Douluo Continent: What should I do if I don't have a cheat system?

Chapter 251 The Alchemy, Weapon Forging, and Blacksmithing Association Has Closed Down

To refine the Tribulation Transcending Pill, Jerry now needs to deduce a formula suitable for this world.

This is not an easy task; it certainly wouldn't work in the main world, as it would take far too long.

The main world has its own development path, and Jerry has a premonition that disaster is about to strike. Therefore, time is of the essence for Jerry now.

They came directly to the world of elixirs, bringing with them many seeds.

After all, every world is different, and the plants that grow there are different. The seeds that Jerry brought this time were collected from the main world and nine other small worlds, and there are many different kinds.

In the world of elixirs, Jerry chose a remote, uninhabited mountain forest and carved out 100,000 acres of medicinal fields. To prevent birds and beasts from entering, he also added defensive formations.

The method of cultivating medicinal herbs is to select the best varieties, which is a long waiting period. In order to prevent himself from losing his humanity again while cultivating medicinal herbs, Jerry placed a clone here and left his original body.

The main body returned to Wuhun City because there were things to do.

Jerry is preparing to study magical artifacts, or weapons similar to them.

Wuhun City is quite prosperous, and many things here are convenient to use, so I didn't go into the small world.

As for the type of magical artifact, Jerry did not choose swords or similar weapons. Although in some novels, those undergoing tribulation use swords or similar weapons to cleave through lightning tribulations, Jerry felt that these were only isolated cases.

When truly facing the tribulation of lightning, whether human or spirit beast, fear is inevitable; it is a fear that goes straight to the depths of one's heart.

Judging from the tribulations of his master, Ghost Douluo, his senior and junior sisters, and even the soul beasts, no matter how high their cultivation level, they all felt genuine fear when facing the tribulation of lightning.

Jerry didn't feel this fear, except during the divine punishment. He did feel it then, but after he created his own clone, the divine punishment couldn't touch him, and the fear naturally dissipated.

Jerry felt that this situation was due to his state of mind.

In this world, people or spirit beasts who cultivate do not cultivate their minds, and their mental state is insufficient.

Feeling fear when facing a tribulation of lightning is because one's mental state is not strong enough.

Jerry didn't know the specifics of how to cultivate one's mind.

Cultivating one's mind is perhaps a kind of life experience. Everyone's situation is different. When encountering the same thing, some people don't feel anything, while others may have a breakthrough in their state of mind from this event.

Colleagues are different people!

Jerry has experienced two major breakthroughs in his mindset since he grew up, and each time I could clearly feel them.

Therefore, Jerry believes that the cultivation of mental state exists in this world, but no one has discovered it yet.

However, now is not the time to study that; the main focus now is on studying the ritual implements.

In the past, when making soul tools, the attribute materials were directly melted and then shaped. This method is definitely not feasible now.

Another method is metal-based soul skills, which involve directly extracting the metal from the ore and then shaping it; this method also doesn't work.

Even the hardest metal used to make soul tools could be crushed by Jerry's own strength, so directly refining the metal wouldn't work.

Suddenly Jerry thought of blacksmithing. Why blacksmithing?

Forging involves removing impurities from iron through vibration.

The metals that you refine now are just like the molten iron that was heated before blacksmithing, aren't they?

Although the metal I refined using the power of metal is purer than the molten iron obtained by directly melting ore, it still contains other impurities.

Iron ore contains not only iron, but also many other elements.

Some other elements can improve the properties of iron, but others cannot.

Where's the iron? You have other elements too. Are you sure this isn't an alloy?

When I think of alloys, they are metals synthesized from many elements in proportion, but I don't have the synthesis formula myself. Should I go and study it?

This involves atoms and molecules, and Jerry felt very regretful, wondering why he hadn't paid attention in chemistry class in his previous life.

Just thinking about the periodic table of elements gives me a headache. There are so many combinations: two elements mixed together, three elements mixed together, or even more elements mixed together.

One has to admire the people on Earth in my previous life; how they managed to research these things in just a few hundred years.

This approach is clearly not working for Jerry right now, so he has to change direction.

Jerry then found many natural minerals. Take iron, for example. They are all iron, but the proportions of their components are different, their properties are different, and they are given different names.

This saves a lot of trouble; you don't need to research alloys yourself, you can just use what's readily available.

Among the many metals, Jerry discovered two of the hardest irons: Starry Sky Iron and Flying Stream Fire Iron.

