Douluo: Emerald Poison King

Chapter 218: Forging and Soul Guidance Devices (Sixth Update)
Looking at Xiaoyin who had turned into a wristband, Lou Gao felt mixed emotions, as if he was an old father who saw his originally well-behaved daughter turn around and run away with Huangmao.

When Lou Gao's fingers touched the metal slime that turned into a wristband and the metal slime Xiaoyin instinctively became alert, this feeling reached its peak in Lou Gao's heart.

Lou Gao was silent for a long time. After a while, he showed a strange expression, sighed helplessly, and then smiled.

"It seems that this metal with life and spirit is no longer just metal. It can choose its own master. With the ability of the Palace Master, I am sure he will not let my craftsmanship down."

"I will definitely not let Elder Lou down." Chen Ming answered to Lou Gao while stroking the bright silver wristband on his right wrist.

For the next half month, Chen Ming stayed in Gengxin City, the city of blacksmiths, and discussed the development prospects of forging technology with Lou Gao, narrated some of his insights on the laws of heaven and earth, and helped Lou Gao use his vitality to recuperate.

When everyone thought that Lou Gao had not appeared in front of people for the past half month because he was about to die, Lou Gao was excitedly swinging a sledgehammer in front of the fire, and Chen Ming was responsible for helping him, controlling the flames in the furnace, sensing the changes in the metal and informing Lou Gao.

In the first month after Chen Ming came to Gengxin City, Lou Gao produced the first soul-forging-level product, which was a wristband made of the Earth Vein Fire Crystal provided by Chen Ming as the main material and combined with many special metals.

Although this arm guard is mainly of fire attribute, at Chen Ming's request, Lou Gao changed it into emerald green and inlaid a green gem which is of little use. Chen Ming named it the Green Bead Wristguard.

Although it is dyed and can really increase arm strength, the main function of this wristband is to increase the power of fire attribute.

After being fully activated, the wristband will undergo a special transformation, wrapping around Chen Ming's palm and forearm, with a blazing flame attached to it. Chen Ming calls this form the Flame Fist Form.

To be honest, if it is based on the standards of later generations, the Green Pearl Wristband can be made into a battle armor in terms of materials. However, although the materials are up to standard, the battle armor also has elements of a soul guide. Only when the two are perfectly matched can a true battle armor be forged.

Although Chen Ming's green bead wristband was already a very outstanding creation in Lou Gao's opinion, it could be combined with the soul master's body and life, growing like an external soul bone, and possessing improved attributes, and finally reaching a level that could compete with the Titled Douluo level weapon soul.

But in Chen Ming's opinion, the Green Pearl Wristguard is still far inferior to the battle armor of later generations.

If forged in this way, even if a full-body armor is made, the amplification effect is barely equivalent to the level of the later one-word battle armor, which can be said to be somewhat unworthy of the material. For him now, this wrist guard is not without improvement, but it is not great either.

During this time, Chen Ming and Lou Gao created a special belt with Xiaoyin as the core. Under Chen Ming's control, Xiaoyin can temporarily hold a soul bone as the core and stimulate the soul skills in it to a certain extent.

Take the head soul bone that Chen Ming got when he killed a human-faced demon spider as an example. The skill of that soul bone is the concealment that only appears after ten thousand years of human-faced demon spiders. After Xiao Yin took it in, he could barely stimulate about 30% to 40% of its ability, allowing Chen Ming's breath to be restrained, but he could not achieve the state of almost physical invisibility like the human-faced demon spider.

However, if the head soul bone is replaced with soul bones in other parts of the body, and the functional soul skills are replaced with offensive soul skills, then Xiaoyin will not be able to activate the soul skills in his current state.

This should be considered a soul guide device. After all, it does use some formation structures. However, Chen Ming has no idea what level of soul guide it is. He estimated that if he met a truly professional soul guide, he would be scolded for wasting such a resource.

After all, soul-forging-grade metal can be considered top-grade material for making three-character battle armor even after 20,000 or even 30,000 years.
Fortunately, Xiaoyin itself has properties similar to liquid memory metal. When better technology is obtained, it can be reorganized without worrying about good materials being wasted.

