Volume 3: The World's Strongest Chapter 53 Star Iron
Qin Zijin put his arms around Qi Ji's waist, hugged him tightly, buried his head in his chest, and said in a muffled voice: "Who told you to be gone for so long, with a beautiful woman by your side, have you forgotten me?"
Qi Ji couldn't help but touch the back of her head and said with a smile: "Be more confident, you are the only one in my heart."
He smiled and joked, "I don't know what you're thinking. You've been flirting with me after just a few meetings. Even after we arrived in the Outer Realm, you've been clinging to me all day. Your rank is too high, and you've got me under your thumb."
Qin Zijin raised his head, looked at his eyes which seemed to be shining with stars, and said with a chuckle: "Didn't I tell you that I have also eaten the fruit of enlightenment?"
Qi Ji lowered his head and looked at her, carefully gazing at her small face and delicate features, and said with a smile: "I have heard of it. Do you want to tell me that this fruit has awakened your ability to find your ideal husband?"
Qin Zijin chuckled, looking a little sly: "Although I didn't get it right, I wasn't far off either. The fruit of enlightenment gave me the mysterious ability to recognize people. With this ability, I can vaguely know the talents and personalities of everyone I see or come into contact with. I always thought that this was the nature of my talent, until I met you in the rookie competition..."
Without waiting for Qi Ji to speak, she continued, "From the moment I saw you, my instinct told me like crazy - this is my soulmate."
"So you fell in love with me at first sight?" Qi Ji said with a smile.
Qin Zijin nodded .
Seeing Qin Zijin's serious expression, Qi Ji couldn't help but said seriously: "Me too."
Qin Zijin immediately smiled like a little white flower.
The two of them smiled and looked at each other for a while.
To others they looked like two fools.
"By the way! Let me take you somewhere first." Qin Zijin suddenly remembered something and patted his forehead.
As she said that, she pulled Qi Ji towards the car.
Seeing her anxious look, Qi Ji couldn't help but asked with a smile: "What's wrong? Is there something good?"
As he spoke, he followed Qin Zijin into the back seat of her luxury car.
After expressing their feelings to each other, Qin Zijin was no longer as calm and reserved as before. He sat together with Qi Ji as if he wanted to be close to him all the time. The large back seat was squeezed by the two of them so that there was room for three more people.
"It's good news indeed." Qin Zijin chuckled. Because there was a driver in front, she leaned close to Qi Ji's ear and whispered, "The Blue Star Research Institute has made some progress in its research on the special metals obtained from the outside world. They can now be used to forge weapons. A large share has been reserved for you."
Qi Ji's heart moved, and he leaned over to her ear and whispered, "Is it the 'Star Iron'?"
He used the term Star Iron in Norse because that’s what the man from the Eye of Truth told him.
Qin Zijin looked at him in surprise, nodded, and whispered, "It is indeed Xingtie, how did you know?"
Qi Ji chuckled and whispered to Qin Zijin everything about the contact between him and the Eye of Truth organization.
After Qin Zijin listened carefully, he laughed disdainfully: "It's just a trick. It's worthy of being an organization created by Westerners. They always think they are the king of the world. Do you think we in Daxia can't find out their intelligence?"
"Oh? How do you mean?" Qi Ji asked curiously.
Qin Zijin said calmly: "Although we are indeed behind them in modern scientific research, our Great Xia has never stopped learning about the outside world. Those so-called 'secrets' he refused to tell you are probably not secrets in our Jiange. I will tell you in detail when the time comes. We don't care about them."
Qi Ji touched his chin and nodded in agreement: "That's right."
That’s right, Jiange was founded by Pei Ju, the Sword Saint of the Sheng Dynasty, and it has been more than a thousand years since its establishment. During this period, it should have always been in contact with Daxia. How could it lack intelligence from outside worlds?
The two of them no longer cared about the Eye of Truth. Qin Zijin began to pester Qi Ji to tell her about his actions and experiences in the Sakura Country over the past few days.
Qi Ji was naturally happy to tell his sweetheart about his experience of killing everyone there.
From challenging the Sakura clan with a sword, to sweeping away the dead crazy and fighting many strong men with a sword.
From using one sword to clear a path for Yagyu Jubei, to using three Lion Slashes to defeat Jaeger, who was considered to have the strongest human body.
Qi Ji told the whole process like a legendary story, which made Qin Zijin's eyes light up.
The hands that were holding Qi Ji's arms tightened a little.
The two of them whispered to each other along the way, and the time in the car passed quickly.
After a while, the luxury car quietly stopped outside a building complex on the outskirts of Xiadu.
"Miss, there are regulations here. You can't drive any further." The driver in front turned around and said softly.
Qin Zijin sat a little further away from Qi Ji, looked out the window calmly, nodded and said, "Okay, then you follow their arrangements and find a good spot to park and wait for me. I'll ask someone to notify you when I'm ready to come out ."
The driver nodded in agreement.
Then Qi Ji was led out of the car by Qin Zijin.
A middle-aged man wearing a white coat similar to that of a doctor or researcher came up and said with a smile, "Ms. Qin, welcome again."
After saying that, he immediately turned to look at Qi Ji: "I guess you are Mr. Qi Ji, right? This really brought great honor to our Great Xia. Please give me an autograph later. When I went back a week ago, my child kept telling me about your deeds. You really brought honor to our Great Xia!"
Qi Jilang laughed: "No problem, I'll give you as many signatures as you want."
