Chapter 262: Swords!
Benton absolutely loved Kang Lin’s reactions. The twins and the rest of his kids just didn’t have enough knowledge to know how crazy some of the things he provided them were. She, on the other hand, was very aware of the items’ unusual nature and acted accordingly in the most amusing ways.
The look on her face when she realized just how valuable that sword was!
He chuckled. Really, he had no other use for the thing. Sure, he could have gotten a few spirit coins had he sold it, but he was trying to build up a reputation as a master craftsman. High earth grade just didn’t cut it, even if it did have a sharpness array.
Benton chuckled again, that time at his little pun. Then he sighed. Too bad there was no one around to appreciate it.
Anyway, with enough ingots in hand to make twenty-five swords, it was time to get to work. His first step was obviously to create the masterwork versions of the one he’d gifted to Kang Lin. Though he used his Time Aura to speed the process, he actually took things slowly inside the bubble. The key to perfection was to give each task his full attention so as not to make any mistakes.
From the forging to inscribing three arrays to making and attaching the hilts, Benton took his time, sweating over every detail. His patience paid off. At the end of nearly a full subjective day’s worth of work, he had five top heaven grade swords, one for each of the common elements.
Five down, twenty to go.
Even being a Nascent Soul at an equivalent realm of Mind Cultivation didn’t prevent him from getting fatigued after intensely concentrating on something for that long, so he needed a break after he finished. During that time, he thought about the next set of swords.
His first five blades required the wielder to be able to channel similarly aspected qi into the weapon. Which reduced the target audience for each of those swords. He was almost positive, however, that the demand would still be high because there were a lot of cultivators aspected to the five most common elements.
Benton thought a weapon that gave a cultivator the ability to use a rare and powerful element not of their aspect would be even more valuable. The question was how to make that happen.
He was definitely a cheating cheater who cheats, but he didn’t need the System that time. As an actual Formations Master, he possessed more than enough knowledge to design such an array himself.
Thus, his next set of swords would be similar to the first set—possessing arrays for self-repair, sharpness, and amplification of input qi resulting in an attack—but would add another array that converted whatever qi was input into the blade into the type of qi used by the attack.