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

"You just recently received an honorary teaching certificate from the Royal Academy, and now you're disowning me, the Crown Prince? Isn't that a bit inappropriate?"

Qian Renxue gave a forced, insincere smile.

What a flimsy excuse. This attitude towards herself is also different from Xue Qinghe's usual one.

It seems that the eldest prince has been replaced. He must have something to ask me since he came to see me.

"I don't mean to disown the Crown Prince. It's just that I've been making a lot of mistakes in my forging these past few days, and I've been a bit upset. Being suddenly disturbed like this has brought some of my emotions into the situation. I hope the Crown Prince will forgive me."

Qian Renxue nodded in understanding and continued along with Lin Yu's words.

"I see. After all this time dealing with you, I don't recall ever seeing you forge iron. There's no time like the present. Let me observe your blacksmithing process. You wouldn't mind, would you?"

Lin Yu shook her head, indicating that she wouldn't mind.

Then the other party followed Lin Yu into the blacksmith shop.

Upon entering the blacksmith's shop, the two exchanged a glance, everything understood without a word.

Lin Yu did not expose the other party's identity, and went to the forging table to heat the iron billet.

Once the iron billet reached the required temperature, Lin Yu swung his double hammers and began rhythmically hammering it.

During the tapping, Lin Yu couldn't help but complain.

"Dude, can you at least play the role of the First Prince properly? You should at least know some of his habits, right? Given his status as the First Prince, do you really think he'd come to my sweltering blacksmith shop?"

Qian Renxue, who was sitting quietly by the window getting some fresh air, clicked her tongue in surprise upon hearing this, then waved her hand confidently.

"Don't worry, there's no one else around me right now. If anyone gets close, a Soul Saint who's secretly observing everything around me will warn me."

Upon learning that the other party had confidence, Lin Yu simply said "Oh" and then ignored them.

Qian Renxue had no intention of dealing with the other party.

At this stage, both of them are undercover agents for different factions, a fact that cannot be made public, so it is necessary to maintain a certain distance.

No longer paying attention to the other person, Qian Renxue began to reflect on her current situation.

She was very familiar with things inside the palace, which is why she managed to deceive many people when she first started impersonating Xue Qinghe.

As a result, on this snowy night, the Emperor suddenly summoned Xue Qinghe to the palace, saying that he wanted her to become Ning Fengzhi's disciple of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School.

Ning Fengzhi, the sect master of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, always carries either Sword Douluo or Bone Douluo with him when he goes out.

With a Title Douluo in charge, it's inconvenient for the Spirit Hall to observe secretly, so their lack of intelligence regarding Ning Fengzhi of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School is a weakness.

Back when they were infiltrating Tiandou City, they had already considered that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School would cooperate with the Tiandou Royal Family, which would create an information gap.

The Spirit Hall's response was to arrange for her to be a spy planted in the Heaven Dou Imperial City by the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School.

The fact that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School had infiltrated Tiandou City should have alerted Emperor Xueye, causing him to reduce his contact with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School.

As it turned out, Emperor Xueye did not follow their script and continued to maintain close ties with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School.

Because of this, they were unclear about what kind of contract Emperor Xueye had reached with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School.

Now, even though Emperor Xueye knows that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School has infiltrated Tiandou City, he still sends his eldest prince to become Ning Fengzhi's disciple.

Qian Renxue couldn't understand the intricacies of the situation. She needed more information, which was why she came to Lin Yu's side. She wanted to buy herself time to think about whether there was any information she had overlooked.

During this time of delay, the Spirit Hall's spies might be able to gather some intelligence that they had overlooked.

However, whenever Qian Renxue tried to calm down and think about her next move, the annoying jingling sound would keep going off.

If the clanging and banging were rhythmic, it would be fine, but this guy has to stand there for a while after each hammer strike, and then strike hard again, which is quite startling.

As he struck again with his hammer, standing there frowning in deep thought, Qian Renxue finally couldn't hold back any longer.

"Hey, blacksmithing isn't anything that important. If you're short of money, I can use my status as the Crown Prince to find an excuse to give you some. Can you please stop blacksmithing?"

She already knew everything about Lin Yu's situation when she first learned of this person's existence!

Seeing Lin Yu persist in forging iron, Qian Renxue assumed that he simply didn't have the money to buy soul beast meat or herbs.

Lin Yu was not influenced by outsiders and continued to work diligently on his blacksmithing.

However, judging from the other person's appearance, Lin Yu could roughly guess that her disguise had encountered some problems.

"If you encounter any problems, you can tell me. Maybe I can help you in some way."

Qian Renxue was just about to retort, "What can you do to help me?" when she suddenly realized that when she first arrived, the senior in the Offering Hall had said that Lin Yu and Liu Erlong seemed to have spent some time alone with Ning Fengzhi and Emperor Xueye.

After arriving here, she forgot all about it because of the hot and humid environment of the forging room and the occasional knocking sounds from someone.

"If I remember correctly, you were with the Sect Master of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School and Emperor Xue Ye. Can you recall what happened that day?"

What happened that day?

Lin Yu knew this all too well, after all, his first storage soul tool was acquired with funding from Ning Fengzhi of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School.

Upon learning that Lin Yu had only received a bunch of gifts that day, Qian Renxue couldn't hold back her emotions.

"No, why do you only remember the things people gave you? Why don't you remember anything else? Like the expressions of Ning Fengzhi and Emperor Xueye that day, or what they said?"

Lin Yu, who was about to bring down the forging hammer, paused for a moment, then looked somewhat puzzled.

"Why would I memorize those things? My undercover mission is to infiltrate Tiandou City, wait for the handover person to give me tasks, and gather intelligence. That's what a spy should do."

Seeing the "eldest prince" looking at him with surprise, Lin Yu gave his twelve-word mantra.

"I will never get involved in other people's affairs outside of my mission."

Seeing the other person frown, Lin Yu quickly cleared her throat and steered the conversation back on track.

"Don't be so hasty. Since the people behind us can reveal that we are undercover agents, it means that we won't play a significant role in the plans for a long time to come."

This person is most likely Qian Renxue. As the legitimate heir of the Spirit Hall, it's best for me, an undercover agent from the Spirit Hall, not to be too outspoken. What if the Spirit Hall gets upset and deducts my "salary"?

"Tell me about your task and current situation, and I'll help you analyze it."

Although she was annoyed by Lin Yu's work attitude as a little undercover agent, the sound of his hammering was so annoying that Qian Renxue couldn't think straight.

Helpless, she could only bring up the situation she was currently facing.

Hearing about Qian Renxue's current predicament, Lin Yu shrugged helplessly.

"What's so difficult about your situation? Let's assume the worst-case scenario for us undercover agents: that Emperor Xueye knows you're from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School."

"Now, he's asking you to become the disciple of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School's sect master. What do you think his purpose is?"