Intent Soaring to the Heavens

"What? Open the furnace to smelt iron?" Liu Xin looked astonished, glancing at Qiu Yan and then at the crucible furnace. Anger flashed across his face. "That pipe just now broke through the furnace wall and destroyed the furnace. How can we open it?"

Although Liu Xin was lazy and gluttonous, he had still learned some of the iron-smelting skills from his family. Moreover, Qiu Yan had confidently promised to help him, but then broke the furnace open. The contrast between his words and actions naturally made him dissatisfied.

At this moment, the old woman also entered the inner room and began to complain, "What are you trying to do with all this leather bag and hanging rod? You've turned a perfectly good shop into this mess!"

Even the few men who had been subdued by Hu Qi and Dai Guo looked displeased, though they wanted to speak, their expressions containing a hint of anger.

"Oh?" Qiu Yan sensed a chaotic intent emanating from these people, containing the fire element. Suddenly, his mind cleared. "Unnamed fire rising? Fury? So that's it. The Fire Sovereign, the Fire Sovereign God. This fire is indeed not just ordinary fire. I just don't know if the current situation is the instinctive resistance of the Domain of Law, or if the gods have already taken notice of this place."

As he changed his mind, a surge of anger, like a wildfire, coursed through the minds of several people, including Hu Qi and Dai Guo. However, the anger of these two Life Cultivation was directed at the other people in the room!

"We were just trying to help them, and they're so ungrateful!"

"In the past, without your restraint, young master, these people would have already..."

Anger ignited in everyone's hearts. Even the village headman showed a nasty expression, glaring at Qiu Yan with disgust.

"What a brilliant Divine Path intervention! Using magic to ignite fire, burning with rage! But that suits me just the way I want it!"

Qiu Yan narrowed his eyes, suddenly put down what he was holding, and with a flick of his wrists, his sleeves fluttered, and invisible fragments flew out from his hands, landing in the hearts of the village head, the old woman, Liu Xin, and the other blacksmiths, taking root there.

Then, Qiu Yan's fingers moved, forming a hand seal. This seal was one of the three fundamental techniques of the Upper Spirit Sect.

Unmoving Seal!

Soul techniques are performed using the soul, while Dao Arts consume the Heart Fire. One must condense the Divine Soul before one can perform them properly; otherwise, forcing them to operate will inevitably damage the cultivator's Soul Dao foundation.

However, Qiu Yan's Three Souls Half-Step Fusion, and although his Heart Fire had not yet manifested, he could already roughly comprehend it. Therefore, there was no great harm in unleashing it at this time.

As soon as the Unmoving Seal, a sense of stability and suppression filled the surrounding air.

Without pausing, Qiu Yan shifted his thoughts, his muscles trembled, his Qi and Blood and qi surged, and his vocal cords tightened. He opened his mouth and said, "Clever words corrupt morality, and a small lack of patience can ruin a great plan! Why should you let momentary anger cloud your judgment? Hmm?"

When Qiu Yan uttered these words, he intended to borrow the words of a sage, Dao Integration arts, and simultaneously amplify his Life Cultivation Qi and Blood to suppress the anger of those around him. Unexpectedly, as soon as he spoke, the Unmoving Seal on his hand suddenly trembled, resonating with his body, and a flash of Spiritual Light suddenly appeared in his mind!

Shock!

As the Living Soul stirred, the two volumes of Sage Worthies' Words on the bookshelf within it shone brightly. The other bookshelves also trembled and rippled, stirring up deep emotions within the soul. The two words "knowledge" and "action" that had been gleaned from the soul were revealed and rose, "knowledge" entering the soul and "action" attaching to the spirit!

Instantly, his limbs and bones trembled, and his Qi and Blood surged!

Boom!

A tremendous will surged forth from his Qi and Blood!

Such a change would be noticeable even to ordinary people, let alone Hu Qi and Dai Guo, two experts in the Fate Dao. The two immediately changed color, disregarding everything else, and looked at Qiu Yan with a look of horror.

"Martial Dao Will?"

"Martial Dao Will? Isn't that a martial arts technique equivalent to Dao Arts?"

This thought flashed through Qiu Yan's mind, and then his soul and spirit merged faintly, his aura surged, and the hand seals on his hands burst forth with the intent to stop everything and suppress the present moment!

This atmosphere expanded wildly, bursting out of the blacksmith's shop in the blink of an eye, beyond the alley, spreading to the riverbank, covering half the town, and not stopping there, then crossing the river and extending towards the other half of the town!

Expand! Expand! Expand!

In the town, all sorts of people froze, their minds stilled, their movements stiffened, and they stopped what they were doing the moment this atmosphere passed by!

In the blink of an eye, the entire town was enveloped in this atmosphere!

Call!

Then, the artistic conception soared into the sky! It reached the depths of the sky, but was blocked by the aura of destruction. Then it rippled outwards, turning into waves that caused the Karma and Order of the world to tremble slightly.

In an instant, the clay statues of the Sage Worthies Hall of the many schools of thought and academies throughout the world trembled slightly!

"What happened?"

Qiu Yan's expression changed repeatedly as he felt his soul power and physical strength rapidly draining away.

Thoughts and Qi and Blood surged from within his body, combining at the hand seals to transform into bursts of artistic conception that exploded outwards, distorting the surrounding scenery!

The two characters "Knowledge and Action" integrated into his soul showed a tendency to become one. However, as the two merged, Qiu Yan felt a sense of unease. Upon closer examination, he realized that the two characters were not balanced and had a sense of fighting and devouring each other. Under this influence, he gradually felt as if his soul was about to be scattered and he was losing control!