But he soon regretted it.
Half an hour later, before the director of the institute finished his experiment, hundreds of young people in the institute were already lining up to get Qi Ji's autographs.
Seeing Qi Jisheng slumped in his chair with a look of despair, Qin Zijin, who was watching the whole process, couldn't help but laugh out loud: "God Qi, that's why I said, don't brag about everything. Do you know you're wrong now?"
Qi Ji waved his hands helplessly: "I was wrong, I was really wrong. This institute doesn't look very big, how come there are so many researchers!"
Qin Zijin covered her mouth and laughed, "Nonsense, a research institute specially established to study an entire strange world, a few hundred researchers is not enough."
Qi Ji couldn't help but nodded. If that was the case, a few hundred people were indeed too few.
He then asked, "How long will it take for the 'Academician Xia' you mentioned to show up?"
Qin Zijin pointed forward and said, "Here I am, now I am here."
Qi Ji looked up and saw that the corridor of the research institute in front of him was lit up. A group of people walked out quickly from the automatic door at the end of the corridor.
The leader was a short and thin silver-haired old man who looked to be at least seventy years old. However, he walked with the gait of a dragon and a tiger, and quickly came in front of Qi Ji with several middle-aged people and young people behind him.
"Are you Qi Ji?" The old man looked Qi Ji up and down. Although it was a question, he used a declarative tone.
Then he took a step forward, raised his hand and gently patted Qi Ji's arm, and said with a smile: "Little guy is very good! You have brought honor to our Great Xia, well done!"
Behind him, several middle-aged and young researchers were looking at Qi Ji with shining eyes, appearing very excited.
On the contrary, Qin Zijin, who has a beautiful appearance and bright temperament, seems to be non-existent in the eyes of several people, and her attractiveness is completely surpassed by Qi Ji.
"Come with me." Academician Xia was thin but had a very imposing manner. He obviously didn't like to talk nonsense and turned around to lead the way.
Qi Ji and Qin Zijin immediately followed in his footsteps, walked through the long corridor, and after turning a few corners, they arrived in front of a room.
Looking inside through the glass, surrounded by a bunch of incomprehensible high-tech, in the huge container on the central table, a large mass of dark silver liquid metal flowing like mercury was contained.
"That's 'Star Iron', which is an extremely rare metal material even in the outside world." Academician Xia smiled as he stood aside.
"Through the Sword Pavilion's continuous collection in the outer domain of Donghua Continent for so many years, Daxia only has more than 300 kilograms of star iron. This thing can be said to be priceless."
Qi Ji nodded and couldn't help but cast his gaze on the star iron in the room. The dark silver surface of the liquid metal, under the illumination of the laboratory lights, shone with bright spots like the stars in the universe.
"According to the instructions from above, in order to lead the team to conquer the outer demonic situation, Qi Ji, you have obtained the qualification to use twenty kilograms of star iron to forge weapons. I heard that you are an expert in many kinds of weapons. The volume of these twenty kilograms of star iron is comparable to twenty-four kilograms of iron, which is enough for you to forge six to seven two-handed weapons." Academician Xia said with a smile.
Unexpectedly, Qi Ji slowly shook his head. He looked at Academician Xia with shining eyes and said, "One handful is enough."
Academician Xia was stunned for a moment: "A handful?" He thought Qi Ji wanted to save resources for them, so he smiled and said: "You don't have to think about saving resources for us. Although these star irons are precious, since Da Xia said that it would give you 20 kilograms, then we should use them to the fullest."
Qi Ji also laughed: "Grandpa Xia, what I mean is that it is enough to make a weapon, a twenty-jin weapon!"
"Twenty kilograms in a handful?" Not only Academician Xia, but everyone present was stunned except Qin Zijin who smiled and said nothing.
Qi Ji smiled and nodded.
After Academician Xia confirmed with Qi Ji again and again, he sighed, waved his hand with a painful look, and asked Qi Ji to go to the modeling office next door to find the relevant personnel in charge of modeling to model his weapon.
After Qi Ji left, Academician Xia said to Qin Zijin, "Xiao Qin, your boyfriend is too extravagant. Twenty kilograms of star iron, just to make a weapon? No matter how strong he is, he can't use it."
Qin Zijin smiled and said, "Grandpa Xia, you underestimated him. In the outer domain, he was able to wield a thirty-jin, three-meter-long beast-slaying sword with one hand!"
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Academician Xia was obviously shocked.
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Qi Ji and Qin Zijin stayed in the research institute until the evening.
The two of them witnessed the entire process of making the Star Iron weapons.
First, the mold is cast with the assistance of a series of high-tech technologies, and then liquid metal star iron is poured into the mold to seal it.
Next, the mold filled with star iron is sent to a professional laboratory. After being heated at super high temperature, it is immediately frozen at an extremely low temperature close to absolute zero.
Finally, the icy cold mold was completely smashed into pieces in the laboratory by an AI-controlled robot swinging a hammer, and the weapon hidden inside revealed its appearance.
"So cool!" Qin Zijin leaned against Qi Ji and saw the weapon designed by Qi Ji through the glass. He couldn't help but praise it.
Then she asked, "This time, would you like to give your weapon a name?"
Qi Ji crossed his arms in front of his chest, looked excitedly at the greatsword that had been fully revealed in the laboratory, and couldn't help but speak excitedly.
"Of course there is a name!"
"Its name is - Wolf Great Sword!"
