Even Lord Taihua had not expected me to be this violent. This testing method—drawing my knife and simply slashing—was crude and straightforward, but it was undeniably effective. Along the way, I either stabbed or slashed everything, and soon gathered all the materials worth refining or testing in the open space at the center.
Lord Taihua stroked his beard and nodded. "Your method is indeed quite effective, Little Friend. But it's not as though I never tried it myself. I simply didn't have such fine material as the Heaven-Opening Spirit Bone. I used swords made from other types of Heaven-Opening bones instead. Even so, there are nearly a thousand materials here worth trying. I'm afraid you'll have your work cut out for you."
"Lord Taihua, if you come across anything good, please give me a reminder." I smiled.
"I'm afraid that won't be necessary. The Heaven-Opening Spirit Bone is second only to the Heaven-Opening Fang. If even it can't damage something, this old man has no way to forge it either, so I wouldn't be able to explain the reason." Lord Taihua smiled, but seeing how few things I had selected, he continued, "With you choosing things this way, what more could this old man say? I don't have anything this good to test with."
"Don't you have the Heaven-Opening Fossil Sword? Couldn't you use it in place of this spirit-bone blade?" I joked.
Lord Taihua shook his head with a bitter smile. "I'm afraid you won't find even a single one of those here."
"That's true." I couldn't help sighing with a thousand emotions. The things stored here were either of unknown quality, making them difficult to use, or came with unknown methods of forging, making them difficult to craft. It wouldn't be wrong to call this a place for