Douluo Dragon King: Nine Dragons Break the Abyss

Chapter 25 As expected of me
Spring goes and autumn comes, winter comes and summer goes, and in the blink of an eye, a year has passed.

In the headquarters building of the Spirit Pagoda, many people gathered to awaken their martial spirits.

The accident did not bring down the signboard of awakening at the Spirit Pagoda headquarters. Instead, more people came to awaken their martial spirits than a year ago.

Because a year ago, the probability of the martial souls at the Spirit Pagoda headquarters awakening their soul power was as high as 90%, and most soul masters had benign mutations in the elements attached to their martial souls.

Among them was a fat boy, whose ancestral big white pig martial spirit had mutated benignly into a fire pig. The snow-white pig skin was covered with a layer of never-extinguished flame, so it was called "burning pig skin".

The instigator of all this, Qiangu Qitian, is also in the headquarters building of the Spirit Transmission Tower at this moment.

Of course, he wasn't being too kind and coming here to help these kids successfully awaken their martial spirits.

Moreover, he couldn't do it either.

It would probably be difficult to trigger an elemental tide of that magnitude a second time.

On the seventh floor of the Spirit Pagoda headquarters building, the forging area was unusually quiet today. The fires in most of the forging rooms were extinguished, except for one room marked as the internship forging room, where the fire was burning brightly.

Qiangu Qitian, who was already seven years old, stood in front of the forging table, his hair stuck to his forehead from the sweat from the burning fire.

Compared to a year ago, Qiangu Qitian has grown a lot taller and the childishness on his face has faded a little, but his black eyes are still as deep as ever.

On the forging table in front of him, a piece of red-hot metal lay quietly.

This piece of metal was not unfamiliar to Qiangu Qitian, because it was a piece of Yuntie, the first metal he forged after he came into contact with the profession of forging.

Qiangu Qitian raised his right hand holding the forging hammer high, and his rolled-up sleeves revealed his already well-delineated arm.

Over the past year, Qiangu Qitian has suffered a lot in the forging profession.

His talent is indeed very high, but even the best jade needs to be carefully polished before it can become a rough jade.

Pan Heng asked Qiangu Qitian to start learning from the most basic pounding, without any techniques, relying purely on his own strength.

During the initial period, Qiangu Qitian's knuckles were bleeding every day, and he couldn't even eat with his arms.

Fortunately, the Qiangu family is not short of money, and the amount of spiritual liquid used for healing is counted in hundreds of thousands every day.

In addition, Qiangu Qitian had an abnormal recovery speed, so even if he trained hard on the first day, he would still be full of energy on the second day.

As the hammer fell, the red-hot cloud iron made a buzzing sound, and the volume of the entire piece of metal shrank a little.

Then came the second hammer, the third hammer...

Each blow of the hammer is very rhythmic.

It seems that what Qiangu Qitian is doing is not forging, but composing a melodious music praising life.

Almost all the blacksmiths in the Spirit Transmission Tower gathered in the observation room, including Qiangu Qitian's blacksmith teacher Pan Heng.

In addition, Leng Yaozhu and Qiangu Dieting are also here.

So many people gathered here because they were about to witness the birth of the youngest master-level blacksmith in the history of Douluo Continent!
After the 30th hammer fell, a golden light flashed from the surface of Yuntie. Qiangu Qitian's focused eyes became stern at this moment, and a golden dragon had already coiled on his raised right hand.

After a year of nurturing, Qiangu Qitian's first soul, the Golden Dragon, has basically merged with the gold element dragon soul. The two complement each other, allowing Qiangu Qitian's control over metal elements to reach a terrifying level.

"Dang~"

There were crisp knocking sounds accompanied by a loud dragon roar as the golden forging hammer struck the Yuntie, and the golden light completely engulfed the Yuntie.

"and many more……"

Pan Heng, who had been watching, suddenly stood up, causing Leng Yaozhu and Qiangu Dieting, who were watching in the front row, to look sideways. The other blacksmiths also reacted, and they all looked around and saw the same surprised expressions on their peers' faces.

"This is not a hundred forgings at all, but... a thousand forgings."

Qiangu Qitian felt that the quality of Yuntie was almost good enough, so he used a forging hammer to forge it into the simplest armor parts.

"Whoo~"

A few minutes later, Qiangu Qitian looked at the finished product in front of him and nodded with satisfaction.

He also didn't know the quality of the metal in front of him, but he was sure that this piece of cloud iron had definitely reached the level of a hundred forgings.

All in all, counting from the time the metal was heated, it took Qiangu Qitian no more than half a quarter of an hour, which was enough to show his extraordinary talent in forging.

In fact, Yuntie had completed a hundred forgings when it was hammered for the thirteenth time, and every hammering after Qiangu Qitian made Yuntie evolve towards a thousand-forged metal.

"No, that's not right. The metallic color is still a little off."

Pan Heng looked at it for a long time and came to a conclusion.
"However, Xiaotian's forging this time has reached the level of Half-Step Thousand Forging."

Having worked in the field of forging for decades, he is still able to judge the quality of metal just by using his eyes.

Mica is not a rare metal, and as a highly ductile metal it is widely used in various fields.

Pan Heng had never expected that Qiangu Qitian could actually do this.

During this forging, Qiangu Qitian only used his unique metal forging ability at the last hammer. This was also the first time he was allowed to use it in this year.

Qiangu Qitian's spiritual forging is a bug-level forging ability, but it consumes a lot of his own mental power. Frequent use will also make Qiangu Qitian overly dependent on this ability when forging, which is harmful rather than beneficial to the improvement of forging.

Of course, when Qiangu Qitian's mental strength is sufficient to support him in completing the Heavenly Forging, he can use it however he wants.

Pan Heng looked at Qiangu Qitian through a layer of glass, with a hint of reluctance in his eyes.

He seemed to have made up his mind and bowed deeply to Qiangu Dieting: "Senior, in order not to waste Xiaotian's talent, you should take him to Tiandou City."

Qiangu Dieting thought silently for a while, then nodded and said:

"You get up first. Xiaotian is indeed very talented. Perhaps only a master craftsman can bring out his greatest potential."

In the forging room, Qiangu Qitian, who was admiring his own work, suddenly looked up and looked at the opened door.

"Teacher, grandpa."

Qiangu Qitian called out to the three people who walked in, and then came to their side.

Qiangu Dieting patted Qiangu Qitian on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Xiaotian, you did a great job."

"Thank you for the compliment, Grandpa."

After saying a few polite words, Qiangu Qitian looked at his forging teacher Pan Heng and asked impatiently, "Teacher, what is my current level?"

Pan Heng smiled, but his smile could not hide the complexity on his face: "Very impressive, almost reaching the level of a third-level blacksmith."

Level three... Thousand Forgings?

Qiangu Qitian was delighted.
As expected of me.

(End of this chapter)