The Immortal Realm's Smuggling Kingpin
Chapter 166

Volume Three: How a Crooked Merchant Was Made - Smuggling Minor Metals (Part One)

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"The Western Divine Realm has a population of seven million, with five million registered suits of armor and twelve million weapons. In other words, nearly everyone has a suit of armor and almost two weapons. As a result, more than Three Hundred Thousand people are killed or injured in armed clashes every year. So what we must do is... give everyone in the Western Divine Realm more than two suits of armor, so they can change and maintain them regularly; and more than three different weapons, so they can fight on different terrain and against different opponents!" This impassioned speech, whose conclusion bore little resemblance to its opening, came from Luo Qian as he stood beside a great river.

After returning to the Immortal Realm, Luo Qian had stunned Du Lengning with the largest order in history. The two had then gone to the riverside to speak their minds. Luo Qian remembered this classic speech from King of Weapons, which he had seen in the lower realm, and borrowed it with a few alterations. Sure enough, Du Lengning was awestruck.

Luo Qian had spent a great deal of time at the Imperial Sword Platform lately and had learned a little about artifact crafting. The greatest difference between crafting in the Immortal Realm and the Western Divine Realm lay in Formations. The Immortal Realm's intricate Formations were laid out with precision inside Magical Artifacts, giving them soul and power and lifting them far beyond the Western Divine Realm's standards. In the other two respects—combining materials and controlling heat—the methods were much the same.

The Imperial Sword Platform had a fixed annual quota of Magical Artifacts to craft for the Immortal Emperor. When Luo Qian delivered the third batch of equipment for modification, he happened to find Old Guan fretting over this

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