Legend of the Empyrean Blacksmith

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LEGEND OF THE EMPYREAN BLACKSMITH

After being kicked out of the orphanage due to turning 15, Lino finds himself stranded on the streets. With motivation to become the best blacksmith in the world, he seeks to become a disciple of the Bridge Village's best blacksmiths, only to be kicked out of all of them. He soon finds himself roaming the streets aimlessly on an empty stomach, jobless, peniless and homeless. After hiding himself in an alley when night fell, the reality finally catches up to him - he was truly alone.

Yet, morning come, he is greeted by a knee of an old man who, after beating him for sleeping in the old man's 'backyard', takes him in. Finally being given a helping hand, he clutches tightly onto it, becoming the old man's disciple and learning the ways of the crafting, naturally while flirting with the old man's wife in his free time.

Little did he know that this encounter would spark an adventure that would take him to the heights he never believed even existed, and would let him meet people he'd only read about in the books. It's a story of Lino - an orphaned child who would come to be known by many names, but only one that he'd ever truly accept: Empyrean Blacksmith.

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Status
Completed
Year
2018
Author
beddedOtaku

Tags

LITRPGACTIONFANTASYADVENTURECOMEDYSUPERNATURALMARTIAL ARTSSTRONG LEADMALE LEADHIGH FANTASYCULTIVATION

Royal Road Stats

Rating
4.1/ 5.0
Followers
1,933
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3,409,538

Chapters(575 total)

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Community Reviews(10)

