Volume 2: Jade Promise Chapter 11: Black Shop (Part 4)
It was a sunny morning in Emerald City.
When Tang Zheng opened his eyes, he saw that Lu Yiluo had sat up and was leaning against the wall looking at the ceiling.
"Are you counting how many spider webs are on the ceiling?" Tang Zheng asked, turning over and smiling.
"How many spider webs are there on the ceiling? How can I count them?" Lu Yiluo picked up the wine jug, took a sip of wine, and sneered.
"The spider webs above your head were spit out by two different spiders. There are 367 spiders in total. One spider spit out 90 spiders, and the rest were spit out by the other spider..."
"..." Lu Yilou finally looked at Tang Zheng and said, "It seems that you are also a very boring person."
Who has nothing better to do than stare at the ceiling and count spider silk threads?
Lu Yilou fixed his eyes on the ceiling, and used his star power to directly brush away all the spider silk on the ceiling. He then looked at Tang Zheng more carefully and said, "It is indeed 367. Did you count them with your eyes?"
"How else can you rely on your mouth?" Tang Zheng said with a smile.
"Good eyesight." Lu Yiluo brushed off the dust on his body and stood up. "I heard that you were looking for me all over the city?"
Tang Zheng smiled again.
If he couldn't get Lu Yiluo's approval, Lu Yiluo would probably just dust himself off and leave, and would never ask this question.
"Well, there are two things I need to ask you." Tang Zhengdao.
"You little kid, you really don't know how to be polite. I may not agree to one thing, let alone two things..."
"Oh, to be exact, there are three things." Tang Zheng added: "The first thing is that Mr. Ban asked me to treat you to a drink."
"Teacher?" Lu Yiluo finally became serious and even found a chair to sit down. "What are the other two? Tell me."
Tang Zheng took out two things.
It was the same dagger without a sheath, whose color and quality had changed dramatically after it fell into the cold pond.
The other thing was that he had a meal at the Miracle Restaurant and was given a gift, a beacon stove.
When Lu Yilu saw the two things, he quickly raised his head and glanced at Tang Zheng.
Tang Zheng raised his hand to stop him: "Don't ask me where the things came from!"
"Go away, only Ban Yilou likes to ask such questions." Lu Yilou reached out and grabbed the two things in his hands, one on the left and one on the right. Then, he looked up and said, "Wolf smoke beacon stove... Wolf smoke beacon stove... Hmm, how come these things are here?"
"Fuck! I agreed not to ask!" Tang Zheng was speechless.
However, Lu Yiluo did not refute, but looked at the beacon stove, with layers of sadness in his eyes.
Tang Zheng looked at him silently.
After Lu Yiluo put the stove back on the table, Tang Zheng began to tell him about his research over the past few days.
"The power of the sun drawn by the five stars... you don't need to control the fire, you just need to focus on casting..." Lu Yilou sighed several times, "So, Li Jin's design is like this..."
"What's going on? Can you tell me directly? Who is the chef of Miracle Restaurant and what's going on with this stove?"
"Since Ah Qing gave you this stove, I'll tell you." Lu Yiluo sighed again, "The story starts with Ah Qing's father, Li Jin..."
"Yeah." Tang Zheng nodded and let Lu Yilu continue.
"Ah Qing's father, Li Jin, is a special foundry master. Very special, very special... Because what he forges are not magic weapons or auxiliary accessories, but foundry furnaces!"
"Huh?" Tang Zheng looked at the smoke beacon stove in his hand.
"He has a dream. He wants to build a foundry furnace that can build foundries..." Lu Yilou glanced at Tang Zheng. "It's a bit confusing, isn't it?"
"He wants to build a foundry that can build a foundry." Tang Zheng repeated it easily.
"Ha, not bad. You are very interesting." The smell of alcohol gradually faded from Lu Yiluo's eyes. "He worked hard for this goal all his life... until he succeeded in attracting stars and broke through to three stars when he was thirty years old..."
"Three stars piercing the sun?" Tang Zheng had heard Li Qing say that.
"Yes, three stars piercing the sun. However, this was also the beginning of his nightmare..."
Something seemed to brighten in Lu Yiluo's eyes.
Tang Zheng did not interrupt him, but listened to him continue speaking...
"The nature of the Sun's main star is explosive and extremely hot. Normal people cannot use the Sun's main star to complete the three-star piercing the sun, except for one situation - the Star's Blessed One. Only the Star's Blessed One, who is blessed by the Sun's main star, can accomplish such a feat."
“But even the Star-Favoured Ones themselves don’t know about this! Li Jin was just born as a chef. His father was a chef, his grandfather was a chef, and his ancestors were all chefs… He doesn’t know what a Star-Favoured One is, nor does he know about the Three Stars Penetrating Sun that the power of the Star-Favoured One brought him!”
"But the blood was enough to let him know everything. His daughter Li Qing was just one month old when he was assassinated for the first time. He heard the assassin say that the reason they wanted to kill him was because they wanted to seize the power of the star. Only then did he know that he was a lucky person favored by the main star of the sun..."
