[Chapter 17: The Unknown]

‘Is it really OK?’ Mingyue asked with some concern.

‘Probably, I haven’t tried it either. Without the guidance of an experienced soul stone master, I’m afraid I’ll have to take many detours.’ Qingfeng said.

‘What should I do?’ Mingyue asked.

‘Try it.’ Qingfeng said, detaining a small piece of soul ore and throwing it into the cauldron.

Mingyue was watching Qingfeng performing operations without making any noise.

After a while, Qingfeng controlled his body but did not make the next move.

‘Why didn’t move anymore?’ Mingyue asked.

'I can't.' Qingfeng said.

‘What can’t be done?’ Mingyue asked.

'I can't smel the soul stone.' Qingfeng said.

'You don't know why you asked Hu Li to buy the tripod back. Isn't this a waste?' Mingyue said with some distress at the tripod in front of her and the soul stone next to her.

‘Usually, miracles will happen in this case.’ Qingfeng said confidently.

‘What miracle?’ asked Mingyue.

'If I know, it won't be a miracle.' Qingfeng said.

Mingyue wanted to say something, but she didn't say it out loud. She just looked at the cauldron in front of her. Qingfeng also returned to the inside helplessly and waited quietly.

One body and two souls stared at the cauldron in front of him, waiting for a miracle to happen.

After a long time, Mingyue couldn't help but say, 'Why don't you try to input some fire-attribute energy into the cauldron?'

‘Then, try.’ Qingfeng directly circulates the vitality into the meridians, and Mingyue controls her body to transport it into the cauldron.

The temperature in the cauldron slowly rose, and the soul mine that was put into it seemed to have some movement and began to shake in the vitality.

As the energy was injected, the temperature in the cauldron became higher and higher, and the form of the soul ore changed. From the original solid state, it began to melt into a liquid form, rolling in the cauldron like paste.

As the temperature continued to rise, the soul ore in the cauldron began to evaporate brown gas, and a violent smell of paste came from the room.

‘I understand, this is the impurities in the soul mine evaporated out and drifted into the air.’ Mingyue said confidently.

‘No, no.’ Qingfeng said.

‘What is that?’ Mingyue asked unhappily when she was refuted by Qingfeng.

‘The room is covered.’ Qingfeng sighed.

‘Roof?’ Zhou Wutian looked up at the roof, and there was already a vague sight of Mars on the beams, which was spreading upwards.

"Hu Li, come and help me." Zhou Wutian shouted.

"What's wrong, young master?" Hu Li was shocked when he heard Zhou Wutian's scream. Although the person had not come yet, the voice had already been heard.

‘I’m fussy, just use the water-attributed vital energy to extinguish him.’ Qingfeng said blamely, and then began to transport the water-attributed vital energy.

Mingyue controls her body and spills her vitality to the fire position.

"Boom" the water-attributed vital energy meets Mars that still contain fire-attributed vital energy, and becomes incompatible and an explosion occurs.

Zhou Wutian quickly fell to the ground, while Qingfeng said nothing, staying quietly inside, watching everything outside.

‘Didn’t you say that you can use water attributes to extinguish them?’ Mingyue asked.

'It is useless to hold you accountable now, imagine what to do.' Qingfeng said.

"Young Master, what's going on?" Hu Li hurriedly said when he saw what happened in Zhou Wutian's room.

"I accidentally caught fire." Zhou Wutian said.

Zhang Ling and Hu Jie also rushed over. Seeing the situation in front of him, they didn't care about asking more questions. Zhang Ling quickly turned his palms and formed several hand shapes. After the vitality was output from his hand, it turned into a substantial mist and sprayed onto Mars. Mars was extinguished in an instant.

"What the hell are you doing?" Zhang Ling asked.

"I was playing with fire just now." Zhou Wutian replied honestly.

"How could it become like this?" Hu Jie asked.

"I just played too much." Zhou Wutian said with a pity.

"You." Zhang Ling was speechless for a moment, and didn't remember how to say the next sentence.

"This is too dangerous." Hu Li said.

"There is no way, I can only grope and do it." Zhou Wutian said.

"Are you going to smelter the soul stone?" Zhang Ling said to Zhou Wutian's room.

"That's right." Zhou Wutian said.

"Did you have the attributes? I heard you are not..." Zhang Ling didn't say the second half of the sentence.

"After I came back from the dead last time, I found that I had achieved attributes, so I wanted to try the technique." Zhou Wutian said.

"But, can you smel? Just try it rashly." Zhang Ling asked.

"I have learned some things in the book. Since it will not cause backlash, try to learn from your experience." Zhou Wutian said.

"Even if it will not cause backlash, there will be such dangers. Master, don't try such things. After returning to China, let the soul and gold master in China give you some guidance and believe that it will be twice the result with half the effort." Hu Li said.

