Douluo Continent: Outwitting the Ceiling of Wisdom - Yuhao Faks His Death for Ten Thousand Years

"Hello, senior sister."

Huo Yuhao looked at Mu Xi, whose face was full of dissatisfaction, and said very obediently.

Looking into the exceptionally bright and clear eyes of the blue-haired boy in front of her, Mu Xi remained silent for a moment before reluctantly replying:

"Hello."

She originally intended to throw a little tantrum in front of her father and not answer.

But there was nothing she could do; Huo Yuhao was several years younger than her, and he behaved very well, his eyes still so bright and clear when he looked at her.

She felt that it would be incredibly annoying for her to be angry with such a young boy under these circumstances.

Even so, Mu Xi's contempt and dissatisfaction with Huo Yuhao did not lessen in the slightest.

Hearing his daughter's resigned answer, Mu Chen smiled with relief and then continued:

"Then, let me first give Huo Yuhao a brief introduction to the basic theoretical knowledge of the forging industry. Mu Xi, you can also review it."

So Huo Yuhao and Mu Xi sat down together and listened to Mu Chen begin his lecture.

During Mu Chen's lecture, Huo Yuhao could clearly feel the gaze from the eldest daughter of the Mu family beside him—

The dissatisfaction in her eyes was almost tangible, clearly written on her slightly furrowed brows and tightly pursed lips.

Although he didn't quite understand why this arrogant young lady, whom he had never met before, had such a problem with him, Huo Yuhao naturally didn't take it to heart.

After all, to put it jokingly: how could a great emperor, reborn, possibly bother with a mere junior?

……

After Mu Chen finished his lesson, he immediately asked Huo Yuhao to go up to the forging table and try the hundred-fold forging.

So, Mu Xi was dumbfounded.

She initially doubted that she had misheard—how could his father allow a little boy who had just started learning forging to undergo a hundred forgings right from the start?

But she soon understood why her father, an eight-star master craftsman, had said that.

"This...this is impossible..."

Having studied forging since childhood, Mu Xi felt that her understanding of this profession had been shattered by Huo Yuhao's forging hammer.

Mu Chen slowly walked up to the forging table, stretched out his broad palm, and gently stroked the 100-fold tungsten steel ingot that Huo Yuhao had easily forged and that still had residual warmth.

The delicate texture and even hardness transmitted through his fingertips transformed the last trace of scrutiny in his eyes into utter amazement.

He turned around and looked with a smile at his daughter, who was completely stunned by the shock.

Then, in a calm voice, he revealed the answer behind this incredible sight:

"Don't be surprised, daughter."

You should know that your junior brother Huo, who is only seven years old, already possesses the cultivation level of a Soul Venerable and the spiritual power of a Spirit Sea Realm cultivator.

"Furthermore, yesterday, Huo passed the test at our Donghai City Mecha Pilots Association by independently forging metal, designing blueprints, and then manufacturing the mecha, thus becoming the youngest Level 2 Mecha Designer and Builder in the association's history!"

At this point, Mu Chen paused, his expression becoming increasingly感慨 (gan3kai3, a complex emotion encompassing deep emotion, reflection, and awe) at Huo Yuhao's terrifying talent, before continuing:

"Now you won't be surprised why I had him try the Hundred Forging Techniques right from the start."

"Huo, you really are... calling you a genius of unparalleled talent is almost an understatement."

Huo Yuhao put down the forging hammer and calmly responded to Mu Chen's praise:

"You flatter me, Professor Mu."

To be honest, Huo Yuhao didn't care much about the forging industry; he just wanted to learn enough to be of sufficient use.

For him, the greatest benefit of learning forging was that it enabled him to extract incredibly powerful metal sources more efficiently.

Moreover, his forging talent is by no means top-notch.

So why was Huo Yuhao's Hundred Refinements performance so perfect and smooth that even an eight-star Saint Craftsman like Mu Chen was extremely satisfied?

First of all, Huo Yuhao's current level of soul power and spiritual power has already far exceeded the blacksmith's cultivation level required for the Hundred Refinements.

Secondly, starting from ten thousand years ago, Huo Yuhao had already fully understood the underlying logic of metal forging—that is, a process of changing the way the source substances in rare metals are arranged and fused, thereby sublimating the quality of rare metals.

After the God Realm was swept away by the spacetime turbulence, the concentration of the "spiritual energy" of heaven and earth in the Douluo plane, which was originally restricted, increased significantly, even allowing mortal beings to understand and utilize the laws of heaven and earth. This enabled human soul masters to acquire the ability to imbue rare metals with spirituality, talent, and even life.

The essence of this so-called "spirituality, talent, and even life" is actually the qualitative change in the internal energy level of rare metals after their arrangement and fusion methods are altered when the source of the rare metals is activated and refined.

Therefore, based on this understanding, and with the experience of refining the metal source ten thousand years ago, Huo Yuhao was able to perfectly control and complete the forging process by accurately analyzing the internal source sequence of the rare metal with his mental power.

In a sense, Huo Yuhao's understanding of forging is enough to make him a top-notch blacksmith.

However, unlike most traditional blacksmiths in the world, he is a "analytical" blacksmith who has taken a different path.

This is why Huo Yuhao believes he has no talent for forging in the traditional sense.

It's no exaggeration to say that the outstanding blacksmiths on Douluo Continent are all the kind of geniuses who are intuitive and insightful, like the ones who "think about it."

They rely on a near-instinctive "forging insight" developed through countless trials and tribulations.

That is, by observing the vibrations from the hammer, the timbre of the metal's sound, and even the shape of the sparks flying during forging, one can subtly control the heat, force, and timing of forging.

This is similar to how a top pianist doesn't need to understand the physics of sound waves.

They can play the piano well because of their intuition for melody, their control over their fingers, and a kind of almost mystical "musical sense".

However, in theory, if someone could deconstruct the Fourier spectrum of the target melody in real time at the moment of playing, and then reverse-engineer the precise key timing, dynamics, and pedal control functions, and reproduce it with their fingers and body as if executing a precise program...

They can then play heavenly sounds that exist only in legends and should be composed only with inspiration bestowed by the gods.

Huo Yuhao's analytical approach to forging is similar to this piano playing method, which only exists in theory.

However, theoretical model calculations are always approximate simulations of real-world situations.

Therefore, it is not easy for Huo Yuhao to forge the most top-grade metal using this method.

Soon, Mu Chen's voice interrupted Huo Yuhao's thoughts:

"Student Huo, let me personally demonstrate the process of thousand forging to you. You need to observe carefully."

Your forging just now was indeed quite perfect, but it seemed a bit too mechanical, lacking the 'spirit' necessary for forging. This will be detrimental to your future forging processes.

"Okay, teacher."

Although Huo Yuhao already had his own unique analytical forging method, he was also well aware that a true master would not reject any tools or methods that could help him improve.

So, Huo Yuhao then began to seriously study the practical guidance of this eight-star master craftsman.

Meanwhile, Mu Xi, sitting blankly in the corner of the forging room, had temporarily lost her ability to speak after hearing Mu Chen's explanation of Huo Yuhao's terrifying talent, and was beginning to question the meaning of life...

While meticulously guiding Huo Yuhao, a peerless talent with extraordinary abilities across all fields, Mu Chen would occasionally glance at his daughter, whose eyes were blank and who seemed somewhat lost.

Seeing his daughter's devastated expression, Mu Chen's lips curled up almost imperceptibly.

He felt that letting this usually proud and arrogant girl see for herself what it truly means to be "outstanding," to experience some setbacks, and to temper her temperament would be a very good thing.