Transcending the Nine Heavens

apable of creating the highest quality weapons to apprentices who were just learning the craft, none were spared! In fact, even military blacksmiths died one after another, suddenly and mysteriously.
From top to bottom, more than thirty thousand blacksmiths from Iron Cloud Nation were killed! Especially those blacksmiths at the level of master craftsmen, none were lucky enough to be spared!”

“Iron Cloud Nation was famous as a nation with the most mines in the entire continent, but it has not one blacksmith! Such a funny situation actually happened!”

Tie Long Cheng sighed and said, “The most hateful thing was that those damned officials in the justice department only saw these cases as ordinary, and just went through the motions!”

“It was not until three of our biggest weapons dealers in Great Zhao and seventeen secret weapon suppliers in other nations were completely destroyed right down to the roots, that everyone realized this would shake the country to its core.
But it was too late.”

“The cruelest thing was the places of those master blacksmiths were also burned to the ground.
The life’s work and legacy was destroyed in only a moment.
You can say that all the precious smithing knowledge passed down to now is only a handful!”

Chu Yang was shocked after hearing this.

So this is why Iron Cloud Nation does not even have one blacksmith!

This one drastic move of Diwu Qing Rou was indeed sinister! In the beginning, the deaths of a few blacksmiths did not get the attentions of the higher ups of Iron Cloud Nation.
By the time they took notice, this massacre was already coming to an end.

Because of Diwu Qing Rou’s ambitions, tens of thousands of lives were destroyed in such short time! Plus, until now, the officials could not find any evidence whatsoever.
This type of massive tactic was shocking!

After this massacre, if Great Zhao took over Iron Cloud Nation, they would not have to worry about an uprising! How many blacksmiths could a country have? Because Iron Cloud Nation was a place with many ore mines, skilled blacksmiths gathered there in great numbers.
But after this, how many were left?

Even young men who had the intentions of learning this craft would abandon such thoughts once they learned of what had happened.

Weapons, this was the key.
Without weapons, what would they fight with? With their hands? What a joke!

The more he thought about it, the more bone-chilling it was.
This was the lives of tens of thousands of people not pieces of wood.
Even the blacksmiths who had nothing to do with the wars.
This was pure brutal murder!

A person who could give such orders.
How cruel, how unscrupulous, how mad?!

Not long after this massacre, Great Zhao fell under the leadership of Diwu Qing Rou and started to continually go to war with Iron Cloud.
Each year, the two countries, Great Zhao and Iron Cloud, fought with each other countless times.
Of course, because of this, the supply of weapons could not meet the demands of war.
And at these key periods, Iron Cloud Nation had no blacksmiths to make weapons for the soldiers.

At first glance, these incidents were just brutal killings of the innocent, but who could have known that this would determine the outcome of a war between two nations?

“War is nonstop, fighting and killing goes on without end… But Iron Cloud Nation, famous for having the most ore mines, with the highest quality iron ores, was unable to create decent weapons! Generals and commanders were weakened by the use of mediocre weapons.
They could not find a decent weapon that suited them and were stuck with using ordinary weapons like soldiers!”

“Basic soldiers were not affected because they have always used ordinary weapons.
However, who would have thought that, by killing all the blacksmiths, they were actually aiming at the military leaders of Iron Cloud?”

Tie Long Cheng growled, “A person capable of using weapons weighing eighty pounds was forced to use weapons weighing only eight pounds.
Plus, these weapons would shatter upon contact with the enemy’s weapons… Would this not drop their ability to fight down more than one level? This is the key reason why Iron Cloud Nation could only defend, but never have the ability to end the invasion!”

“On the battlefield, soldiers held these inferior weapons to fight with the enemies, only to their weapons shatter on contact! It was such a joke! Yet so many brave men died tragically under the hands of enemies inferior to them!”

“So Iron Cloud Nation continually lost on the battlefield! Even though all the soldiers tried their hardest to kill the enemies, they could not change the tides of battle! In the end, they could only watch as seven provinces and forty-eight towns become part of Great Zhao.
And Diwu Qing Rou’s fame grew from there!”

“For eight years, Iron Cloud Nation tried its best to nurture new blacksmiths, but could not make up for that lost.
Moreover, all those brothers lost in battle will never return! So high quality weapons were Iron Cloud Nation’s biggest pain! But now, you dared erected Heavenly Armament Pavilion on the busiest street of Iron Cloud Citadel?”

Tie Long Cheng looked coldly at Chu Yang, “These two words ‘heavenly armament’ touched Iron Cloud Nation’s most sensitive nerve! Speak! What are your motives?”

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