Douluo Continent: This Tang San is different

Chapter 260 Self-created Forging: Pattern Forging

"And what about me?"

Gu Yuena was a little unhappy that Tang San had skipped over her after finishing his speech.

"You?" Tang San glanced at her. "You're already very good, so don't discourage others."

The soul skills of this Silver Dragon King's clone are just a manifestation; the most important thing is the control of the elements. There's no need for him to worry too much. He just needs to practice his physical skills more often, or help Guangling research soul tools.

Once the level of trust between him and her reaches a certain point, it will be able to help her recover from her injuries, which would be a real benefit for the Silver Dragon King.

"Haha, don't say that, I'll get shy." Gu Yuena was very lively, but in her heart she was thinking that she had to catch up with these people's progress as soon as possible, so as not to be looked down upon.

While everyone was busy with their own things, Tang San went to Wuhun City and found some architects, bricklayers, and workers, asking them to build a blacksmith shop in the middle area of ​​the Soul Martial Manor, near the artificial lake.

Although these people were not Soul Masters, they all had Soul Power of Level 5 or above. Therefore, the house was built in less than a day, and the corresponding blacksmith's furnace, bellows, etc. were also purchased and placed in the appropriate locations.

"It is our honor to serve the Holy Son, and we do not need to pay." When Tang San handed over a large bag of gold soul coins, the architects all refused.

"How can we let you work for nothing? Keep it." Tang San stuffed the money into the architect team leader's hand. "Distribute it to the others, after all, you have families to support."

"Thank you, Holy Son." The architect leader was grateful, distributed the money, and then bid farewell to Tang San.

Tang San lit the furnace, pumped the bellows, and once the iron block was red-hot, he took it out and began to hammer it. By using the force of the blows and the frequency of the vibrations, he continuously hammered out the impurities.

Before long, the iron block shrank continuously, its reddish color turning silver, and it even gave birth to an energy that could be sensed by Soul Masters, as if it possessed a spirit.

Tang San continued to hammer away, his blood and qi flowing, forming a long river that emitted an extraordinary heat, but it was contained within his body. Otherwise, if it were to erupt, the entire blacksmith shop would probably be instantly destroyed.

When the final hammer blow was delivered, the power of blood and qi was injected into the silvery-white metal, causing a peculiar pattern to appear on the fist-sized piece of silvery-white metal. This pattern formed an energy loop, giving it extremely strong spirituality, and it could even autonomously absorb the energy of heaven and earth to strengthen itself.

According to the forging levels in "Legend of the Dragon King": Ordinary forging, rare metal forging, hundred-fold forging, thousand-fold forging, spirit forging, fusion forging, soul forging, top-grade soul forging, and heavenly forging.

This piece of "iron," forged from an ordinary iron block, has actually reached the level of top-grade soul forging, or even approaching the level of heavenly forging.

However, in reality, this is somewhat different from this classification.

If Tang San were to define it himself, this thing would be more powerful than Heavenly Forging, capable of continuously absorbing the energy of heaven and earth to evolve, and even has the potential to become a super artifact material, or even surpass super artifact materials.

"Brother Eli, can you see clearly how that peculiar energy loop on the surface of this metal was formed?" Tang San asked.

"What a blessed world!" Electrox exclaimed again, then said, "When the density of metal reaches a certain level, it emits a peculiar magnetic field that resonates with the energy of heaven and earth, attracting that energy to flow into it. Then, with the support of your blood and soul power, it automatically forms an energy loop under the corresponding rules. Simply put, the rules of this world will help process it... To be honest, I never thought that metal could reach such a level."

"I originally thought that the existence of spirituality in artifacts was already the pinnacle, and that the so-called artifact spirits were just the remnants of the divine thoughts of other gods."

"However, when the metal showed signs of energy circulation, I realized that this thing might actually give birth to its own life in the future, many years from now."

"To create life! That is a right reserved for God!"

Tang San shook his head: "This can't be considered creating life. In essence, this thing is still just a piece of metal, only it's full of spirituality."

"That's true, but I've come to understand something now. The laws that those gods control are merely utilizing the laws of the universe, and their efficiency is definitely not high. Otherwise, they could control the entire universe, not just govern one hundred and eight inhabited planets." Electrox no longer felt any awe towards the gods of the divine realm, and then asked, "What name do you plan to give this forging? After all, you can be considered the founder."

"The forging system in 'Legend of the Dragon King' is more suitable for other blacksmiths in this world, while my method... well, it's better to call it pattern forging." Tang San raised his hand, and the spiritual silver-white metal floated into his hand on its own. "I have a feeling that there can be multiple energy circuits on it. The more energy patterns there are, the faster it absorbs the energy of heaven and earth, and the more spiritual it becomes."

"One pattern forging, two patterns forging... and so on. The numbers can be added continuously, which is also easy to remember."

Electrolux nodded: "Easy to understand, good."

Afterwards, Tang San took out the other metals from his storage wristband and began practicing the art of pattern forging and comprehending the method of vibration. In just one morning, he finished forging all the metals.

