Chapter 566: Chapter 556: Forging a Sword from the River of Time

The man held the Dragonbone Spear, still slightly red and hot, and walked step by step toward the nearby water.

Su Mu, transformed into a firefly, quietly followed.

When he was still a hundred meters from the water, he suddenly stopped.

Seeing this, Su Mu also halted, looking at the man dumbfounded in place, feeling puzzled.

What’s wrong?

Did he get confused from forging iron?? 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

After being dumbfounded for about half an hour, the sky began to brighten.

Only then did Su Mu realize that he unknowingly watched a whole night of forging, a whole night had passed!

When dawn came, the man holding the Dragonbone Spear continued toward the water.

By the river, he stood on a massive reef, tightly gripping the spear’s handle, bent over, and submerged the glowing spearhead and spear body into the water.

As soon as the spearhead entered the water, the river began to bubble intensely.

It was evident that even after being aired for so long, the temperature was still that high!

When the entire spear was submerged in the river, the five-inch area of water around it started bubbling, with many unlucky fish swimming by getting cooked.

Several red-hot fish floated to the surface, giving off a burst of meaty fragrance.

The man bent over, maintaining this posture, waiting for the river to cool the spear. After half an hour, Su Mu finally saw a strained expression on the man’s face.

Finally, after a full hour.

When the water stopped bubbling, the man forcefully pulled the spear out of the water, taking dozens of breaths to do so, showing it was indeed strenuous for him.

After cooling in the river, the spear looked completely new, as if reborn.

Seeing the final product, Su Mu couldn’t help but gasp in amazement.

Although it was forged overnight, the method was very complex, and every step was intricate and skillful.

After completely cooling, the man took a few deep breaths and walked back with the spear.

Back home, the man looked at the Dragonbone Spear in his hand, examined it carefully, and eventually sighed heavily, tossing the Dragonbone Spear behind the stone hall.

Seeing this, Su Mu went around to the back of the stone hall and discovered a deep pit behind it.

In the pit lay a chaotic pile of discarded weapons, including long swords, broadswords, heavy blades, short swords, long halberds... and many more, totaling thousands!

The quality of each was excellent! Each one was no worse than the newly forged Dragonbone Spear!

Some were even a notch better than the Dragonbone Spear, yet they were still tossed into the pit like garbage.

From the man’s behavior, none of these magical treasures satisfied him.

The newly crafted Dragonbone Spear was pretty good in Su Mu’s opinion, but in the man’s eyes, it was considered "garbage".

.......

After casually discarding the Dragonbone Spear.

The man sat upright in front of the forging platform, back straight, eyes gazing forward, lost in thought.

After contemplating for a while, he stood up, repeated some of the previous forging actions, paused, and fell into deep thought again.

It seemed like he was reviewing and summarizing the details of his earlier failure.

....

His contemplation was so intense that he didn’t even notice when Su Mu arrived in front of him.

Suddenly, he sensed something, his pupils regained focus, and when he looked up, he saw an Immortal Robe-wearing man standing unknowingly in front of him.

Standing before the man, Su Mu realized that the man was a whole head taller than him.

It wasn’t that his hair was too short, but he had lost it all, bald, unkempt beard, rough edges, eyes lit with flickering flames.

Standing before the bald man, the sense of immense power was even more palpable.

Looking at him, a thought suddenly popped in Su Mu’s mind— "I’ve become stronger, but I’m also bald."

...

"You... who are you?"

"Why have you intruded..."

The bald man gazed at Su Mu, his voice ancient, hoarse, and fragmented, as if being squeezed out from his throat.

He hadn’t interacted with anyone for so long that he had forgotten how to speak...

Hearing this, Su Mu did not reveal his identity as a River Guardian, because he wanted to understand this man, to communicate as equals.

"Just passing by, heard the sound of forging, so I came to take a look."

The bald man responded quietly, "Oh."

"Feel free to look around, I have to get busy...."

His reaction to Su Mu’s visit seemed indifferent, even though he could sense strong pressure from Su Mu, he wasn’t much startled.

It seemed that in his world, only his few pieces of scrap iron mattered.

Hearing this, Su Mu froze.

Then, he thought of something, and with a turn of phrase, he smiled and said, "Such a fine spear discarded, what a pity."

.....

"Just a failed product."

"If you want it, you can have it."

"Over there... you can go and take as much as you want..."

The bald man pointed to the deep pit behind the stone hall and spoke slowly.

He seemed utterly indifferent to each magical treasure he crafted, even though they were already very perfect, and any of them in the outside world could cause a storm of blood, in his eyes, they were like "stones" that could be given away freely.

"Oh.... no."

"Those are all failures."

"There.... you can enter my house, inside there are some fairly decent ones, you can take whatever you like..."

At this moment, the bald man suddenly realized something, acknowledging that giving away failures was not honorable, then he pointed to the stone hall nearby.

Upon hearing this, Su Mu realized that whether it was a successful magical treasure or not, in the man’s eyes, it held no substantial value!

He could give them away at will.

What he truly enjoyed was just the process of forging!

Creating a treasure was what mattered most, as for where this treasure would be used, it was completely unimportant, he didn’t care!

.....

"Do we.... know each other?"

Su Mu inquired tentatively.

Because it was their first encounter, and the man’s reaction was a bit unusual, indescribably strange.

Hearing this, the bald man looked at Su Mu seriously for the first time, then shook his head and said, "We... probably don’t know each other, maybe we do, I forgot, can’t remember too clearly."

"I’m sorry, I can’t remember much."

After hearing this, Su Mu smiled and said, "Nice to meet you."

"Su Mu."

Su Mu introduced his name.

The bald man was taken aback, then began to ponder, seemingly... thinking about his own name?