Douluo: When Tang Wulin Met Little Huo Niang

Chapter 509 Sixth Level Forger (8k)

Tang Wulin stood facing the rare metals on the table. He did not take any immediate action, but carefully observed the types of metals that Qi Zhenhua took out.

Seeing that he did not take immediate action, Zhenhua nodded with satisfaction.

Forging is a technical job, and it is definitely not as easy as simply forging iron.

In fact, the preparation work before forging is also a very important link. If there is a serious problem in this step, forging will never be successful.

Especially for melt forging, as a forging technology for forging spiritual alloys, the consequences of choosing the wrong forging object are very serious.

At this time, he was not overwhelmed by excitement, but acted calmly. He is worthy of being a genius blacksmith who can reach his current level without any guidance.

Tang Wulin weighed the options for a moment and made a decision.

He picked up the two pieces of metal and placed them in front of him.

Zhenhua's expression became more and more satisfied.

Colorful stones and blue light crystals are two rare metals that are very suitable for smelting.

What Tang Wulin didn't know was that smelting forging actually had a specific alloy formula.

These formulas have been refined and verified countless times by our predecessors. It can be said that each alloy formula is extremely precious and will definitely be treasured.

Alloy formulas are divided into two categories: common and rare. The rare type can be said to be a secret recipe that only very few people know, while the common type is commonly used on the mainland and most people know about it.

In the process of making gold, the more types of rare metals are fused, the more difficult it is to forge, the more changes will occur when they are fused together, and the more precious the formula will be.

Generally speaking, most alloys forged from two to three metals are common types, while those with more than three are rare formulas. The more types of rare metals used in forging alloys, the rarer the formula.

When entering the stage of learning about alloys, inheritance becomes very important. Even ordinary alloy formulas have to be purchased from the Blacksmith Association.

According to the original plan, although Zhenhua would not really teach all of his skills to Tang Wulin immediately, he could teach Tang Wulin most of the precious formulas.

As a result, before he could start teaching, Tang Wulin had already chosen a recipe that he thought was quite good.

This gave him a little surprise.

Tang Wulin naturally had no idea of ​​Zhenhua's psychological activities. At this moment, all his energy and spirit were focused on the forging table in front of him.

As soon as he stretched out his hand, two small hammers appeared in his hand. They were the forging hammers he had been accustomed to using over the years.

He did not start hammering hard immediately as usual, but instead continued to tap lightly on the surfaces of the two rare metals, as if he was feeling something.

Zhenhua's eyes could no longer be described as satisfied, they even looked a little surprised.

Is this a hammer?

The so-called listening hammer, as the name suggests, is a technique of gently knocking on rare metals with a forging hammer, and then judging the quality of the rare metal by listening to the sound made when knocking. Generally, only top blacksmiths with very skilled skills are capable of using this technique.

Zhenhua was sure that this was definitely not the forging technique that the nine-year-old Tang Wulin had mastered when he traveled back through time. Considering that Tang Wulin had not been back for long, did this mean that he had figured this out on his own in the era ten thousand years ago?
At this moment, Zhenhua's gaze had become somewhat fiery.

In his eyes before, Tang Wulin’s greatest value was his strength.

But now, Zhenhua has begun to feel that Tang Wulin's talent in forging is more attractive than in combat.

Tang Wulin kept tapping the two pieces of rare metals, trying to determine their material.

As for the result, he was very satisfied.

He chose the two rare metals, colorful stone and blue light crystal, based more on his years of experience in forging, but he didn't have much confidence.

But after listening to the hammer, he was sure in his heart that he had not chosen the wrong material. The compatibility of these two rare metals was absolutely excellent.

After confirming this, Tang Wulin stopped testing and began his own forging.

"when--"

A long sound rang out in the forging room, and it was followed by violent hammering.

“Dangdangdangdangdang…”

Zhenhua's eyes couldn't help but widen.

This kind of forging speed is absolutely impossible for an ordinary level 5 blacksmith to achieve.

