Chapter 156 - This Point Is Right! (1/2)

A few top-notch bosses from the Fang family sat opposite each other in the secret room.

The equipment set that had just been attached with attributes by Ou Yangming a while ago was placed in front of them.

Fang Zhaoyang took the longbow and turned it around several times to look at it as if he was reluctant to part with it. It was obvious from his facial expression that he was overjoyed.

“Yihai, the person whom you recommended did not let us down indeed.” Fang Zhaoyang laughed. “You’ve contributed greatly to our clan!”

Fang Yihai quickly responded, “Great Ancestor, it’s my duty to serve the clan.”

“Oh right, since you’ve been stationed at the Immense Forest Military Camp, did you notice anything unusual about the immense forest?” Fang Zhaoyang nodded and asked.

“There’s nothing different about the immense forest. The soldiers from different camps are still going in to hunt in batches, and they haven’t noticed any abnormalities too. It’s just that…” Fang Yihai answered seriously. He suddenly furrowed his eyebrows and said hesitantly, “The number of half-spirit beasts in the forest seems to have increased, but it’s not a big deal because it has always been like that every few decades.”

“The number of half-spirit beasts increased?” Fang Zhaoyang finally put down his longbow and remarked, “It’s not a big deal indeed if this happened in the past, but I can’t say the same now.”

Fang Yihai nodded. “Yes, I’ll increase our manpower once I return, as well as the number of times they enter the forest. I’ll definitely verify the matter.”

“Okay.” Fang Zhaoyang nodded as he was pleased. “If the disaster isn’t coming, we won’t have to talk about it, but if it’s really coming, we’ll have to prepare in advance.”

“Yes.” The few important figures from the Fang family bowed and responded to him.

Fang Zhaoyang looked at the longbow and ordered with a stern tone, “Once Xuande returns, let him rest and get him to chisel a hole in the bow on an auspicious day. This is our only chance, so we must succeed!”

Everyone else nodded and had a grave expression on their faces.

Right then, they heard footsteps that sounded like the wind.

A flash of figure was seen, and Fang Xuande appeared in front of them. What surprised them more was the usually steady person was holding a saber with his eyes widened at the moment, and he looked rather odd.

“Xuande, what are you doing? Great Ancestor is here, you mustn’t be so unrestrained!” Fang Zhengde expressed his discontent.

Nonetheless, Fang Xuande turned a deaf ear to him. He hurried to the great ancestor with a saber.

The other men were dumbfounded, and they had the same thought at the same time.

‘Has Xuande gone mad?’

Despite that, they were soon at ease.

This was because Fang Xuande pointed at the blade instead of slas.h.i.+ng the saber at the great ancestor. “Great Ancestor, look…”

Fang Zhaoyang cast a surprised look at him, then at the blade.

A groove was seen on the blade, and it was polished so smoothly that it had a perfect l.u.s.ter.

“Xuande, you did quite well. Keep it up, and our clan’s future will depend on you!” Fang Zhaoyang nodded with a smile.

On the other hand, the other people looked at him and shook their head.

It was true that the groove was polished perfectly, but it was not Fang Xuande’s first time achieving something like this, so they could not understand why he had suddenly made a fuss about it.

Fang Xuande shook his head and said, “Great Ancestor, it wasn’t me who chiseled the hole.”

“Oh, it wasn’t you?” Fang Zhaoyang was stunned, and he seemed moved, but he quickly shook his head and mumbled, “Impossible…”

The rest of them were slightly shocked too because they could not figure out who else in their clan could accomplish something like that.

When they recalled that Fang Xuande had just… Everyone’s face changed at that instant, and Fang Zhengde commented, “It’s impossible. Master Lil’ Ou may be talented in the Layering Art, but the Tool-chiseling Secret Technique is completely different from that art, so how could he have grasped it?”

The other people nodded in agreement. It was difficult for them to believe that ou Yangming had made the groove.

Fang Zhaoyang asked in all seriousness, “Xuande, tell me, who did this?”

“It was Master Lil’ Ou.” Fang Xuande looked stern, and he glanced around him to see how the other people reacted. “You might not believe me, but I only taught him once, once…” He eventually slowed down and even spoke like he was talking in his sleep. “But once was all he took to grasp the Hole-searching Art and Hole-chiseling Art.”

“What? He even learned the Hole-searching Art?” Fang Zhaoyang’s face changed as he asked with an unsmiling face.

If Ou Yangming had only succeeded in hole-chiseling, it would cause a sensation between them, but they knew that he was a top-notch smithing master, after all. In particular, his mighty ability in the Layering Art was beyond one’s reach.

Therefore, they could at least accept the fact because it was natural for an extraordinary person to have extraordinary accomplishments.

That said, hole-searching was different. Not every point on a piece of equipment could be chiseled, and there was an extremely high requirement for it. If a hole was carelessly chiseled onto a piece of equipment, the equipment would become useless the moment the groove was formed.

Fang Xuande nodded his head hard and swore, “Yes, I tried it. Master Lil’ Ou didn’t just find the key point, he also found it ten times faster than I did!”

Everyone else twitched their mouth and thought, ‘Even if you want to flatter him, you shouldn’t exaggerate…’

Fang Xuande was the best blacksmith in their clan, and he was the best in the Tool-chiseling Art. If someone else was ten times better than him, it was simply unimaginable.

“Yihai, go get Master Lil’ Ou here,” Fang Zhaoyang instructed after some thought.

Fang Yihai quickly responded to him and left.