If the sect doesn't accept geniuses, they will become giants once they leave?

Chapter 110 The Legendary Ministry of Industry
A light flashed in Li Yanmo's eyes.

Of course, Li Yanmo had no interest in illegal channels. What Li Yanmo was interested in was the high cost mentioned by Mei Chai Shao.

"How do you say this is expensive?"

Mei Chai Shao thought for a moment and then said, "Even the lowest-level magic weapon requires a blueprint. If you don't have the blueprint, you have to entrust the weapon refiner to design it yourself. As you know, the design fee is directly linked to the reputation of the weapon refiner."

"Then there are all kinds of natural treasures. The higher the grade of the magic weapon, the more natural treasures are needed. These must all be prepared by the cultivator himself, and generally two or three sets of materials are needed. The higher the grade of the magic weapon, the more difficult it is to refine. Even those heavenly-grade refiners are not sure of refining a heavenly-grade magic weapon in one go. Even the best earth-grade magic weapons may go wrong."

"Finally, there's the refiner's fee. Just like the design fee, it all depends on the refiner's reputation."

The light in Li Yanmo's eyes grew brighter and brighter, and a brilliant bankruptcy plan came to his mind, "Then can't we... train a direct weapon refiner?"

Mei Chai Shao scratched his head. "Those super sects, the top-tier ones, do indeed do that, but they're the only ones with the resources. A weapon refiner's spending is practically calculated by the second. Those weapon refiners are also smart. They've banded together to form an organization called the Weapon Refiner Association. They issue various certificates to boost their reputations. The Dao Sect tacitly condones this behavior, so sects like those in Zhongzhou generally choose to rent weapon refiners from the Weapon Refiner Association."

Mei Chai Shao also complained as he spoke.

"When I was at my most ignorant, I even wanted to rent a weapon refiner to Qingshan Sect to stabilize the situation. However, even the cheapest weapon refiner in the weapon refiner association had a monthly salary equivalent to Qingshan Sect's total income for two years. And that's before they even hire a weapon refiner. The price is completely different when they hire a weapon refiner."

"After I inquired about the price, I realized how high the sky is and how deep the earth is."

The more Li Yanmo listened, the brighter the light in his eyes became. By the end, the light in Li Yanmo's eyes was almost materializing.

This is a perfect money-burning black hole!
"Brother Li, are you planning to... rent a weapon refiner from the Evil Weapon Refiner Association?"

Mei Chai Shao was indeed a shrewd person. He saw through Li Yanmo's thoughts at the first moment, but Li Yanmo denied it immediately, "No, I'm just a little curious."

The Dayu Dynasty and Taoism were two wealthy families.

If he made the Dayu Dynasty and the Taoist sect realize that he wanted to develop the weapon refiner business, the Taoist sect might not take action immediately, but the Dayu Dynasty would definitely send weapon refiners to him at a very low cost price!

You know, what the Dayu Dynasty has the most is aliases. Given the nature of the Dayu Dynasty, I'm afraid that many weapon refiners in the Weapon Refiner Association are aliases of the Dayu Dynasty monks.

In order to avoid the plan from failing, Li Yanmo decided to endure it for the time being.

However, in order for the refiner's plan to go bankrupt to proceed smoothly, he needed to obtain more information about the refiner, and he could not obtain it from the same person, so as to avoid the other party from guessing his purpose.

The second [NPC] that Li Yanmo was looking for who could provide information was the constable and playboy Leng Ningshuang.

He needs to use the condensing frost to eliminate the fake accounts among the weapon refiners.

I don’t know if it’s because he used the Playboy alias too many times, which resulted in too low attendance of the constable, so Leng Ningshuang has been using the constable number during this period.

When Li Yanmo found Leng Ningshuang, Leng Ningshuang was pointing and talking at a young man in luxurious clothes, and the young man was helplessly responding to Leng Ningshuang's preaching.

Li Yanmo always felt that the young man's voice was very familiar. When he was about to get closer to take a look, the young man looked over first, waved at Li Yanmo with a smile, and dozens of jade pendants on his waist jingled.

"Hey - Brother Li, long time no see."

Li Yanmo was startled and called out the other person's name.

"It's you! Himehachi!"

Ji Fa's eyes twitched. "Brother Li, it might be a little late to introduce myself now. My name is Ji Fa, the eighth son of the current Emperor Yu, the Eighth Prince. Brother Li, you don't have to be too reserved because of my identity. Just call me Ji Fa. Of course, if there are outsiders around, you'd better call me Master Fa to avoid causing a disturbance."

"I understand, Prince Jiba."

