Continue watching the fire. This was the final moment, naturally requiring even more care.
Without disturbance, Xiaoyao stayed by the high-temperature furnace until the moment of completion. Besides using the toilet, he even ate meals by the furnace.
Some people wondered how Xiaoyao endured such high temperatures. Though people here were very heat-resistant, they wouldn't stay by furnaces continuously like this. At the same time, there was something strange, under such conditions, Xiaoyao hadn't sweated at all.
This wasn't because Xiaoyao couldn't sweat, but because he converted high heat into motivation for promoting internal energy, using internal energy to resist high temperatures.
Not only could low temperatures promote internal energy circulation, high temperatures could do the same.
In fact, besides cultivating internal energy here, Xiaoyao would integrate his cultivation into everything else he did. Many years ago, Xiaoyao had already discovered one thing, all activities could be conducted according to certain martial arts principles.
Simply put, Xiaoyao could find cultivation methods in any activity, like practicing blade techniques and arm strength in the kitchen.
Because of this, he didn't mind doing any work. What surprised him was that martial arts cultivation could make him more proficient at these tasks, while mastering these tasks could improve his martial arts cultivation.
Because of this, Xiaoyao was even less likely to refuse learning other things. At the same time, for everything he learned, he would strive to reach the highest level, because this not only allowed him to perfectly fulfill his servant duties but also helped him comprehend other things.
At the beginning there might be some difficulty, but the further he progressed, the simpler he found it. Many things were interconnected, understanding one principle leads to understanding a hundred.
As long as one grasped patterns and tricks, no matter what it was, one could learn it immediately.
Back to the main topic, before the molten metal came out of the furnace, Xiaoyao placed the pre-made sword mold in position, then controlled the crucible and accurately poured the molten metal into the sword mold without spilling a single drop.
In this sword workshop, only Xiaoyao could achieve this, others would waste more or less.
Such proficiency would make even the world's foremost Sword Forging Manor want such talent. Therefore, Xiaoyao was very marketable.
Many people didn't understand why Xiaoyao, who could clearly obtain better things, was still willing to be a small servant.
However, these matters required people to notice them. If Xiaoyao stayed this low-key, he would never attract attention. But once he attracted attention, even small matters could become big issues.
People were like this, they wouldn't care about small characters around them. Even if these small characters were outstanding or did many things, they wouldn't be noticed. But once someone became a big shot, even if they weren't very outstanding, they would still attract attention. Even doing small, imperfect things would be noticed.
After completing the sword mold, Xiaoyao placed it in a very hidden location that only he could access. At this moment, he was alone in the entire sword workshop, no one would see his completed sword mold.
Next he went to the sword workshop's bathhouse to wash and change clothes, then hurried to the flower lantern festival where the Young Miss was. At this time, there was only one place in Qingyun City holding a flower lantern festival, even if the Young Miss hadn't specified, he would know.
Every year on the fifteenth of the first month, Lantern Festival, Qingyun City would hold a very grand Lantern Festival flower lantern gathering on the central avenue.
Playing with flower lanterns, guessing lantern riddles, eating sweet dumplings, plus some literati activities would all take place on this evening. Most of it had already occurred, when Xiaoyao arrived, it would probably be the second half.
However, the second half was equally exciting and was where the climax occurred. Besides, even if it was the ending, Xiaoyao had to go, being late was better than not arriving.
When reaching the square, Xiaoyao quickly discovered a small problem, where was the Young Miss?!
Though he knew the Young Miss was at this flower lantern festival, this avenue was nearly thirty meters wide and full of people. With heads bobbing everywhere, how could he find one Young Miss among them?
Lantern riddles?!
Though the Young Miss said she was going to guess lantern riddles, she couldn't possibly stay there the entire time. The chance of finding her was very slim, but having some chance was better than none.
Xiaoyao decided to first go to the lantern riddle area while keeping an eye out along the way, well, to look for the Young Miss, so he would keep an eye out.
"Boss, give me a bowl of sweet dumplings - sesame ones!" Xiaoyao first ordered a bowl of sweet dumplings at a stall and sat down to eat.
Then he bought a small flower lantern, and next went to find snack stalls to buy some snacks...
Just like this, when the Young Miss spotted Xiaoyao, her anger immediately shot up!
"Damn! You're really enjoying yourself, kid, having a great time!!"
When the furious Young Miss appeared before him, Xiaoyao took a bite of snacks and said: "Young Miss, I had such a hard time looking for you, how could I have time to play? Enjoying myself was even more impossible. Ah wu..."
