"Clang! Clang! Clang..."
The dull, rapid hammering sounds echoed continuously in the forging room. Looking inside, one could see a burly man, shirtless, wielding an iron hammer and relentlessly forging the sword blank in front of him.
Who else could this be but Wang Hao?
"Clang!"
Before long, with the final hammer blow, the iron sword in his hand was finally completed, displaying unparalleled sharpness.
"Phew! The last set is finally finished!"
Wang Hao let out a long sigh of relief, examined the divine sword in his hand, and nodded in satisfaction.
Two months have passed since he actually began forging the sword. During these two months, he has been forging a complete set of the Hard and Soft Divine Swords, and his Explosive Force power cultivation progress has greatly improved.
If the "Basic Explosive Force " course two months ago was barely at the early stage of Entering the Hall and Inner Chamber, then now it has reached the middle stage of Entering the Hall and Inner Chamber and has even touched the threshold of the later stage.
At the same time, his forging skills have improved significantly. Two months ago, he could only complete the twelfth folding forging, but today he can complete the thirteenth folding forging, and he is only one step away from the fourteenth folding forging of the Ten-Thousand-Refined True Steel.
It's time to forge a divine weapon for Zhou Xueyi!
" Yuanwai, let's rest for a while and invite Miss Zhou over!"
Wang Hao placed his longsword in the corner and gave instructions to the sweating Zhu Yuanwai.
"Master, are you going to forge a divine spear for Miss Zhou?"
Upon hearing this, the exhausted Zhu Yuanwai's eyes lit up, and he became excited.
He knew that part of the reason his master had spent the last two months forging the spear was to prepare for forging that divine weapon.
The fact that his master treated it with such care suggests that the divine spear he forged would be of a very high grade, at least higher than the longswords currently being forged.
"You're so clever, why don't you hurry up and go?"
He glared at him with amusement, and then realized that Wang Hao was indeed going to forge the divine spear.
"Okay! I'll go right now!"
Zhu Yuanwai was overjoyed and hurriedly rushed out to inform Zhou Xueyi, while also preparing to ask Miss Yushu for a dose of Nine-Flower Jade Dew Liquid for a quick recovery.
The subsequent forging will definitely take a long time, and I must adjust myself to my peak condition.
After all, he wasn't like his master, a powerful man who could swing a hundred-pound iron hammer all day without getting tired.
"That kid!"
Wang Hao smiled; he was quite satisfied with this disciple.
After two months of instruction, Zhu Yuanwai has become proficient in forging Hundred-Forged Refined Iron, and his Explosive Force cultivation has also made some progress. He is just waiting to truly master Explosive Force before he can start forging Thousand-Forged Refined Steel.
At the same time, this kid is also very talented in external martial arts training. He mastered the External Training Golden Bell Shield passed down to him earlier, reaching Entering the Hall and Inner Chamber within just two months.
If this trend continues, that kid could easily cultivate his external martial arts to the Super-First-Rate level within ten years, which is already incredibly fast.
After all, not everyone can cultivate with such extraordinary abilities as him!
Shaking his head, Wang Hao walked out of the forging room and into a kiln built a hundred feet away. Inside, a raging fire was burning, raising the temperature to over 100 degrees Celsius. Around the kiln, tens of thousands of pieces of forged Red Gold were neatly stacked.
These Red Gold were forged in the spare time over the past two months, turning over two million taels of gold into Red Gold, totaling a full forty thousand catties.
He intended to forge this crimson gold into a silk armor. After Red Gold, he had already crafted the complete set of dual swords for offense, so naturally he needed to create armor as well. And silk armor was the most suitable lightweight and flexible protective garment for women.
The reason for placing the Red Gold here is to prevent it from completely cooling and solidifying.
Red Gold has a very special characteristic: as long as it is not fully formed, it will be very soft, not much stronger than dough.
This is when it's easiest to shape; you can mold it into any shape you want.
This minimum temperature is roughly the temperature of boiling water. In other words, as long as the temperature is not lower than 100 degrees Celsius, the bricks will not completely solidify. The original purpose of building this brick kiln was to preserve the form of these Red Gold.
After all, he wouldn't be staying here for long, and he didn't have the time to forge all that Red Gold into soft gold armor for Yushu and the others to use.
