"The other option, of course, is for you to send a master-level blacksmith to learn from me. I can teach you the skills completely."
Ning Fengzhi narrowed his eyes and stared at Su Ming.
"Are you sure you can pass on your technology?"
"Why not?" Su Ming asked back.
If he was the only company in need of rare metals, it would be too easy to be targeted. The prices of rare metals would be driven up to the sky, and he would not be able to suppress them.
Of course, he could raise the price of spiritual metal, but the improvement of spiritual metal to soul masters has not been that great so far. Ning Fengzhi's current offer is already the peak in a sense.
Engage in a price war?
Su Ming is a soul master, his goal is to practice, and he will suffer too much if he gets deeply involved in the business field.
On the contrary, the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect has many channels and it is convenient to purchase metals, so cooperation with the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect is essential.
In addition to the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, Su Ming would also try to establish cooperation with the Spirit Hall, but he had not seen any opportunity so far.
As for the losses caused by technology leakage?
The future of the spirit forging system lies in Su Ming's hands. He has a mature subsequent advancement route and can open up the upper limit all the way. Even if other blacksmiths of this period learn the Thousand Forgings Spirit, the impact on him will be minimal.
Besides, is it really too late to train a blacksmith now?
In the Douluo Dalu III era, Qianduan Youling was the threshold for a third-level blacksmith, which was also the threshold for a master blacksmith. But in today's era, it means a master craftsman!
Despite the limitations of materials and technology, mastering the Thousand Forgings was not easy even in the Douluo III era. As far as Su Ming knew, apart from himself, Tang Wulin, and a genius girl from Xingluo Continent, it would take at least five years to master the Thousand Forgings from scratch.
Even now, it would take at least ten years.
Therefore, if you want to quickly become a blacksmith, it is theoretically convenient to become a master blacksmith.
They have the skills, but what they lack is a lot of materials to practice with.
But then again, all the existing Grandmaster-level blacksmiths are already Soul Saints. If they want to obtain souls, they must at least break through level 80. Is that easy?
"Boy, how dare you." Gu Rong's voice was hoarse, with a strong sense of oppression, and his soul power locked Su Ming.
"Why not?" Su Ming was calm.
He has the physical fitness provided by the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear. Even if he is only a great soul master, the soul power pressure that can make him look painful is at least at the Soul King level.
Now Gu Rong was just testing him, but he was still holding back. The degree of pressure was only at the Soul Sect level, so Su Ming could definitely withstand it.
Gu Rong was secretly shocked when he saw Su Ming's posture.
"You dare to say these things? Aren't you afraid that I will forcibly take you away?" Gu Rong said, "Your teacher is not here right now."
"Since Uncle Ning is so sincere and has come to me in person to discuss cooperation, of course I trust you." Su Ming said with a smile.
You, Ning Fengzhi, have appeared in front of me. If you still have any ill intentions, then Su Ming can only say that Ning Fengzhi is bold.
He also prescribed the right medicine.
Since Ning Fengzhi came forward in person, he would of course directly reveal the technology that should be revealed to the greatest extent possible and discuss possible cooperation.
It's just a metal of the first grade that has been forged for thousands of times. It's not battle armor technology, nor does it have soul guide level technology. It's pure metal that can resonate with soul masters, that's all.
"You mean you can hurt him under my protection?" Gu Rong heard Su Ming's subtext.
Su Ming looked directly at the ancient banyan tree.
He walked slowly forward to the ancient banyan tree, then stepped back, counting in his mouth.
"One, two, three, seven!"
After the seventh step, he drew a line and moved back a little.
"Seven steps away, the gun is fast."
Su Ming took out a soul-guided ray gun from somewhere and instantly shot out a laser, pointing directly at the ancient banyan tree.
Gu Rong, a dignified Titled Douluo, naturally reacted before Su Ming took out his soul guide ray gun, but he only had time to release his soul power before the laser shot in front of him.
The next moment, his expression changed slightly.
The laser actually penetrated his soul power and directly attacked his abdomen.
