Mu Chen led Su Ming to his exclusive forging room.
"You can pick any metal here to forge; if you succeed, it's yours, consider it an introductory gift from your Martial Uncle."
Su Ming secretly thought he was stingy, even an introductory gift required passing a test.
If Mu Chen knew his thoughts, he would definitely feel wronged.
Oh heavens, you travel all this way to provoke an old man like me, and then call me stingy?
With so many Thousand Forging First Grade metals in that bracelet, are you telling me you'll fail to forge them?
"Martial Uncle, please guide me!"
Su Ming stepped forward and picked a piece of Star Soul Iron.
This material has extremely low output; if he saw a piece, he definitely had to take it.
Mu Chen's mouth twitched when he saw this, feeling a pang of heartache.
He wasn't Zhen Hua; in the allocation of rare metals, he had to compete with many Saint Smiths, and he only had one piece of Star Soul Iron displayed here.
In fact, he truly only had this one piece of Star Soul Iron left.
All the others had been used by him.
Su Ming didn't care about Mu Chen's feelings; he placed the Star Soul Iron on the forging table and began to heat it.
All his movements were extremely fluid, from heating to sensing, then to forging, all with calm composure.
The forging hammer struck the Star Soul Iron, beginning a rhythmic pulsation.
Previously, he couldn't control the delay effect of his forging hammer well, only using it as a stacking force; after three months of Zhen Hua's guidance, he could now take it one step at a time.
Although he was still far from perfectly utilizing this delay effect, it was already enough to significantly impact his forging. The first time he achieved Thousand Forging First Grade, he relied on fully borrowing power from his dou one and douluo continent ii selves, plus the feedback characteristic of that Star Soul Iron, to barely sustain and complete Thousand Forging First Grade. As he became more proficient in using the delay effect, he could now achieve Thousand Forging First Grade by only borrowing half the power, instead of all of it.
And before leaving Heaven Dou City, Zhen Hua helped him integrate the original Star Soul Iron with the feedback characteristic into his forging hammer.
This time, he prepared to attempt Thousand Forging First Grade by borrowing the minimum standard amount of power!
"What kind of special effect is this?"
Mu Chen stared at Su Ming, noticing that Su Ming's forging hammer continuously returned spirit power to Su Ming, and at the same time, when the forging hammer lifted, the metal was continuously struck.
He was confused.
Tang Wulin also watched this scene in a daze, not understanding what kind of forging technique Su Ming was using.
Of course, Mu Chen didn't obsess over clarifying the characteristic; he simply focused on Su Ming's forging process, watching him strike the Star Soul Iron each time.
"At least for now, there are no problems; this piece of Star Soul Iron won't be wasted."
An hour later.
Su Ming delivered the final blow.
Before him, the Star Soul Iron erupted with a foot and a half tall pillar of starlight.
Thousand Refinements with Spirituality!
Tang Wulin watched this scene in shock.
Is this Thousand Forging First Grade?
He could only master ordinary Thousand Forging, still a long way from Thousand Forging First Grade, yet Su Ming, his peer, was already capable of Thousand Forging First Grade.
"Teacher was indeed right; my talent is only average, not top-tier," Tang Wulin thought to himself.
Su Ming felt a slight sensation, cut his palm, and directly let blood.
Blood sacrifice?
Mu Chen frowned.
It wasn't the first Thousand Forging, just a normal forging, and it required a blood sacrifice?
Or did this piece of Star Soul Iron undergo some special change during the forging process?
Mu Chen truly didn't perceive anything.
Of course, that's not to say this forging wasn't splendid; on the contrary, it was quite perfect, but precisely because it was so standard, he couldn't see anything particularly outstanding.
Why the blood sacrifice?
Because Su Ming felt a familiar fluctuation, this fluctuation was the same as when his first Thousand Forging metal formed, representing the characteristic of this piece of Star Soul Iron.
Characteristic, delay!
After two years, he had finally forged another time-based characteristic Thousand Forging metal!
After the blood sacrifice, Su Ming integrated the Star Soul Iron into his body and didn't mention this metal again.
He looked at Mu Chen.
"Martial Uncle, are there any areas in my forging that still need improvement?"
Mu Chen said, "The area I can see that still needs improvement is your application of your forging hammer. The characteristic of your forging hammer is very special and very strong; if you can advance further, your forging will be even easier."
Although he saw areas for improvement, he couldn't correct them.
"My Senior Brother has also taken on a good disciple," Mu Chen sighed, then turned to Tang Wulin, "Wulin, you see? Your talent isn't actually top-tier; you still need to work harder."
Mu Xi, standing nearby, rolled her eyes when she heard this.
She had heard such words several times these past few days.
Honestly, she even felt that Tang Wulin had been misled and couldn't recognize his own talent.
Now with Su Ming's appearance, Tang Wulin would probably believe Mu Chen's words implicitly.
However, there actually exists someone on this continent with even more abnormal forging talent than Tang Wulin…
After chatting with Mu Chen for a while longer, Su Ming bid farewell and returned to Tianhai City with Zhang Tianyang.
Inside the mecha.
"I just received news that your project deduction is complete," Zhang Tianyang said.
"It's complete?"
Su Ming was pleasantly surprised.
"You can put your worries aside. According to the deduction results from the research department, even if a Spirit Master's spirit power isn't fully accumulated, as long as the Spirit Master can cultivate their spirit power to near-solid state, condensing a Soul Core is still achievable; only some techniques need to be changed," Zhang Tianyang said. "Given your borrowed power situation, your spirit power quality and physical fitness are being affected, and the Soul Core will condense earlier, but the problem isn't significant."
"Then, Teacher, can I see the deduction results first? I want to see what technical changes are needed," Su Ming said.
Although he didn't understand why Su Ming was so concerned about Soul Core condensation at this moment, Su Ming's spirit power quality was indeed somewhat outstanding due to borrowed power, and he would indeed face the problem of Soul Core condensation before his spirit power was full.
Zhang Tianyang operated directly from inside the mecha.
The functions inside the red-level mecha were very complete; it could even connect to the internet and perform work.
He retrieved the results from the research department, opened some of the models within them, and let Su Ming observe.
Su Ming stared intently at the human meridian model on the screen, looking at the previously unheard-of techniques as if he had found a treasure.
"Oh, these external formations are also very crucial; they can effectively help Spirit Masters bind their spirit power."
Zhang Tianyang then brought up some attachments, all applications of soul guiding formations, to be inscribed around the Spirit Master to help them bind their spirit power.
"The research department's efficiency is truly high," Su Ming exclaimed.
"Haha, our Spirit Transfer Pagoda's investment in the research department is even greater than you imagine. Although many projects in the Soul Spirit system have hit bottlenecks, that doesn't mean other projects will progress slowly."
Su Ming nodded.
Current soul guiding technology has developed to the point where it can construct models of human Spirit Master meridians and simulate the cultivation process. This is very powerful, but it hasn't been widely applied, as most Spirit Masters who can access this Domain don't really need such technology.
While powerful Spirit Masters didn't need it, Su Ming placed great importance on this technology.
He looked at the model before him, quickly calculating in his mind and, together with his douluo continent ii self, began to understand many of the techniques within the model.
In just half an hour, he had a conclusion.
His douluo continent ii self could try to break through.
Coincidentally, the final decision for the Soul Spirit choice had also been made.