However, the production of the gold silk soft armor is too troublesome and time-consuming. First, you have to create a series of tiny rings, and then string these rings together. A complete set of gold silk soft armor requires at least tens of thousands of small rings. Even with Wang Hao's abilities, he can only make one set of gold silk soft armor in a day at most.
It would take at least a year to get a set of gold-threaded soft armor for each of the girls, including Yushu, so he naturally couldn't waste his time on that.
Of course, most importantly, creating the gold-threaded soft armor requires little skill, especially when using uncured pure Red Gold.
With the hardness of uncured Red Gold, an ordinary person could easily make it into a soft armor with gold thread with a little training.
Therefore, he planned to leave the final forging process of the gold-threaded soft armor to the girls themselves, with Zhu Yuanwai assisting them along the way.
He's already mastered the most difficult part—forging the Ten-Thousand-Refined Red Gold— so he doesn't need to worry about the rest.
He casually picked up twenty-five pieces of Red Gold, weighing a total of one hundred jin, and pressed them all into a mold that had been prepared beforehand in the kiln.
This mold is made of Hundred-Forged Refined Steel. It is an openable cylinder with a hollow interior and is carved with dragon scale patterns. Simply press the Red Gold into it to quickly shape it into a long dragon scale staff.
This was specially made for the shaft of Zhou Xueyi's divine spear.
After all, Zhou Xueyi is a beauty queen. If she were to be crafted into a plain and unadorned form like those Sword One, she would definitely give you a hard time. So he spent some time creating this cylindrical mold that can open and close.
As for the dragon scale pattern inside, it wasn't created by him, but rather by Zhou Xueyi herself using a carving knife.
"Ding! Dongfang Bai has received a secret manual gifted by the host, rewarding him with 3,130 Fortune Points!"
Just as Wang Hao was fiddling with the mold, a notification sound from Xiao Mengmeng suddenly rang in his mind.
"Finally received them! I thought that escort agency had stolen those manuals!"
Upon hearing this notification, Wang Hao was taken aback, but also breathed a sigh of relief.
Two months ago, when he accompanied Old Cheng into Hangzhou City to kill Feng Lun, he took the time to disguise himself and find a reputable escort agency in Hangzhou City to seal up the secret manuals and send them to the Dongfang Lineage.
Back when he was at the Blood Robe Tower, he asked Zhao Dachui to gather intelligence about Dongfang Bai. One of the pieces of information was that someone was still stationed at the Dongfang Lineage mansion. It was confirmed that it was the Dongfang Ni, the head of the Dongfang Lineage, who had a very close relationship with Dongfang Bai.
At that time, he understood that it was Dongfang Bai who arranged it, so he asked people from the escort agency to quietly send the secret books sealed in the boxes to the Dongfang family's mansion. The old woman who was in charge would definitely send them to Dongfang Bai in the end.
It was just that two months had passed but there was still no movement, which made him think that someone from the escort agency had swallowed the sealed secret books or someone had robbed them!
I didn't expect it to only be delivered to Dongfang Bai today. It seems there was a slight mishap along the way, but it doesn't matter, as long as it was finally delivered.
Host: Wang Hao
Cultivation level: Mortal Realm First Layer
Spirit: True Spirit Sword Intent (92/100)
Soul: Awakening
Soul: Awakening
God: Awakening
Qi: Awakening
Essence: Bloodline Power (8/100)
Fortune Points: 3230
Bloodline Divine Ability: Object Storage
Kung Fu Technique: Golden Bell Shield ( Peak Perfection / Transcendent Mastery )
Martial Arts: Nine-Character True Art Foundation Chapter - Explosive Force (Mid- Entering the Hall and Inner Chamber Mastery)
Ten Stances of Bloody Battle (30/100)
Lightning Straight-Line Step (Mid-Stage Complete Integration / Transcendent Mastery )
Thousand Faces Divine Technique ( Complete Integration its Peak)
Pulling out the attribute panel and looking at the numbers displayed on the Fortune Points, Wang Hao nodded in satisfaction.
I'm finally rich again!
In addition to the changes in Fortune Points, Wang Hao further divided the attribute panel, adding four detailed categories—early, middle, late, and peak—to each martial arts realm.
