Douluo: Dragon King's Divine Elegy

Chapter 29 Speedrun Version Forging Career

"Very good." Leng Yaozhu's eyes softened a lot, and she said to Zhenhua, "Since Liujing has chosen you as his master first, and forging is the most demanding and difficult to master among the four major professions, you will teach him first, and then hand it over to me in two and a half years." The cultivation resources mastered by Zhenhua would not be inferior to her own, and Leng Yaozhu was very relieved about this.

Zhenhua nodded: "Okay." Two and a half years, that is, when Nan Liujing is eight and a half years old, is enough time for him to train him to a fourth-level blacksmith, or even a fifth-level blacksmith. By then, he can transfer the teaching rights to the child, which will also allow the child to settle down.

Nan Liujing, who was listening in, twitched his lips slightly. What was this? Was he becoming a 'trainee'?

After agreeing on the ownership of the 'trainee' Nan Liujing, Leng Yaozhu changed the subject and explained another reason for coming to Tiandou City.

She needed Zhenhua to forge at least four pieces of fire-attributed sky-forged metal in order to perfect her four-character battle armor.

Relying on the method of nurturing, or the pseudo four-character battle armor forged by the six saint craftsmen, it will eventually be no match for the four-character battle armor made of pure heavenly forged metal.

Leng Yaozhu had no intention of bothering Zhenhua to forge the Tianduan metal needed for a full set of battle armor, as that would be too time-consuming. She simply came up with a way to integrate the Tianduan metal into the existing battle armor through the method of nurturing, so as to increase its strength. This had been tested using a piece of metal that Zhenhua had given her in advance, and it was feasible.

After explaining all this, Leng Yaozhu left the Blacksmith Association like a hands-off boss. Of course, she did not forget to take Nan Liujing home with her.

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time flies.

Starting from the day after Leng Yaozhu left, Nan Liujing officially began his happy forging career.

Compared to others who enter this profession, who need to endure boredom and accumulate experience, Nan Liujing relies on his affinity for metals. As long as it does not exceed the mid-to-low rare metal level of Shenyin, and relies on the benefits of communicating with the metal's instinctive spirituality, 100 forging and purification is almost a piece of cake.

Because his instinctive spirit will actively tell him where he needs "massage", so it is not difficult to remove impurities.

In short, once it is turned on, it has never been turned off.

Of course, cheating alone is not enough. Nan Liujing has also tried to purify higher-level metals without the help of plane marks. The success rate is not that high, but through repeated training, his proficiency is no weaker than that of a veteran blacksmith.

The pain of a broken soul in his childhood made him extremely calm, which is what Zhenhua is most satisfied with.

In the second month of formal forging, Nan Liujing was able to purify all the metals stored in the Blacksmith Association that did not exceed the silver level by a hundred forgings, and forge them into different types of parts. As a result, he obtained Zhenhua's special approval and was promoted to a second-level blacksmith. At this time, he was six years and two months old.

The only thing that cheating couldn't make up for was Nan Liujing's insufficient knowledge of these hundreds of metals.

It's like when you activate Wind Spirit and Moon Shadow and can easily kill the boss, but after killing him you realize that you have no idea how the boss fights or what his skills are.

Starting from the fourth month, Nan Liujing began to advance into Qianduan.

Thousand Forgings focuses on solidification properties. Every metal has many properties, so it's extremely difficult to solidify a specific property. Often, forgers solidify properties randomly. For example, Tang Wulin's Shenyin Forging Hammer has the stacking hammer property, which is why Mang Tiancai said he was lucky to solidify a top-grade property.

After the characteristics are successfully solidified, the grade is determined based on the strength of the solidified characteristics, ranging from grade one to grade five.

The most notable characteristic is that after the metal is successfully forged, a light jumps out from the metal. If the height is half a foot, it is the fifth grade. After that, every half foot increase in height will increase the grade by one level.

Among them, the first level of the Thousand Forgings is known as the Semi-Spiritual Forging, which has one foot in the spiritual forging and begins to give the metal external spirituality.

