Chapter 172 The Call of the Black Whale Hammer

Chapter 172 The Call of the Black Whale Hammer

Chapter 172 The Call of the Black Whale Hammer
Woo~
The darkness surged like a tide, without a trace of light.

The Military Control Scroll hung high in the sky like a star map, with six large stars shining brightly on it. Under the starlight, the darkness at the edge of the gray stone platform gradually receded and expanded exponentially.

"The interval between changing the steering wheel has been shortened again, and it only takes one and a half hours..."

Li Yuan digested the information that emerged in his mind and looked around the spacious stone platform. The Divine Fire Furnace was no longer the edge.

But nothing else appeared in the new expansion.

“No surprises…”

Li Yuan felt a little disappointed. After spending so much money, he thought there would be a surprise like the 'Divine Fire Combination Furnace'.

"Fuck, give me back my money!"

After digesting the information that emerged in his mind, Li Yuan felt a pain in his heart. That much money was enough for him to spend for the rest of his life...

"wrong!"

Li Yuan's heart was shocked. He looked carefully and saw a vague outline in the darkness on the other side of the Divine Fire Combination Furnace.

[Divine Fire Forging Platform (Level 6)]

【Unopened】

"Divine Fire Forging Platform!"

Li Yuan moved in closely to observe, almost sticking to it, but he could only see a hint of an outline with the help of the faint light from the Weaponry Scroll.

“…It’s better not to let me see it.”

After staring for a while, Li Yuan was depressed to find that no matter how hard he tried to sense, there was always a layer of separation.

Apart from this outline, there is no information at all.

and……

"Materials for advancing the Military Scroll to the seventh level..."

Li Yuan almost had a cardiac arrest after just a slight sensation.

He knew that the seventh-level weapon corresponded to the divine weapon, and that it might take a lot of materials to complete the Weapon Mastery Sutra to this stage, but he didn't expect that it would require so much.

“…It’s good to have a goal to strive for.”

The surprise of being promoted to the rank of Military Commander was almost wiped out, and Li Yuan glanced at the outline of the magic weapon forging table.

The expansion of the gray stone platform has stopped, and after doubling its size again, the platform appears very spacious.

He moved the incense burner to the middle, and then began to recall the changes after his promotion to the Military Commander.

The number of soldiers under control has increased, the interval between changing soldiers under control has been reduced, and the distance for sensing weapons has doubled...

"It's not a loss."

After a while, Li Yuan opened his eyes and temporarily left Chirong Cave. Although he was more heat-resistant, it was far from enough for him to sleep here.

In a cave not far away, Li Yuan casually threw a pill to the little mouse, took off his shoes and got on the bed.

Leaning against the head of the bed, he entered the military control space again.

After spreading all kinds of weapons on the stone platform, Li Yuan counted them again:
"The first and second level incense is enough to light the Divine Fire Furnace 340 times. The third level incense is only 43 times, the fourth level is even less, only 12 times, and the fifth level incense is only one time..."

After silently counting the incense sticks of each level, Li Yuan's eyes fell on the hammer soldiers and forging hammers.

"It's time to unite our forces."

During the past six months, he only had a few hammer soldiers and forging hammers that were above the famous level, but he had many first- and second-level hammer soldiers and forging hammers.

"Um……"

Li Yuan thought about it, and before joining forces, he temporarily placed the incense burner from the Zican Temple in the cave.

This incense burner provides "slight bad luck", what if it really has an effect?
"Join forces!"

Li Yuan already had an idea of ​​what weapons to assemble, and without hesitation, he took out a handful of gold and silver and started assembling the troops.

Starting from the initial stage, combine all low-level items including boots and accessories to the second stage.

The second level is already a good item at the sharp blade level. Any one of them will cost at least thirty or forty taels of silver.

"Just this batch of sharp blades must be worth tens of thousands of taels of silver. However, the combined forces also cost thousands of taels of silver. It is a profit, but only a small one..."

After combining all the low-level items and weapons, the first and second level incense were almost consumed.

Afterwards, Li Yuan became much more cautious.

Incense of level three and above is so hard to come by that he feels painful every time he fails. Every time he joins forces, he has to think carefully about the selection.

"It's done!"

Li Yuan carefully selected and took 'hammer talent' as the primary condition, and began to forge hammers and hammer soldiers.

The first time was successful, the second time was successful...

Fifteen times in a row, without even one failure!

"Sure enough, the more similar the weapons are, the higher the success rate will be."

Li Yuan was in a good mood. He selected the most similar hammer from hundreds of hammers and succeeded twenty-nine times in a row before he encountered his first failure.

"The failure rate is expected to be much higher in the future."

Li Yuan relaxed for a moment, opened his eyes and stroked the little mouse for a while, then calmed down before continuing to gather his troops.

After combining the hammer soldiers that were most compatible with him, as he expected, he failed six times out of the next thirteen times.

"Incense is not prohibited."

Looking at the thirty-six hammer weapons in front of him, Li Yuan felt satisfied. These were all good things that could enhance his talent in hammer skills.

"Next, we need to be more cautious. There are only twelve fourth-level incense sticks..."

