Douluo Continent: This Soul Master is Too Bizarre and Unpredictable

Chapter 275 Elemental Holy Academy, Spirit Gold

Time flies, and a year and a half has passed in the blink of an eye.

A lot has happened on the mainland in the past year and a half.

Shortly after Qian Renxue's infiltration plan failed, Emperor Xueye, who was poisoned and had no cure, passed away. The fourth prince, Xue Beng, who had just ascended to the position of crown prince, ascended the throne and became Emperor Xue Beng of the Tiandou Empire.

Although he ascended the throne hastily and had no prior foundation, after becoming Ning Fengzhi's disciple, the newly enthroned Avalanche Emperor quickly consolidated his imperial power. While he may not have completely taken control of the empire, he at least became the sole object of loyalty for the Heaven Dou Empire's million-strong elite army, the Imperial Guard, and the Royal Knights.

With the imperial power secure, the strong support of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School and the backing of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and having just defeated the Spirit Hall—whose four Title Douluos, including two elders, were forced to flee in panic—the emperor, feeling that the Spirit Hall was nothing special, immediately launched a plan to expel the Spirit Hall from the empire after taking power.

Of course, the young Avalanche Emperor was not completely out of his mind. He did not directly use force to drive them away, but gave the Spirit Hall three months and ordered it to completely withdraw from the Heaven Dou Empire.

Subsequently, the Heaven Dou Empire signed an alliance agreement with the Star Luo Empire against the Spirit Hall, and the two empires formed a defensive alliance.

The alliance agreement is valid for thirty years. During the agreement period, the two empires cannot attack each other. If the Spirit Hall attacks the Heaven Dou or Star Luo Empire, the other empire must directly declare war on the Spirit Hall and send a large army to jointly attack the Spirit Hall.

However, the agreement stipulates that if either party to the alliance takes the initiative to attack the Spirit Hall, the other party in the defensive alliance is not required to fulfill the agreement.

The two great empires formed a defensive alliance, and various forces on the continent also showed signs of forming an alliance. The Spirit Hall did not act rashly and withdrew completely from the Heaven Dou Empire before the three-month period expired.

At the same time, Tang Hao, the Haotian Douluo, and Tang San, the son of the Blue Silver Emperor, the nephew of Tang Xiao, the sect master of the Haotian Sect, one of the three great twin martial soul owners in the world, the protagonist of the original timeline, and a visitor from another world, returned to the Haotian Sect and became, well, an outer disciple of the Haotian Sect.

A year ago, Feng Zhen, the dean of Shenfeng Academy, became a nine-ring titled Douluo with the title: Linfeng.

Shortly afterward, three of the five elemental academies of the Heavenly Dou Empire—Blazing Fire Academy, Heavenly Water Academy, and Divine Wind Academy—jointly issued a statement announcing the merger and reorganization of the three elemental academies into the Elemental Holy Academy.

Tyrannosaurus Douluo serves as the Dean of the Elemental Sacred Academy, while Blazing Fire Douluo, Frost Douluo, and Wind Douluo serve as Vice Deans. The entire Elemental Sacred Academy has four Douluo in charge, and it also has large-scale simulated training grounds for the four elements of fire, water, ice, and wind. All talented Soul Masters are welcome to enroll.

Meanwhile, Qian Renxue, the young master of the Spirit Hall, sincerely knelt before the angel statue in the Douluo Hall. After 108 days, she successfully began the Angel God Trial and became the successor of the Angel God's position.

Six months ago, after a long period of deduction by someone, the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiend Hammer, a secret metal forging technique of the Soul Forging level including the Fusion Forging technique, was born.

A month or so later, unbeknownst to the world, the Douluo Continent welcomed its first Soul Forging Grandmaster in history.

A month ago, a Grandmaster surnamed Mu, who wished to remain anonymous, deduced the method for manufacturing three-word battle armor using his innate abilities. This marked a qualitative breakthrough in the previously unknown high-precision soul guidance technology of the Douluo Continent, and the countdown to the advent of three-word battle armor began.

