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Chapter 143 Xiao Jin's Consecutive Failures (Please Subscribe!!!)

Dugu Bo stood silently to the side, watching Xiao Jin complete all the preparations.

Then, Xiao Jin actually took out a forging hammer and smashed it hard onto the red-hot silver.

Xiao Jin was shocked.

"Roar!" (The interference from the ice and fire powers is huge!)

With just one strike of his hammer, the power of ice and fire surged into the sunken silver, following its deformation.

Although the two forces intertwined and achieved a balance, they were not completely fused. The fire attribute naturally merged into the slush, causing a significant change in the slush's properties. The ice attribute further cooled down another part of the slush, disrupting its internal characteristics and directly leading to the failure of the forging process.

boom!
The sunken silver exploded.

The extreme power of ice and fire has a tremendous impact on metals at high temperatures, causing a qualitative change in the metal's structure.

Dugu Bo breathed a sigh of relief.

so far so good.

This bear looks dull and stupid; how could it possibly be a forger?

As soon as the power of ice and fire surged into the sunken silver, even Dugu Bo, an outsider who knew nothing about forging, was able to react instantly and come up with multiple solutions.

First, with the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear's talent, the soul power injected into the silver would be enough to temporarily increase the strength of the metal, preventing it from exploding. As for whether the forging technique could save the silver, Dugu Bo didn't know, since he wasn't a blacksmith.

But since it is said to create life, the life energy here must be able to be absorbed by the sunken silver during the forging process. So as long as the metal is temporarily saved, then theoretically the life energy can be used to repair the metal.

Second, quickly swing the second hammer and try to adjust the power of ice and fire to counteract the effects of the ice and fire power that had just surged into the sunken silver with the first hammer.

As I said before, as long as the metal isn't immediately scrapped, it can be salvaged.

Of course, Dugu Bo didn't know much about forging; he was just speculating based on his own ideas.

Xiao Jin stood there, lost in thought.

He looked at the metal fragments around him, scratched his head, and looked distressed.

Su Ming hadn't taught this kind of thing.

Seeing the bear so dazed, Dugu Bo couldn't help but speak up and tell Xiao Jin about his two thoughts.

Xiao Jin's eyes lit up upon hearing this, and she gave Dugu Bo a thumbs up.

"Roar!" (As expected of a Title Douluo!)

Xiao Jin adopted the first method provided by Dugu Bo.

Then, the sunken silver still exploded.

how could be?

It has no effect?

Dugu Bo, seeing this, did not understand why this was happening.

At this moment, Su Ming, who was meditating with his eyes closed, spoke.

“Rare metals have the potential to become living beings, but they do not have this potential before they are imbued with spirit. If the imbuing is not completed, they naturally cannot absorb life energy to nurture themselves.”

Xiao Jin suddenly realized.

It turned out to be the case.

He looked at Su Ming, but found that Su Ming had no further instructions, so he could only look at Dugu Bo with longing eyes.

"Try my second method first: adjust the position as much as possible with each hammer blow, and then imbue it with spirit."

Upon hearing this, Xiao Jin also picked up a forging hammer and began to try it out.

He used the forging method taught by Su Ming, which allows for high-frequency forging and then changes the position of the metal—rotary forging.

Rotary forging, also known as spinning forging, involves using two hammers to strike the sides of a rare metal alternately, causing it to rotate. Because the sides are being struck, the angles need to be constantly adjusted during the forging process, which is very time-consuming.

At this moment, Xiao Jin was striking the spinning silver with two hammers, alternating constantly.

His intuition is terrifying, but his adaptability is lacking. However, given a clear framework, his execution ability is extraordinary.

The sunken silver spun two and a half times, a total of ten times, before finally exploding again.

Xiao Jin scratched his head, didn't look at Dugu Bo, and took out a piece of sunken silver to try again.

He tried five times in a row, each time persisting for a longer period of time, making an astonishingly large improvement that allowed Dugu Bo to directly experience his forging skills.

"This bear has been trained very successfully by Su Ming. It is not very pioneering, but its learning ability is really strong."

Dugu Bo noticed that Xiao Jin only started trying to imbue his spirit after he had consistently struck the hammer more than fifty times in two sessions.

After fifty hammer blows, almost every part of the smelted silver was struck, and there were obvious changes in the internal texture, which was enough to complete the enchanting process.

So, on his ninth forging attempt, Xiao Jin took out a piece of heavy silver, gritted his teeth, roared, and split his own spiritual essence into the forging hammer, smashing it into the heavy silver. Then, using the spinning forging method, he quickly fused his spiritual essence with the heavy silver.

While repeatedly refining the power of ice and fire, Su Ming also observed the situation and breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing this scene.

He hadn't expected Dugu Bo to have so much free time that he would actually go and instruct a bear on forging techniques.

An amateur and a spirit, a human and a bear, who even have communication difficulties, are able to get together to conduct research.

If Dugu Bo doesn't help Xiao Jin analyze it, Su Ming will. He just wants Xiao Jin to make more mistakes so that he can observe whether the power of ice and fire has any other effects on the metal being forged.

"Roar!"

Xiao Jin roared, and with his last hammer blow, instead of striking the side, he smashed it into the center of the sinking silver, bringing it to a stop.

The sunken silver has undergone obvious changes, echoing the small gold in the distance.

Seeing this scene, Dugu Bo inexplicably understood the meaning of imbuing with spirit.

"It imbues the metal with a spirit, creating the foundation for subsequent forging."

Dugu Bo finally understood where Su Ming got the confidence to say that he had overcome the bottleneck of the Thousand Refinements with Spirit, and that his subsequent forging techniques would improve rapidly.

This isn't just a bottleneck.

This directly provides the foundation for subsequent forging.

Only with a solid foundation can subsequent construction proceed.

Spirit metals are based on spirit, and imbuing them with spirit is to give rare metals this foundation.

After gaining a spirit, the sunken silver was indeed different. It began to digest the life essence and absorb the life essence that had just entered the sunken silver along with the power of ice and fire.

"Silly bear, hurry up and help it absorb life energy!"

Xiao Jin was scolded by Dugu Bo, but dared not refute him and hurriedly began the next stage of forging.

Unfortunately, because he was too excited, he missed the opportunity, and the power of ice and fire destroyed the sunken silver again, detonating it.

He got carried away with his success.

A phrase that Su Ming often said came to Xiao Jin's mind.

He silently took out a new piece of sunken silver.

This time we must succeed!

Soon, Xiao Jin realized that he had set his goal too early.

The power of ice and fire interfered not only with the sunken silver before it was imbued with spirit, but also with every hammer blow after it was imbued with spirit, requiring adjustments to be made to better suit the current environment due to the presence of the power of ice and fire.

Then he failed four more times.

At this point, Xiao Jin understood why Su Ming only needed him to practice five times a day.

The so-called five times are not the initial nine forgings without any spirit infusion, but rather the five forgings after spirit infusion.

After five failures, his spirit began to become unstable and he needed to return to Su Ming's spiritual sea to recuperate.

"Roar!" (Goodbye, senior!)
(End of this chapter)