The Greatest Dominance

The Ways of Alchemy

Three days passed in a flash, during which Ning Fusheng practiced the Iron Wrapping Hands very hard, but because his strength was still very limited and his skills could not compare with Ning Bufan, during these three days, despite the pain all over his body, his iron forging speed did not increase much.

Ning Fusheng was very dissatisfied with himself for this. Whether he was eating or taking a shit, his mind was full of forging iron and gold hands.

 

Sometimes when he was resting, he would swing his right arm, and it was very fast. But for some reason, he just couldn't move faster.

"Bufan, I feel that you should teach Fusheng some techniques. Otherwise, if you let him figure it out on his own, who knows when he will be able to improve his speed?" Mo Ruoying said to Ning Bufan.

Ning Bufan smiled and said, "You don't understand this. Self-realization is also the most fundamental requirement for becoming a blacksmith. When my master taught me the Forged Iron Wrapped Gold Hands, I pondered for half a year before I found some tricks. It was also at that time that my master taught me the essence of the Forged Iron Wrapped Gold Hands. In his words, a person who has not pondered hard is not worthy of obtaining the essence of the Forged Iron Wrapped Gold Hands."

"Uncle, aunt, is my brother Baihuo here? I want to play with him." Shen Lanlan came to the Ning's house skipping and jumping.

Ning Bufan smiled and said, "He was in the yard just now. You can look for him. He may have gone to the backyard."

"Thank you, uncle." Shen Lanlan said obediently, and then ran to the backyard.

"This girl is good. I will go to his family to propose marriage in a few years and let her follow Fusheng." Ning Bufan said to Mo Ruoying.

Noila Mo shook her head and said, "You think too simply. Lanlan has good talent and has entered the martial arts academy. In a few years, she will go to the intermediate martial arts academy to study. Who knows, when she is seventeen years old, she will be a master and will be valued by the empire. Do you think such a girl will fall in love with a blacksmith?"

Ning Bufan said angrily, "What do you mean by a blacksmith? My son is going to be a blacksmith. A blacksmith, how can that be compared to a blacksmith? Humph, if my son really becomes a blacksmith, not to mention Lanlan, even the daughters of princes and nobles will rush to marry Fusheng!"

Mo Ruoying laughed and said, "You are right, but how many blacksmiths are there in this Xuansha Continent? There are tens of thousands of alchemists, but how many of them are blacksmiths? Is there a blacksmith in the Huoyun Empire?"

After being interrupted by Mo Ruoying, Ning Bufan smiled awkwardly and said, "My wife is right, hehe. There are blacksmiths in the Huoyun Empire? Are you kidding? For such a small empire, it's good enough to have a few decent alchemists."

In the backyard of the Ning family, Ning Fusheng sat blankly beside an iron oak tree, rubbing his sore arms and thinking about the secret of forging iron and gold hands.

"Why can't I improve my speed?" Ning Fusheng muttered to himself. At this time, Shen Lanlan ran behind him, and seeing that he was in a daze, she smiled slyly, picked up a small stone on the ground, and quietly threw it over.

Perhaps it was because Shen Lanlan's aim was a little problematic. She failed to hit Ning Fusheng at a short distance. The stone grazed his neck and fell to the ground.

"Hmm?" Ning Fusheng didn't know where the stone came from, and couldn't help but look at the ground. He saw that the stone happened to fall on a stone slab, and after a few "ding ding ding" sounds, it rolled a few times before it became quiet.

"Brother Bai Huo, what are you thinking about?" Shen Lanlan asked when she saw Ning Fusheng staring blankly at the pebble.

"Don't talk first." Ning Fusheng suddenly shouted, then he closed his eyes, and the scene of the stone jumping in his mind repeated over and over again.

"I understand." Ning Fusheng shouted, and without caring about Shen Lanlan, he quickly ran back to the yard.

"Brother, you've lived in vain. Wait for me." Shen Lanlan didn't know what was wrong with Ning Fusheng, so she followed him back to the yard.

At this time, Ning Fusheng came to the stove and said to Shen Lanlan, "Move away, or you will be burned by the iron filings." 

 

After saying this, he picked up a piece of iron and threw it into the stove, then lit the stove. With a burst of rapid whooshing sounds, the iron in the stove also turned red.

He used the iron scissors to pick up the iron block and put it on the anvil, then Ning Fusheng picked up the hammer. At this time, he did not hit it directly, but recalled the scene of the stone falling to the ground just now.

The stone falling on the stone slab is like a hammer falling on an iron block. If the stone can bounce back, then so can the hammer. I can use the rebound force of the anvil on the hammer to speed up: Thinking of this, he carefully dropped the first hammer.

Sure enough, when the hammer landed on the iron block on the anvil, a small rebound force was transmitted to the hammer. 

