"Dull ones are safer."
Saina pursed her lips, then carried the cleaver into the kitchen.
While both women were busy, Su Li returned to the woodshed in the back courtyard and shut the door.
He took out the three enchanted daggers he had forged last night from his Space Ring and laid them in a row across the table.
The three daggers were nearly identical in quality. Faint blue patterns glimmered across their blades, and they were sharp enough to split the standard leather armor of a second-tier knight.
He did not yet know the market rates in Silver Crown City, so he would have to let Elena ask around.
But Su Li was in no hurry to sell them.
First, he needed to find out who controlled the enchanted weapon market here.
Su Li put the three daggers back into his Space Ring.
He sat down in the woodshed, closed his eyes, and activated his Sword Spirit Root.
The surrounding aether was silently drawn into his meridians.
After reaching the second tier, his perception of aether had sharpened by more than a full level. He could clearly sense every wisp of flowing air in this woodshed.
The aether in his meridians was slowly but steadily growing denser.
He was still far from the third tier, but he was heading in the right direction.
Su Li calculated that, at the speed provided by the Sword Spirit Root and the Two-Sided Charging Method, along with the few remaining bottles of potion in his possession, reaching for the third tier within half a year was no dream.
Once he reached the third tier, he would have the qualifications to sit down and negotiate with the three great merchant associations across the entire Free City-State.
And once he reached the fourth tier—
That