Douluo Continent: A Man of Unparalleled Talent and Heaven-Defying Comprehension

Chapter 220 Revitalizing the Blacksmith Profession: Starting with Mad Iron (Please Subscribe!!!)

half a month later.

Sunset Forest.

Su Yu entered the poisonous miasma inside Sunset Forest.

Kuang Tie was still active in the poisonous miasma, although with Su Yu's help, he quickly found his target.

However, as he navigated through the poisonous miasma, he also discovered its effects.

It can temper one's mental strength by using poisonous miasma.

Kuang Tie's martial soul was originally just a steel hammer, but it later mutated into a soul-suppressing hammer, which not only has a restraining effect on the soul and mental power, but also has mental attributes.

This is why he is now searching for Medusa's whereabouts.

For a Soul Master with a Spirit attribute, not absorbing a Spirit attribute Soul Ring would be a huge waste of their Spirit attribute. Kuang Tie's Martial Soul mutation was also acquired. Before the mutation, his four Soul Rings were not of the Spirit attribute. After the mutation, due to the needs of his sect, he only managed to find a ten-thousand-year-old Spirit attribute Soul Beast by chance when he got his sixth Soul Ring.

However, it was precisely because of this that Kuang Tie understood the rarity of spirit-attribute soul beasts.

Therefore, Kuang Tie, who had seven spirit rings, wasted a lot of time trying to find a spirit ring with the mental attribute at the key position of the seventh spirit ring, which ultimately delayed him considerably.

After absorbing the seventh ring, Kuang Tie, unwilling to give up, decided to search for the spirit attribute soul ring he would need in the future.

Anyway, after he broke through to the Soul Saint level, the Iron Blood Sect was able to establish a firm foothold, and he could have more time to seek opportunities on his own.

Medusa—this is the Soul-Suppressing Hammer martial soul that Kuang Tie found suitable for him, and also a spirit-attribute soul beast that he might find.

After all, the crisis in Sunset Forest is far less than that in Starry Sky Forest.

There must be spirit-attribute soul beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest, and they must be of high age, but Kuang Tie would never dare to enter the Star Dou Great Forest on his own initiative outside of the time he was acquiring a soul ring.

Everyone knows that there are at least five beings with cultivation levels of over 200,000 years in the Star Dou Great Forest.

The number of 100,000-year-old soul beasts may even exceed double digits.

If even one of the creatures that violated the rules were to venture out from the innermost circle to forage for food, he could be doomed. Given Kuang Tie's needs, searching for and tracking the target soul beast for an extended period would take a very long time, making the possibility of encountering such an accident even greater.

In contrast, Sunset Forest is relatively much safer.

With Kuang Tie's strength, he was confident that he could handle even a soul beast that was 60,000 or 70,000 years old.

"This poisonous miasma can even corrode mental energy, but my Soul-Suppressing Hammer is no joke either."

Kuang Tie possesses ice crystals, which, when held in the mouth, can temporarily isolate ordinary toxins within the poisonous miasma.

However, as he went deeper, he also encountered highly toxic substances that the ice crystals could not block.

As they explored, they discovered that this toxin could even erode mental power. At first, Kuang Tie was quite wary, but as the toxin eroded his mental power, he actually made further progress in developing his Soul-Suppressing Hammer.

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With the characteristics of his Soul-Suppressing Hammer, he can temper his own mental power by using the power of the poison while the poison erodes his mental power, thereby improving the quality of his mental power.

Furthermore, improving the quality of one's mental strength will passively increase the total amount of mental strength.

However, most Soul Masters first increase the quantity of their spiritual power, and then improve the quality through the accumulation of quantity. But Kuang Tie can actively improve the quality to drive the increase in quantity.

Moreover, by using his mental power to counteract the effects on his physical body, he also used the Soul-Suppressing Hammer martial spirit to treat the slight toxins in his body as a kind of pressure, thus tempering his physique.

Having discovered another use for his martial spirit, Kuang Tie no longer feared the toxins in the poisonous miasma. Instead, he continued to delve deeper, using the toxins in the miasma to temper his mental strength and body.

Over the course of nearly a year, Kuang Tie's mental strength and physical physique improved rapidly.

He also arrived at the valley near the location of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Eye.

One step further and you'll be in the area enveloped by the toxins of the Seven Deadly Flowers of Phosphorus.

Kuang Tie once tried to absorb the seven-colored poison gas, and only after absorbing it did he realize that he had become arrogant.

It took three whole months of recuperation to completely expel the seven-colored poison gas that he had absorbed that time.

However, fortunately, the three months spent entangled with the seven-colored poisonous gas also tempered his mental strength and physical body considerably.

However, his near-death experience made Kuang Tie afraid to absorb this poisonous gas again.

Not to mention entering the area enveloped by the seven-colored poisonous gas.

Su Yu appeared in the center of the poisonous miasma.

He ran into Kuang Tie.

"Is it you?"

Kuang Tie recognized Su Yu's soul power fluctuations and was very shocked that Su Yu was able to come to such a deep place.

