After watching Xiao'an's series of operations, Wumulian was completely stunned. She asked weakly:
"You engraved so many alchemical arrays just to make a brick with a fire - filled center?"
"Get out of here. What brick? This is called a pressure - sensitive magnetic - storm mine. It's my 'wife'!"
Jolian held this bomb that resembled a brick and rubbed it affectionately against her face. Although it was a bit cold, it was still so alluring.
"Hmm? Pressure - sensitive magnetic - storm mine? Wife?" The pink - haired girl didn't quite understand what she meant and couldn't help scratching her head.
"So how does this thing work?"
When it came to how to use it, Xiao'an immediately got excited. Just as she was about to go into a long - winded explanation, she thought that Mulian might not understand.
So she said simply, "Just activate its safety device, hide it somewhere, and then randomly blow up a lucky person who steps on it!"
"Oh." Wumulian nodded as if she understood, but also as if she didn't fully understand. "So can I understand it as... your 'wife' can explode?"
"Uh..."
Xiao'an was left speechless, frozen in place. You really know how to talk!
Seemingly realizing that she had said the wrong thing, the pink - haired girl awkwardly changed the subject:
"Ahem... Qiao, you used so many alchemical arrays just now. How many exchange items did it cost in total?"
"Exchange items? Oh, probably ten purple crystals."
"What! Ten purple crystals!" Mulian grabbed her shoulders, even suspecting that she had misheard, and continued to ask, "Then how many times can this mine of yours be used?"
"What do you mean how many times can it be used? It's a bomb, of course it can only be used once." Jolian said matter - of - factly.
"You... I..." The pink - haired girl let go of her shoulders. "Do you know what a purple crystal means? It's ten thousand gold coins!"
"It only takes one purple crystal to forge an alchemical magic staff, and you used ten! And it's a one - time use! Can you be any more prodigal!"
"Ah! Purple crystals are so expensive! I didn't know! I saw that Yimansa had a lot in her ring, so I thought they were cheap!"
After saying that, Jolian suddenly felt her legs go weak and she sat down on the ground.
She had wasted over forty purple crystals in the previous failed experiments. Plus these ten, she had squandered five hundred thousand gold coins of Yimansa's!
"If I'm not mistaken, you also added a fire - energy core to this brick. That thing costs fifty thousand each!"
Wumulian added another blow without warning. Jolian's lips were trembling. "How much does the ice core cost...?"
"You even used an ice core! That thing is very difficult to mine. The market price is a hundred thousand gold coins each, and it's often not available even at that price. Qiao, I'm not criticizing you, but although the Ice Empress is wealthy, she can't stand you squandering like this!"
After hearing her final price quote, Jolian simply lay down on the spot. Roughly calculated, she now owed Yimansa over a million gold coins...
How on earth was she going to pay this back!
"Uh... Qiao, why are you crying? I think considering your relationship with the Ice Empress, she probably... doesn't care about this... maybe..."
Wumulian said in a consoling tone, but in the end, she didn't seem very confident.
After all, her current savings weren't even half a million...
Well, speak of the devil, and the devil appears.
Yimansa had just gone to the toilet. When she came back, she found that the ice block she was going to use to make an ice sculpture was gone.
Looking up, she saw that Jolian had smashed it to pieces!
But come to think of it, why did she smash her ice?
Was she just being mischievous?
"Ahem!"
Unable to figure it out, she decided to go over and ask. As soon as she arrived, Jolian actually lay down on the ground?
Yimansa tried her best to resist the urge to kick her and coughed a few times in front of her.
Hearing the sound, Xiao'an listlessly looked up...
"Hmm? Ice - silk?"
"Ah... creditor... Mansha, you're here... Is there something wrong...?"
Jolian quickly jumped up from the ground, her eyes dodging, not daring to look at her.
"Yeah, I want to ask, what did you do with my ice?" Mansha said calmly, not realizing at all that Xiao'an had just seen something she shouldn't have.
"This... that..." Jolian looked at the pressure - sensitive magnetic - storm mine in her hand and had an idea in a flash.
"Creditor... Mansha, thank you! Thank you for taking me in these past few days and lending me the alchemical tools. I have nothing to show my gratitude, so I made you a gift with your ice. I hope you'll accept it!"
As she spoke, Xiao'an presented the pressure - sensitive magnetic - storm mine with both hands!
"Hmm? That's all right." Yimansa took the thing she handed over. It felt heavy in her hand and had a special coolness. It was indeed her ice.
But... why did it have to be in the shape of a brick?
"This thing is actually called a pressure - sensitive magnetic - storm mine..." Jolian started her long - winded introduction again, telling Yimansa everything from the manufacturing process to the usage method in one go.
Finally, she put on a pitiful expression and said,
"I've spent a long time researching it... I just wanted to give it to you as a thank - you gift. So, sister... can you, considering how hard I've worked, let me pay back the one million later! Please! I really have no money!"
"Uh..." Yimansa was suddenly at a loss for words as she looked at Jolian, who was acting like a little drama - queen green tea at the moment.
Although she didn't care about the one million, why did she suddenly have the urge to slap her to death?
"All right, that's enough. You can use the things in the ring as you like. I'm not short of that money."
As she spoke, she weighed the brick - like thing in her hand. "Next time you need ice, just tell me. There's no need to take it secretly. I'm not going to refuse you."
"Okay! I won't use these materials for nothing. When I research any new weapons, I'll definitely show them to you first, sister."
Jolian nodded like a bobble - head. It seemed that the coquettish talk of humans could really solve problems sometimes!
"Uh..." Yimansa couldn't stand it any longer and turned to leave. She was really afraid that she couldn't hold back and kick Jolian.
Wumulian was standing aside, staring blankly at the "sweet" conversation between the two.
Hiss... Is this the world of the rich? Not caring about one million? Or does the Ice Empress just fall for Jolian's tricks?
Thinking about how Jolian called "sister" one after another during her explanation, the pink - haired girl got goosebumps.
"My cultivation level is too low to handle such crazy things!"
Seeing that her creditor had left, Jolian finally let out a sigh of relief.
"Why are you looking at me like that? Is there something on my face?"
"Nothing..." Just as Wumulian finished speaking, she saw a tuft of golden hair running towards her.
"Damn it! Don't come over!" Then she covered her skirt and ran away.
Jolian: "???"