Chapter - 205 Disciples of the Eastern Heretic (14)

Yang Guo said, "Will it be forged by tonight?"

Blacksmith Feng said, "I will do my best and go as fast as possible."

He pulled and pushed the air bellows furiously, the coals turned a blood red color.

Sha Gu was on a table; half lying down and half sitting up. Yang Guo and the others whose homeland was Jiangnan, though young, when they heard their homeland was in danger, they were worried. The three of them looked at the furnace and thought about the trouble and strife of the world. Human lives weren't regarded as important and there was worry, hardships and danger everywhere. Though they were facing difficulties the next day, the fear in their hearts diminished a little.

In a little over two hours, blacksmith Feng had heated the iron. He used tongs in his left hand and placed the softened metal on the anvil, with his right, he used an iron hammer to forge the metal. Though he was old, he was still strong; it seemed as if he didn't use any effort in using the hammer. After a while, the two pieces of metal started to take the rough shape of a large pairs of scissors, forming gradually.

Lu Wushuang said happily, "Sha Dan, it's going to be made in time."

Suddenly a voice from behind said coldly, "Making a pair of scissors to cut my fly whisk?" The three of them were startled and turned their heads around, only to see Li Mochou standing at the entrance, lightly waving her fly whisk about.

The weapon had yet to be finished but the enemy had arrived. Cheng Ying and Lu Wushuang both drew their swords. Yang Guo looked at an iron rod by the furnace, as soon as the enemy makes her move, he will grab the rod and use it.

Li Mochou chuckled, "Forging a pair of large scissors to cut my fly whisk; only you kids would think of that. I'll sit here and wait for you to finish, there's still time." She then sat on a bench, and looked upon the three as nothing to worry about.

Yang Guo said, "That's good. I say that your fly whisk will definitely be cut by the scissors."

Li Mochou saw Sha Gu sitting up on the table and thought, "That woman took a palm of mine and is still able to sit up, she's quite good." She asked coldly, "Where's Huang Yaoshi?"

When Blacksmith Feng heard the three words 'Huang Yaoshi' he shivered and looked up at her and then immediately lowered his head, continuing with the forging.

Cheng Ying said, "You know that my master is not here, so why ask? If you knew he was still here, even if you've got the greatest gall of anyone, you wouldn't dare come."

Li Mochou gave a 'humph' sound and took out a piece of paper from her pockets and said, "Huang Yaoshi got his fame by taking in many disciples and relying on numbers to win. Huh! Out of all his disciples, which one was really able?" She waved out her left hand and the paper flew away, her arm moved slightly and a silver needle shot out, pinning the piece of paper on a pillar. She said, "I'll leave this as evidence. When that old 'Heretic' Huang comes back, he'll know who killed his two precious disciples." She turned her head around to Blacksmith Feng and said, "Work quicker, I'm getting impatient."

Blacksmith Feng squinted his red eyes and looked at the piece of paper, he saw the words:

The Master of Peach Blossom Island,

Disciples he has many,

Five against one,

It's the laughing stock of Jianghu!

He looked up at the roof and was lost in thought.

Li Mochou said, "Why aren't you working quickly?"

Blacksmith Feng lowered his head and said, "Yes, quicker, quicker." His left hand stretched out the iron tongs and held the needle and paper, he placed them into the flaming fire of the furnace; in a flash the paper burned to ash.

Everyone was extremely surprised by this event. Li Mochou was furious; she raised her fly whisk and wanted to strike down on his head but thought, "This small town blacksmith is extremely bold, could it be that he is an extraordinary person?" She was now standing, she then slowly sat down asked, "Who are you?"

Blacksmith Feng said, "Can't you see? I'm an old blacksmith."

Li Mochou said, "Why did you burn my piece of paper?"

Blacksmith Feng said, "The words on the paper are wrong; it's best not to hang it in this shop."

Li Mochou said sternly, "What's wrong with the words?"

Blacksmith Feng said, "The Master of Peach Blossom Island has the ability to move heaven and earth, all his disciples need to do is to learn one art of his and they will be able to roam the realm. His first disciple is called Qu Lingfeng, his lightness kung fu is divine, and he is specialized in the art of the Iron Eight Trigram Palms, the variations in his martial arts are incredible. His second disciple is Chen Xuanfeng, he has trained his body to the point of that his bones and muscles are as strong as bronze and iron, impenetrable by sabers and spears. Have you heard about this?" When he was talking, he was still forging at the same time; the hammering sounds increased the force of his words.

Li Mochou was surprised when she heard him mention Qu Lingfeng; Yang Guo and others were also surprised. They would never have thought that an old blacksmith in a place like this would know about the people of Jianghu.

Li Mochou said, "Humph, there's a tale around Jianghu, that someone snuck into the imperial palace to steal treasures and he was killed by the imperial guards. That was the Qu Lingfeng with his incredible variations in martial arts. As for the Bronze Corpse Chen Xuanfeng, I heard that a little child stabbed him to death, what is so powerful about him? Impenetrable by sabers and spears, bah, such nonsense!"

Blacksmith Feng said: "Hmm, hmmm….The Master of the Peach Blossom Island's third disciple is called Mei Chaofeng, although she is a woman. Her claw and whip techniques are very fierce."

Li Mochou laughed and said, "Yes, that woman's claw and whip techniques were just too fierce, because of this the Seven Freaks of Jiangnan blinded her and later on, Western Poison Ouyang Feng shattered her lungs."

Blacksmith Feng was stunned for a while and then said bleakly, "That happened? I didn't know about it. The Master of Peach Blossom Island's second disciple is Chen Xuanfeng, his lightness kung fu is divine, the "Slashing Air Palm" extraordinarily powerful."

Li Mochou said, "Someone with two broken legs and who can't walk, that must be Lu Chengfeng with his divine lightness kung fu. Without working legs, he should rely on the wind (Chengfeng --> fly off with wind) to fly, Ha-ha! Powerful "Slashing Air Palm"… every palm that comes out meets thin air that is the "Slashing Air Palm" of the Master of Peach Blossom Island."

Blacksmith Feng lowered his head, two 'chi' sounds were heard as two tear drops landed on the heated iron and turned into steam.

Lu Wushuang was sitting the closest to him and saw his tears clearly; she secretly wondered what it was about. She just saw him raised his hammer even higher, the striking sounds of the metal now even louder.

After a while, Blacksmith Feng continued, "Peach Blossom Island has four senior disciples; Qu, Chen, Mei, Lu. The fourth disciple Lu Chengfeng had not only great martial arts; he was also well versed in the arts of formations and changes. If you meet him, you definitely won't be able to escape."