Douluo Dalu - The Story of Sheng Feilong

Sheng Feilong frowned lightly, irritated about what She Meixiao just told him. He understood Ro Julei's concerns, but what that really enough to portray his belief unto every single other genius? "Master, do you think that Senior Ro is right? That I will be facing the same problem as him?"

Without even looking at him and continuing to walk, She Meixiao answered immediately, without any hesitation. "No. You're different when compared to Sir Ro. Unlike him, you've reached the fifth rank by studying the basics and foundations of machinery while he focused solely on Battle Armour. You have all the foundations that he lacks, so you definitely won't face the same problem."

Sheng Feilong nodded his head but remained silent. Glancing at him for a short moment, She Meixiao smiled. "For now, you only need to focus oncreating your Battle Armour. With your current strength and proficiency, you should be able to to work with the five metal Spirit Alloy that Senior Tang prepared for you. And the design for your armour should also be finished, no?"

"Yes. Both the Spirit Alloys and design are finished. I can begin to make the armour at any time. The only thing I need is a workshop." Sheng Feilong's expression turned brighter when the topic switched to his own Battle Armour. He had been preparing for this for three months, after all!

She Meixiao stopped and looked at Sheng Feilong. "Good. Then, you should rest for today. I'll prepare a workshop for you by tomorrow and get someone to collect the Spirit Alloys and the Battle Armour Design for you."

"No! Please just prepare the workshop, Master. I want to get the Spirit Alloys and the design myself; I want to thank the seniors for their work.", Sheng Feilong said, interrupting She Meixiao. The latter was stunned for a second but still nodded her head with a smile.

Later, they went on their own ways and Sheng Feilong met up with Song Weihan. The two of them talked for a while and Sheng Feilong told him that he had passed the test and could now be considered a sixth ranked Mecha Maker. "Master, there's one more thing. Starting tomorrow, I would like to focus on creating my Battle Armour. Would it be possible to pass our daily training until I'm finished?"

Song Weihan thought about it for a moment before he agreed. "You have at most one and a half months of time. Madam She wants you to join her on a mission by then, so you should get it done before that. If you can't, then I won't let you go with her."

Sheng Feilong spend some more time with Song Weihan before making his way back to his quarters. He went to sleep early in order to wake up early the next morning. Meeting up with She Meixiao, the latter showed him the workshop she prepared for him.

It was but a standard workshop for Mecha Making, but that alone was definitely enough for Sheng Feilong. He looked a bit around, testing a few of the machines inside the workshop to familiarize himself with them before he headed out.

First, he wanted to pay a visit to the Mecha Designer who created the design for his Battle Armour. The two of them got along quite well from the get go and Sheng Feilong spent some time with him before leaving with the blueprint for his Battle Armour inside his Spacial Ring.

Walking through the Daedalus headquarters, Sheng Feilong made his way to Old Tang's smithy and knocked on the door a few times. Even after a minute, he still got no reply and remembered what She Meixiao told him about Old Tang. He smiled wryly and then chose to just go into the room uninvited.

As expected, Old Tang sat in front of the furnace, frowning and just staring into the fire. Sheng Feilong closed the door behind him and waited at the side for some time. After a few minutes, Old Tang finally spoke, though still staring at the fire. "What is it?"

Sheng Feilong smiled. He finally got the old man's attention. "Senior Tang, It's Sheng Feilong. I've come to take the five metal Spirit Alloy you forged for me." Old Tang let out a sound of surprise and, for the first time today, turned around to look at Sheng Feilong. "Right, you're that Twin Spirit brat that came with She-girl! It's been over three months! I told you I'd need a week or so!"

While speaking, he made his way over to the shelf at the other side of the smithy, completely ignoring the fire he stared in for minutes. Skimming through the shelf, Old Tang cursed about 'all the junk lying around' while searching for the Spirit Alloys he made for Sheng Feilong. The latter could only smile wryly at the old man's cussing.

"Right, here it is." Old Tang came back over to Sheng Feilong with about a dozen pieces of pitch black lumps of metal that had a greyish metallic lustre to them in his arms. He handed them to Sheng Feilong, who quickly stored all of them but one in his Spacial Ring.

While Sheng Feilong held the last piece in his hand, Old Tang spoke up again. "A five metal Spirit Alloy made with the three metal Spirit Alloy Star Platinum as its base. Adding Nether Storm Quartz and Vorpal Aldismium, it's become much harder and also heavier while gaining strong resistance to corrosive elements and maintaining the strong spirit conduciveness of Star Platinum. Brat, it's the first time I've created such an Alloy, so it doesn't have a name yet."

Sheng Feilong fiddled around with the Alloy in his hand. Although it was barely over 20 centimetres long and a few centimetres thick, it's weight was more than 25 kilograms. The pitch black colour made it feel like it would let no light pass through it, but Sheng Feilong could feel his Spirit Power being roused just by holding it.

He suddenly looked up at Old Tang who was waiting for an answer. "Can I test it first?" Old Tang was surprised and looked at Sheng Feilong with confused expression-. "Test it? Test what?"

"The corrosive resistance. You know how powerful my second Spirit Essence is. What if it's not resistant enough and I melt down my own Battle Armour?" Sheng Feilong said, still staring right at Old Tang. The latter frowned and scoffed back at Sheng Feilong. "Brat, we'd already confirmed that Nether Storm Quartz and Vorpal Aldismium were resistant to your Spirit Essence's corrosive nature and now that they're made into an alloy, it's even better."

Sheng Feilong continued to stare at Old Tang without a word. After a moment, the old man frowned and scoffed once again. "Whatever! Test it if you want!" Sheng Feilong nodded and slowly began transforming into the Netherworld Putrefaction Demon.

Old Tang could once again feel his Spirit Essence tremble and took a step back, while Sheng Feilong focused on the metal. He began slowly scratching it with his transformed claws, but to no avail; The metal really resisted the corrosive nature. He smiled and carefully activated his first Soul Skill while making sure the Soul Ring doesn't show up.

Greyish, muddy green vapour rose from his hands as he held the Spirit Alloy in his claw and gripped it tightly. Nothing happened for a moment, but Sheng Feilong could feel that he would be able to destroy the metal if he wanted to. Currently, he was trying out to control the corrosive vapour to not destroy what he didn't want to destroy and it worked quite well.

Letting out a sigh of relief, re stopped his first Soul Skill and reverted back to his normal self, stopping the transformation. Old Tang smiled proudly and scoffed at Sheng Feilong again. "I told you it would be corroded. This is a five metal Spirit Alloy and one with more than 85 percent harmony rate at that. No matter how strong your Spirit Essence is, you won't get it broken that easily."

Sheng Feilong sheepishly smiled at Old Tang.Laughing lightly in his head, he still answered respectfully. "Senior was right. I'm sorry that I doubted your great work!"

Scoffing again, Old Tang crossed his arms in front of his chest. "Now that's a better attitude, brat. So, what do you want to call that Spirit Alloy? It's for you, so I don't care about naming it myself; Just don't give it some trash name!"

Sheng Feilong looked at the Spirit Alloy again and pondered about it for a long moment. Finally he looked back at Old Tang with a happy expression. "How about... 'Nether Star Aldismium'?"