Gengxin City.
Xiaoming Forging Shop.
Ten days had passed since Ning Yuan left with a piece of Thousand Forged First Grade metal. No sound of forging could be heard in Su Ming's forging shop. Only a young man, a bear, was sitting cross-legged in meditation, practicing cultivation.
"Ho!" (I'm coming in!)
Su Ming closed his eyes and frowned.
Xiao Jin has learned bad things.
"Roar!" (Soul Master, quickly release your soul ring! My dark gold power is about to enter!)
"Bang, bang, bang."
The knock on the door interrupted the practice of the man and the bear.
Su Ming opened his eyes, and a light flashed in them.
He felt the faint pressure of soul power outside the door.
Very strong.
Two people.
One of them is very strong, while the other is strong yet peaceful.
Su Ming was surprised at first, surprised that the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect moved so quickly, and then he relaxed.
He guessed who the visitor was. Of course, it was the fragile sect leader Ning Fengzhi and the Bone Douluo Gu Rong who professionally cooperated with him to play the villain.
The fact that the leader of a sect risked being assassinated and came to visit in person showed his sincerity. Moreover, the one who came was Gu Rong, who was good at playing the bad guy and was a defensive type, rather than Chen Xin, who was an offensive type.
Regardless of whether this sect is black-hearted in reality, at least it shows sincerity to him.
Before the door was actually opened to welcome him, Su Ming was already looking forward to it.
"Who's coming?"
Xiao Jin also opened his eyes and looked towards the door.
He had been taught by Su Ming for so long that he had memorized many rules. He was usually able to restrain himself and not cause any damage or get angry at will.
The soul master said that his nature should be wild and violent, but blindly venting it is not conducive to meditation and practice. If he can control it freely, cultivate his mind and character in daily life, meditate and practice to accumulate strength, and enter a violent state during battle, he will more deeply experience the pleasure when his nature explodes.
At first Xiao Jin was forced.
But ever since that evolution, he has restrained himself. That time when he evolved into the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, he felt as if all the blood in his body was burning out after just a few roars, and his whole body was filled with indescribable pleasure.
Always keep your nature and release it after holding it in for a long time. The latter is unexpectedly comfortable.
Of course, it's really uncomfortable when you hold it in.
Although it was uncomfortable, under Su Ming's constraints, he meditated every day and often forged until he was exhausted and didn't even have the strength to be violent. Naturally, he persisted and developed a habit.
This was also the reason why he did not get furious when he was suddenly interrupted just when he finally had the feeling and was about to truly control Su Ming's first spirit ring.
"Come back, no need to hide anymore."
Su Ming pushed Xiao Jin down and asked him to continue sitting there to practice, while he stood up to open the door.
Knowing what Touichi's own self could gain for his two future selves, many of his plans changed.
The first is to spread the technology that you have mastered.
Can you improve yourself by keeping the technology of Qianduan Youling?
cannot.
Can you get rich by guarding soul technology?
cannot.
On the contrary, spreading these two points can help him gain status in the future.
The soul-imbuing technology he mastered was dependent on the soul, so the dissemination of forging technology was inseparable from the dissemination of soul technology.
Spreading it now can, firstly, help you gain status in the future, and secondly, reduce the information gap. When outsiders are still unaware of the true strengths of these two technologies, it will be safer to spread them.
For example, directly opening up the sea of spirit after the soul contract is beneficial to the soul master's spiritual power cultivation. No one knows this except Su Ming and his disciples. Now he has exposed the existence of the soul, but he does not take the initiative to say it, so other soul masters will not know. Instead, Su Ming emphasizes the difficulty and disadvantages of obtaining the soul, which will make the soul exclusive to the blacksmith who wants to master the Thousand Forging Spirit in the earliest stage of exposure.
As for spreading the technology in the Douyi era, will it lose its advantage?
What Su Ming controls is the future, a mature system, not these two basic technologies.
What if other spirit masters possessed spirits? What if they were equipped with weapons and armor infused with spirit metal? Would such primitive application be a hindrance to Su Ming?
To spread these two technologies, the first step is to reform the Blacksmith Association and make it the core area of Soul and Thousand Forging Spiritual Technologies. The second step is to obtain the support of several major forces to achieve checks and balances.
In this way, when these two technologies are researched and discovered by outsiders in the future, they will only be amazed at the genius of the two major systems created by Su Ming, rather than having evil thoughts such as coveting them.
Thinking this through was the reason why Su Ming held Xiao Jin down today.
Xiao Jin can be exposed in front of outsiders.
At the same time, Ning Fengzhi's personal visit today is also crucial.
If Ning Yuan came today, Su Ming would just continue to operate slowly and gradually guide cooperation.
But since Ning Fengzhi came and showed his sincerity, he had to do it in one go.
If he was really blind and the subsequent situation was out of control, Su Ming also had the most basic confidence - to die together with Ning Fengzhi.
When he opened the door, the two people outside were the ones Su Ming had guessed - Ning Fengzhi, who was dressed in elegant clothes, and Gu Rong, who had a haggard face, shriveled skin, and an astonishingly large skeleton.
