Chapter 323: 323 Guidance and Test

"Truly worthy of being the strongest blacksmith in the world!"

Looking at the pink trident floating up and down in the iron pot filled with miserable green bubbles, the red-haired Bureau Chief couldn't help but give a thumbs up, full of admiration:

"Even with such crude equipment, you can still make the top-notch anomalous objects. It's truly amazing!"

"Hmph, ignorant!"

After curling her lips with impatience, the square-headed old man, whose eyes were full of pride, said:

"Compared to when I was still alive, the equipment used for forging anomalies has become much better, but the level of blacksmiths has declined instead. Do you know why?"

"Why?"

"It's because they are too pedantic! They are too particular about the environment and materials for forging!"

After using the tool in his hand to poke down and scrape off a large piece of paint from the iron pot, the square-headed old man hummed with dissatisfaction:

"The source of anomalies is emotion! It's obsession! It's expectation! Ultimately, it's the power of the soul, and the soul has no 'standard answer'!"

"Now these blacksmiths always feel that using the best forging tools and the best material combinations will definitely produce good things. Once they can't produce something they are satisfied with, they feel that the materials are not good or the process is wrong, completely ignoring the importance of the soul. This is purely walking on the wrong path!"

Without discovering that his coffin lid had been stolen, the Third Bureau Chief, whose interest in talking had been aroused, complained with dissatisfaction:

"Let me tell you, the human soul is the most complex and the simplest. As long as you can understand it, figure it out, and guide it appropriately, that's enough. Whatever process or tools are all empty; they can only affect your success rate, not the effect of the finished product."

"If you don't believe me, look at me. Even with a stove made of a few broken bricks and a big pot picked up from the side of the road, I can still forge True God-level anomalous objects. Even if it wasn't for wanting an image of 'fire' and 'forging,' I wouldn't even need to set up a pot. I could forge anomalous objects with my bare hands!"

"How could I not believe you?"

Looking at the fork that had gradually taken shape in the pot, the red-haired Bureau Chief, while secretly sending a signal to urge Li Ang to return as soon as possible, smiled and flattered:

"From the beginning until now, for so many years, as long as the position of the Golden Bull Director was vacant, you were always the best blacksmith in the world. This is enough to prove your level. If I don't believe you, then who can I believe?"

"Hehe, you are just saying that."

After glancing sideways at the red-haired Bureau Chief who was flattering him, the square-headed old man curled his lips:

"If you believed me, why don't you come to me more often to forge things?"

"I know it in my heart! You little girl is very cunning, and there is not a single word of truth in your mouth. If it weren't for the Golden Bull of this generation self-sealing, I'm afraid I wouldn't even be able to see your face!"

"You are wronging me."

Through the corner of her eye, noticing Li Ang carrying the coffin into the cemetery, the red-haired Bureau Chief breathed a sigh of relief, then narrowed her fox-like eyes and said with a smile:

"I also want to come to you more often to forge things, but for one thing, you have lived in the Dead Realm all year round, and it's too troublesome to come over once. For another, there hasn't been much movement in recent years, so there haven't been any good materials. For those ordinary things, it's enough to let ordinary blacksmiths practice, so there's no need for you to take action."

"In addition, although they can't compare to a fraction of yours even if they practice for a lifetime, they are still inheritors of the forging secret technique. If I bother you for slightly better things, what should we do if the forging secret technique in the Bureau is cut off?"

"Tsk, if you ask me, your current level is no different from being cut off... Alright, that kid, come over. The thing is forged!"

"Okay!"

Seeing that the square-headed old man had finished forging, Li Ang, who had already put the coffin lid back in place, took half a step forward, merged completely with the phantom created by the red-haired Bureau Chief, and then walked quickly toward the two.

"Eh? What's wrong with you, kid?"

After looking at the sweat on Li Ang's forehead, the square-headed old man frowned and asked with confusion:

"My stove is colder than ice water, why are you still sweating?"

Oh no! It's going to be exposed!

Hearing the Third Bureau Chief's question, Li Ang, who had run until he was sweating, felt a shock in his heart. He hurriedly raised the back of his hand to wipe away the fine sweat, and then, according to the communication method taught by the Bureau Chief in advance, said respectfully:

"It should be because of excitement... The Golden Bull Lord of this generation once gave me some guidance and taught me some introductory techniques of the forging secret technique, so I am also a blacksmith."

"For a blacksmith, being able to witness the forging process of the well-deserved first blacksmith in history, I am truly swaying in heart and unable to hold myself, so I sweated a little."

"Tsk... another little bastard with no truth in his mouth!"

Although he saw at a glance that Li Ang was purely talking nonsense, after hearing the words "well-deserved first blacksmith in history," the square-headed old man's mouth couldn't help but twitch upward violently, and then he waved his hand with disgust:

"Forget it if you don't want to say it, I'm too lazy to ask... You come over. For the sake of you being brought by Olivia, if there is anything you don't understand about the forging secret technique, I can give you some guidance."

Give me some guidance?

Hearing the square-headed old man's words, Li Ang's expression was slightly happy.

The Bureau Chief was right! The core logic of communicating with this Third Lord is "three sentences without leaving the 'strongest blacksmith'." As long as this sentence can be said, it doesn't matter what the other content is.

"Thank you, Third Lord!"

After opening the badge panel and switching out the two badges "Secret Technique Inheritor (Golden Bull)" and "Secret Technique Inheritor (Water Bottle)" together, Li Ang bowed to the square-headed old man with gratitude and guilt, and then asked:

"I want to ask you..."

"Wait, I haven't finished speaking yet!"

After raising his hand to make a "wait a moment" gesture, the Third Bureau Chief crossed his arms and raised his head slightly:

"Although I don't mind giving you some guidance, not everyone is worthy of my guidance. You have to let me see your level first!"

Li Ang was slightly startled upon hearing this, glanced at the big pot filled with green bubbles, and said with some difficulty:

"Do you mean... let me forge an anomalous object on the spot?"

"Forget about forging things."

Hearing Li Ang's words, the square-headed old man said with slight disgust:

"The level of blacksmiths now is too poor, and it's annoying to watch you forge things like carving flowers. I don't want to suffer this kind of torture... How about this, since you were standing by and watching how I forged anomalous objects just now, let's use this as the test question!"

After reaching into the big pot and stirring, he threw what had sunk to the bottom of the pot to Li Ang. Looking at Li Ang, who had a hesitant expression and clearly had no confidence in the test, the square-headed old man couldn't help but laugh strangely:

"Come on, you are not allowed to pour power into it to activate it. Just use what you learned from the Golden Bull of this generation, and refer to my previous forging process, and tell me what kind of anomalous object I forged for you?" ===== CHAPTER 324 =====