Leng Ningshuang couldn't help but burst out laughing, then pretended to bow her hands and said, "Greetings to Prince Ji Ba."

Ji Fa raised his finger, as if to correct him, but after a long pause, he finally lowered his head weakly, "You should just call me Ji Ba. My father can't remember my name anyway." After mumbling a few words in resentment, Ji Fa regained his composure, "Brother Li, you are here to see Constable Leng, right? I wonder if I can sit in on the conversation?"

"This……"

Li Yanmo looked at Leng Ningshuang, who waved her hand. "He's just being polite. Even if you say no, he'll still eavesdrop."

"Okay then, let's go to Tianxu Tower first."

The three of them soon arrived at the private room of Tianxu Tower. In order to avoid misunderstanding, Leng Ningshuang changed into the pseudonym of Playboy and ordered some refreshments.

After chatting for a few minutes, Li Yanmo stated the purpose of this trip.

"Actually, I recently heard there's a weapon refiner association within the Dao Sect. They seem to be strictly controlling weapon refiner resources. I'm a little curious... Could the Dayu Dynasty have planted a lot of sock puppets there?"

Leng Ningshuang blinked and swallowed the snack, "That's not the case."

"Is this true?" Li Yanmo's face was full of disbelief.

Ji Fa held the teacup in his hand, shook it, and said leisurely, "Of course it's true. The Equipment Refiner Association was originally created by those old guys in the Ministry of Industry to satisfy their own selfish desires. However, its current scale and effect can be regarded as an unexpected success, which makes up for the loss."

"cough--"

Li Yanmo almost choked on his tea.

He still underestimated the ability of the Dayu Dynasty to reorganize.

"How do you say that?"

Ji Fa moistened his throat and leisurely introduced the glorious development history of the Equipment Refiners Association.

"The Ministry of Industry is responsible for refining weapons and manufacturing various magical treasures. The Dayu Dynasty believes that no matter what it is, it must keep pace with the times and seek breakthroughs. Therefore, the Ministry of Industry has always advocated for free refining of weapons. No matter whether it is outrageous or not, just refine it first and then think about it."

"At first, they were quite conservative, refining magical weapons honestly and competing with Taoist sects to imitate those immortal artifacts. It wasn't until Emperor Yu, out of curiosity, approved a proposal to refine a magical weapon that could be refined by oneself that the Ministry of Industry began to lose control."

"Although they haven't created a magic weapon that can refine itself, they have refined a magic weapon that can be produced according to the user's requirements and design drawings."

"Since then, the Ministry of Industry has been unstoppable in its innovation efforts. They slack off during the day, and at night, under the pretext of exploring the limits of the concept of magical weapons, they continuously produce all sorts of bizarre magical weapons. And in the process, the magical weapon that could design its own blueprints also gained intelligence, and those psychopaths are increasingly recklessly testing the limits of the magical weapon's functionality."

"Emperor Yu of that generation didn't realize the danger at the time. He just thought the Great Yu Dynasty had outperformed the sects in the magic weapon competition. It wasn't until a major war that Emperor Yu realized the magnitude of his mistake."

"That year, the Demon Abyss experienced unusual movements, and the ancient sects and demons joined forces to attack the Myriad Demons Mountain. In that battle, the Great Yu Dynasty had no choice but to win, and a decisive victory, in order to subdue those ancient sects. Unfortunately, the general's mid-grade Heavenly Grade magic weapon was destroyed, and Emperor Yu ordered the Ministry of Works to repair it as quickly as possible."

Ji Fa paused and spoke slowly.

"Then they transformed the great general's magic weapon into a top-grade, heavenly-grade toilet plunger and sent it over. The plunger was incredibly sturdy, a powerful melee weapon. Upon striking an enemy, it could absorb their spiritual energy, transforming it into a powerful long-range attack. It could be used for single-target sniping or area-of-effect bombing. The victim would suffer a fatal blow, both mentally and physically, making it a terrifying weapon."

"The general, holding the toilet plunger, entered and exited the Demon Abyss seven times. No one could stop him, and no one dared to stop him. However, afterward, the general developed some mental problems. He kept holding onto the toilet plunger every day, and even told everyone that it was his good friend."

"After learning of this, Emperor Yu was furious and opened the Ministry of Works' warehouse, where he discovered a pile of terrifyingly lethal Heaven-grade farm tools."

"The Ministry of Industry even used the ancient Zhuxian Sword Formation as a prototype and created an even more terrifying formation using a Heavenly Grade toilet plunger."

"It can continuously absorb the spiritual energy of the unlucky ones trapped in the formation, and convert it into long-range attacks to bombard without interruption."

(End of this chapter)