Chapter 018: Departure

After the little girl was swallowed by the water's surface, Wang Bo and Xiao Bai were not surprised. Soon after, they too were submerged, and vaguely entered a red space filled with thick fog, where a dragon seemed to roam.

The dragon here was naturally not a Western dragon, but a pure Eastern dragon.

Then, the metal disc descended—no, in Wang Bo's perception, it seemed to be ascending. Then Wang Bo arrived at a huge circular space.

The walls of this space were lined with rooms, from which the sound of hammering came from time to time.

In the air, boxes linked together like a long dragon, flying up and down, dancing around.

"Welcome to Baoqing Workshop, two honored guests."

Wang Bo then realized that the earlier Baoqing Workshop was just a facade. Now they had arrived at the real Baoqing Workshop, the monster workshop for crafting magical artifacts.

Wang Bo looked around and sighed slightly, "What a fine place."

Clearly, this place was not the mortal world; like Wang Bo's time villa, it was a space carved out, but they used formations instead of magic.

As for what formations, Wang Bo had no knowledge; he was utterly ignorant in this regard.

After entering the real Baoqing Workshop, the little girl walked to a desk, waved her hand lightly, and a bamboo slip flew up and landed in Wang Bo's hand.

"Inside this are all the spiritual artifacts crafted by my Baoqing Workshop. Their styles and effects are recorded on this bamboo slip. Honored guest, please take a look. If you find any you like, feel free to buy them."

Wang Bo nodded and opened the bamboo slip, which recorded one marvelous artifact after another. There were over a dozen in total. Except for a few that Wang Bo had no use for, most he liked very much.

For example, there was a spiritual artifact called the "Soul-Gathering Gourd," which could absorb evil spirits and ghosts, refining them into pills to increase magical power.

Besides that, there was an artifact called the "Heaven-Peering Pearl," which could peer into the past and future. If used for solving cases, it would be a divine tool; no crime could escape its detection.

Its owner could also foresee the future, avoiding misfortune and seeking good fortune.

There was an even more miraculous artifact called the Yin-Yang Mirror, a mirror with two sides. The front could save people; as long as the soul remained, a single reflection could return the soul to its body, reviving the dead.

The reverse could kill; even a living person, if reflected by the reverse side, would have their soul expelled from the body and eventually dissipate.

Wang Bo strongly suspected whether this thing's prototype was the Yin-Yang Mirror from the Investiture of the Gods.

Besides spiritual artifacts, Baoqing Workshop also sold many ordinary artifacts. Although these artifacts had their uses, their effects were not satisfactory.

At least in Wang Bo's view, many things these artifacts could do, he could also accomplish with magic.

While Wang Bo was patiently examining these artifacts, Xiao Bai stepped forward, removed the hairpin from her head, and asked the little girl to help modify this artifact so that she could use it.

The little girl nodded and agreed.

Then, the little girl threw the artifact into a box and had the monsters modify it.

After a while, Wang Bo browsed through all the artifacts in Baoqing Workshop and picked out several good ones, all spiritual artifacts.

After all, ordinary artifacts could not be used without magical power.

For this, Wang Bo paid several tons of vibranium.

After the transaction concluded, Wang Bo asked again, "By the way, do you have any cultivation methods or spells?"

The little girl nodded and said, "I do, but this is a monster workshop that sells artifacts; we never sell cultivation methods or spells."

Wang Bo smiled slightly and said, "I can pay, double."

The little girl hesitated for a moment, then said, "Fine."

Vibranium, for a monster workshop that forges artifacts, was naturally the more the better.

In the end, the two reached an agreement. Wang Bo paid several more tons of vibranium and collected from the little girl over a dozen different cultivation methods and hundreds of spells.

Of course, most of these cultivation methods were for monsters, and the spells were mostly demonic arts.

After all, this was a monster workshop.

Wang Bo did not mind; he accepted them all and, through the contract, handed them over to Lady Gremory.

After the transaction, Wang Bo also bought a Soul-Seeking Bell from the little girl. After modification, this item required no magical power to activate; once it sensed the presence of vengeful spirits or ghosts, it would vibrate on its own, ringing to alert the owner that a ghost or vengeful spirit was nearby.

With the Soul-Seeking Bell, Wang Bo planned to return to Yuzhou City to find the ghosts lurking there.

As for Xiao Bai, because her artifact had not been modified yet, she could not leave.

"Then, I'll take my leave, Miss Xiao Bai." Wang Bo cupped his hands toward Xiao Bai and said, "If we ever meet again in the future, may I invite you for a drink?"

Xiao Bai nodded slightly and said softly, "If there is a chance in the future, I can have a drink with you."

Wang Bo smiled, bid farewell to Xiao Bai again, and under the little girl's escort, left Baoqing Workshop.

The next instant, Wang Bo teleported back to Yuzhou City.

The little girl watched Wang Bo's figure suddenly disappear, her pupils contracting several times. Although she knew Wang Bo was not simple, she had not expected his mystery to far exceed her imagination.

When had such a powerful figure appeared in the mortal world?

Or perhaps, he was not from the mortal world at all?

While the little girl was lost in thought, Wang Bo had already returned to Yuzhou City.

And Yuzhou City was exactly the same as when Wang Bo left it, still pitch black, as silent as a ghost town.

After all, from the time Wang Bo left Yuzhou City, arrived at Yongzhou City, met Xiao Bai, went together to Baoqing Workshop, met the two-faced little girl, and then purchased spiritual artifacts—

it seemed like many things had happened, as if a long time had passed, but in reality, it was only two hours.

Now, it was just entering the dead of night.

There was still a long time until dawn. But Wang Bo was already impatient. Returning to the city lord's mansion, he used the Replication Mirror to replicate a large number of Soul-Seeking Bells. The Soul-Seeking Bell was the lowest-grade artifact, so even the Replication Mirror could copy it.

Compared to the original, its effect was slightly weaker; Wang Bo estimated that the detection range was a bit smaller.

But that didn't matter. A smaller range was fine; the key was that he had many people.

Wang Bo issued a command through Friday, summoning all the mechanical soldiers in Yuzhou City. Soul-Seeking Bells were distributed one by one, basically one per person.