"Clang, clang, clang, clang." Crisp hammering rang endlessly through the spacious backyard of the wooden house.
A young man standing 1.82 meters tall, bare from the waist up with knotted muscles, held a small hammer. His eyes were lowered, his body slightly bent, his right shoulder held still as his wrist rose and fell lightly, rhythmically chiseling away at the forging table.
Beneath the hammer lay an exceptionally slender black needle.
Before long, the sound came to an abrupt stop, followed by a pleased murmur. "Done!"
Carefully picking up the Black Needle and storing it in the Soul Tool at his waist, Lin Manshan patted it with a delighted expression. "It's been a year. I've made the Sleeve Arrow, Hidden Sand Shooting, the Back-Mounted Flower Crossbow, and the Godly Zhuge Crossbow. I've even completed most of the Peacock Plume Twelve Divine Needles. Once I get a little stronger, maybe I'll be able to forge the Peacock Plume Inner Mechanism and its body too—the third-ranked Mechanical Hidden Weapon."
Unlike the first-ranked Buddha's Fury Tang Lotus and the second-ranked Rainstorm Pear Blossom Needles, whose required materials were Cold Heart Iron Essence and Deep Sea Silver Mother respectively, both materials were far too durable for him to shape with his current strength. The third-ranked Peacock Plume, on the other hand, required Mysterious Iron, which he could forge. The only problem was that shaping the material took far too long.
Besides, making the Peacock Plume Twelve Divine Needles was no easy task either. It was time-consuming, labor-intensive fine work.
Although he had obtained Lou Gao's Casting Handbook, he had not had much time to put its contents into practice.
Thus, over the past year, his focus in forging had mainly been on building a foundation and accumulating practical experience. Even when making Hidden Weapons,