Chapter 012: Magic Blood Mud

Fisher was very familiar with Abraham’s personality. With 70% certainty, that was at least an 80% level of confidence for most people!
“Good! Your Highness. How about taking advantage of Du Fan’s wedding day…” Master Abraham said this while forming a knife shape with his hand and gently touching his neck.
Fisher watched Master Abraham’s actions and slowly said, “The situation is not optimistic at all. If we don’t eliminate Du Fan in one go, things will get difficult for us in the future. But if Master really decides to do this, I, Fisher, will definitely support him to the end!”
“Your Highness! Do it soon! While Old Green hasn’t yet established a firm foothold in the north, and while Du Fan’s base in the south isn’t solid!” Abraham said loudly.
Hearing Abraham’s words, Fisher nodded. He understood perfectly what Abraham meant! Once Old Green and Du Fan had fully established their control in the north and south respectively, acting then would put them in a very disadvantaged position!
“Mm…” Fisher nodded in response.
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The Northern Prince’s Mansion.
“Du Fan, Fisher didn’t trouble you, did he?” Nai Xiu asked.
“No, he just pressured me to marry his sister, Princess Angel,” Du Fan replied.
“What are you planning then?” Nai Xiu asked, slightly nervous upon hearing this.
“Nai Xiu, my dear wife, I say unless his sister agrees to be my concubine, I won’t marry!” Du Fan said with a smile.
“Do you really think that’s a good idea?” Nai Xiu looked at Du Fan hesitantly and began to question him.
“I can’t say it’s not,” Nai Xiu said petulantly, a bit angry. “What I mean is, winning Angel on the same day as our wedding… that’s probably…”
Hearing Nai Xiu’s words, Du Fan smiled slightly and explained, “It won’t cause any problems. It’s just a ceremony, nothing more.”
“Alright…”
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The next day, Du Fan flew straight back to Siluo Province. After settling things down with his subordinates and Nai Xiu, he rushed to the Bilu Tribe without delay to check on the progress of mining.
“Lord!”
Seeing Du Fan arrive, the dwarves stopped working and looked at him with joy.
“Hehe, everyone, continue working. I’m just here to take a look. Keep working,” Du Fan instructed the dwarves with a smile before starting to observe.

Just as he reached the corner, a scorching heat enveloped him. Thousands of forging forges were arranged in sequence, and each dwarf with tense muscles worked tirelessly with their large hammers, appearing extremely excited.
“Lord.”
The forgers differed slightly from the miners. Upon seeing Du Fan, they merely glanced up briefly before resuming their excited work on crafting weapons.
Du Fan wasn’t displeased at the dwarfs’ attitude at all. It was their fierce determination that allowed them to create better weapons and earn him more money, thereby not only enhancing his combat strength but also his wealth.
“Where is the leader?” Du Fan asked curiously the dwarf who had just finished crafting a weapon. He hadn’t seen this leader since entering the mine, which he found strange.
“The leader and the six elders are on a hill not far away. It seems they’ve discovered some rare metal,” said the dwarf, pointing toward the hill before returning to his work.
“On a hill not far away?” Du Fan murmured in confusion before vanishing from that spot in an instant.
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“Elder, look at this,” said the leader, picking up a handful of bright red soil and slowly crushing it in his hands. The red soil then flowed like sand onto the ground before gradually forming into a solid mass.
Watching the soil’s transformation, the elder’s pupils narrowed slightly as he whispered in disbelief, “Demon Blood Clay?”
“What is Demon Blood Clay?” Du Fan reappeared, looking puzzled at the seven people before him. He hadn’t been gone long, yet six elders had appeared.
“Lord!”
Seeing Du Fan, the seven dwarfs bowed to him simultaneously.
Just by sensing the strength of the six dwarf elders before him, it was clear they were no ordinary individuals. Coupled with the knowledge of one of the elders earlier, Du Fan felt quite pleased.
These six elders not only added significant strength to his side but were also experienced and wise.
“You all needn’t worry,” Du Fan said with a faint smile to the seven dwarfs before turning to the elder not far away. “What is this Demon Blood Clay you mentioned earlier? What is it used for?”

“Your Lordship is too polite,” said the Grand Elder, bowing to Du Fan once again before continuing, “Magic Blood Mud can also be considered a celestial spirit material. When this mud is applied to weapons or armor and burned, it acts like an additional protective layer. But that’s not all—there is clearly some domain energy in this mud. If used on weapons and armor, it should provide a significant enhancement. However…”

“However what?” Du Fan asked, looking at the Grand Elder with confusion. After all, such celestial spirit materials couldn’t be understood through ordinary theories. Who knew what extraordinary properties they might have?

“What we see now is merely the outer layer of the Magic Blood Mud. If nothing goes wrong, beneath it lies extremely hot magma, and it is the fire within this magma that we truly need.”

