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Seeing Haika suddenly become unusually enthusiastic, Xiao Yan added, "Master Haika, I need what I need urgently today."
Haika clenched his fist and clenched it tightly. Far from being embarrassed, he seemed more pleased than happy, his face beaming with a smile: "That's perfect! If you leave today, I'm afraid I won't be able to sleep well!"
"Come, come, come!" Haika enthusiastically pulled Xiao Yan into the inner room of the forging workshop.
Feeling Haika's enthusiasm, Xiao Yan smiled knowingly. The more someone specializes in a particular skill, like Haika, the purer their heart becomes. Although Xiao Yan himself had never been involved in forging, he could guess that different flames would greatly enhance it. Haika, on the other hand, was eager to know the effects of the Crimson Lotus Heart Flame.
The main reason is that forging, unlike alchemy, does not require the delicate and precise control required, making it possible to forge using someone else's flames!
Haika also addressed his disciples in the room, saying loudly, "You lot, all of you, come down and wait to serve me. I'm about to begin forging myself!"
Upon hearing this, Haika's disciples remained composed. After all, Xuan Yi had personally come to inquire, and the task he entrusted was beyond their capabilities. It was perfectly normal for Haika to personally intervene.
Haika then took out a forging hammer nearly an arm's length long, grinned at Xiao Yan, and said, "Little brother Xiao Yan, feel free to unleash your flames. Leave everything else to me!"
Xiao Yan nodded, and the Crimson Lotus Heart Flame began to rise. The temperature released by the Crimson Lotus Heart Flame caused the temperature in the forging room to rise again from the original level. Under this scorching temperature, the faces of several disciples of Haika turned red. However, since Haika was about to forge, they stared intently at Haika's next move.
Haika looked at the flame in Xiao Yan's palm and admired it closely again, his eyes filled with even more admiration.
"It's so hot! It's really hot!"
Heka's palm surged with fighting spirit, and a powerful wind pressure condensed, causing the robes of the people in the room to flutter loudly.
Xiao Yan, being closest, could clearly see that a gust of wind had almost solidified in the center of Haika's palm. Then, that wind pressure, carrying a scorching aura, surged out, and the flames in Xiao Yan's palm, under the influence of this wind pressure, transformed into a wave of fire that immediately rushed into the enormous furnace of flames.
The fire was fueled by the wind, and the wind amplified the fire's power, making it unstoppable!
"Don't stop the flames," Haika instructed.
The wind pressure in his palms continued to gather, and with each horizontal strike, the Crimson Lotus Heart Flame seemed to be manipulated by him, rising and then entering the furnace.
As Xiao Yan watched Haika's technique, he felt a strange sense of familiarity.
As the flames were poured in, the temperature on the wide smelting platform became unusually high, but Heika was already holding the iron hammer and standing in the center of the forging platform.
A palm-sized, irregularly shaped piece of black iron appeared in Haika's hand. He said to Xiao Yan, "This kind of meteorite black iron is quite troublesome to forge, but it should meet your requirements."
As Dou Zun-level Dou Qi surged from Haika's body, a crimson light tinged with gold began to shine, especially the tattoos on Haika's body, which were now gleaming with a dark light.
The meteorite black iron was thrown directly onto the forging table, and as it was heated by the purplish-red flames, the dark and inconspicuous iron block gradually began to turn red.
Haika planted his feet firmly, raised his iron hammer high, and swung it down with the immense power of a dragon and elephant, producing a crisp sound of metal clashing.
"when!"
With a single blow, Haika had already grasped the specific details of the Starfall Black Iron.
Then, the sound of metal clashing echoed like music in the forging room, and the shape of the red-hot metal slowly changed. Xiao Yan nodded in satisfaction; the metal in front of him clearly met his requirements.
"Brother Xiao Yan, if you're in a hurry, this fire isn't big enough!"
"Can it be improved further?" Xiao Yan looked at the smelting pool, which was already full of purplish-red flames. Without Xiao Yan's personal control, this was almost the limit.
"Of course, just unleash the flames, I'll handle the rest!"
Upon hearing this, Xiao Yan leaped onto the forging platform. Only by standing here could he feel the intense heat that burned everything, but this temperature was nothing out of the ordinary for Xiao Yan.
A powerful, tornado-like wind pressure erupted from Haika's palm, instantly transforming the flames in Xiao Yan's hand into a surging sea of fire under his control. However, the wind pressure cleverly guided the flames, causing the fire tornado to continuously heat up the meteorite black iron. As the fiery tornado intensified, the meteorite black iron began to show signs of softening, a technique that made Xiao Yan's eyes light up.
This was his own primordial flame! It was the first time he'd seen anyone else wield it so skillfully; this fighting technique was truly extraordinary! He himself could achieve the same level, but that was based on the premise that the Crimson Lotus Heart Flame was his natal flame. Haika's ability to do it was entirely due to this secret technique. However, his control over the flame was still rather rough in the details, making it difficult to apply to alchemy.
Xiao Yan also remembered that Hai Ka's technique was very similar to the "Fire-Blowing Palm" he had learned in his early years. However, the fighting technique Hai Ka was using now could be described as a super-enhanced, reborn version of the Fire-Blowing Palm.
Yao Lao once told Xiao Yan that the Fire-Blowing Palm was created by a blacksmith by chance. Even if the blacksmith who could come into contact with Yao Lao was really ordinary, how ordinary could he be?
As the Red Lotus Heart Flame heated up again, the crimson metal softened once more, its interior turning a bright color, and the outer layer of iron seemed to be peeled off.
Heika grinned, his breathing becoming long and heavy like a monster's. He gripped the iron hammer tightly and swung it down again with ferocious force, sparks flying beneath its weight. The hammer moved faster and faster, and the metal began to take shape.
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Xuan Yi was meditating outside the forging room with his eyes closed when he noticed Xiao Yan and Hai Ka walking out together.
"Hahaha, Brother Xiao Yan, that was exhilarating, truly exhilarating! This Starfall Black Iron would never have been forged so smoothly without a preparatory tempering process of more than ten days."
In his heightened state of excitement, Haika even temporarily omitted the "Xiao" that was originally added before Xiao Yan's name.
"Master Haika's skills are truly extraordinary. Without your personal intervention today, this thing would absolutely not have been completed!" Xiao Yan praised with a smile.
"Hi." Haika waved his hand and replied, "These are all small matters. You must have something urgent to attend to today, so I won't keep you any longer. You must come again next time you have time. Whether you want a medicine cauldron or something else, I can definitely fulfill your request."