Chapter 52

"Rebellious son! You rebellious son!"

In the hall, Xue Dingyi knelt on the ground, lowering his eyes, not daring to make a sound.

The entire Xue residence was silent, with only the roar of the master, Xue Chengquan.

"If others hadn't told me, I wouldn't even know you caused such a big disaster outside! Four months, the tuition alone was one hundred taels of silver, and I provided you with extra medicinal expenses, another fifty taels! You tell me what you've practiced? Huh?"

"Idling outside, not thinking about making progress, causing trouble, molesting maids at home, being unfilial, indulging in wine and lust, how did I give birth to such a rebellious son like you!"

Xue Dingyi stiffened his neck: "How did I molest the maid? It was Qiuhua who seduced me first, and she even called me to drink brown sugar water in a very flirtatious way."

"You... you!"

Xue Chengquan pointed at Xue Dingyi's nose, trembling, so angry that his face turned as pale as gold paper, and his mouth, nose, and eyes were crooked.

"Oh my, my son, please say a few less words." Xue's mother shouted anxiously from the side.

"You shut up too! If it weren't for you helping to hide it, how would I know now? Two days, a full two days, going out to fool around every day, I thought you were going to the martial arts hall! It turned out you were going to the brothel!" Xue Chengquan looked at the servants on the left and right and ordered, "Block his mouth for me and beat him to death!"

The servants trembled like quails, but they didn't dare to disobey. The master of the house was still the master.

They could only press Xue Dingyi on the bench and raise the big board to hit him a dozen times, but it was all thunder and no rain.

"Good, good, good, you are all acting for me, right!? Huh? Get out of here!"

Xue Chengquan kicked away the person holding the board, snatched it himself, gritted his teeth, and hit him hard thirty or forty times.

Xue's mother cried and hugged Xue Chengquan's legs, begging him not to hit him anymore with tears like rain, but Xue Chengquan couldn't listen at all, instead hitting even harder: "A doting mother ruins her son. Usually, it's you who spoiled this rebellious son, and now you come to persuade me. If you persuade me again, I'll hit you together!"

Xue's mother was so scared that she let go, silent, sitting on the ground alone wiping tears with a handkerchief.

Xue Chengquan hit until he was panting, and only when he couldn't lift the stick did he sit on the stool to rest, drank two sips of tea, and shouted: "Tomorrow, tomorrow you will go to Yixing City with me to apologize to Master Yang's ninth disciple!"

No response.

"Did you hear me?"

Still no response.

Xue Chengquan's eyebrows stood up, and he was about to pick up the stick again. A servant on the side hurriedly shouted: "Master, don't hit him, the young master has fainted! If you hit him again, something will really happen!"

"Tungsten gold is different from ordinary metals and is very heat-resistant. Ordinary furnaces cannot melt it at all, but it has a characteristic, which is that it is easy to absorb fire essence, but very difficult to release it. So use a large amount of Fire Red Stone to calcine it continuously, and when it is burned to a certain time, it will gradually soften."

Lu Gang sat in front of the furnace, pouring Fire Red Stone into it, his muscles glowing with a metallic luster.

"I haven't used Red Fire Mourning Feathers to forge weapons before, but I have used similar materials, so I have a certain degree of certainty. Maybe this long spear will be my peak work."

Liang Qu listened with joy: "Thank you, Cao Shixiong Lu."

"No need to thank me. Being able to forge a sharp weapon is the best reward for a blacksmith. If you didn't come, even if I got the Red Fire Mourning Feather, I would find a way to refine it into a weapon. It's just a difference in what to build."

"By the way, Cao Shixiong Lu, if you use the Red Fire Mourning Feather, will the long spear turn into something with fire attributes?"

Liang Qu was worried in his heart. This is volcanic stone and Red Fire Mourning Feather. If you change the story background, it is definitely a fire-attribute magic weapon.

But he is a water monkey, and his horoscope doesn't match.

"No, the characteristic of tungsten gold is that its compatibility is stable, and it is not easy to change attributes. Moreover, volcanic stone is actually a kind of high-heat charcoal, nothing special."

