Chapter 1104: Forging Like Painting a Beauty (Second Update!)
Everyone poured out of the workshop, and the Blind Man said with a smile, "Village Chief, there's still a small flaw in this sword. Bring it over, and I'll point it out to you."
Everyone understood the intent, but only the Village Chief suspected nothing, handing over the divine sword along with its sheath.
The Blind Man gripped the divine sword and shouted, "All together now!"
The Butcher suddenly hugged the Village Chief, and Granny Si punched him square in the face. The Lame Man, the Deaf Man, the Mute Man, the Blind Man, and the others all swarmed in, throwing punches and kicks, beating up the old man who insisted on drawing the sword. Qin Mu and the Pharmacist also squeezed in, sneaking a few kicks to vent their frustration.
The Village Chief was beaten until he begged for mercy, and only then did everyone's anger subside. They tossed the bruised and swollen-faced old man aside. The Mute Man said, "Let's go, we'll forge other treasures!"
The Village Chief climbed to his feet, furious, and said, "Pharmacist, did you just kick me?"
"No!"
The Pharmacist said with the utmost sincerity, "We're the best of friends. We used to drink tea together at the village entrance back in the day. How could I possibly kick you? Absolutely not! I was actually pulling them back, telling them not to hit you. It was Mu'er who kicked you!"
Qin Mu quickly leaped into the air to flee, but the Village Chief let out a cold laugh, suddenly drawing his sword. A flash of sword light passed, and Qin Mu tumbled from the sky, crashing into the dust, and didn't get up for a long while.
The Village Chief sheathed the sword and praised, "Truly a fine sword. From now on, I'll call you Slayer of Evil, to slay all unworthy villains. Let's go, continue forging treasures."
Qin Mu got up, limping as he walked back into the Supervisor's Workshop, continuing to observe their forging and diligently studying the mysteries within.
More than ten days later, the Mute Man and the Blind Man joined forces to forge Granny Si's treasure, the Dao Wheel.
Granny Si's hands itched to test the power of the Dao Wheel. Everyone's faces changed dramatically. Qin Mu, without a word, pointed his finger, and his Teleportation Divine Ability erupted, sending the only woman of the Crippled Elder Village off to who knows where.
"Mu'er, when I get back, I'll beat you to death!" Granny Si's voice came from the fading light of the Teleportation Divine Ability, trailing off into the distance.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and continued forging weapons. Qin Mu sat restlessly and said, "Village Chief, Master Ma, when Granny comes back later, you all need to put in a good word for me."
"No worries, no worries."
The Lame Man patted his shoulder and comforted him, saying, "We've got it covered, covered."
Qin Mu still felt a bit uneasy, always feeling that the elders of the Crippled Elder Village had a look of ill intent.
Sure enough, when Granny Si returned from testing her treasure and pinned Qin Mu to the ground to beat him, not a single person stepped forward to speak up for him. Instead, they all sat there drinking tea and chatting about trivial household matters.
Only when Granny Si was tired of beating him did everyone disperse and continue forging the next divine weapon.
Qin Mu climbed up with a bruised and swollen face, looked at the Dragon Qilin, who was hiding in a corner pretending to sleep, and Yan'er, who had transformed into a little green sparrow and was dozing on his head.
"You two are completely useless. This New Year, I'm putting you both on the dinner table!" Qin Mu said fiercely.
The little green sparrow shivered, and the Dragon Qilin raised his tail, wrapping her up and bringing her to his chest. He gently patted the sparrow's head to lull her back to sleep.
Back in the Supervisor's Workshop, Qin Mu went to Granny's side and quietly told her about Gongsun Yan, saying, "Please go and teach her."
Granny Si laughed and said, "I know this girl. She's a bit silly and doesn't really like to cultivate. What realm is she at now?"
"She's reached the True God realm."
Qin Mu hesitated for a moment, then said, "But her combat power should be at the level of a top-tier Imperial Throne. Her magical power is vast and profound; she might rank first among Imperial Throne powerhouses."
Granny Si was startled and blurted out, "True God realm, yet her cultivation has reached the Imperial Throne level? There are five whole realms in between!"
Qin Mu smiled and said, "She's a demigod, the daughter of Mother Earth. Realms were only established by the Nine Heavenly Venerables of the Longhan Era; they don't have much to do with actual strength."
Granny Si had a headache and muttered, "Teaching her to master her own power will be difficult. True God realm, mastering top-tier Imperial Throne power... that's quite a challenge..."
