Chapter 1105
byYang Yan added, Searching for veins is just one of the abilities of a Stone Puppet. There is another ability that any alchemist would dream of – it can temper the essence of minerals. As long as it assists, The Stone Puppet can do this easily, and even better than any.
Refining pills requires condensing the medicinal liquid, and refining treasures requires tempering the ores. Both are processes of removing impurities from the materials and retaining the essence. This process is essential in pill refining and treasure refining.
The cleaner the impurities are removed, the better the refined pills and secret treasures will be. Many times, from the means by which a pill refiner or refiner removes impurities, one can see the true ability of this person.
In this regard, Yang Kai and Yang Yan are both outstanding in their respective fields.
However, the Stone Puppet is born with the ability to remove impurities and temper ores, and its tempering is the most thorough, better than any refiner. Therefore, Yang Yan is so interested in the little guy.
What Yang Kai didn’t know was that the Stone Puppet had another name – the strongest assistant of the alchemist!
Whether it is its ability to find ore veins or its ability to refine ores, they are what refiners most need.
Yang Kai, who is not an alchemist, actually has a stone puppet. This simply makes Yang Yan so jealous that her eyes turn red. This is simply casting pearls before swine. This is a waste of natural resources. If only this stone puppet were her own.
“Continue to talk. Does it have any other abilities?” Yang Kai smiled all over his face. The more he looked at the little guy, the more pleasing to the eye he felt. He also didn’t expect that one of the two black round stones he brought over from the Tongxuan Continent would actually give birth to such a heaven-defying existence.
Since it is a kind of puppet, it can naturally also be used for combat! Yang Yan sighed. “You also know that like alchemists, refiners themselves do not have strong combat capabilities. The puppet can make up for this very well. It was simply born for the alchemist.
Yang Yan herself is not very interested in combat and didn’t say in detail.
Yang Kai frowned and looked at the little thing in his hand. He was a little unable to imagine how it would fight. Such a Puppet that is only the size of a palm, even if it has combat power, it is very limited, right? Could it be by digging tunnels? Its ability to drill the ground is really superb.
“Brother Yang Kai…” Yang Yan shouted in a coquetty voice with a blushing face
Yang Kai, who was thinking, shuddered and glared at her： “Speak properly！”
Yang Yan was simply not the kind of woman who would act coquettishly. Such affectation instead lost her original charm.
“Can this stone puppet of yours…”
“No way！” Before she could finish speaking, Yang Kai interrupted her.
Yang Yan was furious and bitter： “I haven’t even finished speaking yet.”
“I know what you want to say. Do you want it？” Yang Kai chuckled. “Impossible. There is already a connection between me and it. Even if I give it to you, it will only obey my orders.”
“You actually subdued it？” Yang Yan’s big eyes widened in disbelief. “How did you subdue it？ Stone puppets are very difficult to subdue, unless… unless you have been cultivating it before it is fully grown.”
“A teachable child！” Yang Kai grinned. He had been cultivating it for many years, and finally, he even expended a drop of golden blood to make the stone puppet form that delicate connection with himself.
“So angry！” Yang Yan stomped her foot hard. Originally, she had wanted to make plans for the stone puppet, but upon hearing Yang Kai say that he had subdued it, her thoughts immediately faded.
Because the stone puppet had no intelligence, once it recognized someone, it could not be snatched away by others, unless it was destroyed.
Seeing Yang Yan’s disappointed expression, Yang Kai coughed lightly and said proudly： “However, although it only listens to my orders, if you want to use it to refine weapons, I can lend it to you. Anyway, I don’t know how to refine weapons.”
“Really？” Yang Yan immediately laughed and clapped her hands, saying, “That’s great. With it, I can now temper your shield to the middle-grade Void level！ The secret treasures I refine next will also be presented in the best quality. Brother Yang Kai, you are so kind. I’m so happy to follow you.”
She was extremely satisfied.
“Come on, let me see how it tempers ores.” Yang Kai’s curiosity was greatly aroused. It was one thing to hear Yang Yan say it just now, but now he naturally had to verify it with his own eyes.
“It’s very simple. Watch.” As Yang Yan spoke, she took out a Void-level ore from the Space Ring. It was a piece of celestite as big as a human head. It was bought by Yang Kai from Tianyun City last time and asked her to refine a Void-level secret treasure.
“Little guy, come here quickly. Sister has something delicious for you.” Yang Yan held up the celestite and waved it at the Stone Puppet.
The Stone Puppet immediately jumped out of Yang Kai’s hand and rushed to the celestite.
Yang Kai only heard a series of clicking sounds. In just one breath, the celestite as big as a human head was actually eaten up by the Stone Puppet, but its stomach didn’t grow at all and was still the same as before.
Yang Kai was dumbfounded and exclaimed, “So fast？”
Yang Yan was also excited. Although she knew the secret of the Stone Puppet, it was After all the first time she saw a living thing After the Stone Puppet finished eating the celestite she put it on the ground.
