CHAPTER 337 Continuing forward
“Hehe, boss, you might not know this, but this hammer is something left behind by that senior when he was alive. It has intelligence, and right now, with my willpower and integrity, I’ve moved it. It’s willing to let me control it.”
Guo Ran looked at the hammer in his hand with a look of reverence.
“If that’s fine, doesn’t that mean that I can use this frightening hammer to smash a large area in one go?” Long Chen said in disbelief.
Although he felt that Guo Ran’s words were quite mysterious, he had no choice but to believe the truth before him. There were many strange things in this world.
One had to know that the weight of that hammer was twice as heavy as Long Chen’s Evil Slaying. If one were to be hit by it, even a cultivator of the Dao would be smashed to death.
Guo Ran shook his head, “This hammer isn’t a battle hammer but a blacksmith’s hammer. Even if I die, I won’t use it in battle!”
At this moment, Guo Ran had a holy and pious expression on his face. Compared to his usual mischievous smile, he was like a completely different person.
Long Chen didn’t know that true blacksmiths would believe in forging artifacts. In their entire lives, they would use two hammers, one for fighting, as their battle hammers.
The other hammer was a hammer used in crafting. It was called a craftsman hammer. The two hammers would absolutely not be used together.
“Alright, although you haven’t become a Forging Master yet, your awesome appearance is still quite impressive.” Long Chen sighed.
"Hehe, then we must drop it. How else can we follow you, boss?" Guo Ran laughed heartily, returning to his previous appearance.
Long Chen shook his head. This brat must have possessed a ghost just now. The current him was the real him.
“Oh right, I’ve also obtained a miraculous page. Do you think it will be of any help to you?”
Long Chen passed the golden page to Guo Ran for him to take a look. Perhaps this kid would be able to see something from the insanity of possessing ghosts.
Who knew that Guo Ran would flip through the page and shake his head. “I can’t tell what it is. It looks like a rune, but it doesn’t feel like it. It feels so strange and incomprehensible.”
Seeing that Guo Ran also didn’t understand, could it be that this thing wasn’t something related to forging artifacts? If not, why did he appear on top of the coffin?
Since he didn’t know, Long Chen took it into his bosom. This thing couldn’t be placed into his spatial ring.
Normally, when he didn’t use his soul to drive it, it was like an ordinary piece of gold, without any offensive power.
"Do you have any plans? “I’m going to go get my revenge on those guys. These bastards almost killed me. I have to get my revenge.” Long Chen asked.
"Boss, I want to go into closed door cultivation." Guo Ran hesitated for a moment.
“Go into seclusion? You’re going into seclusion here?” Long Chen stared blankly.
"Mm. Although there are countless opportunities within the secret realm, I do not have the strength to fight for them. If I follow by your side, not only will I not be of any help, I will even implicate you."
Now that I have the Forging Platform and the Craftsman Hammer, and I have so many square bricks in my hands, I want to refine them all into armor that I have envisioned for a long time. " Guo Ran said.
Long Chen thought about it and felt that it made sense. Guo Ran was walking on a completely different path of cultivation from them. There was no longer any meaning in continuing to experience the slaughter.
“That’s fine too. If you want to forge something, I’ll give you some materials.” The dragon carriage tossed a spatial ring to Guo Ran.
Guo Ran took the interspatial ring and looked inside. He couldn’t help but scream, “Boss, you couldn’t have, you brought them back as well?”
Within Guo Ran’s interspatial ring, weapons the size of small mountains were piled up. There were arrows, spears, sledgehammers, and axes. These were the weapons that were hidden in the underground tomb.
“The cleaning up of the battlefield needs to be completed, so of course you can’t waste it. These things, the materials are all very good. You should be able to use them. Oh right, do you want them?” Long Chen said as he waved his hand.
"Boom!"
A giant pillar over a hundred feet long fell to the ground. The entire ground shook and a huge crater was created. Half of the pillars that had only just arrived were sunk into the ground.
“It can’t be … Boss, did you do it before?” “You even brought it back?” Guo Ran looked at the huge pillar in shock.
He naturally recognized that pillar. It was the pillar of the tomb. He didn’t think that Long Chen would not even let go of that pillar.
“Don’t waste my breath. I only found out later that this pillar was not made of stone at all, but a type of metal. There’s basically no metal on the outside. What do you think? Do you need it?” Long Chen said.
“I do want it, but how can I use something this big?” Guo Ran looked at the huge pillar and felt a wave of helplessness. It was too thick and couldn’t be stuffed into the furnace.
"Swish, swish …"
A light sound rang out, and in Guo Ran’s stupefied state, a yellow light flashed, and a small section of the huge pillar was cut off.
As for the section, when it fell to the ground, it immediately shattered into many neat little cubes, each cut as smooth as tofu.
"Boss, this …" Guo Ran was simply dumbfounded. What was so sharp? Although it was said that it could slice through metal like mud, it was still an exaggeration to say that he had never heard of such a thing before.
