Are You a Blacksmith? (5)

"Father, Xin-er pay her respect to lord father." Liu Xin Xin kneeled on both knee before an Inner Qi Lord sitting in the owner seat within the Great Hall and paid her respect.

"Good daughter. You seem... Different... Did something happened?" as an Inner Qi Lord, his sense is at least ten times better than those in their Inner Qi Warrior Tier. When his sense of Lord Qi probes his daughter, he noticed that her cultivation is no longer stagnant at 14th Stage, but advanced into 15th Stage now!

"Lord father, Xin-er met with some unexpected fortune inside the sect and managed to walk a step further in her cultivation. And at the same time, Xin-er have a gift to lord father." Liu Xin Xin withdraws the Iron Alloy Dual Headed Pickaxe from her Spatial Stone. A servant of her father approached the lady for the treasure and returned to his master's side.

"What a good quality pickaxe! Although this might be lacking when applied to 2nd-Tier material like Fool Silver Vein, against the scattered Fool Silver in the common mineral ores is good enough!" Liu Xin Xin's father, Liu Xuan gives his comment regarding this pickaxe.

"Good daughter, where did you get this pickaxe from? Unfortunately, to properly remake this pickaxe we will need to hire a few Celestial Designers to dismantle the pickaxe to study it. Do you know who is the maker of this special pickaxe?" Liu Xuan asks his daughter with a very gentle father to daughter tone.

"Xin-er dare not to confirm this, but I do know the person that give this pickaxe to me as a present." Liu Xin Xin replied to her father's question accurately without missing anything in between.

"I see... As I know, within this whole Seven Heaven Sect, only the Liu Family and Cheng Family possess the ability to understand the land and its resources. If we're able to bring this young friend to our side, it will promote the growth of our clan, but if he's not, I don't want to see the Cheng Family get him as well..."

"Do you understand father's meaning, my good daughter?" Liu Xuan explained his intention carefully to make sure his daughter understand what he wanted to say. With everyone's attention is focused on Liu Xin Xin's answer, the pressure is placed on her shoulder.

"If I convinced junior brother to come with me, it means by any means, he will become a tool to our Liu Family. But if I failed to persuade him, I will have to make sure that the Cheng's will not be able to get him to their side. What should I do..."

"Junior brother, what should this senior sister do?" unconsciously, she becomes very dependent on him because he's the one that removes the inner demon plaguing her mindset for so long.

"I am thinking that if he's considering visiting our Liu's Foundry, I can personally bring him over to our Liu's Anvil Hall to take a look at our heritage skill, Vein Listener Art. That time, you can come along as well." knowing his daughter's personality, Liu Xuan put another lure to bring his daughter to her decision.

"Vein Listener Art? That's our Heritage Skill to enhance the ability to sense the treasured vein better! Lord father actually allowed the two of us to learn this Heritage Skill?" Liu Xin Xin is caught into his trick and accepted the offer to bring Zhang Wu Ji back.

"Lord father, Xin-er will try her best to invite this individual back to the Liu's Foundry and Mansion." Liu Xin Xin agreed to the task without other consideration.

"Good... Good... You should quickly go to meet your mother and share with her about your recovery. She has been suffering from lack of appetite because of you." Liu Xuan changed their discussion topic to catch the attention of Liu Xin Xin again, and as he expected, the daughter immediately excuses herself so she can go to her mother's side.

After Liu Xin Xin left...

"Patriarch, please forgive Liu Tsung for his words, but I cannot hold myself from asking, why Patriarch use the Vein Listener Art as the exchange to obtain the blueprint of this pickaxe? Liu Tsung believes that with the effort of three Celestial Designer, the dismantling and studying process will not face any difficulties."

"Plus, our Vein Listener Art is a precious Heritage Skills that only those in elders rank above can learn." one of the three elders questioned their patriarch for his recklessness.

