Douluo: Emerald Poison King

Chapter 215: Enlightenment in Forging, Soul Forging Metal (Part )

"This isn't spirit forging, this is soul forging?!"

Feeling this small silver metal ball, Chen Ming was really surprised.

He originally thought that even if Lou Gao was a master blacksmith of this era, due to the limitations of the times, the best that Lou Gao could do in a year was to break through from Thousand Forgings to Spirit Forging, and at most to reach elementary Fusion Forging. Unexpectedly, Lou Gao actually gave him a surprise, and broke through from Thousand Forgings to Soul Forging in less than a year.

Endowing metal with spirituality is the requirement of spirit forging (fifth-level blacksmith in later generations), while soul forging is to endow metal with spirituality and give it life at the same time, allowing it to truly possess life-like properties. In later generations, it is the requirement of seventh-level blacksmiths, and such blacksmiths can already be called holy craftsmen.

Above this, there are only two levels: the eighth-level Saint Craftsman and the ninth-level God General. These two levels represent the complex smelting of various metals into one and adding talents to the fusion forging (complex) and the sky forging that can cause thunder tribulation.

Looking at Chen Ming's surprised expression, Lou Gao's face showed an expression as if a prank had succeeded. He felt relieved of a heavy burden and his physical condition seemed to have improved slightly. In fact, he had simply entered the stage of his last breath.

If the normal process was followed, Lou Gao would tell Chen Ming how much effort he had put in to break through to the Soul Forging stage in one breath, but that the breakthrough had consumed a great deal of his blood, energy and life, and that he was about to die. He was holding on just to hand the result to Chen Ming personally, and that after his death, his disciples would inherit his will and continue to serve the Soul Palace.

Then he handed the metal ball to Chen Ming and died immediately, smiling in his grave.
But Chen Ming is not lacking in vitality. How could he watch the great treasure that is about to be as great as the masterpiece of later generations in this era die in front of him?

To be honest, even in this era when combat power has not yet expanded and Titled Douluo are not everywhere, a Saint Craftsman is more valuable than a Titled Douluo.

"Elder Lou, wait a minute, don't talk. Your condition is a bit dangerous, let me steady you first."

Chen Ming grabbed Lou Gao's wrist and slowly injected vitality and soul power into his body. Lou Gao's body, which had originally entered the last stage of recovery, quickly absorbed the power transmitted by Chen Ming like a sponge. Lou Gao could feel that his condition was recovering rapidly.

Lou Gao's expression changed rapidly with the injection of vitality. As his body recovered, the corners of his mouth curled up more and more, and there was more shock in his eyes.

Although he didn't understand the principle behind this, it was better to continue working as a blacksmith while alive than to die with a smile on his face after leaving behind only one forged product.

After slowly injecting vitality for more than half an hour, Lou Gao's physical depletion caused by the past year has been completely alleviated. Even some of his old ailments have been alleviated or even cured with the injection of vitality. He felt as if a huge burden had been put down on him in an instant, and he could immediately continue to swing the forging hammer and continue to happily forge iron.

As soon as Chen Ming stopped using his vitality and soul power, Lou Gao was about to kneel down, but was stopped by Chen Ming again.

In order to prevent Lou Gao from kneeling down at every turn, Chen Ming simply made it clear this time.

"Elder Lou, kneeling is meaningless. I am not a tyrant who values power. I originally wanted to win you over for the forging system and your ability in forging. Now that your forging skills have improved so much, it is the best result for me."

"Kneeling down or something, even if you do it thousands of times, is meaningless compared to the improvement of forging skills."

"Yes, the Palace Master is right! Compared to those complicated etiquettes, the art of forging is the most important." Lou Gao held Chen Ming's arm, very excited, with tears in his eyes. His expression was as if he was those people who saw the sun on the peninsula in the previous life. His mind was full of kindness and gratitude.

"Palace Master, please follow me and I will tell you about my experience in forging this year."

Lou Gao took Chen Ming to sit down in front of a workbench. Without any drinks or fruits, the old man and the young just started chatting directly.

Through Lou Gao's introduction, Chen Ming also learned what had happened to Lou Gao in the past year.

As soon as he returned to Gengxin City, Lou Gao kept touching the little golden ball that Chen Ming gave him, feeling the spirituality. He held the notebook and recalled every word Chen Ming had said over and over again. Then, after several attempts, he successfully stimulated the spirituality in the metal for the first time.

At the beginning, Lou Gao used metals that were already full of spirituality. After forging them several times and triggering the spirituality, Lou Gao began to gradually switch to metals that were not so spiritual to try again. Finally, it took about three months for his forging skills to be steadily improved to the level of spiritual forging.

Because Chen Ming had mentioned a higher realm before, after Lou Gao broke through the spiritual forging, he simply celebrated with his disciples and then continued to devote himself to improving his forging skills.

After the spirit forging, there is the basic melting forging, which is a simple stage of fusing several metals together and then stimulating spirituality. For Lou Gao, who had been stuck for decades before the spirit forging, this was not difficult. It only took him about a week to easily complete this stage. Then, in front of him was the soul forging.

Spiritual forging is to give metal spirituality, and soul forging is to give metal life. Giving spirituality was a breakthrough for Lou Gao through Chen Ming's hands, but giving life was difficult for him, but also made him feel somewhat familiar.

Lou Gao read many ancient books left by predecessors of blacksmiths, and found a shortcut to give life to metals in the words of the ancient books.

It is a special secret method created by ancient gods, which uses the life and soul of the blacksmith as fuel to forge metal. It is said that the ideal state of the founder of this technology is to give life to metal.

Lou Gao first made a simple attempt and found that this secret method created by the ancestors was actually real and effective. Although the effect was not that strong, it did have theoretical characteristics.

So Lou Gao seemed to be possessed, trying and building again and again.

Because Chen Ming had made a connection with the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, many of the scarce materials in the Blacksmith Association were transported by the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect to Gengxin City for Lou Gao to use. Lou Gao activated the secret technique again and again and wrote down this realization.

Finally, by chance a few months ago, Lou Gao finally realized the realm imagined by the creator of the secret technique. During a forging process, he truly gave vitality to the metal and stepped into the door of soul forging.

This metal, which has the plasticity and deformability like liquid metal, is the product of Lou Gao's forging.

(End of this chapter)