Chapitre 54: Chapter 54 I Can't Grasp It
Riding alone, the speed was obviously much faster than a carriage, and after five days, Lin Manshan finally returned to Nuoding City.
After selling the big yellow horse at the stable, he went home, cleaned up the house that no one had lived in for half a month, had a bath, and rushed straight to the blacksmith workshop.
After greeting him, Lin Manshan went straight to the point, "Uncle Tie Shan, I'm going to go to Gengxin City in two days."
"That's a good thing. Ah Man, do you need me to accompany you?" Tie Shan had a joyful look on his face.
"No need, Uncle Tie Shan. I'm just going to get my blacksmith certification, it's nothing dangerous." Lin Manshan smiled.
"It's true too." Tie Shan nodded and smiled, "Since that's the case, Ah Man, then you should follow the purchasing caravan organised by our Nuoding City Blacksmith Branch in a few days. The Nuoding City Blacksmith Branch is a group self-organised by the blacksmiths of our Nuoding City, and at the beginning of every month, we will collectively organise a merchant caravan to go to Star Luo Empire's Gengxin City to purchase metal ores."
"This blacksmith workshop of mine is small in scale, and I usually just help the surrounding civilians to make farm tools, furniture, and the like, and many of them are just trading their old ones in for new ones, and they don't use a lot of metal, so I usually make a list for the purchasing caravan to buy and bring them back. Now there are still 9 days until the next departure of the caravan, I'll go and talk to the leader of the caravan this time, and you can just follow them."
"Alright, then I'll trouble you, Uncle Tie Shan." Lin Manshan politely said.
"It's a small thing." Tie Shan waved his hand and smiled, "On the contrary, it's you, Ah Man, Uncle Tie is waiting for your good news."
"Well, I will take the assessment seriously." Lin Manshan said solemnly.
Tie Shan shook his head and said in a serious tone, "Ah Man, there is no need to be pressured, just perform normally. As a spirit master, you should now spend more time on cultivation, as for learning about forging, take your time, you're still young. In the future, there will be plenty of time to slowly hone your forging skills. Don't worry, your Uncle Tie's body will last for at least a few more decades, I can afford to wait."
"I know, Uncle Tie Shan. I know it in my heart," Lin Manshan smiled as he felt warmth in his heart.
Tie Shan's tanned and reddened face squeezed out a smile as he nodded, "That's good."
After chatting for a while longer, Lin Manshan excused himself and left.
Returning home, he burrowed into his forging room, clanking and hammering for a while, and made a black ghost-faced iron case to seal the head spirit bone tightly. He was about to travel to a new environment, so he had to be well-prepared to avoid all the accidents and troubles he might encounter.
After doing all this, he once again plunged into the tight daily cultivation.
Nine days later, at the beginning of July, after delivering the fare, Lin Manshan boarded the caravan carriage and slowly travelled towards the border of the empire. Gengxin City, like Nuoding City, was located on the southwestern side of the two empires, so the distance wasn't too far, and if things went well, he would arrive in ten days. Because of the signposts, except for the expensive tolls, the caravan travelled smoothly and arrived on time.
Passing the inspection, the carriage drove into the city wall with a thick metallic atmosphere, Lin Manshan lifted the curtain and raised his eyes to look around, the main body of the buildings on both sides was mostly made of bricks piled up with fired clay, surrounded by various metal decorations in place, looking extremely rugged and thick.
"So many blacksmith workshops." Lin Manshan smacked his lips, all along the way, he seemed to have seen at least dozens of blacksmith workshops.
"That's natural, Gengxin City is the city that has the most blacksmith shops on the continent, statistically more than a thousand, and there are tens of thousands of blacksmiths. Blacksmiths from many places will specifically come here to take the Blacksmith Assessment, and only by becoming a senior blacksmith can they stay in this city.
Ah Man, that guy Tie Shan told me that you are very talented in blacksmithing, you have to perform well later, at your age, if you can be certified to become a senior blacksmith, that would really be a great honour for the blacksmiths of our Nuoding City." A middle-aged man on his side said briskly.
"Uncle Mo, I'll try my best." Lin Manshan nodded.
The man at his side was the leader of this merchant caravan and also a blacksmith in Nuoding City.
"Hm." The man nodded and glanced outside the curtain, "It's just up ahead, Ah Man, I'll personally take you to the assessment later, hehe, that guy Tie Shan blew you to the sky in front of me, I have to see for myself whether he's bluffing or not."
"." Lin Manshan opened his mouth, but finally responded, "Then I'll trouble you, Uncle Mo."
Not long after, the carriage stopped, Lin Manshan followed the middle-aged man and jumped off the carriage, looking up, it was a huge building more than thirty metres high with a lustre of metal and steel. Right above it hung a dark plaque without any text, only a raised pattern consisting of a hammer and a chisel crossed. There were no ornate decorations around it, and when he turned his gaze back to the front, there weren't even any gate guards.
The three gates were completely open, and the people coming and going could be described as a steady stream of people.
"Let's go." The middle-aged man walked ahead to lead the way, introducing as he walked, "The interior of the Blacksmith Association is divided into five levels, the first level is the trading area. The second level is the advanced trading area. The third level is the registration and assessment area."
