Chapter 83: Leeching Off a Powerful Thigh

After Qin Chuan and the others heard Lin Yuchu’s words, aside from their initial astonishment, they soon regained their composure. Sword cultivators like Lin Yuchu who forged their own swords were not unheard of. In fact, there were quite a few. To pursue a clear and transparent sword heart, the realm where man and sword became one, and to deepen the bond between their sword and themselves, many sword cultivators would personally forge their own swords.

It was just that Lin Yuchu looked too young. He did not seem like someone proficient in sword-forging. Or rather, it was precisely because Lin Yuchu’s Sword Path was so powerful that people took it for granted that this youth, who was only in his teens, must have devoted all his energy and time since birth to cultivating the Sword Path.

They had not expected that he could forge swords too.

Qin Chuan thought for a moment, then said, “I originally wanted to introduce a few master sword-forgers to you, but since you intend to forge your sword yourself, that would be unnecessary of me.”

At that, Lin Yuchu’s face immediately lit up with interest. He looked at him and said, “Tell me about them.”

Before Qin Chuan could reply, Lu Qingyuan, seated off to the side, smiled and said, “You won’t be using them anyway, so why ask?”

Lin Yuchu turned to look at him and said, “How would they be useless?”

“I happen to be lacking a master to teach me sword-forging!” he said.

“...” Lu Qingyuan.

“...” Qin Chuan.

“Pfft—”

Bai Luozhou, who had just been lifting a cup of wine to his mouth, spat it out on the spot.

Even Lou Qianxue, who had been sitting there quietly and silently, raised his eyes and looked at him, a hint of astonishment in his gaze.

“You don’t know how to forge swords?”

The corner of Lu Qingyuan’s mouth twitched. He looked at him speechlessly as he spoke.

“That’s right.” Lin Yuchu said it as if it were perfectly justified. “If I knew how, why would I still need to learn?”

“...” Lu Qingyuan.

What was he supposed to say to that?

“Since you don’t know how to forge swords, why not simply find someone to forge one for you? Why spend all this extra effort and time?” Lu Qingyuan said, looking at Lin Yuchu before him. “Sword-forging is not some simple thing that can be learned overnight.”

Qin Chuan, seated nearby, also nodded and said, “It would be better to invite someone else to forge the sword.”

Earlier, when they heard Lin Yuchu’s confident, certain manner as he said he would forge his own sword, they had assumed his sword-forging skills were as practiced and familiar as his Sword Path. In the end... he actually did not know it at all?

That truly startled them.

Hearing this, Lin Yuchu saw that all of them wore disapproving expressions. He swallowed the last bite of osmanthus cake in his hand, stuck out his tongue to lick his fingers, and narrowed his eyes, looking like a cat that had just eaten its fill.

Then he raised his head, looked at them with a completely serious face, and said, “It’s precisely because I don’t know that I need to learn.”

“Learning now is for the future,” Lin Yuchu said. “If I don’t learn, wouldn’t I never know how?”

He knew what Qin Chuan and Lu Qingyuan were worried about, so he said, “I’m not asking to forge some peerless sword right now. As long as it is barely usable and passable, that will be enough. For that, I only need to put more effort into the sword-forging materials.”

Lin Yuchu had already thought it through long ago. In the future, his sword would definitely be forged by his own hand. Only he himself knew what kind of sword he wanted most, and what kind of sword suited him best.

At least before he formed his Golden Core, he would not decide on his life-bound sword.

So he had plenty of time to learn sword-forging. If he started learning now, after a few decades or a hundred years, he would learn it eventually, right?

And before he forged his life-bound sword, the swords he forged would be his practice pieces.

After Qin Chuan, Lu Qingyuan, and the others heard his words, they also understood what he meant, and their expressions turned slightly thoughtful.

After thinking it over, they felt that what he said did have some reason to it.

Only...

“Do you plan to always use swords you forged yourself? Wouldn’t that be too forced?” Qin Chuan asked.

Lin Yuchu was undoubtedly a Sword Path genius, but that did not mean he was a sword-forging genius. What if his sword-forging skills were terrible? Would he have to keep using those terrible swords forever?

