The weapon refiner is not doing her job properly

Chapter 29 Pure Heart Earrings
"The school has a strict policy prohibiting psychological evaluators from disclosing student privacy." The principal clasped his hands together and placed them in front of him. "Where did you obtain this information? Did you eavesdrop? Or did you conduct a special investigation?"

A cold wind swept across the back of Will's head and into the back of his neck. The boy stared at the ants struggling in the cracks of the floor tiles. "I overheard others talking. They said Su Ninglong is very skilled in killing and binding. Only those who kill frequently can develop a cold and ruthless personality."

"If someone frequently kills animals, they are considered cold-blooded and heartless. Then, would the butchers who slaughter pigs and sheep in the factory also be considered killers?" Su Ninglong believed that he was the one with both mental and personality problems. "He eavesdropped, but he probably only heard half of it, and then he happily framed me."

The heat was about to burst out of Will's face because she guessed correctly that he only heard a few words.

He thought that these few words were enough to attack Su Ninglong and make her feel scared.

The fact is just the opposite. Su Ninglong is even more justified. Is it because she is young that she gets sympathy and protection?
His mind began to get confused. Was it really that he hadn't eavesdropped on the entire process?

I should have come back with solid evidence earlier.

At this time, he not only did not reflect on the bad behavior of his own, but also avoided reality and hoped that Su Ninglong's antisocial personality was real.

"But she really doesn't look like a normal child. I heard some people are born with mental problems."

Principal Yan knows every student's situation very well.

The problem of spreading rumors is not uncommon among students, but it is not serious. They all regard it as a kind of social tempering.

But spreading rumors that a four-year-old girl has an antisocial personality is too much and must not be tolerated.

Principal Yan placed his palm over Su Ninglong's head, signaling her not to speak for the time being.

"Have you just heard about it? Have you ever actually taken action or looked up relevant information?" He said earnestly, "Through the school's observations, Su Ninglong doesn't have any mental health issues. It's you, Will, on the other hand. Are you under too much psychological pressure? Not only have you been talking back to teachers lately, forming cliques and discriminating against others, but you've also been asking others to join you in forming a win-win group. Do you know why this group's application wasn't successful? Because your application form didn't have any clear purpose or actual action plan, just some empty nonsense. I remember you weren't like this before. What changed you?"

Will's head drooped even lower. The principal's words seemed to tear open the dark side hidden in his heart. It turned out that they all knew it.

"So eavesdropping on messages left in the corner is more important than your hunter exam?" Yun Fei leaned against the railing with his arms folded, his combat boots crushing the dry petals floating in from outside. His words were much more direct than Principal Yan's, and also hurtful.

"So this is why you've been absent from hunter training for half a month..." Yun Fei suddenly leaned over the boy's pale face and asked, "Is your exploits from that net hunting two years ago enough to keep you going until you're a hundred years old?"

"And you, Sally, your net hunting performance is too poor. If this continues, you will have no choice but to withdraw from the hunter exam. Perhaps you can consider other careers."

Sally's angry eyes dimmed.

"If there's a conflict, you shouldn't start an argument in class," the principal said, taking over Yun Fei's words. "Rumors stop with the wise. Sally, go see the doctor after class to check your cheeks. You all go back to class, and Will, copy the 'Secret Spirit Collection Illustrated Book', starting with the chapter on Hunger Binding."

The conflict between the students was settled by Principal Yan and Yun Fei using Tai Chi-like tactics.

Su Ninglong, who was hiding behind the principal, poked his head out and said, "You are not allowed to say bad things about me. If you dare to say bad things about me, I will take off your beard clips and give them to Teacher Yang's dog to play with."

Every student was afraid of Yun Fei, except Su Ninglong, who was a little smart kid and was not afraid of the two teachers at all.

Principal Yan touched Su Ninglong's pigtails and said, "Little friend, you should go back too. Teacher Naviko must be waiting anxiously."

Without Su Ninglong, Navico found teaching boring and other students didn't like to listen to his lectures.

Su Ninglong didn't move. When Principal Yan leaned over to talk to her, her nose twitched.

"Anything else?"

"Why are there so many lemon candies in your bow?" Su Ninglong was attracted by the sweet smell. "Can you give me a candy?"

"It tastes a bit strange, are you sure you want it?"

"You say that, and I want to eat even more."

Principal Yan had no choice but to take a piece from the bow and give it to her.

"I heard that anyone who can get candy from Principal Yan will become a powerful hunter."

"This must be another rumor."

Before he finished speaking, Su Ninglong opened the candy wrapper at lightning speed, confident that by doing so, the principal would not be able to take it back.