Another bite.
"Right, very hard! Flower lantern hanging on your shoulder, hands carrying bags of snacks, while your busy hands are still holding and eating food, so very hard!!" The Young Miss was almost at the explosion point.
"This was all rushing over for Young Miss. I didn't even have time to eat dinner. Young Miss, will these be reimbursed?" Xiaoyao looked at the Young Miss and said, These words had a tendency to anger people to death without compensation.
"Reimburse your head!" The Young Miss was angry and snatched a bag of snacks from Xiaoyao's hands. "I've been waiting here for you so long, and you just show up now, still having time to eat and buy things. Do you believe I'll cripple you."
Then the Young Miss took the snatched snacks and ate them.
Of course she ate them, she wouldn't throw them away, would she?
Watching the Young Miss destroy his snacks like destroying enemies, Xiaoyao didn't mind and continued eating others while casually asking: "Young Miss, how's your progress? Any advancement?"
"A little..." the Young Miss said while eating. She seemed somewhat hungry too.
At this moment, their behavior made some people feel strange, puzzled, and confused. How could a young miss be so close to a small servant? That feeling definitely wasn't master-servant but more like friends or family.
Could this small servant be one of the Mo family's children? But they seemed to have never seen him.
Of course, some had seen him and had deep impressions. That was with the Nangong family's eldest daughter. She had come to play with several Nangong misses today.
This naturally included Miss Nangong Third. If she weren't here, the Young Miss couldn't possibly still be waiting around, she had no interest in these lantern riddles.
"Hmph!" The distant Miss Nangong snorted very disdainfully.
"What's wrong, big sister?" Several Nangong misses were somewhat confused. It wasn't that they hadn't seen Nangong Suxin like this, but this snort came rather inexplicably, they didn't know who it was directed at.
"Nothing, just saw a despicable villain!" Nangong Suxin replied.
"??"
...
Back on this side, Xiaoyao casually asked again: "How's the progress?"
"I just talked with Nangong Su for a bit and was rejected," the Young Miss replied. Her tone was very calm, as if she hadn't returned in failure.
"This counts as progress?" Xiaoyao asked irritably.
"Of course! It's just that I failed..." the Young Miss replied very righteously.
"Fine, let's say it is! Anything else?" Xiaoyao said helplessly. You couldn't use common sense to judge the Young Miss before him.
"Yes! Just now I went to guess lantern riddles with them, and I lost and was mocked by them!" The Young Miss remained equally calm, as if discussing something very ordinary.
"Them" - Xiaoyao looked toward Nangong Suxin and her sisters. He knew the Young Miss meant these Nangong misses. If the Young Miss went, she would definitely be made difficult for. These women were formidablem
Xiaoyao had investigated them all. Except for Nangong Su being relatively harmless, the others were all troublemakers.
"Damn! You were mocked? Then let's go get revenge!" Xiaoyao became serious. No matter what, she was our Young Miss. If she was mocked, we servants were equally humiliated.
"Good! Let's go challenge them right now! If we win, I'll reward you handsomely. If we lose, I'll make sure you don't see tomorrow's sun!" the Young Miss said very excitedly.
"..." Xiaoyao was silent. I'm helping you, and you're treating me like this?
"Just confining you for a day, it's not like I really want you to die. Why look like you're about to die!" The Young Miss glanced at him and said.
"...No need. I really won't see tomorrow's sun. I'll be training at the sword workshop. Don't look for me for the next month. I'm very busy!" Xiaoyao said.
"Oh, then you will be busy. I also need to participate in Dragon Gate Tournament preliminaries! Hey, wait, you need to be at the sword workshop for a month? Does it take that long?" The Young Miss asked somewhat strangely. She knew Xiaoyao was forging a sword for Guxing, but how could one sword take a whole month?
Xiaoyao took a bite of snacks and replied: "Yes! Originally it was about right, but I want to add some things. A month might not even be enough."
"One month. That's definitely a good sword. I'll take a look then. If it's good, you make me one too." The Young Miss believed Xiaoyao could forge swords and they would probably be surprisingly good, because she had already seen Xiaoyao's surprises more than once.
"...We'll see then..." Xiaoyao didn't want to promise because this was really too time-consuming.
"You can do whatever you want when the time comes, but…" The Young Miss clearly saw Xiaoyao was brushing her off and immediately threatened.
(End of Chapter)