At the same time, he added the Explosive Force of the Nine-Character True Art. In addition, he has made great progress in other aspects. He has cultivated the External Training Golden Bell Shield to the peak of Peak Perfection, and he only needs an opportunity to break through to the realm of Transcendent Mastery.
The improvement of the External Training Golden Bell Shield naturally led to an increase in physical strength, which in turn increased the Bloodline Power, bringing the strength to over 7,000 jin.
He didn't make much progress with the Lightning Straight-Line Step, but he had mastered the Thousand Faces Divine Technique to the point of Complete Integration mastery, and was just one step away from breaking through to the Peak Perfection.
While this progress wasn't as dramatic as in the previous two months, it significantly strengthened the company's foundation.
"This Fortune Points really came at the right time!"
Wang Hao secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He wasn't very confident about the forging process and wanted to use the Dao Comprehension Function to increase his chances of success!
However, he only had one hundred Fortune Points left, which might not be enough, but now that this amount of Fortune Points has arrived, he no longer has any worries.
Now I can finally forge the divine spear with complete peace of mind!
After pressing the mold, Wang Hao led the gun to the forging room and placed the end with the spearhead embedded against the furnace to prevent it from cooling down and becoming difficult to handle later.
After these preparations were completed, the chubby Zhu Yuanwai arrived with Zhou Xueyi, along with Yushu, who was also clearly very curious about the forging process of the divine spear.
"My benefactor, please have a jar of Nine-Flower Jade Dew Liquid first!"
Yushu handed the wine jar to Wang Hao and considerately offered him a towel.
Wang Hao didn't stand on ceremony, took the wine jar, and started drinking heavily.
This Nine-Flower Jade Dew Liquid was derived from the formula of the Nine Flower Jade Dew Pill. Its effects are not much worse than those of the Nine Flower Jade Dew Pill, and it is easier to refine.
After two months of study, the three girls who had some medical skills that Yushu had chosen had mastered the refining process of Nine-Flower Jade Dew Liquid. Even if Wang Hao left these girls, he would still be able to refine Nine-Flower Jade Dew Liquid on his own.
With the life-saving medicine, Nine-Flower Jade Dew Liquid, the safety of these girls was greatly guaranteed.
"Fire!"
After downing a jar of Nine-Flower Jade Dew Liquid, Wang Hao called out to the prepared Zhu Yuanwai and then threw the piece of Profound Iron obtained from Feng Lun's treasury into the charcoal fire to be calcined.
After the Profound Iron was heated until it turned red-hot, it was taken out and hammered vigorously with Profound Iron in his hand, so hard that the entire forging room shook.
Meanwhile, Zhou Xueyi wasn't idle either, taking turns with Zhu Yuanwai to operate the bellows.
It's important to know that this bellows is enormous and produces a lot of air, but it's also very labor-intensive. In addition, Wang Hao needed a continuous fire, which made it even more strenuous.
Master Zhu Yuanwai alone couldn't hold out for long, so Zhou Xueyi came to take turns with him to operate the bellows and prevent the fire from going Zhu Yuanwai.
Profound Iron truly lives up to its reputation as a treasure sought after by many martial arts practitioners, as its properties far surpass those of pig iron.
The thirteenth folding and forging process was completed smoothly, and we are now only one step away from achieving the Ten-Thousand-Refined True Steel.
That's right, Wang Hao was planning to forge the gun blade using pure Profound Iron.
Although incorporating Profound Iron into pig iron would maximize the benefits without diminishing its performance in the slightest, the difficulty of forging would increase if it were incorporated into pig iron ingots. With his current resources, it would be virtually impossible for him to complete the tenth folding and forging process and create the Ten-Thousand-Refined True Steel.
However, if pure Profound Iron is used, the forging difficulty will be reduced significantly.
After all, he wasn't really confident that he could forge the Ten-Thousand-Refined True Steel. Even if he activated his Dao Comprehension Function at a crucial moment, it would still be difficult. And if he incorporated Xuan Iron into pig Profound Iron but failed to forge it into the Ten Ten-Thousand-Refined True Steel, he wouldn't be able to fully realize the value of the Profound Iron.
It's best not to take unnecessary risks unless you're absolutely certain.
Taking a deep breath, Wang Hao took out the red-hot iron ingot and began to hammer it heavily with his Profound Iron, each strike using Explosive Force, and the frequency of the hammering was more than ten times faster than before.