“Now？” Yang Kai asked.
“Wait a moment.”
So both of them closely monitored the movements of the Stone Puppet.
Soon, Yang Kai noticed that the luster on the surface of the Stone Puppet dimmed a little. It seemed that something seeped out from its body and covered its originally smooth stone body.
After a while, the Stone Puppet became gray and dull.
It gently shook its body, and the gray stone substance covering its body surface immediately fell off and turned into countless pieces on the ground.
Yang Yan explained, “These are the impurities contained within the Celestial Azure Stone. All the essence has been refined by it.”
After saying that, she said to the Stone Puppet gently, “Quickly spit out the things.”
The Stone Puppet stood there stupidly and remained motionless.
Yang Yan knew that her order had no effect and could only look at Yang Kai.
Yang Kai understood and immediately gave the Stone Puppet an order.
The next moment, the Stone Puppet opened its mouth, and miraculously, a fist-sized ore without any impurities was spat out by the Stone Puppet. Yang Kai’s eyes lit up, and Yang Yan was also about to reach out and pick it up.
But another ore was spat out by the Stone Puppet. Immediately after, like hail, one ore after another appeared, continuously and they made a tinkling sound when they collided with each other.
Yang Kai was stunned, and Yang Yan was also stunned.
The scene in front of them seemed a little different from what they had imagined.
Ten breaths later, a small mountain of piled-up ores appeared in front of the two of them. Each of those ores was crystal clear, like crystal, exuding a hazy halo. Among them, only one was rather special, presenting a cyan color.
The stone puppet stood there and swayed, seemingly looking a bit tired, and plopped down on the ground.
But the minds of Yang Kai and Yang Yan were no longer on it. They were all staring blankly at the small mountain-like ores in front of them.
“Yang Yan, after the stone puppet swallowed one ore, it can produce so many out of thin air？” Yang Kai felt that the question he asked was a bit ridiculous.
“Impossible.” Yang Yan didn’t know how to explain it either. She reached out and picked up the only cyan stone from the pile of ores, and after sensing it for a while, she said： “This is celestial cyan stone alright. It should be the one I just gave it to eat. It has been refined very well, without any impurities at all.”
Yang Kai also quickly picked up one and observed it silently. After a moment, his expression shook, and he exclaimed： “This isn’t celestial cyan stone. This is ethereal crystal！”
“Ethereal crystal？” Yang Yan’s complexion changed, and she also quickly picked up one. Her small hand immediately trembled： “It really is ethereal crystal！”
Just now, she was stunned by the performance of the stone puppet and didn’t pay attention to what kind of ore this was. It was only at this moment that she confirmed it.
The two looked at each other, and waves of shock rose in their hearts simultaneously.
If one were to say what kind of ore is the most precious in this world, no one could really give an answer. However, it is undeniable that the crystal is definitely one of the most precious minerals!
The collection of crystal is extremely difficult because unlike other ores that have their own veins it is a kind of associated ore of a kind of ore vein called the empty stone ore vein. The empty stone has little value. Although it is sometimes needed for refining weapons, it is not a high-grade ore. But the associated crystal is different. Its value is extremely high. The space rings worn by martial artists and the materials covering those space arrays are all made of ethereal crystals.
Often in a whole ore vein being able to find hollow crystal as big as a washbasin is already considered a rich ore vein. There is a high possibility that there is simply no ethereal present. Searching for ethereal requires luck. If one is lucky, they will find some. If not they will get nothing.
Because the demand is too high and the output is too low, the price of crystal has been rising continuously.
And at this moment, a small mountain-like pile of wrasses was placed in the front of Yang Kai and Yang Yan. Each piece was as big as a fist and there were at least three or four hundred pieces.
Such an astonishing fortune not only made Yang Yan’s heart tremble, but even Yang Kai was extremely moved. That one piece of crystal could at least be exchanged for fifty thousand high-grade Saint Crystals, and its value was not lower than that of a Void Grade Secret Treasure.
It doesn’t make sense that the stone golem produced so many just by eating one piece of celestite. The only explanation is that it had stored them in its stomach before.
“Yang Kai…” Yang Yan found that her voice was trembling slightly. “Has the little thing been to any ore veins before？”
Yang Kai shook his head. “I only cultivated it a few days ago. Before that, it had always been in that black round stone. However, during this period of time, it has always been running underground！”
Yang Yan couldn’t help but swallow a mouthful of saliva and asked weakly, “Do you mean…”
Yang Kai took a deep breath and answered her with a positive look.
Yang Yan covered her mouth. She was afraid that she would scream out accidentally. Hundreds of fist had already brought her enough shock, and now she learned such a bizarre piece of information.
She suddenly looked at Yang Kai with teary eyes and said, “Yang Kai, you won’t kill me to silence me, will you？”
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