Chapter 232

"Hiss, why is my back cold in the middle of the dog days?"

Li Rui shivered.

An inexplicable chill surged up.

He was in the middle of circulating Qi, and suddenly this happened, almost causing qi deviation.

He muttered in his heart.

He thought it was the legendary invasion of external evil, but in that instant, there were no other changes.

Li Rui was still worried.

He waited until late at night, a full hour passed, before he finally felt relieved.

After completing seventy-two cycles.

He crawled into the quilt and entered the Dream Cloud Terrace.

Continue practicing!

The next morning.

Li Rui had just pushed open the door when he saw Liang He already standing at the entrance, his eyes full of excitement.

"Xiao He, this is..."

"Master, I have broken through."

Liang He was like a young schoolboy who had learned to recite poetry, wanting to receive praise from Li Rui, this old master.

"Very good."

Li Rui raised his right hand and placed it on Liang He's shoulder, the Immortal Su Xuan Qi wandering around their bodies.

Blood and Qi were vigorous.

It was indeed a sign of breaking through.

Following the breakthrough of the second disciple, Liu Liu Tiezhu, Liang He also broke through; disciples breaking through one after another proved that he was a very good master?

Li Rui was happy.

Liang He was only in his early twenties and was already Eighth-Rank; this could be considered a small genius even in Anning Prefecture.

Not to mention there was also Liu Liu Tiezhu, who was naturally diamond-like.

Although the third disciple, Wang Zhao, had the slowest martial path growth, he had a rare talent for horse riding, and his future prospects would not be bad.

It was truly a hall full of talents!

Li Rui enjoyed this pleasure of being a master.

Soon.

Liu Liu Tiezhu, Wang Zhao, and Yang Yong all learned the news of Liang He's breakthrough, and each of them was happy for this eldest disciple and eldest senior brother.

In the whole courtyard.

The one who practiced the hardest was Liang He.

Practicing for at least six hours every day, everyone in the courtyard saw it.

No one would feel jealous of an Eighth-Rank obtained in this way.

Li Rui watched this scene.

Liang He was increasingly looking like an eldest senior brother.

An eldest senior brother might not have the most outstanding talent, but he must have the ability to convince others; otherwise, how could he pull a group of junior brothers together?

Liang He was not smart, but he won by being diligent and down-to-earth, even clumsy.

But it was precisely this clumsy effort that made people feel they could trust him more.

Just as everyone was happy for Liang He.

Liu Liu Tiezhu hesitated to speak.

This little thought, of course, could not escape Li Rui; he looked at Liu Liu Tiezhu: "Speak, what's wrong?"

Liu Liu Tiezhu scratched his head:

"Master, the old man Tie at the blacksmith shop said yesterday that he wanted me to tell you to go to the blacksmith shop."

Li Rui's pupils contracted slightly.

The time for the master to meet the master had finally arrived.

The old man Tie in Liu Liu Tiezhu's mouth was Elder Tiekuang of the Divine Weapon Shanzhuang, a Fourth-Rank Primordial, the number one weapon caster of the Divine Weapon Shanzhuang; any one of these titles was scary enough.

Want to see him?

Li Rui pondered slightly and nodded: "It is time to meet."

His own disciple had learned skills at someone else's place for several months, and Liu Liu Tiezhu was even close to the Bronze Bone realm; out of courtesy, he should meet him.

Elder Tiekuang was from the Divine Weapon Shanzhuang.

The Divine Weapon Shanzhuang was not one of those evil sects hiding in the dark; the monk might run, but the temple couldn't.

So it was destined that he wouldn't act against Li Rui, an Anning Guard Commandant, so naturally, there was nothing to worry about.

Immediately.

Li Rui followed Liu Liu Tiezhu out the door.

A moment later.

They arrived at a blacksmith shop that looked as ordinary as could be.

Li Rui remembered.

This shop had been open for decades; he had even found the old blacksmith to shoe his horse, but later the old blacksmith died, his son took over the shop, and he had never come again.

Glancing over.

Li Rui followed Liu Liu Tiezhu to lift the curtain and drill into the back room of the shop.

Although his own disciple Liu Liu Tiezhu had learned blacksmithing at this shop for several months, he, the master, was coming for the first time.

After all, a Fourth-Rank Primordial martial artist could see through others' cultivation; it was better to meet as little as possible.

Soon.

A burst of clanging blacksmithing sounds rang in Li Rui's ears.

Liu Liu Tiezhu walked to the furnace with ease, pointing at the shirtless, white-haired old man who was quenching the blade:

"Master, he is the old man Tie."

Li Rui heard his disciple pointing at a Fourth-Rank expert and calling him an old man, and he gasped.

"Liu Tiezhu, you shouldn't be called Liu Tiezhu, 'Tiger' would be more appropriate."

"You are truly a tiger."

Elder Tiekuang didn't even look at the two of them.

Still focused on blacksmithing.

The hammer in his hand danced like a wild wind, banging on the red-hot blade embryo; sparks bloomed in the dark room, full of violent aesthetic beauty.

