Forging the Godly Zhuge Crossbow
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Seeing that Mo Hu had backed down, He Dahai's darkened face slowly returned to normal. If the old fellow had really bid against him for the Soul Bone, he might not have had enough Gold Soul Coins to compete.
Fortunately, the old thing knew what was good for him. Otherwise, when He Dahai found a chance to catch him outside the city, it would have ended with one of them dead.
After hearing their conversation, Su Mei knew that the three-thousand-year Ghost Leopard left leg Soul Bone had fallen into City Lord He Dahai's hands, and she instinctively announced the final result.
"Congratulations to City Lord He, whose bid of one million Gold Soul Coins has secured this three-thousand-year Ghost Leopard left leg Soul Bone."
With the final auction item sold, the evening's auction officially came to an end. The many Soul Masters in the hall slowly made their way toward the corridor outside.
Su Tianyu entered the building with its white jade tiles and glazed roof and handed over his auction number plate. Each person's number was written on their plate, and whenever an item was sold, the winning bidder's number was recorded, so there was no need to worry about the auction house making a mistake.
"Honored guest, please have a seat here and wait a moment. A staff member will go to the auction building immediately to retrieve the items you won, then bring them here for settlement."
The receptionist spoke to him respectfully, then walked back toward the front desk with a catlike gait.
After he had waited a short while on a sofa made from Soul Beast fur, a staff member came over and accompanied him to the settlement area to complete the handover.
At the settlement counter, Su Tianyu took a black card from his Soul Tool and handed it to the staff member at the desk.
After accepting the black card, the staff member entered the corresponding amount of Gold Soul Coins into the Soul Tool on the counter, then placed the card on its screen. With a beep, the bill was settled.
The staff member stood up and walked to the storeroom behind the counter. Before long, she returned with two treasure boxes and handed them to Su Tianyu along with his black card. A sweet smile appeared on her face as she spoke gently.
"Thank you for visiting our Treasure Sword Auction House. These two treasure boxes contain the Deep Sea Cold Iron and twenty-thousand-year Whale Rubber you won. We look forward to seeing you again."
Su Tianyu accepted the treasure boxes and black card from the young staff member and stored them in his Storage Soul Tool with a thought. He gave the receptionist a slight smile and left the auction house without looking back.
Back at his hotel, Su Tianyu took the Deep Sea Cold Iron out of his Soul Tool. What appeared before his eyes was a pale blue block of metal, with a current of air flowing slowly across its surface. He could hardly believe it was a piece of metal; it would not have been an exaggeration to call it a treasure.
After examining the Deep Sea Cold Iron for a while, Su Tianyu put it back in his Soul Tool. Tomorrow would be a good time to go to the smithy and forge the arrowheads needed for the Godly Zhuge Crossbow. As for the crossbow's mechanical frame, refined iron would be enough to make it.
The next morning, Su Tianyu woke up at the hotel. After washing up, he got dressed and headed for the smithy.
After leaving the hotel, Su Tianyu soon arrived at the smithy's entrance. The sound of hammering came from inside the shop; clearly, the owner had received an order.
He walked inside and saw Jerry, bare-chested beside a forging table not far away, swinging a hammer and bringing it down hard on a block of red-hot iron. The clang of hammer blows reached Su Tianyu's ears.
"Good morning, boss."
Jerry, who had been busy hammering iron, put down his tools and turned to look at Su Tianyu, his face full of puzzlement.
"Little brother, what kind of offensive weapon have you come to forge this time? The forge beside me is already up to temperature. Go ahead and use it."
"Then thank you, boss. I happened to win a piece of metal at the Treasure Sword Auction House last night, and I was planning to make some arrowheads. I didn't expect you to have already lit the forge. Now I won't have to start the fire myself."
Su Tianyu smiled at Jerry and walked quickly to the forging table. He took out the Deep Sea Cold Iron he had won the night before and placed it on the table.
"Huh? Little brother, is that a piece of Deep Sea Cold Iron? I didn't expect you to actually come across some. Deep Sea Cold Iron is a key material for making precious armor. It can withstand attacks from most Soul Skills used by Soul Ancestors. It's a rare piece of metal indeed."
Jerry looked at him enviously, his eyes flicking from time to time toward the Deep Sea Cold Iron on the forging table.
"Hehe, I was lucky. I happened to come across it on my first visit to an auction. Boss, you don't need to be too envious. Sooner or later, you'll come across some too."
Su Tianyu smiled slightly as he spoke, then picked up the Deep Sea Cold Iron from the table and put it in the furnace.
Under the furnace's scorching heat of several thousand degrees, the Deep Sea Cold Iron slowly turned red and softened.
Seeing it soften and glow red in the furnace, Su Tianyu took a pair of tongs from the wall by the forging table and used them to carry the iron onto the table. He then picked up the hammer at his feet and brought it down on the Deep Sea Cold Iron.
Clang after clang rang out. As he watched the cold iron gradually grow smaller, Su Tianyu's gaze sharpened. He swung the hammer rapidly and spun around, using its momentum to turn his body through a full circle before borrowing that force to strike the cold iron.
Watching the figure swinging a hammer at the forging table, Jerry was stunned for a moment. He muttered to himself.
"Is that the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer? Little brother, are you a disciple of the Clear Sky Sect?"
Hearing Jerry's instinctive question, Su Tianyu kept swinging his hammer and answered without looking back.
"Boss, I'm not a disciple of the Clear Sky Sect. As for the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer you mentioned, isn't this just borrowing force to strike? You don't even need to learn it. As long as you have hands, you can do it."
"Little brother, do you want to listen to what you're saying? Are you awake today? As long as you have hands, you can do it?
"If it were that easy, I'm afraid the many smiths in Treasure Sword City and Gengxin City would all lose face."
Jerry looked at Su Tianyu resentfully, inwardly crying, Fuck. If only the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer were that easy. No need to learn it? Plenty of smiths and master smiths might not even know that move.
Seeing that the impurities had all been hammered out of the cold iron on the forging table, Su Tianyu put down his hammer and gripped the metal with the tongs. He took a medicine bottle from his Soul Tool, poured the liquid over the Deep Sea Cold Iron, and put it back in the furnace. Only then did he raise his head and answer Jerry.
"Hehe, boss, you don't need to belittle yourself. Watch from the side while I demonstrate it."
"All right, then. I'll leave my sword order for today and watch your forging technique instead. But you're right. Looking closely, your technique really is different from the Clear Sky Sect's Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer. It only bears a passing resemblance to it."
Jerry stood happily a short distance away, watching Su Tianyu and thanking him gratefully.
Before long, the cold iron in the furnace softened again. Su Tianyu picked up a sharp pair of shears from the forging table beside him and began cutting the cold iron to size.