Chapter 282

The cultivation of the *Thousand Forging Technique* is impossible without guidance. My *Thousand Forging Technique* is nearly at minor success. I don't dare to say anything else, but I can still guide you."

One hundred taels of silver or ten contribution points a day, why don't you go rob someone.

"Thank you for your kindness, Senior Brother, but I really have no money," Xu Yang remained unmoved.

Jiang Yan said this thing was demanding of talent; others’ guidance probably wouldn't mean much.

He wasn't a young Marquis who was rich and didn't care about one hundred taels a day.

"Junior Brother Xu, think about it; you can come to me at any time."

Seeing that Xu Yang was still unwilling to spend money, Luo Xin didn't get angry and turned to leave.

He knew the difficulty of cultivating the *Thousand Forging Technique*. Once Xu Yang hit a wall, he would naturally come to him.

Luo Xin left, and Xu Yang hadn't expected a few more people to come over, wanting him to spend money to ask these people to guide him in cultivating the *Thousand Forging Technique*. The conditions were also about the same as Luo Xin’s, with some charging eighty taels a day and some charging ninety taels a day.

Xu Yang refused them one by one!

He didn't know how capable these people were, but every one of them was very arrogant, almost all claiming their *Thousand Forging Technique* was nearly at minor success.

Xu Yang could see through this kind of talk. Entry level is called nearly minor success, and minor success is also called nearly minor success.

If they were truly powerful figures, would they need to swindle the few coppers from a newcomer?

"Brother Xu, it’s best to ask a Senior Brother to guide you for a few days. Without guidance, the *Thousand Forging Technique* is indeed very difficult to enter the threshold."

Xiong Kun walked over and reminded Xu Yang.

He had come here to cultivate the *Thousand Forging Technique* earlier than Xu Yang. At the beginning, he also felt that there was no need to spend money unjustly, but after hammering a few pieces of mysterious iron into scrap, he gritted his teeth and asked someone to guide him, and the situation improved a lot.

"I’ll try for a few days first," Xu Yang laughed.

Xiong Kun shook his head and left. This was his experience, and he couldn't do anything if Xu Yang didn't listen.

Soon, the mysterious iron in the furnace fire burned red. Xu Yang took it out, picked up the forging hammer, and began to hammer with the technique of the *Thousand Forging Technique*.

"Clang, clang..."

Accompanied by the dull sound of iron hammering, his internal energy penetrated into the mysterious iron bit by bit.

Half a quarter of an hour later, the red-hot mysterious iron darkened. Xu Yang completed his first folding and forging of the mysterious iron. Compared to before, there was no difference at all, and he didn't know if the quality and performance had improved.

Using tongs to clamp the mysterious iron and putting it into the furnace fire, he looked at the panel.

[Thousand Forging Technique · Entered (0/200)]

He frowned. After hammering for a long time, the *Thousand Forging Technique* didn't change at all.

"Try again!"

Xu Yang didn't know if he had no talent for weapon forging or if the progress was just this slow in the initial stage. When the mysterious iron burned red, he clamped it out again and continued to hammer using the *Thousand Forging Technique*.

Once!

Twice!

[Thousand Forging Technique · Entered (1/200)]

By the tenth folding and forging, the panel finally flashed, and the progress of the *Thousand Forging Technique* increased by one point.

"This is too slow!" Xu Yang was speechless.

At this moment, an afternoon had passed, and the progress of the *Thousand Forging Technique* had only increased by one point.

According to this progress, it would take him at least three months or more to reach minor success in the *Thousand Forging Technique*.

"According to Jiang Yan’s statement, this is because I have no talent for weapon forging, and the effect of my internal energy in improving the material’s performance is very poor."

Fortunately, he could cheat, which meant wasting the points he had worked so hard to accumulate.

Nine times!

By the tenth folding and forging, there was a puff sound, and the mysterious iron, which had been fine, suddenly exploded. The unique black luster of the mysterious iron faded rapidly, turning gray-black and becoming scrap iron.

This piece of mysterious iron was completely ruined.

"Haha... Junior Brother Xu, I said it wouldn't work without guidance. Do you believe it now? You wasted a piece of mysterious iron for nothing, a loss of seventy or eighty taels of silver."

Luo Xin walked over with large strides, looking gloating.

He had been paying attention to Xu Yang’s situation and had been waiting for this moment.

"Thinking of mastering the *Thousand Forging Technique* without spending money to ask someone to guide you is just dreaming."

"We all came through this way, and we also spent money to ask previous Senior Brothers to guide us. Who does he think he is?"

"Stubborn people have to hit a wall and bleed before they know how to repent."

……

The other disciples who had been rejected by Xu Yang also took the opportunity to mock him.

"Didn't Brother Jiang also hammer a piece of mysterious iron into scrap under your guidance?" Xu Yang laughed.

Luo Xin’s expression stiffened, and then he said somewhat angrily: "Junior Brother Jiang also hammered a piece of mysterious iron into scrap, but he only spent an afternoon, and his cultivation of the *Thousand Forging Technique* has already reached ten forges.

