Six Hundred Pounds of Strength

Back at the Blacksmith Shop, the joyful expressions on the father and sons' faces told all the blacksmiths that the Tie Family had gained another hammer.

They all offered their congratulations.

Tie Xiong was currently fiddling with his Forging Hammer Martial Soul.

No, it was no longer a Forging Hammer.

My Martial Soul was the Heaven Breaking Hammer. That was right—the name had been chosen by Tie Xiong himself.

How could it not have a cool name?

The Heaven Breaking Hammer was black all over and appeared utterly ordinary.

Without Soul Power infused into it, its handle was only half a foot long, while its hammerhead was a square column surrounded by faint strands of black light!

It was completely different from the Clear Sky Hammer, whose hammerhead was cylindrical.

Tie Xiong focused his mind. "Retract!"

The Heaven Breaking Hammer vanished at once.

Tie Xiong extended his right hand again, and the Heaven Breaking Hammer reappeared.

He did this nine times in a row.

Tie Xiong's body swayed, and he suddenly woke from his daze. His Soul Power was nearly exhausted.

He hurriedly retracted the Heaven Breaking Hammer.

Tie Long and Tie Hu, standing nearby, both secretly laughed.

Hadn't they been the same when their Martial Souls first awakened? They had played with them endlessly as though they were toys.

"Little brother, try meditating to restore your Soul Power. When your Soul Power is exhausted, cultivation is the fastest way to recover it!" Tie Long said.

Without a second thought, Tie Xiong sat down cross-legged.

He closed his eyes and recalled the Meditation Method his father had taught him!

Before his Martial Soul had awakened, Tie Xiong had also tried cultivating with the Meditation Method.

The result was that, no matter what he did, he could not sense any Soul Power.

But that matched Tie Xiong's expectations.

If people could cultivate before awakening their Martial Souls, then there would be no such thing as Innate Soul Power.

Wouldn't great powers like Spirit Hall, the Heaven Dou Empire, and the Star Luo Empire be able to mass-produce geniuses with Innate Soul Power at rank ten?

As for the Mysterious Heaven Skill Tang San cultivated, that belonged to another system. It relied entirely on the Eight Extraordinary Meridians system of the martial arts world to develop the human body. Tang San had the cultivation foundation of his previous life and was familiar with it, so he could practice it.

But the Douluo World relied too heavily on Martial Souls and had not developed cultivation methods that did not depend on them.

Meditation techniques must have been created on the foundation of Martial Souls, so they could only be cultivated after one's Martial Soul awakened.

At this moment, Tie Xiong focused all his spiritual power on the Heaven Breaking Hammer.

He immediately sensed the specks of Soul Power within his body, as well as the attribute-less Soul Power in the air.

As Tie Xiong activated the Meditation Method, he felt the Heaven Breaking Hammer emit a warm energy that guided the circulation of Soul Power within his body.

At the same time, it drew external Soul Power into his body.

Half an hour passed in the blink of an eye. The scattered specks of Soul Power had already gathered into a stream and slowly circulated once through his body, moving at a very sluggish pace.

The route through his meridians was entirely brought about by the Heaven Breaking Hammer Martial Soul, not by the Meditation Method.

Presumably, people with different Martial Souls followed different circulation routes.

The Meditation Method was more about applying one's spiritual power to the Martial Soul, stimulating its abilities, and allowing the Martial Soul to lead the entire cultivation process.

No wonder the grade of one's Martial Soul determined a person's upper limit.

A Martial Soul was essentially an innate cultivation method. The Meditation Method guided Soul Power cultivation on the basis of that Martial Soul.

Low-grade Martial Souls presumably involved few meridians and absorbed Soul Power inefficiently, making cultivation slow.

The effects brought by a Top-tier Martial Soul were naturally on an entirely different level.

Of course, some people cultivated without following the route guided by their Martial Souls, such as Tang San with his Mysterious Heaven Skill.

But that required a complete cultivation method.

The Mysterious Heaven Skill was a method passed down through generations of the Tang Sect. It was mature and would not harm the body.

