using the phrase “well matched.”

When upgrading weapons, the materials must be commensurate with the weapon’s grade.

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