Douluo Continent: This Soul Master is Too Bizarre and Unpredictable

Chapter 95 The Miraculous Room Temperature Silver Infusion

"That shouldn't be the case; it doesn't look like there's any change at all?"

After a long while, Mu Yang stared at the unchanging silver ingot on the forging table, continuously injecting soul power to maintain the burning ice flames, and wondered to himself in bewilderment.

Suddenly, just as Mu Yang was about to dissipate his ice-flame soul power and replace it with a single fire-type soul power for heating, the originally cubic-shaped silver ingot suddenly turned into a large pool of molten silver, which spilled onto the forging table.

"!!!"

Mu Yang's eyes widened immediately.

What's going on? The silver ingot melted like ice placed under the scorching sun?

Not feeling any intense heat emanating from the molten silver, Mu Yang thought for a moment, then stretched out his finger and poked at the molten silver.

With the 100,000-year-old soul bone skill of the Blue Silver Emperor's right leg bone: Wildfire cannot burn it out, the spring breeze blows and it grows again. He is not afraid of any irreparable injury. Even if his fingers are ruined, he can regenerate limbs.

"Huh? Room temperature?"

The moment Mu Yang touched the melted silver water, he found that it was neither hot nor cold. Apart from its high density and silvery-white color, it was almost like touching room temperature water.

However, after a short while, based on the sensation transmitted through his fingers, Mu Yang discovered that the melted silver water was gradually showing signs of solidification.

Three minutes later, the molten silver scattered on the forging table lost its wonderful properties and returned to a solid state from a room-temperature liquid state.

If it weren't for the fact that the shape of the silver ingot on the forging table had changed from a cube to its current flat and irregular shape, Mu Yang would have subconsciously thought that the strange room-temperature silver liquid he had seen earlier was just his imagination.

It is obvious that the reason why the sunken silver liquefies is due to the special flame of ice flame.

The liquefied silver solution returned to a solid state because the ice flame extinguished, making it impossible to maintain this special state.

"While ice flames cannot heat metal, they can soften or even liquefy it?"

Touching his chin, Mu Yang thought to himself with surprise.

To be honest, it's been quite a while since the Naruto Martial Soul evolved into the Ice Flame Sacred Shadow Martial Soul, and it's also been quite a while since he switched to cultivating the "Ice Flame Meditation Method." But Mu Yang really didn't know that the ice flames he condensed could melt metal and keep the melted metal at room temperature.

That's great!

It's important to understand that heating the metal during the forging process is merely a step, not the end goal.

The purpose of heating metal is simply to make it more malleable, making it more suitable for forging.

Although liquid silver is difficult to forge, it does not liquefy instantly when scorched by ice flames; there is a process of solid-to-liquid transformation.

As long as the burning time of the ice flame is controlled, the only difference between heating the silver with an extremely high-temperature flame and softening it at room temperature is that the former softens the silver at room temperature, while the latter softens it at high temperature.

Alright, no need to look for a fire starter, he's one!

A streak of icy blue light shot out from his hand, igniting icy flames that once again melted the flat, irregularly shaped silver into molten silver. Then, guided by his soul power, he reshaped it into a square silver ingot. Mu Yang then removed the silver ingot from the forging platform and replaced it with a crude iron ingot that had undergone preliminary smelting.

The new heating method gave Mu Yang the idea for a new forging method. He would practice with ordinary iron ingots first, and after he was familiar with it, he would then arrange to use smelted silver.

Half an hour later, looking at the numerous refined iron ingots piled up beside the forging table, Mu Yang nodded in satisfaction.

To be fair, thanks to the unique effects of the ice flame and the new forging method, which eliminates the need for heating, his efficiency in refining iron has increased exponentially.

After all, even ordinary iron ingots need to be heated for quite a while before they are suitable for forging.

Of course, if we were to calculate it strictly, the time required to forge a piece of metal would have to exclude the time spent heating the metal.

When it comes to forging a piece of metal, the heating time must indeed be taken into account.

If multiple pieces can be forged, the second, third, or even more pieces of metal can be put into the heating furnace for heating while the first piece of metal is being forged. Therefore, saving the time of heating the metal does not actually mean that the efficiency of metal forging has been truly improved.

Unless forging a piece of metal takes a considerable amount of time and requires heating the metal a second or more times during the forging process.

The reason why the efficiency of forging crude iron ingots into refined iron has increased exponentially is mainly because, compared to ordinary forging, Mu Yang added his own soul power during the forging process, which resulted in a significant increase in efficiency.

Mu Yang lifted the square silver ingot back onto the forging table, took a deep breath, and then an icy blue soul power shone forth, flowing into the forging hammer in his hand.

Although his forging hammer was made of ordinary material, only refined from hundred-times-forged iron, it could still withstand the infusion of soul power. At most, the soul power conductivity was poor, resulting in some loss.

"clang--"

Wielding the Heavenly Hammer, Mu Yang used his legs to drive his waist and his waist to drive his arms, smashing the hammer down hard on the heavy silver ingot. Then, using the recoil from the blow, Mu Yang spun around and struck again.

At the same time, the moment the forging hammer struck, the ice-flame soul power infused into the hammer flashed, and strands of soul power seeped into the sunken silver ingot, turning into ice-flame fire to burn it.

"Clang clang clang—"

As he spun around, Mu Yang unleashed a series of strikes with his forging hammer.

With each hammer blow, icy flame soul power seeped into the sunken silver ingot. As it was being forged, the seeping icy flame soul power transformed into icy flames that scorched the sunken silver ingot.

For a moment, the rhythmic clanging of metal echoed throughout the forging room.

Before long, the silver ingot on the forging table, which had undergone preliminary smelting, shrank in size, completing the hundred-fold refining process.

After completing the hundred-fold refining process, Mu Yang's forging hammer did not stop, because this time, his goal was to break through the hundred-fold refining bottleneck and achieve the first-ever thousand-fold metal refining in the history of the continent!

"Clang clang clang—"

The sound of metal clanging echoed continuously in the forging room. Recalling the knowledge of the thousand forging techniques and the key points for breakthroughs of the "Heavenly Hammer" forging secret method, Mu Yang gradually entered a wonderful state as he continued to strike the heavy silver ingot.

At this moment, in Mu Yang's perception, the silver ingot he had hammered down seemed to have a life force.

With each strike of the hammer, that seemingly insignificant life force slowly intensified.

After an unknown amount of time, with continuous forging, the life force within the sunken silver ingot reached its peak.

Suddenly, the silver ingot trembled slightly during the forging process, and then a bright silver light suddenly rose into the air, illuminating the entire forging room in a silvery white.

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