Chapter 361: Testing the Cannon (1/2)
Chapter 361: Testing the Cannon
Translator: NinetalesEditor: DarkGem
When Qin Mu came to the smithy, he saw Xu Shenghua with an apron. This was to prevent sparks from burning his clothes. However, his originally bright robe had long become similar to a rag cloth.
He was forging a hairpin and had hammered the black gold a thousand times. He hammered it into the thinnest gold paper before folding it to finally forge the shape of the hairpin. An accessory forged with this method would have the finest vein lines and be what the upper-class women loved the most.
As a matter of fact, Xu Shenghua had made himself quite a reputation in the blacksmith circle of the capital. There were quite a number of divine arts practitioners of Six Directions Realm who had come to find him to forge spirit weapons. There were also quite a number of nobles who wanted strange weapons like hairpins and bracelets.
Divine arts practitioners of Six Directions Realm required a forging expert to forge the spirit weapon they had given birth to in their divine treasure, thus the ability of the forging master was very important. Xu Shenghua was very clever and could forge all kinds of spirit weapons well. His technique and divine arts had myriad changes, and he could forge spirit weapons which were compatible with the divine arts practitioners.
”Human Emperor Qin, take a seat in the shop first, I'll come over once I'm done with the hairpin.” Xu Shenghua saw him coming and shouted into the shop, ”Yan'zi, Human Emperor is here, help me attend to him first!”
Qin Mu walked into the ship and smiled. ”It's fine just calling me Cult Master. When you call me Human Emperor, it just keeps reminding me that you and I are enemies.”
Jing Yan wore the clothes of a village girl, having replaced the gorgeous and elegant clothes she had come with from High Heavens. She carried a pot of tea and invited Qin Mu to take a seat.
The tea was plain. When Xu Shenghua and Qin Mu had met for the first time, he had served him with the best tea in High Heavens, and it had been the best tea Qin Mu had drunk; it was called Green Destiny. Yet what he was served at that moment was the most ordinary tea.
”There's no more good tea. Cult Master Qin, please forgive us.” Jing Yan blushed with shame and poured the tea for him. ”We have finished Green Destiny Tea last month,” she said in a low voice.
Qin Mu took a sip and said, ”I'm also used to plain tea. How did you buy this shop?”
”Young Master had originally bought a house in the capital, so we sold it to buy this shop.” Jing Yan then added, ”Sister Yu Liu couldn't get used to this kind of hardship so she found an excuse to leave and return to High Heavens, only I'm left to stay with young master.”
Qin Mu invited her to take a seat as well. He smiled and said, ”You're a good maiden.”
Xu Shenghua lifted the curtain and walked in with a towel in his hands, having just washed his hands. He hung the towel behind the curtain and came to the table to sit down, pouring a cup of tea for himself. He drank it in one gulp and poured another cup for himself.
Jing Yan wanted to stand up, but Xu Shenghua waved his hand and said, ”There are no rules here. You are the mistress of our smithy so just take a seat.”
Jing Yan could only remain seated after such words.
Qin Mu's gaze flickered and he smiled. ”Brother Xu, how's your daily life?”
Xu Shenghua sighed and shook his head. ”It's not too good, but it's very fulfilling. I never knew it was so hard to earn money, since I had never had to worry about money in High Heavens. But now, I actually know how great is the worth of a great abundance coin! Brother Qin, you paid a great abundance coin for ten bowls of noodles, truly a waste, it's more than enough to buy a hundred bowls of noodles!”
Qin Mu looked at him blankly and said, ”I'm also not sure about how much a great abundance coin is worth. I rarely lacked money, so I usually pay with a great abundance coin when I go out to eat.”
”You have never been poor before.” Xu Shenghua drank a few more cups of tea and let out a shaky breath. He said, ”The money I've earned during these days is still not enough, give me some more time. I should be able to pay you in about two years' time.”
Qin Mu smiled and said, ”It's small money, so I'm not in a hurry. Ling'er will keep it in mind better than me. I'm here to invite you to observe the ceremony; Sunshot Divine Cannon is already done.”
Xu Shenghua was stunned for a moment, then sighed. ”You used two months to design and build a divine cannon yet I could only forge spirit weapons in this smithy. Fifteen days ago, I had felt you starting the furnace twice, you should have been testing the cannon's frame, right?”
”That's right.” Qin Mu drank the tea in his cup in one gulp and said, ”I used the power of the entire empire to forge that Sunshot Divine Cannon and didn't charge for it as I had no lack of money. If I charged, even the emperor wouldn't have been able to pay me. Let's go and take a look.”
Xu Shenghua stood up and removed the apron. He said to Jing Yan, ”Follow me as well.”
Jing Yan agreed and the three of them walked out of the smithy and headed for the outskirts.
When they reached their goal, they saw a large spirit weapon that covered an area of sixty-six hectares. The eyeball in the center of the huge cannon battery had been forged and floated between the light gathering forks. Hundreds of divine arts practitioners were on the cannon battery measuring something busily.
The three of them walked to the front. Xu Shenghua and Jing Yan were full of astonishment as they raised their heads to look at the humongous object. It was very hard to imagine how Qin Mu had only used two months and more to forge that kind of terrifying spirit weapon!
Of course, it wasn't the work of Qin Mu alone. Instead, it was the fruit of all the algebra experts and forging masters of all Eternal Peace Empire putting their wisdom together. Even if among them, Qin Mu's contribution was the greatest.
If it wasn't for his design and him improving the craft of forging, it would have been impossible for the forging standard of Eternal Peace Empire to create such a heaven-defying treasure!
Qin Mu had pushed the Eternal Peace Empire's craft of forging forward by a hundred years!
The emperor and the civil and military officials had all arrived. There were also high officials and nobles from the capital as well as the commoners gathered around to look at the Sunshot Divine Cannon starting up. Even Village Chief, Hermit Qing You, and the rest of the people hurried over to see the divine cannon fire.
”Pill furnace inspection normal! No cracks found!” an official from Ministry of Works shouted out loudly.
”Formation markings inspection normal! No break in connection found!”
”Runes inspection normal!”
”Cannon's frame inspection normal!”
”Light gathering forks inspection normal!”
”Divine eye inspection normal!”