Chapter 1303: Chapter 745: Follow
“This spine bone is for you.”
Mo Hua said generously.
Ouyang Mu was montarily overwheld by the favor and shook his head repeatedly, saying, “I can’t take it…”
“Don’t you want it?”
Mo Hua waved the spine bone in his hand.
Ouyang Mu’s eyes were completely drawn to the spine bone, following its movents back and forth, reluctant to look away.
But he gritted his teeth and firmly declared:
“I want it, but I didn’t earn it through monster hunting. I can’t accept it.”
Mo Hua said, “Senior Brother Feng looked after before. Now I’m looking after you a bit. Just take it, it’s fine.”
Ouyang Mu still shook his head, “No rit, no reward.”
Mo Hua was a little surprised, and his gaze carried a hint of appreciation.
This Little Wood, while a bit rigid, had a good heart, was principled, and didn’t like taking advantage of others.
“Hmm,” Mo Hua nodded. “If you don’t want it, let’s drop it.”
Mo Hua pretended to put the spine bone of the Fla Demon Wolf away.
Seeing that the spine bone, which was so close to him, was about to vanish, Ouyang Mu froze for a mont and then grew a bit anxious.
He hesitated for a long while before hurriedly saying:
“Brother Mo, can I buy it with rit points?”
“rit points?” Mo Hua pondered briefly and nodded, “That works. But this Fla Demon Wolf’s spine bone, according to typical pricing, costs 800 rit points. Do you have that much?”
“Eight hundred?!”
Ouyang Mu was stunned, his face reddening soon after. “I… don’t have that much…”
“How much do you have?”
“Just… three hundred…”
Ouyang Mu stamred nervously.
Although he was a direct lineage of the Ouyang Family, once within the sect, he had to follow the sect’s rules and rely on himself for everything.
These rit points were accumulated bit by bit by helping others with blacksmithing and forging swords over ti.
After spending so recently, he now only had 300 left.
“How about I sell it to you for 300?” Mo Hua suggested.
Ouyang Mu shook his head again and again, “No, I can’t let Brother Mo take a loss. I…”
He hesitated for a mont and whispered, “Can I owe you first and pay you back later?”
Mo Hua rubbed his chin, silently pondering sothing, without responding.
Ouyang Mu thought Mo Hua didn’t trust him and quickly vowed:
“I’ll definitely pay you back!”
“How will you pay back?” Mo Hua’s eyes were aningful as he asked with a guiding tone.
Ouyang Mu said, “I’ll work hard to earn rit points…”
Mo Hua sighed, “It’s not easy to earn rit points, is it?”
Ouyang Mu’s face showed a hint of difficulty.
Indeed, earning rit points wasn’t easy.
The good tasks were always highly contested.
If you couldn’t compete for them, you could only complete lower-level tasks to slowly accumulate points.
At the sa ti, the sect demanded spending a lot of rit points on various things: cultivation techniques, Taoist skills, the Artifice Manual, pills, Spiritual Artifacts, and so on.
Saving rit points felt like gathering grains of sand, while spending them was like watching flowing water.
Most disciples found their earned rit points insufficient to et their needs.
Generally speaking, once disciples reached the Foundation Building Middle Stage, they could enter the Refining Demon Mountain.
In the Refining Demon Mountain, as long as you learned quickly, beca experienced, and successfully hunted monster beasts and harvested materials, earning rit points wouldn’t be difficult.
However, if you learned slowly and repeatedly failed to hunt monsters, it would be adding insult to injury, making rit points increasingly hard to acquire.
Ouyang Mu had no confidence in monster hunting at all.
His 300 rit points had taken him a long ti to save up…
If he bought this Fla Demon Wolf’s spine bone, he’d owe 500 rit points.
To accumulate those 500 rit points through regular tasks would take who knows how long.
He had no assurance in monster hunting, and if sothing went wrong, he might not earn rit points and would be unable to repay the debt, making Brother Mo suffer a loss.
Ouyang Mu lowered his head, his expression flickering with hesitation and indecision.
Mo Hua saw this and smiled gently, speaking warmly, “If you can’t repay the rit points, you can help with sothing instead.”
Ouyang Mu was taken aback, “I… what could I possibly help with?”
After thinking for a mont, Ouyang Mu slowly said, “If Brother Mo doesn’t mind, I can do artifact refining… Sword casting is possible too…”
Mo Hua raised an eyebrow, finally hearing the words he was waiting for, and imdiately nodded:
“Deal!”
Ouyang Mu felt slightly nervous, “But, my sword-casting skills are quite average…”
“It’s fine,” Mo Hua encouraged him, “No one starts out knowing everything. You can learn and practice slowly.”
Coming from the Tai’a Sect with a proper sword-casting legacy, Ouyang Mu was surely better than himself, Master Gu, or the other Taixu Sect disciples.
Moreover, Mo Hua felt that although Little Wood was a bit stiff, he was sincere and had a good temperant.
A good temperant could compensate for lack of skill, as improvents would co with ti.
But if soone lacked integrity, there was no point building ties with them.
Skill could be honed, but once a person’s heart was tainted, it was nearly impossible to change.
Ouyang Mu was clearly encouraged and made a solemn promise, “Brother Mo, don’t worry, I won’t let you down!”
Mo Hua saw his serious expression and couldn’t help but laugh, saying:
“Just do your best; no need to pressure yourself.”
“Alright!”
Ouyang Mu nodded earnestly.
Mo Hua thought for a mont longer and said:
“You owe 500 rit points. How about this? Forge a Spirit Sword, and I’ll count it as 100 rit points. I’ll provide the materials.”
Mo Hua’s offer was a fair market price.
In the sect, commissions for ordinary Second Grade Spiritual Artifacts usually varied between 50 to 80 rit points due to the ti required to forge them, with occasional fluctuations.
Spirit Swords cost a bit more.
One hundred rit points was considered reasonable.
Of course, these were just ordinary Spirit Swords.
Those engraved with Sword Arrays—the proper “Sword Weapons” of a true inheritance—were much more expensive. But they were beyond the abilities of most disciples to craft.
Ouyang Mu, still at the Foundation Building Middle Stage and currently studying at the sect, certainly wouldn’t know such advanced sword-casting techniques.
And the Tai’a Sect wouldn’t teach them Sword Arrays at this stage either.
Mo Hua had no need for those skills; he didn’t require an inheritance-grade Spirit Sword.
All he needed was a regular Spirit Sword that Ouyang Mu could craft.
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