Su Yu was also curious that Kuang Tie could get to such a deep place.

Moreover, Kuang Tie was located at the edge of the area shrouded in the poisonous gas of the Seven Deadly Flowers of Azure Phosphorus, where extremely low concentrations of the poison were already present, yet Kuang Tie was able to withstand it.

"Not bad, you actually managed to get here." Su Yu's heart stirred, and instead of leaving immediately, he started chatting with Kuang Tie.

Putting everything else aside, the fact that Kuang Tie's Iron Blood Sect occupied the ruins of the Tang Sect greatly impressed Su Yu.

This person can be described as a ruthless individual who effectively wiped out the Tang Clan!

"No, senior," Kuang Tie looked at Su Yu's youthful face, wondering if it was inappropriate to call him senior.

Previously, Su Yu had not revealed his appearance. Kuang Tie sensed the threat posed by Su Yu and his ability to move freely within the poisonous miasma, so he had always addressed Su Yu as "senior." Now, seeing Su Yu's youthful appearance, he inevitably felt embarrassed to continue calling him that.

"Just call me Su Yu. I'm just a Soul Saint."

"Su Yu? Soul Saint?" Kuang Tie's heart skipped a beat, and he blurted out, "Is that Su Yu from the Mingde Hall of the Sun Moon Empire?"

"You know me?"

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Kuang Tie was speechless.

Do you really not know how big a deal you've made?

Among the teams that participated in the competition, quite a few returned with the Body Sect team led by Poison Undying, and information about that battle had already spread.

He fought against a level 97 opponent at level 79, and even fought against two super Douluo from Shrek Academy, Yan Shaozhe and Xuanzi, one against two.

Even though these terrifying achievements might affect morale and the empire had measures to block them, the news still spread.

There's no other reason than Su Yu's incredible record.

Moreover, Su Yu's performance led many to believe that it was replicable.

At the very least, it seems that it is possible to replicate the scenario of a Soul Saint fighting a Title Douluo who is of a higher level.

With a full set of high-grade battle armor, it seems that a Soul Saint has a real chance of fighting a Title Douluo, even if they are of a higher level!

This is the fundamental reason why Su Yu's deeds have become so widely known.

Kuang Tie was still shaken upon learning Su Yu's true identity.

It turns out that the mysterious senior I met by chance more than a year ago was actually Su Yu.

Su Yu's combat strength was definitely at the Super Douluo level, and Kuang Tie immediately became alert, worried that Su Yu would attack him.

After all, the Sun and Moon Empire has already launched a war.

Regardless of the reason for Su Yu's appearance here, he will most likely take action against the Soul Masters of Douluo Three Kingdoms.

"Don't be nervous. I don't need to lay a hand on you, do I? I heard that the Iron Blood Sect and the Heavenly Dou Royal Family don't have a good relationship. Maybe we can even have something in common to talk about," Su Yu said.

His decision to talk to Kuang Tie was for this very purpose.

Although the Iron Blood Sect is not very large, it has a good location. It was originally the location of the Tang Sect, on the outskirts of Tiandou City.

As for how bad the relationship between the Iron Blood Sect and the Heaven Dou Royal Family was, that Su Yu felt they might have something in common with him?

The fact that the Iron Blood Sect directly occupied the Tang Sect's territory and established its own sect is enough to explain everything.

Shrek Academy might be keeping quiet for reasons they don't want to, perhaps needing to maintain some kind of nonsensical neutrality and not arbitrarily interfere in the conflicts between various forces. But the Heaven Dou Royal Family doesn't have this restriction.

The royal family of the Heavenly Soul Empire, which was also the royal bloodline of the Heavenly Dou Empire, has a relationship with the Tang Sect that has been worn down over the course of ten thousand years, but the two sides are still fundamentally connected.

Who on the mainland doesn't know the various deeds of the sea god from ten thousand years ago?

If the Heavenly Soul Royal Family wanted to get involved with that person, it would inevitably be linked to the reputation of the Tang Sect.

The Tang Clan's loss of its sect territory is a humiliating act. The Heavenly Soul Royal Family might not retaliate in any substantial way, given their reputation for being heartless and ruthless. However, the fact that the Iron Blood Sect made this decision shows that they do not take the Heavenly Soul Royal Family seriously.

"Common topics?"

Kuang Tie understood what Su Yu meant.

He was pondering whether there was a possibility of an alliance between the two sides.

It's not impossible!

This was the final answer Kuang Tie came up with.

The conflict between the Iron Blood Sect and the Heavenly Soul Royal Family is not simply because the Iron Blood Sect seized Tang Sect territory and slapped the Heavenly Soul Royal Family in the face.

Some of the elder-level Soul Masters in the Iron Blood Sect all possess hammer-type Martial Souls, and they all share the same side job: blacksmithing.

In Su Yu's memory, there was a metal city on the Douluo Continent.

Knowing this location was undoubtedly because he had seen the first part of the series in his previous life.

