Chapter 155 Scared Away?

Five days. Ou Yangming stayed in the Fang residence’s secret room for five days.

When a person’s cultivation base arrived at Yin Grade, he or she would undergo enormous changes, one of them being the ability to cultivate essential Qi to replace sleep.

Needless to say, it only applied to some special cases. For instance, if someone had to maintain absolute focus at short notice. During that time, a martial artist could cultivate essential Qi to substitute sleep temporarily. Ou Yangming was a Yin Grade martial artist, so he could naturally do it.

In actual fact, when he was still in Force Grade, he had completed this step by transforming the flesh and blood of countless quarries into Qi and blood for his own. Now, he was only reaching his goal using another method.

Throughout the five days, Ou Yangming had attached triple-layered Unique Attributes to every piece of equipment.

The failure rate increased as the number of attributes being attached increased, and the most nerve-racking moment was when the third layer of Unique Attribute was being fixed.

Ou Yangming succeeded during his second attempt on the helmet, but when he worked with the other pieces of equipment, he failed at least twice before he really succeeded.

On average, ten to fifteen precious ores had to be consumed for a successful triple-layering process on a piece of equipment. The Fang family’s bosses grimaced in pain and wiped their cold sweat as their hearts ached, but they comforted Ou Yangming while patting their chests as though it did not matter.

When seven pieces of equipment, which consisted of five different types, were laid out in front of everyone, they had mixed feelings. Although there were only five types of equipment, there was one extra arm guard and greave each.

All in all, they had given up 85 precious ores for the seven pieces of equipment. 85 precious ores! In order to smith the archer’s suit, they had made countless sacrifices to accumulate the precious ores.

Nonetheless, they were content that Ou Yangming could arrive at this step.

After all, every piece of equipment was layered with three attributes.

Fang Zhaoyang sighed and said, “Lil’ Friend, you’ve worked hard.”

Ou Yangming was unwilling to give up when he looked at the remaining precious ores. “Do you not need me to go on?”.

“If that hasn’t happened, these attributes will be enough, but if…” Fang Zhaoyang smiled bitterly, then he continued after some hesitation, “Perhaps we’ll still need your help in the future!”

Ou Yangming nodded regretfully, but he cursed.

‘Who said that they’ll do it regardless of the cost? They’re being stingy now.’

Honestly, he was already satisfied with what he had achieved so far.

Only 21 points of attributes were actually used for the seven pieces of equipment, whereas more than 60 unique purple lights were stored in his mind.

Ou Yangming had not expected the gain before he came.

Nevertheless, he was rather curious about what Fang Zhaoyang was talking about, but he could tell by the look on the elder’s face that he would not be able to find out.

“Xuande, teach him how to do tool-chiseling. Tell him everything you know, and don’t keep anything to yourself.” Fang Zhaoyang sighed.

Fang Xuande responded to him. He also knew that this was not the end yet because they might still need Ou Yangming’s help in the future. Since that was the case, he might as well do the young man a special favor this time as much as he could.

When they arrived at a smithing workshop, Fang Xuande cut to the chase, “Master Lil’ Ou, it’s not easy to chisel a hole in a piece of equipment. If you’re slightly careless, the equipment will be damaged, and its equivalent rank will drop.”

Ou Yangming nodded and expressed, “I know, it’s the same as trying to embed a gem.”

Fang Xuande was stunned, so he asked, “Have you learned the Gem Embedding Art?”

“A friend of mine from the Ni family taught me a little about it,” Ou Yangming answered with a smile.

“Very well, it’s great that you’ve learned it before. If you want to chisel a hole, you must first have a clear understanding of the equipment,” Fang Xuande said as he retrieved a greave. He slowly brushed his hand across the equipment and explained, “Every piece of equipment is different, and the chiseling of holes in them will cause various effects. The point that we’re looking for is the aggregation point of different tensions in the equipment…”

He shook his wrist and put his finger on a certain point on the greave. “Right here. If you chisel a hole here, the damage on the equipment will be minimal.”

Ou Yangming accepted the greave and studied it for a long time, but he was still puzzled.

Fang Xuande chuckled. “You won’t be able to see the mystery in it by just looking at it. Come