“The ability of this golden page!” Long Chen absolutely trusted Guo Ran and didn’t need to conceal anything from him.
“Too awesome! Boss has him, he’s definitely adding wings to a tiger!” Guo Ran exclaimed in admiration.
Long Chen put away the golden page and asked, "Did you hear where they were going that day?"
Earlier, he had heard Guo Ran say that he had secretly observed Zhao Mingshan and the others coming out from the tomb and personally witnessed the evil path’s Chosen being killed by them.
“We don’t know where they went, nor did they say anything. We only know that they went in that direction …” Guo Ran pointed in a certain direction.
“Boss, since they’re framing you like this, I think it’s best for you to stay out of the limelight first. Otherwise, there’ll be more and more people who don’t know the truth and will deal with you!” Guo Ran said, a little worried.
The other party was truly too despicable. They had deliberately set up Long Chen. With their assistance, Long Chen had become a fugitive on the right path, someone who one could kill.
If Long Chen dared to counterattack, he would be tricked by the enemy. Even if Long Chen left the secret realm, he wouldn’t be able to escape the punishment of the branch academy.
“There’s nothing to worry about. Since you’ve come to deal with me, just kill me!” Long Chen said faintly.
“But many people don’t know the truth. They’re also gullible!” Guo Ran said.
"What does it have to do with me? As long as they want to kill me, they need to have the awareness of being killed. As for whether they are dupes or not, it has nothing to do with me. They have a pair of eyes and a head.
I don’t care if they are idiots or not, as long as they are targeting me and the people around me, I will kill them.
“No matter how many people they have, no matter how strong they are, from today onwards, I will kill them. I will kill them until they are completely terrified.” A dense killing intent appeared in Long Chen’s eyes.
The many strange occurrences in his dreams made him feel more and more anxious. A threat was slowly approaching. If he didn’t hurry up and increase his cultivation level, then he and the people around him would be annihilated.
He did not care about the lives of those idiots. For the sake of the people around him, he did not mind being a heartless demon.
“But boss, don’t you think that what you’re doing is precisely what the enemy wants?” Guo Ran said a bit worriedly.
"Brother, cultivation is the path of no return. Since we have set foot on it, we cannot turn back. Those schemes and tricks are but small paths.
In terms of intelligence, I, Long Chen, am not inferior to anyone. But why don’t I plot against others?
Because I was afraid that I would rely too much on my wisdom and not rely on my strength, causing me to lose the courage to advance forward, the fearless heart of the Dao.
Those people who spent their time thinking about how to scheme against others were only because they were not confident in their own strength. Such people would not be able to walk far on the path of cultivation.
“Since they’re willing to use such a sinister plot, let them use it. I don’t have the time to waste on them. They don’t have the qualifications to be my enemy.” Long Chen patted Guo Ran’s shoulder.
Long Chen’s words immediately made Guo Ran come to his senses. Long Chen walked the path of invincibility. He had to be full of confidence in himself.
Just like him, his goal was to become a craftsman, so he had to maintain this self-confidence. If his confidence wavered, he would suffer a devastating blow.
“Boss, I understand as long as you say this. Since that’s the case, I’ll tell you then. Those bastards actually discussed to secretly arrest me so that they can snatch the materials from me.”
The most hateful thing is, they thought their boss was dead and actually wanted to vent their anger on the other disciples in the Monastery! "Guo Ran said ruthlessly.
The people hated this type of person the most. If they couldn’t take revenge on others, they would take revenge on the people around them. This caused them to feel so much hatred that their teeth would start to itch.
Long Chen nodded. According to the personality of the group, it wasn’t a strange thing to do.
Long Chen was already numb to this sort of thing. To fight in one’s own nest was the best thing that a righteous disciple could do.
Even the evil path Chosen who had just joined hands with Zhao Mingshan had lost his life in the hands of these temporary comrades. This showed just how powerful the righteous path disciples were.
Therefore, for these righteous disciples, Long Chen had basically given up on them. He had a good saying: righteousness on earth is a "wound".
If one wasn’t injured when he was with them, he would just be throwing himself into a pit of death anyway. If one wasn’t able to deal with outsiders, it was the best way to poison one’s own people.
Therefore, Long Chen had already seen through the essence of the righteous path. He didn’t want to change anything, nor did he have the mood to change anything. Right now, he wholeheartedly wanted to become strong.
After exchanging a few more words with Guo Ran, this kid suddenly said that he wanted to go into the ancient tomb for closed door cultivation and also wanted to go worship the tomb’s owner.
Long Chen had no choice but to put Guo Ran down the well. After he finished all this, Long Chen took some nearby vegetation and covered up the entrance before leaving.
The direction he left in was the same direction Zhao Mingshan and the others had left in. Not killing them in the tomb was already a mistake on Long Chen’s part. He absolutely didn’t want to make another mistake.