Sixty years of blacksmithing, a single hammer blow forging a celestial being.

That's great!

The dragon's stomach seems to be a good place to practice its skills.

You should know that outside, nothing can withstand Li Ping'an's hammer blow.

Every time it hits anything, it shatters and obliterates instantly upon contact with the hammer.

So Li Ping'an doesn't care what he hits outside.

It all feels like hitting air, like hitting cotton.

I can't find that real sense of power.

And now, hammer blow after hammer blow is being smashed against the stomach wall of this dragon.

It returns with tremendous power.

This seemed to give Li Ping'an a slight understanding of the force exerted when swinging the hammer.

"Good! Keep going!"

Li Ping'an was overjoyed, having gained some understanding of the Hun Tian Luan Chui Technique.

He continued to hammer away, one blow after another.

Thump, thump, thump! One hammer blow after another.

A dull thud echoed throughout the small space.

Lu Shuang sat cross-legged on the ground to meditate and recover her strength.

Watching Li Ping'an swing the iron hammer and strike the stomach wall like a madman.

He couldn't help but sigh and said.

"Senior, don't waste your energy. This dragon's stomach wall is incredibly tough; it's impossible for us Qi Refining stage cultivators to break it."

But Li Ping'an ignored him and continued hammering away.

I don't know how many hammer blows were made.

Li Ping'an then put down the hammer, panting heavily, his forehead covered in sweat.

The black hammer is, after all, an extremely heavy magical artifact.

Even though Li Ping'an could handle the black hammer with ease because of the Heaven-Severing Hammer.

However, after swinging the hammer so many times, Li Ping'an still felt his arms were sore and numb, and all the spiritual energy in his body was exhausted.

Seeing this, Lu Shuang shook her head, but stopped trying to persuade Li Ping'an. He would know to stop when he got tired.

On the other side, Li Ping'an had already put down the hammer and sat down cross-legged to meditate.

The spiritual energy within his body was completely depleted.

This is a good opportunity for the Skybreaker Hammer to quickly absorb the incredibly dense poisonous gas.

Release the Skybreaker Hammer.

Sensing the pure poison gas around him, the Heaven-Slaying Hammer trembled with excitement.

It immediately began to frantically devour the extremely pure poison gas around it.

In no time at all, the spiritual energy in the Heaven-Splitting Hammer was once again full.

Li Ping'an took a deep breath and immediately converted all the poisonous gas absorbed by the Heaven-Slaying Hammer into his own spiritual power.

Little by little, at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Li Ping'an's face regained its rosy hue, and his strength continued to recover.

After meditating for about fifteen minutes, Li Ping'an immediately sat up and picked up the iron hammer.

"Again!"

Li Ping'an, in high spirits, continued to swing the large iron hammer at the stomach wall.

Moreover, its power is much stronger than before.

Lu Shuang was stunned by what she saw.

Is this old man really that fit? Did he recover so quickly?

He was clearly exhausted just now.

After meditating for just fifteen minutes, I was completely restored and full of energy.

How is that possible?

Boom boom boom!

The hammer pounded against the stomach wall, making a continuous thumping sound.

I don't know how long it lasted, maybe a day, or maybe two.

When Li Ping'an put down the hammer again, a confident smile appeared on his face.

By constantly swinging the hammer, and constantly swinging the hammer.

His understanding of the Chaotic Hammer Technique deepened.

Perhaps we'll be able to break through to the second level soon.

I wonder what kind of power this black hammer will unleash after I break through to the second level?

Li Ping'an stopped swinging the hammer and instead sat down cross-legged to meditate.

After a day and a night of extra practice, Li Ping'an needed to meditate and digest the knowledge he had just grasped.

Li Ping'an understood the principle that haste makes waste and that trying to do too much at once is counterproductive.

One cannot simply practice cultivation without also meditating from time to time in order to gain a deeper understanding.

I don't know how much time passed.

When Li Ping'an opened his eyes again, a few strands of the Dao seemed to flash in his eyes.

"I understand! I understand!"

Li Pingan was overjoyed.

Through meditation, he had fully integrated the movements and power points he had learned from the previous combat experience.

Now Li Ping'an is confident that if he swings his hammer again, the power will definitely be doubled.

But at this moment, Lu Shuang also opened her eyes.

The healing pills were completely digested.

Lu Shuang felt that her injuries had healed a lot.

He saw that Li Ping'an also opened his eyes at the same time.

The two couldn't help but smile at each other.

Lu Shuang's smile was extremely beautiful, her smile as lovely as a flower.

She possessed a youthful innocence coupled with a touch of aloof coldness.

The combination of the two left Li Ping'an somewhat stunned.

He could feel the infatuation in Li Ping'an's eyes.

Lu Shuang blushed slightly and turned her head to the side.

"For some reason, I always feel that you look a bit like someone I used to know."

Li Pingan looked at Lu Shuang's profile and murmured.

"Is that so?"

Lu Shuang was a little curious and turned to look at Li Ping'an.

"Who is that person to you? How does he look like me?"

A look of reminiscence appeared on Li Ping'an's face.

Who is that person? Why is it that whenever I see you, a blurry figure always seems to appear in my mind?

But I can't remember who it is.

He then looked closely at Lu Shuang's delicate and beautiful face.

After a long while, he suddenly realized.

Oh, right! Lu Xue!

Saintess Lu Xue!

Li Pingan murmured:

"You look like one of my childhood sweethearts. Back then, we entered the sect together, promising to cultivate immortality together, become Daoist partners, and roam the mortal world freely. However, the idea was beautiful, but reality was cruel."

"I don't have the aptitude for cultivating immortality, so I can only work as a handyman in the sect. However, she is indeed an extremely rare celestial spiritual root, and she also has immortal spiritual bones. She immediately became the sect's prodigy and was directly accepted as a personal disciple and entered the inner sect, forming an insurmountable gap between us."

"But even then, I never forgot her. I thought of her every day and night."

"So I kept working at the blacksmith's shop, forging iron and forging iron. I only hoped that after working at the blacksmith's shop for sixty years, I could enter the inner sect again and see her again."

"But when I finally grew old and had mastered the skills to enter the inner sect, I heard that she had already been chosen as a saintess and gone to the holy land. We were no longer from the same world."

At this point, Li Ping'an couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

He could never let go of his feelings for Lu Xue, and when he talked about it again, he couldn't help but feel a lot of emotions.

Upon hearing this, Lu Shuang's gaze towards Li Ping'an became strange.

"You mean...my sister?"

"puff!"

Li Ping'an was reminiscing about his sad experiences when he heard these words and almost spat out a mouthful of blood.

He looked at Lu Shuang again and asked, "What did you say? Your sister?"

"That's right!"

Lu Shuang blinked and said,

"Lu Xue is my sister, and she's now the Holy Maiden of the Holy Land. I know that."

Li Ping'an's lips twitched slightly.

That's right, Lu Xue and Lu Shuang look so alike.

Damn it! How come I didn't think of it right away?