Awakened: The Spirit King!

"Just who are you guys, and why are you bestowing me with such a huge favor?" Chen Wei Qi asked the members of the Xie Family who had their faces covered with masks and figures covered with black clothes.

'Is he stupid? Why is he finding it hard to tell that my young master is trying to be his well-wisher!' Xie Ye rolled his eyes at the blacksmith.

Chen Wei Qi met Xie Yang's eyes before he heard him say, "I've run a background check on you. You came from the Southern part of the empire to spread the fame of the southern blacksmith in the north at the age of eighteen. That's quite admirable. By that time, you were already a rank five blacksmith. An 18-year-old boy becoming a blacksmith can only mean that he is talented.

In two years, you advanced to the fourth rank of your profession and became even more popular. But the following year, you quickly lost your confidence, and then over the years, your motivation dwindled, and you eventually became a drunkard who no one liked. If you continue like this, you will just be wasting your talent.

I don't know what happened to you that you became like this, but if you still have the desire to make progress, to advance on the spiritual path of smithing, to spread the fame of the southerners in the cold north, this is the best chance for you. Yes, I am doing you this favor, and if you want to repay me, don't fail! March through all the obstacles in your way and reach the next rank!"

In short words, Xie Yang was doing him a great favor without asking for anything in return.

Of course, Chen Wei Qi, who had been sinking into the pool of darkness, didn't hesitate to grab the first rope of light dangling before him.

"Please accept my bow."

Chen Wei Qi didn't know how old they were, but as they gave him a favor as big as Mt. Tai, he lowered his head before them.

Xie Yang told him to straighten his back, and once he stood upright, he gave him a piece of paper.

"This contains the list of the items I need you to make, and you must make the one on the very top of the list before sunrise."

Chen Wei Qi went through the list and didn't find anything beyond his capabilities.

He replied confidently, "Give me a couple of hours, and I will finish with restoring the brush for the little missy and creating the spirit gathering needles for you."

A pleasant expression appeared on Xie Yang's face.

With the spirit gathering needles and the flower of death, it would become possible for him to unclog Lin Hua's spiritual meridians!

"We will be waiting for you in the inn at the third street."

After telling him where they were going to stay, Xie Ye and Xie Yang turned to leave.

However, they had only taken a step when the blacksmith stopped them and said, "You can stay here if you like."

He invited Xie Yang and Xie Ye to sit in his smelly, dirty house.

"It's a bit messy here, but we are all men, so what's a little bit of dust? Haha!" While saying that with a shameless face, Chen Wei Qi laughed and walked away to create spiritual objects.

Xie Yang looked around.

There was mold on the walls, insects crawling around on the ground, and even homes of spiders on the ceiling.

If this was merely a messy room, then he didn't know what an inhabitable home looked like at all.

Chen Wei Qi didn't lack the skills, the confidence to smith, and the desire to create, so it took him fifteen minutes to restore Duan Hui Yin's brush.

As he had used a material above level 40, the rank of her brush increased from four to three!

After that, he created a set of spirit gathering needles.

Unlike its rather simple name, it was a rank four spiritual object and had two effects.

He put the needles in a box and gave the box to Xie Yang.

"I am honestly curious about what caused a young and ambitious man full of talent to fall to this point? That year, what did you experience?" While running his fingers through his hair, Xie Yang said with a flicker of curiosity flashing in his eyes.

Xie Yang most definitely wanted to know why Chen Wei Qi was wasting away his life when he had enough talent to live a life of luxury, but if he didn't want to tell, he wouldn't pester him to reveal his past.

Chen Wei gritted his teeth in anger as if remembering something that deeply offended him.

"It has been several years, but whenever I think about what happened that day, I can't help but get angry!"

He calmed down a little before continuing, "The third disciple of the Head of the Black Unicorn Sect's Spiritual Object Refinement hall plotted against me."

Chen Wei Qi wasn't the type to give up on himself, but what he experienced broke him down.

Seven years ago, the Third Elder of the Black Unicorn Sect announced to the world that he was going to accept a third lineage disciple and pass his skills to them.

Like many other youths, Chen Wei Qi, full of confidence, headed out to partake in the test, and his pregnant wife accompanied him.

What he didn't know was that at that time, some people had started targeting talented blacksmiths and eliminating them.

While on the road to the sect, he, who was on the top tenth of their list, became their target.

They encountered him before he could reach anywhere near the Black Unicorn Sect and tried to assassinate him!

His wife sacrificed herself and his unborn child to save him. She came in between him and the assassins and took the sword for him while slapping a teleportation talisman on his chest at the time of its activation, due to which he escaped from the valley against his will and collapsed near the city.

He had obviously given the teleportation talisman to her so that she could escape with his son, but as she loved him too much, she died in his place!

He would have died that day, but because of her, he somehow survived!

However, while he was alive, his heart died with her!