First Meeting with a Divine Craftsman

Heaven Dou City.

It had existed twenty thousand years ago. As early as the era of Spirit Hall, it had been one of the continent's foremost major cities.

Back then, it had been the capital of the Heaven Dou Empire.

It was only after later becoming a city of the Federation that it had declined into an ordinary city.

At the same time, it was also very close to Shrek City, the continent's largest city. It could be said to lie within the core region of the entire Douluo Continent.

This city was not as bustling as imagined. Instead, it gave off an ancient, rustic feeling.

Looking around, there was scarcely a single high-rise in all of Heaven Dou City. As far as the eye could see, the tallest things were merely ancient trees.

Leng Yaozhu brought Li Jinsheng and Gu Yue to the Spirit Pagoda of Heaven Dou City.

Because Heaven Dou City was a historic city, the Federation had stipulated that all buildings could not exceed fifty meters in height in order to preserve the city's original appearance as much as possible. In other words, they were limited to fewer than ten floors.

Even the Spirit Pagoda was no exception.

"Is this Heaven Dou City?" Li Jinsheng pressed himself against the car window, curiously watching the city around him.

Leng Yaozhu sat in the middle with her legs crossed, her red dress making the interior mood lighting feel warm. Smiling, she replied, "Heaven Dou City is a historic city. For urban development, its cultural heritage must be protected as much as possible. It is also a famous tourist destination."

Before she had even finished speaking, the car abruptly slowed. An endless sea of crimson taillights appeared ahead, while horns blared one after another, shattering the afternoon's leisure.

"Why are so many people coming to Heaven Dou City on the first day of the holiday?"

The driver muttered a curse and began the long wait.

Gu Yue turned her gaze toward the window, quietly watching the ancient buildings around them. Her eyes seemed to reflect the vicissitudes of history.

Finally, she looked toward the black Heaven Dou Blacksmith Association building not far away. It was only a kilometer away, yet time seemed incomparably long at this moment.

Li Jinsheng stared blankly at the sidewalk. Why was there even a guardrail? That path was clearly very... No, at this distance, walking there directly would be faster than being stuck here.

About fifteen minutes later, the car finally passed through the traffic and slid into the parking lot of the Heaven Dou Blacksmith Association.

Leng Yaozhu got out first, her red high heels landing lightly on the ground. Li Jinsheng followed on her right, dressed in white, while Gu Yue, wearing a white ancient-style dress, followed on Leng Yaozhu's left.

The moment they entered the first-floor lobby, they found it already packed with people. The staff had cordoned off an area in the center of the hall, roughly twenty meters in diameter, where a Forging Table had been placed.

As it happened, today was also the day the Divine Craftsman gave a lecture.

Zhen Hua gave lectures from time to time, and only the Heaven Dou City Blacksmith Association enjoyed such treatment.

Listening to the Divine Craftsman teach once was far more useful than painstakingly studying and training on their own.

"Jinsheng, you really are lucky. You run into a Divine Craftsman's lecture the moment you arrive!" Leng Yaozhu said with a smile.

"Then wait for me here. I'm going to squeeze in and take a look!" Li Jinsheng was extremely interested in the Divine Craftsman's lecture. Without hesitation, he plunged straight into the crowd. If anyone blocked him too tightly, he simply lifted them aside.

"What just darted past?"

"Why am I flying?!"

"Fuck..."

One after another, puzzled exclamations came from the blacksmiths. The staff saw the densely packed crowd rise and fall like waves.

A small figure darted through them, quickly reaching the inner circle.

The two women outside the circle utterly refused to admit they knew this thing.

Most of the blacksmiths beside Li Jinsheng were in an excited state. No one noticed when a little fellow had squeezed inside.

The moment Li Jinsheng reached the front row, he saw a middle-aged man with black hair and black eyes. He was exceptionally handsome.

He looked only to be in his thirties, but his eyes were filled with vicissitude and depth, something impossible for someone his age to possess. His temples were completely white, forming a sharp contrast with the black hair atop his head.

It was clearly a sign of excessive vitality consumption.

Yet the most striking thing was his hands. They were at least fifty percent larger than an ordinary person's palms, but they lacked prominent knuckles. Fair and slender, they looked like a woman's hands enlarged several times over.

Even the skin on his palms was crystal-clear, like jade.

"So this is a Divine Craftsman?" Li Jinsheng could not help but sigh. He swore that he would become a Divine Craftsman in the future, then ruthlessly extort every faction.

At that moment, the Divine Craftsman stood behind the Forging Table and lectured. He was discussing Spirit Forging techniques—how to strengthen one's connection with metal and better awaken the life within it.

Li Jinsheng listened with rapt attention. As he watched Zhen Hua's demonstration, all sorts of Elements between heaven and earth danced excitedly, appearing out of thin air around the metal.

That was Spirit Forging—and Spirit Forging Creation at that!

The dense Life Aura made Li Jinsheng feel as though he were standing within a Primeval Forest, leaving him especially excited.

Listening to Zhen Hua's explanation, Li Jinsheng benefited greatly.

As time passed, Zhen Hua finally finished explaining the key points of Spirit Forging. Li Jinsheng felt that he had gained a deeper understanding of awakening life.

For blacksmiths, Spirit Forging was an insurmountable bottleneck. Most of the blacksmiths present were likely stuck at this bottleneck, while some were only third-rank blacksmiths and had not even touched upon it yet.

Listening to a Divine Craftsman's lecture was, in itself, a pilgrimage for blacksmiths.

Zhen Hua noticed Li Jinsheng in the front row, his gaze burning with passion, and smiled. "Little friend, do you also want to become a blacksmith?"

"I'm already a blacksmith!" the boy answered honestly.

"Really? Want to give it a try?" Zhen Hua smiled faintly, as if he had seen his own youthful passion for forging in the other's eyes.

"Sure!"

Li Jinsheng felt his hands burning with anticipation and slipped straight past the barrier in front of him.

"What metal do you want?"

"Heavy Silver!"

"Alright!"

Zhen Hua noticed that Li Jinsheng's palms were larger than those of others his age, and exceptionally beautiful, glowing with a Feicui-like vitality.

Once the Heavy Silver had finished heating, Li Jinsheng took out his pair of Obsidian Gold Hammers. When Zhen Hua saw that they were Spirit Forged Metal, he could not help but freeze.

If he was not mistaken, those hammers were linked to the boy's bloodline. They were Forging Hammers that had undergone Blood Sacrifice; only the master who had performed the Blood Sacrifice could reforge them.

He had set a record for the entire forging world by advancing to Sixth-Grade Forging Master at eighteen, yet this child before him...

had already pushed the record for Fifth-Grade Forging Master to an unprecedented height.

Li Jinsheng extended his left hand and lightly tapped the Heavy Silver, sensing the changes within the metal. This was something Zhen Hua had never considered before.

The next instant, an intensely pure and rich life energy wrapped around the twin hammers.

Boom!

With just one strike, all impurities were expelled from the once-red-hot Heavy Silver.

One hammer blow! Hundred Forges Purification!

Zhen Hua straightened slightly, staring at Li Jinsheng with wide eyes!

How old was he? One hammer blow for a hundred forges.

His earlier judgment had been correct—he had the potential of a Divine Craftsman!

My craft will have a successor!

It truly will have a successor!

As long as he held on for less than another twenty years, a new Divine Craftsman would be born!