Chapter 28: Forging a Sword with Nine Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps

Xiao An looked at the pancakes with a sad face, full of nostalgia. "My father was a pancake seller. When I was five or six years old, I followed him to chop wood in the mountains of my hometown. Later, foreign tribes invaded my hometown, and my father protected me and brought me down the mountain."

Xiao An had a tear in his eyes, but he was determined not to let it fall. "When the war broke out in our hometown, a man brought a large army from the fairy world to our hometown, trying to drive the foreigners out of the planet. Dad sent me to the fairy world army, and I knelt on the ground and begged them to send me to another place."

Long Yu looked at Xiao An with a sad expression. "Did that man take you away?" Xiao An shook his head. "He didn't take us away, but said something." Xiao An looked at his pancake with confusion, and Long Yu was also waiting for Xiao An's next words.

"He said at the time, I can't take you with me. I can let you go to the nearby heaven, which is the star field of Ziwei Xingjun. There is no war in the heaven, you can live there. If we are still alive, we will not take you back to the fairyland."

Long Yu looked at Xiao An, who seemed to be indescribably sad. Xiao An took a bite of the pancake and tears flowed down his cheeks. "In that battle, that man followed the army of the immortal world and turned into dust in the universe along with our hometown."

"Later, my father took me to Zixiao Palace and begged Ziwei Star Emperor to accept me as his disciple. But Ziwei Star Emperor led his army to support that man. My father has been kneeling in Zixiao Palace, and it was the old Pavilion Master who accepted my father and me. My father was very grateful to the old Pavilion Master for taking him in, so he kept helping the old Pavilion Master to make pills. He also asked the old Pavilion Master about the battle situation in the front from time to time, until one day, the foreign race still attacked Zixiao Palace."

Long Yu looked at the sky with anger on his face, "Leng Tu is so powerful, but he still failed to defend Zixiao Palace." Xiao An looked at Shao Bing who was already drowned in tears, "Zixiao Palace was breached by foreign tribes, and the thirty-three layers of heaven were trampled and shattered. The eighty-eight star regions of the fairy world were snatched away, the God's Court was destroyed, the Demon and Netherworlds were annihilated, and only the demon tribe's territory was left."

"The human race was almost extinct, and a grand ceremony was held. Warriors from all walks of life welcomed the first batch of half-step people to resist the foreign races and rebuild the order in their respective walks. Only in this way did the human race have hope of resisting the foreign races. The geniuses of each race hoped to be born beside that person, but that person seemed to have disappeared forever."

Long Yu listened to Xiao An's tone and said, "The person that Senior Xiao is talking about should be the one from the Immortal Realm." Xiao An looked at Long Yu with a hint of kindness. "Yes, it was him. It was him who stopped the invasion of foreign tribes in his black robe."

Long Yu didn't know what to feel, but listening to Xiao An's tone, he could feel a sense of supreme awe. "Did he really disappear from this universe?" Xiao An looked at Long Yu and touched his hair. "He lives in our hearts."

Long Yu stood up, picked up the hoe, guided the purple flame, wrapped the hoe, and hit the ore hard. Long Yu found that there was only a trace of mortal power, and a large piece of ore cracked. Long Yu continued to swing the hoe, hitting it ten times in total, and finally split a piece of ore off.

Long Yu looked back at Xiao An, who nodded to him without saying much. But the story Xiao An told made Long Yu feel very miserable, and he couldn't just watch the show in the story.

Long Yu used the power of the hoe to continuously knock off the ore. Every piece that fell was put into the ring. Long Yu didn't know how much he needed. According to the ordinary iron needed to forge the peak before, this was still far from enough.

As Long Yu was knocking the ore, he found that his spiritual power was becoming more and more convenient. It was not like before, when he had resources but didn't know how to use them. Long Yu didn't know how many times he had replenished it, but each time he only had three actions: knocking the ore, putting it into the ring, and not recharging his spiritual power.

Long Yu sat on the ground again, Xiao An walked up to him and patted his shoulder. "Young Pavilion Master, you have almost learned the power of consciousness. Let's learn the forging technique next." Long Yu listened to Xiao An's words and understood that Xiao An wanted him to control the power of consciousness.

Xiao An picked up a piece of ore from the ground and placed it in front of Long Yu. "Young Pavilion Master, look, this is a piece of ore. There are many other things in it. If we extract the iron ore from the ore, it will become ordinary iron that can be forged."

Xiao An directly used the blue-white flame on the ore, and the ore turned into many other liquids. Xiao An used his other hand to extract one of them and put it on the other side of the ground. "Young Pavilion Master, look at these gray-white ones. They are the iron we want. Try to extract them with your spiritual power."

Long Yu also controlled the purple flame to melt a piece of ore, and then extracted the gray-white liquid. Long Yu never thought that he could learn to extract ore so quickly, and glanced at Xiao An, who gave him a positive answer.

