āThen use it.ā Blake threw the hammer to Qian Jin as he squinted his eyes to carefully observe Qian Jinās every movement.
Qian Jin bent his back and pulled on the handle of the four hundred pound hammer. He immediately felt the weight, but it wasnāt as heavy as he expected it.
The Wind and Cloud Golden Body had greatly increased the speed of the blood in Qian Jinās body. Although he didnāt do any long distance running, the training he went through during the last month was a thousand times more painful than running. All of the functions and abilities of Qian Jinās body had improved without his knowledge. Things like straightening his back while lifting became very easy.
A sense of surprise flashed through Blakeās squinted eyes.
āWait a second.ā Blake turned around as he walked to a hammer rack with his hands at his back. He looked around among all the iron hammers and picked out a hammer that was a clearly lot bigger than the one that Qian Jin had in his hand. āUse this one,ā Blake said as he handed it to Qian Jin.
āAh?ā Qian Jin was stunned, but he took the hammer promptly and instantly felt his shoulders being stretched. After his warrior energy flooded into his arms, the hammer that was about six hundred and fifty pounds became light to him again.
Blake who looked very confident in the hammer that he picked was astonished again by what he saw. āIs it still too light?ā He thought to himself.
However, a smile appeared on Blakeās old face as he walked up to the forge slowly with the a thousand pound hammer. He placed eight anvils around the forge to surround it and threw eight pieces of pig iron into the forge and heated them up.
After the worn-out bellows let out roars that sounded worse than a series of coughs, Blake quickly threw the eight pieces of red hot pig iron onto the eight anvils with the iron tongs, and the thousand pound hammer shined again as it struck down at the pig iron as if it was a meteor. As soon as the beautiful sparks splashed into the air when the hammer struck on the red iron, Blake had appeared in front of another anvil. The movements of the thousand pound hammer, including the raising, striking, and pulling all seemed natural.
Qian Jin opened his eyes wide open as he stared at Blakeās feet. He wanted to figure out how he moved. However, he wasnāt able to figure out how Blake was moving at all; he naturally put even more focus onto Blakeās feet.
Thunder-like metal colliding noise resonated in the blacksmith shop continuously, and Blake was moving faster and faster.
Gradually, Qian Jin felt like his eyes couldnāt even follow up with Blakeās figure and speed! Just around the small forge, there were eight of Blakeās figure! Every single figure seemed a little vague, and Qian Jin couldnāt tell which figure was the real Blake.
āThis canāt be real!ā Qian Jin squinted his eyes as he stopped focusing on Blakeās feet and started to focus on Blake as a whole; he wasnāt able to figure how Blake was moving his feet anyway.
One strikeā¦ Ten strikesā¦ A hundred strikesā¦
The eight Blake figures started to reduce in numbers, and Blakeās speed soon returned to his initial speed. A self-mocking smile appeared on Qian Jinās face; he initially thought that he would understand how Blake was moving by looking at Blakeās feet, but it turned out that he had to look at Blake as a whole to figure it out.
The way that Blake moved was very strange; he didnāt just use his feet. It could be said that every single muscle and joint in his body was moving. It was a very special kind of movement, as if all of the muscles in Blakeās body were twitching rapidly.
Qian Jin inhaled the heat from the forge as he thought about this strange moving technique. āIt seems like it could be used in other situations other than forging. If I could use it in battle, then it would add a lot to my fighting ability.ā
āDo you understand everything?ā Blake threw his hammer onto the ground as he took out his pipe and looked Qian Jin.
āI think I understand a little bit.ā Qian Jin looked at Blake curiously. āThis elder didnāt even breathe heavily after all those vigorous movements, and there is no way that he sweated. How did he do it?ā He thought.
āAs a Forge Master, forging few pieces of Purified Iron and then forge a Warrior Weapon out of it is only a very low and ineffective technique.ā Blake pointed at the eight pieces of Purified Iron that was still swirling on the eight anvils rapidly as he said, āThe temperature at every moment of the day is different, and if the Purified Iron is forged at different times during the day, they will a bit different from each other. Although outsiders canāt tell the difference, masters who in the industry can spot the difference easily.ā
A question that bothered Qian Jin for a long time was resolved as he listened to Blakeās words. He had a feeling that the Zhanmadao that he forged was somehow not in unity. So that was why! Purified Iron that was forged at different times were slightly different from each other, but it was just hard to tell since he wasnāt very good yet.
Blake pointed at the Purified Iron on the anvils with his pipe and said, āAlthough these Purified Iron are not forged at the same time, they were created around the same time. The integration between them will be a lot better compared with other Purified Iron that arenāt forged at around the same time.
Qian Jin nodded as he felt like Blake was opening up another door in his mind.
āSince you understood how I moved a little bit, then you should know what to do.ā With his hands at his back like an old farmer who was talking a little walk, Blake walked behind the door and squatted down as he curled up his body.
āOh, right! You, canāt use any warrior energy.ā Blake sucked on his pipe a little and said with his body curled up beside the door. āWhen you get so tired that you canāt even raise the hammer, then you can use your warrior energy and Forging Breathing Technique.ā
Qian Jin smiled bitterly. āThe difficulty level has raised a lot!ā He thought.
