Su Ming's proposal smoothly gained the support of many within the Body Sect.
Because he had successively proposed revolutionary content during this period, over ninety percent of the Body Sect disciples had already gathered on Snow Devil Mountain.
Body Sect disciples were typically scattered across the continent, each having their own livelihoods.
That's right, each had their own life.
This was also a historical legacy issue. The Body Sect strictly recruited disciples based on possessing a Body Martial Soul, and Body Martial Souls were very rare. Essentially, every Body Martial Soul was a variant. Even if one parent had a Body Martial Soul, it only meant the bloodline carried an increased potential for the corresponding mutation, not that the specific form was stabilized.
As variant Martial Souls based on the Spirit Master's own body, Body Martial Souls generally did not possess high innate Spirit Power; Level 3 was common, and Level 1 was not rare.
The Body Sect had few members, recruiting disciples was troublesome, and its reputation was low-key, further increasing the difficulty of finding disciples.
Various factors led to a significant portion of the sect's disciples being accepted by the sect only in their twenties or thirties, when they finally obtained the correct cultivation method for their Body Martial Soul.
They already had their own lives, and the sect did not mandatorily require them to cultivate within the sect grounds.
Thus, the Body Sect became an organization of 'free and easy individuals' with almost no fixed mountain gate, gathering from time to time on Snow Devil Mountain.
Of course, the powerful experts within the sect were basically stationed on Snow Devil Mountain, focusing on their cultivation.
Su Ming's successive announcements of major events had prompted multiple reforms within the sect, and most disciples had been urgently recalled.
Now, Snow Devil Mountain was unusually lively.
These past few days, many disciples had come seeking a piece of Spirit Refined metal.
Su Ming was also helpless. He himself had been lucky, successfully replicating Spirit Refinement once.
In reality, among the three main bodies, only the first attempt at Spirit Refinement had the best results. Douluo 3 Su Ming integrated faith into forging, using the act of forging faith to achieve a breakthrough. Douluo 1 and Douluo 2 Su Ming more or less emulated this, gathering some faith and, aided by the novel experience of borrowing power for the first time, managed to complete their first Spirit Refinement under these two combined boosts.
But attempting to replicate it afterwards, neither Douluo 1 Su Ming nor Douluo 2 Su Ming could do it.
Even Douluo 3 Su Ming hadn't yet managed to replicate a second Spirit Refinement.
Facing his fellow sect members seeking Spirit Refined metal, Su Ming could only helplessly inform them of the current situation.
There was only one piece of Spirit Refined metal. Because its properties were suited for Du Busi, and he himself didn't plan to use it.
However, while Spirit Refined metal was scarce, Thousand Refined metal was not lacking.
He had created a queue for over a hundred disciples of the Body Sect. Based on the order they approached him, he would prepare a piece of Thousand Refined Spirit Metal for each disciple, allowing them to experience the benefits of Spirit Metal.
Over the course of more than half a month, Su Ming had basically completed this task.
"Little Ming, we still have to rely on you for Spirit Tools. Everyone in the sect is a bunch of roughnecks; besides your senior sister Wei Na, probably few can learn Spirit Tool theory from you." The sect's attitude towards Spirit Tools had changed dramatically, but hampered by talent, those capable of independently learning the abilities of a Spirit Engineer were rare.
"Don't worry, Teacher. Since I proposed this, I naturally considered the talent issue," Su Ming said. "Based on my own experience making Spirit Tools, I think Spirit Engineer cultivation is mainly divided into two parts: constructing Core Formations and fabrication. If we're talking purely about fabrication, that can actually be mastered through diligent practice and accumulated experience. If disciples within the sect truly don't understand Core Formations at all, perhaps they could specialize in engraving them."
Du Busi nodded.
Hearing Su Ming put it this way, he found it more acceptable.
He wasn't particularly devoted to the Spirit Engineer system anyway, so splitting it posed no burden for him.
If Su Can heard Su Ming's words, he'd probably be so angry his mustache would curl.
"Teacher, what is the sect's view on mining rare metals?" Su Ming had just finished speaking with Du Busi, who had discussed it with the sect elders. Now, Su Ming was eager to know the result.
"The sect is certainly willing to mine rare metals, but are there really rare metal veins on the side of the three Douluo Empires?"
After the collision of the Douluo Continent and the Sun Moon Continent, nearly all rare metals on the new combined Douluo Continent were now produced by the Sun Moon Empire. The original Douluo Continent side had pitifully few rare metals.
"Teacher, do you really believe that?" Su Ming sneered. "Although the conditions for nurturing rare metals are peculiar, the Douluo Continent side isn't lacking in strange and unique special terrain. How could there be no rare metal veins?"
The lack of rare metal discoveries could only be due to two reasons.
One was immature technology, where the difficulties of exploration and extraction were too high, preventing the three Douluo Empires from successfully mining rare metals.
The other, from a conspiracy theory angle, was that someone had discovered veins and could mine small amounts of peripheral rare metals, but to maintain the ultra-high prices of rare metals on the Douluo side, they didn't announce it. Simultaneously, they strictly limited the export of the rare metals they mined, reaping massive profits.
"Sigh, mainly it's a massive project. Even with the technology, even if the Douluo side isn't lacking rare metal veins, it's not something that can be found overnight," Du Busi told Su Ming truthfully.
The elders were all willing to mine rare metals, but the investment required was somewhat excessive for the Body Sect.
The Body Sect had few members; they couldn't handle this kind of work.
"Then find some forces to cooperate with, but exclude the three great empires."
Du Busi said, "Don't worry, I know your concerns." The three great empires were the most likely forces to possess knowledge of veins and suppress the information. Besides the three empires, there were also forces like Shrek Academy and the Top Three Clans.
For cooperation, they needed groups with ample manpower but who also appeared quite poor.
"Teacher, there's a Gengxin City in the Star Luo Empire. It has the most blacksmiths. We have the forging system; we could develop them into a subordinate force."
Du Busi's eyes lit up.
Su Ming's suggestion was excellent.
"Blacksmiths..."
"Right. I've heard there's a small association there. We could use that association as a foundation to establish a Blacksmith Association," Su Ming said.
After discussing with Du Busi, Su Ming was personally taken by him to continue discussions with the elders.
Actually, Su Ming could pinpoint the locations of rare metal veins.
But he had his own concerns.
The future Su Ming possessed too much information. This allowed him to search for intelligence, bringing many conveniences to the Douluo 1 and Douluo 2 Su Mings.
Douluo 1 Su Ming was fine; anything he did wouldn't change history. Instead, he could leverage future technology to strive for status, obtaining the qualification to gather faith for Douluo 2 and Douluo 3.
However, changes made by Douluo 2 Su Ming would alter history, and then, under the convergence of the timeline, things would strive to develop towards the future experienced by Douluo 3 Su Ming.
The experiences of the future Su Ming would serve as anchor points, key to the timeline's convergence.
But what if his experiences became illusory?
For example, if Douluo 3 Su Ming learned information about mined veins on the continent, and this information was obtained by Douluo 2 Su Ming, who then mined them early, continuing, it would directly render the information Douluo 3 Su Ming received false. That is, Douluo 3 Su Ming's experience would become illusory.
What would be the result of such a conflict?
Su Ming didn't know, and didn't want to try for now.
So, he still planned to use a more primitive method for mining the veins: organizing a team of people and using professional exploration equipment to conduct a carpet search.
At least, the Douluo 2 era Su Ming had to do it this way.
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