During this month, Chen Ming not only assisted Lou Gao, but also learned two forging techniques and practiced the Chaos Cloak Hammer Technique that was praised to the sky in the original book.

But after his personal experience, Chen Ming felt that the forging of the Chaos Cloak Hammer was okay, and the special way of stacking and charging power was a bit interesting, but it was not very good for fighting.

After all, hitting people is not like forging iron. Iron can stay in the furnace and let the hammers accumulate, but how can a person stay still and let the chaotic cloaks accumulate power? In theory, the chaotic cloaks have explosive damage, but in reality, it is difficult to stack the power to the point of 99.

It was good for forging, but not for hitting people. If anyone was hit by the return of Chaos Cape Nine Nine in a one-on-one fight, Chen Ming would laugh at him for a whole Kun year.

Although he had not been exposed to it for a long time, Chen Ming made rapid progress in forging technology thanks to his own control and learning abilities. In just one month, he surpassed those disciples of Lou Gao and reached a level close to that of a master craftsman, close to what is considered a master craftsman in this era.

Compared with Titan and Tang Hao, the only thing Chen Ming lacks is experience in forging.

Chen Ming can rely on his own uniqueness to do things like spiritual forging, but that is not very good as a blacksmith. The things he forged are also far from being battle armor, so even Lou Gao can hardly evaluate Chen Ming's current forging level.
However, Chen Ming himself estimated that with his unique talent and current strength, if he could concentrate on studying the blacksmith's skills, within five to ten years, he would be able to become a true master craftsman, and each of his works would be able to trigger a heavenly tribulation to complete the heavenly forging.

But again, there really isn't much need for it.
Everything has to be cost-effective. Five years is too long for Chen Ming. If he improves his strength and then improves his forging skills, he may only need a few months to become a master craftsman.

While recuperating for Lou Gao, Chen Ming also asked him about his research on soul guides. Although Chen Ming had no expectations, Lou Gao's answer disappointed Chen Ming.

In this era, the soul guide technology of Douluo Continent has really been lost.

According to legend, a thousand years ago, there were several families in Douluo Continent who delved into the research of storage soul guides. However, due to some chaos, those families who originally focused on soul guides were destroyed in the turmoil. Only a few descendants survived, but the technology of soul guides was completely discontinued.

In the past few hundred years, some people have excavated some soul guides through archaeological methods for research, but the research has not been smooth, and they have only barely developed some technology to maintain the soul guides.

The soul guides in major auction houses today are basically all in shells. They appear to be new on the surface, but if you remove the shells, you will find that they are all antiques dug out from the ground.

Some basic knowledge about soul guides has been collected in the City of Blacksmiths, but it is extremely fragmented and is basically deduced by blacksmiths when they disassembled the rare materials in the soul guides.

When Chen Ming asked if there was any information about soul guide devices such as soul guide ray guns, Lou Gao looked confused and said that this was the first time he had heard of this strange name in his life.

In the eyes of the people in Douluo Continent, soul guides refer to storage soul guides, and they have no idea that soul guides actually have other functions.

After getting the answer, Chen Ming gave up and decided to go to the future Sun-Moon Continent to take a look and learn the technology of soul guides or bring back a few soul guides to continue studying battle armor.

He borrowed an underground secret room from Lou Gao, and then began his own retreat, preparing to go to the Sun and Moon Continent.

In the secret room with lead walls, Chen Ming lit the oil lamp and took out the Blue Silver Emperor from the storage soul guide on his waist.

After being taken out by Chen Ming, the Blue Silver Emperor skillfully wrapped its grass leaves around Chen Ming's wrist. The grass leaves rubbed against Chen Ming's palm, begging Chen Ming to give it vitality.

Although the Blue Silver Emperor had been thrown into the storage soul guide by Chen Ming for some time before, and was only taken out every few days to be fed with soul power and vitality, and had not been planted in the soil or watered or fertilized, the current condition of the Blue Silver Emperor was better than when it was planted in the cave before.

The original length of the Blue Silver Emperor's leaves was about ten centimeters. Under Chen Ming's feeding over this period of time, it has doubled to one inch. The golden threads on the leaves have also become thicker, and the originally fragile and dormant origin has also regained a certain degree of activity.

(End of this chapter)