Qian Jin drew back all of his warrior energy and instantly felt the heaviness of the hammer in his hand. He walked to the forge and raised the hammer as he tried to recall how Blake was able to move and twitch all the muscles in his body that rapidly. He tried to do that same and by controlling and twitching all the muscles in his body, but he found out that it wasnāt so easy to do.
Just trying to control his muscles and make all of them move was difficult, let alone moving them at the same high frequency as Blake. At the beginning, when Qian Jin moved one muscle and made it move, he would forget to control another muscle causing it to stop moving.
One minuteā¦ Ten minutesā¦ Half an hourā¦ One hourā¦
Qian Jin just couldnāt control and move all the muscles in his body, so he curled his lips and swore in his mind. āDamn it! If I canāt control my whole body, then I will start with half a body first.ā
Half of his body was still not that easy to control! Qian Jin closed his eyes again and carefully thought about the frequency that Blakeās muscles moved, and he gradually analyzed the speed of movement, the proportion, and the effect of each muscle when it was moving rapidly. He end up finding out that there were a few muscles that were more important and were the main sources of the twitching.
āLet me trying using these muscles firstā¦ā Qian Jin raised the hammer again and smashed onto the first piece of pig iron on the first anvil. Right after that, his feet coordinated with the muscles that were twitching, and his body moved quickly. As if he learned how to teleport, he instantly got to the second anvil. Bam! Before he was able to swing the hammer in his hand, his body lost the balance and his body smashed onto the ground.
Qian Jin who was lying on the ground at the moment blushed. He recalled all the sensations that he felt when he fell down; he felt like he tripped himself while walking. It was obvious that he made a mistake on the procedure.
āThisā¦ā Qian Jin got up and dusted all the dirt off of his body. He scratched his head embarrassedly as he saw Blake sitting at the corner smiling and gloating. āThis is harder than the Second Hammering Technique in the Eighteen Blade Elevating Strike,ā he said.
āThe Second Hammering Technique in the Eighteen Blade Elevating Strike?ā Blake fell into a deep thinking state as he nodded and said, āOkay, just continue moving like this. But when you raise the hammer, use the Second Hammering Technique in the Eighteen Blade Elevating Strike.ā
Qian Jin suddenly felt like he was about to faint; he really had the impulse of slapping him in the face. āWhy did I have to say that? I havenāt even learned this technique, yet I have to practice the Second Hammering Technique in the Eighteen Blade Elevating Strike as well?ā
He still had to learn the skills and he still need to practice forging.
Once there was the first fall, there would be the second fall. Naturally there would be the tenth fall, the one hundredth fallā¦
After three hours passed, Qian Jin started to questions if he was here to learn how to forge or he was here to learn how to trip himself. He would fall to the ground every time he moved!
Four hoursā¦ A smile finally appeared on his face after a long while. Although he wasnāt as smooth and clean as Blake and he wasnāt as fast as his first time where it seemed like he teleported, he didnāt fall to the ground this time after he moved.
āPlayer Qian Jin learned the very basic of [Innumerable Shadows]ā
A system notification sounded in Qian Jinās ear.
Ten hoursā¦ Fourteen hoursā¦ Fifteen hoursā¦ Sixteen hoursā¦
One hammerā¦ Two hammersā¦ Ten hammersā¦
Without the help of warrior energy, although the Second Hammering Technique in the Eighteen Blade Elevating Strike had improved greatly with only the use of physical strength, it was still far from the acceptable standard in Blakeās eyes.
Qian Jin believed that if he used his warrior energy, the Second Hammering Technique in the Eighteen Blade Elevating Strike would be a lot better and smoother than now. But since Blake told him to not use it, then he wouldnāt use it!
Once his physical strength ran outā¦ he would use warrior energy! Once his warrior energy was depletedā¦ Forging Breathing Techniqueā¦
After sixteen hours, Qian Jin lied on the ground with every single muscle in his body shaking uncontrollably; under the pressure from both the Second Hammering Technique in the Eighteen Blade Elevating Strike and the strange moving technique called Innumerable Shadow, he was extremely tired. Although he wanted to crawl to the hot spring in the backyard, he just didnāt have the strength to do so.
Blake took Qian Jin off of the ground. With Qian Jin on his shoulder, Blake walked into the backyard and threw Qian Jin into the hot spring. The mystic anti-fatigue powder and the water started to insanely devour the weariness in his body.
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Qian Jin soaked himself in the hot spring as he thought in his mind, āMy body had been stimulated greatly by the training today! My body that had most of its potential developed by the Wind and Cloud Golden Body has actually strengthened again! I really want to know that if I advance to a Demon Fighter with this firm of a foundation, how much would my strength skyrocket after that?ā
āPlayer Qian Jin, your time today is almost used up. Leaving the Endless Worldā¦ā
Qian Jin sat up from the ground and felt like something was missing from his clothes.
A huge amount of spiritual power surged in the cave and instantly attracted Qian Jinās attention.
Gloria! She was wearing the blanket that was made out of the feathers, and she was holding onto a piece of black crystal tightly. Streams of spiritual power were extracting magic power from this black crystal-like stone.