The hall was filled with shelves, but most of them were empty.
A middle-aged man stood behind the counter, yawning in utter boredom. He did not greet the three of them when they entered.
"Sorry for the trouble, Steward, but could we have two Forging Hammers?" Jiang Yan stepped forward. "Ordinary ones will do."
As he spoke, he turned to Xu Yang. "An ordinary Forging Hammer is enough to practice the Thousand-Forging Art. Once you start forging actual weapons, you can ask a skilled Weapon Forger to make you a custom hammer that suits your grip."
Xu Yang nodded. "Thank you for the advice, Senior Brother Jiang."
The steward bent down and scooped up two Forging Hammers from the floor, placing them on the counter. "One hundred taels each. Two hundred in total."
What a rip-off. A lousy hammer like this actually costs a hundred taels.
Xu Yang and Jiang Fan each paid for their own hammer. The steward asked, "How many pieces of black iron?"
"Five!"
Jiang Yan looked at Xu Yang. "Junior Brother Xu, when you first start practicing the Thousand-Forging Art and the Iron-Refining Hand, it's best to use black iron. You'll need about two or three pieces a day. Buy however many you think you need."
He was unsure of Xu Yang's financial situation, so he could only explain the circumstances and let Xu Yang decide.
Although weapon forging did not burn through money quite as badly as alchemy, the rate at which it consumed money in the early stages was not much lower.
Each piece of black iron weighed ten jin. Even with the Violet Sun Gate subsidizing part of the cost, a single piece still cost a hundred taels. In other words, practicing the Thousand-Forging Art and the Iron-Refining Hand would burn through two