Reborn Divine Doctor: The Abandoned Girl's Legend-Chapter 1107 - 167: Spiritual Pattern Master

Back when Ye Lingyue was still at the Daxia Alchemist Tower, she already knew that no matter how good a spiritual artifact was, it couldn’t withstand long-term wear and tear.

Among the four major grades of spiritual artifacts, Earth-Grade and Yellow-Grade artifacts generally became irreparable after wear and tear, resulting in breakage.

As for Heaven Rank and Earth Rank artifacts, they could be repaired and reinforced through secondary or even tertiary forging, and if repaired properly, even engraved with spiritual patterns, both the adaptability and durability would be greatly enhanced.

If a spiritual artifact were lucky enough to develop an Artifact Spirit, its lifespan would multiply, and some could even gain immortal longevity, or even become a God.

Therefore, in a place like Huangquan City, where demon beasts are numerous and demon hunters abound, the wear and tear on various spiritual artifacts are even more severe.

Those alchemists or martial artists who are not adept at artifact refining had no choice but to spend a large amount of spirit stones at the blacksmith shop for repairs.

"Cold Mountain Inn" is such a place.

When Ye Lingyue first entered Cold Mountain Inn, she was stunned by the sight before her.

Previously, she had always thought that the Refining Hall of the Lonely Moon Sea was the most comprehensive refining ground she had ever seen, but upon seeing the Cold Mountain Inn today, she realized how laughable her perception was.

Cold Mountain Inn is an exceptionally large blacksmith shop, taking up space equivalent to two City Lord’s Mansions.

The entire Cold Mountain Inn is divided into two main areas: the outer area and the inner area.

Ordinary customers looking to purchase spiritual artifacts or repairs could only enter the trading area of the outer court.

As for the inner court, it was a forging and engraving area, accessible only to specific personnel.

Due to the extremely busy business, Cold Mountain Inn outsourced some custom orders to "part-timers" like Si Xiaochun, but even part-timers must go through rigorous selection by the Cold Mountain Inn to get assignments.

Ye Lingyue initially entered the outer trading area; by noon, there were already hundreds of customers here, many of whom were demon hunters with boisterous voices and merchants selling spiritual materials, making it a dizzying scene.

As for the spiritual artifacts traded in Cold Mountain Inn’s trading quarter, they were the most diverse Ye Lingyue had ever seen.

From the most ordinary swords to hooks, and even some strange and unusual spiritual artifacts she had never seen before, the variety was complete. Ye Lingyue even saw some small ship-shaped spiritual artifacts.

Of course, the cost and selling prices of these spiritual artifacts were also astonishing, with the cheapest being an Intermediate Spirit Stone, while others required thousands of Intermediate Spirit Stones.

However, among these spiritual artifacts, Ye Lingyue did not see any with engraved spiritual patterns. It was said that artifacts with spiritual patterns were typically only sold to elite or even supreme customers. These customers had exclusive reception rooms and were not treated in the ordinary reception area.

Naturally, Ye Lingyue never got the chance to see them.

After enjoying the visual feast in the trading area, Ye Lingyue, carrying a spirit sword, found the manager of the outer area. After explaining her purpose, the manager finally led her into the inner court. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

The inner court was different from the bustling outer court, gathering nearly a hundred forging masters here.

"Wait here, I’ll call Master Zhou over to inspect the goods. If everything checks out, you can claim your payment."

After saying that, the manager left Ye Lingyue there and went back to handle outside matters.

Ye Lingyue simply stayed in the inner court, watching the alchemists and martial artists working diligently all around.

Ye Lingyue noticed that there were quite a few Red Fire level alchemists in Cold Mountain Inn’s inner court, and all of them had remarkable forging skills.

About a quarter of an hour later, an old man with a sallow complexion and a very thin face walked out.

"Are you the new servant from the City Lord’s Mansion? Let me see Xiao Chun’s sword."

The old man was none other than Master Zhou mentioned by the outer court manager earlier. He seemed to be familiar with Si Xiaochun and began inspecting the sword Ye Lingyue brought without much interrogation.

After examining it, Master Zhou’s face lit up.

"That kid Xiao Chun indeed has some talent in spiritual patterns. He has finally managed to engrave a complete spiritual pattern on the sword tip, and this time the spiritual power is very robust. It’s a fine sword, too bad he’s unwilling to leave the City Lord’s Mansion. Staying in that ruined place is just wasting his talent."

Master Zhou was both appreciative and regretful.

"This spirit sword is of excellent quality. Follow me inside, and I’ll give you your payment."

With that, Master Zhou led Ye Lingyue to the innermost courtyard of the inner area.

As they entered the small courtyard, the clattering sounds from the forging area behind them disappeared.

Evidently, a special soundproofing array had been added in the courtyard.

This was a serene courtyard arranged like a Zen garden, with a stone table by an ancient well and several pots of perennial pink and white mountain camellias.

In the courtyard, there were seven or eight elegantly decorated rooms, where the spiritual pattern masters of Cold Mountain Inn did their engraving.

Master Zhou’s residence was in the largest room among them.

He instructed Ye Lingyue to wait briefly, then went to the accounting room to register.

As they entered, a gust of wind blew some papers off Master Zhou’s desk onto the ground.

Ye Lingyue picked them up, and just with a glance, she paused slightly.

The strange symbols drawn on these papers were all spiritual patterns.

It turned out that the types of spiritual patterns varied greatly depending on the spiritual artifact, and a qualified spiritual pattern master needed to be able to engrave at least ten different spiritual patterns. A master like Zhou needed to master around fifty different spiritual patterns.

Ye Lingyue was a novice in spiritual patterns and naturally found them very intriguing. As she picked up the papers, she took the chance to memorize several spiritual patterns.

Just as she picked up the last sheet with a spiritual pattern, her hand paused, and her eyes widened a bit.

The last spiritual pattern seemed familiar to her.

Ye Lingyue had an exceptional memory, so if she felt she had seen it before, she certainly had come across this spiritual pattern somewhere.

But except for this morning, she had never been exposed to spiritual patterns.

Ye Lingyue was deep in thought when something suddenly flashed through her mind.

She quickly grabbed hold of it and remembered.

"The pale golden vein patterns on the leaves of the Heavenly Sword Hemp in the old City Lord’s courtyard, aren’t exactly the patterns drawn here?"

Discovering this, Ye Lingyue was both pleasantly surprised and shocked.

She had always thought those were just ordinary plant veins, but now it seemed they were clearly spiritual patterns.

Spiritual patterns were rarely naturally occurring, so the patterns on the Heavenly Sword Hemp must be manually engraved.

She had been pondering for two days on how to deal with this Heavenly Sword Hemp. Now it seemed that their troublesome nature was due to the spiritual patterns. But who could have left spiritual patterns in the courtyard where the old City Lord once lived?

As Ye Lingyue contemplated this, an irritated voice came from behind her.

"What are you doing!"