After Xiao Hongchen asked, he waited anxiously for Lu Yi's answer.
In those few moments, he wondered whether he had been too hasty.
If Lu Yi thought he had harbored another motive from the start, would their newly mended relationship fall apart?
But he quickly reassured himself. He only wanted to look at a Soul Tool. As a Soul Engineer, that was a reasonable request... right?
Lu Yi knew exactly what Xiao Hongchen wanted, but he certainly would not hand over his Flying Soul Tool just because Xiao Hongchen had said a few words.
He had poured far too much effort into it.
Even among Thousand Refined metals, quality varied with the conditions during forging.
Every component and strut in the casing was made from roughly mid-grade Thousand Refined metal. It had taken him months to gather enough, and its value was far beyond anything produced on an assembly line.
During that time, the overall quality of Lu Yi's Thousand Refinement had noticeably improved. He produced more and more superior-grade pieces, while his inferior-grade and failure rates fell.
And reliably forging superior-grade Thousand Refined metal was the foundation for reaching the higher level of Spirit Forging.
Lu Yi had also tried to comprehend Spirit Forging. In the process, something suddenly clicked.
He was a Wizard. Why was he spending his time forging when he could have someone else take care of it?
That was precisely why he had outsourced the Thousand Refinement work.
Although Lu Yi had no intention of letting Xiao Hongchen inspect the Enchanted casing, he took a metal billet from his Storage Soul Tool.
The billet had barely crossed the threshold of Thousand Refinement. It was the result Lu Yi had most often produced when he first practiced the technique, and he had at least a dozen