Chapter 36 - The Head Blacksmith

Li Jie just kept staring at the puppet which made him feel anxiety, which he wasn't supposed to feel, considering the help he received from this puppet in front of him.

Even then, he would not leave things as it is, he would check on how everyone felt when he would return instead of the puppet and try to understand if there's anything that has changed in his absence.

After deciding his next course of events, he was determined to look for any change in his family and he would also meet Dai Chen for whom he was worried about, although his master had already mentioned to him that certain tasks will be handled by the puppet in his absence.

Li Jie then rose up ready to go outside, he couldn't take it in, he was dying to meet his family, and only by looking at their faces, would he feel calm and relaxed, or else he would be restless.

"Wait Li Jie, don't you want to know what has been going on here since you left for the forest, this puppet that I created, can also answer all your questions, of course, it can only answer you what it knows, nothing more than that," said Mr.Teacher.

Li Jie's face beamed with happiness as this will make it easier for him to know, everything that has happened in his presence, while it might not look like much but one week was enough for many small changes to occur and for something new to happen.

Li Jie nodded and first asked the puppet about his parents who believed the puppet to be their son without any hesitation and he acted towards them as the real Li Jie would act towards them as well as his siblings, Li Jie was happy that there was no problem in hiding his absence from his parent but that doesn't mean he didn't flinch when the puppet said that his parents believed the puppet to be their original son, he didn't know why but he felt a bit disappointed which he tried to ignore and forget.

Li Jie then asked about Dai Chen and how did the puppet help him, the puppet then explained to him that he took Dai Chen to one of the black Smith shops which were under the Li Family, where he took Dai Chen to the head blacksmith for recruiting him on behalf of the young master.

The head blacksmith was a man with a burly body, thickened muscles, and braided beard.

The head BlackSmith was first skeptical about the situation that was occurring in front of him, if it was anyone else other than the young master of the Li Family, he would have kicked them out but he had two things to consider, first was that the one requesting him was none other than the young master of the Li Family himself and second was that even if there were many blacksmiths who were talented and hardworking under him, none of them were able to reach the requirements placed by the head blacksmith, so he was just hoping for a miracle, finding a genius who can inherit all his techniques.

The head blacksmith agreed but he had one condition before he can recruit Dai Chen into his shop, and it was that he would personally test Dai Chen.

Dai Chen was extremely nervous as he has never had experience in such things, all he had ever known was to steal or fight for scraps in the slum, apart from that he couldn't think there to be any skill or talent he had worthy to be recruited by this esteemed blacksmith shop and its master the head blacksmith who had a huge reputation in this continent, while he might not be as good as those of the Zheng clan, it was quite a feat to be called a renowned blacksmith in the continent which was testament towards his individual strength as well, but for some reason, no one was certain about his cultivation stage which was quite a mystery, those from the other great families as well as the patriarch of the zheng clan tried recruiting him but he rejected them all, not knowing the reason why but all everyone knew was that he was strong.

Dai Chen also knew that, unlike others, he didn't even have a proper bloodline to increase his cultivation as he was considered trash, that's why he was in the slums, where all the trash of the continent gathered.

Dai Chen was horribly terrified in his heart not knowing how everything will go, but he had to steel his heart and made himself resolute, after all this chance was once in a lifetime for him and it was given to him by this boy beside him, he knew that no matter what, he will do his best for whatever test he was supposed to overcome because he couldn't disappoint the boy near him who helped him in getting this chance, which those of the slums cannot even dare to dream about.

The head blacksmith called for Dai Chen and asked him to bring his hands forward to which he nodded and brought it forth, when the head blacksmith held Dai Chen's hand, he injected him with some essence to check his bodies condition as well as his bloodline, but the head blacksmith was shocked by what he witnessed, he felt as if nothing in the world made sense.

Isn't this boy a friend of the young master, that is why he asked for the head blacksmith personally to recruit him but this boy in front of him, whose insides he was checking was malnourished in such a way which was worse than the beggars.

No, he believed that even beggars would have a better constitution than this boy in front of him and the bloodline, can it even be called a bloodline.

No one is born without a bloodline in this world, of course except for the young master of the Li Family which was quite strange in itself as it was impossible for such a thing to be possible.

It wasn't visible if one didn't look properly but the head BlackSmith was an experienced person, he understood right away that no matter how bad a beings talent is, they will have a certain amount of bloodline in their body and from the traces of the wounds in Dai Chen's body, he concluded that his bloodline was extracted by someone at a very young age, which was the result of wounds in his inner body which only after injecting essence energy into his body, was he able to understand this situation, he even had a certain suspicion as to how did the young master made such a guy his friend, from the body and the many traces present in Dai Chen's body.

The head blacksmith understood that this boy was a resident of the slums, only someone who belonged to that place could have such horrible body conditions.

There was pity in the head blacksmith's eyes, then he looked towards the young master who he found to be the noblest person because he dared to befriend someone of slum which was not anyone can do, but in the end, the head blacksmith sighed only if this young master had a bloodline.