The artist pulls out a weeping willow tree

Chapter 35: Good Luck, Praise, and Auspiciousness

Old Man Ji is painting a wooden ornament with a kind of interstellar-specific paint that is colored and anti-corrosive and anti-deformation but not anti-discoloration.

Its characteristic is that its color will change over time, it may be darker or lighter, and the location of the color change is also random, and it will eventually become a colorful ornament.

Many interstellar people like it very much. It is said that there is a group of people on the interstellar Internet who like to compete to see whose ornaments are more colorful and have more complex color changes.

Old man Ji has a secret of paint mixing and often takes orders from time to time to pass the time.

When Jixiang came to find Old Man Ji, Old Man Ji was already applying the last coat of paint.

Old Man Ji didn't even wait for Jixiang to speak, and said without even looking up: "If you're not in a hurry, wait a minute, I'm almost done here."

Jixiang nodded, but thinking that Old Man Ji was busy and couldn't see him, he said again, "I'm not in a hurry, take your time."

By the time Old Man Ji put the painted ornaments aside to wait for them to dry, about five minutes had passed.

Jixiang was looking at other decorations out of boredom, but his attention was always on Old Man Ji. Seeing this, he quickly walked over to Old Man Ji in two or three steps.

Jixiang: "Grandpa, go check my results!"

Old Man Ji agreed casually and followed Jixiang to the smelting room without thinking too much.

Five days have passed since the day I taught Jixiang how to cultivate his spiritual power.

Jixiang was in school for the first three days and only practiced for a few hours after school. Yesterday and today were rest days, so Jixiang had plenty of time to practice. It's only noon now, so he must have finally achieved some results.

Old man Ji’s idea was good, and Jixiang did achieve some results. However, Old man Ji was still too conservative. That was not just some results, but results that met Old man Ji’s requirements.

Old man Ji finally entered the smelting room. After seeing the rows of metal puppies, kittens and other animals placed casually on the blank shelves on the side, he couldn't help but widen his eyes.

With his keen eyesight, he could tell that these metals were at least of upper-middle quality.

Jixiang looked at Old Man Ji's shocked expression with satisfaction and said, "See, I have met your requirements. I have checked and compared them with my mental power. My future finished products will only be of higher quality than your sample." She has played with metal smelting a lot, so she has some ability in this regard.

Old Man Ji lowered his head and looked at a metal cat in his hand. The cat's details were clearly visible, and it felt delicate and cool. He covered it with his mental power, and felt that the purity of the metal had reached the top grade.

Old Man Ji regained his composure and asked, "How long does it take to produce one of this purity? What's the success rate?"

Jixiang glanced at the metal kitten in old man Ji's hand. This was her final product, but it was not of the highest quality. "About five minutes, and the success rate is about 99%. Occasionally there will be one with a higher quality than this one, but I didn't pay attention to it." She didn't have time to calculate the success rate so clearly. It was enough for her to know that she was % sure.

Old man Ji was speechless for a long while, because he had sent a few messages occasionally, and couldn't help muttering: "Perfect quality, five days, no, less than five days will produce perfect quality..."

Jixiang didn't hear clearly what Old Man Ji was mumbling, and mainly because Jixiang didn't hear Old Man Ji praising her, "Grandpa?"

Old man Ji looked up at Jixiang and said, "Yeah."

Jixiang was not very satisfied, "I have reached the target! Don't you have anything to say?" What about bragging? I want to brag!

Old man Ji looked at Ji Xiang, whose face was full of "come and praise me", and couldn't help laughing, "She is indeed very talented." But the praise was too harsh, and he couldn't hold her back with his old bones.

Jixiang was someone who was easily satisfied. “That’s good enough.” This old man Ji was always too restrained when praising others, not direct and enthusiastic enough, but she understood what he hadn’t said.

Jixiang looked at Old Man Ji with a look that said I understand you, which made Old Man Ji really want to attack Jixiang, but he gave up.

Old Man Ji: "Do five more. I'll follow your mental power to see how good your mental power skills are."

Jixiang said readily: "No problem, let's start." As he spoke, Jixiang picked up a piece of metal material that had never been processed in any way.

From the organization of the mental metal veins to the tempering of the mental metal, Jixiang carried out each process very smoothly.

Old Man Ji followed Jixiang's mental power and wandered inside the metal. Unlike Old Man Ji's style, Jixiang's mental power movements seemed wild and destructive, rough and casual.

However, when the mental force flows through, you will find that under the opening and closing, the movements of each mental force thread are actually meticulous.

Moreover, Jixiang never likes to do useless work. She will not waste a single bit of mental power. She takes into account every technique, every tempering node and even the hardness and characteristics of each metal. Between the tension and relaxation of mental power, Jixiang ensures the perfect mental power output in every step.

Being so lazy that his mental strength was almost exhausted, old man Ji couldn't help but find fault with her in his heart.

There are five pieces of metal, and it only takes five minutes to comb the metal veins. Four pieces are of top quality, and one is of perfect quality.

Jixiang looked at the five metals with satisfaction and couldn't help but wag his tail, "How is it? Very good, right?" He felt that he was even more powerful than Old Man Ji.

Old Man Ji: "Since you have passed my standards, then learn the final crushing, melting and fusion."

Jixiang was cheered up when she heard that, and she didn't care whether Old Man Ji responded to her or not, "Shall we start today?" She was ready.

Old Man Ji nodded and said, "You take a rest first, we will start in the evening."

Jixiang asked impatiently, "Isn't it possible now?"

Old Man Ji shook his head firmly and said, "I need to prepare the materials first. Find some materials with less difficulty to match, so it will be easier to get started."

So, “It’s all up to you.” Jixiang naturally agreed.

Old Man Ji glanced at Jixiang who was about to follow him.

Ji Xiaowei Xiang played dumb: "Grandpa?"

"You should have a good rest first. These three techniques require too great fluctuations in mental energy." Old Man Ji stopped there.

Jixiang had no choice but to go back and rest dejectedly.