12. Zanpakuto.

Sitting in front of me was a pitch black medical cauldron nearly identical to the nightmare demon pot.

It stood on 4 little legs and had a lid, various runes were carved from top to bottom.

"Well that's one down. A couple more to go." I wipe some of the black smudge off my face and turn toward the molten blob.

I pull out another blob of molten metal.

I can use a couple of fighting style effectively, fists, katana, and hidden weapons.

I start to hammer out a basic zanpakuto. I put in the blank soul I had from one the katars.

The next two items I hammer out are a set of gauntlets and a dagger.

The gauntlets will also be a soul based weapon and the dagger just a really sharp fucking dagger.

The rest of the meteor metal was used to make various hidden weapons such as throwing knives, shuriken, needles, shoe knife, wrist dart, and a couple other bits and bobs.

I carve in various runes and formations to add durability, auto retrieval, to the cave. This is mostly so I dont have to pick up the weapons I throw.

It had taken almost 3 days of nonstop forging. I had even broken multiple smithing hammers and needed fo forge my own.

By the time I was done I was dead exhausted from keeping the flames going the entire time so my metal wouldnt cool down.

However on the plus side all the metal was super attuned to my body and soul.

"I'll have to add some finishing touches like wraps, a sheathe and some other odds and ends but for now I'm fucking done." I exit the soul realm and get ready to head to bed only to spot Ye Mu looking at me curiously.

"Yes?" I ask more soot than human.

"You haven't been to dinner in three days so I came to check on you." She says with a frown.

"Sorry I was forging a couple of weapons and lost track of time." I say plopping down in the ground and wiping away soot.

"Want me to have the maids run you a bath?" She asks with a grin.

"Yes please, and can I have some food?" I ask hearing my stomach grumble.

"Of course." She says before calling for the maid which start running me a bath and preparing food.

I sip on some ice cold water while I wait.

As soon as the food is in front of me I devour it quickly.

"So three days straight of forging weapons huh?" Ye Mu asks.

"Yeah and a new medical cauldron." I bite into a delicious chunk of roast beef. "If you could have the servants buy any kind of old medical supplies or rotten medicines, or even old pills I'll pay for them."

"Old pills? What for?" She asks curiously.

"My cauldron eats them to get stronger." I explain.

"I'm sure I can arrange something with the alchemist guild. Are you sure you dont wish to join them?" She asks.

"Perfectly sure." I agree before passing her a spatial ring with money inside of it and heading to the bath.

"You know you keep avoiding meeting my daughter why is that?" She asks from my bedroom as I hop into the tub.

What am I supposed to say exactly? To stop more butterfly effects? Pfft. I'm not even interested in the older Ziyun, only Ning'er because of her hard working personality and loyalty.

"I've been studying and cultivating. You expect me to just run around and play in the mud or something?" I ask.

"My daughter does not play in the mud. Besides you are 6 you should act like it. You spend way too much time cooped up in this room." she says.

"Well I'm a busy boy you know." I laugh as I scrub soot off turning the water black.

A quick scrub down and some new clothes and I'm ready for bed. I can go months without sleeping but I still enjoy a good night's rest.

"Still here?" I ask as she is still sitting in my room.

"Of course. This is the best cultivation spot in the manor." She says with a grin.

"Probably true. You could cultivate in the sacred border though now." I say hopping into my bed.

The cave guards me while I sleep kind of like Gaaras sand armor so I dont have worry about being attacked.

I quickly passed out and went to bed.

The next morning I woke up with Ye Mu still cutlivatinf quietly near my bed. i just shrug before standing up and heading to my small kitchen and pulling out some leftovers for breakfast.

I also plop the nightmare cauldron on the table and start feeding it bad pills, and old stuff I had laying around in my spatial ring. Things like left over herb cuttings or damaged herbs also get thrown in.

"So this is your new cauldron?" Ye Mu asks sitting down at the table and staring at it curiously.

"Yes, I'll be able to make higher tiered pills and medicines with a cauldron, I've been just using my hand and soul fire to make medicines in the air." I explain.

She just sighs. "You really should join the alchemist association. You could get much better resources for alchemy."

"And be held back by those idiots doing grunt work? I think not. I would rather just be left alone for now than have those blowhards kissing my ass for pill recipes." I say with a frown.

"But you could do so much good for the city." she says.

I just shake my head and stuff more pills into the cauldron.

"That will come eventually but for now I've got others things I'm working on. Besides you said I should act more like a child. What 6 year old works for the alchemist foundation?" i say with a laugh.

"Ah you got me there." she admits.