At that, Lin Yuchu said with a strange expression, “What’s forced about that?”

“...” Qin Chuan.

He stared carefully at the expression on the youth’s face before him. Seeing that he looked entirely serious, with truly not the slightest sense that he was forcing himself, Qin Chuan suddenly felt admiration in his heart.

This youth’s confidence truly was as substantial and powerful as his Sword Path!

Confidence was a good thing.

Qin Chuan would not break his confidence for no reason, so he said, “It’s nothing.”

“If you wish to learn sword-forging, Elder Liu of the sect’s Refining Peak has profound attainments in sword-forging. He is also amiable and willing to teach others. You may go to him for advice,” Qin Chuan said.

After saying this, he paused, then looked toward Lin Yuchu. Rarely, a bit of a smile appeared on his face, and his tone warmed as he said, “I forgot to tell you. I am from the Kunlun Sword Sect. The two of you—”

He said to Lin Yuchu and Gu Chun, “—should call me Martial Uncle.”

“...” Lin Yuchu.

“...” Gu Chun.

At that, the two of them were immediately startled.

Thinking about it carefully, there was nothing strange about it. The Kunlun Sword Sect was known as the foremost Sword Path sect under heaven. The Sword Alliance’s Sword Path Grand Competition naturally had people from the Kunlun Sword Sect attending.

Among these first-rate young sword cultivators seated here, it was perfectly normal for one or two to come from the Kunlun Sword Sect.

Lin Yuchu thought about it. The reason he had felt odd inside after hearing Qin Chuan’s words was probably because...

He had not yet prepared himself.

Right now, Qin Chuan’s appearance as he gave guidance and care was clearly that of a Martial Uncle from the same sect, offering him pointers at every turn.

But to Lin Yuchu, before this, Qin Chuan had merely been an unfamiliar stranger.

However, he was not someone who fussed over status.

Since Qin Chuan had released his goodwill, Lin Yuchu also called out openly and naturally, “Martial Uncle Qin.”

Hearing this, Gu Chun, who was sitting beside him, also followed and called, “Martial Uncle Qin.”

That one address of Martial Uncle immediately drew the distance between them closer. Qin Chuan’s attitude seemed much more intimate, and he advised the two of them, “Next, you will have one month to prepare. Go back and handle your worldly affairs. Once those matters are settled, head to the sect.”

This was customary. The top three young sword cultivators of the youth division in the Sword Path Grand Competition could enter the Kunlun Sword Sect without taking the examination. After the Sword Path Grand Competition, they had one month to handle their own affairs. One month later, they needed to report to the Kunlun Sword Sect.

“The rest does not matter much. There is only one thing...” Qin Chuan said.

Hearing this, Lin Yuchu and Gu Chun raised their heads and fixed their eyes on him. Their expressions were somewhat tense and grave as they said, “What is it?”

Qin Chuan looked at them, his tone heavy, and said, “Prepare more Fasting Pills. The more, the better.”

“...” Lin Yuchu.

“...” Gu Chun.

Why did they have a bad feeling about this?

They kept feeling that Qin Chuan’s heavy tone and expression seemed to conceal some unknown pain!

Lin Yuchu turned his head toward Gu Chun beside him. His brows furrowed coldly, and his tone was grave as he said, “My family has the best Fasting Pills. One pill can equal two from outside.”

At that, Gu Chun immediately said with a face full of emotion, “Good brother, how many spiritual stones? I’ll buy them!”

He felt that there was no one in this world better than Lin Yuchu. Not only did Lin Yuchu take him along to earn spiritual stones and become rich overnight, he even sold him pills.

The Lin family’s pills were the best in the cultivation world. They had a price but no market, and were often sold out.

For many pills, even if you had spiritual stones and wanted to buy them, you might not be able to. For example, when Qin Chuan wanted Snowflake Pills, he even had to specifically seek out Lin Yuchu to trade.

Thinking of this, Gu Chun seemed to realize something. He raised his eyes and looked at Lin Yuchu beside him, asking, “Do you know how to refine pills?”

