"Junior Brother Xu, are you still going to stick with it?"
Chen Chao came over. "It took you five days to refine a hundred pounds of black iron. That's only six contribution points a month, short of the required ten. The sect will confiscate your Qi-Boosting Pills, and you'll lose more than you gain."
Xu Yang raised the Mountain-Shaking Hammer manual in his hand. "Senior Brother Chen, I think I can still keep going."
Chen Chao's pupils contracted. "The Mountain-Shaking Hammer manual? Senior Brother Gao gave you that?"
Xu Yang nodded. "That's right!"
Chen Chao immediately shut his mouth and stopped trying to persuade Xu Yang to quit.
Gao Lin had clearly given Xu Yang the Mountain-Shaking Hammer manual because they were short-handed. If Chen Chao kept urging Xu Yang to leave, he would be offending Gao Lin, an inner disciple.
Chen Chao slunk away. Xu Yang returned to his station and opened the Mountain-Shaking Hammer manual.
The Mountain-Shaking Hammer cultivated a vibrational force. By making true qi vibrate, it sent that force through the body, smashing armor and flesh alike. The hammer was also a heavy weapon, and the combination made it exceptionally lethal.
Its effect was somewhat like applying the Wind-Thunder Force to a weapon, producing an even more overbearing killing power.
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After he finished reading it once, the panel appeared.
Xu Yang ignored it and studied the manual a second time, memorizing the key principles for releasing and retracting force and true qi.
By the third reading, the Mountain-Shaking Hammer had taken shape in his mind, and he felt an urge to practice it.
On the fourth reading, he set down the manual, gripped the great hammer, and stood. He took a piece of glowing-red black iron from the furnace,