  • sw eightRoyal Road
    ★★★★★ 5.0
    Not for weak minded people :)
    Full of profound point of views about life... right from the early chapter.
    Great plot - story.
    Rich in characters.
    The jokes never boring.
    Must read... Even worth to reread all over again :)
  • CalaventeRoyal Road
    ★★★★★ 5.0
    Edit @ Chapter 575...
    so sad we reached the Epilogue.....  ....
    Edit @ chapter 276 :
    still in love with the story.
    sad of the death of familiar characters (don't grow a GoT trend !)
    and Empyrean Blacksmith is almost my last read every day, just before going to bed !
    -----------------------------------
    Okay,
    (4.5 if only for me, but like  -->5 to compensate from the hate of "username:" and "jknott" which stopped reading early, before anything really started and decided in so doing to burn everything they don't understand.)
    I love the story, the arch plot is grand, if nebulous and daunting, the book-sized plots are good, and the mini-plots perfects. : 5/5 (even if demonic invasion is not my favorite topic of book-sized plot and "you are the hero/target for the world" are rarely my prefered arch-plots: but here it's ok !)
    no issue with grammar in later chapters (but being not native speaker, I can only push it to 4.5)
    I love the characters, Lino being Lino (happy-go-lucky-but-only-because-otherwise-I'll-be-crying-nonstop), his "surrogate-mother/father-in all but name", Lucky and Sylvia being teased, Sylvia's betrothed, her father...etc Alea (which I would like to see more & closer to Lino (partial shipping!!) )
    They all have a life, even the secondary (or even 3rd line?) characters. (even if some could have better exposure to understand them better)
    The sole "blemish" for me is related to the style
    the style is why I always push back the time to read it... : the presence of those HUGE paragraphes are sometime repelling when starting a new chapter and often stop me from reading "as soon as published", prefering to push that back to another time and read another new chapter from another story... or even start reading a fresh story.
    However, whenever I gather enough guts to tackle these "big paragraphs chapters " I can't stop reading and I read the 2-5-10 remaining chapters in a few dozen of minutes :D
    (that said, no issues for chapters 74-77, even if the first paragraph
  • tormanenRoyal Road
    ★★★★★ 4.5
    A bit brutal of an mc kinda a shameless piece of shit with a weird sense of humor. If you can't stand him in the first 10 chaps you gave it the good old RR try and should leave. I stuck around and the world came together I can't call it a slow burn but the world comes together slower than some other stories here in a good way imo.
    I wont call this story a hit or miss but the sense of humor doesn't go away. The writing gets better even if the story doesn't really change tone from the serious whatcha believe in with a bit of cringy shameless bastardry and funny on top.
  • ThatchyPlayer16Royal Road
    ★★★★★ 4.5
    I really love how this story combines both blacksmithing (a somewhat normal job) with being a bad ass warrior that fights off the world. Lino the mc is an awesome character, he doesnt give a shit about what anyone else thinks and does things his way. His sarcasm and ability to be a constant asshole to everyone around him makes his character stand out from the others.
    Overall the story and the characters just blend perfectly and make the world feel truly alive.
    My only negative for this novel is the sizing of things, like for example and 90 mile long dragon on an island is slightly ridiculous but other than that i really recomend this story if you are looking for something new.
    Another positive is the authors constant upload schedule, basically uploading everyday and with quite large chapters.
    9/10 from me :)
  • TinyBookDragonRoyal Road
    ★★★★ 3.5
    As of Chapter 406: Despite grammar problems, I enjoyed this story. (the grammar doesn't get better)
  • XoShadowoXRoyal Road
    ★★★★ 3.5
    Old(ch.10):"I'm impressed. It contains barely any mistakes with readable english ,thank you. Not cringy enough to cringe and highly entertaining. Infact it's the most entertaining wuxia I've read in a while.
    Highly recomend this story, as it has potential and lots of it."
    Its meh. Had alot of potential in my head at the time. Not unreadable and it isnt' bad per se. Still great compared to wuxia which sadly isn't saying much as translation butchers the genre, but meh.
  • LaylinRoyal Road
    ★★★★ 3.5
    I found this story disappointing. The first ark was great and I was convince this would turn out to be one of those few 5 star novels I'm always searching for, but I was to be disappointed. In the second ark the street smart kid became a lover of poetry with a mild hero complex. I started reading this story expecting a smart MC who used his brain to plan his way out of sticky situations. Instead he runs in half cocked with little to no planning and relying on dumb luck to survive. Even still I have to give it 3.5 stars since I would read it if there was nothing else to read.
  • FillaskRoyal Road
    ★★★ 2.5
    The story has plenty going for it, but too much of it is disjointed, chaotic, or downright pointless for me to care enough to continue reading where I left off (Chapter 47).
    Style:
    There are issues, plain and simple. The author is trying to go with a mashup between xianxia (or fantasy wuxia, w/e) and LitRPG. I get why, as I'm quite a fan of the latter, and a number of series are doing it well, like the Ten Realms series by Michael Chatfield. However, issues arise in the form of people being 'level x'. What does this entail? How does your level increase? There are no quantified gains, at least, not in the sense that you're shown how the MC improves at every level-up. I haven't a clue what the difference between a level 1 and a level 9 is, for example, which is exactly what LitRPG and its quantifying style is useful for. Weapons and armor have damage and defense stats, but there's no information about people's health, just their defense. People get stabbed, people get wounded. No damage indicators, no information about how much damage was negated by defense, no indication of how much more damage they can take, etc. In other words, there is literally no point to any of those statistics. For the other weapons stats, just people sticking their qi in an item and giving a brief description would be more than enough. As it stands right now there is literally zero reason for the LitRPG style. It really feels like some of those stories that add a couple of tables just so they can call it LitRPG and get a quick cash grab on the LitRPG hypetrain.
    The xianxia is done well, insofar as I can be a judge of that. There's your typical various stages of qi gathering, breaking through, warring sects, etc. All of the elements are fairly cookie-cutter material, but they're put together in a fun way.
    Story:
    The story is certainly challenging to get past the beginning, but a couple dozen chapters in it does finally get to the point where you're starting to see the bigger picture, which see
  • LovelyLoverRoyal Road
    ★★★ 2.5
    This stories tags give it a vibe of being something it is not. It needs a drama and even tragedy tag.
    SPOILER BELOW.
    I got as far as his fellow orphan childhood friend (who seemed to love him) who was blackmailed by the the head of the orphanage with the MCs life to whore herself to men she brings in has her memories erased of him by her sensei to no longer distract her after she believes hes dead.
    The story also seems to be leaning towards them eventually meeting as enemies.
    I know it sounds simple with, oh after they meet she'll remember. However the story ends up giving the feeling it could actually go along the lines of fighting to to the death instead with the dark tones it takes on.
    SPOILER ABOVE
  • WishesRoyal Road
    ★ 0.5
    Pretty sure rape here was banned, yet somehow this one got away with as a flashback reference where MC's best friend when he was a little child, a 8 years old girl was persuaded by owner of orphanage to let herseft be repeatedly raped so MC would get treated.
    Author needs to milk the tragic backstory as much as he can as it seems his main way to show MC's strength of character by multiple people implying he should kill himself. Pretty pathetic display on authors part. And I mean the whole story up to that rape scene. I didn't read further this trash.(I read it without active account at the time so I'm not sure which chapter it was)
    Of couse the first thing he ever tries to craft is an artefact he can grow with. And he is OP as fuck from pretty much the start . . .