Secretly Learning the Chaotic Cape Style Hammer Technique

Clang, clang, clang...

Dull hammering echoed through the small Forge Room. Tian Hao came over to watch after dinner.

"Chaotic Cape Style?"

Tian Hao narrowed his starry eyes slightly. He could tell that Tang Hao's smithing technique was likely the Clear Sky Sect's Chaotic Cape Style Hammer Technique.

He had once considered copying it himself. After all, stripped to its essence, it was merely a technique for borrowing force to strike with force. With the original story's explanations, it should not have been difficult to imitate.

Reality, however, gave him a resounding slap in the face. After trying for several years without producing any results, he realized he had oversimplified things.

No wonder. The Chaotic Cape Style Hammer Technique was the Clear Sky Sect's unique secret art. If it were so easy to copy, it would have become commonplace long ago.

Just look at that simp from Godwind Academy. It had taken him years just to develop a similar technique.

Without hesitation, he immediately entered a state of enlightenment. His thoughts and consciousness were elevated in every aspect, and Tang Hao's movements seemed to slow down in his eyes, allowing him to observe them more carefully.

After watching for about a minute, Tian Hao felt his head beginning to ache again and hurriedly ended the state of enlightenment.

The state of enlightenment fundamentally acted on himself, especially his brain.

His brain would not be able to endure it for too long. That morning, the pain had nearly made him kneel.

Tang Hao did not mind Tian Hao watching from the side, nor did he fear him secretly learning the technique.

The Chaotic Cape Style Hammer Technique could be said to be one of the Clear Sky Sect disciples' signature moves. Anyone with a Clear Sky Hammer could cultivate it, and it was often used in combat.

If it were that easy to steal, someone would have learned it long ago.

Before long, a spear forged from Iron Mother emerged from the furnace. Tang Hao tested its balance and felt immensely satisfied.

As one of the three great Divine Craftsmen of the age, his craftsmanship naturally needed no questioning.

"Why is your furnace so strange? The air channels twist and turn everywhere. Isn't that troublesome?"

Ah Yin stepped down from the foot-operated bellows, unable to understand why the furnace had been designed that way.

This furnace was very strange. It had two coal-burning openings, and the air channel ran from one side to the other in a crooked, winding path. Only the furnace at the end could even be used for forging; this one was sealed tightly, and she had no idea what it was for.

"I can tell you, but while you remain in the village, you have to keep that domain activated to help me recover and cultivate."

This time, Tian Hao did not discuss money. He changed to another method instead.

It had to be said that the Blue Silver Domain was truly powerful. It could not only restore physical strength and bodily injuries, but also Mental Power.

For example, the aftereffects of using the enlightenment function that morning should have taken at least several days, perhaps even longer, for the pressure in his head to subside. But with the Blue Silver Domain's assistance, he had almost recovered by the afternoon, and his depleted Mental Power had also been replenished.

"Is there some special trick to it?"

Ah Yin became interested. She had only asked casually, yet there really was something behind it.

Tang Hao, who was testing the Steel Spear's feel, also turned to look. He had examined that furnace before, but he could not figure out what it was for either.

If Ah Yin had not extended Blue Silver Grass into it from the bellows, they would never have known that it twisted around so many times inside. Could there truly be something he, a Divine Craftsman, could not see?

That could not be right.

"This Blue Silver Overlord Spear also contains my Blue Silver Domain. Though it isn't as strong as when I release it myself, it's enough to cover your courtyard."

Seeing Tian Hao's serious expression, Ah Yin did not refuse. She condensed a Blue Silver Overlord Spear and planted it in the courtyard. A pale blue domain spread outward, enveloping the entire yard.

Though her Blue Silver Overlord Spear was not especially strong, the Blue Silver Domain within it would spread out after the spear shattered to trap enemies. Under her control, it could also spread outward on its own, allowing her to release her domain away from her body.

"Although wind makes flames burn more fiercely, because the air's temperature is far lower than the flame's, part of the flame's heat is used to warm the air. But if you heat the air beforehand and then send it through, you can reduce that waste and raise the temperature of the flames."

Tian Hao walked over and gripped the Blue Silver Overlord Spear. As he sensed the Blue Silver Domain at close range, he explained.