Seeing Elder Tiekuang ignoring him, Liu Liu Tiezhu was unhappy and shouted loudly:

"Hey, old man Tie!"

It's fine for you to be crazy on weekdays, I, Liu Tiezhu, am a junior, it doesn't matter, but today I brought my master.

You can look down on me, but you can't look down on my master!

Calling Elder Tiekuang, he was really crazy without limits???

Seeing his tiger-like disciple wanting to step forward to reason with Elder Tiekuang, Li Rui was scared into a cold sweat.

He hurriedly pulled Liu Liu Tiezhu back.

"Master, don't rush, wait is wait."

Reasoning with a Fourth-Rank Primordial martial artist.

He was truly afraid that Elder Tiekuang would directly treat them as blade embryos and hammer them.

Seeing this, Liu Liu Tiezhu could only suppress the anger in his heart and glare at the old man Tie.

Elder Tiekuang's movements were not affected by the two at all.

Sparks splashed.

A full quarter of an hour passed.

Li Rui gradually saw some clues; he had also seen his disciple perform similar hammer techniques. Although Liu Liu Tiezhu's blacksmithing was exquisite, it couldn't be compared to Elder Tiekuang's.

Miraculous skill!

Every time Elder Tiekuang swung the hammer, it actually secretly matched his true qi, accurately hitting the weak points of the true qi.

In other words, every time Elder Tiekuang struck, he was not just blacksmithing, but practicing Qi!

What was taught to his own disciple Liu Liu Tiezhu was not blacksmithing, but a Qi-practicing art!

It was just that Liu Liu Tiezhu hadn't nurtured true qi yet, so it hadn't manifested, but on Elder Tiekuang, it was a completely different scene.

Li Rui was fascinated for a moment.

True qi flowed in his body, unconsciously following Elder Tiekuang's breath, imitating the blacksmithing movements with his hands.

Seeing this scene from the corner of his eye, Elder Tiekuang slowed down his hammer movements.

The blade embryo that could have been finished in two quarters of an hour, he spent a full hour on it.

Finally.

Only a sizzling sound was heard, the blade was quenched.

Elder Tiekuang then looked at Li Rui and his disciple.

Liu Liu Tiezhu, who had been waiting impatiently, muttered: "Old man Tie, you are not good either, you spent an hour hitting a piece of profound gold iron, didn't you eat breakfast today?"

Elder Tiekuang decisively ignored Liu Liu Tiezhu, this brainless guy.

Liu Liu Tiezhu was about to speak.

But heard his master Li Rui open his mouth: "Many thanks, senior, for teaching the art."

Turning his head.

Liu Liu Tiezhu saw his master actually bowing to the old man Tie, his copper-bell-sized eyes widening even more.

For a moment, he didn't know what to say. The old man Tie glared at Liu Liu Tiezhu: "Get lost, go to the back, I have something to talk to your master about."

Liu Liu Tiezhu said "Hey," rolled up his sleeves, and was about to step forward to reason.

He had been at the blacksmith shop for so long, and he had never indulged the old man Tie; respect was respect, but the old man Tie's words were too owed.

The number of times the two quarreled was not small, but the old man Tie didn't hold grudges, and every time he still taught him blacksmithing.

Li Rui pulled Liu Liu Tiezhu:

"Liu Tiezhu, you go first, Master and Senior Tie have something to talk about."

It was truly a newborn calf not afraid of a tiger.

Only Liu Liu Tiezhu, who didn't know Elder Tiekuang's background, dared to be like this.

He certainly didn't dare.

Since Li Rui had spoken, Liu Liu Tiezhu could only go to the backyard angrily.

He only felt that his master had come for the first time and lost face, which made him somewhat guilty.

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Little did he know.

Li Rui felt that he had gained a great face today.

A Fourth-Rank Primordial martial artist personally teaching the art; this treatment, even a true disciple of the Divine Weapon Shanzhuang might not necessarily have it.

Liu Liu Tiezhu left.

Elder Tiekuang then looked at Li Rui, showing an interested expression: "It's truly ghostly; my Hammer-Qi Art, not a single person in the Divine Weapon Shanzhuang can learn it, but it was learned by you two master and disciple."

"Your comprehension is very good; among the people I have seen, you should be in the top three, otherwise it would be absolutely impossible to understand the essence of my hammer technique after seeing it once."

Li Rui bowed again:

"It is the senior's good teaching, proving that we master and disciple have a fate with the senior."

According to Jiangjiang Linxian's words.

This old senior of the Divine Weapon Shanzhuang had already lived for at least two hundred years.

In front of him, he was just like a young boy; the respect due to elders could not be less.

Although this kind of thing hadn't been done for decades, now that he took it out, it was just as skillful, without any stagnation.

Elder Tiekuang glanced at Li Rui and sneered:

"You, as a master, are a clever person; you climb up as soon as you see a pole. Don't probe, I won't take disciples."

"Passing the Hammer-Qi Art to that silly Liu Liu Tiezhu is just because I can't bear to see this art lost."

