He Became the Genius Blacksmith of the Namgung Family - Chapter 137
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Chapter 137
Episode 137
The cultivation of Sammi Village’s land still remains, but they can’t stay until everything is completely finished.
There’s a mountain of work to do.
When the foundation was somewhat established and the blood energy had thinned enough that the people of Sammi Village seemed like they would be okay.
Namgung Cheon-gang’s group decided to move to their next destination.
When they were leaving, the people of Sammi Village came out to the village entrance to see them off.
“Take care!”
“We will consider you lifelong benefactors of Sammi Village!”
“Please be sure to visit us again!!”
“Waaah!”
To the people of Sammi Village who were crying, waving their hands, and bidding farewell, Namgung Cheon-gang also waved back in response.
“I’ll come again next time! Stay healthy! Don’t forget what I asked of you!”
“Yes! We won’t go anywhere else until we finish cultivating our farmland!”
“We’ll cultivate other blood energy-contaminated land then!”
“If we find any strange red stones, we’ll collect them and send them to you!”
“Good! Thank you! I appreciate it! Well then, see you again!!”
When the things he had asked of the village came as shouts one by one, Namgung Cheon-gang nodded his head.
He waved even more vigorously, then turned around and ran toward his companions who were walking ahead.
Thus, their business in Sammi Village was finished.
Their next destination was Imi Village, about a week’s journey from Sammi Village.
It was the place where a blacksmith had disappeared before Deoksu, the blacksmith of Sammi Village, had vanished.
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The deadline for the mission Namgung Cheon-gang received is 30 days.
He spent nearly a week preparing.
Then it took 10 days to get from Anhui Province to Sammi Village in Galbok.
It took 10 days to purify the blood energy and cultivate the ley lines of Sammi Village.
A total of 27 days have passed, leaving only 3 days remaining.
Ah, will the Namgung divine weapon end up breaking after all, and will the crisis of the Martial Arts World come to pass?
Will Namgung Cheon-gang’s limbs and meridians inevitably be severed?
By becoming the culprit who broke the divine weapon?
‘No way!’
The deadline was extended due to a special mission.
‘Come to think of it, no matter how I thought about it, 30 days was too short to solve the kidnapping and find the Anga to fix the divine weapon.’
This is at least a half-year job.
Telling him to do it in 30 days was like asking him to just kill himself.
‘As expected, the heavens, no, the status window gives a way to survive.’
Well, that way to survive is also a bit questionable though…
‘Whatever. What’s important is that the 30-day deadline has been extended again. And this matter definitely seems related to this thing, doesn’t it?’
Namgung Cheon-gang took out something he had put in the front pocket of the blacksmith clothes he was wearing.
The Blood Demon Stone he discovered 3 days ago while cultivating Sammi Village’s contaminated farmland.
Anyone could see that this thing spewing blood energy was the culprit that contaminated the ley lines.
Just from the description alone, it’s a lump of contamination.
“You’re holding the Blood Demon Stone, Master.”
“Ah, Miss Sohye.”
While he was holding the culprit that contaminated the land and examining it by the bonfire light.
Namgung Sohye approached and sat across from him.
“Indeed, as the name suggests, it’s still an abomination no matter how many times I look at it.”
Namgung Sohye didn’t know what the Blood Demon Stone was at first.
She just treated it as an abomination full of blood energy that came out when they dug up the ground.
She learned the name because Namgung Cheon-gang told her directly.
He said he named it that because it looked ominous.
‘I can’t tell her what I saw through Identification, can I?’
If he did that, she’d wonder if he was poisoned by blood energy.
“If about 100 of these things were buried in the ground, even fertile land would be more than sufficiently contaminated with blood energy.”
“Right?”
As Namgung Sohye said, Namgung Cheon-gang discovered about 100 Blood Demon Stones in total.
After finding one, they were discovered one by one by Namgung Sohye, Namgung Jia, and the Namgung Jeonggeom Dan.
‘After that, I found them using Metal Breath Detection just in case.’
Metal Breath Detection is a trait that can discover the breath of ores.
He hadn’t used it much since there was no place to use it, but who knew it would be used like this.
Whatever ability it is, it certainly seems to be useful someday.
“Miss Namgung Sohye, I have one question. There’s only one place that has blood energy, right?”
Namgung Sohye nodded her head.
She was about to open her mouth to answer, but someone else answered first.
A woman who came to sit next to Namgung Sohye.
“Right. There’s nothing but Sima Waidao and the Blood Cult.”
It was Namgung Jia.
After deciding to camp out for the night on the way to Imi Village when darkness fell.
She was on her way back from checking with the Jeonggeom Dan to see if there were any dangers in the vicinity.
“As expected… But it’s really strange.”
“What is, Master?”
“What?”
“If Sima Waidao deliberately buried them to contaminate the ley lines, they should be in Namman too. But I’ve never seen these things in Namman. It’s strange that they’re only in Sammi Village’s farmland.”
“Now that you mention it, that is strange. When we heard from Village Chief Samgo, Sammi Village’s farmland wasn’t originally a contaminated place, so considering what happened in this area…”
Clap.
“Right. Rather, beyond the farmland, the place that Blacksmith Deoksu was cultivating is where the influence of that incident reached.”
With a single clap, both Namgung Cheon-gang and Namgung Sohye knew what Namgung Jia was referring to.
The secret history of the Martial Arts World.
Namgung Cheon-gang had learned about it previously because of the Cheonjaeum incident, and Namgung Sohye heard it from Namgung Cheon before embarking on this journey.
