Cultivating Disciples to Breakthrough

Chapter 1684 Semi-Public Lecture, Need For a Senior Blacksmith and the Strange Tree Root

Spending some time together with his third disciple after leaving Mui and Song Jia to play around with Baobao on their own, Xuan Hao soon found himself unable to leave Bai Ningʼs forge after he began teaching him the Dao of Blacksmithing, as his third disciple was fully absorbed in learning from him and was unwilling to let go now that he finally had an opportunity to deepen his understanding of the Dao of Blacksmithing.

After all, at the end of the day, his comprehension of the Dao of Blacksmithing was at the Elementary Realm, while his masterʼs understanding had reached the Large Success Realm. Meaning that even a bit of guidance would be immensely helpful to him…

”Huh? Is that Senior Brother Baiʼs master!?”

And more importantly than that, Bai Ningʼs forge wasnʼt exactly in a secluded corner and was in one of the more prominent locations of the sectʼs forges where other blacksmithing disciples and even elders often passed through.

”To think someone like that is here… No! More importantly, he is teaching him about blacksmithing!”

”Indeed, he is- Wait! Isnʼt this an opportunity for us as well? If we can listen in, we could potentially also benefit from Senior Brotherʼs master!”

”True! I doubt Senior Brother Bai would care, on the other hand, I think he would be overjoyed learning about our goal of improving as blacksmiths!”

Because of this, before long, disciples and elders from the Blacksmithing Hall soon began to gather to listen to him teaching his disciple. Hoping to learn something themselves in the process.

At first, Xuan Hao didnʼt really care about this and honestly encouraged it as a public lecture under the guise of teaching his disciple was beneficial to the sect, but as time dragged on and his disciple began asking questions that he should know about with his current understanding of Blacksmithing, it became clear to him that the public lecture had already turned into an official one.

The question his disciple had begun asking came from a few nervous disciples within the slowly growing crowd of people, who had passed the question over to his disciple discreetly through divine sense.

Of course, there was no way for them to hide this kind of thing from him given the difference in his and those discipleʼs cultivation realm, but he decided to ignore it and play along with his disciple and continue the lecture. Ensuring that those disciples could hear him clearly as he patiently explained the answer to his disciple who was eagerly nodding his head in response. Almost like his answers had directly enlightened him and caused his realm to break through to the Small Success Realm.

Then again, the joy shown by his disciple wasnʼt entirely fabricated for show, as he seemed genuinely overjoyed at the prospect of the sectʼs disciples and elders tied to blacksmithing improving with the help of his master.

In a sense, it was because of this that he decided to indulge him and put on this little play that helped benefit the blacksmiths of the sect. After all, compared to the Alchemy Hall that had Pei Yang as a solid pillar to lean on, the Blacksmithing Hall of the sect didnʼt really have anyone that senior to guide them.

On the other hand, the most senior figure in the Dao of Blacksmithing was none other than himself and Yi Min, followed by his disciple who had broken through to the Elementary Realm in the Dao of Blacksmithing not too long ago.

Thinking about it like that, the Star Shattering Sect was really lacking someone like Pei Yang for Blacksmithing Hall. After all, even if Yi Min did help from time to time, her main focus was still on the Iron Sky Kingdom, and she couldnʼt stay around teaching the sectʼs blacksmiths all the time.

Unfortunately, finding someone that skilled in the Dao of Blacksmithing was incredibly difficult under normal circumstances, as most of them would have long since been absorbed by one of the major powers on the continent due to their potential of reaching the Saint Realm in the future.

Speaking of the Saint Realm, he did know one blacksmith who could potentially fill the void currently present in the Star Shattering Sectʼs Blacksmithing Hall… That person was none other than Gong Cheng, the Saint Realm Blacksmith who had taught him and Yi Min in the past.