“Three Poison Scale Scorpions, you are to take off the entire skin in tact, I want to use it to make spirit armor. One skin will be thirty contribution points. You have nine days to complete the mission. Remember, each skin cannot have flaws. Otherwise, you won’t get any contribution points.”
“Got it.”
Nine days later.
“Three hundred Sunshine Stones. You are to extract flame energy from them. Let’s put it at three hundred contribution points. I’ll give you fifteen days.”
“Oh.”
Fifteen days later.
“Six Dragonhorn Rhinoceros horns. You are to sand them into the shape of spear. I want to forge them as the core for long spears. You have ten days. I’ll give you one hundred and fifty contribution points.”
“Got it.”
“Twelve Dragon Bone Jade, you are to…”
“Got it.”
In the following three months, Qin Lie and Tang Siqi would have a conversation like this once in a while.
Every time, Tang Siqi would get Kan Yang and others to come with spirit materials and arrange for Qin Lie to work on processing or sanding.
Qin Lie would coldly accept the task each time and then prepare the materials by the deadline. Kan Yang and his group would then deliver them to Tang Siqi.
Kan Yang and the others never dared to attempt any tricks in secret.
After a mission was completed, he would have three days of rest. Using those three days, he would go to the little compound outside the sect and use the Eye of Frost to enter the underground area of the Arctic Mountain Range to cultivate.
As his knowledge of frost power increased, he gradually grasped how to focus his mind and body to cooperate to channel the power of frost.
During the days when thunder and lightning were prevalent, he would find a remote place devoid of people and continue his cultivation of Heavenly Thunder Eradication…
His progress on the martial way was extremely quick. He felt that if he truly grasped the power of frost, he would smoothly break into the middle stage of the Natal Opening Realm.
On the other side, as he continued to work and prepare all kinds of spirit materials, his understanding of the attributes of different spirit materials deepened.
The mission that Tang Siqi gave each time were guaranteed to not be relaxing and would challenge his limits every time. He had to expend great mental thought and effort to reach Tang Siqi’s demands so she did not have the chance to nitpick.
Next time, Tang Siqi would arrange for an even more difficult mission which he would use all of his strength to finish by the appointed time…
The two started to try to one-up each other like this.
In a cave on Flame Volcano.
“Hiss-wooosh!”
A crimson snake of fire jumped on a dragon-shaped longblade. It was extremely lively as though it was continuously tempering the blade’s impurities.
Tang Siqi was wearing a thin, red dress with sweat flowing down her forehead. Her eyes flashed with a heart-shaking and beautiful light and her hands continuously moved irregularly while executing a mysterious spiritual art.
That crimson-red snake of fire would turn thick and coil around the longblade and then shrink down to a line of fire to burrow inside the blade.
On the dragon-shaped longblade, a beautiful snake-shaped pattern slowly formed. It caused the longblade to appear grand and extraordinary, like it was filled with a moving intelligence that made one want to grab it and rush into the world.
“Whoosh!”
The crimson-red snake of flames turned into a burning line of fire that suddenly disappeared in Tang Siqi’s palm. Her beautiful face became even redder and moving. She looked with satisfaction at the dragon-shaped longblade, smiling and nodding her head.
“Siqi, how has it been recently?” Lian Rou had been standing by the cave entrance for a while. Seeing her finish, Lian Rou walked in. “Have you tamed that Qin Bing?”
“No,” replied Tang Siqi as she wiped away the sweat on her forehead. “That guy is a piece of ice. He’s like that all the time, and I find it irritating when I see it. I want to beat him up!”
“But you… seem to frequently go to his place?” Lian Rou teased.
“His work is good.” Tang Siqi walked over to the cave entrance. Under the red light of the sunset, she looked at the stone towers at the base of Flame Volcano and then looked specifically at Qin Lie’s tower. An odd look came into her eyes. “I’ve never seen someone as concentrated as he is. Not just the outer sect disciples, even the senior brothers of the inner sect… are not as good as him in some areas.”
“What do you mean?” Lian Rou stood shoulder-to-shoulder with her, and her gaze landed on Yi Yuan’s tower. “He’s good at his work?”
“Look at this Dragonhorn Rhinoceros horn…” Tang Siqi picked up a rhinoceros horn the length of her arm and handed it to Lian Rou.
Lian Rou felt it with her fingers and picked up on the smoothness of the dragonhorn’s surface, feeling the elegant curve, and then touched the sharpness of the horn’s tip