Pu Long arrived at the Swordforging Furnace. Sure enough, a dense sea of people had long since surrounded it so tightly that not even water could pass through.
"It's my turn, it's my turn. I'm buying thirty—"
"Everyone, slow down, take it slowly, line up properly, don't shove—"
Two female cultivators in colorful skirts maintained order at the entrance, but even more cultivators, terrified that those ahead of them would draw away the prizes, kept squeezing forward.
Pu Long had no idea what was going on.
The object these people were frantically scrambling for was a rough stone shaped like a sphere.
"Isn't this the Swordforging Furnace? Aren't people here to seek swords and forge swords?"
He found a cultivator he recognized and asked.
The cultivator said, "Pu Long, you don't know? The Swordforging Furnace has a Hundred-Gold Spirit Pool. One spirit jade gets you one rough stone. Once opened, it contains metal essences of varying grades. Metal essence is an essential material for forging swords."
Come to the Swordforging Furnace to seek a sword?
That was possible.
Materials fees plus labor fees; customers could bring their own materials. Labor fees were discounted, while material fees had no discounts.
The rules resembled those of Treasure Mending Hall, but beside the Swordforging Furnace stood a Spirit Pool specifically prepared for cultivators short on materials. For one spirit jade, they could rely on luck to mine high-grade metal essence.
The cultivator said, "I personally saw two cultivators draw Gold-Scaled Violet Mystic Iron and Nine-Colored Glazed Stone from the Spirit Pool just now."
Pu Long's expression froze.
Those were two kinds of high-grade metal essence, exceedingly rare. Even his own master had never had the luck to encounter either material.
"You're saying there are actually high-grade metal essences inside this Spirit Pool?"
"There