"Teacher, is it because of the Demon Hunt Squad Selection Competition?"
Jiang Li quickly understood what his teacher meant.
There were rewards to be won at the end of the Demon Hunt Squad Selection Competition.
Ye Hua knew Jiang Li's strength very well.
Never mind that he had already broken through to the fifth order-even if he were only at the fourth order, Ye Hua believed Jiang Li would certainly achieve good results.
"Yes. Whether for defense, offense, or support, I've picked out suitable equipment for you and prepared two plans. But it would still be best to wait until after the Demon Hunt Squad Selection Tournament to buy anything. Then we can fill whatever gaps remain."
Ye Hua handed Jiang Li the information on the equipment, along with the money from selling the materials earlier.
"Teacher, I'll do as you say."
Jiang Li saw nothing wrong with that.
As long as no sixth-order knight entered the tournament, he was absolutely confident that, with his strength, he could win the championship in the end even without good equipment.
Buying now would indeed mean wasting quite a bit of money.
"See if there's anything you like. We'll buy it after the Demon Hunt Squad Selection Tournament ends."
After giving it a quick scan and committing the information on the equipment to memory, Jiang Li handed the documents to Qian Renxue.
As for the Magic Crystal Card, he naturally put it away.
Qian Renxue began leafing through the documents, making her selections carefully.
Meanwhile, Jiang Li chatted with his teacher, learning in detail about some of his experiences since entering the Knight Temple.
As it turned out, the time it had taken his teacher to break through to the sixth order really had drawn attention from above.
After all, his initial Innate Internal Spiritual Power had been only 9.
Even without becoming Long Haochen's retainer knight, he had cultivated to the rank of fifth-order knight with such low Innate Internal Spiritual Power alone.
That in itself was a miracle.
Most people in the Temple Alliance had very low Innate Internal Spiritual Power. If this teaching method could be spread, even if it could not bring everyone to the fifth order-even if only one in ten thousand succeeded-it could greatly increase the number of powerful fighters among humanity's lower ranks, thereby improving the strength of the human alliance as a whole.
Previously, his cultivation had been low, so the higher-ups had not known about him. This time, his breakthrough to the sixth order had drawn the attention of the Knight Temple's senior leadership.
For this purpose, they had convened a special meeting and established a dedicated project to try to promote Ye Hua's cultivation method.
Ye Hua was already quite accomplished in cultivation research. On top of that, the cultivation path he was now promoting had been refined together with Jiang Li, and his method really was effective.
In just one short month, it had already produced substantial results.
Now, Ye Hua was highly respected within the temple. Even some seventh- and eighth-order experts treated him with great courtesy.
After all, whose family did not have a few children with poor talent?
At one point, the temple's senior leadership had even treated Ye Hua as a strategic resource.
They had provided him with all sorts of research materials and benefits.
"Teacher, I'll join you in studying some of those materials later."
At the mention of this, Jiang Li was genuinely tempted.
The cultivation method he was researching already had a rough framework, but bringing the plan to fruition still required a great deal of experience and all kinds of information.
On the Douluo Continent, Qian Renxue could help collect it.
He had been wondering how to better gather such information on the Holy Demon Continent.
He had never expected his teacher to give him such a pleasant surprise.
"Of course. If you want to go, come find me anytime."
"Also, since you're here, come do some hard labor for me and give those less talented children some guidance. You have experience in that area."
Ye Hua spoke with a smile, taking the opportunity to make a request of Jiang Li.
"Sure!"
Jiang Li did not refuse.
"Go back and get some rest first. You can also look around if you have nothing to do. I'll be handling some rather tedious matters with my teacher next. I doubt you'd enjoy them."
Turning around, Jiang Li told Qian Renxue to go back and rest first.
"All right. I can take the opportunity to look around the temple and see if there's anything I like."
Qian Renxue had not wanted to interact with so many people in the first place, so she took the opportunity to leave.
"Out with it, you brat. You had me deliberately find an excuse and even sent Qian Renxue away. What are you planning?"
Ye Hua was quite curious about this.
The reason he had just mentioned having Jiang Li guide those children was, naturally, that he had received a hint from his disciple.
"Teacher, did you find the trustworthy equipment smith I asked you to look for?"
This was the real reason Jiang Li had sent Qian Renxue away.
"I did. A seventh-order knight who lost both legs to the Demon Race, and a top-class equipment craftsman as well. His greatest achievement was leading the people under him to forge a piece of epic-grade equipment at his peak. But now that he's lost his legs, his cultivation has fallen considerably too, and he can only forge Legendary Equipment."
"Both his reputation and his trustworthiness are sound. I've had dealings with him myself, and his son is now one of the students I'm guiding..."
Although he did not know what Jiang Li wanted to do, Ye Hua had still done everything he could to gather the relevant information for him.
"Teacher, I have a supreme treasure here that Qian Renxue brought from her plane. In her plane, this treasure can not only fuse directly into the bones of the human body to strengthen it, but also comes with an exclusive skill of considerable power."
"But here, we can't fuse with it. I analyzed and studied it before, and it can be made into equipment. These are my ideas for crafting equipment from this treasure..."
As Jiang Li spoke, he took the eighty-thousand-year Dragon Soul Bone out of his Storage Soul Ring, along with the conceptual drawings he had made.
He wanted to turn it into a piece of equipment that combined defense and offense, which could also improve Qian Renxue's defensive capabilities. After all, that was one of her weaknesses.
Wasn't the reason he had sent her away precisely to give her a surprise?
Although he had the corresponding ideas, with his current cultivation, he was still a long way from being able to craft equipment of this level.
Therefore, he needed someone trustworthy to do it.
"It comes with a skill and can fuse with human bones to improve physique and strength. Something like this truly is a rare treasure."
"You're being so careful about it. Better to be cautious."
Looking at the Soul Bone laid out before him, along with Jiang Li's drawings and ideas, Ye Hua knew this matter needed to be handled with care.
"This thing's aura is similar to that stone ball Haoyue swallowed before."
"Senior Brother, if you'd taken this out in front of Haoyue earlier, Haoyue might have started pestering you again."
Beside them, Long Haochen sensed the Soul Bone's aura and could not help speaking with a smile.
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