The name was given by other people in Douluo Continent. Isn't this just meteorite iron and dead iron similar to meteorite iron that erupts from volcanoes?

When lightning strikes, it generates extremely high temperatures. Both of these types of iron are formed after being subjected to high temperatures. You can try it out.

We found two types of iron, and there's plenty of both. During the last world championship, many meteorites fell, and many volcanoes erupted.

Because they are too hard and difficult to melt, these two metals are not commonly used nowadays.

However, this was nothing to Jerry, who was a master of the rules of metal. The previous smelting process was completely unnecessary; he could extract the metal directly using the power of the rules.

After extraction, the next step is forging.

A regular forging table might not be suitable, so I directly shaped a forging table and forging hammers of different specifications using Starry Sky Iron.

Jerry took out a piece of star iron the size of a door panel and prepared to forge a sword at random to test its effect.

He directly used the fire attribute rules to summon a ball of raging fire, and the Starry Sky Iron was quickly burned red-hot.

Using his divine sense, he moved the red-hot Star Iron to the forging table, and the largest hammer flew over, then began to hammer.

Many impurities flew out during the hammering process. Initially the size of the door panel, they became smaller and smaller as the hammering continued.

There's a saying, "forged through a thousand hammer blows," meaning to hammer something a thousand times first.

A thousand hammer blows were quick; the Starry Sky Iron, originally the size of a door panel, was now only a third of its original size. Jerry noticed that there were still impurities that could be hammered out, so he continued hammering.

The hammering continued all night. When Jerry saw the metal again the next day, he was devastated. The original piece of material, which was the size of a door panel, was now reduced to a single strip of metal, thirty centimeters long, five centimeters wide, and less than one centimeter thick.

This is more like a dagger than a sword.

However, when we continue hammering now, no impurities are coming out, so it seems that this piece of metal is already quite pure.

Jerry didn't know the next steps either, since he hadn't studied blacksmithing professionally, so he asked someone to find a few blacksmiths.

Jerry originally thought he could just find any blacksmith who knew how to forge iron, but the person he arranged for him to find the most skilled blacksmith in Wuhun City was unexpected.

Jerry had never paid any attention to when the master craftsman Lou Gao joined Wuhun City.

Speaking of tall buildings, we must mention the Blacksmiths' Association.

The blacksmithing industry on this continent was already underdeveloped, and then Jerry invented the soul tool, rendering traditional blacksmiths useless.

For example, common household items such as pots, knives, sickles, hoes, and shovels.

The pot was something people used when Jerry first introduced the Soul Guide Stove.

Later, a student in the academy had a sudden inspiration: the soul-guided stove was too big and inconvenient in the wild; it would be great if the pot could heat itself.

After having this idea, I started to study it. The rules for heating the runes were very simple, and before long, the Soul Guiding Pot was born.

Depending on their intended use, this student made a variety of pots: a soul-guided frying pan, a soul-guided soup pot, a soul-guided pressure cooker, a soul-guided rice steamer, and a soul-guided barbecue pot.

Chrysanthemum Douluo looked at these soul tools and thought they were good, so he arranged to make a batch and try selling them.

As a result, it became an instant hit across the entire continent, a must-have for every ordinary household and a must-have for every Soul Master.

From then on, the original iron pot was phased out!

As for the kitchen knife, there was a Soul Master who always cooked for himself. Later, he found cooking a bit troublesome and didn't want to eat out (mainly because he spent all his money researching Soul Tools). So he started researching Soul Tools for cooking.

Then the Soul Guided Vegetable Cutter, Soul Guided Cooking Machine, Soul Guided Vegetable Washer, and Soul Guided Dishwasher were born.

Jerry had always used his divine sense to do these things and didn't find it troublesome, so he hadn't studied them. But people without divine sense would find it troublesome.

With the creation of these two soul masters, all traditional kitchen utensils became obsolete.

As for the sickle, there is the Soul Guided Harvester.

Hoes, shovels, and guided tillers.

Unless they possess these martial souls, other people really don't need these tools.

In addition, the Spirit Hall now sells a wide variety of soul tools, including many combat soul tools.

For blacksmiths who only know how to forge traditional weapons, society is full of malice towards them.

There was nothing the blacksmiths' association could do but reform, but despite a series of reforms, nothing changed.

They felt that their thinking was outdated, as if the Spirit Hall was always one step ahead in everything, and they were following behind this behemoth, unable to even get the scraps.

As time went on, the blacksmiths' association became increasingly desolate, lacking new members and with some former members leaving.

