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

Lin Yu learned about the school's basic situation through conversations with her classmates.

Here, you get two days off every five days, and there are holidays if there are special festivals.

Normally, there are only five classes a day: two in the morning, two in the afternoon, and one in the evening, each lasting one and a half hours.

The main learning content consists of three parts: basic knowledge and cultural courses, Soul Master quality training courses, and Soul Master combat training courses.

As for the class schedule, it's very simple: the second period in the morning is Soul Master quality training, the first period in the afternoon is Soul Master combat training, and the evening period is basic knowledge and culture.

If you don't want to attend these classes, you can study in other areas during class time. Apart from the cafeteria, all areas of the college are open during class time.

However, there will be an assessment at the end of each month, and students will be reassigned to classes based on their overall scores.

This section is a physical training class, mainly to train the Soul Master's endurance, or to allow the Soul Master to train according to the characteristics of their own Martial Soul.

The equipment here is very abundant. Although it differs somewhat from the fitness equipment in my previous life, it is more suitable for the Soul Masters of this world to train.

In one morning, Lin Yu also managed to build a good relationship with a classmate.

Wang Hai, whose martial soul is the Green Baboon, has a soul power of level eight, is skilled in physical combat, and is two years older than himself.

The two got together because their dormitories were close together and their martial spirits had similar attack methods, both involving close-quarters combat with fists and feet.

Around 11:30, the class ended, and Lin Yu and Wang Hai went to the restaurant together.

The food here is a mix of meat and vegetables, and it's all made with soul beast meat, but it's not cheap. A standard ordinary meal costs thirty copper soul coins.

The most expensive nutritional meal costs as much as ninety copper soul coins.

(The currency system has been modified, with the exchange rate changed to 1:100:10000, meaning one copper soul coin is equivalent to one real-world dollar.)

According to Wang Hai, the highest-grade nutritional meals at the Junior Soul Master Academy contain the meat of soul beasts that are over ten years old.

After obtaining a ring and entering the intermediate soul master academy, the nutritional meals there are of higher quality, and even include the meat of hundred-year-old soul beasts.

However, the nutritional meals there are more expensive, with the highest-grade meal costing eight or nine hundred copper soul coins.

Good news! The nutritious meals provided in Wuhun City are very plentiful.

The bad news is that the expenses here are very high.

While in Yaoxing City, he was rewarded with two gold soul coins by the Spirit Hall for providing clues about poachers.

He currently has 1 gold, 78 silver, and 95 copper coins, which adds up to 17,895 copper soul coins.

In this junior soul master academy, even the highest-standard nutritional meals, served three times a day, can only last for about two months.

Once I obtain a spirit ring and enter the intermediate spirit master academy, one gold spirit coin a month will only be enough for me to eat a few meals of the highest quality nutrition.

He had to find a way to make money, otherwise he wouldn't even have food to eat in the future. He didn't want malnutrition to delay the second awakening of his martial soul.

After lunch, Lin Yu, led by Wang Hai, carefully toured the other buildings in the Junior Soul Master Academy.

The first period in the afternoon was a Soul Master combat training class for the students of Class One. Although it was called a combat training class, it was actually just organizing the students to fight.

After several rounds of actual combat, Lin Yu discovered that the strength of his own martial soul, "Blood Soul," was indeed inferior to those offensive-type battle soul masters.

Others' martial souls can set fires, create wind, and even turn their hands into claws... all sorts of methods left "primitive man" Lin Yu exhausted from dealing with them.

However, Lin Yu's original martial soul is not entirely useless in battle: he has strong endurance and recovers from injuries quickly.

In one class, most students can only have five or six sparring matches. Lin Yu, who lacks combat experience, had ten sparring matches in the first class, which really left a deep impression on Wei Min, who was watching from the side.

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The first class ended at 3:30.

After declining Wang Hai's invitation to "go to the training ground," Lin Yu found her homeroom teacher, who was preparing to leave.

After a brief exchange of training and combat experiences, Lin Yu inquired about suitable work-study jobs for himself in Martial Soul City.

Wei Min had considered Lin Yu's status as a work-study student, and she gave the answer almost the instant Lin Yu asked about it.

"Judging from your training and combat, your martial spirit belongs to the battle spirit master category, which means there are many jobs suitable for you. But if you want to earn money in the long run, I would suggest you learn a job with technical skills."

"There are quite a few jobs like this near the school: I suggest you choose carpentry. Carpentry is a delicate craft, and since your martial soul has perception abilities, carpentry is the most suitable choice."

"Besides carpentry, you can also choose stone carving. Although this job is also delicate work, it requires physical strength. Your strength is somewhat lacking compared to other students. If you want to focus on training your strength, you can give this job a try."

"And blacksmithing, I don't really recommend it. Although blacksmithing requires some skill, it's mainly about physical strength. If you choose this profession, you might neglect your martial soul's perception attribute."

Wei Min originally thought Lin Yu would be interested in carpentry, but when she mentioned blacksmithing, Wei Min keenly noticed that Lin Yu's eyes lit up.

Upon seeing this, Wei Min frowned and probed.

"Another reason why I don't recommend blacksmithing is that... blacksmiths' wages are generally not high. Even if you are a part-time worker, your monthly salary will not exceed one gold soul coin."

But seeing Lin Yu's expression of absolute certainty about the blacksmith, Wei Min knew that her explanation was somewhat superfluous.

As expected, Lin Yu ultimately chose the blacksmith, a profession she couldn't understand.

But she was just the homeroom teacher; as long as the students didn't cause any problems, she had no right to interfere with their choices.

Unlike her homeroom teacher's pessimism about the blacksmith profession, Lin Yu, as a transmigrator, was all too aware of the potential of this profession in the later stages of the game.

In this era, cold weapons were still the mainstay, and the blacksmiths' highest pursuit was limited to the exquisite hidden weapons that Tang San, the time traveler, brought out.

It should be understood that the correct development direction for the blacksmith profession should be to awaken the spirit of metal, to fuse the metal with the martial soul, and even to let the metal undergo tribulation like a 100,000-year-old soul beast.

When Lin Yu first transmigrated, he was quite worried about Tang San's strange hidden weapons, since it's easy to dodge a spear in the open but hard to guard against a hidden arrow.

It wasn't until Wei Min mentioned the blacksmith that he realized the correct way to understand the blacksmith.

Soul guidance technology was not advanced in this era, so making battle armor might not be realistic, but one could create a suit of armor that could be stored inside the body.

With the armor protecting him, he no longer needed to worry about Tang San's hidden weapons.

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"This child wants to learn forging?"

Three kilometers away from the junior academy, at a blacksmith's shop, a muscular man with bare chest looked back and forth between Lin Yu and Wei Min with suspicion.

Faced with the blacksmith's questioning, Wei Min had already prepared her response.

"His martial spirit is rather unique, and a blacksmith's shop might be a better environment for his cultivation. What do you think... should we keep him here and let him give it a try?"

While introducing Lin Yu, Wei Min also handed over Lin Yu's work-study student certificate to the other party.

For shops around the academy, having work-study students can exempt them from some of their taxes, and they also receive a monthly subsidy from the Spirit Hall.

It's fair to say that part-time workers are highly sought after by various shops.

The blacksmith shop owner naturally welcomed any students willing to come for work-study programs.