Chapter 1493 - Chapter 1493: Work, This Is Your Fate (3)
Chapter 1493: Work, This Is Your Fate (3)
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“I’ll change your identity. I’ll also make arrangements with Dong Tailai,” Zhou Shu said. “What you have to do is to sort the forging materials they bring. When I need any forging materials, bring them to me.”
“Okay.” Cao Yue nodded. “But Uncle, what if I don’t recognize some forging materials?”
“I have a catalog of forging materials here. Just match them according to the catalog.” Zhou Shu took out a thick picture book from the Celestial Thearch Sword.
He had given this catalog to the Bai Ze King, Bai Yue of the bai ze race, back then. He was his first disciple.
Back then, the test he gave Bai Yue was to travel the world with this catalog and find every forging material recorded in it to understand their characteristics.
Now, Zhou Shu was also giving Cao Yue this test.
But his test was much simpler than Bai Yue’s.
He didn’t need to travel the world to find forging materials like Bai Yue.
He only needed to identify the forging materials sent by the Dong family.
If he couldn’t even do this well, it would prove that Cao Yue was incompetent in the path of forging.
After explaining everything, Zhou Shu began to enter seclusion.
Now, in the Zhu Rong Heavenly Kingdom, the Dong family’s headquarters was considered a relatively safe place.
Before Zhou Shu squeezed out the remaining value of the Dong family, he didn’t want to leave the Dong family.
In short, he wanted to use his time in the Dong family to repair the Legendary Armament Canon more.
The more the Legendary Armament Canon was repaired, the more at ease he felt.
In the following days, forging materials were constantly sent to the Dong family’s headquarters and then to the courtyard of the Dong family head.
Outside the courtyard of the Dong family head, there were two gate gods.
‘Gate gods’ were what the Dong family disciples called them in private.
Of the two gate gods, one was naturally Wu Gang, and the other was Cao Yue.
Zhou Shu casually found an excuse and dealt with the Dong family’s elders.
The Dong family was not very smart to begin with. In addition, the Dong family head had unparalleled authority, so it didn’t arouse their suspicion.
All the forging materials sent to the courtyard of the Dong family head were first handed to Cao Yue. After Cao Yue sorted them out, they were handed over to Zhou Shu.
As for Zhou Shu, he used the excuse of being in seclusion and didn’t interact with the Dong family’s elders again.
As for Mu Zhixing, he had returned twice during this period. Each time, he had brought back a large number of forging materials.
His efficiency alone was comparable to the entire Dong family.
This gave Zhou Shu a deeper understanding of the Dong family’s incompetence and poverty.
As one of the nine families of the Zhu Rong Heavenly Kingdom, their incompetency made Zhou Shu a little reluctant to squeeze them dry.
Apart from having more Nomological and Grotto-Heaven realm experts, the Dong family was not as wealthy as a nation of the human race.
The entire family had gone out to collect forging materials, but Mu Zhixing alone had defeated them in terms of the amount of forging materials.
This was also because Zhou Shu didn’t allow them to take things by force. Without the method they were best at, the Dong family was immediately restrained.
Cao Yue finished counting the forging materials and came out of the room to report to Zhou Shu. “Uncle, these are the forging materials sent by the Dong family this month. There are a total of 276 types of materials, a total of 80,000 kilograms. It’s 10% less than last month.”
Cao Yue said with a strange expression, “Uncle, First Elder Dong Tailai said
that the Dong family’s money is almost depleted. If they continue to buy
forging materials, the Dong family’s operations will be affected.”
Over the past few days, he had been absorbing knowledge crazily. He was no longer the ignorant village boy.
The uncle had emptied the entire Dong family without any effort.
This made Cao Yue feel happy, as if he had taken revenge.
Although he didn’t kill these people of the Dong family, being able to empty them could be regarded as taking partial revenge for the people of Boundary Bridge Village.
“Let them continue buying,” Zhou Shu said indifferently. “Tell Dong Tailai that I’m about to successfully forge a connate divine weapon. As long as I succeed, the Dong family will immediately receive a lot of money.”
Zhou Shu asked, “How is the matter I asked Dong Tailai to do?”
The reason he didn’t appear was partly that he wanted to go into seclusion to recuperate and partly that he wanted to train Cao Yue.
Of the two disciples he had previously accepted, one was Bai Yue, and the other was Zhang Yukun. Even Zhang Yukun was an experienced martial artist and could take charge.
Only Cao Yue was just a village boy. His talent wasn’t outstanding. Although he had a pure heart, it wasn’t enough.
Zhou Shu still hoped that he had the ability to be his own person.
After all, if he really accepted Cao Yue as his disciple in the future, he would have to bear many things if he followed him back to the human race.
Becoming Zhou Shu’s disciple meant that he had an unavoidable responsibility on his shoulders.
“Dong Tailai said that he has already sent out the invitation,” Cao Yue said respectfully. “Uncle, the Zhu Rong Heavenly Kingdom’s nine families are united. He invited the other eight families in the name of the Dong family. The eight families will definitely send people over.”
“Very good,” Zhou Shu said. “Do you think the eight families will buy connate divine weapons from the Dong family?”
“Yes!” Cao Yue said with certainty. “I’ve asked around. Connate divine weapons are rare in the Zhu Rong Heavenly Kingdom. No matter which family it is, there aren’t many of them. If the Dong family head can really forge connate divine weapons, the structure of the Zhu Rong’s nine families might change!”
Cao Yue already had his own understanding of the world. This was mainly because he had been studying during this period of time. He had read countless books in the Dong family’s headquarters.
In addition to Zhou Shut s guidance from time to time, his improvement was visible to the naked eye.
“Uncle, I don’t think there’s a need for us to sell connate divine weapons. We just need to let the Dong family have the illusion that they’re stronger. They will provoke the other eight families themselves. At that time, once we leave, the Dong family will be unable to bear the consequences of failure,” Cao Yue said. He had not forgotten his hatred.
“That’s a good idea. But it won’t do us any good. I have another idea.” Zhou Shu smiled. “Don’t think too much first. Do what I told you to do well. You will definitely be able to take revenge..”