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

Chapter 154 Ascended Ascendant Chen Ping

Chen Ping tucked the carving knife into his waistband and focused his attention back on the first piece of thousand-forged metal he had completed.

The thousand-refined metals on Douluo Continent do not require a complicated tempering process, nor do they even require a special tempering furnace. The tempering time required is also much shorter compared to that on Earth.

So, in just a few minutes, Chen Ping, who had just taken the piece of finely forged steel out of the furnace, exclaimed in admiration.

At this moment, the thousand-times-forged steel in front of us showed spiral fractals that resembled complex functions. These were natural textures that were formed inside the metal under geological pressure and finally emerged from the surface of the metal after a thousand forgings.

This is precisely why Chen Ping's thoughts were further confirmed, because he could feel how well the life force in the metal matched the power of the carving knife.

With a single stroke, life is created; with a single stroke, judgment is made. When it comes to metal, the carving knife seems to possess an innate and special control.

The carving knife, resembling a crystal blade, danced and twirled at Chen Ping's fingertips. After a few flourishes, Chen Ping put away the carving knife.

He had no intention of using this piece of refined steel to create the core magic array.

Even without the high-temperature resistance properties, the steel, forged to the point of being a thousand times, is more than enough to meet his needs for turbine blades.

However, when he picked up the piece of thousand-times-forged metal and intended to take a closer look, he did not feel the heat emanating from the piece of thousand-times-forged steel after it had been tempered.

Chen Ping stretched out the back of his hand and placed it above the thousand-times-forged steel in front of him, a look of surprise flashing in his eyes.

The piece of refined steel in front of us seems to have truly developed high-temperature resistant metallic properties, which is why this rare metal is unable to withstand tempering.

This means that the piece of refined steel in front of him can not only be used by Chen Ping to make turbine blades, but also will not need to replace the turbine blades in later upgrades. It is also quite suitable for forging Chen Ping's casting hammer!

The Thousand-Forged Steel Hammer, a high-quality forging hammer, can greatly reduce the speed of Chen Ping's metal refining. If Chen Ping were to use the Thousand-Forged Steel Hammer to refine ordinary thousand-forged steel again, he was certain that he would not need to work from day to night.

Creating something from scratch is the most grueling part.

Tang Wulin has a strong talent for forging, right? If you gave him an ordinary iron hammer when he was just at the stage of being able to refine a thousand-times-forged metal, he would have to struggle and hammer away just like Chen Ping.

Fortunately, Chen Ping's forging hammers usually only require refined iron for the ten or so centimeters-sized part of the hammerhead.

If the three of them were made using the same method of casting two pure steel hammers each, Chen Ping's entire piece of high-quality steel wouldn't even be enough to make one hammer.

Once he was certain that his refined steel had arrived, Chen Ping immediately rolled up his sleeves, revealing an expression of readiness to get to work.

He'd already used the Carving Knife on all the creatures, and his health was fully restored. He couldn't just go back to sleep now; he couldn't fall asleep anyway!
Chen Ping took out standard hexagonal metal blocks from his storage soul tool, and without exception, each of these metal blocks was engraved with dense patterns.

If Qian Duoduo were here, he would be greatly surprised, because these metal blocks are actually a level two soul-guided core formation!

Chen Ping randomly selected a piece from these core formations and infused it with a wisp of soul power, the gentle soul power slowly flowing into it.

Instantly, the core formation emitted a distinct blue light, and the soft halo transformed into a pillar of light that rose a foot high.

The blue aura was straight and firm, without the slightest sway. And the core formation emitted a translucent blue light.

Immediately afterward, Chen Ping placed another core array on top of this one. "Boom!"

Intense flames erupted from above the core array, shooting out eerie blue flames like pillars of light, much like a heavy-duty gas stove used by a hotel chef.

Looking at the powerful core formation, Chen Ping stopped injecting soul power into it and smiled slightly.

This flame jet core array is much simpler to build than the compressors and combustion chambers on Earth, and its energy utilization efficiency is also much higher.

What he needed to do next was to build the air intake, nozzle, and additional soul power combustion chamber around these core arrays, and create the first soul power turbofan engine module on the Douluo Continent.

Thinking back to this, Chen Ping felt a sense of relief. He was fortunate that a certain pink website would occasionally pop up with videos like "How to build a turbojet engine for 50 yuan" or "Making a civilian turbofan engine from a Coke can." Otherwise, as the saying goes, "a trade is like a mountain," and Chen Ping would never have been able to remember how to make turbojet and turbofan engines.

The following morning, Shrek Academy.

It's that time of year again, the most important time of the year, the start of the school year. Early in the morning, a large number of people had already gathered outside Shrek Academy.

Aside from returning students, the vast majority of students were parents or relatives bringing their children to register for the new student entrance examination.

No matter your background or where you got the referral, if you don't pass the entrance exam, you'll all have to go home.

Some senior students were assisting the teachers with the assessment at the school gate. Although they were just students, those who represented Shrek Academy here were at least at the level of a three-ring Soul Master.

Twenty-eight days have passed since the start of the holiday, and in two more days, the new school year will begin.

The new students are busy with their entrance exams, while the returning students are also busy with their own promotion exams.

Only by completing the upgrade assessment can they truly advance to the next grade.
Otherwise, they will end up like the freshmen who failed the entrance exam and have to go home.

At least two-thirds of the returning students have returned to school, and they dare not relax at all during the holiday.

With the start of the new school term approaching, I naturally wanted to come back early to ask the teachers about the assessment content and seek their guidance.

Students with sufficient strength are naturally not afraid of assessments, and may even enjoy them, as they can test their training results.

For the vast majority of trainees, each assessment is a difficult hurdle, so how could they not seize every opportunity?

Just as all the students were walking into the school full of energy, someone walked out of Qian Duoduo's laboratory with two big dark circles under his eyes.

His barely breathing appearance startled many of the senior students who had just returned to the lab.

Many junior students who wanted to visit the Soul Guidance Department as soon as the semester started immediately backed down.

"No, senior, are all the students in our academy's Soul Guidance Department living such a hard life?"

Looking at someone who was taking in a lot of air and exhaling very little, it seemed like they were about to ascend to heaven.

The new students suddenly realized that their talent in the Martial Soul system wasn't so bad after all, and that becoming a Soul Master wasn't absolutely necessary.
(End of this chapter)