Because generally speaking, the cultivation level of a level five blacksmith will not exceed that of a Soul King by much. Except for a few extreme cases, the cultivation level of the vast majority of level five blacksmiths is between Soul King and Soul Saint. Those who can reach the Soul Douluo level should generally be promoted to the level of level six blacksmith.

But Tang Wulin is different. Although he is only a level five blacksmith now, his cultivation has reached the realm of Titled Douluo. His combat power is among the strongest among the Ultimate Douluo. He is definitely the most ferocious level five blacksmith in history.

Therefore, even though he had tried his best to suppress his forging speed for the sake of success rate, his hammering speed was actually still far beyond Zhenhua's understanding.

Zhenhua's face turned a little worse.

Tang Wulin's forging speed was definitely exceptional, and what was even more surprising was that his forging accuracy was also very high.

Zhenhua had the cultivation base of a Titled Douluo after all, and Tang Wulin deliberately reduced his forging speed greatly, so he could still see Tang Wulin's movements clearly.

Each of Tang Wulin's hammers hit the most appropriate place. Even if Zhenhua asked himself honestly, it would be difficult for him to do better than Tang Wulin.

But... this is likely to cause problems, right?

Forging is more than just hammering metal. It is also very important to heat it with flame, melt it, and then change the shape of the metal, especially for melt forging.

After all, the characteristic of smelting forging is to combine two rare metals into one, so heating is very important.

If Tang Wulin continued to strike at such a high speed, it would be easy for problems to arise later.

Just as Zhenhua was seriously considering whether he should remind Tang Wulin and ask him to change now, or let him go on and use his failure as a lesson, something unexpected happened again.

With a dragon roar, a giant fiery red dragon flew out from Tang Wulin's left arm. It opened its big mouth and sprayed flames onto Tang Wulin and the rare metal.

Zhenhua was startled and quickly jumped to the side, then his eyes widened.

He actually saw that Tang Wulin was bathed in flames, but he was not affected at all. He was still forging normally under the bath of flames...

Although Zhenhua felt that the temperature of the flame was not that high, at least it was difficult to cause damage to a Titled Douluo-level being. It was obvious that he was holding back on purpose, but it was too outrageous that he was not affected at all.

Is this the way top-level experts forge things...Zhenhua felt like he was really enlightened.

Looking at Tang Wulin who was forging with a normal expression, Zhenhua was actually moved and felt a little envious.

He knew that this was a way of forging that he would never be able to learn.

However, with the help of the Fire Dragon King, heating was obviously no longer a problem.

The two pieces of rare metal placed on the forging table softened rapidly, and under Tang Wulin's hammering control, they quickly merged together, gradually becoming one piece.

Then, as the Fire Dragon King returned to his left arm, he struck it hard, and a beam of light suddenly rose up.
Then, above this beam of light, another fiery red light suddenly shot up for a distance.

Zhenhua shouted subconsciously:
"Great! Thousand forgings have spirits, and the fusion forgings have spirits! Beautiful!"

The appearance of the spirit after fusion forging means that the alloy forging is completely successful. This phenomenon will only appear when the alloy is completely fused and full of spirituality. The spirit awakening state of each blacksmith is different and is related to their own martial arts spirit.

Obviously, the fiery red light appeared because Tang Wulin used the power of the Fire Dragon King during the forging process.

This piece of alloy is thus endowed with the fire attribute and dragon attribute of the Fire Dragon King, and will be very suitable for soul masters with the fire dragon attribute.

Tang Wulin had not received any instruction on forging alloys. He only heard about the melt forging method from him and was able to complete the melt forging in one go. This was simply unbelievable in Zhenhua's view.

He was about to step forward and take the alloy to test the degree of fusion, but suddenly stopped.

Because he suddenly discovered that Tang Wulin did not stop his actions, and he stared at the alloy in front of him with a very serious look.

Zhenhua was stunned.

No way?
However, Tang Wulin's next action confirmed his thoughts.

"when!"

Tang Wulin raised the hammer again and smashed it down hard.

He is going to continue upgrading this alloy!
Zhenhua saw what Tang Wulin was going to do at a glance, and was immediately at a loss whether to laugh or cry.