In the Northern Province, at the Elemental Holy Academy, in a forging room, Mu Yang, holding a spirit gold engraving knife, was inscribing a soul-guiding array on a piece of battle armor.

"The three-word battle armor is complete!"

After a long while, Mu Yang let out a long sigh, put down the spirit gold carving knife in his hand, and stared intently at the various parts of the Soul Forged Spirit Gold Battle Armor placed on the forging table in front of him.

In the field of metal forging, high-quality alloys can exhibit performance superior to most single metals at the same forging level.

In the past, when forging techniques were still known as spirit forging, Mu Yang had not considered the issue of rare metal alloys because the performance of a single rare metal was not bad, and therefore had not deduced the secret method of metal melting and forging.

According to later classifications, metal forging grades are divided into Hundred Forging, Thousand Forging, Spirit Forging, Soul Forging, and Heaven Forging, from low to high.

Metal fusion forging refers to the fusion and forging of two or more metals. It is not included in the classification of forging levels. Metals that can be fused and forged can be at the Hundred Forging level, the Soul Forging level, or even the Heaven Forging level.

Before reaching the Soul Forging level, since rare metals themselves have excellent properties and forging level limitations, there is no need to specifically pursue fusion forging metals.

However, once the forging level reaches the Soul Forging level, apart from a few very precious metals, the performance of most rare metals becomes somewhat insufficient. In order to better utilize the performance of Soul Forged metals, it is very necessary to replace the original single metal with a high-quality fusion forging alloy.

Mu Yang himself had no forging apprenticeship and did not master excellent alloy formulas.

If it were any other Grandmaster of Soul Forging, without a master, the only way to obtain a high-quality alloy formula would be through tireless experimentation and a bit of luck, just like the researchers in his previous life in modern society.

But for Mu Yang, a high-quality forging alloy formula was all he needed; it was a simple matter.

Mu Yang bought a small amount of every rare metal available on the market.

After testing the approximate properties of various rare metals, the innate ability was used to deduce the rare metal alloys that would have the greatest amplifying effect on the three elemental attributes of ice, fire, and wind, as well as the ice flame attribute formed by the fusion of ice and fire.

The deduction was very efficient. On the first day, the rare metal alloy with the strongest amplification effect on ice elements was deduced, and on the second day, the alloy with the strongest amplification effect on fire elements was deduced.

Then there were no further deductions for the third and fourth days, because whether it was ice-type amplification or fire-type amplification, the most effective one was an alloy forged from refined gold and magic silver.

After much deliberation, and considering the metallic properties of this alloy, Mu Yang named it Lingjin, meaning a metal that can flexibly amplify all elements, or simply Lingjin.

What Mu Yang, who had never read "The Legend of the Golden Dragon," didn't know was that in the later Douluo Continent, the spirit-forging alloy, which was forged from refined gold and demonic silver and could amplify all elements, was also called spirit gold.

As expected, when Mu Yang forged the spirit metal, he discovered that its metallic properties were indeed not limited to amplification of ice and fire elements, but included amplification of all elements, including multiple fused elements.

Furthermore, the elemental amplification effect of Spirit Gold is extremely strong, with an elemental amplification ratio exceeding that of Blue Pregnant Copper at the same forging level in terms of soul power amplification.

Therefore, Mu Yang didn't waste any more time deducing other forging alloys; having spirit gold that could amplify all elements was enough.

Anyway, the battle armor is not for sale, and all the users are his own people. Whether it is himself, his relatives and the high-ranking members of the Elemental Holy Academy, they are all elemental attribute soul masters. As long as he is equipped with the spirit gold battle armor, there is no need to do anything else fancy.

As for why so many battle armors are made of the same material and color? They're all a gaudy, ostentatious gold?

That's alright, it's just battle armor, as long as it works. Anyway, I only wear it when I'm fighting, it's not everyday wear.

Furthermore, although the materials and colors of the battle armor are the same, it does not mean that the styles are exactly the same. They can have their own unique style and characteristics that belong to the wearer.

(End of this chapter)