Douluo Continent: Dragon's Journey Across the World

Chapter 11 Four Years in a Hurry

Time flies, and soon Yang Ping'an had spent four years at Notting Elementary School.

After four years of hard work and training, including blacksmithing, my body has undergone tremendous changes in all aspects.

Yang Ping'an is now ten years old and a fourth-grade student at school. He is already 1.5 meters tall. Although he doesn't look like a handsome young man, his facial features are relatively clear and he looks quite resolute.

Perhaps due to his long-term blacksmithing, Yang Ping'an's limbs are incredibly strong, and his hands are mostly muscle, making him look less like a child.

In Douluo Continent, the average height of people is taller than on Earth, and Soul Masters are even taller than ordinary people. Yang Ping'an is already 1.5 meters tall, making him one of the tallest students in the entire Notting Elementary School.

After four years of blacksmithing, Yang Ping'an has become one of the best blacksmiths in the shop, no less skilled than the boss Tie Lin and the master craftsman Lin Daniu, and his casting speed is even faster than theirs.

Especially during these four years, Yang Ping'an began to slowly learn and use the Chaotic Cloak Hammer Technique, mainly based on the records in the original work. The so-called Chaotic Cloak Hammer Technique is the application of using the opponent's force against them, especially the use of the body's strength to the extreme.

As the original text states: a person has three hearts. Besides the primary heart, the muscles in the lower legs are the second and third hearts. For a person to unleash their full power, all three hearts must be functioning simultaneously. These three hearts are the starting point for generating force. When the heart in the chest beats rapidly, the force originates in the lower legs, travels up to the thighs, through the waist, back, and arms, and is finally released. This is a full-force strike. The heart generates the power, with the waist as the axis.

These seemingly simple techniques are the foundation and essence of the Chaotic Cloak Hammer Technique. Fortunately, Yang Ping'an was familiar with the original work; otherwise, he wouldn't have mastered them so quickly. And all of this is achieved through pure physical strength, not soul power.

Over the past four years, Yang Ping'an has gradually learned to use the Chaotic Cloak Hammer Technique for basic forging. Of course, this can only be used for forging; since his martial soul is not the Clear Sky Hammer, he cannot use it to fight enemies.

The Chaotic Cloak Hammer Technique of the Haotian Sect was developed through the research of countless generations of experts. In particular, Yang Ping'an had not undergone systematic training in hammer techniques. His so-called Chaotic Cloak Hammer Technique was something he had figured out during the blacksmithing process, or rather, it was just a simple method of using the opponent's force against them. Using this hammer technique for forging seemed a bit out of place. Even if the ancestors of the Haotian Sect saw it, they probably wouldn't be able to see what this thing had to do with the Chaotic Cloak Hammer Technique of the Haotian Sect.

However, Yang Ping'an was also confident that with long-term mastery of the Pseudo-Chaotic Cloak Hammer Technique, his use of physical strength would become more refined, ultimately maximizing his physical attributes and applying them to combat power.

After each day's forging is completed, it's like a physical ordeal, especially after using the pseudo-chaotic cloak hammer technique to borrow force and strike back. All the muscles in the body are sore, and the meditation effect is relatively better.

After four years of hard training, Yang Ping'an's soul power has only reached level eight. It will probably take him more than a year to break through to level ten and truly become a soul master.

This is still Yang Ping'an's daily meditation, which he basically never misses, except for reading and forging.

For Yang Ping'an now, working at the blacksmith shop is no longer just about forging or making money; it's more like a physical workout, a high-intensity workout that's much better than running with weights.

Since becoming a real blacksmith, especially in the past year, Yang Ping'an has tried his best to improve his living conditions. In addition to eating at the blacksmith shop, he also occasionally eats some high-energy foods, including some meat.

In the past year, with the significant increase in Yang Ping'an's work efficiency, he has earned more than five silver soul coins a month, and sometimes even eight.

Yang Ping'an himself was very generous, trying his best to buy some pheasants and rabbits to ensure the strength of his blood and qi and to ensure that he would not lack nutrition during his growth.

The Chaotic Cloak Hammer Technique has a significant advantage: by using the opponent's force against them, it allows one to maximize their own strength and achieve the ultimate physical training.

After enduring near-extreme blacksmithing training, one's meditation speed will be much faster, which is one of the reasons why Yang Ping'an was able to reach level eight in soul power by the end of his fourth year.

Unfortunately, there wasn't enough money, and the recipe for the medicinal bath wasn't available either; otherwise, the improvement speed could have been even faster.

Every morning after Yang Ping'an arrived at the blacksmith shop, he would immediately place the Purple Gold Mastiff on the vacant forging table.

The other blacksmiths were initially a little surprised, but after a while they got used to it, and they even liked to tease the golden mastiff in their spare time.

Unfortunately, this golden mastiff spends most of its time sleeping. When it does open its eyes, they are half-closed. It ignores the teasing of the other blacksmiths and will at most open its eyes halfway. Sometimes it will let out a few howls, which sound a bit like a dog barking, and even more like a wolf howling. In any case, it doesn't sound like a pig's squeal.

Perhaps due to being in such a strong metallic environment for a long time, the aura of the Purple Gold Mastiff has become slightly stronger than at the beginning. Although it is still very weak, Yang Ping'an felt that the energy consumed each time he summoned the Purple Gold Mastiff had increased slightly.

As for whether the Golden Mastiff was hungry, Yang Ping'an had been considering it. Perhaps because it had been staying in the blacksmith's shop for a long time, the Golden Mastiff was able to absorb metallic energy without getting hungry.

Even when he could occasionally sense hunger emanating from the Golden Mastiff, Yang Ping'an would simply pull the Golden Mastiff back into his own body, allowing it to absorb energy from his own, and would never feed it any food.

Feeding the Purple-Gold Mastiff white radishes like Yu Xiaogang did is purely harmful to it. Given the Purple-Gold Mastiff's bloodline as a Golden Sacred Dragon, feeding it vegetarian food is simply detrimental. If you really want it to eat, you should absolutely feed it the meat of a soul beast with dragon blood, or at least the meat of a soul beast with golden attribute blood.

According to the original work, martial spirits also have thoughts and souls, and can even be said to be living beings. Every life has bloodlines. For the Purple Gold Mastiff, with such a noble bloodline, to eat white radishes is like making the Golden Sacred Dragon eat white radishes. Although it might produce a farting effect, it would definitely be a losing proposition.

(End of this chapter)