The Ling Family followed closely behind him. After giving their wounds a simple dressing, Liu Yan and Gao Yu caught up to him as well.
“This Qin Lie fellow is no ordinary person,” Liu Yan lowered his voice and said.
Gao Yu scowled and let out a hmph. He did not answer.
“Let’s put down our dissent with the Ling Family for the moment. Our first priority right now is to get out of this alive,” Liu Yan advised.
“I know what to do,” Gao Yu responded impatiently.
Liu Yan nodded.
While hurrying onward, the shield’s twisted “Spirit Gathering” spirit diagram would appear from time to time in his mind as Qin Lie quietly pondered about how he should go about fixing it.
It wasn’t as if he held any good will towards Liu Yan, he was just curious to test out and see if he could make the two spirit diagrams he memorized work. He wanted to know if they would really be as useful as he had envisioned in his mind.
By doing this, his efforts to memorize them would not be in vain, and he would also be able to decide whether or not he should spend even more effort on the remaining two “Spirit Storage” and “Strengthening” spirit diagrams.
Four hours later.
At midnight, Qin Lie had led the crowd to an ancient-looking forestry as he said, “Let’s rest here for a bit. You should also treat your wounds as well,” he said while looking at Liu Yan and Gao Yu’s people. At that moment, blood was seeping out of Liu Yan and Gao Yu’s wounds.
Liu Yan and Gao Yu had no objections to that and both sat down at their chosen spots, took out some medicinal powder, and began skillfully smearing it on their wounds.
Throughout these four hours they had not run into a single spirit beast. This caused them to believe in the Ling Family’s words, Qin Lie really did know how to avoid the spirit beast packs!
Qin Lie sneaked his way over to Liu Yan and gave it another thought before saying seriously, “I think I can try fixing your Hexagonal Shield. No guarantees though.”
“Ah!” Liu Yan abruptly turned his head with shining eyes and a slight shiver around his shoulders before he inquired excitedly, “Are you serious? This isn’t a joke?”
The Hexagonal Shield was ranked as a Common Grade Five spirit artifact, and it took him three years’ worth of contribution points to obtain it. Moreover, it could be matched together with his spirit art to increase his strength. That was why he viewed it as his most treasured possession.
The fact that his shield broke had distressed him greatly, so how could Liu Yan not be excited when he heard that Qin Lie could fix his shield?
“I can’t give any guarantees. All I can say is that I’ll give it a try. It’s possible that it’ll break immediately during the process and become irreparable in the future.”
Liu Yan’s Hexagonal Shield was different from the short spear that was destroyed by his thunder and lightning energy before. The spear’s body itself was destroyed by lightning, and he had absolutely no way to fix that. But since the only thing that was damaged in this Hexagonal Shield was the spirit diagram, he could at least give it a try.
On the other hand, he had never done this before and thus had absolutely no way to know if it would work. That was why he did not dare to guarantee its success.
“Qin Lie, don’t be reckless. The Hexagonal Shield is a Common Grade Five spirit artifact. If became irreparable due to your tinkering, then it’ll be…”
Ling Yushi had been paying attention to Qin Lie this entire time, so when she saw him going over to Liu Yan, she too quietly sneaked over.
She was shocked when she heard that he wanted to help fix Liu Yan’s spirit artifact and immediately hurried over to warn him. She was terrified that if the shield became completely unusable, Liu Yan would hate him and thus affect his future.
“Uh, it was just a suggestion. There is the possibility that it might completely ruin this spirit artifact, so I guess we can… forget about this?”
Qin Lie also felt like backing down after listening to Ling Yushi. After all, he had never attempted this before, so he was not confident in the slightest that it would work. He was actually quite afraid that he might break the spirit artifact completely.
“Clang!”