Chapter 726

"Truly worthy of being the world's strongest blacksmith!"

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

"Even using such simple utensils, you can still make the most top-notch anomalous objects. Truly amazing!"

"Hmph, ignorant!"

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

"Compared to when I was still alive, the utensils used for forging anomalies have become much better, but the blacksmiths' level has instead declined. 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 downward, chipping 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! In the final analysis, it's the power of the mind, and the mind has no 'standard answer'!"

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

Completely unaware that his coffin lid had been stolen, the Third Director, whose interest in chatting had been aroused, complained with a face full of displeasure:

"Let me tell you, the human mind is the most complex and the simplest. As long as you can understand it, figure it out, and guide it appropriately, that's enough. What processes and what tools are all empty; they can only affect your success rate and cannot affect the effect of the finished product at all."

"If you don't believe me, look at me. Even with a furnace built from a few broken bricks and a large 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 imagery of 'flame' and 'forging,' I wouldn't even need to set up a pot. I could forge anomalous objects just by pinching them 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 Director, while secretly sending a signal to urge Leon to return as soon as possible, complimented with a smile:

"For so many years from then until now, as long as there is a vacancy for the Taurus Director, you are definitely the world's best blacksmith. This is enough to prove your level. If I don't believe you, then who else can I believe?"

"Hehe, you're just saying that."

After glancing sideways at the red-haired Director 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 clearly in my heart! You little girl are very cunning, there isn't a single word of truth in your mouth. If it weren't for the Taurus of this generation self-sealing, I'm afraid I wouldn't even be able to see your face!"

"You are really wronging me with this."

Through the corner of his eye, noticing Leon shouldering the coffin into the cemetery, the red-haired Director breathed a sigh of relief, then narrowed her fox eyes and said with a smile:

"I also want to come to you more often to forge things, but firstly, you live in the Dead Realm all year round, so it's really too troublesome to come over once. Secondly, there hasn't been much movement in recent years, so there haven't been any good materials. For those ordinary things, just let ordinary blacksmiths practice, it's really not worth you making a move."

"Besides, although they can't compare to a fraction of yours even if they practice for a lifetime, they are at least inheritors of the forging secret arts. If I trouble you for slightly better things, what should we do if the forging secret arts in the Bureau are cut off because ordinary blacksmiths never have a chance to practice?"

"Tsk, if you ask me, with your current level, it's no different from being cut off... Alright, you kid come over, the things are forged!"

"Okay!"

Seeing that the square-headed old man had completed the forging, Leon, who had already put the coffin lid back in its original place, hurriedly took half a step forward, completely merged with the phantom created by the red-haired Director, and then walked quickly toward the two of them.

"Uh? What's wrong with you kid?" After looking at the sweat beads on Leon's forehead, the square-headed old man couldn't help but frown and asked with a face full of confusion:

"My furnace is colder than ice water, how come you are still sweating?"

Damn! I'm going to be exposed!

After hearing the Third Director's question, Leon, 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, then followed the communication method the Director had taught him in advance and said respectfully:

"It should be because I'm excited... The Taurus Lord of this generation once gave me some pointers and taught me some introductory techniques for forging secret arts, so I can also be considered a blacksmith."

"For a blacksmith, being able to witness the forging process of the undisputed number one blacksmith in history with my own eyes, I am truly moved and unable to control myself, so I sweated a little."

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

Although he saw at a glance that Leon was purely talking nonsense, after hearing the words "undisputed number one blacksmith in history," the square-headed old man's mouth corners still twitched upward uncontrollably, 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 a person brought by Olivia, if there is anything you don't understand about forging secret arts, I can give you a little guidance."

Give me guidance?

After hearing the square-headed old man's words, Leon's expression couldn't help but show a hint of joy.

The Director was right! The core logic of communicating with this Third Generation Lord is to never leave the words "strongest blacksmith." As long as this sentence can be said, what the other content is doesn't matter anymore.

"Thank you, Third Generation Lord!"

After opening the badge panel and switching out both the "Secret Art Inheritor (Taurus)" and "Secret Art Inheritor (Aquarius)" badges, Leon bowed to the square-headed old man with gratitude and guilt, 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 Director crossed his arms and said with his head slightly raised:

"Although I don't mind giving you guidance, not just anyone is worthy of my guidance. You must first let me see your level!"

Leon couldn't help but be slightly startled upon hearing this. After glancing at the large pot bubbling with green bubbles, he said with some difficulty:

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

"Forget about forging things."

After hearing Leon's words, the square-headed old man said with a hint of disgust:

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

After reaching into the large pot and scratching around, throwing the things that had sunk to the bottom of the pot to Leon, looking at Leon, whose expression was hesitant and clearly had no confidence in the test, the square-headed old man couldn't help but let out a weird laugh:

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

(End of chapter)