I Built A Family Of Immortal Cultivators

Chapter 159: Master Builder

"Mhmm."

At this moment, the Master Builder looked at the piece of broken ore in his hand and occasionally made satisfied sounds. Then, he looked at Lin Xusi and said, "I underestimated it earlier. This ore is at least a lower-grade second-order, and its quality is very good."

Upon hearing this, Lin Xusi's face lit up with joy. Lower-grade second-order? This was beyond his expectations.

He picked up the other ores on the ground and examined them. The Master Builder said, "I'm afraid there's more."

"More?" Lin Xusi looked at the Master Builder.

"Yes, after all, I am only a first-order craftsman. I can only tell that this ore is second-order, but I can't guarantee the specifics. At the very least, it is a lower-grade, but it could even be a higher-grade."

Lin Xusi took a deep breath.

"I wonder if there's more? I'm willing to buy these ores at a high price," the Master Builder said to Lin Xusi.

"This..."

Lin Xusi hesitated for a moment and said, "Master Builder, I still have a use for them, so I won't sell them."

"Alright."

The Master Builder didn't say anything and returned the ores to Lin Xusi. Lin Xusi put away the ores and took out a spirit stone from his storage bag, handing it to the Master Builder. "Master Builder, thank you for your help."

Looking at the spirit stone, the Master Builder quickly refused, "How can I accept this? I can't, I can't."

"Master Builder, please take it."

Lin Xusi insisted, and the Master Builder finally accepted the spirit stone. He happily saw Lin Xusi off at the door.

Outside the door, Lin Xusi was overjoyed, walking briskly on the streets of the Lin family's gathering place.

Compared to before, he was much more composed, but the quality of the ores still made it hard for him to calm down. At the very least, they were second-order ores. Did that mean third-order ores were also possible? Lin Xusi boldly thought to himself.

After seeing Lin Xusi's figure disappear into the distance, the Master Builder closed the door.

Once the door was closed and he returned to the room, the Master Builder picked up a piece of ore he had hidden and looked at the cold iron ore. He then looked at the spirit stone Lin Xusi had given him, and his mind couldn't help but wander.

"Cold iron ore, where did he get it from? He is a descendant of the Lin family with a cultivation level of Qi Refining Ninth Layer. It would be normal for him to have a second or even third-order cold iron, but how could he obtain second-order cold iron ore? He had it appraised by me tonight and even gave me a spirit stone. It's not simple, not simple at all."

The more the Master Builder thought about it, the more serious his expression became.

To put it bluntly, the Master Builder's thoughts were correct. Generally, it would take multiple pieces of cold iron ore to refine a single second-order cold iron material, which would be worth much more than the cold iron ore itself. However, the problem lies here. Although a second-order cold iron is expensive, it can still be bought with spirit stones. Even if Lin Xusi had brought a third-order cold iron, the Master Builder wouldn't have thought much of it. But what he brought was second-order cold iron ore. Who would buy that except for craftsmen? How could ordinary cultivators obtain it?

Most importantly, if Lin Xusi was a craftsman, why would he come to find the Master Builder? This contradiction arose.

"If it wasn't bought, could it be that he found it? After finding it, he wasn't sure of its grade, so he asked me to appraise it?" Master Zhu thought of this answer.

"Cold iron ore usually grows in clusters, so does that mean he found a mining site?" Master Zhu thought further.

Although Lin Xusi only asked him to appraise a piece of ore, Master Zhu had already deduced a lot in his mind, and his calculations were all correct.

No one in the cultivation world is a fool.

Thinking of this, Master Zhu became excited and took out a talisman, crushing it with force.

Speaking of which, even an ordinary craftsman might have guessed the source of the ore if they were in Lin Xusi's shoes, thinking that he might have found a mining site. But even if an ordinary craftsman guessed it, they wouldn't be able to do anything about it, and they would only feel envy. But Master Zhu was different, he was not an ordinary craftsman.

Although he was called Master Zhu on the surface, in reality, he was Master Zhu from the Zhu family sent as a spy by the Wuji Sect.

Since their defeat years ago, the Zhu family had not forgotten about the Lin family. Now that their ancestor had passed away and the Wuji Sect's strength had greatly declined, it was impossible for them to plot against the Lin family. However, they couldn't let go of this opportunity and sent their family members as spies. They knew everything that happened in the Lin family.

In fact, this kind of spy existed in other markets as well. You spy on me, and I spy on you. Information is highly valued in the cultivation world.

After crushing the talisman, the next morning, a cultivator walked into Master Zhu's shop and bought a low-grade magic weapon. He had a conversation with Master Zhu and then left.

At this time, Lin Xusi had already boarded Lin Qing's flying boat, accompanied by Lin Xuqian, flying towards the place where the ore was discovered.

The relationship between the two brothers was very good before, but it changed a bit after Lin Xuqian broke through to the Foundation Building stage. It wasn't that their relationship became bad, but their identities became different. In the world of cultivation, a Qi Refining stage cultivator must address a Foundation Building stage cultivator as senior. Although Lin Xusi didn't have to address Lin Xuqian as senior, the difference in their identities couldn't be erased just by not using the title. It was always there.

Unless Lin Xusi also broke through to the Foundation Building stage in the future, their identities would be equal.

This was somewhat cruel. Clearly, they were brothers, but because of their cultivation levels, there was a gap between them. The intimate playfulness they had before was no longer possible. In fact, this was the norm in the cultivation world. Even if it was a father and son, when the son achieved success in cultivation, although he still called his father "father," their identities were completely different. Sometimes, the father even had to flatter the son.

This was not only true for cultivators, even in the mortal world, if the son became a high-ranking official in the future, the father would feel a bit apprehensive when meeting him, even more cautious than when meeting outsiders.

On the flying boat at this time, Lin Xusi and Lin Xuqian were talking to each other, but only they knew how much was missing between their words.

The same sentence, when said before and now, not only the tone of speech, but even in the ears of the listener, there was a huge difference.

Lin Qing didn't say much. According to Lin Xusi, the place where the cold iron ore was discovered wasn't far, about three hundred miles, but it was deep in the Yandang Mountains. Lin Qing became more cautious. Of course, with his cultivation at the late Foundation Building stage, plus the late Foundation Building stage Purple Gold Toad, he wasn't afraid.

Compared to cultivators, there were more low-level monsters, but high-level monsters were even rarer than cultivators.

As they flew, Lin Qing suddenly remembered the book he had read about identifying cold iron ore last night, so he asked Lin Xusi, "Xusi, take out the piece of ore and let me have a look."

"Oh, okay."

Lin Xusi took out the cold iron ore and handed it to Lin Qing.

Looking at the shattered cold iron ore, Lin Qing asked Lin Xusi curiously, "How did it break?"

"Well..." Lin Xusi hesitated. Suddenly, he felt that going to Master Zhu last night seemed a bit inappropriate, so he chose to conceal the truth from Lin Qing. "Father, I broke it myself to take a look."

(End of this chapter)