"However, the favor of the main star brought him constant hunting, the death of his wife, and the separation of his family. He and his daughter moved to many places, and his cultivation did not improve any further... Finally, he came to Emerald Stone City. Because this is a garrison city, he would not be targeted so easily."
"He lived and worked peacefully in Feishi City for two or three years. In order to support his daughter, he had to open a restaurant to make a living. Because his ancestors had been chefs for generations, and he used a foundry furnace that he made by hand, the restaurant quickly became famous..."
"But the good times didn't last long. After he married another wife, in order to boost the restaurant's business, she not only raised the prices of dishes crazily, but also spread the word that he had the three stars of the sun. So, at this time last year, during the time when Feishi City was full of mixed results, he was killed on a rainy night on the main street of Xuemen."
“But after he was killed, there was no ‘starfall’ phenomenon. Many people who knew his origins said that he was not actually a star-loving one and that he died unjustly. And his wife who had passed away long ago has long since fled to who knows where…” Lu Yiluo held the wolf smoke beacon stove in his hand, “But… I understand today, he is a star-loving one!”
As he spoke, he lifted up the Wolf Smoke Beacon Fire Furnace and placed it in front of Tang Zheng: "He is a great caster! He can cast the Star Heritage directly into a furnace. I just learned today that the Wolf Smoke Beacon Fire Furnace has such an ingenious design."
Tang Zheng was about to speak when Lu Yilou interrupted him: "I know. You want to ask why I know so much?"
Tang Zheng nodded twice.
Lu Yilou took a sip of wine and said, "Because, if Li Jin hadn't died, I should call him father-in-law now."
"What!" Tang Zheng was so shocked by his sudden change that he spat out a mouthful of tea.
…
A blacksmith who is hiding for his life, a star-blessed one who is not favored at all.
Constantly wasting time on forging dreams under dangerous situations and the pressure of life.
Tang Zheng could understand everything that Lu Yiluo said, but he didn't expect it to be such a coincidence that the girl Li Qing he met in the Miracle Restaurant was engaged to Lu Yiluo - is Feishi City so small?
"I know that Ah Qing is not pretty, nor is she a little princess from a noble family, nor does she have strong power, but I liked her the first time I saw her." Lu Yilou looked like an old man, but he was not ashamed to say this, "She likes me too. If nothing goes wrong... she is already my wife."
"What does whether she marries you or not have to do with whether something happens or not?" Tang Zheng said strangely.
"Who knows? Women... who can figure out what's going on in women's heads?" Lu Yilou's face flushed red. "Li Jin is already dead, but she insisted that I get Li Jin's recognition before she was willing to marry me. Don't you think this is hypocritical?"
"..." Tang Zheng was also stunned for a moment, "Do you want to kill the murderer of her father?"
"The person who killed Li Jin? I would have chopped him into eight pieces and fed him to the dogs long ago!" Lu Yiluo shook his head. It was obviously not the case.
Tang Zheng was also confused for a moment.
If it wasn't for revenge, then why didn't she marry Lu Yiluo.
Although Lu Yilou does look terrible, as long as there is a woman in the house, she can naturally take care of the appearance.
It can be seen that Lu Yilou really likes Li Qing, not to mention that Lu Yilou has a strength of up to five stars!
"Forget it, let's wait a few more years, I think she will come back to her senses. Anyway, I can live for at least a few hundred years, so why should I be afraid that I can't wait for her?" Lu Yiluo waved his hand and said to Tang Zheng, "I'll take this unsheathed dagger of yours and take a closer look..."
"Yes." Tang Zheng did not stop him, "Then your old friend's beacon stove..."
“I can only tell you that there must be the inheritance of the Star’s Favored Ones in it, but how to get this inheritance out is your own business…” Lu Yiluo picked up the wine jug and left without looking back.
After just two or three breaths, Tang Zheng could no longer see his figure.
Tang Zheng's gaze returned to the smoke beacon stove in his hand.
The incidental knowledge of Chef Li Jin's experience served as a wake-up call for him!
Because many people in Wulong Town now know that he was the one who killed Lan Shaoze, and many people also saw the falling star phenomenon on the day Lan Shaoze died, so Tang Zheng, like Li Jin, is an openly favored star!
"I want to enter the academy as soon as possible, whether as a student or an instructor, at least I have to get in!" Tang Zheng said to himself silently: "Li Jin, a three-star warrior, didn't survive, let alone I haven't even broken through to three stars yet?"
Once you enter the academy, at least no one dares to mess around!
After Li Jin broke through to the three stars, he did not make any further progress for more than ten or twenty years. It was probably because he had never climbed the "Trace the Worlds and Ask the Stars Tower", so he was in the dark all the way. In addition, he was constantly hunted and injured, and had the pressure of raising his daughter, so he did not break through to the four stars.
"Sun Star Favor! If I can obtain the inheritance of the Sun Star Favor, then my first life palace will be balanced... The double star life palaces of the Sun and the Moon, the foundation for cultivation should not be better!" Tang Zheng looked at the stove in his hand, "If it is naturally balanced, it will be stronger than taking medicine. Breaking through the peak of the second star within a month should not be a problem..."
But here comes the problem.
The powerful Sun Star inheritance has been skillfully sealed in a furnace by a skilled caster. How can he unlock it?
