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    Heukmyo and Yeo Il-ye immediately moved their luggage to Tang Xiaoyeol’s workshop.

    “Sisters…Are you leaving Ryeo’s house…?”

    Unable to separate Ryeo-ah, who was crying, the two people received permission from Dang Do-gyeong and Tang Mun-gi, Tang Ryeo-ah’s father, to let Ryeo stay overnight.

    “This is my first time sleeping in someone else’s house…! I’m excited!”

    In this way, the number of residents in the party workshop was five. Dang Do-gyeong and Dang Do-yeon, who acted as moving helpers, join in to sweep, clean, and refurbish the workshop, and the sounds of them being renovated can be heard even inside the blacksmith shop.

    Shhh-

    Grumble!

    Today again, I was trying to melt a piece of iron in front of the furnace.

    “Disciple, there is absolutely no progress today either.”

    Dang So-yeol is smoking a cigarette next to me and giving me advice.

    “Why did you do that?”

    “What do you mean?”

    Shhh-

    Now, I asked, repeating the bellows movement, doubtful as to whether it had any real meaning.

    “Master, don’t you like people in the first place? But why did you suddenly bring in so many people?”

    “I don’t know why you say you know what I do. And why not?”

    “Master is clearly the type of person who dislikes people. So what is the purpose?”

    “I am a geomun (巨門).”

    “What?”

    What is the relationship between Tang Xiaoyeol and the word geomun?

    Tang Xiaoyeol is the future greatest craftsman in the world. He is also a person that anyone who aims to become a blacksmith in the martial arts world would like to have as a teacher.

    The importance of Tang Soyeol in the martial arts world in the game is high.

    So there must be information in the [Settings Book].

    Let me look for it for a moment.

    I stopped for a moment and concentrated.

    “Disciple. My feet feel rested.”

    I ignored Tang So-yeol’s abuse for a while and began to sink inward. As I went deep inside, a door welcomed me.

    It was the door leading to the [Image Library].

    Sigh-

    Along with hearing unheard of auditory hallucinations, my consciousness immediately entered the library of images.

    What was there was a bookshelf on one side. Now, the [setting books] that had flown out of my head were stored away.

    From the last week I spent as an external instructor at the Geumuiui University, I put the [Settings Book] in my head whenever I could, and since then, as I have been closing, I have put all the [Settings Books] in my head.

    Currently, all the setting books are in the mental library.

    “Dang Soyeol…Dang Soyeol…found.”

    [Genius][Intuition][Pessimistic][Rebellious][Lord’s hand][Light field][Detection of weaknesses][Sensitive sense of humor]

    There are a whopping 7 desirable traits that I would like to have at least one of the 8 traits. [Pessimistic] Only one trait has nothing to do with martial arts or skills, and the rest are all related to martial arts. Although half-bone is the worst trait, even half-bone has its drawbacks, but it is a trait that has its own advantages.

    “Geomunjichera.”

    The characteristic called [ㅇㅇRegistration] is very powerful and precious. In the first place, it may be natural since it is a term that refers to a body that is born with talents that are advantageous for martial arts.

    It is true that it is a precious trait, but it is also a trait that everyone who is at the top of this vast world of martial arts possesses.

    Nangahgeom Jeongcheol, which is involved in the emergence of Sacheon Nangin, has the characteristic of [Geongonjiche].

    The head of the Shaolin Temple has the characteristic of [Vajra Body], a disciple of the Shaman sect has the characteristic of [Taegeuk Body], the lord of the Shaolin Temple has the characteristic of [Heavenly Body], and the Sun Palace and the North Sea Ice Palace also have various [Polar Yin Body] or [Polar Yang Body]. ] There are people with characteristics.

    The above examples are rare constitutions that only exist in one or two people in the world, but even if they do not have any special properties, [strong bone body] or [tangy body], which symbolize an excellent body, are enough to be praised as boneless.

    So, [Geomunjiche] can also be said to be a symbol of special talent.

    If it’s a problem…

    “Tsk. It’s not even written down what effect the geomunjichi has.”

