Douluo: Legend of the Dragon King - The Voice of the Purple Emperor

Chapter 122 Financial Forging

Ding!Ding!

Gu You swung his arms in unison, and two pale green lights suddenly appeared in his hands before crashing down.

"This is the feeling! I'm back, I'm back!"

Feng Wuyu tossed his flamboyant red hair, a look of utter intoxication on his face.

"He..." Shen Yi's lips twitched as he pointed at Feng Wuyu.

"It's just my old habit acting up again," Cai Yue'er said with a slight smile.

A series of rapid explosions rang out.

Both ores have extremely high densities, making them very difficult to forge, let alone when they are fused together.

Boom!

Sparks flew across the surface of the dragon whisker crystal. Its already golden body became even purer, and the tiny, needle-like things inside had been completely dissolved and softened.

Black light began to emerge from the surface of the Dragon Abyss Meteorite Ore. Its only devouring property was unleashed, attracting the Dragon Whisker Crystals and causing them to stick together tightly, forming a larger ore with flowing iridescent light on its surface.

Upon seeing this, Gu You's face lit up with surprise and delight.

He wasn't very good at forging, especially how to fuse two kinds of ore. Now it seems that some of the properties of the Dragon Abyss Meteorite Ore allow him to skip this process. From now on, he only needs to use Spirit Forging to sublimate his forging.

However, this is not a long-term solution. Gu You knew in his heart what he would do if he couldn't absorb characteristic ores when forging in the future. Practical learning is the most important thing. After this success, he should study forging properly again.

A beam of light shot out from the surface of the combined ore.

After a thousand refinements, the ore is first extracted!

Gu You's body began to spin, his hammering movements completely arrhythmic.

One swift grab, one kicking left and right, so fast!

After a series of actions, Feng Wuyu's mouth was unable to close. Was this hammering technique something this kid created himself?

Cai Yue'er was still smiling, revealing nothing.

Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom...

A series of deafening roars, one after another, with a sense of rhythm and cadence, and the spirit completely immersed in the forging process, all demonstrated the forging skill of Guyou.

The combined ore kept changing shape, and the light on it also began to change, as if it had been influenced by the Spirit Forging Life Hammer. The combined ore soon emitted a faint green light, and the gray layer on it began to disappear silently, while its volume slowly shrank.

The roar continued without pause. The haphazard hammering made Gu You's twin hammers fall heavier and heavier, and the light on the fused ore grew stronger and stronger. The life essence hammers he swung began to emit a low hum! Even the airflow in the forging room was stirred up.

Boom, boom, boom—

Amidst the thunderous hammering, the six spirit rings beneath Gu You's feet had unknowingly risen. The green life spirit rings shone with golden light, and spirit power was injected and output. Utilizing the life-transferring characteristics of the fourth spirit ring, the fused ore became purer and more vibrant.

Gu You planned to create a two-word battle armor. The battle armor in his human form was already broken. Gu You did not intend to repair it, but instead directly refined it and fused it with the battle armor he wore in his dragon form. He then re-carved the magic array and used thin slices of life essence stone to make the battle armor's wings.

The main problem is that the two battle armors consume too many materials. Gu You doesn't have that many ores. Dragon whisker crystals are relatively easy to obtain, since they are a product of the Douluo Continent, but Dragon Abyss meteorite ore is a different story.

That's an imported ore, from outer space. The entire Federation only has so much of it; it's so small that it's difficult to even make a complete battle armor from it.

Only by using other ores can the amount of fusion be sufficient.

boom!!

As the forty-eighth hammer fell, Gu You's body spun 360 degrees. He was somewhat unable to control his strength, but confidence still surged from the bottom of his heart, because he was Gu You! The six spirit rings that had been surrounding him suddenly disappeared, replaced by two purple-blue spirit rings. Dense blood energy surged out, and Gu You's own strength suddenly increased several levels. He swung up and brought it down!

With the final, heavy blow, a loud bang was heard.

After forty-nine hammer blows, the combined ore shone even brighter. With the spirit of a thousand forgings, it had achieved first-grade perfection.

The light lasted for more than ten seconds before gradually fading, and a faint dragon's roar seemed to emanate from the Spirit Forging Life Hammer in Gu You's hand, with the purple dragon patterns inside the hammer appearing and disappearing.

Feng Wuyu stood behind him the whole time. He took a deep breath, and his dark red eyes were illuminated.

Bloodline attraction!

Feng Wuyu sensed that his martial soul was intentionally getting closer to Gu You, and even that his own aura was undergoing a huge change, giving him an indescribable feeling.

The forging continued, the forging hammer pounding relentlessly, the light growing ever brighter, until... the spirit forging was complete.

It's done! It's really done!

Feng Wuyu approached Gu You and patted him hard on the shoulder.

"Old madman, is this really an alloy?" Gu You asked, still somewhat confused. He didn't know if this was fusion forging or if it was a new type of ore produced due to the properties of the ore itself.

"Of course! How could it not be? Before Spirit Forging, a blacksmith simply follows the steps; you could say it's a skilled trade. Only when you reach the Spirit Forging level do blacksmiths truly possess their own spirituality, and how to utilize that spirituality is the most important thing for a blacksmith. The biggest difference between a level 5 or 6 blacksmith and one below level 4 is that what you will be forging next will no longer be a single metal, but an alloy that you are familiar with."

He paused for a moment, then continued, "Spirit forging is about imbuing metal with life. You've completed many spirit forgings yourself. So, let me ask you, what's the most troublesome part of spirit forging, especially the process of imbuing metal with life?"

Gu You pondered for a moment, "It is the process of giving life. The metal itself gradually develops spirituality during the forging process. After the spirituality accumulates to a certain level, the metal itself has the basis for qualitative change. At this time, we blacksmiths rely on our own life force to awaken its spirituality, truly giving the metal life force, thus completing the spiritual forging. After all, the metal originally has no life, so the degree of spirituality awakening is very important for whether the spiritual forging can be completed."

"Yes, you're a smart kid. I've seen your potential as a master craftsman since you were a child. But do you know that the reason metals are so difficult to awaken life is related to their inherent qualities? The better the metal, the greater the chance it will be forged by spirit. Creating life is an incredibly sacred thing in the entire universe. The moment life is created, it generates an energy that we cannot fully perceive. This energy is almost imperceptible to us, but for those objects that do not inherently possess life, it is..."

(End of this chapter)