Chapter 565: Chapter 555: The Ultimate Madman!

The sheet of iron on the forging table gradually elongated under the man’s hundreds of strikes.

From its prototype form, it resembled a long spear, ten feet in length, with a spearhead of three feet and three inches, shaped like a three-edged reverse blade. Under the man’s continuous pounding, the surface of the spear shaft bore dragon scale-like concave patterns.

Finally, after the man’s three thousandth strike, the entire spear had taken shape.

Then, the man stopped pounding, directly reaching out and grabbing the red-hot spear iron, bringing it to the fireplace.

Although Su Mu didn’t understand forging, he knew that to create a superior weapon, it required multiple cycles of reforging, with thousands of hammering rounds before it could take form.

Therefore, the man must be undergoing secondary forging, preparing to forge the details.

The man grasped the spear with both hands, stretched it into the fireplace, and under the intense heat, his hands began to reshape the spear iron!

Seeing this scene, Su Mu was stunned.

This man used his own hands to hard-rub the spear in the fireplace!

The sturdy spear iron, under the man’s hands, appeared like soft clay, and most crucially, his hands sculpted intricate runes like precise needles!

Thus, the man forged with his hands in the fireplace for a full two hours.

This massive fireplace wasn’t burning ordinary flames, Su Mu could feel it. This intensity of holy flame could likely incinerate an Immortal King level powerhouse to ashes.

Yet the man stubbornly rubbed this spear in the holy flame for two hours without any impact, his skin not even slightly reddening!

This showed how immensely powerful the man’s physical body was.

Finally, after three hours of rubbing, when the man pulled the spear out of the fireplace, Su Mu’s eyes shone with surprise.

After the first forging ended, Su Mu thought it was already perfect. After the second hand-rubbed forging, it could no longer be described as just perfect; it was a masterpiece of unrivaled craftsmanship!

The man looked at the spear in his hand and shook his head.

Then he placed it on the forging table, turned around, and stepped back into the large stone house behind him.

Not long after, he dragged out a huge white bone spine from the stone house.

Seeing this white bone spine, Su Mu was also stunned. Although he didn’t know what kind of fierce beast’s spine it was, he could see that it was a "dragon" spine bone, preserved very completely, without any damage, as if it had been forcibly pulled out from a dragon’s body!

Though it was only a dragon bone spine, Su Mu sensed a powerful aura emanating from it. This "dragon" was not simple; it must be an ancient fierce beast of a holy beast level.

The man grasped the tail of the dragon’s spinal marrow and forcibly pinched an opening, reached with his right hand into the bone, and with a gentle pull, extracted a golden "spirit marrow."

He kneaded this golden "spirit marrow" into a "golden agate" the size of a palm with his hands.

Finally, he began crushing the remaining dragon bone into white powder, the entire process without any tools, just using his hands!

In just a few breaths, the massive dragon bones were completely crushed into powder.

He embedded the "golden agate" formed from the "dragon spirit marrow" into the spearhead, then, with a wave of his large hand, covered the spear shaft with dragon bone powder for cooling.

Under the high temperature, the white dragon powder on the spear shaft began to burn and eventually fused into the spear’s interior.

The man gently blew away some of the burning ash on the surface, and a dragonbone spear appeared before his eyes, radiating golden immortal light, illuminating the surrounding night.

Seeing this spear, Su Mu’s eyes lit up.

In terms of discerning treasures, few could surpass him. With just one glance, he classified this spear as a "T3" level treasure.

This "T3" level treasure is rated by Su Mu based on the treasures he owns.

This means that the spear could already be used as a lifebound treasure by a strong practitioner of Immortal Emperor level, possibly even exceeding expectations!

What surprised Su Mu wasn’t the power of this spear because among Su Mu’s many magical treasures, it would barely rank in the third tier. What shocked him was that such a powerful magical treasure was created in just half a night!

This was a matter of time efficiency!

This was a matter of mass production!

In the Ten Thousand Realms, countless powerful artifact forgers might not forge such a spear in their entire lifetime, yet this man did it in less than a night!

This is..... a master forger with maxed-out skills, no..... a forger machine!

...

The man gazed at the dragonbone spear in front of him, looked it over a few times, and shook his head once more.

Then, he threw the dragonbone spear into the fireplace again, turned, and walked into the stone palace, seemingly searching for some materials again.

Seeing this, Su Mu was dumbfounded.

No way??

Is he still not satisfied??

After a while, the man came out of the stone palace carrying a stone round platform, with a radius of about a meter.

Half an hour later, the dragonbone spear was glowing red.

He stood the red-hot dragonbone spear upright on the stone round platform.

Then, facing the platform, he sat cross-legged.

With a wave of his large hand, an inkstone appeared before him, in which black ink flowed. Of course, this was definitely not ordinary ink, and Su Mu couldn’t discern its materials at the moment, but it emitted a strong "power of restriction."

The man extended his right index finger, gently bit the fingertip, and a drop of golden blood dripped into the inkstone.

He used the index finger as a brush, the white bone spear before him as the paper, and began to "paint."

Strings of runes, rolls of scrolls, appeared at his fingertips, then merged into the dragonbone spear, forming a domain centered around his seated position during the painting process.

The rough blacksmith had transformed into an exquisite and skillful artist, each stroke delineating perfect runes, endowing the spear with profound meanings!

This process continued for an entire hour before he stopped.

Su Mu counted, he had inscribed thirty-eight million runes and five hundred and eighty "Dragon Rhyme Scrolls," integrating them into the spear’s core.

Throughout the process, Su Mu watched with such enjoyment that he unconsciously got absorbed; it was all too fluid!

.....

After completing the painting, the man stood up, examining the dragonbone spear before him from left to right.

Yet again, he shook his head!

Seeing this, Su Mu understood. This man was a "madman," demanding "perfection" to the "extreme" in his craftsmanship!

The man grabbed the dragonbone spear and walked step by step towards the water outside.

Seeing this, Su Mu followed; he wanted to see how he would finish in the final step...