Hearing Wandong and Wu Yang converse while mocking the Tianbao Mansion with a buoyant vibe, Duan Lengyan flew into a rage again and thought, "Getting 80 pieces of blood steel out of 100 raw gemstones? Wandong consider himself capable of a Midas touch?" She found Wandong so objectionable and haughty that she felt like spitting at his face.
She was fully aware that Wandong and Wu Yang were actually playacting just for the purpose of irritating her. Hence, she had to contain her anger, otherwise, she would have fallen into their trap. However, she flared up to the utmost that she could hardly hold it back as long as Wandong stayed in her sight.
Letting out a loud hum, Duan Lengyan said, "Childe Xu, I have to warn you beforehand, we can guarantee at least an output of ten pieces of blood steel if you let us choose for you. And we will add it up to ten pieces if insufficient. However, if you insist on choosing yourself and end up empty-handed, it will be none of our business."
Wandong grinned and responded, "Please don't worry. I won't be as hapless as you Tianbao guys."
Duan Lengyan took a deep breath and said loudly, "Well, Childe Xu, then please help yourself."
Resembling a grand supermarket, there are numberless shelves standing in the Tianbao Mansion, on which thousands of raw gemstones of the blood steel were placed in order for people to select. Each raw gemstone, big or small, was priced a thousand kilo of gold with no leeway allowed. However, the size of them was no indicator of their containment of the blood steel, as there was no rule to follow. Therefore, it was widely accepted that selecting raw gemstones of the blood steel was literally gambling.
Hence, Duan Lengyan believed that Wandong merely talked big with no confidence.
Looking around, one may find the gemstones almost identical to one another, looking dark and unpresentable. It was incredible that it was nothing but the raw gemstones that help the Tiezhan Empire accumulate such ample wealth over the past few years.
"Childe Xu, please suit yourself," Duan Lengyan put on a grim smile on seeing Wandong's bewildered look, which upset Wandong very much. Did it mean that he had to wing it?
"What's your hesitation for? Could it be said you have the ability to see through these gemstones?" Duan Lengyan asked.
"See them through?" Wandong thought. Duan's irony did bring something back to Wandong. Of course, he didn't have the ability to have the stones "X-rayed", but he was indeed able to detect something unusual as he concentrated his Taoist energy in his eyes. Be it a success or a failure, it was all worth trying.
Wandong gathered his Taoist energy in his eyes. All of a sudden, a gleam of scarlet ray darted forth from a raw gemstone nearby and went all the way to the ceiling.
"This is…" Wandong wondered, reinvigorated to the full. That gleam of ray was by no means regular, as the energy of the Heaven and the Earth contained in it was astoundingly pure.
For many years, people's knowledge about the blood steel had been confined at its functionality — there would be a considerable increase in the quality of weapons once they were refined along with the blood steel. However, the mechanism of that stayed shrouded in secrecy. Now, Wandong realized that it came down to the pure energy in the blood steel, which dissolved the impurities in the weapons in the process of refinement. In so doing, a qualitative leap was expected. In other words, those raw gemstones that gave off scarlet rays probably contained the blood steel, although Wandong couldn't say for sure at that moment.