Yet to everyone's surprise, Huo Yuhao did not take out a forging hammer or anything of the sort. Instead, he reached out and slapped his palm directly onto the piece of sunken silver.
A boom rang out. The sunken silver shuddered, and fine powder seemed to seep out of it.
"Vibration?!"
Number Ninety-Six's pupils contracted. This was simply staggering. Huo Yuhao's palm strike had actually produced a forging hammer's "vibration" effect.
Every forging hammer of Thousand Refinement grade or higher possessed a unique special effect. This so-called "vibration" generated high-frequency oscillations with every blow, giving each strike the power of many ordinary blows and saving tremendous amounts of physical effort.
It sounded simple, but it was by no means something anyone could do. Fully unleashing a vibration hammer's effect required immense strength, assistance from soul power, control through spiritual force, and an understanding of rare metals.
Not one of these requirements could be missing. Otherwise, wielding the vibration hammer properly would be difficult, and the user might even suffer from its effects.
Yet Huo Yuhao was striking rare metal head-on with his bare flesh and still producing the vibration hammer's effect. What kind of freak was he? Had his flesh attained sainthood?
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Huo Yuhao paused for three seconds after each palm strike, forging slowly and heavily.
"Boom!"
The seventh palm landed. The sunken silver tumbled, impurities emerged, and a ray of light flashed before vanishing.
Hundred refinement was complete!
Hundred refinement in seven blows!
The referee beside him gaped. Forging with bare flesh, achieving hundred refinement in seven palm strikes-how terrifying was that?
Perhaps there were forging experts elsewhere in the Sun Moon Empire who could achieve hundred refinement in seven blows, but doing it with nothing but their bodies was absolutely impossible.
Huo Yuhao's right hand