Chapter 91: The Blacksmithing Master (Part 1)

  The martial artists of the Niu, Cheng and Zhang families widened their eyes in disbelief!

  They thought that by following the Deng family's elder, they would be able to witness the destruction of the Huang family with their own eyes. However, they never expected that the Huang family would actually have such strength, and right in front of the Deng family's elder and many high-level Xiantian experts, they were killed.

  "Why did it turn out this way?"

  The warriors of the Niu, Cheng and Zhang families were filled with discontent in their hearts, but their eyes showed shock and fear, and they all fell to the ground.

  The warriors of the Deng family had all drawn their weapons and taken up an attacking stance, ready to strike at any moment. However, upon seeing that their opponent was a warrior in the Sixth Heaven Realm, they did not dare to make a move.

  A family with two congenital sixth-order warriors is not considered strong in an eighth-grade family, but it's not at the bottom either.

  The Deng family is a powerful eighth-grade family, and its strength far surpasses that of the Huang family. However, if they want to move against the Huang family, they will also have to pay a heavy price.

  It's not a life-and-death feud with no turning back. Between two eighth-grade families, even if they don't get along, they won't engage in a fight to the death.

  For the defeated, they undoubtedly lose everything, but the victor also has to pay a price, with scars all over.

  It's not as easy to destroy a family of eighth rank officials as it is to destroy a family of ninth rank officials.

  A congenital sixth-order warrior, Deng Wanchuan already had some apprehensions. Two congenital sixth-order warriors would bring hatred and cause great harm to the family.

  With a sigh, Deng Wanchuan sheathed his sword and retreated back to the front of the Deng family's martial artists.

  The Huang family was just showing off their strength and didn't want to engage in a fierce battle with the Deng family. As soon as Deng Wanchuan retreated, Huang Qishan also sheathed his sword and stopped attacking, standing beside Huang Yuancheng.

  Huang Qishan held the treasured long knife, Huang Kunshan held the treasured long spear. The two men's ferocity just now shook the souls of the Deng family warriors. At this moment, standing beside Old Master, even the Deng family warriors looked up to Huang Yuancheng with a mixture of fear and respect.

  "Huang family actually has two warriors with Innate Sixth Realm!" Deng Wanchuan's eyes swept towards Huang Qishan and Huang Kunshan, his voice still revealing surprise.

  Deng Jiawu was shocked by all!

  It was originally a ninth-grade family, but a master of the Sixth Heaven of Xiantian appeared, and it became an eighth-grade family. Moreover, there are not only one master of the Sixth Heaven of Xiantian, but two!

  The gap between a ninth-rank family and an eighth-rank family is quite large, with their strengths being completely on different levels.

  The Deng family warriors originally looked down on the Huang family, but now they have risen to an equal level with them, how can the Deng family warriors not be shocked?

  Those who know Deng Jia Wu have already been subdued and do not dare to take action against the Huang family easily. Everything is as expected, and Huang Yuan Cheng's heart has added a few more joyful intentions. His face remained unchanged, saying: "Not just two, this is the second son and the youngest son. The eldest son is about to break through to the Seventh Heaven of Xiantian, and is now in Beimo County, handling everything."

  What? Another one? And about to break through the Seventh Heaven of Innate Realm?

  The eyes of all the Deng family members shook.

  Regardless of whether Huang Yuancheng was telling the truth or not, the current strength of the Huang family is worth considering for the Deng family. Deng Wanchuan said: "Alright, everything about the Huang family in Beimang County, my Deng family can ignore, but the monthly tribute silver must be delivered on time."

  "Two tenths per month!"

  Deng Wanchuan's pupils contracted and he said in a cold voice: "At least thirty percent!"

  Huang Yuancheng smiled slightly and said, "At most 20%, if the Deng family thinks it's too little, then we'll directly hand it over to the seventh-rank forces in Beiheng City. They shouldn't ignore an eighth-rank family like us."

  Beiheng City, one of the top ten cities in the Divine Blade Dynasty, has several major seventh-grade forces, including seventh-grade families and seventh-grade sects. Nan Ye County is under the jurisdiction of Beiheng City, and above Beiheng City is the Divine Blade Sect.

  The Deng family received the tribute silver below, and also had to hand over 40% to the seventh-grade forces of Beiheng City. In between, they could still make a profit from one link. If the Huang family directly found the seventh-grade forces, then the Deng family would not be able to gain any benefit from the Huang family at all.

  Directly finding the seventh-grade forces, the ninth-grade family is not qualified for this, and cannot enter the eyes of the seventh-grade forces. However, the Huang family has already become an eighth-grade family and has gained the qualification to dialogue with the seventh-grade forces.

  Deng Wanchuan's eyes twitched and he gritted his teeth: "Alright, two percent it is!"

  Profit, grasping a little is a little. If it really comes to a fight with the Huang family, even if the entire Beidu County is grasped in hand, it will not make up for the loss of the Deng family.

  Beimeng County is just a small county, and Deng's family has three such small counties under their control. Moreover, the Deng family also has its own industries, and the interests of Beimeng County are not significant in their income ratio. It would be foolish to engage in a fierce battle with an eighth-grade family for the sake of Beimeng County.

  Deng Wan's heart was filled with hatred for the Huang family, but he could only accept reality. After all, the Huang family was an eighth-grade aristocratic family!

  "Goodbye!"

  Deng Wanchuan was furious, but couldn't vent his anger and completed the transaction before turning around and leaving.

