Observing Wanfa from the martial arts school servants

Chapter 87 Gun Success

He needs to test the waters first.

The core of the Demon God Weapon is to engrave the original mark on the weapon.

He only possesses two kinds of primordial marks—the Candle Dragon and the Nine-Headed Serpent—and needs to forge a Soul-Suppressing Nail to test the waters first.

When the bone slices were burned to a translucent amber color, Lin Mu took them out and laid them on the cutting board.

The long-handled iron hammer fell, and with the first blow, the bone fragment remained completely still.

With the second hammer blow, the natural golden patterns inside the bone fragment trembled slightly from the force of the blow.

The third hammer strike was angled at three-tenths of an angle, allowing the dark gold patterns of the Candle Dragon to seep into the bone fragment along the hammer's surface. The moment it came into contact with those natural patterns, a fine crack suddenly appeared on the surface of the bone fragment.

Cracks spread outwards from the hammer point, and dark gold patterns flickered wildly in the cracks a few times. Then the entire bone fragment shattered into several pieces on the anvil, like a crushed withered leaf.

Ye Gang frowned.

Ye Huaijin's lips twitched as he looked at the few pieces of broken bone on the chopping board, then at the large demon leg bone that took up half the courtyard by the wall, and finally coughed.

Quan Feng remained leaning against the courtyard wall, playing with his short knife, occasionally glancing this way.

He had witnessed Lin Mu's forging firsthand; wasting materials was commonplace for him.

Lin Mu then chipped a second bone fragment from the leg bone and inserted it into the forging furnace.

This time, he extracted another section of the Candle Dragon Mark into a thinner strand and wrapped it around the hammer surface, reducing the force by 30% when he struck.

The bone fragments slowly deformed under the hammer, and the internal patterns coiled tightly around the hammer's momentum. During quenching, a plume of white steam rose up—after the steam dissipated, a very faint and dark golden light appeared on the surface of the nail.

He picked up the nail and looked at it in the morning light, then tried to drive a trace of internal force into the nail.

The moment the force touched the grooves inside the nail, the grooves trembled violently, and the dark golden light flickered wildly a few times. A thin crack appeared in the nail, rendering it useless.

Ye Gang's lips moved, as if he wanted to say something but then stopped.

Lin Mu's forging technique was correct, and the angle of stacking was also correct; he couldn't find any fault with it.

But he felt a pang of heartache when he saw that the first nail Lin Mu forged broke, and the second one broke as well.

Ye Huaijin nudged the servant beside him at the opportune moment and gave him a look.

The servant immediately understood and muttered in a high-pitched voice, "This... does he even know how to do it?"

Lin Mu didn't even raise his head, and knocked off the third bone fragment, inserting it into the forging furnace.

This time, he tried using the Nine-Headed Serpent's original mark.

The origin of Jiuying is different from that of Zhulong—Zhulong is extremely yang and dry, while Jiuying is yin and cold, long-lasting, and resilient in its gentleness.

He extracted an extremely fine and thin strand of the Nine Infant Mark, wrapped it around the hammer surface, and poured it into the hammer one blow at a time, following the direction of the bone patterns.

As the bone fragments were hammered, they gradually solidified from amber to black gold. During the quenching process, a plume of white steam rose up. After the steam dissipated, a very faint and stable dark gold pattern appeared on the surface of the nail, with the pattern spiraling along the nail.

The flow is smooth as water from beginning to end.

He held the Soul-Suppressing Nail between his fingertips, weighed it in his hand, and then casually tossed it away.

"Whoosh~"

The nail grazed the servant's earlobe, severing a few stray hairs from his temples, and embedded itself in the blue brick wall behind him.

The blue brick wall collapsed with a roar, dust flew up, and broken bricks rolled all over the ground.

The servant's legs gave way and he collapsed to the ground, his trousers soaked.

The dust settled, and the courtyard fell silent.

"Is it done?" Ye Huaijin asked.

"Hmm," Ye Gang responded, as an expert.

Quan Feng leaned against the wall, a slight smirk playing on his lips, and the dagger began to spin between his fingers again.