Ah Yin merely came to a realization, but Tang Hao was struck as though by lightning, staring blankly at the furnace.

The principle was simple. He understood it after hearing it once, but precisely because he understood, he recognized its value even more clearly.

As a Divine Craftsman, he naturally understood the importance of flame temperature in forging. Many metals were heat-resistant and difficult to heat until red-hot. They had gone to great lengths to solve that problem, even specifically using charcoal made from Plant System soul beasts' wood to raise the flames' temperature.

Yet the principle Tian Hao had just described could solve that problem even better, with practically no additional loss.

Coming back to himself, Tang Hao transferred some of the glowing charcoal from the furnace used for heating iron into the adjacent furnace. Then he worked the bellows, sending air through the heated channels.

Once the charcoal fires in both furnaces were burning fiercely, he looked at the flame color, now different from before, and fell silent again.

A problem that had plagued the Clear Sky Sect for years had been solved just like that?

Combined with charcoal made from Plant System soul beasts, the temperature could certainly rise even higher. Its importance to the Clear Sky Sect, renowned throughout the world for forging, was self-evident.

Tang Hao even had the urge to abandon everything and immediately return to the sect to tell his father about this method.

But in the end, he restrained himself. Ah Yin would not stay here for too long anyway, at most one month. He could wait.

"Ah Yin!"

Thinking of this, Tang Hao picked up the spear he had just forged and gestured to Ah Yin. It was time to cultivate.

A hammer was too cumbersome and unsuitable for fighting atop those Stone Balls. A spear was just right.

Ah Yin did not say much. She glanced at Tian Hao, who was studying the Blue Silver Overlord Spear, then followed Tang Hao out toward the training ground where they had cultivated during the day.

"As expected, I can gain destiny from this too, and quite a bit at that. Once word reaches the Clear Sky Sect, I'll surely gain another huge wave of destiny!"

After the two left, a faint smile curled Tian Hao's lips.

Naturally, he was not truly being generous. Revealing that method had primarily been an experiment in gaining destiny. Just now, another wave of destiny had entered his account, and it was no small amount.

He wiped away his smile and continued studying the Blue Silver Overlord Spear.

"As expected of the Blue Silver Domain."

After studying it for quite some time, he let out a breath. He grew even more envious of the Blue Silver Domain.

Once cultivated to the extreme, the Blue Silver Domain could convert Life Force into any form of energy. It could be converted into Soul Power, Mental Power, and physical strength. Not only was it extremely effective in battle, it was even more powerful for assisting cultivation.

In just this short while, the Mental Power he had consumed maintaining the enlightenment function had been fully restored. He felt energetic and refreshed, as though he had just awakened from a good sleep. The headache from earlier had also vanished.

Of course, this was mainly because he had directly touched the Blue Silver Overlord Spear with his hand this time, allowing the Blue Silver Domain's effects to work more effectively.

"I have to learn the Blue Silver Domain!"

Having made up his mind, Tian Hao thought highly of the Blue Silver Domain's energy-conversion property.

Many novels from his previous life emphasized the Daoist process of refining essence into qi and qi into spirit. It was a relationship of conversion between essence, qi, and spirit.

But that conversion did not exist in this other world. Even a Soul Master's Mental Power mostly came from devouring a soul beast's Mental Power or even soul when fusing with a soul ring. There was no method for converting Soul Power into Mental Power.

He believed cultivation required purity. Otherwise, it would be detrimental to breakthroughs in the later stages.

Fusing a soul beast's power was equivalent to contaminating oneself, and one had to contaminate oneself nine times in succession. No wonder so few people achieved Super Douluo, let alone a level ninety-nine Peak Douluo or reaching level one hundred to become a god.

If he could learn the Blue Silver Domain, he could use that Daoist theory to convert essence, qi, and spirit, cultivating every aspect of himself and becoming an all-capable fighter.

But now was not the time. Mainly because he was too weak and had not yet earned the right to scheme for such power.

(Tang Hao: Ah Yin, I need a hundred-thousand-year Plant System soul beast as fuel to forge a divine weapon. Make a contribution, will you? I'll give you my recommendation vote!)