The finest piece is a piece of bronze forged from red copper, with five energy pathways on it. Its speed of absorbing energy from heaven and earth is sixteen times that of a piece of bronze.

According to Tang San's research, the efficiency increase of absorbing the energy of heaven and earth is indeed fixed for different forging patterns of different metals; that is, the increase in multiple is fixed for each additional pattern.

such as:

If an iron block has a one-pattern iron and its absorption efficiency of the energy of heaven and earth is set to one, then the absorption efficiency of a two-pattern iron is two, and the absorption efficiency of a three-pattern iron is three.

Similarly, the absorption efficiency of ribbed iron increases with each additional rib.

And what about the copper block?

One-vein copper has an absorption efficiency set to one, two-vein copper to two, three-vein copper to four, and four-vein copper to eight.

The improvement in the absorption efficiency of copper is exponential; with each additional stripe, the absorption efficiency doubles.

Therefore, it can be concluded that the enhancement effect brought about by the patterns on each elemental metal after forging is different. However, Tang San discovered that the size of the forging does not affect its efficiency in absorbing the energy of heaven and earth.

Although the larger the volume of the same forged metal, the more energy it absorbs from heaven and earth, that is only an accumulation of quantity, and the absorption efficiency is essentially the same.

Moreover, after cutting this forged metal, Tang San discovered that the energy circuits on it were not broken and still existed.

This made him realize that the method of tattooing might have already involved the atomic level, and the energy patterns on the body surface were just a peculiar "decoration".

Subsequently, Tang San conducted more tests on the patterned metals and discovered that among the same type of metal, those with different numbers of energy circuits in the patterned forging process would repel each other; while those with the same number of energy circuits could fuse together and become one.

Different forging metals can also attract or repel each other, but this is not related to the number of energy loops in the forging process, but rather to the compatibility of their properties.

"I'm already looking forward to seeing what the Divine Throne you'll create will look like in the future." Electrox's soul shone brightly. Being able to see familiar things in a foreign land was both a remembrance of the past and an anticipation of the future for him.

"We will see it." Tang San smiled, a hint of excitement in his eyes. If a Divine Seal Throne is made of this kind of patterned metal, then even a Soul Saint-level expert could wield it and have power comparable to a god.

Really looking forward to it!

In the blink of an eye, half a month has passed.

Tang San also had a very fulfilling schedule: cultivating, researching martial soul cultivation theories, soul tool patterns, forging, guiding the women in their cultivation, and incidentally instructing the three members of the Golden Generation of the Spirit Hall.

Then, he would often have private talks with Bibi Dong, guiding her on the general direction.

"Your Holiness, if the Spirit Hall wants to establish a nation, it needs to improve its foundation, but there is something even more important: to establish a guiding principle." Tang San spoke eloquently.

"Isn't this ideal acceptable for the glory of the Spirit Hall?" Bibi Dong asked doubtfully.

"That's too abstract and unrealistic." Tang San shook his head. "I estimate that most people, including the few Title Douluos outside the Hall of Offerings, don't understand what the glory of the Spirit Hall really means, or they think that the so-called glory means: letting the glory of angels shine on the continent?"

Bibi Dong's face darkened instantly. She hated angels so much she wanted to exterminate them all; if it weren't for the fact that she was her daughter…

"Then what do you think the Spirit Hall's glory should be?" Bibi Dong felt that replacing "angel" wasn't a bad idea. After all, she wanted to destroy the angel lineage anyway, so she would destroy their faith first... Hmm~ Tang San's suggestion suited her taste perfectly.

"To establish martial prowess for heaven and earth, to forge souls for all living beings." Tang San's words resonated throughout the Papal Palace, lingering for a long time.

"What do you mean?" Bibi Dong could sense the deeper meaning in those two sentences, but she still wanted to see what kind of explanation Tang San would give.

"As I said before, the Spirit Hall's foundation for establishing a nation is far from sufficient. Making up for it within twenty years is a hundred or a thousand times more difficult than when Your Holiness the Pope beats up the five great God Kings after becoming a god."

Bibi Dong: "..." There's really no need to compare me to him.

"Then, we can only take a shortcut and awaken the numb mindset of the world that bullies the weak and fears the strong, and accepts injustice passively. On this basis, we can make the Spirit Hall a light in the hearts of the people."

"We will usher in a world of light."

"In that world, the weak can also rise up. They don't have to listen to those who give up on themselves. They can do what they can do, say what they can say, and give off whatever light they can. Even a tiny firefly can shine in the darkness."

"Awaken the will of the world and make them understand one truth: there is no need to wait for the torch; if the torch is extinguished, then we are the new torch!"

The methods of governance can be gradually improved.

However, in terms of ideology, they can certainly take bigger steps, making grand promises to those in power. The Spirit Hall originally had some philosophical foundation, and its biggest difference from other sects is that it's a sect with religious characteristics...

(End of this chapter)