Lin Mu placed the long-handled iron hammer on the chopping board, turned around, and walked back to the large demon leg bone that occupied half of the courtyard.

The forging of the Candle Dragon Mark failed twice in a row, but the forging of the Nine-Headed Serpent Mark went exceptionally smoothly. Either the Nine-Headed Serpent Mark was suitable for forging, or the Nine-Headed Serpent Mark fit the thigh bone perfectly.

Lin Mu placed his palm on the bone wall and traced the texture of the bone column inch by inch.

Natural golden patterns flow slowly inside the bone wall, sometimes sparse, sometimes dense, sometimes extending straight along the bone column, and sometimes suddenly turning a corner at a certain position, like a stream winding around a stubborn rock.

The leg bone had been injured before.

The lines on that old wound were noticeably denser and more chaotic than in other areas.

Golden lines branched, intertwined, and knotted near the wound, like a scar that had been forcibly torn apart and then healed again.

Lin Mu tried his best to avoid the wound and search for the best materials.

The hammer fell.

The first hammer blow struck the bone pillar, but the bone wall remained completely still.

With the second strike, the hammer face rotated at a three-quarter angle, and the Nine Infants mark seeped into the bone pattern along the hammer face.

The bone fragments slowly deformed under the hammer, and the dark gold patterns inside coiled tightly around the hammer's force.

Everything went smoothly until the beginning. The basic shape of the gun barrel was faintly visible under his forging, with dark gold patterns layering and flowing smoothly like water inside the bone wall.

Just when everyone thought everything was going well, the sound of the hammer suddenly changed.

A sharp, piercing tremor sound, like an iron hammer striking a brittle stone.

Lin Mu's hammer stopped in mid-air. He discovered that the bone wall beneath the hammer was stuck at a certain point where the Nine-Headed Serpent's mark was flowing.

There was a hidden injury on the thigh bone that went undetected.

He tried to break through the hidden wound, and the dark gold patterns on the hammer surface were shattered, but the wound remained unmoved.

"Will this work?" Even Ye Huaijin, a layman, sensed something was wrong.

"I don't know," Ye Gang replied.

Lin Mu stopped hammering and closed his eyes.

Feel the flow of bone patterns.

Then, the Nine-Headed Serpent Mark was extracted into an extremely fine thread, like a soft silk thread, and slowly seeped into the bone structure.

From the straight lines of the main stem, it slides to the diagonal lines of the branch;

From the edge of the diagonal stripe, wrap it around to the center of the knot;

Starting from the center of the knot, pull it out little by little along the path of the entanglement.

When the hammer fell again, the hammerhead only trembled slightly against the bone wall, shaking off a layer of extremely fine bone powder.

The tangled golden patterns inside the bone wall were being untangled one by one, like peeling away layers of an onion. The bone wall, which had been hammered down, gradually solidified from a dark grayish-blue to a jet of black gold. The dark gold patterns flowed smoothly up the inside of the bone wall, following the curve of the gun barrel, including the old wound.

The old wound's lines were no longer knotted; instead, the Nine-Headed Serpent's Mark re-weaved them along their original path. The misaligned lines were matched one by one, and the broken edges were reconnected. The torn and healed scars condensed into an extremely faint and fine dark gold vein inside the bone wall, denser, tougher, and heavier than the surrounding bone lines.

......

"clang!"

Lin Mu brought down the last hammer blow, the patterns on the spear shaft flowing.

Quenching.

The moment the bone spear entered the liquid, there was no hissing sound, but rather a very low and long hissing sound. The quenching liquid churned and swirled, and the dark red liquid surface splashed onto the edge of the tank.

After being quenched, the patterns on the surface of the bone spear turned into clear, knife-carved dark gold lines that spiraled and coiled along the arc of the shaft, layer upon layer. At the tip of the spear, the patterns suddenly tightened, twisting into a tiny point of dark gold cold light.

After the hidden damage at the butt of the spear was quenched, a very faint and stable golden light appeared on the surface of the bone wall. The bone was almost twice as thick as before the quenching, and it felt heavy in the hand.

Gun completed.