"Is it really okay?" Ge Sheng asked worriedly.
Although the first match of the Emperor's Oath pitting the "Master" who is the number one weapon refiner today against Christie seems to be the most likely to win in the Emperor's Oath, this master is really unreliable. Just like the Emperor who is so nervous and critical. On the eve of the oath, she was drinking tea and eating snacks in the company of His Highness the Third Highness, which made everyone sad when she heard it and shed tears when she saw it.
But then again, these two legal lolita, who are also young, have an unexpected familiarity. Although Xiang's appearance is a bit more youthful, there is no doubt that when the two get along, in fact, The older Xiang is in a dominant position. For example, at this moment, she is happily teaching His Highness how to make tea more delicious, and actively shares the precious snacks she brought from thousands of miles away.
"It doesn't matter." Ao Xuehua licked the ice snacks that Xiang brought from Qing'an City, and said slightly vaguely: "You can't control her. In fact, our family has not been able to control her for more than a hundred years. After all, She is too senior, so we can only start by depriving her of desserts and limiting her research funds. After all, if she is allowed to do whatever she wants, she can burn a quarter of the Ost Empire's tax revenue in a year."
"But don't worry too much. Although Tina is indeed one of the best in weapon refining, she is only seventeen years old after all. She really started to get into weapon refining after she was ten years old. Even if Xiang is not 100% sure, at least she can It’s about 90%.”
Ge Sheng was still a little worried: "But she is Alaya after all."
"Yes." Ao Xuehua nodded: "The legendary Alaya Consciousness, but although it cannot be underestimated, do not imagine that she is omnipotent. When Croft was in civil strife, although she relied on Alaya Consciousness Her power has allowed her to do things that normal people wouldn’t even dare to think about, but she also paid a corresponding price.”
"Similarly, because all her learning focused on the repair of the Linglong Heart, her original learning followed the barrel principle, which is to ensure that none of the wooden barrels surrounding the Linglong Heart is too short. , so, although she was proficient in those fields, she did not climb to unprecedented heights after all. As for the three years after she became the head of the family after the civil strife, although her external planning was impeccable, in her own practice, She has embarked on a very devious path. You will know the specific details later, but I want you to be sure that in a sense, compared with her three years ago, not only has she not improved, but she has also made some progress. The place has regressed a little bit.”
Ge Sheng looked at Ao Xuehua in surprise, but said nothing.
"The Os family has been a solid ally since the time of Emperor Shuhua and Douglas. On the one hand, this alliance has promoted the stability of their respective positions. On the other hand, it has enabled the sharing of a lot of information and the flow of personnel. very common."
"In human terms, we all have many double agents serving us." Ao Xuehua licked the dessert made with ice shavings and yogurt juice, and said softly but a little sharply: "So, although we have never changed in the past three years, Even though I have never met her, I know everything about her. Of course, she treats me the same way."
"You can understand that after being suddenly released from the heavy pressure, she was at a loss and couldn't find a new goal, so she began to relax. You can also think that she faced the cruel reality and became somewhat escaping from the world. In short, she began to Indulging in something that you may consider to be heretical, rather than being willing to explore the reality of the world again.”
"The reason why I tell you this is mainly to let you know that although she is extremely powerful, she is far from what you imagine."
"And." Ao Xuehua swallowed the last bite of the dessert: "The relationship between you and her is very unusual. It is because of you that she is willing to return to the soup pot of this world. You also successfully helped her get rid of her parents. The biggest inner demon."
"So, I think it is my responsibility to tell you these things that she is destined not to tell you."
"It's not that she doesn't want to, it's that she has a thousand hands and eyes but she can't see or touch it."
Ge Sheng was silent for a moment: "Isn't she Alaya? Why doesn't she know this?"
