Douluo: Emerald Poison King

Chapter 147: Spiritual Forging That Is Not Spiritual Forging

The City of Blacksmiths is a place that Chen Ming must visit in his plan.

Among the three great master craftsmen of Douluo Continent, Chen Ming had targeted Lou Gao from the beginning, wanting this master craftsman who was obsessed with forging higher realms in the original novel to help him perfect the battle armor, which was supposed to appear tens of thousands of years later.

For soul masters, battle armor is undoubtedly a divine weapon. The value of a set of three-character battle armor is no less than that of a normal set of ten thousand year soul bones. The improvement of a soul master by a four-character battle armor is even greater than that of a full set of ten thousand year soul bones.

Chen Ming plans to become a god in the future, so he will have to forge his own divine weapon.

A good artifact can greatly improve the fighting power of gods. Poseidon, a first-level god, has a status in the God Realm that is half a level lower than the five great gods just because he has the super-artifact-level Poseidon Trident. Tang San even used the Poseidon Trident all the way to the Douluo Four stage.

Chen Ming not only needs artifact-level weapons, his ambition is even greater. What he wants is a complete set of artifacts, not just simple divine equipment.

From weapons to armor, from helmets to combat boots, he wants to create his own exclusive artifacts.

But creating a divine weapon is definitely not a simple process. In the Douluo Continent, which is completely new to the art of refining, it is unknown how much effort and time it would take to create a set of divine weapons.

In the original setting, the fourth-level battle armor is a genuine semi-artifact. If it is nurtured with divine power and divine consciousness, it can become a true artifact.

Hearing Chen Ming's description, Lou Gao gave a wry smile, his eyes full of frustration.

He no longer cared about the pressure Chen Ming put on him. The old man, whose pain was touched, sighed deeply and expressed his true feelings.

"You're joking, you're joking. How can a blacksmith be that powerful? It's just a boast in ancient books."

"After I awakened my martial spirit at the age of six, I became an apprentice in a blacksmith shop. When I was twenty, I became a disciple of a master craftsman. When I was fifty, I became a master craftsman. In the past twenty years, I have been studying hard to reach a higher level."

"To be honest, I can indeed vaguely sense the spirituality of metal from it, but as for how to stimulate it, I have used various methods over the years but have not achieved any results."

"The books that young friend Chen Ming has read may be exaggerations of our predecessors. Even if I am a master craftsman, I cannot reach the stage of stimulating the spirituality of metal. Perhaps there were master craftsmen in ancient times who could reach this level. But, as far as I know, they were limited to the stage of stimulating spirituality."

When Lou Gao said this, he felt a piercing pain in his heart. For him, who was immersed in the way of blacksmithing, the fact that he had no hope of improving his blacksmithing skills was more painful than his inability to improve his soul power.

Since his soul power could not be improved, it could also be said that his talent was too low. There were predecessors who had stepped into the realm of Soul Douluo and Titled Douluo, but he just couldn't do it.

In terms of the blacksmith realm, he had already become a master blacksmith. Even though his skills had surpassed those of his master and grandmaster, when he looked up, he could not see any way forward.

Now, Lou Gao can only pin his hopes on those materials that are naturally spiritual. He wants to see if he can push the upper limit of blacksmithing by studying the natural spirituality of these materials.

"It's not like that, is it?" Chen Ming smiled and took out a piece of turbid crystal from the Ruyi treasure bag on his waist.

Although the crystal in Chen Ming's hand looked very turbid, and in the eyes of ordinary people it was not even worth a gold soul coin, Lou Gao was immediately excited after just one look. "Plate crystal turns gold? Such a big piece? It must be 100,000 years old, right?"

Under Lou Gao's excited and puzzled gaze, blue flames burned in Chen Ming's hands.

That was the manifestation of the Ultimate Fire. Under Chen Ming's control, the terrifying destructive power of the Ultimate Fire became extremely restrained, and did not cause any damage to the outside world. Only Lou Gao, who was sitting next to him, could tell with his eyesight and experience that the temperature of the flame was higher than any flame he had ever seen.

Chen Ming used his soul power to place the turbid plate crystal gold into the flame in his palm. The plate crystal was instantly vaporized, and the star-like gold in it gradually melted under the burning of the flame, and then gathered together under Chen Ming's control.

Looking at Chen Ming's unique skill of controlling fire with his palm, Lou Gao couldn't help but hold his breath subconsciously, focusing all his energy on the gold that was gradually melting in the flames.

A little bit of gold was melted into a golden ball roughly the size of the thumb. The spirituality contained in it was gradually stimulated under Chen Ming's control.

During the process of spiritual enhancement, Chen Ming raised his left hand at the same time, and the cold soul power gathered on his palm. When the spiritual power of the golden ball reached an extreme, the extreme fire suddenly disappeared, and the golden ball in his right hand was thrown by Chen Ming into the soul power of extreme ice in his left hand.

Under the cooling of the extreme ice soul power, the spiritual power that was forcibly raised in the golden ball gradually decreased and gradually stabilized. A few minutes later, the golden ball, which had shrunk to the size of the little finger, was placed on the table by Chen Ming.

Lou Gao didn't care about his doubts. He quickly picked up the golden ball, placed it in front of his eyes, and tried his best to feel the golden ball with all his strength.

He could feel that contained in the golden ball was the metal spirituality that he had been pursuing all his life.

With the operation just now, the metallic properties of the plate crystal that can emit gold have been fully stimulated!
"Your Excellency Chen Ming... Your Majesty, Senior!"

"Senior Chen! Are you still accepting disciples?!" Although he was nearly eighty years old, Lou Gao still cried like a child. He held the golden ball high in his hand and looked at Chen Ming with tears in his eyes. He leaned forward and prepared to kneel down.

In the original novel, Lou Gao was directly recruited into the Tang Sect because of Tang San's knowledge and skills. In the end, he threw himself into the furnace and used his life to inspire the spirit of the Deep Sea Silver Mother.

What he pursued all his life was to reach a higher level as a blacksmith. He would even do anything to achieve this and would not be afraid even if it meant losing his life.

Seeing this scene, Chen Ming quickly stopped Lou Gao, helped the old man who was of great use to him to sit on his seat, and began to explain.

"Master Lou, you don't have to do this. I'm really not a senior. I just happened to have read ancient books, and I was born with some spiritual talents. Coupled with some acquired adventures, I was able to stimulate the spirituality in the metal."

"As for the blacksmithing technique, I can only say that I have mastered six out of seven, but not the other one."

"I have some knowledge of higher levels, so I originally planned to go to the Blacksmith City to look for Master Lou. Now that we can meet in the Tiandou Royal Auction House, isn't this an opportunity given to the two of us by God?"

(End of this chapter)