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「“If you’re thinking about becoming a blacksmith and learning forging from me, then you must first hammer this piece of ordinary iron ten thousand times. Not until then will you be qualified.” 」

[ ] Pick Forging hammer

[ ] Pick ordinary iron

I choosed the forging hammer as my weapon and pressed the attack button, attacking the ordinary iron. It was a 5 hit combo ! The vertical bar, which needed to be completely filled for completeting the quest, was 75% filled. I long pressed the attack button for more powerful attack. Boom. The vertical bar reached 100%.

Quest completed !

Reward: Friendliness with Tang Hao is increased by 10.

Obtained 1x processed ordinary iron

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「“Tang Hao, are you busy?”

In the course of Tang San making great effort towards forging ten thousand times, he heard the sound of an old man’s voice outside.

Tang San, came out from his room, only to see an old man, looking far over 60 years old, with a lanky figure, but spirit hale and hearty, clothing perfectly neat and tidy, hair meticulously combed out.

This person, was Holy Spirit village’s village elder, old Jack. He was a kind person, greatly respected by all the villagers

Tang Hao indifferently said, “I’m busy, village elder.”

“Tang Hao, little San has quickly become six years old. He ought to join this year’s awakening ceremony.”

Tang San, who was nevertheless rather curious, asked:

“Grandpa Jack, what is the awakening ceremony?”

Old Jack sternly said:

“We all have our own martial soul, which is finally awakened around the age of six with the awakening ceremony. Having a martial soul, we can enhance our ability in a certain field. Even an ordinary martial soul can still help. If by any chance you gain a remarkable martial soul, we can speak about conducting cultivation, even to the extent that you could possibly become a Soul Master. The awakening ceremony is held only once every year, I cannot let you miss it. A Soul Grandmaster from the Spirit Hall will personally come to help the village students awaken thier martial spirit.

Soul Master is the noblest vocation on our Douluo continent: they can be formidable champions, they can possess remarkable assisting ability. But no matter which kind of Soul master, all are sorted and have accorded titles."

"Soul Masters all possess their own soul power. Based on soul power intensity, these are subdivided into ten general titles. Each title is further subdivided into ten ranks. At first after only crossing the threshold, one is called Soul Scholar. As soon as a martial soul awakens, everyone is a soul scholar. In the event that the martial soul is capable of cultivation, when the soul power reaches the eleventh rank, one can enter the next title, which in that case is Soul Master. And Soul Grandmaster, it is the third in this sequence of titles. Having reached the Soul Grandmaster realm, one already is a fairly famed Soul Master. There are a total of ten like this.”

"Soul Scholar, Soul Master, Soul Grandmaster, Soul Expert, Soul Ancestor, Soul King, Soul Emperor, Soul Saint, Soul Douluo and Title Douluo. This is precisely where our Douluo Continent’s name comes from. It is said that when attaining the power of a ninetieth ranked Title Douluo, one can take a title for oneself. They are simply unparallelled existences!"

His eyes shone with proud radiance,

"A hundred years ago our Holy Spirit village produced an eighth ranked Soul Sage, ah. In all of Nuoding city, even in the whole Fasinuo region, this is extremely rare."

Holy Spirit village. If one only heard its name, might sound like a rather astonishing village. In fact, this was merely a single village of three hundred households south of Fasinuo province’s Nuoding city. The reason why it was called Holy Spirit was because in legend, a hundred years ago a Soul Saint came from there. This was also the eternal pride of Holy Spirit village.

The Douluo Continent has two great empires - Heaven Dou Empire and Star Luo Empire. The Heaven Dou Empire is weaker than the Star Luo Empire in military strength. If not for Spirit Hall, making sure the strength of both empires are in balance. Star Luo Empire would have conquered the whole continent.

After answering Tang San’s questions, Old Jack left their house. Tang San showed his father, the piece of ordinary iron which was forged 10000 times. He was holding a chunk of iron in his hands.

The entire iron chunk was pitch black, and though irregular in shape, each facet appeared extremely brilliant, a black light dimly visible within. The entire iron chunk was approximately one fourth the size of the original.

Seeing this Tang Hao said, "When you have completed forging it to the size of a fist, bring it to me again.” 」

Completing the quest again, I obtained refined ordinary iron and friendliness with Tang Hao was once again increased by 10. I wonder what would happen when it reaches 100. After completing this quest, I reached the Spirit Hall in the middle of the village. It was now the time for martial soul awakening.