CH 62.1

The middle aged man wearing the cyan coloured Chinese gown was called CangWu. He is ZhanYu’s third senior brother, so Su TingYun must call him third senior uncle.

Third senior uncle is at eight stage of building foundation stage and knows how to forge artifacts. All the large swords in Obliteration Sword Tower are forged by him alone. Su TingYun started to cook before she began her teacher acknowledgement ceremony. She also did not meet anyone while she was at it. As she was limited by the circumstances, Su TingYun felt that the food tasted mediocre, but Bu, Xing and Zhi ate them heartily, just like a hungry ghost.

Even ZhanYu came over and ate a large bowl of rice and a few pieces of meat. He sat down on the table side and used his chopsticks to tap on the table, ‘The master disciple tea ceremony can be skipped, this meal would suffice.’

After eating their fill, XiaoBu volunteered to take away the tableware, and ZhanYu, as per regulation, brought Su TingYun around for an introduction.

They did not go looking one by one, Obliteration Sword Tower only had around ten members and they were all standing at the front of ZhanYu’s tiny bamboo building, waiting for him to receive them.

The one that was standing dead centre is a woman wearing something simple and elegant, she looked like she was around the age of thirty, her hair was tied into a high bun and a wooden stick was inserted through it. The rest of her body did not have any ornaments.

ZhanYu turned towards the woman and respectfully said: ‘Master.’ Soon after, he made Su TingYun kneel, ‘This person is my master, your grand teacher. She is our Obliteration Sword Tower master, LingXiao.’

Su TingYun wholeheartedly acknowledged her teacher, which means whe went down on her knees and kowtow as courtesy.

Leader LingXiao looked friendly. Her smile was simple but elegant like a chrysanthemum.

‘Stand up. By entering my Obliteration Sword Tower, life here might be slightly bitter, but it is the righteous path. You understand?’ Leader LingXiao laughed while saying.

‘Disciple understands.’

Su TingYun replied.

Afterwards, they walked for a little and towards the left was Obliteration Sword Tower’s elder FangYuan. He is Leader LingXiao’s junior brother. His build is very fat and has very pale skin. It really fitted his name.[1] Towards the right was a person who was tall and lean. He wore a black ChangPao and held a sword in his hands. He looked like he was around the age of thirty. His face was resolute and had sharp eyes. The first impression he would give others would be stern. He was also the leader’s junior brother, Obliteration Sword Tower’s elder YanShu.

The remaining six people were ZhanYu’s fellow apprentices. ZhanYu’s seniority was placed at number six, so Su TingYun had to call all of them martial uncles. Obliteration Sword Tower had a total number of eleven members, the addition of Su TingYun would make it twelve. She looked around and found out that there was one missing, so she curiously asked.

‘Oh, that would be the final disciple of elder YanShu. He was the latest among us to join. He also went to the refinement islands to recruit disciples. You should call him little martial uncle,’

As of now, there were two members with gold core cultivation realm stationed at the refinement islands, they were ZhanYu and the little martial uncle called Yan YuQing that had yet to be seen. There were nine building foundation stage cultivators, and that was the exclusion of XiaoBu from all of them.

The requirement of twenty building foundation stage cultivators and above is needed to enter the refinement islands. In other words, they still needed nine more cultivators. The entrance test for Obliteration Sword Tower was quite strict, could they manage to recruit nine of them? Su TingYun was slightly worried.

‘Alright, since you have finished your teacher acknowledgement ceremony and getting to know your peers. Go to third martial uncle to request the type of sword you want. Whatever kind of size you feel familiar with, just tell him. He will tailor forge it for you.’

CangWu notified Su TingYun to go select a sword, Su TingYun entered the sword forging room and took a look. The room was filled with numerous swords closely dotted together, and the length of the swords were the exact same with each other, layer over layer, pile by pile, they were piled up against each other, sword hilts that were exposed to the elements were piled up against the wall and it looked like a hornet’s nest. Just looking at it made her scalp tingle. She just wanted to get over this by randomly picking one.

Right before exiting, Su TingYun suddenly remembered: ‘Third martial uncle, can you help me refine a metal ball?’

‘Sure, I can. It doesn’t take much effort and the only things I have in excess are damaged copper and scrap iron.’ CangWu Boldly said, afterwards he added, ‘Are you planning to use these as a hidden weapon? What sizes do you want them in? Or are you making thunderbolt bullets?’

Su TingYun thought of Big Bai’s size and then used her hands to gesture the size, only to see CangWu’s dumbfounded gaze.

‘This is bigger than the size of a human’s head.’ He said.

Su TingYun laughed it off, then hesitantly asked, ‘Third martial uncle, can you do it?’

‘Definitely, I already said that we have a lot of excess scrap metal, it’s just a metal ball, just state a number and I will deliver. In a few days I will get someone to deliver it to you. I will take this as my present to you for our first meeting, so you better not dislike it, hahaha.’

Why would Su TingYun dislike it, the large metal ball was what she needed right now. After a few days they would go to the refinement islands. She would just make another trip to WuLiang sect and throw the metal ball down as a gift to Big Bai.

Of course, before that time comes, she ought to think of a method to get some spirit stones. If not, she could not even afford the entrance fee of one lower tier spirit stone,

After leaving Third martial uncle’s place, Su TingYun pondered about refining pills for XiaoBu. She did not have a pill furnace and medicinal materials, so there was some difficulty as of now.

I shall raise these difficulties to master, Su TingYun looked at his smiling face contort into one of entanglement.

Low leveled medicinal herbs are still acceptable. As for the pill furnace… I will inquire about it later.’ After saying his piece, ZhanYu hurriedly walked away. When he came back, he brought back a tiny bag.

‘Inside this are ten pieces of middle tier spirit stones, it should roughly be enough to buy a pill furnace. This money has been pooled by Tower leader and your martial uncles, so spend this wisely.’

Obliteration Sword Tower! Why are you so poor! Just killing some rank four or five spiritual beasts could exchange some spirit stones. Don’t tell me that you cultivate the buddhist practices of not taking lives. Master ZhanYu killed a demonic cultivator and even stripped off his pants with such agility. It was evident that this was not his first time.

Only when their master walked away did XiaoBu say: ‘The reason is because we need to support the Cleansing Sword Lake.’

Ten high tier spirit stones are required daily to maintain normal operations of the formation inside the lake.

‘You haven’t taken a look at the bottom of our Cleansing Sword Lake, it is so beautiful.’ Talking to this point, XiaoBu’s face no longer had the expression of discontent. When he spoke of the Cleansing Sword Lake, his face beamed with pride.’ Only those who had joined for three years can enter the restricted areas, so you better put in effort, junior sister.