"Roar!" (It's going to evolve!)
Xiao Jin was overjoyed, so much so that the entire bear didn't know how to express its happiness, bustling around in place for a long time.
He looked up at the roof, then around, as if there was no way to vent his excitement freely.
Mainly, he would have to fix all the damage after venting.
In these short ten months, he had already learned to repair forging stations, repair walls, repair roofs, repair floors...
In short, he learned how to repair anything he could break.
Repairing the forging station was fine, but repairing other places was too frustrating. Over time, Xiao Jin settled down and learned to control himself, no longer frequently demolishing the house.
"Take out your claw gauntlets. I'll upgrade them for you, and then you should be able to evolve directly."
Su Ming said with a smile, extending his hand.
Xiao Jin was very obedient. A pair of dark gold claw gauntlets appeared on his hands. He took them off and gave them to Su Ming.
He didn't understand what an upgrade meant, but he trusted Su Ming.
This Spirit Master was very reliable.
Su Ming took the claw gauntlets and placed them on the forging station.
He didn't take out a forging hammer. Instead, he took out a very exquisite carving knife. The carving knife was only the size of his palm, but it was extremely sharp, with an icy glint emanating from its tip.
Xiao Jin looked at the carving knife in Su Ming's hand, a hint of longing flashing in his eyes.
He had been coveting this carving knife for a long time.
Su Ming noticed his gaze, smiled, and said, "Don't worry, your claw gauntlets will soon be like my carving knife, becoming qualified spirit tools."
"Roar! Roar!"
"That's secondary. Once you evolve into a Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, your own Dark Gold Claws will also evolve. At that time, the Dark Gold Claws will be even more exaggerated than this carving knife of mine. Then, I'll re-improve the core array of your claw gauntlets to assist your Dark Gold Terrorclaw."
"Roar!"
Xiao Jin didn't understand, just kept roaring, urging Su Ming to hurry up.
"Alright, alright, I'll start upgrading them for you now."
Su Ming reined in his smile, his expression becoming serious.
He infused spirit power into the carving knife in his hand. Instantly, the carving knife seemed to become even sharper, with a blade light condensed from spirit power emanating from its tip.
Holding the carving knife, Su Ming began to truly engrave the core array onto the claw gauntlets.
Before, he had already engraved some simple core arrays on these claw gauntlets. The effect of the array was to promote the fusion of Xiao Jin and the claw gauntlets, allowing Xiao Jin to further integrate with the metal inside the claw gauntlets, thereby stimulating his own bloodline.
Of course, it wasn't the gold element stimulating Xiao Jin's bloodline. The principle here was to use the tearing characteristic of the claw gauntlets to stimulate his Dark Gold Terrorclaw talent, thereby guiding the bloodline transformation. The process of gold element stimulation was unrelated to the claw gauntlets; it was another form of cultivation, which was Xiao Jin's repeated forging.
Now, Su Ming said he was going to upgrade the claw gauntlets into spirit tools, but in reality, this was no longer considered a spirit tool, but rather a part of a Battle Armor.
The array he was about to engrave already fell within the scope of a Battle Armor's hand armor.
Stroke by stroke, Su Ming engraved very meticulously, his mental force highly concentrated.
Because of Xiao Jin, his mental ocean opened, and the growth rate of his mental force was not restricted by this era. At this moment, concentrating all his energy on engraving the core array, he could sustain it for over three hours.
...
Three hours later.
"Roar?" (Spirit Master, why don't you rest first?)
Su Ming's face was pale, his spirit power almost exhausted. He looked as if he had been seriously ill, ready to collapse at any moment.
"It's fine. This upgrade must be completed in one go, otherwise, it will affect the outcome."
"Roar~" (So touching~)
Xiao Jin turned his face away, secretly wiping away tears.
Su Ming gritted his teeth, keeping his hands from trembling, while his gaze was extremely focused, staring intently at the last part of the claw gauntlets.
As his final stroke fell, a faint blue glow began to flicker on the claw gauntlets. Micro-lights flickered in every corner, then connected to each other, forming dense energy circuits.
At this moment, Su Ming breathed a sigh of relief and directly slumped to the ground.
Beneath his bottom, a cushion had appeared at some point.
"Roar!" (You've worked hard!)
Xiao Jin roared, signaling that Su Ming could rest, then he stood on tiptoes to take the claw gauntlets from the forging station.
Seeing this, Su Ming didn't immediately faint. Instead, he smiled and said, "Grow bigger. I've now engraved an extension-type array on these claw gauntlets, allowing them to extend with your body's changes."
After speaking, he tilted his head and fell asleep.
Xiao Jin's eyes lit up upon hearing this. His body grew larger, and he took the claw gauntlets into his hands.
Just as he was about to try them on, he suddenly felt a sense of emptiness. The entire bear disappeared, transforming into a stream of light and returning to Su Ming's mental ocean.
"Roar!"
His spirit power was exhausted, unable to even sustain his Soul Spirit being externalized.
Xiao Jin meditated immediately, helping Su Ming recover his spirit power.
After an unknown amount of time, Su Ming regained consciousness.
"Teaching Xiao Jin meditation was truly the best decision I ever made."
Su Ming got up and stretched his body. There were no problems.
His Spirit was his body. After his spirit power was fully replenished, his Spirit state recovered, and his body's state also rapidly recovered.
"The creation of Battle Armor is still too difficult for me."
Su Ming reflected, knowing that he had been a bit impulsive this time. In douluo continent iii, he had only just been promoted to a Level 4 Mecha Manufacturer, and could only sustain the manufacturing process by relying on the 'Trinity' state under borrowed power.
"I don't have the Trinity, so I can't sustain the entire process. Fortunately, what I made this time was only a claw gauntlet, equivalent to hand armor."
After exhaustion and recovery, firstly, his spirit power increased by a segment. Secondly, his mental force also received excellent training. The next time he performed the same creation, he would be more at ease.
"Xiao Jin?"
Su Ming summoned Xiao Jin.
At this moment, Xiao Jin was in a deep sleep.
After meditating to help Su Ming replenish his state, Xiao Jin's own state also became complete along with Su Ming, and only then did he begin to fuse with the claw gauntlets.
Without Su Ming's guidance, he explored on his own and fused his Dark Gold Claws with the claw gauntlets.
And Xiao Jin, after fusing with the claw gauntlets, immediately fell into a deep sleep.
"The spirit power fluctuations are very strong. It's about to evolve."
Su Ming took a deep breath and began to pack up his things.
Blacksmith Association, fifth floor.
Zhu Jiuyang's forging room.
"Teacher, can you help me find some natural treasures that replenish energy?"
"What for?" Zhu Jiuyang asked.
Su Ming told him truthfully.
"Xiao Jin is about to evolve. I estimate that not only will his bloodline transform, but his age might also increase. I need to prepare for the consumption during this process in advance."
Su Ming had never experienced this before and didn't know if a Soul Spirit's evolution would absorb energy from the Spirit Master if there wasn't enough.
Theoretically, it definitely would.
So he had to prepare an energy supply, otherwise, it would delay Xiao Jin's evolution.
"Evolve?"
Zhu Jiuyang immediately became energized.
When the Dark Gold Bear survived in the form of a Soul Spirit, he had heard from Su Ming that the Dark Gold Bear still had a chance to evolve, and might even lead to an increase in the spirit ring's age.
Now that the moment had truly arrived, he immediately put down all his work.