When these words were heard, everyone seated there, Qin Chuan, Bai Luozhou, Lou Qianxue, and Lu Qingyuan, immediately turned their heads and looked at him, waiting for Lin Yuchu’s answer.

“I do!”

Under everyone’s stare, Lin Yuchu immediately answered.

Hearing this, Gu Chun’s expression instantly turned solemn. He fixed his eyes on him and continued to ask with expectation in his voice, “How skilled are you at refining pills?”

“Not bad,” Lin Yuchu said.

He thought for a moment, then added, “My grandfather said I’m the greatest genius in the alchemy Dao he’s ever seen.”

“...” Qin Chuan.

“...” Bai Luozhou.

“...” Lu Qingyuan.

“...” Lou Qianxue.

At that, they immediately could not help looking sideways at him, thinking, They had not expected that although he did not know sword-forging, he actually knew how to refine pills! And he was even an alchemy Dao genius.

To be praised like that by the previous Family Head of the Lin family, he was certainly an alchemy Dao genius, a genius even more outstanding than the young Lin Yunheng.

It was such a waste for him not to cultivate the alchemy Dao! Why was he not cultivating the alchemy Dao?

At this moment, Qin Chuan, Bai Luozhou, Lu Qingyuan, Lou Qianxue, and the others all simultaneously had this thought arise in their hearts.

Gu Chun, however, did not think that much. After hearing Lin Yuchu’s words, he immediately said with a delighted face, “Good brother!”

“I’ll leave my pills to you from now on!” Gu Chun thought happily.

His little friend really was capable. Not only was he strong, beautiful, and smart!

He was proficient in the way of earning money, and he was also good at refining pills.

He truly was a virtuous helper, the man behind a powerful sword cultivator!

Hearing this, Lin Yuchu said, “That’s no problem. I was already planning to refine pills and sell them for spiritual stones in the future.”

Although the Lin family did not lack spiritual stones, Lin Yuchu had no intention of living off his elders. He believed in relying on himself.

Listening to the two youths’ conversation, all the senior sword cultivators seated there suddenly felt a sense of melancholy. They felt that... they were not as capable as these two youths.

They had already planned as far as refining pills to earn spiritual stones.

These adults, who only knew how to sell all kinds of heavenly materials and earthly treasures they had obtained, felt subtly as if they had lost.

Later, many years afterward, a rumor once spread through the cultivation world that the reason Taichu Sword Master Gu Chun and the Rain Emperor had such a deep relationship, having known each other when they were still insignificant and remained close friends to this day,

was entirely because he wanted to leech off the Rain Emperor’s spiritual stones, the Rain Emperor’s pills, and the Rain Emperor’s good fortune!

In short, he was leeching off a powerful thigh.

Later, Taichu Sword Master Gu Chun, who had already been famous for many years by then, shamelessly said upon hearing this, “Being able to leech off a powerful thigh is also a skill. Do you know how many people want to leech off Lin Yuchu’s thigh but can’t? A powerful thigh isn’t something you can leech off just because you want to.”

“...” All those reborn people who had tirelessly and never once given up on leeching off Lin Yuchu’s powerful thigh, yet had never succeeded.

So mad!

Who wants to team up with me and go kill that arrogant Taichu Sword Master!

…

The auction on the second day.

Lin Yuchu and Gu Chun went together with Lu Qingyuan, and at the auction, they gathered all the materials he had prepared for sword-forging.

Everything was ready. All they lacked was the east wind.

Qin Chuan’s suggestion to him was to go to the Kunlun Sword Sect and find Elder Liu of Refining Peak to learn sword-forging, then open the furnace to forge his sword afterward.

This was different from Lin Yuchu’s original plan. He had originally planned to forge the sword before going to the Kunlun Sword Sect.

After listening to Qin Chuan’s suggestion, he considered it and felt that he might as well do as he said and wait until he reached the Kunlun Sword Sect to forge the sword.

Perhaps Kunlun Sword Sect’s Refining Peak would bring him some gains.

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