Normally, when a blacksmith performs melt forging, he will first perform spirit forging, and then melt forge the two spiritual metals. The spiritual alloy forged in this way will not only be of higher quality, but will also generally be easier to forge.

But this was Tang Wulin's first time after all, so he accidentally got the steps wrong and completed the fusion forging at the Thousand Forging stage.

Actually, this is nothing. After all, he successfully completed the melt forging, and no one would deny the fact that he forged a spiritual alloy.

However, the quality of the smelting forging completed in this way was not perfect after all, and Tang Wulin noticed this, so he wanted to improve the quality of the alloy in one go.

Under Zhenhua's horrified gaze, nine-colored light rose from Tang Wulin's body.

Faced with this nine-colored light, he subconsciously felt a sense of fear. His biological instinct told him that the person standing in front of him was no longer the humble and polite young man, but an extremely terrifying ancient beast.

Even the alloy in front of Tang Wulin seemed to be aware of this, and a feeling of fear emanated from it.

Tang Wulin narrowed his eyes, raised the forging hammer, and as the nine-colored light flowed, he integrated the nine-colored light into the forging hammer and smashed it down with all his might.

"Om-"

The sound produced this time was obviously different from before. After being hit by such a hammer, the alloy shook violently and actually gave off an aura of submission.

Zhenhua was stunned watching from the side.

Surrender? As far as he could remember, this was the first time he had seen a spirit alloy surrender to a forger.

What on earth is that nine-colored aura?
Tang Wulin naturally would not answer the question in his mind. He just kept hammering and forging this spiritual alloy with all his heart.

Obviously, he was mobilizing the power of the Dragon God's bloodline. This power was so overbearing that even the Beast God Di Tian had difficulty resisting it. How could a tiny piece of metal that had just developed intelligence possibly resist it?

It can be said that Tang Wulin relied entirely on his terrifying strength to forge the sword. This is something only he can accomplish. Even Zhenhua cannot do it. After all, although both of them are Titled Douluo, in fact, Zhenhua's strength is more than a hundred times worse than Tang Wulin's. What Tang Wulin can do easily is a feat that he will never be able to accomplish in his entire life.

Under Zhenhua's shocked gaze, this spiritual alloy was rapidly shrinking and purified under Tang Wulin's hammer. Finally, when the moment came when it could no longer be purified, a loud dragon roar resounded throughout the Tiandou City Blacksmith Association.

Yes, it was not the forging room, but the Blacksmith Association of the entire Tiandou City. Even the special forging room could not completely isolate the loud dragon roar.

At the same time, nine dragon shadows emerged from the surface of this spiritual alloy, then quickly entangled and merged together, turning into a nine-colored giant dragon, and then slowly floated in the air.

The nine-colored light emitted when floating in the air was not wasted at all, and all of it was poured into this spiritual alloy.

In an instant, a loud dragon roar rang out from this spiritual alloy again, and the sound was no smaller than the previous one. It was obvious that it had completed a leap in level again.

Zhenhua was completely speechless.

Is this forging a spiritual alloy? Is this a level 5 blacksmith performing melt forging?
Those who don’t know might think that Tang Wulin is undergoing the Heavenly Refining!
Even if he tried his best to forge it, he might not be able to make such a big noise!
At this moment, Zhenhua was finally completely impressed by Tang Wulin's talent in forging.

He no longer wanted to care about Tang Wulin's identity. At this moment, in his eyes, Tang Wulin was just a blacksmith genius with terrifying talent, and only then did he have other identities.

I must take this kid as my apprentice! Zhenhua made up his mind at this moment.

At this moment, he suddenly felt a vibration in his pocket. He reached in and found that it was a message from his soul guide communicator.

He immediately understood. It seemed that the noise made by Tang Wulin's successful forging was so loud that it startled everyone.

At the same time as the soul guide communicator received the message, the door of the forging room was knocked, and Zang Xin's voice came from outside the door.

"Brother Zhenhua, are you okay? Can I come in?"

"of course."

Zhenhua pressed a button on his watch, and the door of the forging room was quickly opened.