He touched his charred clothes and his face looked grim.
"This is the soul guide that my teacher and I obtained from a ruin. Senior, can a Soul King block the shot just now?"
"cannot."
"Can Uncle Ning stop it?"
"cannot."
"Senior, can you stop the gesture just now in time?"
Speaking of this, Gu Rong's face turned ugly.
Seven steps away, and under the premise that Su Ming had made it clear that he was going to use some means, he only reacted by releasing his soul power to block most of the damage from the laser, but it still affected his body.
Although he had contempt in his heart, his contempt would only become more serious before Su Ming showed that he was going to demonstrate his ability. He didn't even think that Su Ming would dare to resist.
The gun is fast from seven steps away, but what about within seven steps?
Fast and accurate!
Ning Fengzhi stared at the soul guide ray gun in Su Ming's hand.
"Senior, times have changed." Su Ming said.
This is his confidence.
The techniques used in the Dou II and Dou III periods are used in the Dou I period, but they are dimensionality reduction attacks.
The technology behind battle armor and ordinary soul guides was completely different, and the difficulty of production was also on a completely different level. He was exhausted making Xiao Jin's claws, but making a fourth-level soul guide was a piece of cake for him.
He demonstrated the soul guide ray gun and secretly arranged a level 5 fixed soul guide cannon.
Not only that, he is also equipped with an invincible shield!
The invincible shield has excellent defense and is not difficult to make. The key is a kind of golden crystal. In the Douluo II era, this kind of golden crystal was a specialty of the Sun-Moon Empire, but the searching and mining technology of Douluo Continent was not up to standard.
In fact, even during the Douluo II era, a few golden crystals occasionally appeared on the Douluo Continent. The golden crystal used in Su Ming's invincible shield was something he accidentally found while wandering around Gengxin City.
Su Ming did not continue to explain the matter of the soul guide ray gun, but turned around and prepared to continue discussing cooperation with Ning Fengzhi.
"Uncle Ning, what form of cooperation are you planning to adopt?"
Ning Fengzhi looked at Su Ming's empty hands with a hint of regret. If Su Ming had asked to sell that soul guide, he could have afforded five million.
Taking a deep breath, he brought his thoughts back to the discussion of cooperation.
"If your technology can be passed on to others, is the learning threshold high?"
"Of course, my Thousand Forgings Spiritual Technique merely solves the material problem, rather than reducing the required forging skills. Even before that, Thousand Forgings Spiritual Technique was considered a masterpiece of the Master Craftsman. So if you want to learn my Thousand Forgings Spiritual Technique, then become a Grandmaster Blacksmith first and then come to me. I won't train my apprentices from start to finish."
Listening to Su Ming's words, Ning Fengzhi's mouth twitched slightly.
He looked Su Ming up and down.
You are so young, and you are still considering taking in a disciple.
"Can both modes be run together?"
"Can."
"Then we can proceed with both modes of cooperation simultaneously. Following the previous cooperation model, I will first pre-order ten sets of this style of armor and weapons, all made of your Thousand Forged Grade One metal. The price of one set from my Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect is 500,000 Gold Soul Coins."
Ning Fengzhi said this and took out a design drawing, which showed the armor and weapon styles he required. The armor was similar to the design in the previous collaboration, and the weapon was a spear.
"It's impossible to forge all the thousand to the first level."
Su Ming shook his head and took out an ordinary Qianduan work and handed it to Ning Fengzhi.
"Uncle Ning, take a look. This is an ordinary Thousand Forging work, and it's also Thousand Forging Spiritual Metal."
Ning Fengzhi carefully examined the ordinary Thousand Forged Metal and discovered the difference between it and the Thousand Forged First Grade Metal.
But it is within the acceptable range.
"Can."
After talking about the normal form of cooperation, the next thing is another cooperation.
"My Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect will devote all its efforts to training several blacksmiths. Once their skills are up to par, I will arrange for them to come and learn from you. But you won't hand over your skills for no reason, right?"
Ning Fengzhi's eyes were burning as he looked at Su Ming, ready for the deal.