What about you? How many forges are you at now?"

Only ten forges?

Before this piece of iron of his was ruined, it seemed to be the tenth forging, right?

"Let’s count it as nine forges!" Xu Yang said.

As soon as these words were spoken, Luo Xin’s expression changed slightly.

The others also widened their eyes, revealing disbelief.

"You say nine forges, so it’s nine forges? It’s not that you folded and forged the mysterious iron nine times and it was ruined, so your *Thousand Forging Technique* reached nine forges. You have to see if the quality has also improved."

Luo Xin reacted quickly, almost being bluffed by Xu Yang.

The function of the *Thousand Forging Technique* was to improve the material’s performance, not to see how many times you folded and forged the material until it was ruined.

"Believe it or not, it’s up to you. Anyway, I don't have the money to ask you," Xu Yang didn't want to waste any more breath.

He had just started learning the *Thousand Forging Technique* and couldn't tell if the material’s performance had improved.

Luo Xin said so much just because he wanted him to spend money to ask Luo Xin for guidance. He directly stated his attitude, which would also save this guy from coming to bother him again.

At this moment, it was evening. Xu Yang picked up the remaining mysterious iron and hammer, sold the ruined mysterious iron to the Weapon Forging Pavilion for twenty taels, and left directly.

"Lost eighty taels!"

In the following days, he only occasionally went to the Weapon Forging Pavilion to put on a show. He didn't intend to rely on his own ability to cultivate the *Thousand Forging Technique*, adding some progress to the *Thousand Forging Technique* with the panel every day.

In his spare time, he also cultivated the *Iron Refining Hand*, and spent more time cultivating the *Blood Prison Heart Saber Scripture*, *Fuyue Bear Scripture*, and *Golden Steel Technique*.

This day, he finally saw Lu Ren at Blazing Fire Peak. He should have completed the assessment task and successfully joined Blazing Fire Peak.

Xu Yang didn't go to ask Lu Ren how he had completed it, and their gazes met in the air before they each went their separate ways.

In the blink of an eye, nearly a month had passed since he arrived at Blazing Fire Peak.

In the morning, just as Xu Yang was about to go out, he saw Gao Lin walking over with a smile.

"Greetings, Senior Brother Gao!" Xu Yang hurriedly cupped his hands.

Gao Lin nodded: "Junior Brother Xu, if you have nothing to do, come with me for a trip. Today, Master is going to guide the brothers in the art of weapon forging; you must not miss it."

"Alright, thank you for informing me, Senior Brother."

For nearly a month, Elder Huoyun had never summoned him, and he had almost forgotten that he was still Elder Huoyun’s disciple. This master seemed not to exist, neither guiding him in martial arts nor teaching him the art of weapon forging.

Xu Yang followed behind Gao Lin. Gao Lin also notified a few other people who were also Elder Huoyun’s disciples. When the group arrived at Elder Huoyun’s place, they found that there were already seven or eight people there.

Adding the few of them, Xu Yang counted a total of thirteen, and this shouldn't even be all of Elder Huoyun’s disciples.

"There are too many disciples; no wonder he doesn't value them."

Xu Yang finally understood. Elder Huoyun had too many disciples. If he were to guide every one of them by his side, Elder Huoyun would likely not be able to do anything else, just teaching these disciples would be too much.

The probability of outer sect disciples joining the inner sect was very small, but accumulating year after year, each Elder still had quite a few disciples under their name.

Some of the Senior Brothers looked older than Old Man Xu.

"What I want to explain today is still the *Thousand Forging Technique*."

Seeing that everyone had arrived, Elder Huoyun stood up immediately: "The *Thousand Forging Technique* is the foundation of the path of weapon forging. If you want to forge spiritual weapons, without cultivating the *Thousand Forging Technique* to perfection, even if all the materials you use are spiritual iron, you won't be able to forge a qualified spiritual weapon..."

Hearing this, Xu Yang was somewhat shocked. He knew the *Thousand Forging Technique* was important, but he hadn't expected it to be this important.

Without the *Thousand Forging Technique* being perfect, one actually couldn't forge a qualified spiritual weapon.

"Some experts whose *Thousand Forging Technique* has reached the pinnacle can forge powerful weapons comparable to semi-spiritual weapons even with ordinary materials... Watch carefully."

Beside Elder Huoyun, there was already a burning furnace. While speaking, he took out a piece of red-hot mysterious iron from it, then picked up the forging hammer and began to hammer clang, clang, clang.

Xu Yang widened his eyes and looked. He saw Elder Huoyun’s technique was skillful, and a strange aura rose from his body, his whole person seeming to merge with heaven and earth.

Simple hammering, but every strike caused the mysterious iron below to emit strange vibrations, and strands of red energy were absorbed by the mysterious iron. The mysterious iron became redder and brighter as it was hammered, its quality improving at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Truly an expert!"

Xu Yang was secretly shocked. His *Thousand Forging Technique* was really just hammering iron, without any aesthetic appeal.

The *Thousand Forging Technique* used by Elder Huoyun gave people a pleasing feeling, and one couldn't help but immerse oneself in it.