This startled Qiu Yan greatly. He wanted to stop, but found that his body was difficult to move, and even his fingers were hard to move!

"Not good!"

Just as Qiu Yan was about to transmit divine power from afar to suppress himself, the longsword in his hand and the backpack on his back moved simultaneously, emitting the clanging sound of the longsword and the faint sound of Ancient Seal Script.

"Qiu Yan! What are you doing? You actually want to suppress the present? Challenge the Heavenly Order? You're simply insane!" The voice of the longsword reverberated.

"With your current accumulation, unless you sacrifice yourself, merging your consciousness and flesh into the Void, it's impossible for you to carve out a crack in the world's Order!" The Ancient Seal Script's words were rapid.

As soon as he finished speaking, the longsword and the Ancient Seal Script flew out, each drawing something away, dispersing the Qi and Blood and thoughts scattered from Qiu Yan's body and guiding them back to his body.

Qiu Yan seized the opportunity, his flesh and blood and his will trembled at the same time, and he dispersed the Unmoving Seal on his hand.

Call!

Instantly, the suppressive atmosphere dissipated, the ripples that had scattered across the heavens and earth dispersed, and the statues of saints in each academy returned to normal. In that brief moment, not many people noticed.

After doing all this, the Ancient Seal Script and the longsword, one went straight into his backpack, and the other fell to the ground, where Qiu Yan picked them up.

Qiu Yan gasped for breath, feeling a surge of vanity, followed by doubt and lingering fear.

"The hand seals are out of control? Hmm... My cultivation level isn't high enough to reach the Soul Tempering Peak Life Cultivation, making it difficult to balance with the Soul Dao, yet it has stirred up my Daoheart Fist Intent... Is it because my realm is insufficient, and I forcibly activated the Dao Arts? Or is it because I used the words of Sage? Or is it because my accumulation is insufficient, and I'm not yet able to control my Daoheart Fist Intent?"

A series of questions flashed through his mind. But he also knew that now was not the right time to think about them.

After the recent turn of events, the anger in everyone's hearts had been suppressed. Not only them, but everyone in the village and town felt their thoughts momentarily pause, a realization stirring within them that they couldn't quite articulate. This realization later led to many stories, but that's a story for another time.

Meanwhile, the people in the shop recovered as Qiu Yan finished his hand seals. Recalling what had just happened, their memories were vague, but they instinctively felt a sense of fear towards Qiu Yan.

The village head, Yu Qing, said, "Since the master told you to start a fire, then start one. The Essentials try it; otherwise, how can we tell if it's useful or not?"

As he spoke, his gaze fell upon the skin, a look of curiosity on his face.

"That's the only way. Please lend a hand, uncles." Liu Xin said, taking off his shirt to reveal his bare upper body. The old woman and Yu Qing then left the room and closed the shop door.

Inside, the blacksmiths, unable to refuse, did as instructed.

Afterwards, Liu Xin asked Qiu Yan and the others to leave, but Qiu Yan waved his hand and refused. "If I leave, how will you know how to use this Stove Bellows?"

"This thing is called Stove Bellows?" Liu Xin followed Qiu Yan's gaze, his eyes sweeping over the hanging rod, the leather bag, and the copper pipe, before turning on the furnace and adding the stones.

Iron smelting in a crucible furnace uses an internal heating method. Crushed iron ore and charcoal are added to the furnace together to raise the furnace temperature and burn them until they melt.

But the premise is that the furnace temperature can be raised. Right now, the furnace fire is lit, and the temperature in the shop is gradually rising. Several men holding iron clamps and hammers are sweating profusely, but there is no sign of the iron ore in the furnace melting.

Looking at the scene in the furnace, a blacksmith shook his head and sighed, "No, just relying on the furnace fire won't get the temperature right. How can you possibly smelt iron?" He was undoubtedly saying this to Qiu Yan.

The other blacksmiths also stopped what they were doing. Liu Xin also put down his pliers, looked up at Qiu Yan, and wanted to see how he would handle the situation.

Qiu Yan, however, was observing the stove. When everyone grew impatient, he stepped forward, reached out and grasped the lever behind the leather bag, pulled it sharply, and then pushed it!

Whoosh!

The bladder deflated and then bulged, a whooshing sound came from the copper tube, and a series of crackling sounds erupted from the crucible furnace. Then, bursts of Fire Star were blown out from inside, and the fire flared up!

"This..."

The commotion drew the attention of the surrounding blacksmiths, and their expressions changed drastically upon seeing the scene inside the furnace.

Qiu Yan pulled and pushed again.

Call!

The Furnace Fire blazed up again!

The temperature inside the room suddenly rose a notch!

"What's going on? The Furnace Fire have really heated up! But the Fire Warden Tablet is clearly gone!"

The blacksmiths exchanged bewildered glances. At that moment, Qiu Yan spoke up, "Aren't you going to make a move?"

The others then seemed to snap out of their daze and continued their work. The scene was bustling with activity as the iron ore gradually melted, the molten iron gathered, and slowly fused together.

But the atmosphere inside the room gradually became heavy, and the expressions of the blacksmiths grew increasingly gloomy, as they felt their understanding was being challenged and their long-held beliefs were being shaken.

Qiu Yan stopped making a sound, silently pushing and pulling the lever in his hand. This lever was connected to the airbag and linked to several booms. It would be difficult for anyone else to pull, and someone would need to be below to move the airbag. But Qiu Yan's muscles vibrated, and he seemed to be lifting it with ease.

However, his heartstrings were gradually tightening!

Finally!

Wow!

A powerful aura emanated from the furnace, filling the room and directly enveloping Qiu Yan!

Kamui!

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