He was born as a blacksmith, but he dominated the world

Chapter 503 Possible
There are a total of six ancestors of the Qingzhou Li family who are at the Daowu realm.

However, once these Daowu realm masters make a move, they will easily be discovered.

At this moment, the powerful clans must also be suspicious of each other.

Even if they don't take the initiative to do anything, they are very likely to pay attention to what is happening in other families.

A faction that only cares about its own interests will never easily trust anyone, even their allies.

Therefore, it is not easy for Li to stop this team consisting of more than 200 people in the Divine Martial Realm.

Jiang Lin really wanted to know whether this incident could expose Li's background.

If we knew what cards Li had hidden, things would be much easier.

This is also what Emperor Shun wants to see. No one wants a force that has an ambiguous attitude towards him and is difficult to distinguish between an enemy and a friend, and he doesn't even know what his trump card is.

For Jiang Lin, many things can be ignored, except this one.

So he was also watching, wanting to see with his own eyes what Li would do.

However, even after the team had traveled thousands of miles and even reached the border of Daqian, no one from the Li family took action.

This inevitably makes people wonder whether Li is afraid to take any action because of fear of the consequences.

There are more than 200 people in the Divine Martial Realm. If Li really wants to kill them, it is not impossible to kill them all.

After all, the man who was able to destroy two powerful clans at the same time, including eight ancestors in the Daowu realm, is so powerful that he should not be underestimated.

Just over 200 people in the Divine Martial Realm are not difficult.

In order to witness it, Emperor Shun even sent people from the Shang Yusi to monitor secretly.

Of course, the so-called secret surveillance is actually under the noses of the powerful clans, and it is difficult to hide.

The people of Shang Yusi did not try their best to hide, so it didn’t matter if they were discovered.

Anyway, everything is in the open and no one can hide it from anyone else.

Until the team left Daqian and headed further south, the speed of feedback from the news investigation became increasingly slow.

They did not walk fast, only covering a few hundred kilometers a day.

It took quite a while just to leave Daqian.

Half a year had passed like this, and the people from Shang Yusi still hadn't seen Li take action according to the news they received.

At this time, the team had already crossed the border of Dachen.

Further ahead is the latest battlefield opened up by the border troops.

The fighting on the battlefield was in full swing and extremely chaotic.

No one knows where the team of the powerful clan will go.

Jiang Lin even wondered, if these people were not killed, would they just keep going forever until they touched the edge of the pit?

It is not impossible to climb over the pit wall and go to the outside world.

The edge of the pit tens of thousands of meters high, the ninth level of the Divine Martial Realm and the peak of the Divine Martial Realm have enough ability to climb up.

But what about those giant skeletons?
It is not easy to carry skeletons that are hundreds of miles long.

The box used to isolate the giant's skeleton alone is very heavy, and is made entirely of extremely high-quality materials.

Otherwise, along the way, the impact of the mighty force alone would be enough to make those masters of the Divine Martial Realm vomit blood and die.

As time went by, Jiang Lin had to turn his attention back to the blacksmith camp.

During this period of time, the number of people gathered in the blacksmith camp increased, and has exceeded 50,000.

The Construction Department is building houses every day and can't stop at all.

The Blacksmith Camp expanded again and again, even occupying the territory of the original Nanling Camp.

Fortunately, almost all the border troops have been deployed now, and these camps are completely uninhabited, so there is no need to worry about leaving the border troops "homeless."

The increase in the number of people means that Jiang Lin will be busier.

It takes a long time just to burn pig iron every day.

Hengyu Furnace can currently produce at least 15,000 pieces of pig iron at a time, but three firings are needed to barely meet the needs of the entire blacksmith camp.

Fortunately, the speed at which the blacksmiths forged weapons was far slower than Jiang Lin's speed in burning pig iron, so the cycle could still be completed.

In a day, at least 300,000 high-quality weapons can be produced and then sent directly to the border for replacement.

Three hundred thousand a day, three million in ten days. Theoretically, one month is enough to meet the current needs of the border troops.

But in fact, it is far from enough.

Because in addition to swords, there are shields, armor, arrows, longbows, and even horseshoes.

Although there are many blacksmiths in the army, it is difficult to meet the needs of the current high-intensity war.

Their biggest role is to perform temporary repairs, or to put it bluntly, to use them as a makeshift tool.

The blacksmiths are busy every day, and Jiang Lin is the same.

In addition to firing pig iron, he also needs to forge higher quality weapons.

It turned out that the masters in the blacksmith camp could forge about a thousand precious weapons every day.

This number is not small, but it is not large either.