 

Ning Fusheng grasped this feeling, and added a layer of force by taking advantage of the rebound force, and the hammer was quickly lifted. Then he dropped another hammer.

After repeating this process over and over again, he finally got the hang of it.

In the room, Noila Mo heard Ning Fusheng's chaotic knocking and said to Ning Bufan, "Look, your son is going crazy. You should teach him a lesson."

Ning Bufan also heard the voice, but he said with horror: "It's not that he is crazy, but that I am going crazy."

Mo Ruoying looked at Ning Bufan strangely. Ning Bufan smiled bitterly and said, "I still underestimated our son. You may not know that I have heard this voice before, and I have also experienced it."

"What do you mean?" Mo Ruoying asked.

Ning Bufan said: "After my master taught me the Iron-Forged Gold Fists, it took me half a year to understand some of the tricks. The sound I made at that time was just like the one Fusheng is making now. Do you think I would not go crazy?" After saying this, he walked out of the house and looked at Ning Fusheng from a distance.

Noila Mo was also surprised, and after a moment he smiled and said to himself: “What a smart guy.”

"Don't just focus on controlling the rebounding force, you also have to control the natural downward force of the hammer!!" Ning Bufan shouted in a deep voice.

"I understand, Dad." Ning Fusheng shouted.

"Uncle, what is my brother doing in vain?" Shen Lanlan asked puzzledly.

Noila Mo smiled and said, “Don’t worry about him, he’s going crazy.”

"oh…."

In the evening, Ning Bufan, with a smile on his face, said to Ning Fusheng: "Son, not bad, very good. To celebrate that you have figured out the simplest secret of forged iron and gold hands, Dad will have a drink with you." As soon as he finished speaking, he was hit on the head by Mo Ruoying.

"What do you want to drink?"

"I drink wine, Fusheng drinks water."

Ning Fusheng wanted to laugh but didn't dare to when he saw his father was embarrassed.

"Dad, you said this is the simplest, then what is the profound iron-wrapped golden hand like? Is it like you, swinging the hammer will bring up countless phantoms, and the muscles on the arm can tear clothes apart." Ning Fusheng finally asked the question he was concerned about. 

 

In his opinion, iron-wrapping is the last resort, and being able to use muscles to tear clothes apart is the kingly way.

Ning Bufan was obviously in a good mood today. He smiled and said, "What do you know? That's just the end. A master of forging iron and wrapping gold hands can strike iron sixty times in a second, but dad can only strike it nineteen times. It's far behind."

When Ning Fusheng heard this, he looked incredulous. Sixty times in one second, and with a hammer, this was absolutely impossible.

"What? You still don't believe it?" Ning Bufan asked.

"I believe it, absolutely." Ning Fusheng said. Are you kidding? How could he dare not believe what his father said?

Ning Bufan laughed and said, "You have a very useful brain, so from now on, while you practice the Iron Forging and Gold Wrapping Hands, you should memorize this book." As he spoke, he took out a thick book from under his butt.

Ning Fusheng took it with a bitter face and looked at it, and found that there were a few big words on the thick book.

"Alchemy secrets? What is this thing?" Ning Fusheng asked. He had only heard of blacksmithing and martial arts, but had never heard of something like alchemy.

"In your opinion, what is a blacksmith?" Ning Bufan asked instead of answering.

Ning Fusheng said: "It's the blacksmith."

Ning Bufan shook his head and said, "A blacksmith is not just someone who forges iron. Bah, a blacksmith who forges iron is definitely not the same as the blacksmith that Dad wants you to be, do you understand?"

Ning Fusheng wanted to say he knew, but he really didn't know, so he asked, "What kind of blacksmith do you want your son to be?"

Ning Bufan said: "Ordinary blacksmiths can only forge some weapons, but you can do more than that. You can also design weapons and refine some metals that others cannot refine. Of course, in Huangshangang, you can't see metals like iron, copper and gold, so you have to memorize this alchemy secret completely. Only then can you step into the threshold of an alchemist."

Ning Fusheng felt dizzy after hearing this, but he grasped an important piece of information, which was, "In Huangshangang, you still can't see metals like iron, copper and gold." 

 

This meant that he could leave Huangshangang. Thinking of this, Ning Fusheng hurriedly said, "I'll carry it, I'll carry it." 

 

After saying this, he quickly ate a few mouthfuls of rice, then picked up the alchemy secret and went to his hut.

"I didn't realize before that this kid likes studying so much." Mo Ruoying said curiously.

Ning Bufan chuckled and said, "No one knows a son better than his father. This kid is so active because he has other intentions, but he underestimates me. The alchemy secret is obscure and difficult to understand. He won't be able to memorize it completely without ten years."

Mo Ruoying gave Ning Bufan a look that said 'you are very sinister', and then said nonchalantly: "You sleep alone tonight."

 

This made Ning Bufan completely scared.