Next Steps for the Disciples

The task of settling the blacksmiths took an entire day.

By the time the last batch of blacksmiths who had chosen to stay had settled into Baican Village, night had fallen. Si Long and Si Yu had been so busy their feet barely touched the ground, and only now did they deliver the list to Lou Gao.

The Soul Tool Hall was brightly lit.

For once, Lou Gao had stepped out of the forging room today. He held the list Si Long had given him earlier, his face filled with barely contained delight.

He and Xuan Ziwen, who sat beside him, pointed at the list and discussed it from time to time.

"Fifty-five master-level blacksmiths, including eight grandmasters." Lou Gao stroked his beard, grinning from ear to ear. "Now we finally have enough hands!"

Back when the Soul Tool Hall had just been established, aside from him and Ju Zi, there had only been thirty-odd blacksmiths who had followed him from Gengjin City.

Though people had gradually joined later, there still were not even fifty of them.

Now things were different. So many skilled hands had arrived at once, and the Soul Tool Hall was finally starting to look the part!

Xuan Ziwen also looked deeply gratified. "With this group, we can put our mass-production plan for Soul Tools on the agenda. But..." He paused and looked at Lou Gao. "Although their skills are solid, their understanding of Soul Tools is still limited. They will likely need some time for training."

After all, ordinary blacksmiths and Soul Tool blacksmiths were entirely different concepts. Knowing how to forge metal did not mean one knew how to carve Soul Tool Arrays.

This was something they needed to learn from the very beginning.

"There's no rush." Lou Gao waved a hand. "Let them