Ao Xuehua smiled slightly: "Yes, she is Alaya, but she is not able to see through anyone's heart or past. People like me who have been in close contact with the Croft family have always known this since childhood. Learn a skill that can close your heart. As for alaya consciousness, although it is very difficult, there are still ways to deal with it. I will only tell you one thing, it is very dangerous to see through a person's heart. Only she did not have it when she was young. When anyone is on guard against her, she can read everyone's heart like a book. Now, although we still exchanged greetings and greetings very peacefully when she met me, there has long been a relationship between our hearts. Put up thick barriers."
"I used this metaphor, do you understand?"
Ge Sheng sighed and looked at the dark night sky outside: "I think I will never be like you."
Ao Xuehua smiled and shook his head, with a subtle smile: "You should be glad that you don't have to be us. You should know that becoming someone like us has never been about whether you can or want to."
"It's about whether you need to be someone like us."
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The next day, Ye Ye City's West Market, the Emperor's Oath Arena.
In this ten-foot-square open space, on the outside is a circular auditorium commissioned by Christie, and in the center is a square arena used for public competition. I wonder if it is due to Christie's personal taste, this square arena is still similar to hers The space teleportation array that I made was all made of pure metal modules, so that by replacing the modules, I could complete four completely different competitions in the same arena.
At this time, Christie and Xiang were standing opposite each other on the field. Both of them were surrounded by a circular workbench. It seemed that out of some thoughtful design, the workbench on Xiang's side was all child-sized.
The blue-haired Lolita girl was still wearing a fluffy girl's skirt that was obviously not suitable for this occasion. She frowned and weighed the obviously smaller alloy round hammer, and pouted at the opposite side: "Do you want the jury to accuse you of age discrimination?" ."
"I think." Christie said faintly from the opposite side: "If I provide the master with normal-sized tools and operating tables, that would be age discrimination. If the master can use it smoothly, then I might as well take them all away after the Emperor's Oath is over and treat it as a A little gift goes a long way."
Ye Qing covered his face and looked at the Loli master who was a little excited for a moment, silently complaining: "Is this all okay?"
"The characteristic of children is that they easily become very happy for a little convenience and happiness." Ao Xuehua said matter-of-factly: "Don't you have a childhood, Xiaojiu?"
Ye Xiaojiu thought about it seriously: "I think my childhood was probably different from hers."
"After all, I didn't have a long childhood that lasted almost two hundred years."
Xiang closed her eyes and breathed lightly. When she opened her eyes, the childishness in her eyes was gone.
As Xiao's grand-niece, in fact, in her memory, the world-famous aunt has no trace of living with her, because when she was born, the saint had already died, and Wanghaizhou's four springs had dried up.
But it doesn't mean that she didn't leave traces in her life.
On the contrary, since birth, my only role model and goal has been my aunt who became a saint.
It’s just that no one thought that although he was born without any abnormality, but his talent and talent were beyond expectations, he would eventually embark on such an unprecedented path.
Xiang shook his head and reached out to pick up the material he had prepared - a dark iron ingot.
The pure element of iron is not black. On the contrary, it is a shiny silvery white. However, it is difficult to preserve pure iron in a normal environment, so such black iron is more stable and easier to store.
This time the question of the Emperor's Oath is a kind of material. For many weapon refiners, this is an almost impossible test question, but for beings of her or Christie's level, it is just one more question. It’s just a shackles dance.
It is true that the weapons in the Emperor's Oath do not only refer to spiritual weapons. Ordinary magic equipment and even swords that only have physical cutting properties are all within the scope of this weapon. It is even said that if Christie can perfectly reproduce it here The exquisite heart in her body, a creation that is completely outside the scope of human cognition, still belongs to the category of instruments.
But at this moment, such a weapon has been regarded as a spiritual weapon by default. At least, it is also a standard magical equipment for spiritual weapons.
But for ordinary weapon refiners, even if they are asked to choose a material, they will not use the most ordinary and ordinary iron tool. You must know that an important factor why a spiritual weapon is a spiritual weapon is its exquisiteness. The material brings almost indestructible qualities, and steel undoubtedly does not belong to the category of fine materials.
But Xiang looked up at the girl opposite and saw the same iron ingot in front of her, and couldn't help but smile.
Sometimes the same choice is really unpleasant.
