Douluo: What the hell is the academic master development system?

Chapter 153 The Carving Knife of Life and the Creation of a Thousand Forges

Chen Ping's forging speed is very slow, and the grade of the metal he forges is not high, but so what?

After all, no one in the world has ever truly completed the thousand-fold forging of metal!

Without any guidance, Chen Ping was a pure pioneer, relying on his connection with the metal to find an opportunity to transform the hundred-fold steel in front of him into thousand-fold refined steel.

In the original novel, Tang Hao, one of the so-called three great master craftsmen, once arrogantly said that a blacksmith who forges a divine weapon using top-grade materials is not a master craftsman; only a blacksmith who can forge a divine weapon using ordinary materials is a master craftsman.

But in reality, Tang Hao was just bragging; he couldn't even do what he said!
Not only Tang Hao, but even Tang San later, which of the Peacock Feather, Rain of Pear Blossom Needles, and Buddha's Wrath Lotus he created was made of ordinary rare metals?

The deep-sea sunken silver isn't the end of it; you also need silver mother, which you can easily get your hands on while strolling around town.

Without these rare metals, which would be considered top-tier even in the current Douluo Continent, Tang San's Tang Sect hidden weapons simply couldn't have been made.

At this moment, Chen Ping was actually trying to reach this level.

This realm, which only exists in Tang Hao's mouth, is purely a boast.

A piece of iron ore, riddled with impurities, was crushed, smelted, and transformed into crude iron, which was then delivered to Chen Ping.

Next, the crude iron is repeatedly forged into refined iron, and the refined iron is then skillfully hammered into steel.

Now, after a whole day of forging, this piece of hundred-times-forged steel has shrunk to its limit, rising towards an ever-more perfect state.

Chen Ping could vaguely sense that the piece of refined steel in front of him seemed to be gradually coming to life, a feeling that was truly wondrous and indescribable.

"If you really have life, remember to cultivate yourself to have the properties of high temperature resistance and resistance to metal fatigue."

Suddenly, as if sensing something, Chen Ping muttered something towards the hundred-refined steel in front of him.

In any case, each piece of Thousand-Refined Metal is forged in a different way, and it has to be forged very subjectively based on intuition.

So it's reasonable for him to surpass his predecessors by demanding that the rare metals he forged possess specific sublimation properties and activate "the power of my contemplation," right?
With a flick of his wrist, Chen Ping took out a carving knife that looked like a blue crystal.

Its body looks just like a crystal-clear jade.

Not only is it as clear as crystal, but it also exudes a vibrant energy that is truly captivating.

It was Chen Ping who asked Yan Shaozhe to purify the evil spirits from the carving knife.

Although he had obtained the purified spirit carving knife more than half a year ago, Chen Ping did not rashly pierce the spirit carving knife into his forehead to gain another transformative evolution.

The reason is simple: in the original work, the knife that went towards Huo Yuhao's forehead was stabbed by Electrolux, and the vertical pupil on Huo Yuhao's forehead was also stabbed by Electrolux with the Gold of Life. Even the second sea of ​​consciousness and the like cannot escape the shadow of Electrolux.

Without Electrolux, a master in the realm of spirit and soul, Chen Ping really wouldn't dare to act recklessly.

He only had one life, and once it was gone, it was truly gone. Moreover, to be stabbed to death by his own carving knife was a rather ridiculous way to die.

Although he couldn't put the Life Carving Knife into his body for the time being, Chen Ping's other functions of using the Life Carving Knife were still unaffected, such as the replenishment of physical strength and his own life force.

Originally feeling listless and physically exhausted, Chen Ping picked up the Life Gold Carving Knife. Instantly, he felt a warm current flow into his body, a sensation of comfort and ease washing over him. His fatigue vanished quickly, as if it had never existed. This was why Chen Ping could maintain such focus and efficiency in his studies; this thing was like a giant Red Bull – a quick touch when tired and sleepy, and he was instantly revitalized.

It was precisely because of this that Chen Ping understood why the successive owners of the Golden Carving Knife of Life had such high attainments in the field of soul tools. They could use the energy of two people as if they were one. It would be strange if they couldn't achieve results!

Of course, Chen Ping used the Living Spirit Carving Knife in a much more diverse way than its previous owners.

For example, if you've been hammering for ten hours straight and are completely exhausted, restoring your energy and strength at the same time is one way to use it.

However, besides that, another use is to directly grasp the carving knife after high-intensity training and use the life force emanating from the knife to quickly recover from injuries caused by overtraining.

Feeling the warm life force flowing through his body, soothing his tired form, Chen Ping took a deep breath and picked up the hammer again.

At this point, he was mentally prepared to keep hammering, from night until day.

The steel is refined through a hundred forgings and reborn through a thousand forgings. Even though Chen Ping knew very well that the steel in front of him was already infinitely close to the level of a thousand-forged metal, he didn't know which hammer blow would give the steel life.

The next moment, Chen Ping brought down his hammer, just like the thousands and thousands of hammer blows that had fallen before, without much change.

But then, a bright gray light suddenly broke through the fire's seal, illuminating the entire forging room in a bright gray hue.

The silvery-gray gleam was only the size of a palm, but the net weight definitely exceeded thirty pounds of refined iron ingots.

Chen Ping subconsciously used tongs to pick up the iron ingot in front of him and put it into the water quenching pool to quench it. When the hissing sound had basically disappeared, he immediately took it out and put it back into the furnace fire to temper it.

Quenching and tempering are two key processes in metal heat treatment. The former improves the hardness and wear resistance of materials through rapid cooling, while the latter adjusts properties and eliminates stress through heating.

Only then, looking at the refined steel that was being warmed in the furnace and had a pattern-like texture on its surface, did Chen Ping look at his hands in disbelief.

He actually completed the Thousand Refinements so easily?

The metal that is currently being reheated in this small furnace is the first piece of thousand-refined metal on the entire Douluo Continent.
Chen Ping had originally planned to fight all night, but after resting, he completed the feat of creating a thousand lives with a single hammer blow. He found his luck incredible.

But soon, Chen Ping realized that this was definitely not a matter of luck.

Holding the carving knife, which resembled a transparent green crystal, in his hand, Chen Ping was filled with countless thoughts.

If he remembers correctly, this is how Electrolux once commented on the Creature Carving Knife.

This blade, the guardian of life, can not only grant life, but also strip away it.

Its deprivation effect is called Judgment. The life force deprived will be fed back into the Blade of the Living Beings itself.

Besides granting life force to the user, the Life-Carving Knife can also imbue rare metals with life force, directly skipping the most difficult step of the Thousand Refinement Creation in Thousand Refinement Metal?!

Chen Ping's hand trembled involuntarily.

If that's the case, then to some extent, hasn't he found a way to mass-produce thousand-fold forged metal?

(End of this chapter)