Chapter 2: It Exploded Again
Two strong horses neighed loudly, their sturdy hind legs stood straight, their forelegs raised their entire upper bodies high, and then they galloped forward madly.
The speed was so fast that even the carriage body equipped with a shock absorption System kept vibrating. Jiang Ming inside the carriage felt like he was on a roller coaster and couldn't stop!
"Jiang, Jiang Shao Ye, hold on tight! The horses are startled, I need to quickly calm them down, I might not be able to look after you!"
The coachman shouted loudly, afraid that Jiang Ming inside the carriage wouldn't hear him.
This young master is the Young City Lord of Qingshui City, nothing must happen to him!
Inside the carriage, it was empty. The books and metal blocks that had originally filled the entire carriage were immediately put into his Storage Soul Tool by Jiang Ming the moment the accident occurred.
Jiang Ming reached out and held onto the carriage body. His powerful physical strength allowed him to remain stable in the bumpy carriage, preventing him from swaying back and forth.
However, Jiang Ming's eyes at this moment were full of contemplation and doubt.
"It shouldn't be... How could there be a mistake? Is what the book says wrong?"
Jiang Ming whispered softly, his sword-like eyebrows furrowed under his forehead. He was thinking about the metal block he had just engraved, and his handsome face was full of incomprehension.
He was sure that he had engraved it according to the patterns described in the book. His hand was definitely steady enough, and the probability of an engraving error was negligible!
But why did this thing explode?
It shouldn't be...
It wasn't until the horses gradually calmed down under the coachman's control and the carriage gradually stabilized that Jiang Ming thought of the reason for the mistake that had just occurred.
Perhaps the purity of the material was wrong!
The metal block he had just engraved might not have been exactly the same in purity as the metal block described in the book.
It is highly likely that this subtle difference led to deviations when engraving the patterns!
"Let's try again!"
A glimmer of wisdom flashed in Jiang Ming's eyes. Immediately after, he took out another metal block, wanting to try again.
Outside, the coachman who had finally stabilized the carriage breathed a sigh of relief and quickly and cautiously inquired through the curtain:
"Jiang Shao Ye, are you alright?"
After a while, the coachman didn't hear Jiang Ming's reply. His heart immediately skipped a beat, and he didn't care about disturbing him anymore, directly lifting the curtain.
"Jiang Shao Ye, you..."
As soon as the curtain was lifted, the scene the coachman was worried about was not seen. Jiang Ming was not knocked unconscious by the frequently vibrating carriage body, but was sitting cross-legged inside, quietly holding a slender, pale golden knife and engraving on a metal block.
"Jiang Shao Ye, what are you doing?"
The coachman couldn't help but ask curiously.
Jiang Ming didn't answer directly, but only stopped after completing the engraving of the last stroke of the pattern.
He raised his head and looked at the coachman, a satisfied smile of accomplishment on his face.
"I was just researching spirit tools, I couldn't stop, so I didn't reply. Please forgive me."
"Re-researching spirit tools? Jiang Shao Ye, you are also a Soul Master?!"
The coachman was truly astonished.
You know, ever since spirit tools developed, the status of Soul Masters also rose accordingly. Even the most basic first-level Soul Masters are very noble existences in the eyes of ordinary people!
"Oh, I guess so, just messing around for fun."
Jiang Ming smiled, then pointed behind the coachman.
"Compared to this, I think it's better for you to pull the carriage back first, we've gone off course."
The coachman was startled and quickly looked back.
As expected, during the time he turned around and talked to Jiang Ming, the carriage had deviated from the main road and was galloping in another direction.
The coachman quickly sat back in front of the carriage, pulled out the whip, whipped the side of the horses, and quickly corrected the direction of the carriage.
"Jiang Shao Ye, I didn't expect you to be a Soul Master as well, that's amazing! You're truly a Genius!"
Perhaps because Jiang Ming gave off a relatively amiable feeling, after correcting the direction of the carriage, the coachman began to chat with Jiang Ming on and off.
And after engraving the metal block for such a long time, Jiang Ming was also a bit tired. He lifted the curtain, sat beside the coachman, and planned to rest for a while.
"Genius? There are plenty of geniuses. Shrek Academy, where we're going this time, is full of geniuses."
Jiang Ming didn't pay too much attention to the word 'Genius'. There were too many geniuses in the World, the word was too cheap...
"By the way, how much longer until we reach Shrek Academy?"
Jiang Ming turned his head and asked, he was already a bit impatient.
He had some understanding of Shrek Academy, but this understanding was limited to Shrek Academy ten thousand years ago.
He didn't expect that ten thousand years later, Shrek Academy would actually become the number one academy on the continent!
"Jiang Shao Ye, we've only been traveling for half a day. Qingshui City is over a thousand li away from Shrek Academy, we'll need at least four more days of travel."
The coachman said with a smile.
"Four days..."
When Jiang Ming heard this time, he narrowed his eyes, leaned back against the carriage frame, and became thoughtful.
Four days should be enough time for him to get that thing made...
As Jiang Ming thought, his palm unconsciously brushed over the Storage Soul Tool at his waist, took out the metal block he had just finished engraving, and then injected spirit power.
As the spirit power was injected, a pale golden light rose from the metal block, about half a meter long.
However, this pale golden light didn't seem very stable, appearing and disappearing intermittently, and the length of the light also flickered up and down.
Jiang Ming looked at this unstable light, and his brows slowly furrowed again.
The unstable light meant that there were still some problems with the engraving of the core magic array on this metal block.
But where exactly was the problem?
Jiang Ming looked left and right but couldn't see any clues, and his mood became irritable.
Suddenly, a little too much spirit power was accidentally transmitted from Jiang Ming's hand, and the metal block suddenly emitted a dazzling light!
"Not good!"
Jiang Ming secretly thought 'Not good' and quickly threw the metal block in his hand out!
"Jiang Shao Ye, you, you threw..."
The coachman saw Jiang Ming throw away the thing in his hand and was about to say something when he heard another huge explosion sound beside his ears.
His heart trembled, and he quickly looked back.
Beside the road they had just passed, a huge crater quietly appeared, with a few wisps of smoke that hadn't dispersed yet hanging above it.
"This... this... this is..."
The coachman stammered as he looked at Jiang Ming while stabilizing the startled horses.
Jiang Ming seemed a bit dejected, glanced at the coachman, and muttered:
"It exploded again. Is this thing really that difficult?"
Again... again?
The coachman immediately recalled the explosion incident that had just happened and couldn't help but look back at the explosion crater that was gradually moving away, his heart still pounding.
This power could already blast his carriage and him into pieces, hey!
Also, it already exploded! Why is this Jiang Shao Ye acting like nothing happened!