Thousand Forgings, Level 2, imbues the metal with the forger's life force, enhancing its properties and guaranteeing a 10% increase in soul power. This is typically used on purple-tier mechas and even single-character battle armor.

In short, the characteristics of metal are like the soul skills of soul masters, some are weak, some are strong, and there are many types. The strength of the grade also makes the characteristics of the same metal different in strength.

According to the regulations of the Blacksmith Association, a third-level blacksmith needs to successfully solidify the properties of a metal, regardless of the type of metal.

A fourth-level blacksmith, on the other hand, needs to continuously solidify the properties of two pieces of Thousand Forged Metal and forge them into a specified shape.

There is one special exception. If a third-level blacksmith forges Thousand Forged Metal and the solidified characteristic strength reaches the second grade, then he can be directly promoted to a fourth-level blacksmith.

Under Zhenhua's careful teaching and the help of the plane mark, Nan Liujing completed the solidification of more than twenty different Thousand Forged Metal properties in a very short period of time, among which there was a second-grade one.

Logically speaking, he was considered to have been promoted to a fourth-level blacksmith, but Zhenhua’s requirements were extremely high, and a thousand forgings of ordinary and inferior rare metals were simply not enough.

Only when Nan Liujing successfully forged medium-level rare metals to the second level could he be promoted.

At this time, after two months of training, he was only six and a half years old, and when Tang Wulin became a fourth-level blacksmith, he was probably around ten years old.

What does it mean that six and a half years old is equivalent to a fourth-level blacksmith?

This means that ordinary people who are not soul masters need to accumulate decades of experience and even maintain sufficient blood and energy in their bodies before they can set foot on the top of the mountain. Nan Liujing saw this when he was six and a half years old.

If it weren't for the fact that the First Thousand Refining Stage or even Spirit Refining required sufficient soul power, mental strength, and physical strength to support it, and the support provided by the plane mark was not enough, Nan Liujing would not even have the qualifications to impact Spirit Refining.

Home.

"What kind of martial soul do you think Na'er can awaken?" Ye Xinglan gently bumped Nan Liujing with his shoulder. After half a year of getting along, the two of them had already become familiar with each other.

"do not know."

Nan Liujing frowned slightly as he looked at Na'er who was receiving Ye Changming's help to awaken her martial soul. In the original time and space, Na'er obtained her martial soul after meeting Gu Yue again. He was not sure whether it would change in this life.

In the huge room, the soft light of soul power gathered on Na'er's body, trying to activate the martial soul hidden in her body.

However, under Ye Xinglan's expectant gaze, until Ye Changming's soul power was about to burst the awakening stone, there was no fluctuation of Na'er's martial soul.

"No martial soul?" Even Ye Changming, a knowledgeable and powerful man, was a little dazed at this moment looking at the exquisite and lovely silver-haired loli in front of him.

Naer slowly opened her eyes, and a strange light emerged in her purple pupils.

Ye Changming left, saying that he was going to exchange for an awakening stone.

Ye Xinglan hugged the silent Na'er distressedly: "It's okay, Na'er, even if you don't have a martial spirit, you still have brothers and sisters. If anyone dares to bully you, I will beat him to death."

"Don't worry, Sister Xinglan, I'm fine." Na'er remained calm from beginning to end.

Ye Xinglan was a little worried, but suddenly Na'er reached out and hugged Nan Liujing: "Brother, hold me."

The little Lolita had a faint fragrance on her body, and Nan Liujing held her in his arms lovingly. Half a year had passed, and Naer had not grown even a centimeter taller.

Na'er's tender white arms tightly wrapped around Nan Liujing's body, and her little face was buried in his chest.

Seeing this scene, Ye Xinglan was very envious and pouted, "Brother is still the best. Sister is not so good."

Nan Liujing said unhappily, "When you go to bed at night, Na'er has almost become your pillow, and it's not enough."

Ye Xinglan smiled awkwardly: "It's because Na'er is so soft and fragrant. It's so comfortable to hug her. You can't blame me."

