Inside the blacksmith shop.
"Boss, make all these exercise machines according to the blueprints I drew. This is the deposit. Once they're finished, just deliver them to Shrek Academy. I'll pay you the remaining Gold Soul Coins afterward."
"All right, Dean Shen. These things aren't very difficult to make. I can finish them in two days. When the time comes, I'll have someone deliver them to you!"
After taking a rough look at the blueprints Shen He had given him, the blacksmith shop's manager saw that they were merely strange contraptions assembled from ordinary iron rods. He weighed the bag of Gold Soul Coins Shen He had handed over and said enthusiastically,
"Dean Shen, may I ask what you're making these machines for?"
"It's nothing special. They're just exercise equipment for the students' training."
"Training equipment for Soul Masters? Then I'll definitely use the sturdiest materials. Rest assured, Dean Shen!"
Tang San and Great Master Yu happened to arrive at the blacksmith shop just as Shen He finished paying and was preparing to leave.
"Dean Shen, what are you doing here?"
Seeing Shen He pay, Great Master Yu immediately stepped forward to establish a connection, trying to leave the impression in the manager's mind that he knew Shen He. That would make it easier for him to fool the blacksmith into extending credit for the materials later.
"I'm just ordering some training equipment. What are you doing here?"
"Of course we're here to discuss a partnership. It's an order worth hundreds of thousands of Gold Soul Coins. I just don't know whether the owner of this blacksmith shop is interested!"
As Great Master Yu spoke with Shen He, he cast an inconspicuous glance at the blacksmith shop's owner.
The moment the owner heard Great Master Yu mention an order worth hundreds of thousands of Gold Soul Coins, his eyes lit up. Seeing how familiar Great Master Yu seemed with Shen He, he also decided that this must be a major customer.
"Sir, what do you need?"
"Oh, it's nothing major. Just a long-term order. There'll probably be several hundred sets of custom parts. If the quality is satisfactory, we can cooperate over the long term."
Great Master Yu spoke calmly, as though he didn't care about such a small sum of money, and didn't mention the deposit at all.
"What exactly are they?"
"Little San, show the boss your designs."
Upon hearing Great Master Yu's words, Tang San immediately took out the Hidden Weapon blueprints he had prepared long ago, already broken down into individual parts.
"All these things have to be made from refined iron! Make a few sets of samples first. If they're satisfactory, we can cooperate over the long term."
The blacksmith shop's owner looked at the many parts and couldn't make up his mind for a moment.
"You designed these blueprints?"
"They were designed by my disciple, Little San!"
Great Master Yu spoke with great pride, as if he had made them himself.
"Can these parts really be assembled? This child is so young. I doubt he even knows how to use a hammer. What if he's just bragging? If they can't be assembled, won't that ruin my blacksmith shop's reputation?"
Hearing the owner's words, Tang San felt that the man didn't know quality when he saw it.
Actually, the owner couldn't really be blamed. The Tang Sect's Hidden Weapons all had special assembly methods. How could an ordinary blacksmith shop owner possibly recognize them?
To prove himself, Tang San decided to show the owner what he could do and let him know that he understood blacksmithing as well.
After all, his father was a blacksmith, and his own martial soul was a blacksmith's hammer. He was the beloved son of every blacksmith on the entire Douluo Continent!
Shen He had originally planned to leave once he was finished, but seeing Tang San and Great Master Yu appear here, he would have been letting himself down if he didn't farm some experience. Thus, he stayed to see whether he could get the system some experience.
Tang San led everyone straight to a workstation inside the blacksmith shop. With great familiarity, he picked up a piece of iron, placed it on the anvil, and stoked the fire. Then he grabbed a forging hammer from the side and prepared to display his superb technique.
Tang San raised the forging hammer horizontally in front of him, his eyes blazing as he stared at the raw iron in the furnace. He exhaled and shouted, then suddenly swung the forging hammer. His feet dug firmly into the ground, his calves abruptly exerted force, and the strength traveled upward. His body turned halfway, and the enormous forging hammer swept through a complete arc in the air before striking the raw iron heavily.
Then, using the rebound of the hammer, Tang San quickly spun around and brought the iron hammer down on the glowing raw iron with even greater force than before.
Under Tang San's continuous blows, the piece of raw iron kept shrinking. The blacksmith shop's owner was utterly stunned as he watched.
"Could this be the legendary Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer, which uses successive strikes to borrow and apply force?"
"Hmph! Now you know how formidable my disciple is, don't you?"
Hearing the blacksmith recognize the hammer technique Tang San was using, Great Master Yu spoke with extreme smugness. Anyone who didn't know better might have thought he had taught it to him.
Seeing Great Master Yu act so smugly, Shen He felt somewhat annoyed. Tang San was still hammering the iron, and the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer had already reached its thirty-sixth strike. With a thought, Shen He used the narration system and began making modifications.
[Tang San slammed his hammer onto the iron.]
The word "iron" immediately changed into "Kun."
This modification caused the nearest Great Master Yu to suffer.
Tang San had originally been working, but when he heard Great Master Yu doing nothing except bragging noisily nearby, he felt somewhat irritated. Then, under the system's influence, he became distracted. The hammer that had been meant to strike the iron slipped off the iron block and headed straight for Great Master Yu's lower body.
The forging hammer, carrying an incredibly powerful buildup of momentum, shot directly toward Great Master Yu's Kun-kun. After a scream, Great Master Yu suffered a fatal cock strike.
But that wasn't the end. Shen He continued modifying the narration.
[Tang San was shocked when he saw that Yu Xiaogang had been hit by his attack.]
The word "shocked" changed into "delighted."
Thus, the scene became one where Tang San, after delivering a fatal cock strike to Great Master Yu, pointed at Great Master Yu—who was clutching his Kun-kun and crying in pain—and laughed uproariously.
Everyone had originally assumed Tang San had merely struck him by accident. But after seeing this master-and-disciple laughing scene, they understood that Tang San had deliberately missed the iron. One after another, they felt a chill in their lower bodies, afraid that Tang San might give each of them another blow as well.
What kind of grudge was this?
The blacksmith shop's owner, whose imagination was overflowing, drew on his own life experiences and imagined a scene in which a master envied his disciple's talent and seized his disciple's inventions. The disciple was angry but dared not express it, enduring patiently until he could bear it no longer and carried out a long-planned fatal cock strike against his master.
Wait, why did he have to attack his master's Kun-kun?
That didn't make sense either!
Could it be that this master had wanted to keep his disciple firmly under his control, even taking advantage of the disciple's sleeping state at night and assaulting his chrysanthemum, while threatening him not to tell anyone?
Since blacksmith shops were full of men, and few women took a liking to blacksmiths who spent all day hammering iron, the blacksmith shop's owner had seen plenty of things between men. He therefore found it even more likely that this was exactly what had happened.
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