The principal was right. The taste of sugar was strange. It smelled sweet but was actually sour.

The moment the acid mist exploded in his mouth, Su Ninglong shuddered. It was an extremely sour taste.

The candy stuck to my tongue, and I couldn't eat it or spit it out.

There are no trash cans around.

The hairpin on the braid swayed with the head, and the diamonds in it hooked the principal's fiery red beard.

There was chaos in the corridor.

"Oh, oh, oh." Principal Yan patted his beard, "Yun Fei, help me quickly, this little guy is trying to pull my beard out."

"Your candy made a crater in my mouth. What's wrong with plucking a few hairs? Don't make such a fuss."

Yun Fei: “…”

The lemon candy was too powerful, and the sour taste continued to attack, making Su Ninglong angry like a puffer fish.

After a long period of chaotic unbinding interaction, Su Ninglong's hair ornament fell on the principal's beard. The pink color matched with his fiery red beard, which was quite charming.

"One for one, it's even." Yun Fei joked.

Su Ninglong didn't even look at the pink hair flower. It was just an excuse to throw it away. She had always found it an eyesore.

But Xingyuan didn't think so, and felt that the pink color would suit her skin tone very well.

Principal Yan and Yun Fei watched her enter the classroom. After she walked away, Yun Fei said, "Expel Bockton. Aiqi is not suitable to be a leader. He is too radical."

Principal Yan: "You actually called them radical? That's incredible. You were the one who proposed increasing the number of four-year-olds enrolled in net hunting training."

"This only proves that I have a unique vision. Su Ninglong did it, and it was her own request. She was able to complete the task without my help. The board of directors can only accept the loss."

"Bockton is not the source." Principal Yan lowered his head to admire the flowers and plants planted on the roadside, and by the way pulled out a completely withered morning mist grass, and the rotten roots brought out the black mycelium.

"When there are rotten leaves on the surface, it's very likely that the inside has been eaten away. Look, this grass is rotten from the root system, it's completely rotten. If you want to plant another ornamental plant on the roadside, you must turn it over and let it dry in the sun after weeding. This is the only way to solve the problem fundamentally." Principal Yan threw a candy into his mouth, frowned, spit out the candy, and said in surprise, "Why is my candy so sweet that it's cloying?"

The wind blew through the empty candy wrapper, and the font printed on the foil was not the one for tomorrow's candy.

He looked at the candy inside the bow. He didn't know when his lemon candy was replaced with candy in similarly colored packaging.

Apparently some "little beast" had replaced the sugar jar long ago.

Su Ninglong snorted, "You like sour food so much, but I won't let you eat it."

These sour candies can be used to sober up drunk drinkers.

After class, Su Ninglong told Xing Yuan what happened during class, "I want to give something to Sally to thank her for standing up for me."

"What do you want to give?"

"I don't know what she likes." Old Ancestor Su used to give away practice works casually, and the people below would be overjoyed as long as they got one.

My pocket is empty now, so it’s not appropriate to give me something too expensive.

"Let's go and get some wool."

Xing Yuan: “???” Dusk drifted into the farm. Su Ninglong was holding a steel comb, loosening the clumps of wool from the sheep.

Xing Yuan looked at the snow-white fibers in her hair and finally understood her "wool-pulling plan".

The bamboo basket at the girl's feet was already filled with cloud-like raw wool.

Suninglong wants to pluck real wool to make wool felt.

She will spend the next week cleaning the sheep pen, the time and place are right.

When it comes to making the best use of resources, Suninglong dares to say it is the best and no one dares to say it is the second.

Xing Yuan asked, "For wool felt, do you have dyes and fixatives? You can actually buy the finished products..."

Before he finished speaking, Su Ninglong stuffed his hands with dewy blue glass grass to feed the sheep.

"I got them from Yun Fei a long time ago. They're all natural dyes, really clever."

The reason why Suninglong can be so leisurely is that the task of cleaning the sheep pen poop is done by a robot.

The group of metallic jellyfish was siphoning the excrement into the storage tank. When the excrement accumulated to a certain level, it flew back to the processor and poured the excrement into the fermentation cylinder.

Su Ninglong and Charlie only need to clean the sheep trough and add food to the sheep.

The two children, wearing waterproof onesies, cleaned the feeding trough and then combed the sheep's wool with a smile.

The wrinkles at the corners of Teacher Yang's eyes relaxed, and he said with satisfaction: "My sheep haven't been combed for a long time. Look how much they enjoy it."

Xing Yuan laughed dryly and didn't tell Su Ninglong's purpose. He just let Su Ninglong's well-behaved and beautiful side remain in Teacher Yang's heart.