  Deng Wanchuan turned around and left, followed by the Deng family's martial artists. They filed out in a line, leaving behind the bodies of the martial artists from the Niu, Cheng, and Zhang families, with no one bothering to take care of them.

  Strength can calm everything down. The Deng family came with a mighty force, but left in anger and frustration. However, the outcome of the matter remained as Huang Yuancheng had expected.

  Having settled the Deng family, the Huang family can now focus on developing in Beimo County with peace of mind. The two-tenths monthly tribute silver is just a drop in the ocean compared to the enormous benefits of the entire Beimo County.

  In the past, the Niu, Cheng and Zhang families all had to hand over 50% of their income, while the Huang family only needed to hand over 20%, so they could earn an extra 30% every year.

  A town, with annual revenue of over one million taels of silver, the entire Beidi County, with an annual revenue that can reach three to four hundred million taels. If they make a profit of 30%, it's an additional tens of millions of taels of silver. The wealth of the Huang family is such that even if you add up the wealth of the Niu, Cheng and Zhang families, it still wouldn't be comparable.

  With wealth, one can buy healing potions and injury-recovering pellets to cure wounds, unseal and repair, making the Huang family's strength stronger and stronger.

  Although the Huang family did not intend to expand their power beyond Beimang County, having great strength was a guarantee of safety.

  Moreover, at the level of Di Jie's cultivation, the elixirs and spiritual medicines that can heal injuries are not something that can be bought with silver. They are all rare and precious treasures that can only be encountered by chance, or they are exchanged for other goods at a heavenly price. No matter how large the Huang family's industry is, their cultivation can at most recover to the peak of Xian Tian boundary.

  To truly recover to the peak, one can only rely on oneself to find those heavenly treasures or use precious items to exchange for priceless elixirs. Silver is merely a currency that circulates among warriors below the Earthly Realm, and it has no effect whatsoever on strong practitioners above the Earthly Realm. Every single strong practitioner in the Earthly Realm does not lack silver.

  The Huang family developed steadily in Beimo County, and Xuan Tian spent his days cultivating true energy, forging weapons, and practicing swordsmanship in the mountain valley next to Huangbai Town.

  Since the first yellow middle-grade long sword was forged, after nine days, the weapon forged by Xuantian has been upgraded again, reaching the upper grade of Huangjie.

  In less than half a month, he went from being a beginner to becoming an advanced blacksmith. If other blacksmiths were to know about this speed, they would be utterly humiliated.

  But for a true master of the furnace, these are nothing. Even if one becomes a master blacksmith in just one day, without entering the gate of the furnace masters, they would still be just a blacksmith and cannot be compared to a master of the furnace.

  Even if one is a master blacksmith, unless they meet the conditions to become an equipment refiner, and their body's fire and metal properties have not reached excellent levels, even if they spend their entire life forging iron and can craft the most exceptional equipment, it would still be impossible for them to become an equipment refiner. In the eyes of an equipment refiner, they are merely a blacksmith, like an ant.

  Xuān Tiān naturally knew that only by becoming a master craftsman could he be considered accomplished, and he was not arrogant or complacent. Every day, he still diligently practiced ironwork with his heart.

  Ding ding dang, time passed day by day. Twenty days later, Xuan Tian's low-grade True Qi Pill was completely consumed. However, thanks to the Huang family buying dozens of low-grade True Qi Pills and sending them over.

  The Lower Grade True Qi Pill is worth 30,000 taels of silver, but that's just the sect price. Apart from the four major sects, the Divine Blade Dynasty doesn't have any other power with a Xuan-level pill alchemist. Even their own sect's pills are in short supply, so how could they possibly sell them to outsiders at the sect price?

  So, in the external market, the lower-grade True Qi Pill is at least 35,000 taels of silver per pill. This is still during a time when the four major sects' medicinal supplies are relatively abundant. If there's an internal shortage within the four major sects, it's even possible that there won't be any lower-grade True Qi Pills available for sale on the market, and they would have to be obtained from other dynasties at an even higher price of 40,000 or 50,000 taels of silver per pill.

  The Huang family bought 40 low-grade True Qi Pills for Xuan Tian, each costing 400,000 silver taels, totaling 16 million silver taels. Even though the Huang family had plundered over 20 million silver taels from the Niu, Cheng, and Zhang families, this was still a huge expense.

  After all, there are so many people in the Huang family, and now that they have money, they can buy healing spiritual medicine, healing spiritual pills to heal their injuries. Especially for Huang Wei, who is young and seriously injured, he needs to recover quickly, otherwise it will leave a hidden illness that will have a great impact on his future achievements.

  As for the spiritual medicine and elixir that can heal wounds, none of them are not exorbitantly expensive, over 20 million taels of silver, which is still far from enough for the entire Huang family. It's likely to take at least a year or two for the strength of the Huang family members to truly recover to the level of Huang Mingshan, Huang Qishan and Huang Kunshan.

  With enough lower-grade True Qi Pills, Xuan Tian continued to take one every day. In the morning, he cultivated his true energy; in the afternoon, he forged weapons; and at night, he practiced his sword techniques.

  Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, another half month has passed.

  It has been a month since the Cow, Cheng and Zhang families were destroyed. After a month, the Huang family finally controlled all the industries of the three families in Beimang County, developing them in an orderly manner, everything is on the right track, the rise of the Huang family is only a matter of time.

  Xuan Tian, after half a month of hard work, made another breakthrough in his blacksmithing skills and finally forged the first famous long sword, becoming a master blacksmith!