Seeing that both of them were safe and sound, Zang Xin couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

He was not worried about anything happening to Tang Wulin. After all, this kid was able to defeat him head-on and had easily repelled the ferocious beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest. His strength was probably on the same level as Yun Ming.

But if anything happens to Zhenhua, it will be a loss to the entire human society.

In Tang Wulin's situation, if Di Tian attacks again, it is hard to say whether he can protect Zhenhua from Di Tian.

In addition, the sound just now was the roar of a dragon, which made Zang Xin's heartbeat slow down for a few seconds.

Fortunately, it seemed that he was overthinking it and there was no external enemy attacking.

Zang Xin asked:

"What happened just now? What was that dragon roar?"

Zhenhua waved at him.

"I'll explain it to you right away. Before that, please wait a moment."

After saying that, he picked up the soul guide communicator and called someone.

"Brother Liu, don't worry, nothing happened. Don't worry, everyone. Your Excellency Duoqing Douluo is right beside me. I just made a new breakthrough when forging."

After ending the call, he put down the soul guide communicator and breathed a long sigh of relief.

Zang Xin couldn't help but look at him strangely when he heard his explanation. "There was a new breakthrough in forging...Brother Zhenhua, could it be that the noise just now was caused by Wu Lin?"

Although Zang Xin is not a blacksmith, he has seen pigs run even if he has not eaten pork, so he still has some basic knowledge of forging.

The metal forged by a blacksmith usually has strong characteristics of the blacksmith himself. If the noise just now was really caused by forging, it is basically impossible that it was caused by Zhenhua.

Because anyone who knows a little about Zhenhua knows that the attributes of Zhenhua's martial soul are simply not capable of producing the phenomenon just now.

Considering that Tang Wulin's martial spirit is related to the dragon, Zang Xin asked this question.

When he asked, he actually felt it was unlikely, but then he saw Zhenhua nodded heavily.

"Yes, he was the one who caused it."

"……what?"

Zang Xin was stunned.

Ignoring Zang Xin who was in a daze, Zhenhua came to Tang Wulin, observed him for a moment, then nodded thoughtfully, took out the soul guide communicator again, and said:

"Make room for a new forging room for me. I think I'll have to switch forging rooms in the next few days."

"?"

Zang Xin blinked, and suddenly realized that Tang Wulin seemed to have been motionless since just now.

He subconsciously looked at Tang Wulin, and then suddenly realized.

"Is he in a deep meditation state?"

Tang Wulin held two hammers, his eyes were closed, and his breathing was steady, which were the characteristics of entering a deep meditation state.

Deep meditation is different from ordinary meditation and cannot improve soul power much, but it is definitely a state of meditation that all soul masters desire.

If ordinary meditation can only improve the soul master's cultivation, then deep meditation improves the soul master's innate abilities. This is an improvement in the origin, and absolutely no soul master can refuse it.

I didn't expect that just bringing this kid here to learn forging could actually make him enter a state of deep meditation.

This is an adventure that you can only encounter by chance.

"Ah."

Zhenhua nodded, picked up the spiritual alloy that had been dyed with nine colors on the forging table in front of Tang Wulin, and walked out of the forging room with Zhenhua.

He sighed and said to Zang Xin:
"I'm sorry, please go talk to Lingbing Douluo about Wu Lin's matter. At least for the next period of time, he will probably have to spend it with us."

For soul masters, the longer the time for deep meditation is, the better, so they should never be disturbed easily.

It was fine to just talk to Tang Wulin, but it would be bad if he moved him and woke him up from his deep meditation.

"no problem."

Zang Xin agreed readily.

He was the one who brought Tang Wulin here, so naturally he was the one who had to explain the situation to Huo Yutong.

Through spending some time together, he had roughly figured out Huo Yutong's personality. She was the type of person who was quite easy to talk to, so she probably wouldn't care too much about this little thing.

He looked at the metal in Zhenhua's hand curiously and asked:

"Is this the metal that Wu Lin just forged that caused such a big commotion?"

"Ah."

