405 Alerting the Master Blacksmith
“Tsk tsk! As expected, it’s really expensive. However, the knowledge I’ll gain is worth the price.”
The underground shuttle was the most cost-effective out of the given selections.
Fortunately, he had accumulated a lot of points during, so he proceeded with the exchange.
He had to read and understand the system’s information on his own, so he could only stay in the Divine Forging Space to learn.
The time ratio between the Divine Forging Space and the outside world was 10:1. If he spent all his time on studying, he would save more than 20 days on studying if he was given half a day to draw.
The underground shuttle naturally came with its own blueprint, but it was a seven-star Divine equipment comparable to Thor’s Hammer. It was not appropriate for him to just bring it out.
Therefore, he needed to understand the blueprint thoroughly and simplify it.
As long as this underground shuttle retained certain functions, it could carry a small group of soldiers and help them escape underground.
A true earth-burrowing Divine equipment could hold up to 1,000 people. One could consider the shuttle a piece of strategic support equipment, and it required a lot of materials. The requirements for the blacksmith were also incredibly high.
Although he had forged Mjolnir, he had mainly done so with help from the Divine Forging Space. It would have been impossible for him to forge a Divine weapon otherwise.
Sadly, Wu Mo had intended to use this time to cultivate and improve his strength. However, it was clearly not a good time to cultivate during the competition. He could just temporarily put his cultivation aside and focus on analyzing the underground shuttle’s blueprints.
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Two days passed in the blink of an eye. In that time, all the blacksmiths racked their brains to construct their own equipment, but very few of them actually started drawing designs.
After all, they only had three chances. Once they wasted two of them, they would reach a dead end.
Therefore, everyone was extremely cautious about their blueprint design. Even if they had a good idea, they would not easily reveal it to anyone.
Although they were exchanging ideas, they would still hide their personal designs.
To Wu Mo’s surprise, Xu Wanqing never approached him in the past two days. It seemed that she had already found a way to solve her problem.
“That’s great!”
Wu Mo casually ate dinner and returned to his forging room. He sat in front of his workbench and began to prepare his drawing.
Two days had passed in the real world, and twenty days had already passed in the forging space.
Thanks to his strong and deep foundation, as well as the knowledge and accumulation of his previous life’s advancement, it only took him 20 days to completely analyze the underground shuttle’s blueprint.
Now, everything was ready.
He closed his eyes and focused. After calming his emotions, he opened his eyes abruptly.
At this moment, his essence, spirit, and soul had completely condensed. His concentration was at its peak, and the pen in his hand instantly moved.
For others, it was almost impossible to complete the drawing process in one go. There would always be problems or mistakes.
If one was careless, the blueprint would turn out unusable, and one would have to start over.
However, this was not a problem for Wu Mo because he had already gone through his drawing many times in the Divine Forging Space. Every time he made a mistake, the system would notify him and analyze the reason for his mistake.
Therefore, he had everything prepared. As long as there were no incidents, he could complete it in one go.
Time slowly passed.
After two and a half hours, Wu Mo straightened his body and exhaled. A hint of joy flashed across his eyes.
He might have drawn this blueprint many times in the forging space, but it was too complicated. It consumed a lot of energy each time he attempted it.
Now that he had finished drawing the blueprint, he could finally breathe a sigh of relief.
Meanwhile, the Blacksmith Association’s surveillance personnel discovered Wu Mo’s completion of the blueprint design through the indoor surveillance cameras. They immediately reported it to their higher-ups.
He was the first participant to complete the blueprint design in this exchange conference. Accomplishing this in two days was no small feat even for a six-star or seven-star master blacksmith.
Yet, Wu Mo had completed it so quickly. It was inevitable that the participating judges would be alerted.
They were all true masters from the Nine Provinces’ Blacksmith Association. They were busy people, but it would be an overstatement to say that they were extremely busy every day. They could still take the time to judge the competition because the association attached great importance to the exchange conference. At the same time, this conference was also a chance for them to rest.
“Oh? Someone completed the blueprint design so soon?”
The seven-star master blacksmith of the Blacksmith Association, Lin Xiangyun, was a middle-aged man in his 50s. Right then, he was holding a cup of tea and playing chess with his old friend.
His old friend was also a seven-star blacksmith, but he was a slightly plump old man with a bald head and acne. He looked rather slovenly, and his eyes were fixed on the chessboard. He was completely unmoved by the news he just received.
“Old Gu, don’t even think about it. You’ve already lost. There’s no turning back!”
The bald man’s eyes flashed with anger when he heard this. “You must have cheated and switched my chess pieces when I wasn’t paying attention. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have lost!”
There was a look of disdain in Lin Xiangyun’s eyes. After he drank another mouthful of tea, he said, “I don’t care anymore. I’m going to see who came up with a design blueprint so quickly.”
As he spoke, he stood up and made his way to the surveillance room.
Gu Shan seemed to realize that he could no longer turn things around. He let out a long helpless sigh and cursed in a low voice, “I’ll play you again in the future…”
Before he finished that trail of thought, he stood up, raised his small face, and shouted, “Old Lin, wait for me! You’ll get bored going there alone. Besides, it’s already been two days. Those little guys should have produced some results by now. What’s so strange about that?”
Lin Xiangyun ignored him and went straight to the surveillance room.
Soon, he saw Wu Mo’s completed design through the surveillance screen.
“Oh? From the looks of it, this drawing isn’t bad. I wonder who the participant in this room is?”
“This is Wu Mo from White River. He’s a peak five-star blacksmith,” a staff member hurriedly said.
“Does he have any famous works?”
“Yes! Recently, the Invisibility Armor and Spirit Wave Sword that he developed achieved good results.”
Lin Xiangyun nodded. These two pieces of equipment sounded familiar, but he did not have a deep impression of them. It was obvious that they were either not famous yet, or their functions were just ordinary.
He could not see the details of Wu Mo’s design through the design. He could vaguely tell that it was a shuttle-shaped contraption, but he could not determine its specific use.
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