Douluo Continent: The True Body and Blood Soul, Starting from Blacksmithing

Chapter 113 Encounter, Practicing the Haotian Hammer

"Senior, I appreciate your guidance."

Before he finished speaking, Tang San had already rushed out.

His steps were not fancy, but each step was solid, and the ground vibrated with a dull tremor when his feet landed. The blades of blue silver grass were blown to the sides by the air currents he stepped on.

The first strike is a diagonal upward thrust, the hammerhead cutting through the air with a low whistling sound, the airflow being torn into two streams that tumble to both sides along the arc of the hammerhead.

Lin Yu, wielding the Golden Thunder Bone-Shattering Staff, channeled his soul power into the staff as Tang San charged towards him.

The moment the soul power was poured in, the lightning patterns on the staff suddenly brightened, and purple-gold electric arcs jumped and exploded on the surface of the staff. Under his precise control, the weight of the staff itself surged to three hundred pounds.

Instead of dodging, he swung his hammer at Tang San. The hammer and the staff collided head-on in mid-air between the two.

boom!

The sound of the collision was dull and violent. The shockwave spread outward from the point of impact, pressing down the surrounding blue silver grass blades, and the grass waves formed a complete circle outward from the two people as the center.

The battle ended with the Golden Thunder Bone-Shattering Staff being knocked away. Although the 300-pound staff was heavy enough, it was ultimately at a disadvantage in a head-on clash with the Clear Sky Hammer.

The stick bounced back violently upon impact, and Lin Yu's hand holding the handle went numb from the shock. Her fingers almost slipped away for a moment, and a series of crisp, cracking sounds came from between her knuckles.

Fortunately, Lin Yu had a contingency plan for this situation. The moment the staff was knocked away, he abruptly withdrew the soul power he had injected, and the weight of the Bone-Shattering Staff plummeted from 300 jin to 30 jin within two breaths.

The 30-pound staff has little inertia and can be adjusted quickly. He stabilized the staff in mid-air, flipped his wrist, and aimed the end of the staff back at Tang San. The whole movement was smooth and fluid, without any unnecessary movements.

After stabilizing his long staff, Lin Yu looked up and saw that Tang San was still adjusting his angle. The Chaotic Cloak Hammer Technique is not finished after one swing; it requires using the recoil from the previous swing to rotate the body and amplify the power into the next swing.

This transformation process takes time. At this moment, Tang San is using his body to absorb the recoil from the first blow. His shoulder blades bulge and then sink slightly under his robes, preparing for the second blow.

This was the perfect opportunity to interrupt him. However, Lin Yu did not intervene. Instead, he stood still and commented directly: "The Haotian Hammer is quite heavy, making it difficult to swing. The Chaotic Cloak Hammer Technique is a skill that requires constantly stacking power, so it is very vulnerable to being interrupted. I remember you seem to have a very strange movement technique. You could consider incorporating that technique into the Chaotic Cloak Hammer Technique in the future."

Tang San didn't speak, but he listened to every word Lin Yu said.

The second blow has arrived. This time it's a downward slam, the force of the hammer itself combined with the recoil from the first blow, making it significantly more powerful than the first.

As the hammer fell, it was accompanied by a visible shockwave. The air was compressed and emitted a muffled hum, and the surrounding blue silver grass was pressed down by this pressure, unable to lift its head.

Lin Yu didn't choose to use 300 jin (approximately 150 kg) to receive the blow. He already knew the outcome with the same weight. He poured his soul power into the Bone-Shattering Cudgel again, this time directly pushing the weight to 600 jin (approximately 300 kg).

boom!

This time, it was the Haotian Hammer that was knocked away.

Tang San had originally planned that the second hammer blow would knock the long staff out of Lin Yu's hand, just like the first one, so he prepared for the third hammer blow in advance when he struck.

His shoulders had already slightly turned in the direction of the next rotation, and the muscles in his waist and abdomen were already tense, ready to receive the recoil force.

But the moment the Haotian Hammer was knocked away, the feedback from the handle completely exceeded his expectations.

His body failed to adjust in time, and his shoulder took the brunt of the impact. His shoulder joint made a very faint thud, and the rhythm of the third strike was delayed by a whole breath.

Although the third hammer blow was still delivered, the speed was noticeably slower, and the arc of the hammerhead was no longer smooth, carrying a stiff and clumsy feel.

The Clear Sky Hammer was still knocked away. However, this time Tang San was prepared to be knocked away, and his body posture was adjusted faster than before. The fourth hammer strike was much smoother than the third.

As the fourth hammer fell, Lin Yu didn't add any weight, directly using his thirty-pound bone-crushing staff to meet the Haotian Hammer head-on. The result was obvious. The staff tumbled several times in the air, and Lin Yu quickly took two steps back and caught it.

Tang San was prepared to be knocked away by the fourth blow, and his body was already leaning in that direction, but the Clear Sky Hammer won an overwhelming victory.