As they walked through the door, the fully open hall was bustling with noise. On the outer area, there were various counters filled with metal ores and blacksmiths' finished products, and customers were walking around, surrounding the counters layer by layer.
"It's really lively." Lin Manshan sighed.
"That's natural, this is the general market." The middle-aged man smiled and turned around to inform the accompanying crowd about the gathering time and location, then turned to Lin Manshan, "Ah Man, let's go, I'll take you to the third floor."
"Hmm." Lin Manshan nodded his head and followed along at the same pace.
Once they made their way up, after explaining the situation to the guards at the stairway, the two of them smoothly arrived at the third floor.
The layout of the third floor was extremely simple, except for a modest counter in the centre, the surroundings were all closed rooms.
When they approached the counter, behind it a stout man was leaning on a chair, the moment he saw the stout man, the middle-aged man's face instantly became respectful, "Greetings Master Si Di, I'm here to bring this child to assess his blacksmithing, please help me arrange it."
"Oh?" Si Di smiled and immediately stood up, "It just so happens that I'm too idle and sore, so I'll be the one presiding over it."
After saying that, he shook his body and walked out around the counter, striding towards one of the rooms with firelight reflected in the window on the door.
As he walked, he waved back, "Follow me."
"Yes." The middle-aged man hurriedly responded, leading Lin Manshan to quickly follow.
The two of them walked into the door of the room, and there was an extremely simply furnished forging room inside, with a furnace fire raging. Then they saw Si Di walk straight to the furnace fire, picking up a piece of raw iron and directly throwing it in, then turning back, "Child, come over here."
Lin Manshan nodded and walked straight forward.
"Blowing the wind to help the fire is one of the basic abilities of a blacksmith while hammering the raw iron is particularly essential to forging. Therefore, next you must heat this piece of raw iron with your own hands, and then hammer this piece of raw iron to the limit of what you can hammer in front of me. After the hammering is complete, the final quality of this piece of raw iron will determine the result of your first test."
After saying that, Si Di made way, "Come on, start."
"Yes!" Lin Manshan nodded, quickly walked to the blower, rolled up his sleeves and grabbed the handle, rhythmically pushing and pulling.
The furnace fire blazed, Lin Manshan added charcoal while pushing and pulling, and the surrounding air quickly became scorchingly hot.
The colour of the raw iron in the charcoal fire also began to change from the original dark grey to bright orange.
"Not bad! The movement and force are perfect," Si Di's eyes were also getting brighter and brighter as he watched.
Not long after, Lin Manshan stopped moving, picked up the iron clamp from the side, and quickly placed the raw iron on the forging table not far away.
Afterwards, he picked up the hammer that was placed on the ground next to it, adjusted his movements, and swung it rhythmically.
"Clank, clank, clank."
The sound of clanging came one after another, like a heart beating, and like thunder in the sky, becoming more and more violent.
"!!!?" Si Di was instantly dumbstruck, then his eyes flashed with brilliance, and he moved to the middle-aged man's side in small steps, leaning in to ask in a low voice, "Brother, What is this boy's name? How old is he now? Is he your disciple?"
"No." The middle-aged man also looked dumbfounded, shaking his head blankly, "He is a blacksmith apprentice in a civilian blacksmith workshop in our Nuoding City, his name is Ah Man..."
"An orphan? Less than...cough cough," Si Di almost shouted in shock but managed to swallow it down.
It was confirmed, that he couldn't grasp this boy. Currently, I'm not even a Blacksmith Grandmaster, even if I do succeed in accepting this boy, if the teacher knows that I'm teaching such a good seedling. He will definitely spit on my face, scolding me for misguiding him, and maybe he will even beat me up. Si Di's face was torn, and then he turned his head to look at the middle-aged man with a solemn expression.
"You watch here first, I'll be right back."
"Ohhh. Good." The middle-aged man nodded repeatedly.
Before the words fell, Si Di had already slipped out of the room with fast strides.
At this time, the middle-aged man finally reacted, Master Si Di suddenly left after leaving words and ran away, it was obvious that he couldn't grasp the situation and went out to call some bigshot. "Crap! Tie Shan guy is actually not bragging, this kid is really a good seedling for blacksmithing. The kind whose talent is so good that it explodes! What now? Master Si Di is obviously going to find Lou Gao divine craftsman to poach a disciple."
Si Di was Lou Gao's personal disciple, if he couldn't seize the opportunity, who else could he find?
After a long moment of silence, his face eased, "I'm only helping to bring people here, the rest doesn't matter to me."
Clanking and beating, Lin Manshan's expression was serious as the hammering continued.
In a moment, with a creak, the door to the room was opened, followed by stomps and a series of footsteps.
The middle-aged man turned his head to look, and at his side, there was already an old, and three middle-aged, four strong men standing.
They were looking with glowing eyes as if they had seen a rare treasure.
"." The middle-aged man shivered and subconsciously moved two steps sideways.
Not long after, "Bam!" As a loud bang reverberated, the room fell silent.
The crowd looked around, and on the forging table, the volume of raw iron had already shrunk by a third compared to the original.
Lin Manshan wiped the sweat from his forehead and was just about to raise his head when, with a swish, a big round tummy appeared in front of his eyes.
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