Ning Fengzhi glanced around the room. In addition to noticing Su Ming, his eyes were also locked on Xiao Jin who was practicing not far away.
His eyes narrowed.
After realizing something, he quickly turned around and looked at Gu Rong. He found that Gu Rong had not done anything unusual except for being confused, so he breathed a sigh of relief.
It's not a soul beast incarnation.
Su Ming breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Ning Fengzhi's reaction.
"Master Ning, I hope you will forgive me for not welcoming you here." Su Ming took the initiative to speak. "He is Xiao Jin, my partner, and he is related to the content of our upcoming negotiations."
A hint of surprise flashed in Ning Fengzhi's eyes.
He looked down at the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect's emblem on his chest and laughed.
This little boy is really smart.
"Since you've guessed it, I'll get straight to the point. Can your Thousand Forgings Grade One metal be forged consistently?" Ning Fengzhi asked. "Also, you and my daughter are about the same age. If you don't mind, you can call me Uncle Ning. There's no need to always address me as Sect Master Ning."
"Uncle Ning."
Su Ming called out, and Ning Fengzhi took the initiative to ask him to call him Uncle Ning, which made him relax further.
After secretly complaining in his heart that Ning Yuan had taken advantage of him, Su Ming answered Ning Fengzhi's previous question.
"Thousand Forgings Grade One can be mass-produced."
"Boy, take us to see your teacher. You won't cooperate with us, will you?" Gu Rong interrupted at this time.
"You need spiritual metal, and I can forge it. Why don't you work with me?" Su Ming asked in return. He then continued, "Besides, it's useless for you to talk to my teacher. I'm the only one who has mastered the Thousand Forgings Grade 1. Of course, if you're willing to wait, my teacher should be able to master it in no time."
Ning Fengzhi showed a question mark on his face.
He really didn't react.
What does it mean that only you know it now, and soon your teacher will know it too?
That's the opposite, right?
He paused for a moment, realized something, and looked at Xiao Jin who was practicing behind Su Ming.
"If I remember correctly, you just said that he was related to what we were going to discuss, so is it because of him?"
"right."
Su Ming turned around and called Xiao Jin behind him.
"Xiao Jin, no need to practice anymore, come over and show yourself."
Xiao Jin's ears moved, and he stood up and tiptoed to Su Ming's right side.
As for why it is the right side, it is because Su Ming's left side needs to face the ancient banyan tree.
"Huh!"
As the distance got closer, Ning Fengzhi observed carefully and discovered something unusual about Xiao Jin.
"He's not physical!"
"Yes." Su Ming said: "It is a new form of spirit ring that I created by accident."
"Soul ring form?"
Ning Fengzhi was confused again.
Why is it related to the spirit ring again?
"Yes, Xiao Jin is actually my spirit ring. During the process of absorbing the spirit ring, his soul was preserved and signed a contract with me. He used my spirit ring to carry his essence and eventually became the spiritual body he is today. I call him the Soul Spirit."
Ning Fengzhi listened to Su Ming's introduction and was amazed.
There are so many strange things in Douluo Continent that it is impossible to have such an experience even after absorbing a spirit ring.
"The prerequisite for mass production of spiritual metal is the soul-imbuing technology, and this technology is inseparable from the soul. So far, there is only one soul on the continent, Xiao Jin, so I said that I am the only one who currently masters the forging method of the first level of the Thousand Forgings."
"But you said your teacher will be able to do it soon." Ning Fengzhi said.
He analyzed a lot of things. First and foremost, Zhu Jiuyang had broken through level 80 and was trying to obtain his eighth spirit ring. Secondly, the soul's accident seemed to be replicable.
"Uncle Ning, let's talk about our cooperation first. I wonder what form Uncle Ning plans to cooperate in?"
"What do you think?"
Ning Fengzhi did not come with a complete speech this time, but was prepared to listen to Su Ming and Zhu Jiuyang's ideas.
According to his feeling, Su Ming and Zhu Jiuyang may have special plans to change the status of blacksmiths, and may make some special requirements for cooperation.
"I have two models here. One is to continue the previous cooperation model. I will be responsible for forging, and you will state your requirements. In the end, we will pay you and deliver the goods. Of course, my compensation on this basis must be rare metals. The Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect should have received a lot of metals with special properties. These are the rare metals I need."
A gleam of brilliance flashed in Ning Fengzhi's eyes.
Metal with special properties!
The Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda possesses a natural talent for treasure hunting, possessing a telepathic sense of treasure. This ability has enabled them to collect numerous treasures, including metals with unique properties. However, the Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda has conducted extensive research on these metals, but beyond their inherent properties, they have not discovered anything special. Furthermore, these properties themselves are not particularly useful, serving only as a rare, glittering effect, similar to the glowing night pearl.
Although nothing has been discovered, since the Seven Treasures Glazed Tower always reacts to these metals, it means that these metals are treasures, and the Seven Treasures Glazed Sect should still collect them.
Now it seems that these metals are indeed very special. After mastering the technology of Thousand Forgings Level 1, Su Ming seems to have figured out the uses of these metals.
Could it be that the so-called special properties are just manifestations before they are stimulated? What abilities will these properties transform into after they are stimulated?
"What about the other model?"