After the three of them reached the top floor, they sat down outside a room. The sound of hammering came from inside, echoing through the corridor.
A pane of glass was set into the wall, allowing people in the corridor to see what was happening inside.
Inside the room, a short, stocky old man with graying hair held a hammer, wholly absorbed in forging metal.
"That's my teacher in there, Lou Gao. He's a Soul Saint and one of only three Divine Blacksmiths in the world today." Si Long proudly introduced his teacher to Huo Yuhao and Zhu Zhuqing. Once he finished speaking, he fell silent and sat upright, watching Lou Gao forge inside the room.
Seeing him like this, Huo Yuhao and Zhu Zhuqing felt it would be inappropriate to disturb him by speaking, so they too turned their eyes toward Lou Gao inside.
From Huo Yuhao's perspective, although Lou Gao's Cultivation had reached Soul Saint, he was already quite advanced in age. Yet as Lou Gao forged the metal, Huo Yuhao saw a kind of resolve in him-the same feeling he himself had when engraving Soul Guidance Arrays.
Every swing of Lou Gao's hammer was just like his own decision to cut a line into a Soul Guidance Array: resolute and utterly unwavering.
For the first time since his rebirth, Huo Yuhao saw someone resembling a Soul Engineer on the Douluo Continent of this era, even though Lou Gao was a Divine Blacksmith.
Inside the room, Lou Gao continued forging. Under the hammer's blows, the red-hot metal block transformed little by little, its impurities removed bit by bit.
Huo Yuhao, too, was drawn in by Lou Gao's movements. Watching him forge metal, he felt he had grasped something. It was not an insight into cultivation or Soul Skills;