Chapter 154: Killing Intent
“Look through the requests first.”
Inside the cave, Tang Siqi passed over the artifact forging list Tan Dongling had given her to Qin Lie. Then, she began to casually walk inside the cave.
Her bright eyes roamed everywhere as she observed the furnace in the cave and the spirit materials on top of the cupboards, trying to determine if Qin Lie had been forging recently.
After a while, she appeared to be disappointed. Judging from the furnace and the surrounding materials, Qin Lie probably hadn’t started for real yet.
“Why did you want me to look at this?” Qin Lie did not understand.
“I want you to help me forge these together. Relax, I’ll pass a portion of the contribution points to you.” Tang Siqi was no longer looking about as she turned around and stared at Qin Lie with glittery eyes, saying, “Since you are an artificer as well, you should have no problem forging these spirit artifacts now, right?”
Tan Dongling’s request was to make sure that all six spirit artifacts were controlled at Profound Grade One. She wanted to clear up exactly what Qin Lie’s artificer rank was through the spirit artifacts’ grade requirements.
—This was a problem that had plagued her for a very long time.
“I probably can’t help you.” Qin Lie frowned.
“You can’t, or you don’t want to?” Tang Siqi stared into his eyes.
“I can’t,” said Qin Lie as he shook his head. “I only know the most basic spirit diagram inscriptions, and I have no experience in forging Profound Grade spirit artifacts. I really don’t have the skills to help you with this.”
“Really?” Tang Siqi was a little disbelieving.
“I can help you forge the artifacts, but you should perform the final step—that is, inscribing the spirit diagram—yourself,” Qin Lie said.
Tang Siqi looked surprised as she asked, “What rank of an artificer are you anyway?”
“I… I don’t know myself,” Qin Lie hesitatingly answered. “Before I came to Armament Sect, I have never formally learned how to forge artifacts. I only practiced inscribing spirit tablets first and did not really learn how to forge arti… I’m telling the truth!” Seeing surprise coloring the entirety of Tang Siqi’s face, he had no choice but to speak louder to emphasize his point.
Tang Siqi’s beautiful eyes rolled about, and suddenly, a radiant smile appeared over her recently serious face.
Seeing Qin Lie acting slightly embarrassed, her mood suddenly grew much better. An attractive curl lifted from the corners of her lips as she smiled, saying, “So you really didn’t lie to me? It’s just as you’ve said a few days ago, that you’ve only learned how to inscribe spirit diagrams and never truly learned how to forge artifacts?”
Qin Lie replied dejectedly, “That’s right.”
She didn’t know why, but after she confirmed that Qin Lie did not lie to her, it was as if the dark clouds in her heart had been cleared away in an instant. Her feelings had turned sunny in an instant.
An intoxicating smile once again spread across her beautiful face. Her entire being seemed to be filled with high spirits. “Never mind. I suppose I’ll forgive you about the… matters from back then.”
Qin Lie was a little confused. He wasn’t sure exactly what Tang Siqi was forgiving him for. He didn’t remember offending her at all, did he?
So how would this “forgiveness” come into picture then?
Qin Lie shook his head on the inside. He realized that he still couldn’t understand a woman’s mind. He just didn’t know what a woman’s occasional words meant at all.
“Alright. Then you’ll just assist me by forging the artifacts. I will complete the final step and inscribe the spirit diagram.” Tang Siqi was full of smiles. “We are still lacking a few spirit materials. The sect just ran out of stock recently, so we’ll have to stop here today. Tomorrow, you’ll go out with me to the city to purchase all of the missing spirit materials.”
“Oh,” Qin Lie nodded. Then, pretending carelessness, he asked, “What exactly did Sect Master ask you guys to gather for?”
“For a spirit tablet. A spirit tablet called the Spirit Gathering Board.” Tang Siqi’s feelings were better, and so, her box of words had also been opened as she began to explain everything about the Spirit Gathering Board, the two ancient diagrams inside it, and Xie Jingxuan’s request in great detail.
When she was done, she was a little angry. “It was just a spirit tablet with an ancient diagram inscribed on it. Because there was no way to grasp the spirit energy used to inscribe the spirit lines, even if it was possible to view the diagram’s interior with a wisp of mind consciousness, there is no way to learn it. But Sect Master had actually agreed to her requests and agreed to trade it for two spatial rings. This is just unbelievable…”
“Qin Bing! Are you listening to me?” Tang Siqi suddenly frowned.
She noticed that Qin Lie’s expression had turned incredibly odd when she mentioned the Spirit Gathering Board, and when she hea