    Either I didn’t remember or I didn’t write it down. Either way, it would be evidence that the information was judged to be of low importance.

    It’s a pity that I couldn’t find out about Geomunjiche, but time outside didn’t stop when I entered the Simsang Library.

    I was in the middle of a conversation with Tang So-yeol, so I should hurry back.

    When I closed the bookshelf and regained consciousness, I saw a cigarette stick flying towards me. As I reflexively leaned back, the cigarette end grazed the empty space where my forehead had just been.

    “Disciple, I called you so many times, but everyone ignored you. My liver is swollen.”

    “So what does that harp mean?”

    “Just as that child named Heukmyo was born with the energy of Taeeum, I am also born with the energy of Geomun.”

    “…That’s amazing. How did you know that the black cat is lunar retarded?”

    “It seems like you have been in a relationship with that child for quite a long time. Have you ever experienced the power of the lunar voice? If you think that I have a similar power, you will be able to understand it with your head.”

    “I understand that you are a harp master, but what are you trying to do with the black cat?”

    “Well, I don’t know. Because this is my first time seeing someone born with the energy of stars.”

    Tang So-yeol pointed at me and said.

    “Dunjaein It’s unpleasant to agree with you, but I also had no idea how long it would take to make a sword if I continued like this. I thought that the black cat I met today might be able to understand what I said and convey it to you.”

    “Hmm….”

    I thought about Party Soyeol’s remarks for a moment and then said,

    It would be nice if it were “, but isn’t that too much of an expectation without any basis?”

    “It doesn’t matter. Try it and if it doesn’t work, that’s it.”

    You really are a person who just lives. Even though he was talking about his plan to use people as he pleases and then throw them away, his complexion did not change at all, so I thought he was a person who would be in big trouble if he were to let his guard down.

    “After a long time, my intuition sent me a signal. There is no evidence, but it will probably have results.”

    Well, I just checked the trait called [Intuition], so I have nothing to say. If it didn’t work, my head would already hurt thinking about soothing the black cat that would run wild later, but I had no choice but to agree that I had to give it a try first.

    But the next day.

    I have met someone who can add persuasiveness to this unpleasant and baseless plan.

    It was the old man in the dock.

    “Hehe, it means that the black cat and Tang Xiaoyeol have met.”

    “Yes, he thought about teaching me through the black cat, wondering what the energy of the stars would be like.”

    “Hmm…”

    When you see a doctor, various stories are bound to come up, and what happened yesterday was just a simple matter of personal information without much meaning.

    But the old man’s reaction was somehow unusual.

    “Do you know Jamisu?”

    “I don’t know, but…”

    “It is a type of divination that examines the weather. It represents the celestial bodies themselves that strongly influence the energy between heaven and earth, including the moon, the sun, the Big Dipper and the Six Stars of the South. It’s one of the Neo-Confucianism that predicts a person’s fate.”

    “So…does this mean that there is a connection between the two stars and the two people from a Neo-Confucian perspective?”

    The old man nodded.

    “The two can be said to be the incarnations of Geomunseong and Taeeumseong, so they can be said to be great archers themselves who do not need to measure the energy of the stars. When Taeeumseong is a famous palace, Geomunseong is built in Bokdeokgung Palace, and when Geomunseong is a famous palace, Taeeumseong is built in Buddha Palace.”

    “Uh…um.”

    Suddenly I couldn’t follow the flow of the story. As I was struggling, the old man in the dock summarized the story very briefly.

    “For Soyeol, the black cat has the fate of a spouse, and for the black cat, Soyeol is a fate that can greatly influence her mental aspect.”

    “…Spouse?”

    So… Tang Xiaoyeol is targeting the black cat now? And that part?

    The old man in the dock must have seen my confused expression and quickly added.

    “In any case, it means that you are attracted to and like that type of person. Doesn’t being the right type as a spouse mean that he can make up for Geomunseong’s shortcomings?”

    “Hmm…”

    “There are some things you need to be careful about, so make sure you take good care of the black cat so that it doesn’t get negatively influenced by Soyeol.”

