"Uncle, you've got such a piercing look in your eyes. You don't seem like someone who can't even hold a hammer," Chen Tianyi frowned and said.
"And I asked you to repair something for me just a few months ago. Uncle, you can't have forgotten so soon, can you?"
"Cough, cough. Anyway, I've quit. You'd better go back. There are so many blacksmiths in the world. You don't have to come to me."
The old man deliberately coughed twice and then closed the door on his own.
"Um..."
Seeing the old man shut the door in their faces, Hu Ke'er stood there stunned.
"Senior brother, you didn't forget to pay the man for the things you asked him to make last time, did you? Otherwise, why would the uncle be so cold to us?"
"Absolutely not. I paid the silver, okay!"
Chen Tianyi shook his head.
"Come to think of it, it's really strange. The last time I came here, the uncle was very polite. How could he have changed so much in just a few months?"
Chen Tianyi was also full of confusion.
"Well, I don't know. By the way, senior brother, there should be a place like a blacksmith's shop in our sect, right? Why did you bring the things here to be repaired?"
Hu Ke'er asked in confusion.
"Junior sister, you don't understand. This uncle is very good at forging and repairing. He can even repair many magic treasures with broken spiritual veins. In our sect, if the spiritual vein of a magic treasure is broken, it will mostly be melted back into an iron lump for recycling."
"Really? He's that good?"
Hearing Chen Tianyi's words, Hu Ke'er exclaimed in surprise.
"It seems that this uncle has his own unique forging method?"
"Of course. Don't be deceived by his white hair. According to my uncle, he looked the same way when he was a kid. He hasn't changed a bit over the years. It was my uncle who recommended me to come here to repair my magic treasures."
"Wow! So it's possible that this uncle is also a cultivator!"
Hu Ke'er analyzed.
"Maybe. But there's no trace of spiritual energy on this uncle. I'm not sure."
Chen Tianyi said softly.
"Well, senior brother, should we go find another blacksmith now or keep waiting here?"
"I have a feeling that the uncle has some kind of hidden trouble. How about we wait a bit longer? After all, the drawing you made doesn't seem to be that simple. The probability of success will be higher if the uncle forges it."
"Okay."
Hu Ke'er nodded in agreement.
"Make way, make way! Please don't block the door!"
Just as the two of them decided to stay and see what happened, a rough voice came from behind them. They turned around and saw a short - haired young man wearing only a coarse cloth open - fronted shirt appear in their sight.
Under the young man's open - fronted shirt were wheat - colored, sinewy muscles. There were full baskets of stones on his back.
"Well, this is the uncle's apprentice. He's just sixteen years old."
Chen Tianyi stepped aside and introduced.
"Eh?"
Hu Ke'er sized up the young man and exclaimed in surprise.
Sixteen? He's developed so well!
The young man was at least 1.8 meters tall at a glance. Coupled with his strong and chiseled features and the exposed muscles, he didn't look like a sixteen - year - old at all.
"I'm not even sixteen yet. I'll be sixteen after my birthday this year!"
The young man said stubbornly.
"I remember you. You came to my master to repair your flying sword a few months ago. Are you here to ask my master to repair something again?"
The young man turned to look at Chen Tianyi.
"No. This time we want your master to forge something special. But your master doesn't seem to welcome us very much."
"You've come at a bad time. You'd better go back quickly."
As he said this, the young man slowly pushed open the door and walked straight to the blacksmith's forge in the house to put down the bamboo basket.
"Eh? Why?"
Hu Ke'er and Chen Tianyi stayed outside the door and asked softly.
"It's for your own good."
The young man didn't mean to invite them in. He just went about tidying up the blacksmith's shop on his own.
"Anyway, you'd better leave quickly, or you'll get yourselves into trouble!"
"This..."
Hearing the young man's words, Hu Ke'er and Chen Tianyi looked at each other. They were more certain of their previous thought. It seemed that the blacksmith's shop had really gotten into trouble.
"How about this? You tell us about the trouble. Maybe we can solve it."
Chen Tianyi said softly.
"Forget it. Judging from your outfits, you should be outer - sect disciples of the Dragon and Tiger Mountain. How could you have the ability to interfere in the affairs of the Shu Sect?"
"The Shu Sect?"
Hu Ke'er asked in confusion.
"The Shu Sect is a cultivation sect just like our Dragon and Tiger Mountain. But they also have a lot of secular industries. Even the Green Ox Town we're in now belongs to the Shu Sect."
Chen Tianyi explained to Hu Ke'er.
"Originally, the Shu Sect had a good reputation. But since the Shu Sect's influence in the secular world has grown and they've recruited more and more disciples, their management has become lax. They've done a lot of underhanded things. But these are all things in the secular world, and we generally don't interfere much."
"Interfere? Do you think your tiny Dragon and Tiger Mountain can manage the affairs of our Shu Sect?"
Before Chen Tianyi could finish his words, a cold laugh sounded.
"People from the Shu Sect?"
Hu Ke'er and Chen Tianyi both looked in the direction of the sound and saw a figure jump down from the roof. This guy was wearing a golden Taoist robe, and his waistband was forged from yellow jade. It looked extremely expensive.
"Yes. I'm Yang Yu, a disciple of the Shu Mountain."
Yang Yu walked up to Chen Tianyi with a sneer on his face.
"I'd like to ask you, fellow Daoist, what underhanded things has our Shu Sect done?"
"Do you really need to ask me? Don't you know it yourself?"
Hearing Yang Yu's words, Chen Tianyi was not intimidated at all and directly retorted.
"Humph. You, an outer - sect disciple of such a small sect, dare to be so arrogant in front of me. Do you believe that our Shu Sect can buy your entire mountain?"
Yang Yu was slightly stunned when he saw that Chen Tianyi showed no sign of backing down. Then his expression changed drastically.
"Buy it? Are you out of your mind? Can the affairs of the cultivation world be solved with secular things? And the money your Shu Sect uses to buy things is all extorted from the common people!"
"You're really ungrateful!"
Hearing Chen Tianyi's words, Yang Yu's eyebrows immediately stood on end. With a change of hand gesture, a purple flying sword flew out.
"I think you're so used to bullying the weak in the secular world!"
Seeing the other person take out his flying sword, Chen Tianyi also summoned his green flying sword and prepared to fight.
"Stop!"
Just as the two flying swords were about to entangle with each other, the apprentice boy from before quickly stopped them.
"My master said he won't go to the Shu Sect. You'd better go back."
After the boy said this to Yang Yu, he turned to Chen Tianyi and said,
"Daoist, my master has promised the Shu Sect that he won't be a blacksmith anymore. Please go back too."