Douluo: Not enough blood? Use your brain

What's holding Feng Wuyu back is likely the threshold of the Spirit Domain realm.

After Soul Forging Resonance comes Soul Forging Solidification. Completing the solidification of Soul Forging means completely solidifying the inheritance within the metal, completing 70% of the entire Soul Forging process.

The reason it's 70% is because there's still the Soul Awakening process afterward.

Soul Awakening, as the name suggests, is about awakening the soul and the inheritance within the metal.

Analogous to Soul Beasts, Soul Forging Solidification is like a Soul Beast possessing a certain bloodline, but the Soul Skills contained within that bloodline haven't awakened yet. At this point, Soul Awakening is needed to stimulate the bestowed inheritance and complete the final bestowal.

Three steps to Soul Forging.

Feng Wuyu made effortless progress.

The entire process had a strange beauty to it.

Boom!

Boom, boom, boom!

The seemingly chaotic hammering was exceptionally harmonious.

The speed and rhythm of each hammer strike changed constantly, without any pattern, yet it was like developing a living being, so perfect that the chaotic hammering was incredibly harmonious.

Bang!

A Blazing Fire Dragon suddenly condensed within the metal.

Solidification complete.

Feng Wuyu brought down the final hammer, triggering the Dragon Might he had integrated into the metal.

The roar of a dragon echoed.

The scorching heat gradually subsided, and the sound of hammering reverberated throughout the plaza, gradually dissipating, leaving only the impassioned roar of the dragon.

"How is it? How much did you comprehend?" Zhen Hua explained everything to Xu Yuan throughout the process. With a live case demonstration, it could be said to be the best teaching session.

Xu Yuan took a deep breath, his eyes shining brightly.

"I will definitely achieve Soul Forging within half a year!"

Xu Yuan didn't dare to exaggerate too much and gave a conservative estimate.

Zhen Hua, although he had some anticipation, was still shocked.

"Indeed, in fact, with your Metal Integration level, the path to Soul Forging has already been paved."

The Metal Integration that coordinates the spirit, essence, and soul already involves the key to Soul Forging, which is integrating one's own comprehension into the metal.

With the experience of coordinating metal fusion with spirit, essence, and soul during Metal Integration, Xu Yuan would quickly be able to find the technique to bestow his own comprehension onto the metal by using changes in his spirit, essence, and soul.

After that, as long as he combined this technique with the coordination during Metal Integration, he would be able to pave the way for Soul Forging after Metal Integration, just like Feng Wuyu.

Feng Wuyu's Soul Forging method was actually exceptionally suitable for Xu Yuan!

As for the so-called extreme meticulousness...

Xu Yuan didn't have the many years of forging experience that Feng Wuyu had, but he had the Dreamscape.

The accelerated time flow in the Dreamscape affected the comprehension of heaven and earth too much, but even with accelerated time flow, it wouldn't affect the speed of thought!

A reaction time of 0.1 seconds?

In Xu Yuan's Dreamscape, he could expand it to 1 second, or even 2 or 3 seconds!

The forging wasn't over yet.

Soul Forging was complete, and Feng Wuyu had even extinguished the flames and put away the forging hammer, but Xu Yuan inexplicably felt that this forging wasn't over yet.

Sure enough, after a long time, Feng Wuyu opened his eyes, and a piece of pitch-black metal appeared in his hand.

"This is...?"

Xu Yuan was shocked when he saw this piece of metal.

It was clearly a pure black metal, but it gave off a feeling of scorching heat.

From afar, the entire piece of metal gave the feeling of a burning sun, but it was a black sun!

"Is this the metal that Senior Brother found that's suitable for him?"

Beneath the black metal exterior lay the ultimate light and heat.

What a special metal.

"It's too similar to Senior Brother's Yang Wood Blade's characteristics."

The Yang Wood Blade was initially just a wooden blade, but as Lan Muzhi comprehended the Blade Intent and Blade Soul, it gradually evolved, possessing nearly the ultimate Yang attribute, with each blade strike containing the power of the sun.

However, its essence was still a wooden blade.

This metal, which contained light and heat, was in line with the essence of his Yang-attributed wooden blade.

If this metal were integrated into the Battle Armor, and the Battle Armor fused with the Martial Soul, it would definitely be enough to affect Lan Muzhi's Martial Soul, helping him achieve the Martial Soul's Return to Simplicity.

Return to Simplicity would be the opportunity for the Yang attribute in his Martial Soul to transform to the ultimate!

Chapter 355: The Next Divine Craftsman?

Looking at the special metal excavated from the Demon Plane, Xu Yuan was also secretly sighing.

It could be said that exploration is always an opportunity.

Everything new brings opportunities that may be completely different from the past.

A new plane means new laws, and all resources may be nonexistent in one's own plane.

And among these resources, there may very well be something that perfectly matches oneself.

Obviously, Lan Muzhi had encountered the metal that best suited him.

This piece of Dark Yang Stone was the rarest metal best suited for his Martial Soul.

With the characteristics of the Dark Yang Stone, his Yang Wood Blade might soon be able to completely transform its attribute into the ultimate attribute.