Xiao An stood up and said, "Since the Young Master has learned to control the power of consciousness, the next step is forging. I will leave first. Young Master, please study patiently. There are still a lot of ores here." After Xiao An finished speaking, he disappeared in front of the cave. Long Yu walked towards the place where Xiao An disappeared and performed a teacher's salute.

Long Yu sat on the ground and thought about the effect of his spiritual power. Purple flames can melt ore. Anti-purple flames can be ice, which can quickly draw up iron ore for cooling. And what can the Tao body do? Long Yu was thinking about this question.

Listening to the sound of water dripping continuously, Long Yu looked at the water drops and felt that they looked like a hammer hitting the lake. Long Yu knew the function of the Tao body and directly controlled a piece of ore to melt and then cool it. He then controlled the purple flame to burn the iron red, and used the Tao force and the frequency of the water drops to hit the ordinary iron thirty-six times, and finally cooled it.

Long Yu watched as he succeeded. He kept repeating this action 36 times, and a sword appeared in front of him after 36 steps. Long Yu held the sword with a hint of water droplets in his hand and kept shouting. "I succeeded. I am not useless. I can also forge a sword."

Long Yu couldn't contain his joy and continued to forge other sword bodies. Long Yu found that if he kept the ordinary iron at a certain temperature, he could keep hammering. Long Yu forged a sword with 999 steps. Looking at the sword bodies on the ground, there were too many.

Long Yu still likes the sword that he made with 999 steps, and he can't let it go. Long Yu looked at the sword and thought about finding an opponent to try it out. Long Yu thought about who would be the best person to find, and suddenly thought of someone.

He flew out of the cave on his sword and looked at the sunny forest. A chimpanzee was enjoying the sunshine in the forest. Long Yu knew it was him. In the dream, this chimpanzee was a very powerful character.

Long Yu approached the chimpanzee cautiously and walked behind it. "Hey, Blackhead, let's have a sparring match." The chimpanzee stood up and looked at Long Yu with a confused look on his face. "Boy, you want to spar with me, but you are too weak."

Long Yu saw the chimpanzee looking at him with contempt, and said, "Big black guy, I'll give you weapons, and then we can just have a fight." Long Yu took out five or six weapons he had made from the ring and threw them on the ground.

He looked at the chimpanzee with a heroic look, "Come and try, these are all made by me, if you like you can take them." The chimpanzee looked at Long Yu, picked up a sword from the ground at random, took a look at it, "A sword with 832 processes, boy, you are a blacksmith."

Long Yu looked at the chimpanzee and was even more shocked. The chimpanzee actually knew the forging process. "Yes, I know a little bit about forging. Let's test the power of these swords."

The chimpanzee took out a magic knife from his back. The blade was very thin, only three fingers wide, about the same size as a sword. Long Yu had seen the chimpanzee's knife in his dream, but now he didn't have the scarlet will to kill.

The chimpanzee looked at Long Yu and said, "I can agree to test the sword with you, but you have to help me forge this sword and repair the patterns on it." Long Yu couldn't understand why the chimpanzee would make this request and ask him to help repair the magic sword.

Long Yu felt that it would be a shame not to charge a customer. "I think your knife should be a powerful one, but I only have ordinary iron, and it will take a lot of time to repair it. I don't know how to carve the pattern, so I have to wait for my senior brother to help me."

Long Yu really didn't know how to carve patterns, and besides, he had seen the power of the knife in his dream. Who knew if the chimpanzee was a friend or foe? If he repaired the chimpanzee's magic knife and it suddenly stabbed him or created a tornado, he might really die in the valley in his dream.

The chimpanzee looked at Long Yudi's harmless smile, touched the back of his head, and threw a dozen rings in front of Long Yudi. "Can you see if the materials inside are enough? There is also a strange dog-drawn talisman in it. Is it a carving book?"

Long Yu looked at the chimpanzee's behavior and didn't think it was going to harm him. For some reason, he even admired the chimpanzee. This was the behavior of a gentleman, not the behavior of a villain.

Long Yu looked at the ring on the ground. There were many materials, including mental skills, elixirs, and other strange things. Long Yu was looking at other things. A guqin caught Long Yu's eye. Although he didn't know what it was made of, Long Yu was really fascinated by it.

The chimpanzee saw that Long Yu was fascinated by the things inside, and sat on the ground waiting for Long Yu's performance. "Boy, take whatever you want from inside. As long as you can repair this knife for me, I will give it to you."

Long Yu looked at the chimpanzee looking at the magic sword lovingly, as if there was some story in it. Long Yu didn't want to ask casually, but continued to look at other rings. A strange book appeared in front of Long Yu: Carved Magic.

Long Yu looked at the chimpanzee and indicated that he wanted to take it out for a look. The chimpanzee nodded. Long Yu took it out and looked at it. It was in tatters and some words were blurry. Long Yuzhi knew the general meaning, but he had to guess the other meanings. Long Yu still patiently analyzed the general meaning and nodded at the chimpanzee.