Douluo Continent: The True Body and Blood Soul, Starting from Blacksmithing

Chapter 135 Inspection, Artifact Effect

How to remove Tang Hao's 100,000-year soul ring and install it on yourself?

It sounds very tempting, after all, it's a 100,000-year soul ring, a treasure that countless soul masters on the continent can't even touch in their entire lives.

But Lin Yu only believed in tangible benefits. Such vague promises were best left unfulfilled; to actually risk one's life for them would be utterly foolish.

Leaving aside the fact that Tang Hao still possesses the combat power of a Title Douluo, there is just one question that Lin Yu has been pondering for a long time: which spirit ring position would be appropriate for Tang Hao to give him with that 100,000-year spirit ring?

According to the normal order of spirit rings and the five elements matching of one's own martial soul, one's fifth spirit ring needs to be of the wood attribute.

Logically speaking, that spirit ring should be suitable. But the problem is that when I reached five spirit rings, I was probably not even eighteen years old yet, and the next Advanced Youth Spirit Master Competition hadn't even started. Tang Hao would almost never come out in the open. Didn't you see that he didn't even make a sound after I had sex with Xiao Wu that day?

When he gets his sixth spirit ring, he should be able to encounter Tang Hao confronting others head-on, which would be the best time to make a move.

But Lin Yu needed a fire-attribute soul ring at that time. Because according to the current logic of the Five Elements, the sixth fire-attribute soul ring could strengthen his liver, which would complete the last piece of his Five Elements puzzle.

Lin Yu wouldn't ruin his future for a single spirit ring.

As for absorbing it when he reaches the seventh ring, it's estimated that when he reaches level 70, Tang Hao will most likely take Tang San for special training and take him to the City of Slaughter to obtain the God of Slaughter Domain.

By then, whether we can find Tang Hao is a question, and even if we do, what then?

Upon realizing this, Lin Yu smiled helplessly.

With the inheritance of the God of Craftsmanship, it's not impossible for me to reach level 70 before I turn eighteen.

Lin Yu didn't even dare to dream of reaching level 70.

With his own skills, combined with the Bone-Shattering Bracelet and weapons made from other bones, it's not impossible for him to take on Tang Hao single-handedly.

A level 70 Soul Saint taking on a Title Douluo in a one-on-one fight? Who would believe that? But Lin Yu had that kind of confidence. As a blacksmith, he had plenty of methods!

Lin Yu, whose thoughts had been diverted by Lan Xue, quickly regained his composure and began to examine the effects of the pair of Bone-Shattering and Sky-Splitting Bracelets.

The moment the bracelets touched her, they seemed to come alive, automatically slipping onto Lin Yu's wrists. One on the left, one on the right, one blue, one purple.

The left hand is cyan, warm and smooth like jade, with fine, vine-like patterns on its surface; the right hand is purple, deep and restrained, with faint lightning flashes within the crack-like engravings.

The two separate bracelets are called the Sky-Splitting Bracelet and the Bone-Shattering Bracelet. The Sky-Splitting Bracelet corresponds to the Azure Thunder Sky-Splitting Vine, and the Bone-Shattering Bracelet corresponds to the Golden Thunder Bone-Shattering Staff.

After putting it on, Lin Yu tried to communicate with his mind. With a flick of his left hand, a beam of emerald green light surged from the Sky-Splitting Bracelet, condensing in his palm into the Azure Thunder Sky-Splitting Vine, covered with leaves and brimming with spiritual energy.

With a clench of his right hand, a burst of purplish-gold lightning erupted, and the Golden Lightning Bone-Shattering Staff was firmly in his grasp.

The whole process took only a breath, much more convenient than before when it had to be pulled out from the chest.

However, the Golden Thunder Bone-Shattering Staff's effect has changed slightly. While the core characteristic of controlling weight based on soul power remains unchanged, its base weight has been altered.

As Lin Yu's spirit ring age increases, the base weight of the Golden Thunder Bone-Shattering Staff will increase by (spirit ring age/100) jin.

Lin Yu silently calculated that the lifespan of his first three spirit rings were: 400 years for the first ring, 800 years for the second ring, and 2,200 years for the third ring.

Adding it up, it's 3,400 years. Dividing that by 100, it's 34 jin.

Adding to the original weight of over thirty pounds, the stick weighed over sixty pounds.

When fully activated, its weight doubles, reaching nearly two thousand pounds!

With a staff weighing up to two thousand pounds, combined with his speed and skills, he could probably roam freely even among the Soul Kings!