Xu Yuan knew the origin of this stone, but the other blacksmiths were somewhat puzzled.

Some of the inner courtyard disciples who had been to the Demon Plane could vaguely guess.

However, the outer courtyard students didn't know.

The existence of the Demon Plane was now the biggest secret of the entire Shrek Academy, and it was information that absolutely couldn't be leaked at the moment, so other than the inner courtyard disciples who participated in the exploration mission, no one else knew.

Even the Tang Sect only knew that Shrek Academy had borrowed a large number of war Soul Guidance Devices.

Zhen Hua stared at the Dark Yang Stone, his brow furrowing deeply.

He had never seen a Dark Yang Stone.

As a Divine Craftsman, it was truly rare to have never seen a rare metal.

One should know that for blacksmiths, such rare metals with special attributes were extremely valuable, and many blacksmiths had a collecting hobby in this regard.

And those strong individuals who wanted a set or even just a piece of Heavenly Forged metal had naturally put in a lot of effort in this area.

Even those rare metals that they hadn't encountered due to previous information limitations had been seen one by one over the years.

But he had no impression of this Dark Yang Stone at all.

Not only had he never seen it, but he had never even heard of it.

Zhen Hua glanced over and saw that Xu Yuan also had a somewhat surprised expression, and he was also puzzled.

"It seems I still need to ask Elder Feng about it afterward."

Metal Integration!

Metal Integration again.

Feng Wuyu's previous forging had integrated a full six rare metals.

The more metals integrated during Metal Integration, the more the resulting Spirit Alloy would naturally approach perfection.

However, the more Metal Integration there was, and the more metals were integrated, the greater the difficulty of this forging would be.

Generally speaking, only when the fusion degree of two Spirit Alloys forged together reached 95% could seven other Spirit Alloys continue to be added to achieve the theoretically most extreme alloy.

In fact, a Spirit Alloy fused from nine metals had never appeared. Even many Divine Craftsmen in history had said that successful fusion of nine metals might truly push Soul Masters toward the realm of gods.

Generally speaking, a Spirit Alloy forged from two metals was the foundation. As long as there were no problems with the combination of the two metals themselves, and the fusion degree of the forging wasn't too low, it would be enough to use for Soul Forging.

A Spirit Alloy fused from three metals was already considered a fine product, four belonged to the extreme category, and five were holy products, which was the level of most Holy Craftsmen.

Further up, six belonged to a level that even Holy Craftsmen found difficult to reach, and seven could only be completed by Divine Craftsmen under extremely good conditions. As for eight, it required Divine Craftsmen to achieve under the right circumstances.

Generally, Spirit Alloys with five or more metals already rivaled Soul Forging in value.

Feng Wuyu had just integrated six metals during Metal Integration.

This amazed the blacksmiths present.

Because he succeeded in one attempt.

The entire forging process was very smooth.

Bang!

The sound of the forging hammer striking the metal rang out again.

Under Feng Wuyu's hammering, the Dark Yang Stone rapidly underwent transformation, quickly being refined from iron ore.

Hundred Refinements, Thousand Refinements, Spirit Refinements...

Two hours later.

Soul Forging!

Even after studying it for a long time, Feng Wuyu was cautious when forging the Dark Yang Stone for the first time.

However, this process also allowed him to find an experience he hadn't had in many years.

When he was learning forging, he had carefully explored and sensed new metals in this way, and the satisfaction of communicating with the spirituality of new metals and sensing the existence of this new special life form was unforgettable for him.

However, the types of metals were limited.

He hadn't experienced the freshness of new metal life for many years.

The first fusion was so wonderful.

Feng Wuyu couldn't help but show an intoxicated expression on his face. This forging was an enjoyment for him.

Below the stage, Zhen Hua also looked anxious.

He also wanted to try it.

He also wanted to go inside and experience it.

The quality of the Dark Yang Stone was extremely high.

Its value could be seen from the fact that it could directly complete Soul Forging.

Zhen Hua became more and more interested in this metal that he had never seen before, and he had a restless feeling, as if there was a thorn pricking him under his butt.

After Soul Forging was completed, Feng Wuyu tried to integrate the Soul Forged Dark Yang Stone with the Six-in-One Spirit Alloy that had been previously Metal Integrated for the final Metal Integration.

Metal Integration can be carried out at the beginning, or it can be carried out after Spirit Forging or even Soul Forging, but in most cases, it is the former.

Now, Feng Wuyu was carrying out the latter.

Because he treated the Six-in-One Spirit Alloy as an aid.

That's right, the Six-in-One Spirit Alloy was in the auxiliary position, and the real protagonist was the Dark Yang Stone!

Xu Yuan's eyes were full of emotion, constantly recalling the forging process just now in his mind, digesting the insights from it.

It was a success.

In just the first attempt, Feng Wuyu successfully forged a Seven-in-One Spirit Alloy, and it was at the Soul Forging level!

Seven-in-One was generally in the domain of Divine Craftsmen!

The blacksmiths under the stage were all stirred up.

Did this mean that Elder Feng was infinitely close to Heavenly Forging?

Would he become the next Divine Craftsman?