Su Ninglong easily got a lot of wool.

Wool needs to be washed and screened to make the material soft and clean.

Su Ninglong is not afraid of trouble. After finishing his homework in the evening, he starts working in the workshop.

On Wednesday night, Yun Fei's assistant knocked on Su Ninglong's workshop door and brought everything Su Ninglong wanted.

Because Suninglong only described what the thing he wanted looked like and what its functions and characteristics were, but did not confirm the academic name.

So Yun Fei prepared a few more things to ensure that she had alternative items to use.

"Teacher Yun doesn't look like a very attentive person."

"Yun Fei has two guides. One is responsible for helping him select tasks, compiling reports, and arranging itineraries. The other is responsible for daily affairs and external social contacts." Xing Yuan said, "These things are most likely prepared by his guide."

They are careful, cautious and good at dealing with people.

"I believe in you, Brother Yuan, you will be my best assistant." Su Ninglong likes the days when Xing Yuan is responsible for taking care of daily matters. It makes him feel comfortable.

"Given your mischievous ways, if you want me to be your assistant, the salary must be at least five figures. Otherwise, you must give me a paid slacking permit to balance the workload."

Su Ninglong couldn't find the words to refute, and could only squeeze out a word from the corner of his mouth, "Six."

Xing Yuan already has half the skills of Zou Shuyi, and has made great progress in arguing with her.

Su Ninglong picked through a pile of items, touching, smelling, weighing, looking for the most suitable material.

The job of a weapon refiner requires a lot of eyesight, experience and intuition. Cultivators like to customize magic weapons, and choosing the most suitable materials for making magic weapons from countless materials is a very important step.

The things Yun Fei gave her were of good quality, but they lacked spirituality. Without the nourishment of spiritual energy, they could only be considered ordinary items.

She couldn't make any advanced magic weapon for the time being, but it didn't seem difficult to make something like a spiritual anchor.

When the wool felt is soaked in various natural dyes, she first processes the materials she has.

Su Ninglong lowered her head and focused on her things.

This was her first time refining equipment in a different time and space. In order to reduce the failure rate caused by insufficient spiritual energy, she also specially adjusted the production process and manufacturing order.

She stirred the crumbs in the clay pot, and when they became a sticky substance, she removed it from the heat, put on gloves, and rolled them into large balls while they were still hot, exactly ten in total.

Each ball is round and has a unique herbal aroma.

Xing Yuan couldn't understand what she was doing and could only let her play.

As long as she doesn't put it in her mouth, she treats it as a child exploring new things in the world.

Anyway, she earned the money herself, so it's only natural that she wants to waste it.

After that, she would quench the big balls. If she had the strength to build a foundation, these balls could complete the quenching process in the refining furnace.

The big meatball jumped up and down in the spiritual fire, and the dark blue spiritual fire licked the surface and gradually penetrated into the interior.

The impurities are picked out little by little until the ten large meatballs become small meatballs.

The outer layer of the meatball is as hard as iron, exuding a cool and golden aura.

The sound of ding-dong falling on the pottery jar is particularly crisp and pleasant.

Su Ninglong sat in a chair and meditated. Time passed by minute by minute. Half an hour later, Su Ninglong started the second step.

She picked up a piece of alloy and used a machine to thin it down to about a millimeter.

Then, with the help of a chisel and hammer, he slowly chiseled out the pattern of Di Ting.

This step is just to make a template. If you want it to work properly, it needs to be tempered with spiritual fire.

The pattern cannot be carved too quickly, otherwise the metal sheet will be carved through if you are not careful.

The patterns of Di Ting gradually appeared under the carving knife. After finishing, Su Ninglong blew away the metal chips, then took a deep breath, and the spiritual fire rose from his fingertips again to burn the metal plate.

The metal plate began to bend and deform according to her wishes until it became a bell-shaped earring.

At this moment, Su Ninglong threw the dumplings in.

The spiritual energy in the body quickly flowed to the bell, the bell vibrated, and the listening pattern quietly disappeared into the metal.

A wisp of green smoke rose up, like a ferocious beast about to break out of its shell.

The two earrings were emitting a star-like halo in her palm.

"Listen carefully and discern all things; the sound of the bell will dispel delusion."

"Ring, ring, ring" three consecutive joyful bells rang, announcing the success of refining the weapon.

Su Ninglong's spiritual power was completely exhausted, and the bell fell on the work desk. After cooling down, its true appearance was revealed.

The successfully refined earrings lacked any of the characteristics that metal should have.

The surface is light blue and translucent, and the inside of the earrings are dotted with small golden balls, like stars shining inside the gems.

(End of this chapter)