Zhen Hua's joke soon turned into a boomerang that hit him.
Gu Yuena, who had been waiting impatiently, heard Zhen Hua's words. She exchanged a glance with Huo Yuhao beside her, her eyes shimmering with light.
Seeing this, Huo Yuhao smiled slightly and stood up. "May we move to another place?"
Zhen Hua nodded understandingly and led them to a forging room.
He couldn't exactly forge in his office.
Before leaving, Zhen Hua told a staff member to have Dark Phoenix Douluo wait here when she returned.
"Right here."
Zhen Hua led them into a forging room.
Inside, the walls were hung with various forging tools. Several metal ore blocks were placed on the floor. In the center of the room was a forging platform.
Zhen Hua had thought Gu Yuena would take out rare metal and place it on the forging platform. Instead, he saw her simply walk to an open space, take out a piece of rare metal — Blue Gestation Copper — and with a flash of cyan light on her body, the metal floated in the air.
Did blacksmiths nowadays not even need forging platforms anymore?
When had he fallen behind the times?
Just from observing Gu Yuena's initial actions, Zhen Hua was already somewhat dazed.
Seeing that she had no intention of using a forging hammer and that four-coloured elemental halos were appearing around her and beginning to surround the metal, with the elemental forces in the air starting to riot, he couldn't help looking at Huo Yuhao and the Snow Empress. "What does this mean?"
The Snow Empress also looked at Huo Yuhao. The latter replied softly: "Since the essence of forging is to extract and change the Metal Source, why be bound by form? Why must one use a forging hammer?"
Zhen Hua shook his head. "That's not what I mean. Although I am a blacksmith, I wouldn't be bound byform. What method she uses to forge has nothing to do with me. It's just that what she's doing right now is too similar to Heaven Forging..."
At this point, Zhen Hua was momentarily speechless, not knowing how to describe the shock in his heart.
Mobilizing the elemental forces of heaven and earth to forge — wasn't that the method of Heaven Forging?
It was just different from his Heaven Forging. The elemental forces Gu Yuena mobilized were not as many, and they did not carry comprehension of the laws, so they would not form an elemental thunder tribulation.
But the power of heaven and earth infused into the metal was real and true!
While Zhen Hua's heart was in turmoil, on the other side, Gu Yuena's fingers moved slightly. The surrounding elemental forces inexplicably vibrated, began to refining the metal.
To improve precision, she was currently only using four elements — wind, fire, earth, and light.
Gu Yuena's movements were light and graceful. Under her control, the metal began to change. Its surface shimmered with a faint light, being reshaped by the various elemental forces.
Under the effect of the elemental forces, the metal gradually softened. Under her guidance, it began to take a new form. Each subtle vibration made the metal's structure tighter, its texture tougher.
Gu Yuena's gaze was extremely focused, as if she could see through every detail of the metal, precisely controlling the flow of elemental forces, even lifting some of her own restrictions.
She had to do her best — even better than before!
Time passed. A few minutes went by quickly. Seeing Gu Yuena's movements gradually slowed, Zhen Hua opened his mouth to speak. But just then, a beam of light suddenly shot out from the Blue Gestation Copper suspended in the air, transforming into a blue-gold pillar that soared into the sky!
Thousand-Forged has spirit — Thousand-Forged First Grade!
Thousand-Forged First Grade, also known as Semi-Spirit Forging, was the stage where a blacksmith imparts metal spirituality, giving it an initial possession of life aura. Metal processed with this technique would better the spirit master when fused with them. It was the only way before mastering the Spirit Forging stage.
Seeing this, Huo Yuhao looked at Gu Yuena with some surprise.
A breakthrough on the spot?
If she could steadily achieve Thousand-Forged First Grade, she would not be far from Spirit Forging. Previously, Gu Yuena had at most reached Thousand-Forged Second Grade. He hadn't expected her to rise another level this time.
Truly worthy of being one of the main characters — different from him, an impostor.
"Using Heaven Forging to replace Thousand-Forging... you little ones really can think of things."
Seeing Gu Yuena truly complete Thousand-Forging — and it was Semi-Spirit Forging — Zhen Hua's face twitched. "This young lady's martial soul must be able to control many kinds of elements, right? Not only that — she has also comprehended the Elemental Heart for four elements!"
When an elemental spirit master mastered the Elemental Heart, they could indeed mobilize external elemental forces. But what level did that usually require?
In his memory, most elemental spirit masters mastered the Elemental Heart with spiritual power at the late Spirit Sea realm — and could only master one Elemental Heart!
For Heaven Forging, spiritual power and elemental affinity were both very important links. Only when both reached a certain level could one use the power of heaven and earth. Although spirit masters who had mastered the Elemental Heart had a certain advantage in their own origin attributes, making it easier to mobilize the elemental forces of heaven and earth, mastering only one Elemental Heart was still insufficient for Heaven Forging.
And this girl was like the favored child of the elements. The elements completely obeyed her commands. The power of heaven and earth was grasped directly in her hands.
As her spiritual power increased, she would be able to mobilize more of the power of heaven and earth. Eventually, when she comprehended the laws, she would understand the complete method of Heaven Forging!
For others, learning Heaven Forging was a gradual process. For her, it was like running from the end to the beginning. She was a natural-born Divine Craftsman!
Even more horrific than the "seed of a Divine Craftsman" he had thought of earlier...
At this moment, Zhen Hua's heart was excited. The thought of taking Gu Yuena as a disciple arose in him.
Regardless of whether she was from the Spirit Transmission Tower, she was a seed destined to become a Divine Craftsman. To hesitate for even a second would be disrespectful to the forging profession!
But seeing Snow Empress quietly watching him from the side, Zhen Hua felt as if a bucket of ice water had been poured over him. He temporarily calmed down, merely inwardly marveling at the terrifying foundation of the Spirit Transmission Tower.
The Spirit Transmission Tower's high-ranking members included many Savage Beasts. Super Douluos each held down a region. And below them were even more extremely talented individuals — it would flourish indefinitely.
"Since you've shown me such ability, I imagine it's not just to make me envious, right?" Zhen Hua smiled as he looked at Snow Empress. "If it's her, I am willing to put aside sect prejudices and teach her Heaven Forging — even if she doesn't want to join the Blacksmithing Association."
Snow Empress chuckled and shook her head. "She is not my disciple. She is a disciple of Her Majesty Tianfeng Douluo. I can't decide that. It depends on her, or on Her Majesty Tianfeng Douluo's opinion."
Zhen Hua raised an eyebrow, thoughtful. "She's that one's disciple."
After thinking for a moment, his gaze shifted to Gu Yuena. He saw that at that moment, she was standing before Huo Yuhao with her hands behind her back, her eyes shimmering with light.
Huo Yuhao: "..."
He smiled helplessly. "You did very well."
Hearing this, Gu Yuena nodded gently, a satisfied smile appeared on her face.
Zhen Hua walked over. Seeing this, he also smiled. "Replacing Thousand-Forging with the method of Heaven Forging — the idea is imaginative. It's a new path. Implementing it is even harder than reaching heaven. Although you have an advantage with your martial soul, completing it is no easy feat. You must have been training for a long time, right?"
Gu Yuena was startled, then shook her head. "Only about three months. It wasn't very hard."
Zhen Hua: "..."
Three months — you've walked a path that took me several years, gone from zero foundation to mastering Thousand-Forging? And opened a new path at that?
Young lady — even if it's true, you don't have to say it. That's hurtful.
Zhen Hua was at a loss whether to laugh or cry.
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