"Dad! The last time he was practicing, the stone lock fell and shook the tabby cat so much that it jumped around the yard like crazy! I..."
Watching the girl being pulled down the courtyard wall by the man, Xu Yunfan silently put the stone lock aside, took a quick shower, and quickly went back to the house to lie down and sleep.
These days have been too hard, and he mostly practices the Lin character technique instead of sleeping. Today, he has finally completed the skin training and has golden skin. In the next few days, he only needs to complete the training of tendons and bones, and then he will consider breaking through the outer three combinations and becoming a great martial artist.
Once the three outer elements are combined, the muscles, bones and skin will be completely formed. In the future, when the realm is higher, it will be harder than climbing to the sky to practice again. With the attribute panel at hand, all three martial arts can reach the realm of perfection, so he naturally will not skip it.
Acquiring all achievements had always been his motto in his previous life. He would feel unhappy if he didn't collect all achievements every time he played the game.
What's more, if you practice martial arts in this life without being down-to-earth, how can you reach the pinnacle of martial arts?
The next day, when the sun was already high in the sky, Xu Yunfan heard the call of the waiter from Changfeng Restaurant outside the courtyard, saying that he was bringing food. He responded from inside the room and then slowly got up.
He tied up the remains of the Jidao into a vest-like shape, put it on his body, put on the iron box, stretched his body, and then a series of popping sounds like frying beans came from his body.
very nice.
After finishing his meal and settling the bill for the villa and the food, Xu Yunfan led out his horse and was about to leave the villa when he suddenly saw the girl who had climbed on the wall last night and her old father packing luggage on a carriage.
When the girl saw Xu Yunfan, she glared at him angrily, snorted and turned away.
A slightly awkward smile appeared on the man's face and he nodded at Xu Yunfan.
Xu Yunfan nodded, said nothing, and rode away on his horse.
The girl said, "Dad, look at you. You're so cowardly that you can't even show your strength. People think we're easy to bully."
The man said sternly, "Si Yang, when you're out in the world, you have to be kind to everyone. If you make enemies carelessly, someone might suddenly rise up and pin you to the ground. You have to remember, our Tiangong Cave isn't famous for its military prowess, but for its ingenuity and the ease with which we interact with others. That's why we've been able to stand for nearly a thousand years."
"Alright, alright, I've heard you say this so many times that my ears are callused. Let's hurry on. I've been in the state capital for so many days and I've bought enough things. I've had enough. I want to spend a few days in peace and quiet when I get back."
"..."
Xu Yunfan quickly left the city, and in the rising dust, the chestnut horse had already disappeared into the distance.
The journey was smooth and uneventful. We followed the official road and arrived at the territory of Guniu Mountain in just an hour. We could see Tiangong Cave from afar. The outline of Guniu Mountain was like a thousand-machine lock inserted upside down into the sky.
Rather than calling it a Tiangong Cave (Heavenly Craft Cave), it is better to say that it is a Tiangong City built on the mountain. The towering walls are made entirely of fine steel, and the sound of machinery can be heard from time to time. The so-called Tiangong Cave is actually a city of machinery that has been hollowed out of half the mountain.
On the hundred-foot-high fine steel wall, three hundred and sixty bronze watchtowers spiraled up the mountain, and from each battlement protruded an armor-piercing crossbow with a cold glow.
What is even more bizarre is that the surface of the mountain is covered with honeycomb-like holes, and every three quarters of an hour, steam gushes out accompanied by the sound of turning gears.
The nine gates at the main entrance are slowly rising, revealing the criss-crossing bronze tracks inside - mechanical beast carts loaded with red flame ore are speeding along the cliff, and the sparks produced by the friction between the iron wheels and the zip lines are illuminating the Tiangong Cave like a burning forge.
"This..."
Xu Yunfan looked at the mechanical city in the distance in shock. He really didn't expect that with the productivity of ancient times, such a city could be born. How much iron would be used to cast it?
As we got closer, the loudspeaker on the city wall suddenly sounded like a horn.
"Stop, sir. What are you doing?"
He looked up at the seventy-two bronze peepholes like fly eyes extending from the city gate. The mirrors carved with Taotie patterns were adjusting their angles as the gears turned, refracting the scorching sunlight into a dazzling light net.
A nine-linked copper megaphone suddenly popped out from a secret compartment in the city wall, and it was the source of the sound just now.
Xu Yunfan said, "I have a broken piece of weapon that needs to be recast. Please help me."
"Your Majesty seems to have accumulated a lot of evil spirits recently. I'm afraid you have experienced a lot of fighting along the way. Your pockets are bulging, it seems..."
The voice suddenly stopped, and a silver ingot popped out from between Xu Yunfan's fingers and accurately embedded itself into the secret compartment extending from the bottom of the megaphone.
"Ah! But you look so righteous, you must be a great hero who has rid the people of harm. Naturally, there is a VIP passage specially opened for such people. Please go up to the slide. We will take care of your horse."
The sound of gears was as cheerful as a spinning wheel, and the copper spikes rolled the silver ingots back into the secret compartment.
A three-foot square secret door suddenly appeared at the base of the city wall. A bronze slide rose from the sulfur-smelling steam, and on the slide were inscribed fragments of "Qianjipu" in iron paintings and silver hooks.
But he couldn't understand it.
The moment Xu Yunfan stepped onto the platform, seventy-two iron chains broke out from the mountain wall.
The slide sped along the hidden track carved out of the cliff. Honeycomb-shaped holes spewed out hot steam wherever it passed. In the abyss on the right, the thousand-tooth forging hammer driven by the waterfall was constantly smashing the black steel, causing sparks to fly.
The end of the slide suddenly opened up. Xu Yunfan squinted his eyes to avoid the heat wave that hit him, and he had already entered Tiangong City.
Under the dome hung three hundred and sixty floating forging platforms bound by chains, each with a nine-orifice incinerator. Craftsmen with curly beards stepped on gear-driven ladders and held peepholes embedded with ice spirits, adjusting the waterfall of molten steel in the furnace.
There is definitely an iron mine with extremely astonishing content at the foot of Guniu Mountain.
After getting off the slide, Xu Yunfan looked up and saw the rows of brick, stone and blue-tiled buildings in front of him. There were many people walking in and out of them. What made his eyes twitch the most was that there was an endless stream of people walking in and out of the gate on the other side, including many merchants and tourists.
In the street market on the left, a peddler carrying a target of candied haws was bargaining with a camel caravan, and in the tavern on the right, a drunk was playing a gear-driven pipa in disarray, and at the "VIP channel" gate that he had just passed through, no one had been seen for a long time.
I have been made a sucker!
"Little brother, please come in. What kind of weapon do you want to fight with?"
A burly man walked over. The muscles in his gnarled right arm twitched like a live rat, but the hammer he was holding was as steady as Mount Tai.
A martial artist who is a master of leather craftsmanship.
Xu Yunfan was a little surprised.
"Is that place also accessible?"
The craftsman replied, "The gate to Tiangong Cave is not closed. This place is also called Tiangong Town. It was designated by the governor himself, so naturally there are many people coming and going."
Xu Yunfan looked up at the plaque with the words "Tiangong City" written on it and remained silent.
Seeing that Xu Yunfan was not in a good mood, the craftsman said with a smile: "Don't think you are being ripped off. We are fair to everyone in Tiangong Cave. Since you gave me money, you will naturally get better treatment. What weapon do you want to forge? Show me."
"A broken golden hammer."
Xu Yunfan took out the hanging hammer head and the broken long steel handle from his waist.