The two of them were bickering with each other as usual, and no one noticed that the light in Naer's purple eyes was becoming more and more intense.

The tender little white hands unconsciously grasped Nan Liujing's clothes.

Two years later. Blacksmith Guild Headquarters, Blacksmith Room.

Zhenhua folded his arms across his chest and looked calmly at the disciple holding the cloud gold forging hammer.

According to the agreement, the two and a half years have passed, and it is time for Nan Liujing to go to Shrek City to receive instruction from Tianfeng Douluo, so Zhenhua specially chose this day to let his disciple break through to spiritual forging.

Nan Liujing's eyes were as sharp as torches as he examined a piece of rare metal called thunder silver, which was similar to deep-sea sunken silver in the metal hierarchy.

The entire piece of metal is a cold and tense silver-gray color. The surface is not as smooth as a mirror, but is covered with fine, lightning-shaped natural lines, as if it was carved by thunder.

"Let's start." Zhenhua said in a deep voice.

Nan Liujing nodded and pressed the button on the forging table. The metal was immediately taken in for calcination.

After a moment, the red-hot thunder silver reappeared.

Nan Liujing took a deep breath and closed his eyes. A faint, twisted, silver light emerged from the space around him. Two years ago, he had fused the Evil Eye's attached soul bone given by Zhenhua, which had dramatically increased his spiritual power. Today, his spiritual power value has reached 485, and it can be said that he is on the verge of entering the Spiritual Sea Realm.

The thunder silver responded instantly when it came into contact with the fluctuation of mental power. The increase in mental power made the communication between Nan Liujing and the metal's instinctive spirituality smoother.

His right arm was instantly raised, and the sound of breaking wind tore through the heat wave after calcination, and slammed hard on the side of Lei Yin. With a loud "bang", fine electric light actually appeared inside the metal.

With just one strike, the originally messy lightning lines inside the metal became a little more orderly.

The purification of thunder silver does not remove impurities, but rather clears the densely packed thunder lines inside.

'Boom' Without any pause, Nan Liujing locked onto the location where the lightning lines intertwined like a machine. With each strike, the 'vibration' characteristic of the forging hammer could help him sort it out better.

Only eight hammer strikes, with the precise placement of the hammers like a surgical operation, had already completed the initial hundred-forging purification of the thunder silver.

From the outside, the complicated lightning lines inside the thunder silver looked like a traffic jam that had been cleared, with occasional flashes of lightning passing through it.

Nan Liujing did not stop. Starting from the ninth hammer, he began to communicate with his instinctive spirit, completed the selection of characteristics, and then solidified them.

The solidification characteristics require the most experience of a blacksmith, and this is also the limit that ordinary people who are not soul masters can reach.

Characteristics are like hungry children. Every time you feed (hammer) them, you must be precise. Too much can lead to obesity, and too little can lead to poor development. You also have to guide them in the right direction before the characteristics are solidified.

Otherwise, once it goes astray and intersects with other characteristics, it will become a hodgepodge, just like the failure of the martial soul mutation, turning from a golden holy dragon into a pig that can only fart.

For other blacksmiths, taking this step is like walking on a tightrope, but Nan Liujing is different. He has the ability to communicate with his instinctive spirit. He feeds with incredible accuracy, injecting every drop of energy into the characteristics.

A faint heat surged from Nan Liujing's body, which was the power of his qi and blood.

Gradually, under Zhenhua's gaze, Lei Yin couldn't help but emit a deep cold light, and it seemed as if there were dark clouds inside, with faint but flashing lights emerging.

It is contaminated with the aura of Qi and blood, and the metal properties are amplified. It is a typical Thousand Forgings Grade 2.

Nan Liujing's forging technique is like playing the piano, sometimes fast and sometimes soft.

Finally, when the forging hammer fell again, a pleasant "ding" sound was heard. Nan Liujing's eyes fixed. This was the prompt sound for successful solidification.

He suddenly clenched the forging hammer with both hands and smashed it down with all his might as if he was splitting Mount Hua.

