Xiao Yan: Bro, Why Do You Keep Snagging Bargains at My Place? Please Keep Reading!

Using "Diamond Fall" as an example, Jiang Lin's understanding of this Dou Technique had already surpassed what a mere Dou Zhe like him should possess.

He could now forge this defensive Dou Technique into a defensive Dou Artifact, and he could also incorporate it into his own attacks, unleashing devastating heavy blows with ease.

As Jiang Lin explored Dou Technique models, he even corrected minor flaws the original creators had overlooked—obstructions that hindered the flow of Dou Qi. As a result, when using the same Dou Technique, Jiang Lin could cast it faster and more conveniently, with lower energy consumption and greater power.

In terms from Jiang Lin's previous life, someone else could achieve with ten lines of code what would take you a hundred lines to accomplish.

"What else can I do? Just chip away at it slowly." Jiang Lin took materials marked with various Dou Qi parameters from the workbench, established a rough model, then built the circuits. Using his Spiritual Sense, he observed the flow of Dou Qi within, recorded everything separately, and gradually compiled and analyzed the results.

Jiang Lin's Black Knight Armor possessed the properties of "Diamond Armor" from head to toe. After all, the other models he had mastered were unsuitable for armor. But for the boots, Jiang Lin did not want to keep going with heavy equipment. He wanted something that increased speed.

"Come to think of it, wouldn't wings make me even faster?"

At the reception desk of Myriad Medicine Hall, Xiao Yi Xian sat with one leg crossed over the other, sprawled over the table as she wrote a prescription.

After finishing it, she looked up at the mercenary staring blankly at her feet and said, "What are you looking at? Never seen fluffy shoes before? Here's your prescription. Go get your medicine from the pharmacy! Next!"

Only then did the mercenary she had shouted at slowly come back to his senses. He finally tore his gaze away from the blue-and-white gradient puppy slippers on Xiao Yi Xian's delicate little feet, accepted the prescription, and walked out of Myriad Medicine Hall in a daze.

Those were Howling Moon Wind Wolf cubs. He could not possibly be mistaken.

Just then, he heard a group of mercenaries talking nearby:

"Have you heard? Those magical beasts at Star Moon Mountain that everyone was talking about yesterday were cleared out by Mr. Yao. Two Second-Order Magical Beasts."

"I heard. Mr. Yao seemed to have been injured too, but he was kind enough not to question the person who spread the news yesterday."

"Tsk, tsk, tsk. This reeks of a conspiracy."

"Hehe, it has nothing to do with us anyway. Come on, let's see if the weapon shop has any new stock. That kid Jiang Lin is seriously something else. He always sells the good stuff in Wutan City. Over here, we only get to see one Dou Artifact every two or three months, and we can never snatch one up!"

"Then go buy one in Wutan City. Some people got lucky—they went there for a stroll and managed to pick up a bargain."

"Forget it, forget it. How lucky would you have to be to run into one? Plenty of people in Wutan City are fighting over them too. Who would've thought that boy who used to smash stones at the market would become an Artifact Forger everyone envied?"

"Hahaha! I never realized it before, but when an Artifact Forger appears nearby, the feeling is even stronger than with an Alchemist. Pills are consumables, after all, but Dou Artifacts last a long time."

After hearing that, the mercenary hurried back toward his camp.

Soon, as night approached, a group of mercenaries lit a bonfire somewhere along the outer edge of the Monster Mountain Range.

"Captain... you..."

A grim-faced middle-aged man sat by the bonfire, wiping down a long saber marked with golden patterns. A young man dressed in the pale cloth uniform of Myriad Medicine Hall was forced to his knees before Mu She by the others.

"Do you know what it means that Mr. Yao sent only you out?" Mu She asked in a low voice.

"He wants the Mercenary Group to get rid of me! But he never expected that I'm one of your men, Captain! As long as I disappear, I can take on another identity!" the Myriad Medicine Hall youth shouted hastily. Still on his knees, he crawled forward, trying to grab Mu She's thigh.

"But..." Mu She finished wiping the golden saber clean. Reflected firelight flickered across its smooth blade.

Whoosh!

A head flew into the air, and blood sprayed everywhere!

"Yao from Myriad Medicine Hall never told us to kill you."

Just as Mr. Yao had expected, the disturbance in Qingshan Town gradually died down. Aside from a Myriad Medicine Hall herb-gathering team being attacked by magical beasts, resulting in the death of one Myriad Medicine Hall employee, the Mercenary Group that had accepted the mission went to Myriad Medicine Hall and offered an apology.

"Mr. Yao hired the Wolf Head Mercenary Group to protect the herb-gathering team, then used the Wolf Head Mercenary Group's own hands to eliminate the spy they had planted inside Myriad Medicine Hall. In fact, I don't think Mr. Yao even spoke with the Wolf Head Mercenary Group. The moment that spy was sent into the mountains, the Wolf Head Mercenary Group understood everything."

"The Wolf Head Mercenary Group had no choice but to kill him. Otherwise, the last bit of civility between Wolf Head's captain Mu She and Mr. Yao would have been torn apart. Killing him showed that they did not want trouble. Not killing him would mean this matter was not over. Tsk, tsk, tsk. In the end, not only did they have to kill someone, they also had to offer compensation."

A few days later, Jiang Lin, who had been holed up in the study of the inner courtyard researching Dou Technique models, heard from Xiao Yi Xian about what had happened outside over the past few days and silently sighed to himself.

"Still, Mr. Yao is too kind. If it were me, I'd have pointed at that Dou Master called Mu She and cursed him out on the spot. More than ten people couldn't even keep an eye on one person? Even ten pigs could have stuffed those magical beasts to death! Hmm... That might have been a little too arrogant."

"So you know you're arrogant?" Xiao Yi Xian poked her head in from outside and teased Jiang Lin, who was talking to himself again.

After being alone for too long, Jiang Lin had developed a habit of muttering to himself. Anyone who did not know better might have thought he had some invisible Ring Old Grandpa at hand!

"Well, compared to Xian'er Boss, I'm still a little ways off." Jiang Lin smiled at Xiao Yi Xian outside as he organized his notes.

Other than forging, which he did in the forge, he worked on Dou Technique models somewhere with a better environment. Practice, summarize experience, practice again, summarize again—over and over.

Wearing her puppy slippers, Xiao Yi Xian walked in and saw Jiang Lin's study. It was obviously a mess, yet somehow looked perfectly organized. Her little face puffed up as she stopped at the doorway, afraid of stepping on the notes scattered across the floor. She had stepped on one once before, and Jiang Lin had nagged her for ages, saying she should not move things on the floor because it would disrupt his memory.

"By the way, Little Linzi, I've been wanting to ask—why didn't you keep those two little puppies?" Xiao Yi Xian asked, leaning against the doorway.

Jiang Lin shook his head at Xiao Yi Xian. "First, they were wolf cubs. Second, they were magical beasts. If they'd been herbivores, I would've brought them back."

"Also, I'm kindhearted. I couldn't bear to separate them from their parents, so I sent them off to reunite with them."

Of course, the final decision had been influenced by many factors. What Jiang Lin said was only part of it.

Xiao Yi Xian: "..."

"You're spouting nonsense again!"

"Hahaha!" Jiang Lin laughed and changed the subject. "I'm going to Wutan City to see if there's anything worth picking up. Is there anything you want? I'll find a way to bring it back for you."

Going to Wutan City to pick up bargains was one of Jiang Lin's fixed activities every half year, because he had discovered that good stuff really did appear there from time to time.

Xiao Yan: Bro, if you keep picking everything up, what am I supposed to pick up?