"Third Elder, I understand your concern. Your patriarch is also gambling for his decision, but the main reason for my sudden changes of opinion is due to this pickaxe's effectiveness!" Liu Xuan holds the pickaxe up above his head and stares at the treasure.

"Bring me some Mineral Rock that was used to test our Mining Pick's quality!" the patriarch summoned his men to complete his order, wherein a short five minutes, two bulky servants came inside the hall with a Spatial Stone in their hand.

When it was activated, three 1-meter high Mineral Rock placed before the patriarch. Following from this, Liu Xuan steps closer to the three Mineral Rocks with the Pickaxe infused with his Qi. His first strike hits the first Mineral Rock with a small amount of 1st-tier mineral metal and destroys the Mineral Rock into pebbles.

With the same force as before, he strikes at the second Mineral Rock with his composition of 1st-tier mineral metal and still sent the rock into a pile of pebbles. When it gets to the 2nd-tier mineral Rock, only a small amount of shattered ores is removed from the Mineral Rock.

"This pickaxe is useful to all 1st-tier Mining, but when it comes to 2nd-tier, the results are not that good. Still, the efficiency is better than our own high-quality mining pick. Do you think that my decision is too rash, the third elder?" Liu Xuan successfully convinced the three elders by demonstrating the capability of this pickaxe.

"Hopefully this kid Xin-er mentioned holds the ability to create this pickaxes. This way, we can monopoly the production of Fool Silver around the first and second Heaven Mountain and approach in either Moon Silver or Tomb Silver Mining." the first elder started to carry an expectation on Zhang Wu Ji.

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Meanwhile, in within the Material Hall.

"Dog of Liu Xin Xin, what are you trying to do with my customer? Get the hell away from this junior brother!" Ma You Yuan bellowed. He approached Zheng Kai and tried to kick the latter, but the latter was too fast in his escape technique and vanished from Zhang Wu Ji's side.

"At least you know how to run." Ma You Yuan finished his sentence and turned at Zhang Wu Ji with the forty Spatial Stone in his hand.

"Sixty Qi Accumulating Pills, junior brother. I'm sure you will come back after you know our quality of Mineral Ores is better than that bitch Liu Xin Xin's." Ma You Yuan exchanged hand with Zhang Wu Ji for the sixty pills and left without bothering to talk with the latter.

"This will be my first and last time to purchase Mineral Ores from you." Zhang Wu Ji smiled.

After a little more window shopping, Zhang Wu Ji left the Mineral Hall. But the moment he steps outside, Zhang Wu Ji is greeted with the view Zheng Kai is getting pummeled by a disciple with two others holding him up. Looking at them is two other disciples, where he recognized one of them.

"Stop!" Zhang Wu Ji steps forward to stops them from bullying Zheng Kai. Looking at the former comes closer to between Zheng Kai and them, Ma You Yuan whispers something to the disciple standing beside him.

"Senior brother, take one of this Breath Returning Pill." Zhang Wu Ji feeds Zheng Kai with a 2nd-tier pill that heals physical wounds and stands in front of the bullies.

"So, you're the generous buyer. How about permanently order the Mineral Ores from our Cheng Family? I can give you a good 10% discount. If you want, we can try to make it from 20 Spatial Stones on your first order." the person standing beside Ma You Yuan says.

"Not interested." Zhang Wu Ji uses one of his arms to support the injured Zheng Kai and trying to take the latter away from this bullying. Without considering, he flatly rejected the offer from this surname Cheng. The reply takes the one with surname Cheng to his boiling point immediately.

"Everything I, Cheng Hao Ran offered, will not take no as an answer!" without further ado, he took a sword out from his Spatial Stone and attacked the junior. Because of his battle steps, Cheng Hao Ran's speed is too fast for those weaker juniors to follow!

"Aii, why do I always caught in trouble whenever I tried to help somebody? Seems like there is nothing in common between five of them with me..." Zhang Wu Ji sigh. This was like his fifteenth day inside of the sect, and he already gets into trouble.

