Cultivation is too difficult, and people will die if they do the tasks.

Bai Wan'er stood ten feet away from the door and could feel the fiery atmosphere inside. There were streaks of fluorescence on the roof, and a layer of crystals had condensed between the rubble, turning it into a glass-like crystal clear one.

"Fellow Daoist Zhou, I'm in." Bai Wan'er said hello and pushed the door open.

Zhou Wenyao was suspended in the middle of the house. The tortoise shell that originally occupied most of the room had disappeared, and scales were spread on the ground.

"Please, fellow Taoist Bai, use your skills to inject your inner thoughts into your mind."

Zhou Wenyao didn't even open his eyes, a trace of purple light appeared on his face, and a red light rippled around him like running water spreading to the scales on the ground.

Bai Wan'er immediately meditated and circulated her spiritual power throughout her body for several weeks. The spiritual power moved faster and faster, accumulating the power of a great wave.

Bai Wan'er pressed her palms on the scales. Waves of fluctuations suddenly arose in the air, and the scales vibrated. There was light all around, and although it was swaying like a flame, the sound it made was like the surging of a spring.

At the moment when water and fire merged, Zhou Wenyao opened his eyes and clasped his palms together.

The scales originally spread on the ground gradually began to float, like iron sheets tempered in the fire, merging with each other. A strange pattern was formed on the scales as Bai Wan'er's mental skills were injected into it.

As the infusion of the mental technique ended, Bai Wan'er felt a huge force emitting from the scales, spurting out in all directions.

"Fellow Taoist, leave quickly!" Zhou Wenyao ordered.

Bai Wan'er was ordered to fly away. The moment he went out, he looked back and saw that the Bagua diagram appeared on the ground, covering his scales.

Bai Wan'er stood outside and didn't dare to leave.

The force emitted by the scales just now was so huge that it was impossible for this house made of rocks and earth to withstand it. But now the house is safe and sound. The art of refining weapons is truly profound.

Bai Wan'er meditated and watched outside the house until the dusk of the ninety-eighth day. The atmosphere in the room gradually became quiet, and the crystals on the roof slowly disappeared, returning to their original black and gray color.

"Creak" the door opened. Zhou Wenyao walked out slowly, his face pale, his breath unsteady and his steps a bit sloppy.

Bai Wan'er stepped forward to support him and handed him a box: "I have no way to repay you for your trouble, fellow Taoist. Please accept this elixir and have a good rest."

Just when Zhou Wenyao was about to refuse, Bai Wan'er's eyes were firm: "If fellow Taoist refuses, I won't have the shame to ask for the armor."

Zhou Wenyao could only take the elixir.

Bai Wan'er asked Zhou Wenyao to rest, feeling uneasy. I didn't expect that refining armor would take so much time and energy. This debt of gratitude would not be easy to repay.

Three more days passed. Zhou Wenyao had been meditating in the house while Bai Wan'er waited quietly.

On this day, there was a commotion outside. Bai Wan'er walked out of the room and saw someone pushing open the fence door and walking in.

Bai Wan'er stepped forward: "Who is coming?"

"You are" the male cultivator who came in frowned, "you are Bai Wan'er from Qing'e Sect. Why are you in Senior Brother Zhou's courtyard?"

Bai Wan'er quickly raised her hands and saluted: "I have entrusted fellow Taoist Zhou to refine the weapon, so I am waiting here."

The male cultivator looked Bai Wan'er up and down: "Senior Brother Zhou promised to refine weapons for fellow Taoist?"

"Yes, Fellow Daoist Zhou has finished refining it and is resting in the house now."

"How did fellow Taoist persuade senior brother to agree? Senior brother doesn't come to refine weapons easily?" Surprise and suspicion appeared in the male cultivator's eyes.

Bai Wan'er thought for a while and said, "Who is fellow Taoist and why do you want to inquire about this matter?"

The male cultivator's expression darkened: "I'm Zheng Li, a disciple of the Luoyun Sect. I'm refining weapons and elixirs with Senior Brother Zhou in Langya City. I met Senior Brother Zhou more than two months ago, but I haven't seen him in this time, so I came to take a look. , I never expected to meet fellow Taoist Bai." Bai Wan'er understood. This person is probably the owner of that love shop.

"I am fortunate enough to meet fellow Daoist Zhou, and by chance I found some blazing insect eggs..."

"Did you send those insect eggs?" Zheng Li's voice was even louder.

"It's not a gift, it's just..." Bai Wan'er wanted to explain, but saying it was a gift seemed a bit advantageous.

"Junior Brother Zheng is here!" Zhou Wenyao strode out of the room.

"Senior brother, how do you look on your face..."

"Junior brother, you have something to do with me. Let's talk in the room." Zhou Wenyao had already interrupted Zheng Li and pulled him towards the room in a hurry.

"Senior brother, how can you spend too much energy just after you have just left seclusion..."

"Let's talk after we enter the house." Zhou Wenyao interrupted Zheng Li again and dragged him into the house.

The moment Zheng Li entered the door, he turned around and glanced at Bai Wan'er, with an unclear meaning in his eyes.

Bai Wan'er opened her eyes wide and watched Zhou Wenyao suddenly appear and drag him away without even looking at her.

What's going on? Zhou Wenyao is not such a disrespectful person, so why did he not say anything during an introduction scene for the two of them?

"How did senior brother meet Bai Wan'er? Senior brother said that you took the insect eggs out of the nest, so how did it turn out that it was Bai Wan'er who sent them?"

When Bai Wan'er heard this, she immediately pricked up her ears.

"There are some reasons that I didn't have time to explain to my junior brother." Zhou Wenyao hesitated.

"Senior brother has been in retreat in the mountains for the past two years. I didn't know that Bai Wan'er was at the Hairpin Conference..."

Bai Wan'er was very curious about why Zheng Li had an inexplicable prejudice against her, so she wanted to eavesdrop and went over. But a ray of light spread from the room, isolating the inside and outside.

Bai Wan'er had no choice but to leave, unable to listen in the corner. Zhou Wenyao had just set up a barrier.

Not long after, she heard a strong push on the door, and Bai Wan'er immediately stuck her head out. I saw Zheng Li angrily walking out of Zhou Wenyao's house, striding out of the yard, and leaving without looking back.

Bai Wan'er continued to stay in the house. It can be inferred that the meeting between the senior brothers just now was very unpleasant, so he should not go to Zhou Wenyao's place, lest he feel uncomfortable.

Bai Wan'er didn't go to see Zhou Wenyao. Three days later, Zhou Wenyao came to her door.

Seeing Zhou Wenyao holding up the tea cup for the sixth time without saying a word after entering the room and taking a seat, Bai Wan'er felt a little uneasy.

"What do you want from me, fellow Taoist? Is there something wrong with refining the armor?"

"No, the armor has been refined successfully. Now it will be placed in the formation for reinforcement and repair. It will be ready in two days. The armor will take one hundred and eight days to be completely refined." After Zhou Wenyao finished speaking, he looked at Bai Wan'er. Speak.

"Thank you, fellow Taoist, for thinking about the surroundings. Fellow Taoist is here to discuss the remuneration for refining the weapon. I will be able to go into the mountain to collect it soon. Fellow Taoist, please make it clear." Bai Wan'er immediately gave her attitude and she would never default on the payment.

"Fellow Daoist has misunderstood. I am not here for reward. There is something I want to know from fellow Daoist Bai."

Bai Wan'er said: "Fellow Taoist, feel free to ask."

Zhou Wenyao picked up the tea cup again and drank some water, moistening his already wet lips and tongue. (End of chapter)