“And now… weapons and shields.”
Jiang Xuan pulled out three iron ingots, feeling a bit emotional.
Over the past year, he had only managed to scavenge three iron ingots in total.
And even those had been taken from a buddy’s house—specifically, the buddy who lived in the blacksmith’s house with the lava pool.
“For a sword, you need one stick and two planks. By the same logic, replacing the planks with other materials gives you swords of those materials.”
“As for the shield, the strict requirement is six planks and one iron ingot. The crafting layout is like this, so don’t get it wrong.”
Ultimately, Jiang Xuan gave up on the idea of crafting an iron sword and shield for himself.
It wasn’t that he was heartless and only cared about his own survival.
Frankly, even someone like Zhongli probably couldn’t play it as safe as him in this world.
Keqing and Ganyu had followed him here; there was no reason to leave them in danger.
The two women could see Jiang Xuan’s reluctance when he placed down the iron ingots, but they didn’t say much.
They simply made a mental note to help him find more of this material in the future.
Gathering up a large pile of tools, Jiang Xuan handed them to Keqing and Ganyu, saying,
“Give them a try. They don’t compare to your regular weapons, but they should still be pretty good.”
After all, given their raw weight, even just swinging them like clubs would easily beat a Hilichurl to death.
Keqing and Ganyu exchanged a glance and expectantly took the shields from Jiang Xuan’s hands.
Ganyu was mostly fine, just struggling a bit as she gritted her teeth and held on.
But Keqing didn’t have Ganyu’s physical strength.
With a loud clatter, the shield dropped straight to the ground.
Keqing found it unbelievable.
She tried to swing the wooden sword in her hand with great difficulty.
“This… is too heavy, isn’t it? This sword has to weigh at least four or five hundred kilograms…”
“And this shield… it has to be over a ton, right?”
“Jiang Xuan, you’re incredibly strong…”
Although Keqing was a bit disappointed, she still cast an envious look at Ganyu and Jiang Xuan.
Jiang Xuan, however, fell into deep thought.
Honestly, this was an oversight on his part.
Things from the MC world were great.
But the most important point to consider was…
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It didn’t affect Steve to carry so many things, but who was Steve?
The God of Strength!
Keqing not being able to lift the shield meant that cutting down trees and mining would be extremely difficult for her.
It would even directly impact her ability to use crafted tools…
That wouldn’t do.
Without someone helping him clear the wilderness, Jiang Xuan couldn’t handle such a massive world on his own.
“System, is there any way to solve this?” Jiang Xuan asked in his mind.
After a moment of silence, the system’s voice suddenly rang out.
[Ding! Constitution synchronization function activated. Within the MC world, teammates selected by the host can share a portion of the Steve Physique. Note: This is only effective within the MC world.]
Hearing this, Jiang Xuan let out a sigh of relief.
He selected Ganyu and Keqing as his teammates, while cursing silently in his mind:
“System, you’re not being very honest. This is clearly a bug on your end, and you’re just sweeping it under the rug like it’s nothing?”
“When other people’s systems bug out, don’t they get some compensation?”
Unfortunately, no matter how much Jiang Xuan complained in his mind, the system remained dead silent.
Jiang Xuan could only curse it for being brain-dead and drop the matter.
Adjusting his mood, Jiang Xuan looked at Keqing with a smile and said,
“Try again. I’ve temporarily bound your constitution to mine, so you should have a portion of my strength.”
Jiang Xuan’s words were almost redundant.
The instant the binding was completed, Keqing and Ganyu both let out soft gasps of surprise, staring at their hands in disbelief.
“Such… such immense power…”
Keqing looked at Jiang Xuan in shock.
“I feel like right now, with raw strength alone, I could directly smash the Jade Chamber to pieces!”
“Jiang Xuan! Are you really this powerful? So that giant crater really was smashed out by you!”
Jiang Xuan shrugged and smiled.
“I told you, but you didn’t believe me!”
“But this kind of strength is just too absurd… Even Rex Lapis might not be as physically strong as I am right now…”
Ganyu still couldn’t wrap her head around it.
The wooden sword she had swung rather sluggishly just a moment ago could now be spun with effortless flair.
Jiang Xuan couldn’t help but marvel.
Who said Ganyu’s swordsmanship was poor?
She had lived for thousands of years; how could her swordsmanship be lacking? This chapter was taken from g.com without permission.
She was performing beautiful sword flowers now.
Still, Jiang Xuan didn’t feel any envy.
He was too lazy to learn swordsmanship anyway; the skills from the SlashBlade were more than enough.
And at other times…
Absolute strength breaks all techniques!
Possessing the Steve Physique, Jiang Xuan could proudly declare that in Teyvat, absolutely no one could withstand a single punch from him!
So why bother learning sword techniques?
A flurry of wild punches would easily beat any master to death!
Never mind your Vision or Gnosis.
If he threw a punch, it would hit harder than the Skyfrost Nail.
Could anyone even block that?
Since no one could take a punch, fist techniques and sword techniques…
Were mere parlor tricks!
“And this is only a fraction of your power? It feels completely unbelievable!”
Keqing shook her head.
Even though her worldview had been thoroughly shattered today, she still found this hard to accept.
“It’s just a special constitution!”
Jiang Xuan waved his hand with a smile.
“Give it a try. You should be able to lift these things now, right?”
Keqing nodded confidently.
“No problem! Absolutely no problem!”
With that, Keqing casually picked up the shield and wooden sword, giving them a few experimental swings.
They whipped through the air with a powerful whoosh; if she did this back in Teyvat, she would probably kick up a gale.
“Now we can go explore the world, right?”
Jiang Xuan laughed heartily, pushed the door wide open, and looked toward the morning sun, murmuring softly:
“Of course… A new world…”
“It is my world, and it will be your world too…”
10.
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