Li Yuan counted the hammer soldiers several times before opening his eyes. He planned to take back the small incense burners he had placed in the Hammer Soldier Hall tomorrow and close them.

I wish my luck was a little better, a little.

It was probably late at night, but Li Yuan was still in high spirits. He went to Chirong Cave to offer sacrifices to the sky twice, but found that there was still no movement.

"Is the Grandmaster dozing off?"

The last portion of the blood of the five spiritual animals was used up, and Li Yuan felt a little disappointed. Or did the ancestor prefer the meat of spiritual animals?
He thought about it for a while and decided to try again after gathering enough spiritual meat.

"call!"

"Suck!"

Suppressing his distracting thoughts, Li Yuan swallowed a few pills and began to improve his bones with the help of the high temperature in the Chirong Cave.

These days, he did not delay in improving his bones.

Not to mention that he had barely gotten started with the Ancient Elephant Six-Shaped Hammer, his Spirit Ape Spear technique, which possessed the basic diagram, had made great progress.

This was the first form of a spiritual beast that he had changed, and Li Yuan was very cautious.

……

Early the next morning, Li Yuan returned to the Hammer Soldier Hall and put away the small incense burner that he had temporarily placed there after absorbing the incense.

After the promotion of the Military Commander, the space on the gray stone platform became much larger. In addition to the two large incense burners, it could also accommodate six small incense burners.

"Well, is that enough luck for me now?"

Six small incense burners and one large incense burner all have the effect of improving luck. Li Yuan looked at the room with some regret.

He still had a few incense burners left, but there was really no room for them.

"Well, let Liu Zheng help me bury it in the woods."

Li Yuan turned and left. On the way, he found that the inner island was much quieter than before. He went back to the Casting Valley to ask Niu Jun, only to find out that the front line was in danger.

"It was Wan Ya, the leader of Sanyuanwu. He conquered nine cities and thirteen passes in a row. Commander Duanmu was defeated several times in a row. The situation is critical."

Niu Jun didn't look very good.

Just a few days after the news of Shi Hong's great victory came, news of his great defeat came.

"The Great Elder?"

Li Yuan's heart tightened slightly.

He remembered that Jing Shuhu had gone to support, but even with him included, Shenbing Valley was still at an absolute disadvantage in terms of the number of Tongmai masters.

"No news yet."

Niu Jun looked heavy.

Li Yuan took a quick look and saw that the other blacksmiths also looked anxious and couldn't concentrate on their forging. It was obvious that the news spread quickly.

"The situation is not good." Li Yuan thought to himself. He went to find Lei Jingchuan. Lei Jingchuan's face was not very good, but his tone was very stable:

“Although Wan Ya has refined his internal organs, the unique skills he has learned are incomplete, and he cannot kill Duanmu, let alone the Great Elder.”

Lei Jingchuan said gloomily: "With the Huailong Palace, among the four major sects in Huizhou, it is not just us who are in decline. Those few..."

Li Yuan's heart was slightly moved: "Huailong Palace?"

"More than a thousand years ago, Huailong Palace was granted Huizhou, and the ancestors moved here. On the surface, they were naturally quite generous, but secretly."

Lei Jingchuan sneered.

Li Yuan was not surprised. When he was in Gaoliu County, the weapon forging shops would suppress the newly emerged blacksmith shops.

The Divine Weapon Valley will also suppress the small and medium-sized sects in the counties under its jurisdiction, and the Huailong Palace is no exception.

"The provincial sect has a huge advantage over the prefectural sect."

Lei Jingchuan sighed.

"No matter how weak a state clan is, it still has a state."

Li Yuan nodded in his heart.

Over the past thousands of years, countless disciples have complained about their founder Feng Yun, and there is a reason for this.

In the area of ​​one state and eight prefectures, no matter whether it is Dechang Prefecture or Zhelong Prefecture, Huailong Palace is more famous and it is the real siphon of all prefectures.

The last disciple with a dragon-shaped root bone in Shenbing Valley was Gong Yangyu more than seventy years ago, but Huailong Palace has had such disciples from generation to generation.

Disciples are one thing, but when you add up the resources, power and so on, the advantage is so great that the subordinate sects have almost no chance of turning things around.

"That's too far."

Lei Jingchuan didn't say much and turned back to Sanyuanwu:

"More than four hundred years ago, the founder of Sanyuanwu died in a foreign land, and only half of his unique martial arts 'Sanfen Guiyuan' remained. Therefore, although Wanya has refined his internal organs, his martial arts are far inferior to those of the other sect leaders."

Lei Jingchuan paused for a moment and said, "Although Qi Ying has great talent, his unique skills are incomplete. If he fails to hit the target with one strike, he will lose to Shi Hong in a long battle."

Shi Hong was taught a unique skill.

Li Yuan's heart moved slightly, and he asked some more questions about the art of weapon forging. After a moment, he returned to his cave.

……

Woo!
The pale yellow flame went out, the Divine Fire Furnace vibrated with a hum, and a heavy hammer fell on the stone platform.

"It's done!"

Li Yuan walked out from the incense burner room, holding the heavy hammer, which looked ferocious and vicious.