With a loud rumbling sound, Lei Yin seemed to have undergone a super evolution. While its size shrank, a deep silver-blue light leaped out from its body. Its height exceeded four feet. A faint thunder dragon floated in the air, and a high-pitched dragon roar continued.

Thousands of forgings, first grade!
Almost instantly, two purple soul rings rose from Nan Liujing's body, and his dark blue pupils burst out with a bright silver light.

Soul power and mental power are fully activated!

His technique immediately turned into a gentle drizzle, and his soul power gathered on the forging hammer. As it fell, it continuously made pleasant "ding ding ding" sounds on the metal.

As the hammering continued, strands of soul power flowed into the metal from various locations, creating a bridge between the outside world and the metal's interior, allowing the external spirit to flow in. The instinctive spirit had already communicated with Nan Liujing in advance, eagerly emerging to locate the external spirit.

An ordinary blacksmith would be stumped at this step, spending most of their energy searching for their innate spirituality, leaving them powerless to continue. This is why blacksmiths in the past used the external spirituality they bestowed upon them to forge metals, because it was too difficult.

To this day, although Zhenhua opened the source and proposed the theory of instinctive spirituality, many ordinary blacksmiths who have no hope of natural forging in this lifetime still rely on the old method to forge. After all, unless it is natural forging, there is not much difference between the two forging methods.

At this moment, Nan Liujing's body was surrounded by electric light, and the Panlong Stick flew out and hovered above the metal, as if it was fixed. Every time Nan Liujing completed ten strikes, the Panlong Stick would fall and hit the metal surface. The Panlong Stick, which was attached with the soul of the Thundering Hell Vine, would immediately burst out with amazing thunder element energy fluctuations.

It's like a bunch of fireworks in the dark night, which can be seen from a long distance.

With the help of this energy, Lei Yin's instinctive spirit quickly found the external spirit and was drawn by it into the bridge connecting with the outside world.

It was visible to the naked eye that the soul power in Nan Liujing's body was gradually decreasing like a leaking bottle.

Feeling Nan Liujing's abundant energy and blood, Lei Yin's instinctive spirituality began to boldly contact the life elements of the outside world, and then build his own life system.

From this step on, forging is no longer difficult; maintaining stability is the most critical point.

The subtle and invisible energy of heaven and earth began to gather towards Nan Liujing, helping him maintain his soul power output. This was also the reason why Zhenhua dared to let his disciples undergo spiritual training.

As time passed, a beautiful bright blue light gradually lit up inside the thunder silver, signaling the birth of a new life.

Nan Liujing's eyes moved, and while continuing to knock, he casually stuffed a golden dragon candy that had been prepared long ago into his mouth.

As the rich energy poured into the internal organs, a faint golden light emerged from the skin.

Zhenhua raised his eyebrows. He heard the sound of blood flowing through his disciple's body. It was the power of his blood. But what a pity! If this wasn't a soul skill, but the power of his bloodline, he would have recommended this disciple to his friends.

Feeling the boiling power of qi and blood, the instinctive spirituality used this to sense the sudden increase in the speed of the life elements between heaven and earth.

With every blow, its size shrank, and after fifteen minutes, the entire piece of thunder silver began to tremble violently.

"Thunder!"

Nan Liujing let out a low shout, and in an instant, a plant with a strange shape jumped out from the Panlong stick. It was the Soul Thunder Hell Vine.

The ten vines, like lightning rods, attracted astonishing thunder power, which struck into the forging hammer. Nan Liujing smashed it down again.

There was a boom.

A powerful breath of life was born, and an almost audible whimpering sound echoed in my ears. The entire piece of lightning silver was covered with lightning patterns like the eye of a storm, and a delicate halo emerged around it, which was extremely magnificent.

Nan Liujing was panting, with a smile on his face.

Spiritual forging, done!
The solidification feature is original, I think. I haven't seen it written by other fans yet. It's just a supplementary setting, so don't worry, it won't appear many times in the future.

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