Douluo: Legend of the Dragon King - The Voice of the Purple Emperor

The calcination time of meteorite steel is relatively easy to determine.

A moment later, Gu You pressed a button, and the meteorite steel, which had been heated to a bright red, rose up.

Gu You opened his eyes almost instantly and gripped his pair of forging hammers with both hands.

Then Gu You held the forging hammer horizontally above the meteorite steel and began hammering.

Instead of swinging the forging hammer down with full force as in normal forging, he hovered the two hammers above the sunken silver, using only the movement of his wrists to control the forging hammers to gently tap the meteorite steel.

What is Soul Forging? It's about imbuing metal with a soul. Simply put, you have to do it secretly beforehand, and not wait until the metal has a soul and complains that you forged it too hard before you make your plans.

Spirit forging is the process of giving birth to life and intelligence, while soul forging is the process of refining a truly intelligent soul.

To give an example, if you hammer and hurt this stone, once it has a soul, it certainly won't seem to be of high quality. Because the ore itself is in a bad mood.

Therefore, every blacksmith who reaches the level of a master craftsman treats the ore as their own life. They cannot tolerate even the slightest mistake; this is the spirit of forging!

Under Gu You's seemingly effortless tap, the meteorite rapidly shrank in size. Even more strangely, it became increasingly bright. Faintly, one could even see some fine and regular patterns appearing on the meteorite.

Gu You's wrist began to shake faster and faster, producing a series of dense sounds like raindrops pattering on banana leaves. What was even more peculiar was that the dense tapping was very rhythmic, as if it were the sound of a percussion instrument.

Because of the incredible speed of his forging hammers, the meteorite steel was completely enveloped by their shadows. At this moment, Gu You didn't seem like a blacksmith, but rather a sculptor, carefully carving the metal.

In the past, all forging methods directly removed impurities and refined the material. But in Gu You's view, they all revolved around the topic of life.

What is life? Life is having emotions.

Once the ore has acquired a kind of feeling, you need to forge it in the way it prefers. The better the method, the higher the quality.

Therefore, to forge a rare metal well, one must meticulously refine it from the very beginning, carefully considering the forging techniques that the ore prefers. Only then can a true leap in quality be achieved.

For example, if there are impurities in a meridian in the human body, forceful squeezing can expel them. However, excessive force may damage the meridian. But if a gentler approach is used, gradually clearing the meridian and then flushing it clean with pure blood, the impurities are removed, the meridian is unobstructed, and the meridian itself is perfectly intact.

This is all about the difference in how you choose. If you choose the right way, you're guaranteed to succeed, and you might even make a big leap forward.

At this moment, Gu You was completely immersed in the process. What should have been a quick refining process took him three times longer to complete. If one could measure it carefully now, it would be apparent that the meteorite steel refined by Gu You using this method was actually larger in volume than normal. In other words, normal refining would extract some of the valuable components, but his method did not.

Without a doubt, Gu You has found the path to forging this metal. It is progressing steadily.

It took a full quarter of an hour, when suddenly, a dazzling black light rose up.

When the black light appeared, a dragon's roar could even be clearly heard inside the forging room. The black light soared into the sky like a dragon.

A thousand times forging imbues it with spirit!

However, it would be quite amazing if a normal Thousand-Refined Spirit could rise five feet, but Gu You's black light rose more than ten feet high, soaring upwards and swaying and waving, like a black dragon dancing in the wind.

Gu You took a deep breath, and a pair of life-sustaining hammers rose up along with the black light, unfolding on either side of his body. His eyes also brightened.

The forging hammers in his hands arced through the air, and before the black light could fall, his life essence hammer had already been swung out again.

Two beams of light fell simultaneously, striking the thousand-refined meteorite steel with a sound much brighter than before.

Looking at the meteorite steel now, it was covered with a layer of fine, dense cloud-like patterns. The patterns themselves radiated a dazzling brilliance, with a flowing halo, as if it had transformed into a different metal.

Ancient travel is no longer using only weak power, but has increased its efforts.

At this moment, there's no need to worry about the metal's feelings anymore. Just like a father's son, you only realize how good it is after you've been hit!

With bright eyes and his spiritual world fully unfolded, Gu You's spiritual power began to surge forth, gently flowing into the meteorite steel along with his pair of forging hammers.

Soul power infused, spiritual power infused! Gu You began the most important process of spirit forging: the enlightenment of life.

Gu You swung his Life Essence Hammer with remarkable stability, not as lightly as before, nor as heavily as it had appeared. He simply delivered each strike normally, landing it on the meteorite steel.

The silver cloud patterns on the meteorite gradually deformed, turning from smooth to twisted. Faintly, with the infusion of ancient wandering soul power, it began to undulate with a rhythmic halo.

"Buzz—" Just then, the meteorite steel emitted a soft buzzing sound, followed by a slight vibration. The cloud patterns on it seemed to come alive, flowing and changing, vaguely revealing the shape of a dragon. The previously faint dragon roar instantly became more pronounced.

A feeling of jubilation welled up within them!

It only took him two minutes to go from Thousand Refinement to Spirit Refinement!

Gu You paused, a faint smile on his face, as if listening to the jubilant cheers of the meteorite steel, like a newborn child showing off to its father.

The next moment, his aura changed drastically. A strong surge of blood energy erupted, and rhomboid scales appeared, giving him an aura of formidable power.

With his arms outstretched, Gu You trembled slightly, and the fluctuations of his blood and qi became even more intense. Colorful light mist swirled around his body, and his eyes also turned colorful.

Just then, Gu You's Life Essence Hammer moved again. This time, it was imbued with the power of his blood and qi, turning it into a rainbow of colors. It crashed down with tremendous force, no longer as light as before, but incredibly heavy.

With each hammer blow, the entire forging room trembled slightly, and the deep rumbles were like the explosion of a fixed-mount soul-guided cannon.

Gu You steadied himself. This time, after being stuck at the blacksmith level for so many years, he had finally achieved sainthood! (End of Chapter)