Douluo Continent: This Soul Master is Too Bizarre and Unpredictable

Chapter 94 I will never work a job in my life!

Two months later.

Inside the forging room, Mu Yang placed a square, silvery-white metal ingot, shimmering with a soft silver light, into the heating furnace, secretly anticipating what would happen.

Even before he set off to hunt souls, he had already raised his forging skills to the elite level in the industry by diligently practicing the forging secret method he deduced: "Heavenly Gang Hammer".

Although he only knew how to refine metals and did not have the skill to forge them into finished swords and armor, it is undeniable that his forging skills at that time were already at the peak of the Hundred Forging level.

Are elite blacksmiths in mainland China capable of reaching the peak level of hundred-fold forging?

If so, what level would Lou Gao, Titan, and Tang Hao, who are known as the "Three Great Craftsmen of Our Time," be at?

Yes, the three "divine craftsmen" are also at the peak of the Hundred Refinements stage.

According to the classification of metal forging levels in the later continent, forging at the hundred-forging level is just about purifying the metal and removing internal impurities. This is a basic skill for blacksmiths, and blacksmiths who have been in the industry for many years and can be considered industry elites can all do it.

It's not just professional blacksmiths; anyone who can lift a forging hammer can reach the pinnacle of forging if they study diligently. It's just a matter of how much time it takes. For ordinary people, there are no barriers to it.

However, even though they are both at the peak of the Hundred Refinements level, the upper limit of the quality of metal they can forge is different.

Take Tang Hao, for example. As a titled Douluo, his power is far beyond what Mu Yang can currently match.

If Mu Yang could remove the impurities from an iron ingot and compress it to half its original size, then Tang Hao, with his Mighty Miracle Hammer Technique, might be able to compress it to one-tenth of its original size.

In this way, even though both iron ingots are only at the hundred-times-forged level, their quality can be the same.

Even if it's the same batch of steel, homogeneous steel and forged steel are not the same thing.

However, things are different now. Mu Yang has a premonition that from today onwards, in terms of forging skills alone, he will surpass Tang Hao, who is known as one of the world's top craftsmen.

Although it's just blacksmithing, the thought of surpassing the renowned Haotian Douluo in the Soul Master world is still quite exciting!

The difficulty of forging a thousand times is greater than ascending to heaven. This can be seen from the fact that since the birth of the blacksmith profession on the mainland, no one has been able to break through the hundred-forging level.

The difficulty of achieving a thousand-fold forging is not because all blacksmiths in the world are pig-brains and lack the talent to achieve it, but because, apart from him, a transmigrator, no one in the entire Douluo Continent has the concept of a thousand-fold forging.

Without even the concept of "thousand-fold forging," becoming a trailblazer would naturally be a hellish level of difficulty.

But he was different. With his mysterious talent for deduction, he had already obtained the correct answer and even had the solution. All he lacked was to refer to the solution and thoroughly master it.

Fifteen minutes later.

"Tsk~, the master craftsman's path is halfway through, yet he's already missing the fire?"

Looking at the silver ingot that had been heated in the furnace for fifteen minutes and was still only slightly red on the surface, Mu Yang clicked his tongue and couldn't help but complain.

Sure enough, rare metals like sunken silver, which have extremely high melting points, cannot be heated by ordinary flames.

It only has a slight reddish tinge on the surface, which is far from the optimal temperature for forging. It's not much different from directly starting to forge it with a hammer.

Mu Yang had originally planned to use the metal from the first thousand forgings to forge a forging hammer.

After all, if you want to do something well, you must first have the right tools; your tools for making a living certainly can't be bad.

Since the density of the silver is high and its soul power conduction is excellent, he made a special trip to the Qibao Merchants branch in Tianshui City to buy a lot of silver.

Unexpectedly, he overlooked the fact that smelting silver, a rare metal, has an extremely high melting point and is difficult to heat. Before he could even begin forging it, he got stuck on the metal heating stage.

"Change fuel?"

Looking disdainfully at the glowing red-hot coke inside the furnace, Mu Yang had the idea of ​​changing the fuel.

However, Mu Yang quickly rejected this idea.

If he replaced cheap coke with fire crystals, a special mineral that is filled with fire elements and has an extremely high burning temperature but is not very expensive, he probably wouldn't have enough money even if he emptied his pockets!

After all, he will inevitably have to engage in metal forging in the future in order to improve his forging skills.

The amount of fire crystals required for a single forging is not much, but when accumulated, the cost is definitely not small. In addition, rare metals are inherently expensive, and his small savings definitely cannot afford it.

Of course, if he were willing to sell the forged metal, that would be no problem at all; at the very least, he could recoup his investment.

The problem is that he had no intention of selling the forged metal in the future.

Firstly, to avoid being spied on; secondly...

Making money by blacksmithing? Wouldn't that make you a wage earner?

As a transmigrator, Mu Yang firmly believed in one principle: "Working is impossible, I will never work in my life!"

Although he died young in his previous life and transmigrated before he could become a working person, he was not unaware of the grievances of working people.

If he comes to Douluo Continent and still has to work as a laborer, then what's the point of his time travel?

Fuel costs are not cheap. How about we find a fire-type soul master with decent strength to act as a fire starter?

If this were at Blazing Academy, it would be simple; his older cousins ​​could just come and tend the fire.

Both of them are fire-type soul masters, and the battle armor he creates in the future will definitely include the siblings. There's no such thing as a free lunch, so it's only right that they be his "fire-starting boy".

But this is Tianshui Academy, where there are plenty of water or ice-type soul masters, but fire-type soul masters? Sorry, not a single one.

Suddenly, Mu Yang realized something important: it seemed that Tianshui Academy did have fire-type soul masters after all.

Yes, it was none other than himself.

Although he cultivates the "Ice Flame Meditation Technique" and his soul power is a fusion of ice and fire elements, this does not mean that he cannot split the ice flame soul power back into fire and ice elements.

Without much hesitation, Mu Yang picked up the fire tongs next to him and placed the slightly red-hot silver ingot from the heating furnace onto the forging table.

Immediately, icy blue ice flame soul power emanated from his hand. Then, the blue light faded, revealing a crimson glow, and the ice flame soul power transformed into a single fire attribute soul power.

However, at this moment, Mu Yang paused slightly, dissipated the fire-type soul power in his hand, and released the ice-flame soul power again.

Although ice flames do not produce high temperatures, they are still fire!

Perhaps the extreme cold of ice and fire can also be used to heat or cool metals?

Having seen the neighboring Huama Continent in his previous life, Mu Yang knew that a certain alchemist's cold fire could also extract the essence of herbs and refine pills.

Since alchemy is feasible, then using cold fire to forge weapons should also be fine for him, right?

The next second, accompanied by a surge of soul power, a streak of ice-blue light shot out from Mu Yang's hand and landed on the cubic-shaped silver ingot on the forging platform.

As soon as it landed, the icy blue ribbon transformed into burning icy blue flames, which began to scorch the silver ingot.

(End of this chapter)