[You reach out to touch the ’Book of the Craftsman’, and a powerful resonance occurs between your spirit and the book.]

[Do you want to use the forging ability of the ’Book of the Craftsman’?]

[Based on the materials you have, generating crafting blueprint...]

[’Beak of Sly Ghost’s True Form’ + ’Canine Tooth of Black Heavenly Dog’ + ’Red Sun Secret Bronze’ + ’Cloud Pattern Snow Steel’ + ’Azure Mysterious Fine Iron’*2 + ’Taiyi Gengjin Essence’ (not owned yet) + ’Star River Silver Sand’ (not owned yet) + ’Nine Netherworld Yellow Spring Evil’ (not owned yet)]

[By using the above materials and spending 675,000 points of spirit, you can create a ’Legendary Grade’ weapon suitable for the shell of ’Star Lord Canis’ with desires.]

To craft a legendary grade weapon tailored for ’Star Lord Canis’, a total of an astonishing eight types of materials is required.

The cost reaches an astounding 675,000 spiritual points!

Luckily, Lin Xun has harvested some materials from the ’Blade Smith’ before, otherwise, the cost of crafting materials alone would have made Lin Xun go broke.

However, the missing materials for forging are still quite valuable.

The three missing materials have a heavy proportion in the weapon, and it would cost over 1.6 million spirit points to buy all of them.

After receiving the contribution of one million spirit points from the great general, Lin Xun’s savings reached 2.2 million. Buying the three materials is almost equivalent to going back to square one overnight.

"Buy them! Using ’Blade Smith’ self-production and sales could save a lot on forging costs."

"Not to mention there’s a high probability of weapon effects."

"Rounding off, it’s a bloody bargain!"

Lin Xun took the weapon blueprint he got for free to the ’Book of Trade’ to make purchases. Like water, his money flowed out. After buying three materials, there was only 580,000 spirit points left in his savings.

[You have gained ’Taiyi Gengjin Essence’ (material)!]

[You have gained ’Star River Silver Sand’ (material)!]

[You have gained ’Nine Netherworld Yellow Spring Evil’ (material)!]

[You entered the body of the ’Fire-worshiping Blade Smith’!]

Lin Xun activated the shell skill ’Legendary Smithing Art’.

[Your shell skill ’Legendary Smithing Art’ is of sufficient grade to craft a legendary grade weapon according to the current blueprint!] 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

[This forging process will take quite some time, it is estimated to be 29 hours, 36 minutes, and 49 seconds...]

[Do you want to start forging this weapon?]

Lin Xun remembered that forging an epic-grade weapon had taken more than half a day. He hadn’t expected that the time required to craft a legendary-grade weapon would be even more draconian.

A day and a night’s time was not enough to forge a legendary grade weapon, which seemed somewhat lame compared to the instantaneous creation of the ’Book of the Craftsman’.

[The weapon is being forged, please wait patiently...]

’Blade Smith’ and ’Blacksmith’ alike, must focus entirely on hammering throughout the entire forging process, and can’t do anything else during this time. At most, they can only look at the panel properties to kill time.

Lin Xun simply left the game and let the blacksmith be on autopilot to craft.

He dialed his female boss’s number to report on his ’cultivation’ progress.

After two ringing tones, the call was picked up and his female boss’s voice came through.

"Lin Xun, what’s up?"

"Manager Li, I have cleared the fifth difficulty level."

"So soon?" The voice on the other end of the phone was surprised, "Right, with your strength, clearing the fifth difficulty level wouldn’t take much effort."

"Are you planning to stay at the fifth difficulty level, or advance to the next?"

Of course, Lin Xun did not plan to stay at the fifth difficulty level to farm for items and equipment. The earlier he advanced in difficulty, the greater his gains would be.

Of course, this was under the condition that he didn’t get stuck.

If he frequently got stuck after advancing to the next difficulty level, it would be better to accumulate strength at the current difficulty level.

What needs special attention is that once you advance in difficulty, you can’t go back!

No matter how many times an apostle gets stuck after advancing to the next difficulty level, they can never go back to the previous difficulty level.

This dark game doesn’t give apostles a chance to regret. Choosing to advance to the next difficulty level is equivalent to acknowledging that your own strength has exceeded the current difficulty level.

This is the main reason many apostles choose to steady play. After all, if they overestimate their strength, they could easily get stuck in a loop of difficulties after advancing to the next difficulty level.

When he told his thoughts to Li Xingyue, his female boss, she was silent for a long time before sighing, "When you first joined, you were just a rookie at the third difficulty level..."

"It hasn’t been long since then, and you’re about to surpass me, your boss, and advance to the sixth difficulty level."

"Come to the unit, there are some things I need to tell you."

After hanging up the phone, Lin Xun headed straight to the office.

He had a hunch about what his boss was going to talk about. Previously, he had asked Li Xingyue for a favor to use her connections to find some task of crafting equipment.

After a long time, there might be some progress in this matter.

When he arrived at the office, as expected, Li Xingyue told him that he had received a forging commission.

However, things weren’t as simple as he had imagined...

Since she didn’t use official channels, Li Xingyue’s boss only publicized it on a small scale, so there were not many orders for commissioned forging.

Another reason was that a commission for forging required an upfront payment of materials worth millions, so even with a big shot as an intermediary, many were still in wait-and-see mode.

Unless Lin Xun employs an official channel, only then he could receive a large number of orders.

Contrary to what he imagined, after employing an official channel, he absolutely didn’t need to worry about his life being endangered.

Because the officials would incorporate him into the Apostle Council Headquarters in Yunjing.

Being a very rare ’Blacksmith’, the headquarters would definitely do their best to protect his life. They might even assign an elite apostle for him 24/7.

However, having too many commissioned orders might not be a good thing.