Douluo Continent: Not enough bloodline? Make up for it with brains

Chapter 30 The Bias of the Brain Martial Soul

Both mechs and battle armor require rare metals as materials, and the most basic metals cannot meet the needs of mechs and battle armor.

However, lower-level yellow-grade mechs do not require overly sophisticated forging techniques; they do not even need to be forged a thousand times, a hundred times is sufficient.

However, even the lowest-grade Battle Armor requires rare metals of at least the thousand-times-forged level, and it must be of the first grade of the thousand-times-forged level to withstand the operation of the powerful core magic array of the Battle Armor.

In the forging process, the blacksmith also needs to hammer the metal into the corresponding shape.

Mecha makers also have this step. While manufacturing the mecha, they also need to perform in-depth processing on each part. However, the basic shape still requires the cooperation of the blacksmith.

Of course, Xu Yuan's mecha craftsman level is still low, and the metal he needs is only at the hundred-fold forging level, which is a relatively easy metal to forge into shape.

Once the metal reaches the level of Thousand Refinement Grade One or even Spirit Refinement and Soul Refinement, it possesses its own spirituality. Mech makers who do not understand forging will not arbitrarily change its shape; they can only ask a blacksmith to do it.

Normally, this situation wouldn't occur at that level.

Whether it's a normal high-level mecha or a battle armor, the correct manufacturing process always involves the mecha designer providing the design concept and ideas, completing the core magic array design, and even standardizing and organizing the shape and size of each component. Then comes the blacksmith's step. After the metal is forged, the mecha manufacturer will inscribe the core magic array on the forged metal.

He took a fist-sized piece of metal from the testing platform.

"This is the blueprint for a part of the gauntlet of a Yellow-level mecha. You have half an hour to manufacture it."

Mecha makers begin their real practice from level two onwards, inscribing magic arrays on rare metals and truly participating in the manufacturing of mechas.

Of course, Level 2 mecha makers only play a supporting role, responsible for manufacturing individual and very small parts of the mecha, such as the mecha's gauntlets.

The enormous mecha, even its gauntlets, was larger than half the body of Xu Yuan, a seven-year-old child. The metal he was holding was clearly insufficient to forge the gauntlets; this was merely one part of the gauntlets.

Xu Yuan glanced at the blueprints and already understood.

This is the palm part of the gauntlet.

This is the most complex part, and it's the core of coordinating the magic arrays in different parts of the gauntlet.

But none of them are major problems!

Xu Yuan focused his attention, and the Heavenly Origin Spear appeared in his hand.

The Heavenly Origin Spear in his hand was no longer a spear, but had transformed into a palm-length needle, with the power of the five elements gathered at its tip.

The Heavenly Origin Spear grazed the metal surface, leaving a light scratch on the finely forged metal. Xu Yuan's soul power flowed into the scratch.

Xu Yuan's hand was very steady.

He was extremely focused at that moment.

As the spear tip contacts the metal, soul power must also flow into the metal through the spear tip.

Currently, it's just the manufacture of ordinary Yellow-level mechs. If it were to manufacture battle armor, even just a single-word battle armor, the first-grade metal used would already possess a preliminary spirituality. While inscribing the magic array, it would be necessary to communicate with the spirituality of the metal as much as possible, so that the core magic array and its spirituality would be perfectly combined.

This process can complement the blacksmith's communication with the spirit during the forging process.

Therefore, Xu Yuan was right about one thing: different side jobs can indeed complement each other.

Of course, all of this can only be done with sufficient learning ability.

Xu Yuan was confident in his learning ability.

Once his mental strength breaks through 500 points and reaches the Spirit Sea Realm, he can absorb a second purple soul spirit. At that time, he will add a soul ring to his brain martial soul, further enhancing his advantage in mental strength.

At present, breaking through 500 points of mental strength is not too far away for him.

The spear tip traced scratches on the surface of the hundred-times-forged metal; these scratches were merely the outermost magic array patterns.

Not difficult.

As long as you memorize the magic array, master the various techniques for inscribing it, and steadily inscribe the entire magic array in one go, you will have succeeded.

These were all too easy for Xu Yuan.

The real challenge lies with the Level 3 Mech Makers. It's not just about simply replicating the magic array; they also need to be able to adjust it on the spot to make the core magic array more compatible with each piece of rare metal. This is where the theory of the core magic array itself begins to be applied.

Therefore, mechanized learning can quickly make one a level two mecha maker, but to reach level three, one needs to fully digest all the magic arrays in order to use them freely.

This process involves not only learning mecha design, but also mecha maintenance, and the same applies to learning the core magic array.

Level 3 isn't difficult either.

After all, it's just about learning and digesting.

The truly difficult parts are always the skill-based parts and those that require intuition and perception.

In the world of mecha makers, level four is the first hurdle to overcome when it comes to mastering skills.

For mechs of level three and below, the core magic array is only engraved on the surface of the metal. However, for level four, the magic array needs to be engraved inside the metal.

This is not a field that a carving knife can penetrate; it requires the use of a carving knife to inject soul power into the metal and carve the corresponding magic array inside.

As for the higher-level fifth-level mecha manufacturing, it completes the spiritual guidance on the basis of the fourth level, guiding the spirituality inside the metal to participate in the outlining of the magic array.

(In the original work, apart from forging, the levels and abilities of other people's secondary professions are too chaotic. For example, Ye Xinglan is sometimes level four and sometimes level five. Also, the specific classification of each secondary profession is not described. I can only sort it out as much as possible and then enrich the content of different professions through secondary settings.)

(Similarly, there are many internal conflicts in the original work, which I will also sort out.)

He was given half an hour, but Xu Yuan completed the production in just ten minutes.

The moment the magic circles interlocked and emitted a faint blue light, it meant that his creation was complete.

Cai Yue'er narrowed her eyes slightly, a strange light flashing deep within them.

It must be said that in just one year, without neglecting his soul power cultivation and soul skill development, Xu Yuan was able to cultivate both secondary professions to level two, which has already proven his learning ability.

The reason why Xu Shengqun, Xu Yuan's uncle, did not offer any advice or admonition during that year was precisely because of this.

Xu Shengqun also witnessed Xu Yuan's terrifying learning ability.

Even Makino was the same.

The two also discussed Xu Yuan's situation, and Mu Ye ultimately concluded that it was a characteristic of Xu Yuan's brain martial soul.

The Body Sect has a history of having possessed a Brain Martial Soul, but Martial Souls themselves have biases. Xu Yuan's Brain Martial Soul is clearly an enhancement of his learning and thinking abilities!

(End of this chapter)