With a creak, the heavy door was pushed open.

"Brother Jiang Yuan is out!"

Two figures quickly stepped forward; they were Tie Niu and Shi Xuyao.

"Master, did you try it? What level of job change book did you get?" Shi Xuyao ​​asked excitedly. With Jiang Yuan's abilities, the inheritance he obtained was definitely not weaker than his.

"It's quite tall!" Jiang Yuan kept it a secret.

"Above the Spirit level?" Shi Xuyao ​​took a breath and boldly guessed.

Jiang Yuan saw that the two people were eagerly waiting for an answer and had no intention of giving them a perfunctory answer. He was about to speak when a sudden horn blared.

"Damn it, there's an enemy invasion!" Tie Niu turned around and ran towards the outside of Yanshan Village.

Shi Xuyao ​​couldn't wait for an answer and hurriedly followed after them.

"What's going on?" Jiang Yuan had no idea what had happened.

At this time, other people in the field also appeared one after another, including the group of girls from before.

Seeing this, Jiang Yuan caught up with Lin Man, whom he had met before, and asked, "What happened to you two?"

"It's you! You haven't left yet?" Lin Man's face showed anxiety, but the others just watched, because they didn't want to give up the inheritance and couldn't leave the domain, so they could only worry anxiously.

"What happened!" Jiang Yuan turned around and Tie Niu and Shi Xuyao ​​disappeared without a trace, leaving no one to ask them anything.

Lin Man stamped her feet anxiously, saying worriedly, "This is the assembly horn. It's usually only sounded when there's a major crisis. It's never been sounded before, except for the beast tide and the bandit attack in Changgan County!"

"No wonder those guards were so nervous before, it turns out there really was an enemy!" Jiang Yuan was relieved of his previous misunderstanding.

"Forget it, you're too weak to go. Brother Tie Niu and the others should be able to hold the village!" Although Lin Man was very worried, she still advised Jiang Yuan to stay out of kindness.

Upon hearing this, Jiang Yuan touched his nose and asked with a smile, "Am I that weak?"

"Judging from your clothes, you're just an ordinary person. You don't even have a decent set of armor. You shouldn't get involved in their battle!" Lin Man said matter-of-factly.

Jiang Yuan glanced down at his casual attire. Apart from a set of ultimate armor, he didn't really have many pieces of equipment that looked 'very strong'. In contrast, Tie Niu, Shi Xuyao, and the others, although disheveled, were wearing quite a few pieces of seventh or eighth-tier armor and protective gear. Compared to them, he really looked like an ordinary person.

"You should honestly spend more time studying the inscriptions on the artifact stele. Perhaps if you obtain a powerful inheritance, you'll be able to gain a foothold in this chaotic world!"

Lin Man saw Jiang Yuan lower his head and thought he was depressed, so she started to comfort him.

"Hey, how long have you been here?" Jiang Yuan was both amused and exasperated, never expecting that a forging genius like himself would be cared about by a newbie.

"Well, it's been eight days since I started!"

Lin Man counted on her fingers, but when she finished, she felt something was off and quickly explained, "Don't think I'm lacking in talent, I'm just ambitious! If I didn't want that set of spirit-level inheritance, I would have taken a copy and left this place long ago, instead of staying for eight days straight!"

"Really?" Jiang Yuan feigned surprise, as this was something he hadn't expected.

"What, you don't believe me!"

Lin Man sensed the strange tone in Jiang Yuan's voice and immediately felt a competitive urge. After all, she was considered a senior in this field, and this new junior dared to question her like that. She couldn't tolerate it!

Jiang Yuan suddenly remembered something and asked, "How many figures are you referring to as the Spirit-level inheritance?"

"It must be the Eighth Path! That's the hardest inheritance to obtain from the artifact tablet!" Lin Man said in a teaching tone. As for the Thirteenth Path, they didn't consider it to be forging artifacts, so they naturally excluded it.

Is this what you mean?

Jiang Yuan suddenly shifted his feet to the side, assuming a horse stance as his limbs moved, unleashing a series of eight sets of weapon-forging movement techniques, encompassing all the inherited techniques. Moreover, he broke down each set of weapon-forging movement techniques according to his own understanding, making them simple and easy to understand.

"What is this?" Lin Man was initially startled by Jiang Yuan's sudden movement, but after regaining her composure, she was completely stunned by his actions.

"Watch closely, I'll only demonstrate once!"

After finishing his speech, Jiang Yuan continued to focus on the weapon-forging movement technique. He broke down the original weapon-forging movement technique into dozens of movements, and tried to make each movement as simple as possible.

After completing eight sets of weapon-forging techniques and hundreds of movements, Jiang Yuan was exhausted, while Lin Man was already sitting on the ground with her eyes closed, deep in thought.

"It's got that Chaotic Cloak Hammer Technique vibe!" Jiang Yuan twisted his wrist and then strode towards the gate of Yanshan Village.

As for Lin Man, she didn't even notice that Jiang Yuan had left. She was just quietly savoring the forging technique she had just learned, and suddenly everything she hadn't been able to understand became clear.

...

"Kill! Once we capture Yanshan Village, this place will be our territory!"

The heavily guarded gates, which had been impenetrable just hours before, were now wide open, and all the sturdy defenses had been destroyed. A group of fierce-looking bandits stormed into Yanshan Village and began a massacre.

"Fire arrows! Fire arrows!"

The people of Yanshan Village fought and retreated, using their homemade feathered arrows to keep pushing back the people from Changgan County, but with little success.

"You bastards from Yanshan Village, surrender now! Our boss knew you had excellent equipment, so he spent a lot of money to buy a batch of Tier 7 armor from the South City. There's no way you can break through it!"

The bandit, driven mad by the carnage, laughed cruelly; the knife in his hand was already stained with the blood of several men.

"Seventh Master, we can't retreat any further, or we'll end up at the Forging Cave and the Black Meteor Gold Mine!"

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