Zhenhua weighed the spiritual alloy and said:

"Let's go and test its fusion."

Zhenhua had a hunch that the test results would far exceed their expectations.

As expected, when Zhenhua placed the spiritual alloy on the tester, the number one hundred suddenly appeared on it.

Zang Xin opened his eyes wide in surprise.

"One hundred degrees of fusion? How is this possible!"

Zhenhua couldn't help but smile bitterly.

One of the important indicators for testing melt forging is the degree of fusion between metals.

Normally, the higher the degree of fusion, the better the quality of the forging, and the more successful it is.

Generally speaking, as long as one can successfully reach 60% fusion degree, it can be considered a successful smelting forging. Above 95% is called a divine metal, which means it has the potential to become an alloy of divine metal.

As far as Zhenhua was concerned, he originally thought that Tang Wulin was already very talented for achieving 60% completion in his first fusion forging without any systematic technical training in this area. It was almost impossible for him to reach more than 90%. If he wanted to reach more than 95%... it was impossible for him to reach more than 95%. In Zhenhua's mind, the possibility of Tang Wulin completing fusion forging with a fusion degree of more than 95% was completely zero. It was an absolutely impossible event.

Who knew that Tang Wulin would give such a miraculous answer of 100% fusion degree.

Ninety-five and one hundred may seem like there is only a five percent difference in fusion degree, but the difference between them is like heaven and earth.

It is better to say that even if it is 99% and 100%, there is a world of difference between the two levels.

After all, normally speaking, 100% fusion is an impossible event.

You know, as long as they are metals, there will definitely be some mutual repulsion between them. No matter how superb the blacksmith's skills are, there will always be a slight difference. This slight difference is due to the nature of metals and cannot be overcome.

But Tang Wulin turned the impossible into possible and successfully forged metal with 100% fusion degree.

Although Zhenhua was reluctant to accept this reality, the facts were before him and he had no choice but to admit it.

After all, how did Tang Wulin do it?

Zhenhua recalled the details of Tang Wulin's forging, and a light flashed in his eyes.

He suddenly remembered that when Tang Wulin revealed the nine-colored light, the metallic aura began to change towards submission.

Could it be that this fusion can only be achieved because the two metals that make up this spiritual alloy have submitted to it and voluntarily given up their own characteristics?
If this is true, it is truly unique in the entire forging world.

And the mysteries of this spiritual alloy are probably more than that.

Looking at this unprecedented nine-color halo, Zhenhua subconsciously thought that the quality of this metal might be far beyond his imagination.

It is necessary to try its quality.

Zhenhua placed the spiritual alloy on the table, took out a forging hammer, and began to tap it gently.

Zang Xin didn't dare to breathe and watched Zhenhua's every move carefully.

He was also very curious about the quality of the metal forged by Tang Wulin.

Zhenhua's expression was calm at first, then turned into shock, then disbelief, and finally a little numb.

Finally, he put away the forging hammer and sighed.

Then he turned around abruptly, grabbed Zang Xin's shoulders, and said with a sharp gaze:
"Sir, can you please listen to my request?"

"Um, what do you say?"

"Can you please help me convince this kid to become my disciple? I am willing to teach him everything I have learned in my life!"

"Yes, yes..."

Zang Xin blinked and asked curiously:

"What's wrong? Is the quality of his metal extraordinary?"

"This can no longer be described as defying the will of heaven."

Zhenhua gave a wry smile.

He released his hands from holding Zang Xin, sighed and said:
"Let me put it this way. This spiritual alloy that he hasn't even soul-forged is already close in quality to the heaven-forged alloy that I forged with all my strength."

"……what?"

For a moment, Zang Xin thought he had misheard.

Zhenhua repeated:
"I'm serious. The quality of his melt-forged metal is close to the heavenly forged metal that I forged with all my strength."

Zang Xin was stunned.

As one of the few fourth-level battle armor masters on the continent, he knew very well what Zhenhua's words meant.

Before Zhenhua appeared, there were actually no divine craftsmen on the continent, nor was there so-called heavenly forging. The highest level was only soul forging.

