Douluo: Son of the Stars

Chapter 34: Thousand Forgings Finally Completed
The next day, Tong Rui embarked on the path of curing diseases and saving lives.

After a busy day and treating everyone, Tong Rui found a craftsman in the village.

"Hello uncle, I need your help with something."

The craftsman was flattered and asked quickly, "Master Soul Master, you don't have to be so polite. If there is anything I can help you with, just let me know."

"It's like this. I've been learning forging recently, so I want to borrow your forging room to practice."

The craftsman quickly invited Tong Rui into the house, handed over his forging room to Tong Rui, and said, "Master Soul Master, you are welcome to use it. You can also use the materials I have here at will."

Tong Rui nodded, took out a gold soul coin and handed it to the blacksmith, saying, "You don't have to refuse. Just consider it as me buying the materials here."

The gold soul coins were nothing to Tong Rui, but for the blacksmith in the village, they were enough to support him for three or four months and were already a huge fortune.

But for a soul master, this is just an amount that can be easily obtained. The higher the level of the soul master, the easier it is to obtain gold coins.

Why the villagers are so grateful to Tong Rui for his free treatment is that it is like seeing the chief physician of a tertiary hospital in the community, bringing a bunch of high-end equipment to examine and treat you.

So even if Tong Rui needed to use some tools at home, he would kindly take them out.

But back to the Gold Soul Coin, it is a huge fortune. Even if you are very grateful to the doctor for treating you, you will still be tempted when you see a large sum of money.

So Tong Rui didn't waste time with the craftsman. After handing the gold coins to him, he started forging his own pieces.

Rui, the forging book boy, has also seen it, but it is actually of no use.

After all, forging nowadays is nothing more than using a hammer to knock a piece of iron into the desired shape, and to put it more simply, it is assisted by the use of molds.

All the book can teach you is which posture is more convenient for exerting force, what shape is most suitable for striking, etc.

So Tong Rui simply heated the iron and started hammering it down.

Every hammer will increase the forging proficiency on the panel, and as the proficiency increases, Tong Rui will become more adept at forging.

Tong Rui does not need to consider what effect each hammer will have, he just needs to find the way that is most comfortable for him.

With nearly two hundred hammers of forging completed, the forging level also reached the limit of one hundred forgings, which is LV1 (100%).

At this stage, Tong Rui began to think about how to advance to Thousand Forgings.

The hundred forgings were just refining metals. With the blessing of Tong Rui's soul power, the hundred forgings were very easy. But at the thousand forgings, it was necessary to give life to it. And the metal had to be good enough to withstand the pressure brought by the thousand forgings.

Thousand forging is not as simple as forging the metal a thousand times with a hammer, but it requires continuous forging to remove all impurities in the metal and increase its density.

At the same time, the biggest special effect of the Thousand Forgings is sublimation. Only when the metal is forged and the sublimation effect is produced, can it be truly Thousand Forgings.

Thousand forgings are also known as mind forging. When forging, one should treat the metal as a living being and try every possible way to communicate with it during the forging process.

"Communication? If we want to communicate, we must know each other very well. Then what I am most familiar with should be meteorite iron." After Tong Rui figured out how to do the Thousand Forging, he began to think about the materials he would use for forging.

"I remember that to reach the stage of One Word Battle Armor, one needs to forge thousands of times, so the meteorite iron armor in my treasury is the meteorite iron forged thousands of times?"

Tong Rui took out the meteorite armor from the treasure house and observed its characteristics and texture. According to legend, meteorite is a meteorite that fell from the sky. After years of squeezing, it formed iron ore, so this material is very rare and expensive on the market.

After Tong Rui recovered, he put away his armor and took out a piece of meteorite about one foot square.

At the same time, two Earth Hammers were taken out from the treasury. After all, Tong Rui did not have a hammer spirit, and he could not complete the Thousand Forgings using an ordinary hammer.

Therefore, before this, Tong Rui collected the corpse of a giant earth bear and made this pair of earth hammers. Its function is to increase the corresponding weight through soul power blessing, which is just right for forging hammers.

When everything was ready, Tong Rui began the Thousand Forgings.

The soul power blessed the Hammer of the Earth, increasing its weight by about 50%. As his hands alternated, the hammer fell on the meteorite one by one.

With only 60 hammers, Tong Rui completed the hundred forgings. With the perception of his spiritual power, Tong Rui began to lower the weight of the hammer, slowly hammering along the lines, feeling its texture and characteristics.

Tong Rui became more and more focused on forging, and gradually entered a wonderful state. Apart from the meteorite in front of him, there was nothing else.

An hour later, Tong Rui finally figured out the characteristics of the meteorite with this hammer strike.

The force starts from the calf muscles, extends to the waist, then to the back and arms, and finally the hammer of the earth falls. Each time it strikes, the force exceeds 400 kilograms.

The meteorite in front of him seemed to be emitting a faint light. Every time he struck it, it seemed to breathe, matching Tong Rui's breathing.

The volume of the meteorite became increasingly solid, and after reaching its limit, its texture began to change as Tong Rui forged it.

Suddenly, the meteorite vibrated slightly while Tong Rui was forging it. Then, a dark blue light suddenly broke through the blockade of the fire, casting the entire forging room in a dark blue.

The craftsman was the first to notice the deep light in the forging room, but when he thought that it was the soul master Tong Rui who was forging it, he was no longer surprised.

Inside the forging room, Tong Rui quickly used his soul power to cut open the palm of his hand, forcing the blood onto the meteorite, and quickly used his second soul skill to heal. The speed was so fast that Tong Rui didn't even feel a bit of pain.

The blood sacrifice was completed, and Tong Rui smiled as he looked at the dark blue meteorite in front of him. The dark blue meteorite had a deep feeling when he looked at it carefully, and it had an extremely wonderful texture.

On the dark blue metal surface, the layers of dark patterns like star tracks seemed to be pregnant with endless vitality. When Tong Rui saw it, he felt a sense of blood connection.

While it was still hot in his hand, Tong Rui found the hammer mold in the craftsman's home. After wrapping it with soul power to prevent it from breaking, he used the Hammer of Earth to quickly make the Thousand Forged Meteorite into the shape of a forging hammer.

Tong Rui couldn't wait to start testing the effect of the meteorite hammer. After heating a piece of iron, he hammered it down, and accompanied by bits of starlight, the impurities in the iron melted away a lot.

“This starlight seems to help me dissolve the impurities?” Tong Rui continued hammering, and after only 20 hammers the iron block was forged a hundred times.

However, the effect of the hundred forgings was not very obvious, so Tong Rui took out another piece of meteorite, heated it and started the second thousand forgings. As the forging progressed, his proficiency began to increase rapidly.

An hour later, the forging of the Thousand Forged Second Grade Meteorite with spiritual light was completed. Tong Rui also figured out the function of this starlight.

"Since this starlight can help me communicate with metal, then this special effect should be called 'Star Destiny'."

After the forging was completed, it was getting dark outside. Tong Rui put away the forged metal, walked out of the yard, and continued to practice under the starlight.

(End of this chapter)