The Original Characters' Progress (I)

Ever since Bibi Dong and Tang Hao had successively divided the soul master army into soul master squads and deployed them in all directions, the situation on the battlefields surrounding Gengxin City had undergone another obvious change.

Because the seven-person soul master squads were highly mobile and no longer restricted by the fixed routes of large armies, the scope of the battlefield had expanded accordingly.

Now, within a hundred-li radius centered on Gengxin City, whether across flat plains or rugged mountain ranges, every area had become a battlefield where the soul master squads of both sides fought fiercely.

Across this vast battlefield, sudden ambushes could break out anywhere.

Unlike the tense atmosphere outside, the blacksmithing department within Gengxin City was bustling with fiery activity.

In order to provide the frontline soul master squads with more weapons that were better suited to their hands, the blacksmiths forged almost day and night without rest.

Within countless blacksmith shops, the sounds of hammers striking iron ingots rang out one after another. This unceasing pounding had become the loudest "war song" in the city.

Inside the largest blacksmith shop in the city, Divine Craftsman Lou Gao stood before a forge, concentrating on crafting two new hidden weapons under Tang San's guidance.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The flames in the forge burned fiercely, heating a block of black iron until it glowed red.

Holding a heavy hammer, Lou Gao brought it down on the iron ingot again and again. Every strike was precise and powerful, continuously compressing and folding the metal.

Under his superb forging skills, impurities gradually faded from the glowing red ingot, and it slowly became a collection of neatly shaped components.

In less than half an hour, the table in the center of the blacksmith shop was already neatly covered with hidden weapon