According to Jiang Lin's idea, if the border army's battle formation is really to be brought to its peak, it would be best if every soldier has a magic weapon.

But this is obviously impossible to achieve. Just creating spiritual weapons is already the limit of blacksmiths.

Even if the pig iron that Jiang Lin made for them was of high quality, it could be made into a precious weapon just by hammering it.

The problem is that ordinary blacksmiths simply cannot hammer such high-quality pig iron.

It is time-consuming and laborious. After all, their cultivation is not high enough, and they should not be able to forge weapons of this grade.

Therefore, the number of precious soldiers can reach one thousand per day, which is not a small number.

The weapons that Jiang Lin forged did not start with the Xuanbing and Yuanbing, but he only forged the Shenbing.

The lowest-grade divine weapon is his target.

Start with the general, and replace them downwards until all military officers can get it.

As for the marshals' magic weapons, Emperor Shun said that there were still some that were hundreds of years old left in the royal private treasury, and they could be handed over to the marshals for use when the time comes.

Among those survivors, Jiang Lin saw many familiar things, all of which were created by himself in the long river of history and left to the present.

However, the Thunder Blade had never been seen. Jiang Lin once asked Emperor Shun why he had not seen the weapon.

Emperor Shun only said: "This item was made by the blacksmith's ancestor specifically for Emperor Taizu, so only Emperor Taizu can own it, and it will not be stored in the royal private treasury."

Jiang Lin didn't ask any more questions. He knew very well what this thing meant to Ma Ningyan.

That was his last gift when he left this fragment of history.

Ma Ningyan was a woman who valued friendship and loyalty, even though she founded Daqian and became the feared Emperor Taizu.

His hands are stained with blood and he has killed people countless times.

But towards Jiang Lin, Ma Ningyan had nothing to say.

Jiang Lin also cared about this woman, but he felt very uncomfortable when he thought that even if he entered the long river of history again, he might never see her again.

The timing of entering [A Picturesque World] cannot be controlled freely, and seems to change as one's cultivation level increases.

This is both an opportunity and a flaw.

In a more distant fragment of history, Jiang Lin encountered the Great Snow Mountain and learned about the existence of ice and snow creatures.

After devouring a large amount of ice and snow essence, his own cultivation in [The World is Like a Painting] has reached the point of condensing the Taoist bones throughout his body and is about to enter the next level.

If it were put into reality, it would take a very long time.

In other words, it requires continuous improvement of various skills, which is far slower than in [A Painting on Earth]. After so long in creating high-quality weapons, two divine weapons a day, the speed of collecting gold and fire essences is still not fast enough.

Half a year later, Jiang Lin's golden bones had only increased from three fingers to a palm.

There is still a long way to go before the entire body is transformed into indestructible golden bones.

Fortunately, in the past six months, all my skills have been continuously improved.

Both quenching and sharpening were successfully promoted to level 11.

Fire-making and hammering were also advanced to level 13.

The improvement of these skills has brought great benefits to Jiang Lin.

Although the Immortal Golden Body condenses slowly, the other bones have been greatly improved.

However, in reality, the Immortal Golden Body seems to suppress the condensation of the Taoist bones.

Even though the bone strength increased many times, it did not show the same white jade color as other Daowu realms.

This made Jiang Lin look like a golden palm, and if he didn't deliberately show off his Dao Wu realm cultivation, it would be almost difficult to notice how powerful his cultivation was.

Only Jiang Lin himself understood that if calculated based on the condensation of Dao bones, he had at least condensed almost half of the Dao bones.

This means that Jiang Lin’s cultivation is almost comparable to the most powerful ancestors of the powerful clans.

Of course, this is only theoretical.

In fact, Jiang Lin’s fighting ability far exceeds those people.

Just a set of high-quality divine clothing is enough to make the ancestors of powerful clans tremble with fear.

The three magic arrows of Bai Ze, Xuan Wu and Jian Bing can kill the enemy independently across thousands of miles.

If you use the Sun Chaser Bow, the power will increase by at least 50%!
In addition to their own special properties, even the top masters who have condensed half of their body into Taoist bones would not dare to take this arrow casually.

The powerful clans also seemed to understand that there was no benefit in going against the court at the moment.

After the giant skeleton was sent away, they took the initiative to hand over a lot of blacksmithing materials and gold, silver and jewelry.

To enhance its reputation, and to contribute to the expansion of Daqian.

But everyone knows that the powerful clans are deliberately showing goodwill.

They did not want to conflict with the Daqian court, and Jiang Lin was an important bridge between the powerful clans and the court.