As for the Azure Thunder Sky-Splitting Vine, it might be because of the Blue Silver Emperor—no, it should now be called Blue Snow, because Blue Snow later participated in its forging, which caused the Sky-Splitting Vine's appearance to change.

The vines that were originally covered with iron thorns have lost their thorns and have been replaced by something resembling blue silver grass leaves.

The leaves were lush and green, with sharp edges like knives. The leaves and vines intertwined and entwined, making the whole vine look like both a living green snake and a growing spiritual plant.

As for the effect, it's quite simple and straightforward.

The first characteristic: As long as the consciousness can reach any area, no matter where it is, it can summon the Azure Thunder Sky-Splitting Vine at any time and whip that place.

Lin Yu tested it. She closed her eyes and extended her consciousness to the old locust tree outside the courtyard.

With a thought, a bright green whip appeared out of thin air above the treetop, lashing the trunk with a "crack," splitting the bark and revealing a charred whip mark.

Although its name contains the word "vine," it is ultimately an iron object. Being unexpectedly whipped by a metal vine whip is unpleasant for anyone.

Moreover, this whip is imbued with the power of azure lightning; the moment it strikes, arcs of electricity will travel along the wound and drill into the body.

Besides its ability to strike out of thin air, the Azure Thunder Sky-Splitting Vine has an even more insidious characteristic: life-seal.

This skill's effect is similar to "healing prohibition." When the area injured by the Sky-Splitting Vine is covered with a layer of blue lightning, it's like a thin film sealing off the flesh.

Before the lightning dissipates, no treatment can directly restore the injury.

If it can bind the opponent, the effect will be even more terrifying. After the Sky-Splitting Vine wraps around the body, the leaves on the vine will stick tightly to the skin, and the power of Azure Lightning will seep into the body through the pores, directly blocking the circulation of the opponent's soul power and making them completely lose their fighting ability.

Lin Yu imagined the scene: a Soul King was struck by his whip, the wound unable to heal; then he was entangled by vines, his soul power sealed, and he could only lie on the ground like a dead fish, at the mercy of others.

This Azure Thunder Sky-Splitting Vine is a weapon that completely exceeds the limits.

However, in addition to its offensive effects, the Azure Thunder Sky-Splitting Vine also has a healing effect: it draws azure lightning into the body, penetrating the surface of bones and allowing the azure lightning to temper the bone marrow.

Although it is lightning, Azure Lightning contains extremely strong vitality. Ordinary lightning can harm people, but when Azure Lightning strikes the body, it only causes a tingling sensation, followed by a warm power that seeps into the bones.

Stimulating the bone marrow with Qing Lei will cause a little pain. It's not a sharp pain, but a tingling, aching pain that seems to pierce through the bones, but it's full of benefits.

After tempering, the bone marrow's hematopoietic ability is enhanced, the bones become more resilient, and even the speed of soul power recovery is improved.

The overall effect of the Bone-Shattering and Sky-Splitting Bracelet echoes the silver robe and golden armor.

The silver robe and golden armor protect the surface of the bones, while the Azure Thunder Sky-Splitting Vine tempers the inside of the bones. One provides external protection, and the other nourishes internally, complementing each other perfectly.

As for Lan Xue's statement about "retaining the weapon within the body," Lin Yu originally thought it meant storing the weapon within the five internal organs as the foundation of the five internal organs.

But Lin Yu didn't expect that what she meant by "into the body" was to put the two weapons into her arms respectively.

The Rift Bracelet was incorporated into the left arm, and the Shattered Bone Bracelet was incorporated into the right arm.

At the moment of fusion, Lin Yu felt a slight hum from the bones of her arms, as if two metal rods had found their place in the bones and were perfectly embedded.

But Lin Yu had a feeling that he would no longer be able to absorb soul bones from his arms.

Those two positions were already occupied by the Shattering Bone and Sky-Splitting Bracelet, leaving no extra space to accommodate other soul bones.

However, considering that the essence of spirit forging and soul forging in later generations was to solve the problem of the scarcity of soul bones and to replace the function of soul bones with forged weapons, it is reasonable that they occupy two slots at this stage.

After all, the skills provided by an ordinary soul bone may not be as good as those of these divine artifacts.

Moreover, Lin Yu can absorb soul bones from the same location. Having learned from the experience of the Shattered Bone and Sky-Splitting Bracelet, Lin Yu decided not to use bones whose essence had been drained to forge weapons for a while.

He can't absorb soul bones in his arms right now. If the newly forged weapon takes up the soul bone slots in other parts of his body, he'll have nowhere to turn for help.