It was just a vague impression; he had previously planned to go to the metal capital to learn the art of forging.

But then I forgot about it.

Even if he hadn't forgotten, he still wouldn't have been able to achieve his goal.

The metal capital of Gengxin City and its blacksmith guild had long been forced to disband.

After the collision and fusion of Sun Moon Continent and Douluo Continent, the power of Soul Tools was revealed, while the biggest weakness of Douluo Continent was the lack of rare metals.

The metal capital naturally attracted the attention of many forces.

Not to mention the Heavenly Soul Empire, both the Star Luo Empire and the Douling Empire had extensively plundered the metal in Gengxin City for research purposes.

Afterwards, the blacksmiths in Gengxin City also suffered.

Because apart from a small amount of rare metals, most of the metals in Gengxin City are ordinary forbidden metals.

However, when a blacksmith's skill reaches a high enough level, it is said that he can turn the rotten into the miraculous, so naturally some people set their sights on blacksmiths who are not of high status.

The elders of the Iron Blood Sect were all descendants of blacksmiths from Gengxin City.

I don't feel a strong sense of belonging to Douluo Three Kingdoms, at least not to the point where I'd be willing to sacrifice everything for it.

For Kuang Tie, cooperating with the Sun Moon Empire was not a rebellious choice.

However, he needed to make sure that the Iron Blood Sect wouldn't become a casualty in the cooperation, and that he could obtain sufficient benefits from it.

An hour later.

Su Yu talked with Kuang Tie and learned about the history of the Iron Blood Sect.

"Indeed, fate is truly wondrous."

The character "命" (fate) in Su Yu's spiritual sea has become much more complete and harmonious.

"Since your Iron Blood Sect are descendants of the blacksmiths of the Blacksmiths Association, you should have mastered a lot of forging techniques."

Kuang Tie sighed.

"Blacksmiths are ranked in different levels, from low to high: junior blacksmith, intermediate blacksmith, senior blacksmith, master blacksmith, and master blacksmith."

"To forge ordinary metal into having the properties of rare metals, making it usable as such, requires at least a master blacksmith. And master blacksmiths were among the highest ranks of the blacksmiths' guild at the time, numbering no more than thirty."

The existence of the Tang Clan brought glory to the blacksmithing profession for a period of time, but the glory belonged to the blacksmiths within the Tang Clan itself, with at least a hundred master-level blacksmiths.

However, with the decline of the Tang Clan, the status of blacksmiths also plummeted.

Ultimately, with the complete collapse of the Tang Clan and the exhaustion of its resources, the Three Kingdoms finally began to implement their conjectures.

"Moreover, even a master blacksmith can't perform this level of forging at any time; being able to forge once a month is already the limit."

While this alleviated the pressure on the demand for rare metals in Douluo Three Kingdoms to some extent, the relief was not significant.

These numerous blacksmiths, all of whom were master-level or above, were captured by various powerful forces. Their forging techniques were passed down, thus training more blacksmiths to alleviate the pressure of demand for rare metals as much as possible.

However, this is no longer related to the Blacksmiths' Association of Gengxin City.

The blacksmiths in the association were all kidnapped, and even their family-inherited techniques were plundered by the so-called righteous cause, so the blacksmith association naturally became a dead name.

In his youth, Kuang Tie gathered some descendants of the Blacksmiths' Association and formed the Iron Blood Sect.

"What level of forging technology have you mastered?" Su Yu asked curiously.

Kuang Tie has good talent and strong personal strength, so his forging skills must be greatly enhanced, right?

"I am not very talented, but I have already reached the peak of the Grandmaster level," Kuang Tie said with considerable pride.

"Oh?" Su Yu was pleasantly surprised.

Grandmaster level is already quite good.

Many level nine Soul Masters also need to hone their forging skills, but their level, when converted to the blacksmith level in Douluo Three Kingdoms, is equivalent to the level of a high-level blacksmith.

At most, his forging and fusion techniques are at a master level, but other aspects are much cruder.

"Brother Kuang Tie, I have some interest in forging. I wonder if I will have the opportunity to learn a thing or two from you sometime in the future?"

"As a disciple of Mingde Hall, do you really lack rare metals?" Kuang Tie asked doubtfully.

In his view, the greatest use of blacksmiths' forging skills today is to forge ordinary metals with properties comparable to rare metals, so that they can replace rare metals in the production of soul tools.

However, unless one is a master craftsman who can completely transform the rotten into the miraculous, there are still many limitations to using the forged metal to make soul tools, and it is impossible to make soul tools of level six or above.

Even low-quality forged products cannot support the complex core array of a level four soul tool.

"Brother Kuang Tie, you misunderstand. I'm simply interested in forging and want to learn a thing or two. By the way, Brother Kuang Tie, have you ever thought about revitalizing the blacksmith profession?" Su Yu asked.

"Revitalize the blacksmith?" Kuang Tie looked bewildered.

I don't know how to revitalize it.

Train a large number of high-level blacksmiths, and then have them work for various factions?

(End of this chapter)