    Yes, that pessimist and outsider with a broken personality quickly brought the black cat and two other people he saw for the first time into the house, so it could be said to be an unconventional display of affection by his standards.

    It is difficult to believe that the appearance of Tang Xiaoyeol will have a positive effect on the black cat, so we must properly crack down on it.

    It would be better to minimize the time the black cat intervenes.

    I started the day thinking that…

    “If you sweep your feet like this, the air becomes soft. In this way, the temperature of the charcoal remains the same, but more heat is transferred to the iron ingot. If you move it like this… Now, if you just make it melt once…”

    Black Cat immediately understood Tang So-yeol’s demonstration accompanied by such a ruinous explanation.

    “Hmm… I don’t know if I completely understand, but I don’t think it’s that important to step on the bellows strongly or lightly. The important thing is the feeling of putting up a curtain to prevent the wind from leaking from the bellows that blows air under the fire pit?”

    “Oh…! Yes, that’s it. You foolish disciple, move quickly.”

    “…Sseu-eup.”

    Contain the wind.

    It was definitely an idea I had never tried. So far, while working with the bellows, I have tried to increase the total amount of air flowing into the furnace when I step on it.

    However, if you can only do bellows once in a limited time, this direction seems to be correct.

    Although I failed repeatedly for a week, that doesn’t mean the time was wasted. Because I was confident that I had achieved the maximum amount of wind that could be produced with one blow of the bellows.

    As I was carefully stepping on the bellows, advice from Tang Xiaoyeol poured out from behind me.

    “That’s not it. Phew! If you breathe again in this state, it gradually rises and burns.”

    “Well, they say you just have to blow a big wind once and then maintain that flow.”

    Blow the wind loudly.

    “Is this also rotation in the end?”

    This body Hocheonan.

    A person who maintains the double helix flow of internal energy all day long. If you turn, it’s Hocheonan again.

    In the end, it was said to move the air in the furnace.

    If you blow a large amount of air into the bottom of the furnace, the air hitting from all directions will travel up the walls of the furnace and then try to come out again through the entrance. If you blow the wind with such force that it cannot blow out, the wind will not escape and will return to the internal flow.

    Shuuu.

    Hahaha!

    After several trials and errors, the result was finally achieved.

    The ingot, which had been dyed dark red as if to show off, had become a more vivid orange.

    “That’s it. Continue.”

    Pulmujil was successful and failed at times. There were more times when I failed, but each time I succeeded, I gradually gained a sense of success in my toes.

    The bellows continued to be used continuously.

    A sense of success clearly melted into my feet. The ingot gradually began to emit a clear orange light. The ingot, which had been gradually turning orange as the bellows was stepped on, now became completely glowing as if it were emitting light.

    “Success, disciple. You stupid guy, it took me over a week to do something so easy.”

    “Master, don’t you think your explanation was problematic?”

    “Some people understand it in just one try, but isn’t it a problem with your understanding that you have to interpret such simple words? Even though this body listened to the parable in consideration of your dullness, you couldn’t understand it.”

    Should I hit you?

    Honestly, wouldn’t it be a crime to beat someone like this?

    While I was thinking about that and seriously contemplating whether or not to shoot Sir with my fist, a pincer handle appeared in front of my eyes.

    “Take it out and place it on the anvil.”

    I quickly erased my erroneous thoughts and, following the great teacher’s wise guidance, placed the fully red-hot iron on the anvil.

    What is the reason for putting a bullion on an anvil?

    Of course, it’s for hammering.

    As if my prediction had been correct, Dang So-yeol handed me one of the hammers hanging on the wall.

    “The fact that a kid who doesn’t know how to use a hammer is hitting an ingot is a waste in itself, but it can’t be helped since it would be a shame to just let the already heated ingot cool down. Remember the feeling of striking hot metal.”

    He raised the hammer to head height and struck it down with force.

    Taaang!

    My first hammer blow was engraved on the ingot with a brilliant sound.

    “Congratulations on becoming a fledgling craftsman. You stupid disciple.”

    I have finally taken the first step towards making a sword.

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