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Chapter 144 The Ultimate in Spirit Empowerment (Please Subscribe!!!)

Half a month passed in the blink of an eye.

Su Ming successfully adapted to the ice and fire power at the core of the valley.

"Xiao Jin, your skills are still not good enough. You need to practice more in the future."

"Hoo!" (Understood.)

Xiao Jin looked dejected.

After half a month and a full seventy-five attempts at forging with spirit, he, the dignified Little Gold, still failed to achieve the Thousand Forging with Spirit even once!
It's infuriating!

At the same time, Xiao Jin also realized that he was not a one-in-a-million genius.

"Roar."

He let out a weak cry.

(I'm just an ordinary blacksmith.)
As for those blacksmiths and spirits who are even worse than him?
That's mediocre.

Seeing Xiao Jin so frustrated, Su Ming couldn't bear it. He stepped forward, patted the bear's head, and said, "You've done well enough. When your cultivation level is higher and your intelligence is more developed, you'll be able to adapt to situations more freely."

"Roar!" (Blacksmith, hurry up!)
Even with Su Ming's comforting words, Xiao Jin still had to face reality.

This period of experimentation taught him a lesson: he wasn't the kind of bear who liked to use his brain.

As for advancements in forging techniques, those still depend on the forging masters.

As long as the blacksmith masters the latest technology and can teach him, then Xiao Jin will be able to do everything.

A blacksmith's skill in blacksmithing means they can teach it.

Blacksmith training = Xiao Jin's mastery.

The blacksmith's mastery equals Xiao Jin's mastery.

Blacksmith = Xiao Jin.

Blacksmith's pioneering work = Little Gold's pioneering work.

perfect!

Xiao Jin sat on the ground with a smug look on his face, facing the forging table, ready to watch Su Ming try it out.

Dugu Bo also became interested at this moment, wanting to see if Su Ming, the Soul Master, could perform better than the Soul Spirit Xiao Jin.

Su Ming took a deep breath and adjusted his mindset.

Xiao Jin had spent some time observing his forging process over the past two weeks, and had a general understanding of the impact of ice and fire power on forging.

Open the furnace.

The power of ice and fire in this valley has the greatest impact on forging. In theory, he could use the three powers of ice and fire to minimize their influence by leveraging Su Ming's ability to control the elements.

However, he did not choose to do so.

Xiao Jin helped him try and fail, but he didn't intend to follow the conventional forging method. He solved the problems Xiao Jin encountered one by one to complete the forging.

He has a completely new idea.

This time, he will use the power of ice and fire!

"Xiao Jin, stop watching the show and help me imbue it with spirit."

Su Ming called over Xiao Jin, who was watching the show from the side.

Do you really think your Soul Master needs to try multiple times like you before they can begin imbuing a Soul with a spirit?

Xiao Jin got up and ran happily to a spot not far from Su Ming's forging platform. This distance allowed him to transfer his spiritual energy to Su Ming at any time, so that Su Ming could use this portion of spiritual energy to imbue his spirit.

Su Ming was completely focused.

He carefully observed the molten silver in the furnace.

After the smelted silver was heated and softened, turning completely red, a forging hammer appeared in his hand.

He did not use a forging tool, nor did he hold a hammer in each hand; instead, he held a heavy hammer with both hands.

boom!
The forging hammer struck the slush.

Instantly, the power of ice and fire surged in, and Su Ming's eyes burned brightly.

Dugu Bo, standing to the side, also held his breath.

He doesn't understand forging.

At this moment, Su Ming's experience was almost identical to Xiao Jin's first failure.

However, he also knew that Su Ming wouldn't make the same mistake.

So, what is he going to do?
boom!
Before Su Ming could move his hammer, a double image appeared after his forging hammer struck and landed on the sunken silver.

boom!
Another double image fell.

Three-tiered hammer.

With three consecutive hammer blows, thanks to Su Ming's control, the subsequent two blows did not completely replicate the path of the first blow. They struck the sunken silver in turn, minimizing the damage to its internal structure caused by the ice and fire power. Taking a deep breath, Su Ming swung his hammer again.

"Xiao Jin!"

he shouted.

