Eternal Life Starts as a Hunter-Chapter 327 - 132: Before and After the Grand Wedding

Chapter 327: Chapter 132: Before and After the Grand Wedding

You can only succeed once.

Alright, let me teach you the first step now."

As he spoke, Master Zhu took out the Blood Crystal from the side.

It was a strange metal with a red-black hue, slightly crystalline in the sunlight.

Just holding it, you could see the heat slightly twisting on it in the mountain wind... like a piece of cooked meat just taken out of a pot.

Master Zhu, with a focused expression, said, "To melt the Blood Crystal, you need a fire of higher temperature, which requires bone charcoal. The best bone charcoal is white, and black is inferior... However, for now, we can just use black bone charcoal."

As he spoke, he adjusted the furnace while explaining some characteristics of the Blood Crystal.

Forging the Blood Crystal is much harder than iron, mainly because the "cooling time after melting the Blood Crystal" is shorter, so you need to complete the "Fetal Movement" at a faster speed.

It’s like, originally you had sixty minutes to take a test, now the difficulty of the test hasn’t changed, maybe even increased a bit, but the time to complete it has been shortened to thirty minutes...

...

Ten days later...

Master Zhu looked at Li Yuan, a look of worry in his eyes...

Twenty days later...

Master Zhu began to grow irritable...

Twenty-five days later...

Li Yuan still hadn’t made any progress, and Master Zhu wore a stern face every day, his expression turning gloomy, his temper growing more irritable by the day.

Thirty days...

Finally, Li Yuan saw a new entry in his [Skills]: [Spirit Casting (Sixth Grade)] (1/10).

He wiped off his sweat, breathed a sigh of relief, and displayed a determined look in his eyes.

Effort brings rewards.

As long as you work hard enough, then... even the worst talent can create miracles.

Li Yuan wasn’t a genius in the art of forging, but even so... he wanted to climb step by step to the top, and earn Blood Gold.

Li Yuan glanced at the reassuring "12636" remaining points.

’Add Points.’

He directly added 10 points, changing [Spirit Casting (Sixth Grade)] (1/10) to [Spirit Casting (Sixth Grade)] (1/20).

Master Zhu watched him strike down with a hammer, knowing that this son-in-law finally... finally... had gotten started.

Yet seeing him immediately put down the hammer, he said in a particularly unpleasant mood: "Continue, you’ve just started!"

He emphasized each word heavily.

He really couldn’t help himself.

When he first got started, it only took him seven days.

Seven days!

And now, this son-in-law of his took thirty days to get started, even with his guidance. 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

Master Zhu’s feelings were incredibly complicated.

The faster Li Yuan’s progress had been before, the more painful it was for him now.

You have to know, the field of Weapon Forging truly requires talent; without it, don’t even bother, because you will definitely get stuck.

Master Zhu simply didn’t know what "thirty days to get started" meant.

In martial arts, it might be passable, but reaching this level in Weapon Forging, who isn’t a genius?

Thirty days... is too much...

’Did I misjudge?’

Master Zhu bowed his head in silent agony, his face a mask of pain, thinking this kid must have learned forging in the past, which is why he made such fast progress before, right?

Why is it like this?

Why?!

Master Zhu was truly distressed, discovering over these days that Li Yuan wasn’t a suitable successor, even though he had been trying hard to console himself, now his mindset was nearly collapsing.

Li Yuan sensed his father-in-law’s emotions.

He took a deep breath and said politely, "Father-in-law, don’t worry, I... have found the feeling."

With that, he slightly tilted his head back.

In the sunlight, there was a light in his eyes, as if he had realized something, his lips curled up, as if suddenly gaining confidence.

Master Zhu said with exasperation, "Then, let me see your feeling."

"Yes, father-in-law."

Li Yuan responded respectfully, then added, "Father-in-law... watch closely."

With that, he picked up the Blood Crystal again, started the furnace, pulled the windbox, added mixed metal, and began forging the Blood Crystal.

Ding!

A sound fell.

Li Yuan silently added 1 point to [Spirit Casting (Sixth Grade)] (1/20).

Master Zhu had no reaction.

Ding!

The second sound.

He added another 1 point.

Master Zhu lightly muttered, "Huh?" and his face showed some confusion, as if doubting his own hearing.

After twenty strikes.

Li Yuan put down the hammer, seemingly entering some state of enlightenment, then... breakthrough.

[Spirit Casting (Sixth Grade)] (1/20) became [Spirit Casting (Sixth Grade)] (1/40).

After a moment, he continued hammering.

However, he began to slow down the speed of adding points.

Meanwhile, Master Zhu... was undergoing a ’dramatic change in temperament.’

His original irritability was directly suppressed by disbelief; the frustration gradually eliminated with the clanging sounds; with Li Yuan’s last hammer falling... even the initial worry in Master Zhu’s heart vanished.

It’s like falling from the clouds to the dust, suddenly soaring to the skies again.

With one iron forging, Li Yuan directly elevated from [Spirit Casting (Sixth Grade)] (1/20) to [Spirit Casting (Sixth Grade)] (39/40).

The father-in-law was completely dumbfounded, thought again and again, understood that his son-in-law was of the "enlightenment type," that once he understood, he faced no more obstacles.

"Father-in-law, how was it?" Li Yuan put down the hammer.

Behind him, the father-in-law couldn’t help but laugh with a wide smile.

...

Four months later.

Li Yuan cultivated [Spirit Casting (Sixth Grade)] to Great Perfection with as low a profile as possible, but Great Perfection was useless because a Secret Skill came after it, this Secret Skill being [Spirit Communication], which was the key technique for handling Source Blood.

Master Zhu no longer taught, but gave a letter to Li Yuan, instructing him to take it to find Princess Consort Yin.