"Now one more of you is not much; just take it. Anyway, this art was obtained by me by chance, and it doesn't belong to the Divine Weapon Shanzhuang."

It was funny to say.

The Shanzhuang Master of the Divine Weapon Shanzhuang had looked for him many times, wanting him to pass this Hammer-Qi Art to the disciples of the Divine Weapon Shanzhuang.

Was it that he didn't want to pass it?

It was clearly that those blockheads of the Divine Weapon Shanzhuang couldn't learn it at all; more than thirty or forty geniuses were sent, but not a single one could learn it.

Didn't expect it to be learned by these two master and disciple in Qinghe now; it was truly the creation playing with people.

Li Rui was happy.

He could feel that Elder Tiekuang's art was of an extremely high rank.

And it was a superior art that could hammer true qi; such arts were almost the bottom-of-the-box arts of every major sect.

Actually passed to him just like that.

It was truly picking up a big bargain.

The Hammer-Qi Art, for him, a martial artist who had reached great success in strengthening Qi and was about to condense the origin, was simply like coming across a pillow when sleepy, perfectly adapted.

With this Hammer-Qi Art, Li Rui was confident that he could complete the origin condensation within three years.

Less than ten years.

He would complete the origin condensation and open the Qi Sea.

This speed, I'm afraid even geniuses would have to look at his back.

Li Rui: "Senior, if there is anything I can do, just order me."

In fact, when Liu Liu Tiezhu asked him to come today, he had already expected that Elder Tiekuang should have something for him to do.

Elder Tiekuang's white beard trembled.

What Li Rui said was not what he could do, but what he could do.

It was just secretly telling Elder Tiekuang that he really couldn't handle difficult things.

"You are quite smart, but I still like to stay with foolish people."

Elder Tiekuang said.

He was obsessed with casting iron all his life, but that didn't mean he didn't know the ways of the world; he saw through Li Rui's thoughts at a glance.

For "smart people" like Li Rui, he had always kept them at a distance.

On the contrary, people like Liu Liu Tiezhu were very much to his taste.

Otherwise, with Liu Liu Tiezhu's virtue of calling him old man Tie, he would have been hammered to death long ago, let alone teaching him the art.

Li Rui sighed lightly:

"People experience different things in this life, and their temperaments are ultimately different; if you are not smart, you can't survive."

Hearing Li Rui's words, Elder Tiekuang's expression changed instead.

"You kid, you still kept some original intention."

Since he called Li Rui over.

Of course, he had already understood Li Rui's situation in advance.

A horse groom for decades.

Just as Li Rui said, if he weren't smart, he wouldn't have lived until now.

Elder Tiekuang's words became less stiff: "Not bad, the old man called you here today, indeed there is something."

Elder Tiekuang's temperament, just like blacksmithing, had always been straightforward.

Li Rui bowed again:

"Just order me."

Today Elder Tiekuang taught him the Hammer-Qi Art; even if Elder Tiekuang didn't care, he had truly received the favor.

Counting it up, both of them master and disciple were Elder Tiekuang's disciples.

Since he received the favor, he must repay it!

When he first came, he was still pondering how to deal with it, but now... whatever can be done, will be done.

Elder Tiekuang opened his mouth: "I want to do business with you; I will produce the weapons, you sell them, profit split three-seven, I take seven, you take three, any problem?"

Li Rui was stunned.

A picture appeared in his mind for no reason.

Open the door, do business.

But Elder Tiekuang's business was not an unequal treaty, and could even be said to be quite conscientious.

Weapon business.

He only needed to manage the sales to get thirty percent of the profit.

This was simply a business without capital.

Weapon business, others couldn't do it, but he, an Anning Guard officer, could; ask, would the checkpoints of the Annan Army check the people of the Annan Army?

If you were checked, it wasn't because you sold weapons, but because the backer behind you had fallen!

Elder Tiekuang looked at Li Rui and frowned:

"Why, don't want to do it?"

"Or think the money split is too little?"

If it weren't for the fact that he wanted to cast a divine weapon and was really short of money, and if he went to the Divine Weapon Shanzhuang, that annoying Shanzhuang Master nephew would want to share a piece of the pie, he wouldn't have had to find someone to cooperate.

Selling weapons, and selling them to the Witch Kingdom.

Even if he didn't care about worldly affairs, he knew that he had to find someone smart and cautious enough to do this thing well.

He had to blacksmith, so he couldn't do it.

And even if he did it himself, he probably wouldn't do it well.

So he thought of Liu Liu Tiezhu's master, Li Rui.

An official in the Anning Guard who was quite steady.

Looking at it today, he was indeed a clever person.

Don't say that old people become clever.

Li Rui doing this was just right.

Li Rui pondered: "May I ask why the senior wants to do this business?"

A pie falling from the sky, and it was the kind that could smash people to death; he couldn't help but be cautious.

Elder Tiekuang grinned, longing in his eyes, and didn't hide it from Li Rui:

"I want to forge a blade."

"A Third-Rank Immortal Blade."

"A blade that can kill an Earth Immortal."

(End of chapter)