"Senior brother Zheng Kai mentioned that they're the eighth and ninth spot, I guess that Cheng Hao Ran is the eighth strongest disciple in First Heaven Mountain then..." Zhang Wu Ji looks at the attacker with the sword and prepares himself to retaliates.

"Rising Dragon Sword!" Cheng Hao Ran slashed downwards using his sword. And when the situation becomes unrepairable, Zhang Wu Ji withdraws the Blacksmithing Hammer from his spatial ring and clash with the Seven Star Ceremonial Sword.

"PANG!" the clash destroyed the Blacksmithing Hammer! Although it was shattered into scattered gravels, it at least protected the master from an attack. But what Cheng Hao Ran did not know is Zhang Wu Ji did not use the hammer without a purpose!

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"Special (+5): The moment durability reaches zero, Hammering will result in a 10% Purity Removal."

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He was well prepared! The impact sent the Hammer into its death and caused the already impure Seven Star Ceremonial Sword into its demise. On the next attack, Zhang Wu Ji took his side weapon, an Iron Staff, into his fight.

Under the eyes of everybody spectating the show, Zhang Wu Ji's Iron Staff sent the Seven Star Ceremonial Sword from one piece into two. This sight surprised all the spectators, with some spitting out the food in their mouth from the shock.

"Iron Weapon destroying Silver Weapon!"

"Eighth Spot Cheng Hao Ran got his sword split into two by an Iron Weapon!"

"Cheng Hao Ran ability in maintaining his weapon sucks! Shame to the Cheng Family that excels in Mining, Blacksmithing, and Crafting!"

"So good looking, I think I'm in love..."

"Get the hell away, slut, he's mine... Hehehe..."

With the sword is broken, the incident caused Cheng Hao Ran, Ma You Yuan, and the three nameless disciples to escape immediately. In the mind of each of them, they were afraid of his deadly Iron Staff.

"If the Iron Staff is so strong that it can destroy a Silver Sword, what will happen if he uses that to attack us?" this is what caused all of them to run.

The attack that wasn't meant to attract the others and build his fame actually carry him to somewhat popular. Added with his face that not ugly to begin with, the name Zhang Wu Ji started to spread until it reaches the Second Heaven Mountain.

"Reporting to Senior Brother Wu Jing, it seems like Zhang Wu Ji is very popular in First Heaven Mountain at this moment." one of the regular disciples came into Wu Jing's High-Quality Residence and reported.

"Hahaha! Like Wu Ming, a mighty flame is difficult to be hidden with a thin layer of Xuan Paper! Wu Jing, you can stop telling that kid to keep a low profile." the elder laughed.

"Uncle! Can you at least stand at my side please?" Wu Jing bellowed.

"From the moment Heaven King land his eye on this youth, we all know that he will take him as a disciple for sure. Don't forget that even your brother, Wu Ming, is facing this challenge. The only unfortunate matter is Wu Ming cause some big trouble to the sect now." the elder continued with their conversation.

"That brat is going to get a good lesson from me when he's back. I can't wait to see what he's going to get from the Mysterious Legacy Realm Challenge!" Wu Jing slapped the table beside him into ashes to vent his anger.

"That brat? Mysterious Legacy Realm Challenge is quite a good area for those in between Middle Warrior Tier to Half Step Soldier Tier. I'm sure he will be back with some good treasure." Elder Wu continues.

"Brother! Uncle! Look what I bring back!" a loud voice shook the foundation of the High-Quality Residence.

"WU MING!!!"

"Hahaha! This is why people say, Don't mention thing behind people's back when the sky is still bright!"

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[Author's Note]

Alright guys, guess how important will Wu Ming become?

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Since the story says they're both somebody expected by the Heavenly King, what do you guys think?

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Let's see, if I can rush it, I will update one more chapter, Thanks