"Yeah, okay." Zhou Wutian looked reluctantly at the cauldron in front of him and the soul mine next to him.

So it did not cause any major problems, nor did it affect residence. However, to be on the safe side, Hu Li moved away both the Ding and the Soul Mine.

Zhou Wutian was so leisurely that he had nothing to do, so he just studied the magic written by Hu Li.

The content written by Hu Li is relatively rough. He simply described the direction of the meridians and the measurement of the required vitality. The specific performance was not described carefully. However, Zhou Wutian was able to use the skills he learned in those days before to operate this set of magic.

The next day, Zhou Wutian and Hu Li started to have a fight in the yard. Zhang Ling and Hu Jie watched from the side, but Zhang Ling was not very energetic. After all, this place was not as good as the palace, so it was not easy for Zhang Ling, who had a fine skin and tender flesh, to adapt to it all at once. Hu Jie did not change much. Although she was also a lady from the big family, she had been free-range for a long time and her arrogance was left with arrogance.

Although Zhou Wutian's attributes are much more than Hu Li, he lacks practical experience and his magic practice is not perfect enough, so he was overthrown by Hu Li after just a few moves.

"Young master, isn't it okay? I took action just now." Hu Li said. In fact, Hu Li did not use much energy, most of it was used in defense.

"No, it's okay, I didn't expect the gap to be so big." Zhou Wutian said.

"How long have you been practicing? I just want to be like those of us who have been practicing since childhood." Zhang Ling said angrily from the side.

"I think there is no problem in defeating you now." Zhou Wutian looked at Zhang Ling and said.

"What's the point of bullying girls? You are so powerful that you beat my brother." Sister Hu said from the side.

"Girl, don't be rude in front of the young master." Hu Li said.

"I can't be considered a prince after leaving Zhou State. Hu Li, if you don't dislike me, I just call you Brother Hu, and call me Mingyue." Zhou Wutian said.

"This cannot be done, it cannot be done." Hu Li said in a panic.

"It's nothing. I have to live if I leave Zhou State. I feel that we can't go back to Zhou State in a short time." Zhou Wutian looked up at the sky and said with a sad expression, "I don't know how they are."

This sentence also brought up Zhang Ling's thoughts. After so long as King Zhang passed away, she and Zhou Wutian were chased and killed and fled to the empty area. I don't know when I will go back to mourn King Zhang.

"I'll go back first." Zhou Wutian said and walked back to his room.

The other three also dispersed and went to think about their own thoughts.

Early the next morning, the four of them got up and went out to find a soul stone master to guide Zhou Wutian.

"Where do we have to go to find the Soul Stone Master?" Zhou Wutian asked.

"Overall, there will be soul stone masters at the Soul Stone Master's resident, but I don't know what we have to impress them." Hu Li said with some concern.

Zhou Wutian touched his pocket, and the things he had before were the ones he had sold before, and he could no longer find anything else.

"I can still take this sword to the table." Zhang Ling said, shook the sword in his hand and said.

"This sword doesn't work, we have other ways." Zhou Wutian said.

"Young master, there is a way to make money, but I don't know if I'm interested." Hu Li said from the side.

"Tell me," Zhou Wutian asked with some interest.

"When I was doing tasks outside, I was in a hurry when I was working, and I would go to the nearby mercenary group to take over the tasks. According to the task level and the price can be negotiated." Hu Li said.

"This is OK, where can we find it?" Zhou Wutian said.

"Wait, will this be the best?" Zhang Ling said unwillingly.

"Who recognizes our face after leaving Zhou and Zhang? Let's go and have a look." Zhou Wutian said.

Hu Li went to inquire about the location of the mercenary organization and took Zhou Wutian and the others to go. Zhang Ling muttered a few words and followed.

There are no special mercenaries in the mercenary group organization, and they can only be considered ordinary intermediary institutions. Therefore, these mercenary group organizations are quite chaotic. There are at least several mercenary group organizations in each place to accept tasks from some commissioners, and then bid for the loose mercenaries or mercenary groups to receive the live. This is not comparable to the Soul Stone Master organization. Each Soul Stone Master organization will only have one in each area, and it provides shelter to all Soul Stone Masters.

Hu Li led the way to a place where a mercenary group organized to issue tasks. Although the place was not big, there were indeed many people, and it was considered a small inn.

"Oh, is this adult and the children watching the fun?" a mercenary next to him mocked.

"Hey, this little girl looks so beautiful that she can't be considered a child." Another mercenary cheered.

Zhang Ling put his hand on the sword and was about to draw out the sword. He knew where the guys who couldn't control his mouth were. Hu Jie gently pressed Zhang Ling's arm from the side to comfort Zhang Ling not to be angry.
To be continued...