Chapter 158: Parting Ways
Li Lang woke up early in the morning and immediately started packing. During the previous night, he irresponsibly ignored everything and dove straight into Ruby’s artifact space.
That was because he had fed one of each type of beast core to his artifact, and he got straight to investigating it. As they were items with the main quality in their Qi properties, none of his lab equipment could provide him with satisfactory information. It only gave him the physical composition of the cores. Instead, he played around with the cores, using them as materials in all the crafts he knew about.
Unfortunately for him, his artifice teacher had yet to pass on everything regarding how to deal with beast cores. This wasn’t because she was holding out on him, but it simply wasn’t something she considered necessary so early on in his education. Beast cores allowed artificers a chance to create an artifact. The value of it meant it was usually afforded to the more experienced students who had studied for at least a year, if not years.
While Li Lang didn’t make any startling discoveries, he was still content with knowing the cores in his possession were capable of fulfilling the role he needed to complete his talisman printer.
Setting the matter for when he returned to Emberglow, he swiftly got ready and exited to the first floor of the inn. He found his companions already there in the tea area next to the lobby.
“Wow, I expected someone to have to go get you. Can’t believe you showed up on time by your power alone,” Sima Xue said mischievously.
Long Yi and Wei Ping simply sipped from their cup, choosing not to comment.
“I’m always on time for important matters like these. I do as promised.”
“Hmm, I think I only got three servings of tofu pudding when I was promised more?”
“...When we get back—”
Sima Xue held up a hand to stop him from continuing while struggling to contain her giggling.
“It’s fine. That matter is settled. I wasn’t serious about making you buy me so much pudding. I’d just get fat.”