The end of the world is approaching, I'm handing myself over to the country.

Qian Hua spoke in a gentle tone.

San Shi suddenly looked up, his eyes full of hope as he looked at Qian Hua, thinking that he had a way out.

"I need your help with something."

Although Qian Hua had a smile on his face at that moment.

But in San Shi's eyes, that smile was like something out of hell.

help?

What kind of help do you need?

How can I help?

San Shi felt as if all the blood in his body was freezing.

Extreme fear caused him to temporarily lose his reason, and he muttered softly, "Sir, I...can I not help...?"

The voice just fell.

"What did you say?"

Qian Hua suddenly approached, startling San Shi.

His face was almost touching the tip of San Shi's nose, without any warning.

San Shi was so frightened that he twitched violently, and his heart almost jumped out of his throat.

Seeing it up close, the smile on the other person's face looks even more terrifying.

At that moment, it felt as if San Shi's heart had stopped beating.

San Shi was so frightened that he burst into tears.

"Adults' affairs are my affairs!"

San Shi roared these words with all his might, as if afraid that if he hesitated even a second longer, his head would be chopped off: "What I just said was, if there's anything I can do to help, I'll do it without hesitation!"

"It is my honor to serve you, sir; it is a blessing I have earned in this lifetime!"

Qian Hua looked at San Shi, who was all respectful, and a smile gradually spread across his face.

"It's good that you have this kind of awareness."

"You're very good."

Qian Hua straightened up, his eyes regaining their cold and focused expression, and turned to walk towards the forging furnace.

"Come on, come over here yourself. If you can, don't waste my energy," he said with his back to Sanshi.

San Shi: "..."

San Shi, with a grimace, followed Qian Hua with heavy, shuffling steps.

Recalling the various animal corpses I had seen in the yard before,

San Shi paused, his tail unconsciously tucking between his legs.

"Why the hell did I choose this route of escape?!"

"There were so many paths to choose from, yet I chose the most dangerous one. Was I out of my mind?"

San Shi's Adam's apple bobbed.

"Um..." He carefully lowered his voice, afraid that vibrating his vocal cords too much would displease the human in front of him: "Sir, you called me here not to dismantle my body, but to..."

Qian Hua, who was ahead, stopped in his tracks.

He didn't turn around, but only made a slight nasal sound: "Hmm?"

"Is that not allowed?"

San Shi's thick hind legs trembled violently, and he almost knelt down.

A gruesome image flashed through his mind: himself being dismembered into eight pieces, his scales and muscles neatly arranged to the side.

At that moment, the will to survive completely overwhelmed his pride, and San Shi hurriedly shouted before Qian Hua could speak, "Of course! I was just asking!"

His face twitched violently, forcing a fawning smile that was more like a grimace, and his enormous claws pounded his chest with resounding thuds: "If it's what you need, sir, I wouldn't even blink if you had to tear my arms off right now!"

"I may not have any special skills, but if I can help you, sir, I would gladly go through fire and water for you!"

"I only ask that the adults spare my life."

Arms can grow back, but life is truly gone once it's gone.

Qian Hua slowly turned around, his deep blue eyes completely calm.

He glanced at San Shi, then suddenly smiled: "Whether what you said is true or false, I've remembered it."

"Don't worry, if I really need you to go through fire and water for me, I will definitely not hesitate."

San Shi: "..."

Damn it, why did I have to have this mouth?

Mom, why didn't you make me mute?

"Alright," Qian Hua said calmly. "Just wait here. I'll call you if I need you."

"Yes, yes, yes! I will definitely shut up!" San Shi felt like he had been granted a pardon and scrambled to the very edge of the forge, covering his mouth with his two front paws.

Qian Hua ignored the enormous creature huddled in the corner.

He slowly closed his eyes.

Three seconds later, when he opened his eyes again, the carelessness he had felt had completely vanished.

His entire demeanor became extremely sharp, and deep blue spiritual energy circulated rapidly deep within his pupils.

Wisdom and authority are activated.

The once chaotic forging table instantly transformed into a sophisticated data network in his eyes.

The surrounding temperature, air humidity, and the pressure threshold of the residual materials—all these variables were being calculated by the brain at an alarming speed.

The blueprints for an A-level source soldier also appeared before him.

Ordinary forging was no longer enough for him; he wanted to cross that boundary.

"rise!"

Qian Hua gave a cold shout.

An invisible spiritual force lifted up the materials that had already been prepared.

High-grade black iron, stardust, and several pieces of mutated beast materials that appeared to be a dark green color.

Flames roared up in the forging furnace, and the orange-red flames gradually turned into a dazzling bright white under the forceful compression of mental energy.

The high temperature caused distorted ripples in the surrounding air.

San Shi watched in the corner, his heart pounding with fear.

"What kind of fire is this? It doesn't feel that hot, but why does it make my heart race?"

San Shi was certain that even his proud Lord-level scale armor would be burned through by such flames.

"Could it be... the Flame Authority...?"

Even if it isn't, it won't be weak.

"Damn, who is this guy? How does he have so much good stuff?!"

Qian Hua grabbed a heavy iron hammer weighing several hundred kilograms and lifted it with one hand.

"when!"

The first hammer blow landed.

Sparks flew everywhere.

The black iron gradually softened in the bright white flames. Qian Hua's arm muscles tensed, and he struck the hammer one blow after another, the rhythm as fast as a dense drumbeat.

He didn't use any fancy techniques, but relied solely on the absolute control brought about by his intellectual authority.

The angle and force of each hammer blow were precise to the extreme, with not a single bit wasted.

Impurities dissipate as black smoke under high temperature and heavy impact.

The black iron, originally the size of a washbasin, was forged into the prototype of a longsword.

Under the crushing force of his mental power, the stardust turned into powder and was evenly integrated into the crimson sword blank. The source energy in the material was brutally extracted and forcibly pressed into the interior of the metal.

The shaping of the sword blank went even more smoothly than expected.

But Qian Hua knew that the most crucial and dangerous step had only just begun.

The next step is crucial!

Qian Hua stopped swinging the hammer.

He turned his head and his gaze locked onto San Shi in the corner.

"Sanshi, come here."

When his name was called, San Shi's heart almost stopped.

He gritted his teeth, his legs shaking uncontrollably.

run?

impossible.

At this distance, the opponent's mental power could crush him at any moment.

If he were in his prime, he might have been able to escape, but now he is already seriously injured.

If this madman is angered and the forging fails, there probably won't even be a whole piece of meat left today.