Douluo: From Rusted Spear to Emperor-Slaying Spear

Chapter 3 Soul Forging, Initial Evolution of the Rust Spear
After returning to the village, Ji Wuming quickly boiled the herbs and started a new round of medicinal baths. Now that his martial soul had awakened, he could also feel the existence of soul power in his body.
Ji Wuming closed his eyes slightly and tried to enter a meditative state, feeling the flow of soul power in his body and the absorption of external spiritual energy.
Due to his low innate soul power, his soul power cultivation was slow. In addition, he did not have a systematic meditation method, so his soul power cultivation speed was only slightly faster than a snail's pace. He even had to rest for half an hour every once in a while.
"Alas! It's a pity that besides blacksmithing skills, I don't know any techniques like Tai Chi or Xingyiquan. Otherwise, my soul power training speed would definitely be able to reach a higher level."

However, this preliminary meditation practice is not without its advantages. Through meditation, the body can better absorb the medicinal power of the medicinal bath, and physical strengthening can achieve twice the result with half the effort. At the same time, it can also heal some hidden injuries caused by blacksmithing.

It has to be said that the herbs sold in the city’s pharmacies are much stronger than ordinary yams.

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the next morning,
The familiar sound of hammering iron could be heard again in the Ji family's blacksmith shop, but this time the sound was somewhat weak.

"Bang, bang, bang—"

The rust spear broke again. This was the fifth time it had broken within half an hour.

"The hardness of this broken spear is still too weak, especially the spear handle. If the hammering force is even slightly greater, it will inevitably break."

Ji Wuming wiped away the beads of sweat from his forehead, looked at the rusty spear that he had summoned again, and fell into deep thought.

Isn't the weapon forging process just a repetitive cycle of smelting iron, forging, and quenching? Why doesn't this apply to martial spirit forging?
Just a moment later, four words suddenly appeared in his mind: soul forging. Suddenly, Ji Wuming seemed to have a sudden epiphany.

"Soul forging. Martial spirits are different from ordinary weapons. The iron melting step is not necessary at all. Simply forging will inevitably cause the rust spear to fatigue and break. But if you continuously send soul power to the martial spirit while forging, will there be..."

After coming up with an idea, Ji Wuming quickly put it into practice. He wanted to practice a soul forging mode that would allow him to hammer while transferring soul power to maintain the basic state of his martial soul. This forging method would inevitably require practicing the method of distraction control, and this distraction control technique was not unique to the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect.
The so-called distraction control is essentially multitasking. Anyone who devotes a certain amount of time to it can succeed in practicing it, and the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect has only further developed the basic technique of multitasking to achieve the effect of multitasking.

At present, he only needs to master the method of multitasking, which is one of the necessary abilities to become a good blacksmith. As an excellent blacksmith, Ji Wuming is naturally very familiar with the method of multitasking.

Ji Wuming immediately began to transfer soul power to the Rust Spear martial spirit and quickly hammered the spear handle. If the Rust Spear was to be truly effective, the hole in the spear handle must be filled.

"bang bang bang..."

After a dozen hammer strikes, the larger hole on the spear handle had shrunk a circle, but the rusty spear did not break. Ji Wuming was delighted.

"Hahaha--"

"Sure enough, this is how soul forging should be done!"

After more than 200 hammer strikes, the two small holes at the end of the spear handle disappeared successfully, and the spear handle was shortened by about two or three centimeters. Just half an hour later, as Ji Wuming's soul power gradually overdrew and he could no longer maintain the soul forging state, he took a closer look and saw that the rusty spear was recovering to its original state at a subtle speed.

"It can change the form of the martial soul, and the deformation of the martial soul can automatically recover. As expected, the martial soul is an external manifestation of one's own soul power, and it is extremely difficult to change!"

Ji Wuming was speechless when he looked at the current situation. He had spent nearly an hour hammering, but it was all in vain.

"I am unwilling, I am unwilling..."

With a ruthless heart, Ji Wuming put down the hammer and grasped the spear blade tightly with his left hand, trying to crush it directly. The rusty blade pierced his palm, and a few drops of blood dripped into the spear. The elastic deformation speed of the rusty spear suddenly stopped.

Seeing this, Ji Wuming looked at his injured left hand, then looked at the rusty spear on the anvil, jumped happily and said,
"I didn't expect the blood-sharpening method for iron tools could have this effect. Could this be one of the hidden characteristics of my martial spirit?"

But no matter what, the method of forging soul power to change the form of martial soul is feasible, coupled with his own blood sacrifice method of sharpening the blade,
Perhaps it is really possible to create a peerless treasure based on the martial spirit, and the characteristics currently revealed by the Broken Spear can develop in the direction of the Emperor Killing War Spear.
The Emperor-Slaying Spear, the Feather Emperor's natal immortal weapon, contains a monstrous murderous aura and is bright red in color, as if wrapped in a thick layer of blood mist. It is extremely mysterious and terrifying, but its attack power is also astonishing.

After Ji Wuming had a clear goal, he was like a chicken with blood, sitting cross-legged, quickly recovering his soul power, and thus embarking on a new round of soul power forging.

When he went to sleep at night, in order to prevent all his efforts during the day from being wasted, Ji Wuming did not store his martial soul in his body.
Instead, he always kept it in an outward state and maintained a small amount of soul power supply to prevent the Rust Spear from automatically dissipating due to lack of soul power. In order to prevent it from being lost, he almost fell asleep holding his martial soul.

In this way, the soul forging lasted for nearly three months. Although the soul power did not increase significantly during these three months, the rust spear had been completely renewed.

The spear handle was shortened by two inches, and the dozens of holes disappeared. The blades on both sides of the spear tip were also made extremely sharp. After three months of blood sacrifice, the entire spear body was already covered with a light layer of blood mist.
The biggest advantage of the rust spear is the rust. In order to maximize the spear's stabbing properties, Ji Wuming has distributed the rust on the tip of the spear to maximize its power.

Today was the first day of school for the Junior Soul Master Academy in Hanhai City. Ji Wuming simply packed a few clothes and a year's living expenses, and got on the carriage with a 2.5-meter-long spear on his back.

Seeing this abrupt scene, the village chief couldn't help but say, "Xiao Ji, if you carry your martial spirit with you into the academy, it might cause some unnecessary trouble!"

As the village chief who often paid attention to Ji Wuming, he couldn't help but feel happy for him when he saw such a big change in his martial soul. It turned out that an excellent blacksmith would create another miracle.

"Grandpa Village Chief, my martial soul must never be able to stop being out of body, otherwise all my three months of hard work will be in vain. Don't worry, as long as other children don't provoke me, I won't hurt them!" Ji Wuming said with a very firm look in his eyes.

At present, what Ji Wuming needs most is the meditation method taught by the academy, not the tricks played by six-year-old children.
During this period, due to the lack of meditation, his innate soul power was low and his cultivation speed was slow. Only meditation could increase his soul power cultivation speed.

(End of this chapter)