The material of the four-character battle armor at that time was just an alloy produced by melt-forging through soul forging.

Being close to the Heavenly Forging that Zhenhua was performing at full strength basically meant that the quality of Tang Wulin's fusion forging was already better than the best materials produced by the previous forgers of Zhenhua.

In other words, if we round it off, with the quality of the metal that Tang Wulin is currently forging, it won't be a big problem even if he calls himself a master craftsman. After all, the quality of the metal he forges is already good enough to be the raw material for the four-character battle armor.

And this is not the scariest thing. The scariest thing is that this is Tang Wulin’s first attempt at melt forging, and this grade of metal is far from his upper limit.

Just the melt forging of two rare metals as raw materials can produce such quality. What about soul forging and sky forging? Can the upper limit be even higher in theory?
No wonder Zhenhua was so excited. Tang Wulin's talent in forging had reached an unprecedented level. If things went as expected, this young man would change the history of the entire Douluo Continent.

At Zhenhua's level, it is actually very difficult for him to achieve higher achievements in the field of forging. Tianduan is his limit, and he cannot reach a higher level.

But Tang Wulin was different. In him, Zhenhua saw the hope of breaking through his limits and reaching a higher level.

Unfortunately, he still didn't understand how Tang Wulin had managed to do this.

But his intuition told him that Tang Wulin was probably the only person in the world who could achieve this level of achievement.

In fact, his intuition was not wrong.

Tang Wulin's fusion forging could not be successfully replicated by others, because in the forging process, he used the power of the Dragon God bloodline.

Forging by a blacksmith is not difficult at the low stage. All he does is to remove impurities from the metal and improve the level of the metal itself. The ultimate success at this stage depends more on the quality of the metal itself.

But more advanced forging is different, it is the process of the blacksmith infusing his own strength into rare metals. Some people even say in an exaggerated way that soul forging is the new organ of the eighth-level blacksmith who has reached the level of saint craftsman.

Although this is a bit exaggerated, it can be seen from this that at this stage, the level of the blacksmith has become more important than the material of the metal itself. The metal forged by a senior blacksmith generally possesses some of the power of the blacksmith himself.

Tang Wulin's Dragon God bloodline is definitely one of the most domineering powers in the world.

In fact, what Tang Wulin himself didn’t know was that he now had almost all the conditions to become a god.

Divine power, divine consciousness, divine bloodline, basically all he lacks is to complete the Dragon God test and carry out the final inheritance of the divine throne.

He doesn't even necessarily need a deity position, as long as he reaches level 100, he can break through to a higher level.

Therefore, the quality of this molten metal that he injected power into was naturally far superior to those other ordinary molten metals, and it directly jumped several levels to reach the level of heavenly forging.

Just as Zhenhua speculated, this was an exclusive forging that only Tang Wulin, a top-level expert, was capable of completing, and not everyone could learn it.

If there is anyone who could possibly learn his forging method, it would probably only be his future children.

Zang Xin smiled bitterly and said:
"This is really a monster...Okay, I will definitely help you with this. Don't worry, Wu Lin will definitely be happy to do so."

Tang Wulin is now considered a half-wild blacksmith. Although he has Mang Tian as his teacher, it is obvious that Mang Tian cannot compete with Zhenhua.

After all, in terms of configuration alone, there is no blacksmith in the world who can compare with Zhenhua.

He took out his soul communicator, dialed Huo Yutong's number, and roughly told her what happened to Tang Wulin.

After listening to his explanation, Huo Yutong asked:

"In short, Wu Lin is in a deep meditation state now and needs a quiet environment, right?"

"Yes, that's right, so we decided to lend him Brother Zhenhua's forging room first."

Zang Xin replied.

After hearing his words, Huo Yutong was silent for a while.

Then, a voice came from behind Zang Xin and Zhenhua.

"No need to bother."

The two of them quickly turned around and found that Huo Yutong had been standing behind them without them knowing.

She said calmly:

"Come on, take me to see Wulin, and I'll take him home."

She would never allow Tang Wulin to be out of her sight for that long.

(End of this chapter)