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One year had passed since Ivor's family passed away...

In a mountain about 20 miles from the plain village, people could hear an echo of a hammer hitting steel.

Over the year a rumor had been created by other people passing the mountain, they said that a sorrowful ghost resides in the mountain hitting steel to vent its pain.

BANG! BANG! BANG!

Inside a dark cave, there is a naked boy with a mallet hitting steel creating a sword that looked like the Jian sword, then the man quenched the steel and walked over to the whetstone to grind it.

Later the boy created the hilt out of purple wood and finished the sword. The boy had dark hair, pale skin but his body was refined as a martial artist, he was about 5 foot 6 and his eyes had no expression. If a person were to see him they would believe he was a lost ghost soul.

*Ding

"Shut up!"

over the year he had heard many Ding sounds but never bothered to look at it, he just told it to shut up and ignored it.

Ivor was about to take another stack of purple wood and silver iron but he then realised there wasn't any left.

The next thing was golden iron and yellowwood but this material was used to create sprit grade weapons.

"haa... am I going to waste good material to create high-beyond grade weapons?" pondered Ivor

Ivor was thinking about what he should do to get more material, he had not stopped for a single minute in crafting weapons. He had just been blacksmithing to make him feel better about his family loss, that was the first time he had felt the love of having a family.

When he lived on Earth he was abandoned by his family at the age of 5, he was taken to the orphanage and he happened to become sick at the age of 6.

The orphanage had also abandoned him hoping he would die, so they did not have to send him to the hospital and pay medical fees.

Thankfully a kind man had noticed a six-year-old on the street for 2 days alone and asked him about his family, Ivor had explained his situation and the man said he would take him in.

it had been determined by the hospital that Ivor had Stage 3 Brain cancer, From then on Ivor had lived in a hospital and he had a television where he had watched blacksmithing.

Ivor had fallen in love with how weapons were made and swore when he was better, he was going to be the greatest blacksmith.

Unfortunately, Ivor's health deteriorated making him losing his eyesight but he did not give up, he had asked for audible books about blacksmithing and was granted his wish.

Ivor was in the hospital from age of six to thirteen, he was blind during this time and lost the time of his childhood, and only had memories of abandonment.

Ivor soon passed away and he had been reincarnated to a dark place and later saw light and this was when he saw his mother's face.

Ivor had loved the feeling of his new family, they were going extra mile for him in supporting his dream of blacksmithing, his older sister lily would sometimes work extra jobs in the village to make it possible for Ivor to pay his teacher took keep teaching him.

One day Ivor had explored a cave in the forest and found a cultivation mantra. This was the first time Ivor had learned about cultivation, Ivor began to learn the mantra and noticed within 3 years of constant work he reached the 2nd stage of Qi cultivator but he reached a bottleneck.

Ivor had asked his father about cultivation and found about his fathers' stage also who was strongest in the village.

Ivor also found out how Wei family was tormenting his family and swore he feel become immortal and protect his family until his death however who would have thought that the day he got his blessing was also a day of his nightmare.

Back at the cave...

"System.... are you there?" asked Ivor, he wasn't sure if he was abandoned by it, whenever he heard the Ding sound he ignored it.

[Welcome back host]

[Congratulastions for getting your brain back]

"..."

"System, do you have any materials?"

[Host has achieved multiple things, would you like to see?]

"System, open the past"

[Congratulations for creating one thousand low-mortal grade weapons]

[You have been rewarded with Basic Material Crate]

[Congratulations for creating five thousand low-mortal grade weapons]

[You have been rewarded with Intermediate Material Crate]

[Congratulations for creating ten thousand low-mortal grade weapons]

[You have been rewarded with Advanced Material Crate]

[Congratulations for creating a mid-mortal grade weapon]

[You have been rewarded with high-beyond grade spear technique(Whirl of fire)]

[Congratulations for creating one thousand mid-mortal grade weapons]

[You have been rewarded with mid-spirit level technique(Qi Engraving)]

[Congratulations for creating five thousand mid-mortal grade weapons]

[You have been rewarded with high-spirit grade technique(Flame Engraving)]

[Congratulations for creating a high-mortal grade weapon]

[You have been rewarded with high-beyond array technique(Basic arrays)]

[Congratulations for creating one thousand high-mortal grade weapons]

[You have been rewarded with high-beyond engraving technique(Basics of engravings)

[Congratualtions for creating a low-beyond grade weapon]

[You have been rewarded with 10 high-beyond grade blueprints]

[Congratulations for creating 500 low-beyond grade weapons]

[You have been rewarded with low-spirit grade blueprints]

[Congratulations for creating mid-beyond grade weapon]

[You have been rewarded with high-earth grade sutra(A Mind of True Blacksmith)]

[Congratulations for creating a high-beyond grade weapon]

[You have been rewarded with the mid-spirit Engraving technique(Water Suction)

"System how come I did not get anything for creating 500 mid-beyond weapons?"

[The host has understood the basics of weapon creation and the making of the same weapons over and over is simple, the host would be now rewarded for the uniqueness of a weapon]

"Uniqueness..."

Ivor sat down and started to think about what the system is asking him to do.

"What could it be... what does it mean?" thought Ivor

"ha, I get it... system, give me the book of Basic engravings." Ivor commanded

A thick book appeared on Ivor's hand, Ivor opened to book and started to comprehend the contents of the book.

"I see, engravings are engraved inside the weapon instead of the surface, this allows for the weapon to have a system inside it to allow qi to flow through and activate the ability." thought Ivor

"Also it seems engravings on the surface of a weapon is a lot weaker and unreliable due to damage of the weapon cutting the flow path." Ivor added to his thoughts.

"How do I engrave inside a weapon, it is solid and I do not know how to mold it..." Ivor was in deep thought.

Ivor sat down and started to comprehend more of the Earth's True Blacksmith technique, Ivor wanted to see if he could find his answer within the technique.

One year later...

"I get, When the steel is hot, I have to infuse my Qi with the weapon and the hammer, each time I hit the surface the qi travels inside the weapon and starts to create a small tunnel as in a pipe." Ivor realised this after a year of comprehending the technique.

"There is a problem, won't it make the weapon weaker and easier to shatter." thought Ivor.

"What to do.. what, I see. The Qi strengthens the outer rims of the flow pipe." Ivor finally understood how to engrave but it isn't easy.

"System, open Basic material crate." Ivor commanded the system

[You have received: 500 stacks of iron, 500 stacks of wood, 250 stacks of silver iron, 250 stacks of purple wood, 100 stacks of golden Iron, 100 stacks of yellowwood]

"This is good, guess it's time to start trying to make my first engraved weapon..." Ivor thought enthusiastically.