Secular world: My destiny has no taboos

Chapter 201: Refining Samadhi and Forging Divine Weapons
The room fell into a brief silence. Shen Tingmiao noticed that the atmosphere was a little awkward. She coughed twice and then said, "When does Mr. Lin plan to go to Huangshi Village?"

"Maybe tomorrow. I have to go somewhere else today, so I should stay in Anle County for one night."

Having said that, Lin Beixuan looked at Aunt Jiu.

"Last time you asked me what I thought about the evil spirits from Changzhou and Nanyang invading Qingzhou. I thought about it and felt that given the current situation in Anle County, it would be best to negotiate between the two parties for a while."

"Oh? Why?"

"I heard that neither the Zi Gu Goddess of Changzhou nor the so-called evil spirit who occupies the two states treats the people under their jurisdiction well. One enslaves the human race like pigs and dogs, and the other likes to do dissection research. Their ways of coexisting with the evil spirits in Anle County are completely different."

Grandma Jiu nodded. This was the current predicament of Anle County.

The rise of these two people was unexpected, but also reasonable.

It is not surprising that the Evil Spirit Lord has joined forces with the Western Nanyang forces to occupy two states in the now declining Li Dynasty.

Zi Gu Goddess was originally a celestial maiden who knew the details of many evil spirits. It is not surprising that after her fall, she was able to quickly gather evil forces and occupy Changzhou.

Now that Qingzhou is about to be divided between the two, the major forces within Qingzhou have actually already anticipated this to some extent, but they did not expect it to come so soon.

"Crossing..."

Ninth Aunt frowned in thought.

The so-called maneuvering is just to delay time, and in the end you still have to make a choice.

Unless, during this period of time, another force emerges, and its attitude towards humans and evil spirits is different from the previous two, but it advocates the coexistence of humans and evil spirits.

In fact, this idea had been proposed by a certain adult decades ago. It was because Magistrate Shen had read that document that he joined forces with Huang Xian to build Anle County into what it is today.

Ever since the road to the underworld was cut off and the gates of the underworld were closed, the evil spirits in the secular world have lost their restraints and are running rampant.

In the eyes of most people in the secular world, humans and evil spirits are contradictory, just like the two top beings in the food chain, fighting each other for survival.

The bad guys use evil spirits to do evil, the good guys kill the evil spirits, the evil spirits eat people and bring disasters...

Humans come during the day, while evil spirits come at night, which has gradually developed into a rule in the secular world.

However, the first ones to break the rule and jump out were these immortal spirits.

The Ninth Aunt raised her head, her eyes moving back and forth over Lin Beixuan, not knowing what she was thinking.

After a long while, he nodded and said, "I understand what you mean. Anle County will have to deal with the power of Zi Gu Shen and Xie Ling Zhenjun for a while."

Lin Beixuan looked at the half-smile on Aunt Jiu's face and couldn't help twitching the corners of his mouth.

"Do you really understand what I mean?"

"Don't worry, Mr. Lin."

Ninth Aunt didn't say anything else and smiled as she asked the temple keeper to see the guests off.

Because Ninth Aunt had something to tell Shen Tingmiao, only Lin Beixuan, with a confused look on his face, came out from the back door with Wu Huo.

Before leaving, he couldn't help but look back at the closed door.

Is it his imagination?

Why do I always feel that Grandma Jiu’s train of thought is different from his, and seems to be on another level.

Forget it, just go with the flow!
Lin Beixuan sighed, found an inn for Wu Huo and the other man to stay, and then he set off for the Samadhi Fire House.

When I stepped into the familiar alley, I could feel a slight burning sensation on my skin just by getting close, as if even the air was filled with the smell of iron filings and carbon smoke.

Dang, Dang, Dang...

The sound of iron clashing came to his ears, and through the fence, Lin Beixuan could see the hot charcoal fire burning in a huge furnace.

The red-orange firelight reflected on the big man's sweaty face and hands. The dark black hammer swung in the air, leaving afterimages. Every time it landed on the anvil, it made a dull thumping sound. Zeng Daniu seemed to have noticed someone coming, and he turned his head to look outside the yard, just in time to meet Lin Beixuan's gaze.

Snapped! !

Zeng Daniu's expression became obviously agitated. He put down the hammer, swung his gnarled arms, took a few steps forward and hugged Lin Beixuan.

"Brother, I miss you so much!"

"..."

Am I that familiar with you?

Just as I was thinking this, I heard Zeng Daniu sobbing, "After you sent me the money, I finally had a good meal for a while, but it's a pity that the money can't be used. I've eaten too much meat and fish, and I can't switch back to my previous light food."

"Look at me, have I lost weight?"

Zeng Daniu puffed out his chest, revealing his huge pectoral muscles and arms.

The smile on Lin Beixuan's face froze.

Wow, it turns out he wasn’t thinking about me, he was thinking about my money.

He pushed Zeng Daniu away. He really couldn't stand a sweaty person sticking to him, let alone a man.

"Where is Master Xiao?" Without paying attention to Zeng Daniu's previous words, Lin Beixuan directly asked the real person in charge of Samadhi Fire House.

"My master, he is down there."

Zeng Daniu pointed at the ground with his big fingers.

Lin Beixuan's eyes twitched: "When did Master Xiao pass away?"

"Oh, what's the matter with life and death? My master is forging a weapon for you down there with the underground fire!"

In a hurry, Zeng Daniu took Lin Beixuan into the blacksmith shop and lifted a floor tile under his feet with his bare hands, revealing a dark tunnel underneath.

"Hehe, you never imagined it, right? The area below the shop is where my master actually forges the forge."

Standing at the entrance of the tunnel, an extremely hot wind blew up from below. Lin Beixuan felt his hair was slightly curled by the hot wind, and the moisture on his skin was evaporated instantly.

In contrast, Zeng Daniu jumped down as if nothing had happened and waved at him from his position in the tunnel.

"Come in, my master is downstairs."

Lin Beixuan hesitated for a moment and then followed him into the tunnel.

The tunnel was very long and extremely dark inside, with the air extremely hot and dry. It wasn't long before Lin Beixuan's clothes were soaked with sweat, forcing him to take them off. He felt better only after he was shirtless.

No wonder Zeng Daniu is always shirtless every time I see him. No normal person can stand such scorching temperature.

Lin Beixuan roughly estimated that he should have walked down for more than a thousand meters until a prompt from the panel appeared in his mind.

[You have entered the core area of the Samadhi Fire House - the Stone Flame Fire Realm.]

[Stone Flame Fire Realm: A special space opened up by the fire-refining monk Xiao Zi in the ground. It contains stone fire and earth slurry. With his own wood flame, he can refine Samadhi and forge divine weapons.]

When you reach the end of the tunnel, the view suddenly opens up.

Lin Beixuan looked up and saw that deep underground, there was hot magma rolling and boiling, blue, brown and red flames wandering in the air, and a tall shadow was suddenly reflected on the hard stone wall.

He held a huge hammer in his hand, raised it high and then brought it down.

Rumble…

The raging flames swept across, and the rising air currents were like an invisible dragon constantly hitting the surrounding stone walls. It also seemed like thunder striking down, making a deafening noise, and instantly illuminating the entire underground space.

(End of this chapter)