Namgung Cheon told her because she needed to know what was there to be able to deal with it.
“But as far as I know, such things were never found in places marked by wounds from 30 years ago. No, if there had been, the Martial Arts World would have known about it long ago, right?”
“That’s certainly true.”
“That means this is ultimately something imbued with Sima Waidao’s power that only appeared recently. Come to think of it, that seems right.”
The cultivated land of Namman, unlike Sammi Village, is a wound created 30 years ago.
They just cultivated it, so strictly speaking, it was different from having Blood Demon Stones embedded in it.
“I don’t know the exact reason, but it’s certain that the Blood Cult bastards are contaminating the land.”
“Yes. Thanks to that, the people and animals nearby are also affected.”
“People become lethargic and lose their vitality. Animals become violent.”
This was the story of the Daesan system of Daegye Mountain.
Didn’t Samgo say so?
They used to be prey that the people of Sammi Village hunted, but they became too violent to hunt.
“Moreover, you said their size wasn’t originally like this either, right?”
“Yes, Master. That was something they told us later.”
A fact they revealed when the villagers regained their vitality and the farmland contamination was being purified.
‘The elder said he had forgotten about it.’
Well, there are cases when something experienced for a long time doesn’t come to mind for a moment, so it’s not particularly strange.
“Looking at this alone, it can only be seen as a means to bring another chaos to the Martial Arts World.”
“If it’s the Blood Cult bastards, they’re more than capable of doing that. The question is why here specifically, and I can only think of one thing.”
“Hmm. For now, think about it, Sister, Miss Sohye. There are many villages we need to go to, so if we solve them one by one, won’t we find the answer?”
“That’s exactly right. However, these blood essence stones probably aren’t only found in Sammi Village, are they?”
“If the reason the blacksmiths disappeared is related to this… Yes, it probably isn’t just in Sammi Village.”
Namgung Cheon-gang quietly gazed at the blood essence stone.
At his serious expression, both Namgung Jia and Namgung Sohye also silently stared at the blood essence stone.
A heavy silence descended for a moment.
Normally, given Namgung Cheon-gang’s personality, he would have laughed while talking about Sima Waidao’s evil deeds.
But now he couldn’t do that.
The description of the blood essence stone.
One phrase that was clearly visible beneath its abilities.
This was truly weighing on his mind.
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Imi Village, which they arrived at, was no different from Sammi Village.
No, it was worse.
It was so bad that one might mistake it for a ghost village where not a single person lived.
Once again, Namgung Cheon-gang used the Beginner Ginseng Chicken Soup to help all the villagers regain their senses.
“Ohhhhh!”
“Strength, strength is overflowing!”
“Ahhh! An immortal has come!”
Naturally, if the situation was the same as in Sammi Village initially, the farmland would be no different either.
But it was fine.
There was a solution, wasn’t there?
Purification Baekryeon Jeonggang Technique.
He sprinkled it all over the people of Imi Village.
What would happen after that?
“Hiyaaaah!”
“Uooooooh!”
They would cultivate the blood-stained land, of course.
“Blood energy, are you listening! The song of angry Imi Village! The cry that we can never be powerless again!”
“Our heartbeats become the drums of resistance against blood energy, and Namgung’s Blue Sky shall settle upon this land too!”
Once again, Namgung Cheon-gang’s work song echoed across the blood-stained farmland.
The blood essence stone was naturally discovered.
After staying for about three more days, they received a tearful and joyful farewell from the people of Imi Village and headed to the next village, Sami Village.
Time passed, and they arrived at Sami Village.
The entrance was shrouded in darkness even thicker than Imi Village.
They confirmed it was more serious than Imi Village.
They immediately went inside to resolve it.
“Ahhhhh! Run awaaaaay!”
Huh?
A scream could be heard.
From the entrance.
‘But that’s a voice I’ve heard somewhere before?’
Who is it, he wondered, looking toward where the scream came from.
“Huh?”
Narrow eyes, cheerful handsome man.
It was someone Namgung Cheon-gang knew.
“Master Hosiu?”
Hosiu of March from Haomun.
He was running toward them in terror.
No, he was fleeing.
“Huh, huh?”
“What are you doing! Run! Quickly, ahhhhh!”
Thud thud thud thud thud.
Hosiu shouted once more as he rushed past them.
What’s with him?
What’s going on?
Everyone was thinking this in bewilderment when.
Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom!
The ground shook violently.
“…!?”
“Wh, what?”
“Is it an earthquake!?”
Startled and thinking it might be an earthquake, Namgung Cheon-gang’s group scanned their surroundings.
Then their gazes fixed on the place Hosiu had fled from.
There was.
Over there was.
“Ruuuuun!!”
Namgung Cheon-gang shouted, scooped up Baekseol, and fled without looking back.
“…!!!”
“Oh my my my!”
“Ru, run!!”
At Namgung Cheon-gang’s shout and actions, Namgung Sohye, Namgung Jia, and the Namgung Jeonggeom Dan also fled along with him.
Of course they did.
“Oiiiiiiink!!”
“Squeeeeeal!”
Because they saw dozens, or perhaps hundreds of pigs half the size of houses charging toward them with bloodshot eyes rolled back, leading a mountain-like cloud of dust!
Anyone would run after seeing that!
“Ahhhhhhh!”
“Squeeeeek!!”
Namgung Cheon-gang was going to die before he could save the people of Sami Village!
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