Inside a forge in eastern Heaven Dou City, the heat was stifling. Tang San swung his forging hammer, pounding a red-hot crude iron billet and refining it into fine iron.
After so many days of effort, he had processed ten thousand jin of crude iron billets into two hundred jin of fine iron. A fiftyfold loss brought a twentyfold increase in value. An ordinary blacksmith would have long since taken it to the Blacksmith Association to exchange for money. Earning money through physical labor was what low-level blacksmiths liked best. For an ordinary family, raising a blacksmith meant escaping poverty and moving toward prosperity.
But Tang San no longer cared about the money from selling fine iron. He wanted to use it to forge components for the Godly Zhuge Crossbow, while its core confidential components required even higher-grade metal materials. Yet how could he possibly have the time to search for materials himself? The most direct methods were to purchase them from the Blacksmith Association or buy them at auction.
However, not every branch of the Blacksmith Association in every city possessed such materials. If he wanted to go anywhere, it would have to be the City of Metal—Gengxin City. That was a blacksmith's paradise, where vast quantities of metal materials were traded or auctioned. Tang San planned to make a trip to Gengxin City after graduation, find suitable metal materials, and make Hidden Weapons to sell.
"Splash." As the final piece of fine iron was tossed into the cooling pool, Tang San wiped the sweat from his forehead. He had finally hammered this last crude iron billet into fine iron. Starting tomorrow, he would no longer need to forge iron every day like he had today. It was also time to recruit some blacksmiths in Heaven Dou City and