Without a cultivation method, Tie Xiong naturally did not dare let his Soul Power circulate through other meridians.

If he tried circulating it through other meridians himself, it would be equivalent to creating an entirely new cultivation method.

The difficulty involved was obvious.

With his first cultivation session using the Meditation Method, Tie Xiong came to understand many things.

Having finished cultivating, Tie Xiong opened his eyes.

He saw Tie Long and Tie Hu guarding him nearby.

"If you still didn't wake up, we would've left without you. Mother's Bear Paw is already done!" Tie Hu said with a grin.

This little brother was good in every way, except that he was too obsessed with cultivation.

"Then what are we waiting for?" Tie Xiong immediately got to his feet and ran toward the dining hall.

Tie Long and Tie Hu widened their eyes and hurried after him.

Upon reaching the dining hall, the three brothers immediately saw five basins the size of heads on the table.

Inside were five Bear Paws, giving off an enticing aroma.

How could Tie Xiong possibly hold himself back?

He rushed over, picked up a Bear Paw as large as his face, and began gnawing on it.

Although the Bear Paw was hot, years of hammer practice had already formed calluses on his palms. His hands looked smooth as jade and no different from ordinary hands, but in truth, they had undergone countless rounds of tempering.

This little bit of heat was naturally nothing.

His name contained the character for bear, but he had no resistance at all to eating Bear Paw.

At the same time, he thought it would be best if he could hunt a top-tier bear-type soul beast for his first soul ring.

Not only would he get to eat Bear Paw, it would also suit his plan to follow the Hammer King's fierce and powerful path.

Tie Long and Tie Hu were no better. They directly grabbed Bear Paws and started gnawing on them as well!

Chen smiled so broadly that her mouth would not close.

All three of her sons had awakened their Martial Souls and possessed Innate Soul Power at rank five, surpassing their father.

Chen was deeply satisfied.

After swallowing a Bear Paw, Tie Xiong felt his entire body brimming with energy.

"Mother, I'm going to practice hammering!" Tie Xiong's eyes shone brightly as he shouted.

"Go on, go on!" Chen said helplessly.

Tie Xiong extended his right hand, and the Heaven Breaking Hammer appeared in it.

It weighed ten jin and eight liang.

By the time Tie Xiong arrived at the forging platform, the Heaven Breaking Hammer in his hand had doubled in size.

Its handle was over thirty centimeters long.

The hammer itself radiated black light.

Tie Xiong wanted to see how many strikes of the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer he could perform with his rank-five Soul Power.

Soul Power circulated, and this time Tie Xiong quickly reached the eighth strike. His eyes lit up.

Clang, clang—another two consecutive strikes followed.

By the eleventh strike, Tie Xiong felt the rebounding force from the Heaven Breaking Hammer increase greatly.

For the first ten strikes, the borrowed force increased by at most ten percent each time. By the eleventh strike, that increase had risen to at least twenty percent.

Clang, clang, clang—another three ringing blows.

Only then did Tie Xiong stop, panting heavily. He spun twice to dissipate the force accumulated in the Heaven Breaking Hammer.

At that moment, he felt his entire body trembling. His bones, flesh, hands, and arms all shook from the hammer's recoil.

His whole body felt as though it were falling apart.

Fourteen strikes—fourteen full strikes.

Tie Xiong excitedly pumped his fist.

He calculated that the final blow that landed on the forging platform carried nearly six hundred pounds of force.

He was only six years old, with Soul Power at just rank five. If that terrifying six-hundred-pound force struck someone, even a Soul Master would likely be smashed to pulp.

This Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer truly deserved to be called a divine skill for blacksmiths.

It was not only a hammer technique; it could also temper the body. It even contained all kinds of hammer-wielding techniques and could strengthen one's foundation to the greatest extent.

After more than five years of training, now that he had a Martial Soul, the time had finally come to reap the rewards. Tie Xiong was extremely excited.

It seemed that tomorrow, he could tell his father about his plans.