"Let's go, we're heading out!"

  The cave was vast, and there was o venture further in.

  The space here was more than suffit.

  With wind and water, it was the perfect spot for iroing.

  Li Meng thehe goblin underlings out of the cave.

  Outside the cave, Li Meng began assigning tasks to the goblin underlings.

  "You, you, and you, go into the forest and gather stones like this."

  Li Meng showed the goblin underlings the stone in his hand.

  The stone was one Li Meng had picked up by the river in the cave.

  It was a dull gray, an iron ore.

  This indicated that the cave was a natural iron mine.

  The three goblins he poi hurriedly ran towards the forest.

  "Gobu Ge, you guys go find some deadwood!"

  Gobu Ge nodded ahe remaining goblins into the forest.

  "Benbe's go find some cy!"

  Benben obediently followed behind Li Meng.

  In the forest, Benben, who was following Li Meng, reached out and poked Li Meng's back.

  "What's up?"

  Li Meng turo look at Benben.

  Benben poi himself and made a deep sound from his throat.

  "Boom boom?"

  Li Meng chuckled and poi Benben with his right hand.

  "Benben!"

  Then Li Meng poi himself.

  "Boss!"

  Benben looked at the boss, then lowered his head to look at himself.

  He poi himself with his right hand.

  "Benben?"

  Li Meng nodded.

  Behen poi Li Meng.

  "Boss!"

  Li Meng nodded again.

  And so, under Li Meng's guidance, Benben learned his new name.

  In the following days, Li Meng focused ohing.

  Preparing for the iroing experiment.

  On the fourth day, by the underground riverbank in the cave.

  "Boss, what are you doing?"

  Seeing the boss ly stag split wood, Gobu Ge curiously asked.

  "Watch carefully, you'll be doing the same thing iure!"

  After ying the firewood ft, Li Meng pced a piece of iron ore on top.

  "Put all these iron ores on top!"

  The boss's and prompted the goblin underlings to quickly start pg the iroo the firewood pile.

  "Just one yer, don't stack them!"

  After giving the instru, Li Meng k on the ground.

  This startled the goblin underlings.

  Li Meng igheir surprise.

  He took the dry wood and fluff he had prepared and began to drill wood to make fire.

  The wooden stick made a "swish swish" sound as Li Meng rubbed it.

  Benben sat nearby, curiously watg the busy goblins.

  Ihan ten minutes, Li Meng smelled smoke.

  Soon, thick white smoke emerged from the fluff.

  Li Meng quickly set dowid carefully blew on the fluff with both hands.

  Before long, a fme appeared in the darkness.

  "It's fire, human fire!"

  The appearance of the fme made Gobu Ge let out a strange cry.

  "Shut up!"

  Li Meng gred at Gobu Ge and quickly used the fme to ighe dry grass in the firewood pile.

  As the dry grass caught fire, the fmes roared to life.

  Benben was also startled by the fire, his massive body trembling.

  In a moment, the firewood pile was bzing fiercely.

  The rolli waves spread around, making the goblins look on with amazement.

  They never expected the boss to create human fire just by rubbing for a while.

  "Benbech water!"

  g his hands, Li Meng poio the bamboo buckets beside Benben.

  Li Meng had found some bamboo while searg for the forest.

  These bamboos were enormous, requiring several people to encircle them hand in hand.

  Li Meng used these bamboos to make some bamboo buckets.

  Beood up, grabbed a bamboo bucket in each hand, ached two buckets of water from the river.

  Not far away, there ile of yellow cy.

  "Pour it in and mix it by hand!"

  Under Li Meng's hands-on guidance, Benben used his massive hands to mix the yellow cy.

  Soon, the yellow cy gradually turned into cy.

  Seeing that the sistency was abht, Li Meng began using the cy to struct a bst furnace.

  "Gobu Ge, keep stag the split wood, just like I did earlier."

  Seeing that the first pile of firewood was almost burned out, Li Meng instructed Gobu Ge.

  Gobu Ge nodded, somewhat uanding.

  A group of goblin underlings began clumsily stag the firewood.

  In no time, a pile of firewood was haphazardly assembled.

  The goblins pced some iron ore on top.

  "Don't use your hands, use sticks!"

  Seeing Gobu Ge about to pick up the charcoal from the boh his hands, Li Meng reprimanded him.

  Gobu Ge flinched and quickly withdrew his hand.

  He carefully used two wooden sticks to pick up a piece of charcoal and pced it into the firewood pile.

  As the dry grass caught fire, the sed pile of firewood began to burn.

  By this time, the first pile of firewood had already burned out.

  Only a ground full of charcoal and brittle iron ore remained.

  "Take those brittle iron ores and smash them into powder oone over there. Remember, don't use your hands."

  The goblins imitated, using sticks to remove the scorg iron ore.

  The goblins pced the brittle iron ore on a smooth stone nearby and began smashing it with aone.

  Sihe iron ore had been made brittle by high heat, it shattered easily with a light tap.

  The small fragments were also easily crushed into powder.

  Ohe iron ore was crushed into powder, it became iron ore powder.

  Si was an experiment, the first bst furnace wasn't rge.

  Li Meng spent five hours strug a 1.5-meter-high bst furnace.

  He thewo more hours drying the bst furnace.

  "It should be ready!"

  Looking at the well-formed bst furnace before him, Li Meng nodded repeatedly.

  Although the surface wasn't very smooth, it was his first time making a bst furnace, so some imperfes were acceptable.

  The bst furnace was narrow at the top and wide at the bottom.

  There was only a small smoke outlet and a feed i the top.

  To supply oxygen and increase the temperature ihe furhere were three ventition holes at the bottom of the bst furnace.

  Each ventition hole was ected to a bamboo tube.

  The other end of the bamboo tube was attached to a simple bellows made from animal skin and bamboo.

  The bellows had a simple structure and didn't take much effort from Li Meng.

  "Let's start then, Benben, load the materials!"

  Benben, who had been waiting for a long time, used a bamboo bucket to pour charcoal into the bst furhrough the opening at the top.

  Then came the iron ore powder, followed by more charcoal on top of the iron ore powder.

  Finally, the feed i was sealed, leaving only a ey made of bamboo.

  Li Meng then opehe iron outlet and used a burning piece of charcoal to ighe dry grass at the bottom.

  As the dry grass caught fire, the inside of the bst furnace gradually began to burn.

  "What are you waiting for, start the bellows!"

  Li Meng quickly called the goblin underlings to operate the bellows.

  The goblin underlings worked in pairs, panting as they pulled the bellows.

  As the bellows were operated, thick smoke billowed from the ey.

  Soon, the bst furnace became scorg hot.

  "Keep pulling, don't stop!"

  To smelt iron, temperature was crucial.

  The temperature o reach at least 1300 degrees to melt the iron ore powder into molten iron.