Xiao Jin and he worked together seamlessly, and Xiao Jin successfully transferred the spiritual energy to him.

A spiritual radiance shines on the forging hammer.

boom!
The spirit was hammered into the sunken silver.

Boom boom!

Two more hammer blows struck, further infusing the spiritual energy into the sunken silver while minimizing the damage caused by the power of ice and fire.

Moreover, if one could replace Su Ming's perception and sense the changes inside the sunken silver, one would find that the destruction caused by the ice and fire power was very uniform, so uniform that once the sunken silver broke, it would turn into fragments.

boom!
boom!
Su Ming's forging hammer pounded down again and again. After nine hammer blows, plus the stacked hammer blows, for a total of twenty-seven blows, the surface of the slush silver was covered with cracks.

Xiao Jin was breathing rapidly, under immense pressure.

His spirituality, acting as a frontal tentacle, allowed him to perceive the changes within the sunken silver in a comprehensive and profound way.

He was eager to absorb all this knowledge, like a sponge.

Su Ming's control = Xiao Jin's control!

This is not something said casually.

Unbeknownst to Dugu Bo, he had already arrived at the other side of the forging platform and was observing the sunken silver up close.

The sunken silver is on the verge of breaking apart.

However, he could sense that a qualitative change was about to occur.

boom!
Su Ming slammed the forging hammer down with a fierce blow.

Fragments of the sunken silver shot out, yet Su Ming's forging hammer still fell, making a series of thuds.

This is--

Dugu Bo's breath almost caught in his throat as he stared intently at the area beneath Su Ming's forging hammer.

It was a glowing substance.

The sunken silver shattered, but Su Ming preserved its unique internal structure, which was perfectly integrated with the spirituality. At this moment, it retained the most essential part of the sunken silver, but was transformed by the spirituality of the soul and presented as an energy state.

He has lost his physical appearance and is now only in the form of an energy body!

In Douyu III, with just a simple soul spirit array, this would be a metal soul spirit.

Su Ming was also somewhat excited at this moment. Looking at the mass of energy-state metal on the forging table, his breathing became rapid.

The initial goal of "Embracing Spirits" was to provide the foundation for forging rare metals of the present era. Now, with the support of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well environment, Su Ming has developed this technology to its fullest potential.

"This piece of sunken silver can now be considered a life embryo, and it is very stable. It can even be said to have some of the characteristics of spirit forging."

What is Spirit Forging?
It is the process of creating life, truly giving life to rare metals.

But how do we specifically give it life?
In essence, it involves communicating with the spirituality within the metal, perfectly preserving its properties while removing impurities, ultimately leaving only the spiritual metal that can be transformed into an energy state at any time.

At this moment, Su Ming had already completed this step before the Thousand Refinements Spirit appeared.

After admiring his work for a moment, Su Ming knew he couldn't delay any longer.

He is still forging.

If we stop now, this embryonic metal life will perish; that would be truly cruel.

boom!
Boom boom!

He actively drew in the power of ice and fire, which converged into red and white colors and merged into the embryo in front of him.

"A thousand-times-forged spirit is born!"

Su Ming shouted, and the embryo in front of him suddenly burst forth with a six-foot-long spiritual light.

This is a Saint-grade, thousand-times-refined item. Even in the Douluo Continent III era, it would be considered a true top-tier thousand-times-refined item, because the spiritual radiance of some spirit-forged metals is only about six feet.

On the six-foot-long pillar of light, the forces of ice and fire intertwined and swirled, forming magnificent patterns.

Su Ming did not stop and continued to hone his skills.

Half an hour later, under Su Ming's relentless forging, the six-foot-long beam of light was once again slammed into the energy-state of the sunken silver in front of him.

"Spirit Forging Creation!"

The extreme compression led to the extreme explosion. As Su Ming's final hammer fell, a special wave emanated from the sunken silver, and a vibrant life appeared in the valley, cheering and jumping for joy.

The sunken silver came to life. It actively absorbed the power of ice and fire, forming intricate patterns on its surface. At the same time, it absorbed a large amount of life energy, nearly half of which was then fed back to Su Ming.

Even so, its life force is rapidly increasing.

(End of this chapter)