Under various external pressures, the blacksmiths' association could no longer bear the burden and finally announced its dissolution last year.

President Lou Gao brought his apprentice to Wuhun City, wanting to see just how useful the soul tool that brought down the Blacksmith Association really was.

Since arriving in Wuhun City, Lou Gao has never considered leaving.

He learned how to make soul tools, and when it came to making the shape of soul tools, his previous blacksmithing skills gave him an advantage over other soul tool masters.

Previously, there were several things that were only concepts and could not be made using blacksmithing techniques. Now that I have learned how to make soul tools, the problem has been solved easily.

Because Lou Gao possessed excellent mental strength and had no issues with his identity, he was directly admitted to the Spirit Hall's Soul Master Academy.

Among all the students, he was the oldest, but he ignored other people's opinions and kept working hard to learn and humbly ask for advice, which gradually changed everyone's impression of him.

Some students saw that he was so old but still studying hard, and they, being so young, had no reason not to work hard!

Lou Gao's involvement indirectly stirred up the Soul Masters to start working inward.

Moreover, Lou Gao is still Ju Douluo's student, so he can be considered half a junior brother. Many of Ju Douluo's students call Jerry half a junior brother. Jerry knew this, but he didn't care about it.

Jerry needed a blacksmith this time, and among those registered with the Spirit Hall, Lou Gao was the most skilled, so he was directly assigned to the job.

Lou Gao was overjoyed to know that he was going to help Jerry. At present, the person that every Soul Master admires the most is undoubtedly Jerry, followed by Chrysanthemum Douluo.

The Soul Master textbook states that Jerry searched through history to deduce the lineage of Soul Masters, and that Jerry himself was a Level 9 Soul Master.

The soul-guided devices used in large buildings today were all developed by Jerry himself, which is no secret in the entire Spirit City. Therefore, the worship of Jerry is no less than that of fanatical believers.

Meeting Lord Jerry was an immense honor for them.

Jerry was extremely surprised when he learned that the blacksmith who came was Lou Gao, but after learning the whole story, he couldn't help but sigh at how unpredictable fate can be!

Jerry shared his ideas with Lou Gao: the first part of the materials was already prepared, and Lou Gao would be in charge of the next part.

A short sword was quickly forged, and the test data in all aspects far exceeded those of the past, which surprised Lou Gao.

But that wasn't enough; Jerry began to set up an array on the short sword.

Given the hardness of this short sword, it would be difficult for an ordinary Soul Master to inscribe rule symbols on it, but Jerry is no ordinary person.

Jerry used a complex array method to directly inscribe the array into the short sword.

Sharp Metal Array: Makes weapons sharper.

Wind-Splitting Formation: Reduces air resistance when using weapons.

Swift Movement Formation: Increases weapon speed.

Stone Array: Increases the hardness of weapons.

Solidification: Increases the sturdiness of weapons.

Refraction array: can increase the concealment of weapons.

The six basic formations were combined and directly inscribed into Jerry's short sword.

When the short sword was handed to Lou Gao for testing again, Lou Gao was completely dumbfounded.

The testing stone is made of a special material that is both soft and hard. The strength of a weapon is judged by how deep a mark it can leave.

Lou Gao gripped his short sword and thrust it forcefully, the sword piercing the testing stone as easily as cutting through bamboo.

He took a step back in surprise, his heart pounding, but he quickly regained his composure, gripped his short sword, and swung it across the testing stone, producing a crisp sound.

The testing stone was as fragile as tofu, and it was instantly sliced ​​in two, leaving a smooth, mirror-like cut that left people speechless.

This completely terrified Lou Gao, who kept thinking, "Could this short sword be a divine weapon?"

Jerry quickly explained it to him, telling him it was the effect of the array. When one reaches the ninth level of Soul Master, many Soul Tools require the use of arrays.

Of course, if you don't know how to form formations, you can use rule-based rune programming as a substitute, but the effect is not as good as formations, and it is not as convenient as formations.

Compared to the other two, formations are better, but they are not so easy to learn. Moreover, each time a formation is inscribed, it must be done successfully on the first try, unlike regular runes, which can be inscribed little by little.

After hearing about formations, Lou Gao became increasingly interested in soul tools. He had been studying for over a year and was only a level 5 soul master. Although his mental strength had reached level 9, the level of a soul master was still far from level 9, so he had never come into contact with formations before.

Jerry's words made him even more determined on the path of becoming a Soul Master.

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(End of this chapter)