He had no choice but to frantically adjust the angle of his swing, and his body swayed slightly due to inertia.

The fifth hammer blow landed. This time, without the staff to block it, the Haotian Hammer missed its target entirely.

The hammer struck the air, its momentum finding nowhere to go, and Tang San's body was carried forward half a step by the force of the missed strike.

Before he could unleash his sixth hammer blow, Tang San was completely exhausted.

He only swung the hammer five times, but those five blows not only made him highly focused, but also caused his body to begin to show obvious signs of strain.

At this moment, Tang San's arm muscles were trembling slightly uncontrollably, and the sweat on his back soaked his clothes, making them cling to his skin and outlining the thin shoulder blades of the young man.

Perhaps the hidden dangers of malnutrition in his early years were beginning to show, as his physical reserves were far from sufficient to support him in continuously swinging the Haotian Hammer more than five times with the Chaotic Cloak Hammer Technique.

Lin Yu put away the Bone-Shattering Staff, the silver blade disappearing into his chest. He clicked his tongue as he looked at Tang San, who was panting heavily.

"Tang San, you seem to be malnourished. You're exhausted after just a few swings of your hammer."

Tang San smiled wryly and wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve. His current disheveled state was all because of the unpredictable strength of the other man: three hundred jin suddenly becoming thirty jin, then thirty jin suddenly becoming six hundred jin—nobody could keep up with that kind of pace.

However, upon further reflection, I realized that it wasn't the other party's fault, but rather that I wasn't proficient enough in the Chaotic Cloak Hammer Technique, so I stopped dwelling on it.

"Senior, the food at the Heaven Dou Royal Academy is a bit too expensive. I just came from Notting City and don't have much money on me."

He paused, then quickly added, "I have the Chaotic Cloak Hammering Technique taught by my father, so I can find a blacksmith shop to make money. But the Royal Academy is outside the city, and there are no blacksmith shops around. I don't know where to start earning money."

Lin Yu had mentioned Tang San's lack of money to Tang Hao last night, so it wasn't a big problem. However, Lin Yu still showed a perfectly timed "surprise" at the fact that Tang San knew how to forge iron.

"You can forge iron? That's perfect. Once my mansion is built, you can come and see if you can become my apprentice. As for the money you're worried about, your father has already thought of that. This afternoon I'll take you to see one of your relatives; she should be able to help you out."

Hearing that it was his father who had thought of things for him again, Tang San's eyes welled up with tears once more.

He actually wanted to ask Lin Yu to help him find a forging workshop so that he could forge some of the mechanical hidden weapons from his previous life's Tang Clan and give them to Lin Yu to sell.

But the phrase "his father's arrangement" silenced all his prepared arguments.

Lin Yu didn't give him time for sentimentality and went straight to the point: "You don't need to worry about the money. I'll teach you how to use the Haotian Hammer now."

This was something he had wanted to verify for a long time.

Blue Silver Grass belongs to the control-type martial soul. The correct way to cultivate it is to activate the upper dantian, sense and communicate with the surrounding Blue Silver Grass to temper the spirit.

The Clear Sky Hammer is a powerful offensive martial soul, and the correct way to cultivate it is to drive the lower dantian to forge the core.

The Blue Silver Emperor within him had told him that he possessed twin martial souls, so his soul power actually had two attributes.

It is precisely because of this that his spirit forging needs to be completed using smelted metal, as a single metal cannot bear the dual attributes in his soul power.

Following this logic, all powerful martial souls should have corresponding special soul power attributes. After all, even Tang San's Blue Silver Grass, which has not yet awakened, can be enhanced with special attribute soul power to strengthen his control over it.

The problem is that Lin Yu has not yet sensed any special attributes in his soul power.

If Tang San can cultivate soul power with special attributes through the cultivation of his upper dantian, then he should also be able to cultivate soul power that matches the attributes of the Clear Sky Hammer through the cultivation of his lower dantian.

This is the real reason why Lin Yu wanted to teach Tang San how to cultivate his lower dantian: he wanted to see if Tang San could cultivate the soul power characteristics corresponding to the Clear Sky Hammer martial soul through lower dantian cultivation.

If it's feasible, it means his own cultivation method also needs to be redesigned.

Tang San was no fool. Under Lin Yu's guidance, he quickly found the correct way to cultivate the Clear Sky Hammer martial soul.

When his dantian was activated, he could clearly feel a steady and powerful force surging out from the depths of his dantian, spreading upwards along his spine, and then flowing into his limbs through his arms.

With each breath, you can feel your core muscles being hammered, tightened, and strengthened by this force.

However, achieving what Lin Yu described—"refining soul power attributes that match the Clear Sky Hammer martial soul"—is still a long way off. It will take at least two weeks to see any noticeable results.

Lin Yu wasn't in a hurry.

Even if this research is true, at most he will need to focus on cultivating the middle dantian in the future, and reduce the cultivation of the upper and lower dantian to avoid possible conflicts between soul forces.