To deal with the Duke of Weiguo, who already controls all the weapons in the world, is equivalent to dealing with Emperor Shun.

At least Jiang Lin disagrees, and Emperor Shun is unlikely to take action against the powerful clans.

The most important thing is that the powerful clans could not think of any reason why the imperial court would take action against them.

The giant skeleton is no longer in our house. If you want it, you can go and get it yourself, but it has nothing to do with the old house.

If we really beat that team, it would be because our powerful clan is incompetent.

If you can't beat them, that just means you don't have the ability.

But in this small piece of land of Daqian, we should keep to ourselves and no one should get too close to each other.

Give what should be given, give what should be sent, and it’s okay to say nice words.

The powerful clans are able to adapt to the changing circumstances and are flexible, which shows that they are quite shrewd.

But by doing this, Jiang Lin looked down on them even more.

He used to be high and mighty, and had no fear of the imperial court at all, with an attitude of "if you dare to mess around, I will fight you to the death."

What's happening now?
The tiger turned into a wild cat?

Jiang Lin could also understand the thoughts of the powerful clans. After several families were wiped out in succession, those people must have been under tremendous psychological pressure.

On the surface, they have the Daqian court as their opponent, and secretly there is a mysterious force that has ill intentions towards them.

The powerful clans have enough confidence to deal with the Daqian court.

After all, although they are small in number, their individual combat effectiveness far exceeds that of the border troops.

If a real war breaks out, it will be difficult for the border troops to gain any benefits.

But once the war starts, what should we do if the enemy in the dark attacks again?
To deal with both families at the same time, the powerful clans would have no confidence.

They were just worried that the person in the dark would do something despicable in secret.

Attack one today and one tomorrow.

If he focused all his efforts on fighting against the Daqian court, it would be difficult to defend his own old house.

We must always prioritize things.

Emperor Shun remained silent and tacitly allowed Jiang Lin to accept the benefits. However, he ignored the nonsense about the powerful clans asking for blood oaths.

If the nonsense about blood oath was believable, Emperor Taizu would not have hated the powerful clans so much.

No one understands better than Ma Ningyan how hateful the powerful clans are.

Even if they had the same origin as Taoism thousands of years ago, or even if they were divided up by brothers.

But a thousand years later, Taoism was destroyed, but the powerful clans were still prosperous.

It can even be said that the powerful clans had already begun to show this tendency hundreds of years ago.

At that time, their strength was not as good as that of the Taoist sect, but they endured it and preserved enough strength.

Hundreds of years later, Taoism was in a state of transition and even the Taoist martial arts realm no longer existed.

However, there are still many old antiques in the Daowu realm lingering in the homes of powerful clans.

Jiang Lin also asked Emperor Shun why those old antiques could survive until now.

Emperor Shun replied, "When Emperor Taizu conquered the northwest and drove out the barbarians, he obtained a way to preserve his life from the mouth of their eleven-feathered archers. When the powerful clans learned about it, they also came to ask for it."

"Emperor Taizu didn't want to give it, but at that time he didn't have much contact with the Taoist sect, so in order to stabilize these people, he had to give in."

"Now it seems that raising a tiger is a disaster."

Jiang Lin was moved when he heard this. The way the ancestor of the powerful clan survived was actually learned from the Thirteenth Ancestor of the Western Yi?
Since it was Ma Ningyan who obtained this method and passed it on to the powerful clan, what about Ma Ningyan herself?

When this question was asked, Emperor Shun did not explain it very clearly.

He only said: "The Duke of Wei should focus on the weapons of the border troops. The number of troops has expanded to more than 13 million, but there is still a shortage of weapons. The blacksmith camp still needs to work hard."

He didn't make his statement clear, but he didn't make it final either.

This made Jiang Lin wonder, could it be that Ma Ningyan and Gu An Ning were not dead?

Are they still alive?

Thinking of this, Jiang Lin suddenly felt more expectant.

He did not force Emperor Shun to make the matter clear or directly look for the possibility of Ma Ningyan's existence.

Although judging from my own experience in "A Picturesque World", it may have only been a mere one or two years.

But for Ma Ningyan and the others, hundreds of years had passed.

If I meet someone and am recognized, how will I explain it?

Jiang Lin hasn't figured this out yet and always feels weird.

The ancestor of blacksmiths from hundreds of years ago is now the Duke of Weiguo of Daqian.

The girl who looked like a granddaughter back then turned out to be the founding emperor of Daqian.

This kind of thing is too bizarre to be told to others.

Looking at the entire Daqian world, there has never been such a rumor.

(End of this chapter)