Under the playing field, Ge Sheng couldn't help but ask Xiang Aoxuehua, because among everyone present, the princess might be the only one who could answer his question: "Why is it iron?"
However, the person who answered him was not the president. Qi Xia smiled and said, "Because it must be iron."
Seeing Ge Sheng's suspicious gaze, Qi Xia shrugged slightly: "Don't look at me like that. You know, I am the weapons and armor store manager appointed by Her Royal Highness the Princess."
Ye Qing chuckled, making people shudder: "So my store manager gave me a bunch of rags that can be easily broken and punctured by that guy to fool me."
Qi Xia narrowed her eyes and looked innocent: "Your Highness Princess didn't give you any funds, okay? Besides, in this world, shields that she can't break and swords that keep banging are rare." With that said, Qi Xia quickly changed the subject: "Okay. Okay, let me popularize some common sense about spiritual weapons."
"Although it is true that among the spiritual weapons in use today, there are very few whose main material is iron. Most of them are made of gold and silver combined with rare magic metals, but the reason for this is very simple."
"Because among conventional metals, there is nothing more malleable than gold and silver."
"But there has never been a spiritual weapon made of a single material of gold and silver, because they all have their own irreparable flaws in specific use, so they need composite materials as a supplement, and because their respective properties are Being biased towards stability makes it difficult to obtain excellent sublimation creations, so they are destined to be unable to serve as a single main material."
"Back to the Emperor's Oath, the title of the Emperor's Oath is a kind of material, which means that almost all links and components of the spiritual weapon you make must be constructed with this kind of material, but one thing must be clear, that is Your spiritual weapon does not need to have only this one material."
"Because this involves a basic axiom in alchemy - pure creation exists in the realm of gods, but we should not get involved."
“Since no one can ensure that what they make is completely pure, adhering to such a standard is undoubtedly tantamount to setting yourself up.”
"So the correct understanding of it is."
"The spiritual weapon created in the Emperor's Oath must be composed of one main material, and other participating impurities must be on the order of insignificance."
"And when you understand this level, you will understand that iron is your only choice."
"Because this most common and cheapest metal also has the widest range of uses and properties in the world, and has countless kinds of sublimated creations that even gods would be hard-pressed to list one by one."
"And this is where the two weapon refiners really compete."
"In addition to experience, technology, techniques, and structure, basic understanding and experimental expansion, and rich imagination are all indispensable."
"Moreover, you must ensure that your final creation must be a mature spiritual weapon that can fully function. This is the field where the world's top weapon refiners compete."
Zhou Yan nodded: "Although I don't understand a word, it doesn't affect the fact that I know this is very powerful."
Ao Xuehua smiled: "If you understand so well, can you tell me what they are doing now?"
Qi Xia shook her head without any shame: "If you ask such a realistic topic to a theoretical king who only knows how to talk, won't your conscience hurt?"
Ge Sheng looked at the arena and found that the two people's movements were completely different at this time.
Although they all chose the commonest yet most inclusive steel, what they are doing now is completely different.
Christie had already melted her iron ingots into bright red iron juice exuding blazing light on site, and then used a makeshift slender mold to cast small parts with no apparent purpose. On the other hand, Xiang was simple and crude. He simply heated his iron ingot until it was red hot, then stretched out his hand to knead and stretch the iron ingot, which was enough to burn through one meter of fat, like playing with a ball of dough. If he hadn't clearly known that he was sitting on the Emperor's Oath, Watching the world's top weapon refiners show off their top skills in the competition, Ge Sheng would have the illusion that he was watching a ramen master.
This may be the reason why even Nanxia doesn't know anything about these two final creations.
At this moment, Xiang had skillfully pulled out a few iron balls from the hot iron surface with his hands like dough. He put them aside for the time being and started the final work on the big iron ball.
"Your Highness, you now understand why I said that she can break through any piece of my armor at will. She is a humanoid beast in a sense. Her body alone is comparable to the King Kong Lolita of the World of Warcraft. Right." Qi Xia said with a sigh.
