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

Chapter 84 This is a fraud
The people closest to the South Blacksmith Camp were all stunned, watching a dozen blacksmiths led by Zhao Yankui making ambiguous roars while taking out shiny black iron tools from sacks.

One, two, five, ten...

"Fuck... everyone has a set of quality ironware?" A blacksmith cursed: "Cheating! This is cheating!"

Even Yuan Gaohao was attracted and was stunned when he saw more than a dozen sets of high-quality ironware.

"Master Zhao, what are you doing..."

Zhao Yankui waved the hammer in his hand and grinned: "Isn't it against the rules to forge something when I have nothing to do?"

"It's not a violation..." Yuan Gaohao was sharp-eyed. He saw a certain feature on the hammer and suddenly exclaimed, "Wait a minute, your hammer."

He quickly leaned in to take a closer look, and then his voice became even louder: "Entropy pattern! A lower eighth-grade hammer? My God, you can't all have it, right?"

After checking the hammers of several other people in succession, Yuan Gaohao breathed a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, it is just an ordinary entry-level item and does not have entropy patterns.

But when he saw more than a dozen blacksmiths, each holding a set of high-quality iron tools, he still couldn't help but twitching his eyelids.

Are you here to take the regular test or to show off your wealth?
It is not difficult for a blacksmith to forge high-quality ironware, as long as he has the right materials.

The problem is that the blacksmith camp serves the army and basically uses ordinary iron.

It is extremely difficult to use ordinary iron to forge high-quality ironware. So far, the number of high-quality ironware produced by the four major blacksmith camps is not large.

Each set is basically controlled by a few master chefs with the best skills in each camp, while some master chefs may not have them yet.

The Southern Blacksmith Camp has the fewest people, but now has the most high-quality ironware.

Yuan Bingqi, who was not far away, cursed in his heart and could not help but said, "Zhao Yankui, you know that your skills cannot compare to mine, but you are willing to spend money to buy good things. If you lose again later, won't you feel ashamed?"

Zhao Yankui was not angry. The more irritable Yuan Bingqi was, the happier he laughed.

"First, these iron tools were made by our Southern Blacksmith Camp ourselves, without spending any money."

"Secondly, who says my skills are not as good as yours? Aren't you afraid that the wind will blow your tongue away?"

Seeing that the two were about to quarrel, Yuan Gaohao quickly tried to smooth things over, "Alright, the test is about to begin. Don't engage in unnecessary verbal disputes. The steward and the craftsman are watching us."

Zhao Yankui didn't say anything else, just shook the hammer in his hand at Yuan Bingqi.

Yuan Bingqi was very angry. Originally, his Hundred Refining Method could, when used beyond its normal capacity, create a weapon of the lower eighth grade.

Logically speaking, victory is certain, but now Zhao Yankui's hammer is of such high quality that it offsets the advantages of the Hundred Refining Method to a certain extent.

It is really hard to predict who will win or lose in this test.

Yuan Bingqi couldn't help but pull Yuan Gaohao and said, "That Zhao Yankui is going too far. How can he bring so many high-grade iron tools to participate in the test? It's too unfair!"

"Fair?" Yuan Gaohao glanced at his nephew, waved his arm away, and said, "Your East Blacksmith Camp has so many more people than the South Blacksmith Camp, but you don't have as many quality ironware as theirs. What's the fairness? Blacksmiths look at the comparison of skills. If you are weaker than others, do you want them to use less strength?"

Regardless of his position or personal status, Yuan Gaohao stood at a high position, leaving Yuan Bingqi speechless for a moment.

He could only grit his teeth and think, it's just an eighth-grade hammer, nothing big!
My Hundred Refining Method is not vegetarian!

After a brief noise, the regular test for official blacksmiths officially began.

This session was naturally presided over by Yu Maoming himself, while deputy craftsmen such as Yuan Gaohao went on patrol to prevent anyone from cheating.

Among all the people, the Southern Blacksmith Camp was the most eye-catching. Not only was it because Zhao Yankui and a dozen other blacksmiths were holding high-quality iron tools, but also because there was a person who shouldn't be here.

Jiang Lin!

Yuan Bingqi was just starting the furnace and lighting the fire when he was suddenly pulled back by someone by his side: "Master Yuan, look over there at the South Blacksmith Camp."

"What's so good about it? It's just a low-grade ironware, nothing special." Yuan Gaohao said without raising his head.

"It's not ironware, it's fire. That apprentice named Jiang Lin, how many furnaces does he want to burn at the same time?"

The astonished tone of the others made Yuan Bingqi stand up subconsciously and look towards the South Blacksmith Camp.

Then, he was surprised to see Jiang Lin turning on five stoves at the same time, all of which had already started the fire and were adding charcoal into them.

"Does this apprentice have to fire five furnaces by himself?" someone asked.

"Impossible." Yuan Bingqi immediately shook his head: "How can anyone control so many furnaces at the same time? I think he is just helping out."

"Help? Why didn't Zhao Yankui and the others make any move? They were holding hammers but had no intention of lighting a fire."

Yuan Bingqi didn't know how to refute. Yes, even if you let an apprentice help you, you should do it yourself.

But Zhao Yankui and others stood in front of the anvil, motionless as a mountain, while Jiang Lin was the only one who was so busy that his feet did not touch the ground.

Fifteen pieces of pig iron, three for each furnace, have been filled in.

Standing in front of one of the stoves, Jiang Lin stomped hard on the bellows. The muscles on his thick thighs were as strong as cast copper and iron, and even his pants seemed to be torn.

Amid the whistling sound of the wind, the fire instantly rose one or two meters high, and the black charcoal inside was quickly ignited.

The fire temperature soared at an extremely fast rate, and in the blink of an eye it reached a level that even an ordinary blacksmith could not bear.

Although I had seen this scene before during the apprentice test, when I saw it again this time, I didn’t feel that the visual effect was weakened. On the contrary, it felt even stronger because I was closer.

Everyone knew that Jiang Lin could use extremely high fire temperatures to calcine pig iron. This skill alone earned him recognition from many blacksmiths.

But what shocked them was that after the fire in one furnace was heated up, Jiang Lin immediately ran to the second furnace and started stepping on the bellows.

"Does he really want to control five furnaces by himself?"

"Impossible! If it was a normal fire temperature, it would be fine, but with such a high flame, the calcination will fail if there is any mistake. How can one person manage it?"

The blacksmiths were talking about it, and almost all of them felt that it was impossible. Only a very few people, who had seen Jiang Lin's previous performance, chose to remain silent.

The people in the Southern Blacksmith Camp, however, were all smiling as they listened to the discussions around them.

Those blacksmiths who did not get the quality iron tools and had to make fire by themselves no longer felt unbalanced and just smiled at each other.

"What a bunch of country bumpkins who have never seen the world!" they thought to themselves.

As the fire in one furnace after another increased in temperature, Jiang Lin stepped back a few steps and observed the flames in each furnace.

The level 7 mastery skill allows him to perfectly control the fire temperature within degrees. The so-called observation is more like a special perception ability.

Even without looking, you can sense subtle changes in temperature.

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