She got up and hurriedly left.
Qin Mu continued to study the Blind Man's and the Mute Man's forging arts and formation arts. By the time the two elders had finished forging the Pharmacist's alchemy furnace, he had basically mastered the results of their years of work.
"In forging, there are still many things you need to learn."
The Mute Man instructed him, saying, "You've reached the pinnacle of precision in forging, but you still have a great deficiency in the spirit of forging. First, you need to understand why we must 'Heavenly Craft, Opening of Things'!"
The Mute Man raised his great hammer, and the flames of the furnace filled the sky, the furnace seeming to contain thousands of suns. He said in a deep voice, "Mortals don't have the powerful strength of the Ancient Gods, don't have the means of creation, don't have the magnificence of transformation! But mortals have tools, have minds, have perseverance, have passion, have dreams!"
"Heavenly Craft, Opening of Things, is to use your own hands to forge your dreams into reality, to create instruments that possess power, to become a Creator with the power of transformation!"
Qin Mu pondered deeply. After a long while, he finally broke into a smile and immediately began selecting treasures from Zuting, intending to forge his own divine weapon.
The Blind Man walked over, watching Qin Mu's busy figure, and asked, "Mute, micro-forging requires at least three people. Can he do it alone?"
"Of course he can."
The Mute Man continued preparing to help the Butcher forge his blade and said, "Five years ago, it was he who taught us micro-forging and divine-consciousness forging. Now this kid comes running back to leech off us old folks. If he can't learn it, we might as well beat him to death and bury him in a hole!"
The Blind Man nodded repeatedly and said, "This kid's cultivation is already above ours now, but when it comes to our respective unique skills, he's still far behind. This kid, he even leeches off us with a clear conscience!"
The Mute Man said, "If we don't let him try on his own and temper himself, and only rely on us teaching him, he'll never reach our level. But we also need to step up our game, so we don't end up with nothing left to teach him."
The Blind Man was full of energy and laughed, saying, "This brat only comes back to see us once every few years, and every time it's to learn something. If we have nothing to teach him, he'll probably abandon us!"
Qin Mu sensed the characteristics of the treasures he had stolen from the Zhaoyang Hall. As the Mute Man said, every material has different properties and even personalities. Once you understand the properties and personalities, mixing different materials together can greatly enhance the toughness, rigidity, and self-healing of a divine weapon!
Qin Mu was now sensing the properties and personalities of the different treasures. A successful forger must first have a soft heart. The Mute Man's exterior was definitely that of a rough old man, but his heart was the softest one in the Crippled Elder Village.
It was precisely for this reason that he was also the one most often deceived, unwilling to open his heart, preferring to remain a mute.
Qin Mu had found him so many Heavenly Craftsmen from the White Tiger Divine Clan, all of them beautiful young women, but the Mute Man still couldn't see any of them as worthy. It was precisely because his early experiences had dealt him too great a blow.
Qin Mu sensed carefully. In his eyes, the different treasures seemed to transform into different beauties—some fiery and fierce, some gentle as water, some cold and aloof as ice mountains, some elusive as drifting clouds.
"No wonder Grandpa Mute can't see those women as worthy. In his eyes, these materials are probably the peerless beauties."
Having understood the properties of the different materials, he began to mix and match them.
"This piece of Beauty Jade—one part more and it's too long, one part less and it's too short. I need to pair it with this woman-like material of floating clouds and shifting sands, then lightly apply powder and a touch of rouge..."
Qin Mu was like a man dressing up a beautiful young maiden, bustling about as he murmured softly, "Add this pearl from Zuting, skin like snow. This silk can just serve as the beauty's sash—a waist you can encircle with one hand is worth a thousand gold..."
After he had mixed the materials, he became excited and suddenly activated his Heavenly Fire Divine Ability, melting the "beauty" he had just carefully adorned.
Qin Mu opened his vertical eye on his forehead, activated the Overlord Body Three Elixirs Art, and used his primordial qi and divine consciousness as hammers to forge his own divine weapon.
The Mute Man and the Blind Man quickly looked over. Though they had said they weren't worried, they were actually quite concerned that Qin Mu would ruin the treasures.
Qin Mu's essence, qi, and spirit grew stronger and stronger as he immersed himself in the forging. The Dao resonance emanating from his body vibrated—it didn't seem like forging at all, but rather like enlightenment itself.
—Today is also four updates~
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