The hammer head alone was half the size of a man, and looked like three heavy hammers pressed together.

【Mountain Sinking Hammer (Level 5)】

[It was forged by the Master of Arms with the divine fire and the combined weapons furnace, a thousand-jin heavy hammer...]

[Control conditions: Control the bloodline of the master of the weapon, and possess great strength]

[Control Effect: Level 6 (Yellow): Hammer Talent,

Level 5 (light yellow): heavy as a ton, as powerful as a mountain

Level 4 (Blue): Hammer talent, physical talent,

"Sixth-level hammer talent!"

Li Yuan breathed a sigh of relief. This was an idea he had before he forged the first heavy hammer.

Using extreme characteristics to influence the control effect now seems to be effective.

The level of the control effect is higher than the weapon itself, and it is something that only extremely skilled weaponsmiths can do.

"If I had forged this heavy hammer myself, my weapon-making skills would have at least reached a high level. Unfortunately..."

Although he said it was a pity, Li Yuan was actually satisfied in his heart.

A sixth-level hammer talent is equivalent to nine fourth-level ones. In other words, you only need to control this heavy hammer.

His talent in hammering is at least several times, even ten times, that of Fang Baoluo and Ba Wanli, and dozens of times that of Gao Gang and other elite inner disciples of the Hammer Hall.

The talent is one level higher, and the gap is already so big that it can be seen with the naked eye.

"It's a pity that there is only one. If there were more, my talent would be so great that even Old Han would be far behind, right?"

Li Yuan was slightly delighted, as he had always regarded Old Han as an imaginary enemy.

hum!
While he was thinking, he had already handed the heavy hammer to the weapon-holding scroll.

The conditions for controlling the Shenshan Heavy Hammer were easily met. He casually paired it with the Hunjin Da Xiyi Hammer and was able to control it.

hum!
In an instant, Li Yuan felt a chill between his eyebrows, and even a tingling pain, as if his meninges were suddenly stretched tight.

Swish!
Li Yuan opened his eyes, ignored the frightened little mouse, exerted force on his feet, and quickly rushed out of the vibrating and buzzing Chirong Cave.

There was an uproar in the forge. Niu Jun and other blacksmiths had experienced similar shocks and were evacuating in an orderly manner.

"call!"

Li Yuan swallowed a pill to protect his internal organs, and a dark light made up of various colors intertwined flashed in his eyes.

【Sea-Splitting Black Whale Hammer (Level 11)】

With only the support of the Hunjin Great Xiyi Hammer and the Shenshan Heavy Hammer, he had seen the Sea-Splitting Black Whale Hammer for the third time.

And it's much clearer than before.

Li Yuan's heart beat faster.

The seventh level was already a divine weapon, and the eleventh level heavy hammer was so tempting to him that it was hard to describe.

For a weapon of this level, only one control effect is needed, which is equivalent to eighty-one control effects of a divine weapon!

"Stack four more hammers..."

Li Yuan murmured in his heart, and without any hesitation, he took control of four fourth-order famous heavy hammers that were blessed with hammer skills.

boom!
Li Yuan felt his heart tremble, and he was in a trance for a moment.

Across the red tunnel, he seemed to feel some kind of rhythm, as if something was calling him over.

"Sea-Splitting Black Whale Hammer!"

Li Yuan subconsciously wanted to get closer, but was awakened by a scolding:
"You don't want your life?!"

Lei Jingchuan strode over, grabbed Li Yuan who was walking out of the Chirong tunnel, and headed to the ground without saying a word.

boom!
boom!
Inside the forge, the huge chimneys were shaking, and large chunks of earth and rocks were falling, making dull noises.

This vibration was much stronger than the last time.

Woo!
When Li Yuan came to his senses, he had been dragged to the ground by his biggest creditor.

He shook his head, and could still see the dark light in front of him.
The light condensed and did not dissipate. It was the rhythm and call of the Sea-Splitting Black Whale Hammer. It was calling for himself to come over.

"This hammer is really a spirit!"

The feeling was so strong that even from such a distance, Li Yuan was a little dazed and horrified.

He was almost led into the Chirong Tunnel unconsciously...

Woo~
Li Yuan closed his eyes slightly, still able to feel the faint throbbing, and was speechless:
"Can't you come over?"

While feeling resentful and afraid, Li Yuan couldn't help but feel a little happy.

This hammer is already named Li!
"The earthquake happened again!"

"This time it's more severe than the previous one. Will the tunnel collapse?"

"My belongings are still underground. I have saved them for more than 30 years to marry a wife..."

There was chaos in the Weapon Casting Valley. The shaking was so violent and sudden that many people didn't even have time to put on their pants.

Many blacksmiths were shocked and frightened, and some even wanted to rush back with sad faces.

"Why is it shaking again?"

Lei Jingchuan was confused and uncertain. If the last time was a coincidence, what about this time?
Two earthquakes in one year, this can't be a coincidence, right?

Thousands of years ago, the Weapon Casting Valley had never shaken so violently.

"Could it be that the hammer is about to come out?"

(End of this chapter)