Chapter 22: Heavenly Witchcraft Goddess
After nightfall, the thick mist appeared, and all the boats on the cold Tong Liang river were traveling at a very slow speed; after all, there were many dangers above a big river. If there were ships rushing at night, then, an accident was likely to occur.
This giant ship was also no exception; it slowly moved forward, in the water, but, even so, it still gave away the feel of a majestic atmosphere, like a huge steel monster, madly playing on the water surface.
This was a red ivory warship, crafted by the hands of a grand blacksmith master. He spent ten million pounds of rare soul metals to make, and it took many hundreds of years to finish it completely.
It could carry almost ten thousand people, and it absorbed the mysterious quintessence yang energy of the sun so it could travel thirty thousand li in one day.
Searching the entire Grand Southern Prefecture, one wouldn’t be able to find ten red ivory warships like this. This was not to say the big families couldn’t craft a red ivory warship; after all, a clan like the Feng Clan could spend ten million pounds easily, but the Feng Clan still didn’t have a single one.
Crafting a red ivory warship wasn’t hard because of the material requirement; however, it was hard to find a grand blacksmith master to forge it.
Blacksmith masters could be considered one of the most famous professions in the Jin Dynasty, along with beast taming masters, pill masters, treasure seeking masters, and wisdom masters – these were called the five grand mysterious masters.
In other words, after becoming one of the five grand mysterious masters, one could go anywhere and still always have food to eat. Powerful cultivation sects and cultivation clans would always respect the five grand mysterious masters, and they would gladly make them guest elders.
For instance, the current national teacher of the Jin Dynasty was a third rank grand pill master; even the Jin Emperor would refer to him as a high master. The great status of the five grand mysterious masters could be seen from this.
Blacksmith masters were divided into three ranks: blacksmith apprentice, blacksmith master, and grand blacksmith master.
Each rank was also divided into nine levels.
The requirements to become an excellent blacksmith master were very harsh; not only did it require a high cultivation, but you also need an even higher degree of formation mastery, spiritual materials, and infernal fire.