"As for the Red Fire Mourning Feather, its essence is life essence. Although it has fire-attribute energy, unless you use other means, it cannot be integrated into tungsten gold. It can only give spirituality to tungsten gold weapons. Junior brother, do you want to add attributes? Then the material of the spearhead needs to be changed."

"Oh, no, no need, it's quite good now."

"Alright."

At noon, Liang Qu had a meal at Lu Gang's place and left.

Staying here, he couldn't help with anything. Watching his senior brother busy back and forth, sitting idle wasn't the right thing to do.

Returning to the martial arts hall, Liang Qu refined his skin again, one step closer to breaking through.

Everything was proceeding in an orderly manner. Every day there was enough positive feedback, making him tireless. Even if the weather was getting colder day by day, he didn't have the thought of staying in bed when he got up in the morning, only thinking about breaking through, breaking through, breaking through!

After refining his skin, Xiang Zhangsong came to find Liang Qu.

It turned out that Cao Shixiong Hu had come back once before and saw that Liang Qu was practicing, so he didn't disturb him, and let Xiang Zhangsong help take him to the academy to recognize the door, while he himself went to find Master Yang to report the Mountain Ghost matter.

He had to practice martial arts, watch blacksmithing, read books, and go underwater to get treasures when he had time.

Liang Qu suddenly felt that his time had become very tight, as if he had been asked by his parents to sign up for several tutoring classes.

But this tutoring class was undoubtedly painful and happy.

Practicing martial arts, reading books, spiritual weapons, no matter which one, were not things ordinary people were qualified to come into contact with, but he now had them all.

Arriving at the academy, the person who received the two was a white-haired old man wearing a long gown.

Simply recording the information, the old man stroked his beard and said: "Tomorrow is a holiday, so from the day after tomorrow, little gentleman, come from the end of the afternoon hour every day until the end of the monkey hour, study for an hour, study ten days and rest one day, how about it?"

"All at your command."

"Alright, come find me when the time comes, and I will take you to see the teacher. If you want to ask for leave, remember to say it in advance. If it is really urgent, maybe send someone to inform."

"Student understands."

"Alright, you two feel free, walk around in the academy, look around, as long as you don't disturb others."

Liang Qu heard this and went in to wander around. There was a very simple pond in the courtyard, bamboo forest, small pavilion, stone table and stone stools in the small pavilion.

It was almost the standard landscape of the academy, and then there were several small rooms like classrooms, adding up to about sixty people, some reading and some writing.

After wandering around and becoming familiar with the environment, Liang Qu returned to the martial arts hall and began the second round of skin refining of the day in the quiet room.

After two or three days of skin refining, Liang Qu found that his physical fitness was much better than he imagined.

Different from what Hu Qi said about being able to condense blood energy twice a day, he could fully refine it three times a day!

And the blood energy that could be fully condensed was no longer as thick as an index finger, but as thick as a thumb!

Thinking that blood energy is the result of physical fitness, not the cause, Liang Qu guessed that the physical fitness improvement brought by the initial fusion degree of the water spirit reaching forty or so had not been fully converted into blood energy results. If he could squeeze it at that time, he could have made the energy in his chest thicker.

Therefore, his recovery ability and physical fitness were far beyond others at the same stage.

The benefit brought by this was that after refining his skin this time, the strange feeling of his skin and fascia was very strong, as if a qualitative change was imminent.

According to the current progress, he could break through in just two or three more days?

The joy in his heart could not be suppressed. Liang Qu endured the fatigue and continued to stand on the pile, looking forward to the moment of breaking through as soon as possible.

In the evening, Li Libo knocked on the door: "Ashui, someone is looking for you at the door, it's that guy Lin Songbao."

"Coming."

Liang Qu put away his stance, picked up a towel to wipe the sweat off his face, changed his clothes, and walked out of the room after tidying up his attire.

After going out, Li Libo was a bit curious: "What is Lin Songbao looking for you for?"

"His father should know that I was accepted as a personal disciple by Master Yang and wants to invite me to dinner."

Li Libo's eyes lit up: "Good thing, isn't Lin Songbao's father a fishing pier boss? Talk to him, see if we can get a better price for selling fish in the future."

"Rest assured, leave it to me."