Legend of the Heavenly Swordsman
Ch. 156 - Lianing City

Lianing City was quite prosperous in the Meng Empire. The city grew rapidly after the Muyong family took over the City.

Lianing City was also quite neutral as the focus in this city was on trade, so they did not mind where these people came from.

From the information provided by Dan Suyu earlier, the favorite places visited by Hwang Jeong are Bars and blacksmiths.

After searching for lodging and resting, Fu Chen began to tour the city to mark possible places in Hwang Jeong.

Although Dan Suyu had told him of a possible place to go to Hwang Jeong, Fu Chen needed to study and find information about this City.

"Of all places, it seems like only one has the most potential." Fu Chen had visited some of the places he had marked, but most were not interesting to visit.

"The Iron Wind Sea, this is the last place.." Fu Chen sighed for a moment. From the information he received, the blacksmith in this place was a woman who was very interested in a unique weapon.

Many weapons he had made but only a few were sold. Reportedly the weapon he made was too strange and only a handful of people interested him.

Fu Chen took out his sword from the Earth ring, he hoped that his sword would be able to attract the attention of the woman.

"Excuse me.." Fu Chen opened the door and stepped his foot inside. The first thing he saw was the stocky body of a woman about 30 years old.

Inside the room was quite noisy and stuffy, sweat running down the woman's body enough to wet her clothes.

"Ekhem!" Fu Chen clucked quite loudly but it seemed that the woman was still focused on her work.

Fu Chen smiled wryly, he chose to wait for the woman to finish and sat down on one of the chairs there. After all he had heard of not bothering a blacksmith who was at work.

Fu Chen's gaze then traced to the weapons that were there. As the rumors say, the weapon he created was indeed quite strange.

But Fu Chen felt that these weapons were actually quite terrifying if they were in the right hands.

After quite a while Fu Chen waited for the woman to finally finish her work. Several times the sound of hot iron being put in the water, Fu Chen accidentally also followed the rhythm of the hammer the woman used.

"Sorry to keep you waiting so long, what are you looking for?" asked the woman while wiping the sweat on her face.

"I just want to find someone." Fu Chen had already thought this woman had deliberately ignored him. He was really focused on his job.

"It's not a place like that, go somewhere else"

"I heard that Hwang Jeong used to come here." Fu Chen cut the woman's words.

The woman glared at Fu Chen for a moment before letting out a long sigh. He walked over to the reception desk and opened the drawer.

"How much do you ask?" ask the woman.

Fu Chen then frowned because he did not understand the woman's intentions, he had indeed heard from Dan Suyu what kind of person Hwang Jeong was.

Fu Chen immediately explained this misunderstanding, he also mentioned about the Muyong family expedition and also related to Dan Suyu.

Looking at the woman's previous behavior, she should have had a pretty close relationship with Hwang Jeong.

"He's gone now, you can see him tomorrow or the day after." The woman looked at Fu Chen from top to bottom, not expecting the boy to seem to have such a good connection.

At first he had thought Fu Chen was just a noble boy who was asking for compensation after dealing with Hwang Jeong.

The woman introduces herself as Fia. Fu Chen did not ask the reason why he did not name his family, everyone had their own past.

Fia had been glancing at Fu Chen's sword ever since. He himself was quite rare to see someone wielding such a slender sword.

"Do you want to see it?" Fu Chen noticed Fia's gaze. He thrust the sword at her.

Fia scanned each side of the sword and guessed its weight. He then looked at Fu Chen once more to confirm his response.

"Are you sure you can use this sword in battle?" Fia felt that Fu Chen's body was still too small to use this sword.

Not many children of Fu Chen's age were able to reach that level, it was even quite difficult to determine it. Even in the big sects.

"Is there something wrong?" Fu Chen did not understand why Fia looked so incredulous.

Seeing the doubt in the woman, Fu Chen decided to show her some swordsmanship.

Fia's frown grew even more furrowed when she saw the sword's eyes flipped over. But he abandoned his intention to ask.

Fu Chen slightly showed the movements his father taught him, his speed even had time to make fia miss some movements.

Fia was speechless, this was the first time she had seen a child of Fu Chen's age with such a high ability.

"Ah shit! It's driving me crazy." Fia massaged her increasingly dizzy head and told Fu Chen to leave.

It seemed like the woman was starting to second-guess Fu Chen's background.

The next day Fu Chen returned to the place of the Sea Wind blacksmith. It comes when the sun starts to turn west.

There was a man whose age was not much different from Fia. They both seem to be discussing something.

"Excuse me.." Fu Chen knocked on the door several times.

"Ah forgive us.." the man stood up and greeted Fu Chen.

"Sorry Young Master, but we're closed today-"

"What are you talking about? He's the kid I told you about!" Fia cut Hwang Jeong's speech.

"Hem?" Hwang Jeong raised his eyebrows, he looked at Fu Chen from top to bottom while circling around him.

Although his actions were impolite yet Fu Chen simply ignored him.

"Are you sure? I don't see anything special about him." Hwang Jeong indeed felt something different from him but he felt it was not the thing that made Dan Suyu trust this child.

"Son, can you show me the jade badge that Dan Suyu gave you?" Hwang Jeong extended his hand.

Fu Chen took out the badge and handed it to Hwang Jeong.

"From what I've heard, you want to set up an expedition group with me right? Even though your abilities are good for a kid your age, but are you sure you can hang in there?"

"It's something I've decided myself."

Hwang Jeong looked at Fu Chen once more, he felt Fu Chen was too arrogant with his meager abilities. So he started thinking about giving her a little lesson.

"You know, I can't accept just anyone in my group. Even if you get a recommendation from Dan Suyu, it doesn't mean I'll take you for granted."

Hwang Jeong explained that there will be a martial arts tournament soon. The tournament was held by one of the Muyong branch families, they planned to recruit great warriors to join the expedition.

"If you manage to survive until the last 8 there, then I will accept you in my group. What say?"

Hwang Jeong smiled faintly, however strong Fu Chen was at the moment it was impossible for him to survive in that tournament. Given the many great warriors who were also interested in the expedition.

Seeing the smile on Hwang Jeong's face, made Fu Chen feel the need to show his ability.

"Well, if it's just a top 8 then it doesn't matter." Fu Chen shook Hwang Jeong's hand.

Meanwhile Fia was also curious about Fu Chen's abilities. He was sure Fu Chen had yet to bring out all of his abilities as he displayed his swordsmanship.

"Let's see, to what extent this child's arrogance will last," thought Hwang Jeong while smiling faintly.