Chapter 294: Earth Fire Peak

“Heh…he’s an expert, but too rigid!”

After Sun Daoren and the group of Daoists left, Three Gold Daoist said.

He had been in Yangzhou for seven or eight years, and his thinking had long since changed.

Having wandered the Jianghu for so long, he only regretted not coming to Yangzhou sooner, only regretted not coming into contact with Shi Feizhe sooner.

“Let’s go! Didn’t you say you were going to Earth Fire Peak?” Shi Feizhe said to him.

“Right! Let’s go!” Three Gold Daoist said, leading the way.

He was very familiar with this place, and even many Daoists from the Ascension Path greeted Three Gold Daoist on the way, calling him: “Martial Uncle Sanjin.”

It was even more so after arriving at Earth Fire Peak.

Earth Fire Peak was on an active volcano, with a huge lava lake in the middle, bubbling and emitting the smell of sulfur.

Over thousands of years, the area around the lava lake had been carved into flat platforms, surrounding the lake.

Surprisingly, there was a huge stone pillar standing in the lava lake, with a workshop on top of it, and people were clanging and hammering on it.

Three huge chains were pulled on the platforms surrounding the lava lake, fixing the large stone pillar in place.

Each section of the iron chain was as thick as a person’s waist!

“Martial Uncle Sanjin, Master Dongfang is in the stone workshop, I’ll go call him!” A strong and sturdy Daoist with dark skin saw Three Gold Daoist and hurriedly said.

“Go ahead! If he’s busy, we can wait.” Three Gold Daoist said.

“Yes!” The Daoist bowed and, with a gust of hot wind, stepped on the iron chain, like a cat on a chain, and arrived at the workshop in the middle of the stone pillar.

It turned out that the people of the Ascension Path’s Earth Fire Peak came to the workshop on the stone pillar by stepping on a huge chain.

The Daoist went for a while and came back, saying that Master Dongfang was busy.

Three Gold Daoist nodded and took Shi Feizhe around Earth Fire Peak to look around.

Along the lava lake, the terrain was flat and very warm. Part of the leeward side with higher terrain was the residential area for the Earth Fire Peak Daoists, and the rest near the lava lake were workbenches.

Shi Feizhe saw a Daoist with a bare upper body, circulating hot martial arts, holding a slightly red hammer with flames in his hand, hammering an iron bar.

The iron bar, like an orange fruit, was held by another strong hand and hammered into shape with a clanging sound.

Such a scene was full of power and tension.

This was not a Daoist at all, but clearly the god of forging in ancient Greece!

Shi Feizhe understood. When the iron bar in his hand cooled, he threw it into a small lava stream beside him, and after heating it up, he grabbed the iron bar from the lava with his internal energy and continued hammering.

For thousands of years, the Daoists of Earth Fire Peak had become very skilled at utilizing geothermal heat. All kinds of smelting and forging were done using the heat of the lava, coupled with their special cultivation methods.

It was very peculiar.

So there were such people in the Jianghu!

With a little training, damn, they were simply senior technicians!

Shi Feizhe was overjoyed. The Ascension Path’s obsession with ascending to heaven made them different from the people of the Jianghu, but the Daoists of Earth Fire Peak were the main force in perfecting the rocket.

No matter how advanced the idea, someone had to be able to make it a reality, someone had to create it!

Perhaps, the Ascension Path’s rocket was made by them.

Truly remarkable!

Three Gold Daoist took Shi Feizhe around, which made Shi Feizhe very interested. He even talked to the Daoists of Earth Fire Peak, personally blacksmithing and deducing their cultivation methods.

《Earth Fire True Gold Formula》!

A very interesting cultivation method, utilizing flames and lava to the extreme, and also able to temper one’s strength and mind through blacksmithing.

The Earth Fire Peak Daoists were also amazed to see that Shi Feizhe learned their cultivation method in the blink of an eye and was having a great time hammering with the hammer.

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It was said that a Shi Laomo came to Yangzhou this time, and he was very powerful. This person was with Martial Uncle Sanjin, could he be Shi Laomo?

“I was a little busy just now! Hurry, hurry, that old immortal from Flying Heaven Peak is urging me to death, insisting on forging a small thing.”

A loud-voiced, thin and short man with a bare upper body saw Three Gold Daoist and shouted from afar.

The old immortal from Flying Heaven Peak was obviously referring to Sima Qiudao.

“Dongfang Yanyan, this is Shi Feizhe. Shi Feizhe, this is Dongfang Yanyan, the peak master of Earth Fire Peak.” Three Gold Daoist saw him coming over and introduced them to each other.

Shi Feizhe saw that although Dongfang Yanyan was not tall and was thin and short, the power in his body was very restrained, like a dormant volcano, once it erupted, it would be earth-shattering.

Dongfang Yanyan was surprised to see that Shi Feizhe was not impressive in appearance and seemed to have no cultivation. Could it be that someone who made him feel like he had no cultivation was…

This young man was extraordinary!

“Old Daoist Dongfang Yanyan, greetings!” Sima Yanyan said, bowing with his upper body bare.

Shi Feizhe returned the greeting and said: “It’s a pleasure to meet you! It’s a pleasure to meet you! Seeing you makes me realize how vast the Jianghu is, with hidden dragons and crouching tigers!”

“Not at all! Compared to the ideas in your rocket blueprints, I’m just a frog in a well. We’ve been thinking about ascending to heaven for thousands of years, but we never thought you would realize it.” Dongfang Yanyan said again:

“Although that thing was quite troublesome to build, it made my hair fall out!”

“Ha~” Shi Feizhe laughed: “It’s really surprising that you can make it by hand.”

“Ashamed, ashamed! We were forced to!” Dongfang Yanyan waved his hand and said.

“I’m planning to build a bridge in Jiangling in a few days, are you interested?” Shi Feizhe said.

“Old Daoist doesn’t know how to build bridges!” Dongfang Yanyan said doubtfully.

“It’s a steel bridge. A bridge made of steel and cement, spanning more than three li!” Shi Feizhe held up three fingers.

“Huh?” Dongfang Yanyan was stunned, and he said directly: “Won’t people steal the iron?”

Iron was also metal, and it was valuable!

“We’ll talk about that later.” Shi Feizhe said: “The calculation phase of the bridge is complete, but we are very short of people who can forge and smelt.”

Most of the graduates in recent years have entered the administrative and education systems. Only by entering these two systems can administrative operations and education be maintained.

With calculations and blueprints, but without the ability to smelt steel with the specified parameters, without skilled workers to forge suitable parts and assemble them on site…

…then the bridge cannot be built.

Open mountains when encountering mountains, build bridges when encountering water.

Over thousands of years, Earth Fire Peak must have accumulated a lot of experience. If it were combined with the accumulation of the steel mill, it would definitely break through the material barrier.

Shi Feizhe had transmigrated here, and he could only remember the proportions of a few commonly used steels. Who knew about those special steels?

Three Gold Daoist said: “Indeed. With your addition, Old Bastard Dongfang, things will definitely be much faster.”

“But Old Man is a member of the Ascension Path, isn’t that…” Dongfang Yanyan said.

He was really interested in this matter.

A steel bridge, something that had never been seen before in the Jianghu, forging such a thing would definitely be very meaningful.

“That’s not a problem!” Shi Feizhe said: “After tomorrow, it might not be.”

The next day, September 9th, finally arrived.

I don’t know if the bridge building part is written correctly, I’m useless as a liberal arts student.