Chapter 9 Blacksmith's Apprentice

Chapter 9 Blacksmith's Apprentice
The next day, Yang Ping'an came to the blacksmith shop wearing an ordinary set of old clothes and began his apprenticeship as a blacksmith.

The boss Tie Lin was quite caring towards Yang Ping'an and directly arranged an old blacksmith with good skills to be Yang Ping'an's teacher.

The old blacksmith’s surname is Lin, and his name is Lin Daniu. Everyone in the shop respectfully calls him Master Lin.

Everyone in the store understood that Yang Ping'an was just a temporary blacksmith, and his future goal was definitely to become a soul master, so Yang Ping'an did not formally become a disciple, but directly studied with Lin Daniu.

After entering the blacksmith shop and starting to learn, Yang Ping'an felt a slight throbbing in his body. After careful thinking, he directly summoned the Purple Gold Mastiff.

After the Purple Golden Mastiff entered the blacksmith shop, it seemed to be relatively satisfied with the environment of the shop. Even though it was still sleeping, it seemed to be sleeping more soundly.

After Yang Ping'an communicated with his boss Tie Lin, he found an empty workbench in the blacksmith shop and let the Purple Golden Mastiff sleep on the empty workbench. He didn't need to worry about anything else.

Of course, Yang Ping'an also repeatedly warned the Purple Gold Mastiff that he must never fart in the blacksmith shop, otherwise he would be driven away by everyone.

The purple golden mastiff seemed to be very smart. After hearing Yang Ping'an's instructions, it opened its eyes slightly, looked at Yang Ping'an with a bit of contempt, and then continued to sleep.

It has to be said that although the Purple Gold Mastiff is very weak, it has one very big advantage: it consumes very little soul power after being summoned, and can basically remain out of the body for a long time.

After Yang Ping'an settled the Purple Gold Mastiff, he began his apprenticeship as a blacksmith.

From that day on, Yang Ping'an made a complete plan for his own training. He ran inside the school early every morning and practiced boxing and kicking.

I went to class in the morning, but basically didn't listen during class. Instead, I borrowed several books from the library and read during class time. Sometimes, I just went to the library to read and didn't go to class at all.

I would go directly to the blacksmith shop for lunch and then work there after lunch. The workload was quite heavy and I had to work until the evening.

After dinner, the blacksmith shop was about to close, so Yang Ping'an returned to the dormitory to meditate and rest. Each meditation session would last an entire night.

After some planning, my time is basically full every day and I am always busy. At least my body is exercising at a high intensity.

During the first three months of working in the blacksmith shop, Lin Daniu, the blacksmith, arranged for Yang Ping'an to do some miscellaneous work.

In fact, although blacksmithing is a physically demanding job, it is also very complicated. In addition to mastering blacksmithing skills, one also needs to understand various things.

These include the selection and use of iron ore, the use of bellows to ignite and control the temperature, the identification of various iron ores, and even the fact that some iron ores contain multiple different elements that need to be separated, etc.

During the first three months, in addition to the arrangements made by Blacksmith Lin, he also had to help other blacksmiths with some things, even doing some serving tea and carrying things.

These tasks seemed very simple on the surface, but for a six-year-old child like Yang Pingan, they were also very heavy work. After finishing the work every afternoon, he was basically exhausted. This kind of odd jobs lasted for three months. During these three months, Yang Pingan obviously felt that his body seemed to have become much stronger, and his strength had increased a lot. His originally thin body even began to show some muscle lines, which was a bit beyond the situation of a six-year-old child.

Yang Ping'an's other time is also very tight.

He practices boxing and kicking every morning. In addition to the boxing techniques his father taught him, Yang Pingan also does 500 push-ups, 500 frog jumps, and runs 5 kilometers every morning.

The exercise time every morning is only about two hours, which means getting up at six o'clock and finishing before eight o'clock, otherwise it will affect the study in the morning.

After this exercise every morning, I quickly eat breakfast to replenish energy and start my morning study.

Although Notting Primary School is a junior soul master academy, the academy has a large collection of books, including books on both martial souls and cultivation, but they are generally not too profound.

Unexpectedly, Yang Ping'an actually found an advanced meditation method in the library, and it was even marked on the meditation method that it was provided by Yu Xiaogang. However, because it was too profound, many elementary school students sneered at it, but Yang Ping'an regarded it as a treasure.

Of course, there are many books provided by Yu Xiaogang in the library, including the famous "Ten Core Competitiveness of Martial Soul", Soul Ring Age Table, and even his other books.

However, judging from the appearance of these books, they probably won't attract much attention from students. At least these books are much newer than other books.

Yang Ping'an, on the other hand, accepted all the books and read them carefully. Yu Xiaogang's theories might be wrong or have certain limitations, but they also had certain reference value. At least for Yang Ping'an now, they were treasures for learning.

Meditation at night is the focus of everything. Every afternoon, when his muscles are sore all over, Yang Pingan returns to his dormitory to meditate. Under such extreme fatigue, his meditation speed is obviously better than usual.

After three months of study, Yang Ping'an's soul power finally improved a bit, and reached level one. At this speed, it can be said to be like a turtle.

And this is just the initial meditation. You must know that the higher the soul power level of the soul master, the slower the soul power improvement speed. According to this speed, it is estimated that it will be difficult to improve two levels in a year, especially after reaching the ninth level. Breaking through from the ninth level to the tenth level is a small bottleneck.

This kind of bottleneck may not be a big deal for those geniuses, but for Yang Pingan, whose innate soul power is half a level, every major level transcendence will probably be a bigger bottleneck.

In three months, Yang Ping'an increased his soul power by half a level. In addition to his hard training every night, the Purple Gold Mastiff, which stayed in the blacksmith shop for a long time during the day, also had certain benefits.

Yang Ping'an always felt that the Purple Gold Mastiff seemed unusually happy in the blacksmith shop. The Purple Gold Mastiff could also absorb more gold elements in this environment. He always felt that every time the Purple Gold Mastiff returned to his body, his body would also have some changes. These changes were very small and even difficult to feel.

But somehow, Yang Ping'an could feel the changes in his body. He always felt that something seemed to be wrong with his body, but he could not find the reason or source of this abnormality.

And even though he only meditates at night, Yang Pingan feels that he is very pressed for time. He meditates for almost eight hours every day, which can be said to be very long, even far exceeding the time for sleeping.

(End of this chapter)