The Real Xianzhou Beauty Trap-The General Offers a Toast, the Reignbow Lights a Smoke! (Continued)
"A Miraculous Item? You want a Miraculous Item too? What do you have to trade? Entertainment?"
Chen Li was curious.
"So forging Shu a Miraculous Item that could summon every fragment of the Sui with one click really was just for entertainment!"
Xi muttered under her breath.
However, cowed by Chen Li's overwhelming presence, Xi could only muster her courage and state the price she could offer. "I-I can take commissions from you. Can't you Extract Attributes from items? Whatever you want, I can draw it for you."
As a shut-in artist, Xi never took commissions.
This time, in order to obtain a Miraculous Item, she was prepared to break through her own bottom line.
"Your proposal is tempting, but unfortunately... attributes can't be Extracted from anything that doesn't truly exist. Unless that illusory object develops other attributes after being created and weathering the passage of time, that sort of item is worthless to me."
Chen Li explained.
Chen Li could only Extract Attributes from genuine antiques.
Never mind things painted by Xi—even things fabricated using Imaginary Value didn't count.
But if an imitation Ming Dynasty antique made during the Qing Dynasty had been passed down to the modern day, did that mean it was no longer an antique?
Chen Li would accept fake objects that recorded real history.
"Then... then I'll draw the item for you, and you can use it a hundred years from now?"
Xi offered a highly constructive suggestion.
"...Do you know how old I am this year?"
"How old?"
"Seventeen."
"Seventeen hundred thousand? Fine, maybe a hundred years is too short. I can extend the shelf life a little, say, a thousand years..." Xi murmured.
"I'm seventeen! I don't care, I only want the finished product."
"Seventeen?"
Upon hearing that declaration, Xi's first thought was,