Becoming an immortal against the will of heaven

The purple-robed elder and the gaunt man were beaten by the angry villagers for a full hour. If Chen Tian hadn't stopped them in time, they might have kicked the bucket then and there.

The next day, as expected, a large group of horsemen rode into the remote Vegetable Basket Village. Leading them was none other than Feng Tianbao, who had recently been promoted to Left Guardian.

Because half of Feng Tianbao's hair had been shaved off, he was wearing a melon-cap hat. He led hundreds of Wind Tiger Gang members and marched mightily to the front of Chen Tian's iron shop.

However, when he saw the purple-robed elder and the gaunt man with bruised faces, Feng Tianbao was so frightened that he almost fell off his horse.

He really couldn't imagine how the two men, who possessed extraordinary strength, could be beaten so miserably.

But the gaunt man didn't say much. Instead, he directly asked Feng Tianbao if he had brought the silver. Feng Tianbao didn't dare to delay and quickly ordered his men to carry over a large wooden box.

After opening and inspecting it, the gaunt man found that the wooden box was filled with a full 18,000 taels of silver.

Only then did the gaunt man respectfully walk up to Chen Tian, bow, and say, "Senior, my men have brought the silver. Can you let us go back now?"

"As I said, I'm just an ordinary blacksmith. As long as you have money, I'll naturally sell you things."

Speaking of this, Chen Tian paused, then glanced at the wooden box filled with silver, and continued, "However, I originally said 800 taels. Isn't this a bit too much?"

"Not much, not much," the gaunt man quickly said with a smile. "The extra is just a junior's respect for the senior."

Seeing that the gaunt man was so sensible, Chen Tian nodded with satisfaction. Then, he pondered for a moment, picked out two magical artifacts from the pile of scrap, and handed them over, saying, "Alright, I can't let you suffer too much. I'll give you two more things as compensation."

Looking at the two magical artifacts that Chen Tian took out, the purple-robed elder and the gaunt man instantly forgot the pain on their bodies, and their eyes revealed a greedy look.

However, soon, their expressions couldn't help but become a mix of crying and laughing.

Because it was obvious that as long as they were willing to pay, Chen Tian would sell them these things. In other words, the reason they aroused Chen Tian's displeasure was because they had trespassed to steal.

They had messed things up when they could have been resolved with money. This made the two feel extremely depressed.

At the same time, their gazes towards Chen Tian became even more astonished. They really didn't understand what Chen Tian was thinking.

Moreover, they had specifically checked and found that there wasn't a trace of spiritual energy fluctuation on Chen Tian's body. He was completely like a mortal.

If it weren't for these magical artifacts filled with endless power, they really couldn't imagine that Chen Tian was also a cultivator.

However, regardless, since Chen Tian was willing to let them leave, then they naturally wouldn't be ungrateful. So, after respectfully bidding farewell to Chen Tian, they hurriedly fled the remote village under the cover of the crowd.

During this period, the reputation of Chen's Blacksmith Shop grew bigger and bigger, attracting more and more customers every day. This broke the tranquility of the ancient village and gave them their first close contact with the outside world.

At the same time, Chen Tian also took out all the silver he had earned to repair roads and bridges, and to establish private schools, making the originally backward and poor Vegetable Basket Village gradually become wealthy.

Every household not only rebuilt their houses, but also had spare money to do some small businesses. From then on, they no longer had to live the life of farmers who depended on the weather for their meals.

So, the outside world jokingly called the current Vegetable Basket Village no longer 'Vegetable Basket Village', but should be renamed 'Treasure Basin Village'.

Of course, the villagers knew in their hearts that all these changes were thanks to one person, and that was Chen Tian!

If it weren't for Chen Tian's arrival, how could Vegetable Basket Village have what it has today?

So, the villagers voluntarily gave up the largest piece of farmland in the village to build a large iron shop. The young men in the village also joined in one after another to learn blacksmithing together.

In Vegetable Basket Village, being able to work in Chen's Blacksmith Shop was a very honorable thing.

However, the person in charge of this newly built iron shop was not Chen Tian, but Chen Tian's chief disciple, Erwa.

Now, Erwa had grown up and become strong. After learning from Chen Tian for six years, Erwa was already able to stand on his own. So, he was responsible for teaching the newcomers blacksmithing.

Erwa had never thought that one day blacksmithing would become such an honorable thing. The girls in the village who admired him had already lined up from the entrance to the end of the village, and countless people came to propose marriage.

Erwa's father and mother were happy every day, their mouths never closing.

Xiaohong originally looked down on Erwa a bit, but now seeing this situation, she couldn't help but panic. Every day, she cried, made trouble, and threatened to hang herself, forcing Erwa to marry her as soon as possible.

In this way, the originally peaceful Vegetable Basket Village gradually became lively day by day.

But what was out of tune with this liveliness was that Chen Tian was still in his old iron shop, forging non-stop every day.

Chen Tian had already delegated the production of tools such as kitchen knives and hoes to Erwa, letting him be responsible for manufacturing them. Chen Tian himself was immersed in the time of imitating magical artifacts every day.

However, six years had passed, but Chen Tian still couldn't forge magical artifacts above the Profound rank.

Every time the magical artifact was about to take shape, a pressure would descend from the red line above Chen Tian's head, shattering it.

In the past six years, Chen Tian had tried nearly tens of thousands of times, but without exception, all of them had failed.

If it were someone else, they would have given up long ago, but Chen Tian was different. His face was calm and he was not moved by failure at all.

Of course, it can't be said that there was no progress at all.

Although he failed every time, the degree of the magical artifact's breakage was gradually decreasing.

From being shattered into scraps at the beginning to only cracking a small slit recently, all of this showed that Chen Tian was improving.

However, Chen Tian didn't feel happy about this, but his mood became more and more gloomy.

He knew that if he couldn't break through this restriction one day, then he would never be able to reach the凝海境 (Ninghai Realm).

But Chen Tian must cultivate to the Ninghai Realm, because Little Dragon was still waiting for him to revive him!

Thinking of this, Chen Tian couldn't help but sigh, then raised the hammer in his hand and continued to forge with a 'clang'.

And at this moment, two figures suddenly walked over from a distance. …