Hearing the Grand Elder’s words, Du Fan immediately felt his mind struggling to keep up. He hadn’t expected that Magic Blood Mud was actually a highly rare twin-type substance. As the Grand Elder said, the fire underground must also be extraordinary—capable of creating such an amazing substance as Magic Blood Mud, one could imagine just how immense its energy must be.

“Your Lordship, never underestimate this underground magma. Its temperature could be in the tens of thousands of degrees. Obtaining this fire might be even harder than reaching the heavens. Moreover, even if we could get the fire, it would be difficult to bring it back.” Seeing Du Fan’s expression, the Grand Elder began to dampen his enthusiasm.

“That’s true,” Du Fan replied after hesitating for a while, then asked with a smile, “Is there any other way?”

“Yes!” The Grand Elder smiled broadly, picked up a handful of Magic Blood Mud from the ground, and explained, “Since it’s a twin-type wonder, if we use a pot refined from Magic Blood Mud, the domain energy attached to it can effectively hold back the fire. In that case, as long as one of us can descend a thousand meters underground, we can obtain the fire to forge weapons.”

“I see,” Du Fan nodded slightly upon hearing the Grand Elder’s explanation. It was indeed as he had thought.

The leader watched the group lost in thought before saying after a while, “Then, Grand Elder, with our current forging skills, can’t we even create a fire pot? I don’t believe that.”

“Leader Li, don’t doubt it.” The Second Elder smiled faintly at Leader Li before slowly saying, “Our dwarf race has thought about doing this more than once. Even if we managed to create a fire pot, the reports from dwarfs who went deep into the magma were not optimistic. The six of us elders went in once.”
“Yes, the conditions in the magma are indeed not favorable,” the First Elder continued, still shaken, “Not only is there an extreme temperature of tens of thousands of degrees, but flames also burst out from every crack from time to time. With just the strength of the six of us, we were blown back before even reaching the bottom of the magma due to the fierce forces there. It was even difficult to resist.”
“Six people together, and they couldn’t even resist?” Hearing the First Elder’s words, not only Du Fan was surprised, but Leader Li as well.
These six elders were undoubtedly holy-level powerhouses. With their combined strength, they could basically go anywhere on the continent. Yet they were still blown back by the magma, showing just how unimaginably dangerous it was.
“What should we do then? Are we supposed to give up such a valuable thing? Are we fools?” Leader Li looked at the seven people in front of him reluctantly.
Indeed, hearing Leader Li’s words, Du Fan and the other elders fell into deep thought.
Both the Magic Blood Mud and the underground flames were great temptations for Du Fan and other factions. If some factions couldn’t resist and tried to seize them, Du Fan’s faction would be as troubled as if swarmed by flies.
So, the only solution now was to resolve these issues in a short time; otherwise, things might change over time.
“Lord, I request to descend into the magma,” Leader Li, unable to stay calm, pleaded with Du Fan.
Seeing Leader Li’s enthusiastic expression, Du Fan smiled faintly and said, “Leader Li, there’s no need to rush. We’ll find a way eventually. Even if you went down now, a fire pot would be useless without it. Let’s wait until the six elders have sorted things out. Also, I’ll stay here for a few days. If anything happens, come to me.”
“Yes, Lord.”
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“If we can create a fire pot in a short time, could that be a good solution?” Du Fan asked tentatively, looking at the frowning First Elder.

“It’s not that simple to gather them together.” The Grand Elder hesitated for a moment before continuing, “I think that if enough domain power can be infused into a formed fire pot, its quality can be improved in a short time. That way, we might have a chance.”
“So…” Du Fan frowned at the clump of demon blood mud in front of him.
Although he was also a domain expert and didn’t lack domain power, this domain was extremely mysterious. He wasn’t sure if the domain attached to the demon blood mud would conflict with his own domain. If so, it would be counterproductive.
“Lord, as far as I know, demon blood mud also comes in yin and yang varieties,” the Grand Elder said calmly, looking at Du Fan’s furrowed brows. “What we’ve collected now is of the yin type, with limited domain power. It can strengthen ordinary weapons, but the pure yang demon blood mud beneath the magma might even allow for the creation of divine artifacts.”
“What? You say it can create divine artifacts? Are you joking?” Du Fan stared at the Grand Elder in disbelief. If demon blood mud could create divine artifacts, then such artifacts might no longer be valuable.
“I’m not joking,” the Grand Elder replied unhappily, reluctantly explaining, “The domain power covering this yang-type demon blood mud is immense, far beyond that of ordinary demon blood mud.”
“Plus, with the magma at tens of thousands of degrees burning continuously for thousands of years, the purity of its domain power is beyond description. Creating divine artifacts isn’t just delusional talk.”