Douluo Continent: The Holy Evil Emperor.

Chapter 179 Cutting, Decisive Decision

Now that a plan has been made, the next step is naturally to conduct a simulation.

During the ten days that Ye Qing and Ilex spent holed up in their dorm pretending to absorb the divinely bestowed soul ring, they were basically busy with this. Of course, Ye Qing was mostly listening while Ilex was teaching.

To realize the grand vision of a full-body super artifact, it's definitely not enough for Electrolux to know how to make it; Ye Qing himself also needs to learn how to handcraft the super artifact.

Even if you can't reach Electrolux's level, you should at least understand most of it.

Even ten thousand years from now, the creation of battle armor will still require battle armor masters to complete a portion of their own battle armor before they can use it. It's possible that Ye Qing will have to do the forging himself.

The forging methods during the Douluo Continent II: The Legend of Tang Dynasty were too crude and lacked a mature system. The master craftsmen during the Douluo Continent I era were, in essence, only level eight fitters. They could purify metals and handcraft precision parts, but they would be completely lost when asked to engage in the kind of forging with spirits.

Fortunately, Electrolux knows a little bit about everything, including forging.

Based on the forging system Ye Qing described, from the initial Hundred Forging to the final Heaven Forging, and the different properties of metals at each stage, Electrox quickly grasped the basics of forging, drawing on his experience of crafting super artifacts by hand on the Holy Demon Continent.

For an ordinary person to become a master forger from scratch is as difficult as ascending to heaven. However, if a half-step god-king who has already crafted a super artifact were to look back at the forging level of these mortals with a top-notch perspective, even if he couldn't see through it at a glance and start working on it, he could at least analyze the general principles and deduce the process.

What's lacking now is practical experience.

Not only Electrolux, but Ye Qing as well, the best way to learn forging is to practice it himself.

Whether a master craftsman could emerge during the Douluo Continent II: The Peerless Tang Sect era is still a question. Of course, he doesn't need to reach the level of being able to forge with the heavens. He only needs to make the forged metal possess spirituality, enough to be contained within his body and resonate and fuse with his soul bone.

As for the rest, let magic handle it.

Ye Qing's original one-week simulation period has come to an end. Although the idea for the Battle Armor Divine Gear has not been completely sorted out yet, this is a minor matter. He can continue to practice the forging process while refining the plan.

"Let the second-playthrough dungeons experience the overwhelming power of third-playthrough gear!"

Ye Qing grinned, stabilized the fluctuations of his soul power at level sixty-one, and deliberately created the impression that he had just broken through and was still somewhat unstable. Then he withdrew his martial soul, dispelled the Holy Radiance Protection, pushed open the door, and walked out of the courtyard.

In the courtyard, Yan Shaozhe sat at the table sipping tea. When he saw Ye Qing come out, he smiled and nodded at him.

"Junior Brother."

"Senior brother." Ye Qing nodded slightly in acknowledgment, and then sat down opposite Yan Shaozhe.

"How was your seclusion this time?" Yan Shaozhe poured Ye Qing a cup of tea.

"Thank you for your concern, Senior Brother. I have finished my seclusion and am feeling well." Ye Qing sipped his tea.

Upon hearing this, Yan Shaozhe's smile deepened: "In that case, I won't stay any longer. After you've stabilized your cultivation, remember to find Xiao Tao and the others to train together. Without you for the next ten days, they've had a lot of trouble even with their training."

After giving his instructions, Yan Shaozhe got up and prepared to leave.

Instead, Ye Qing paused slightly while drinking tea.

He was prepared to be surrounded and watched by the Shrek Academy students, and he had already drafted a nearly flawless explanation for his sixth spirit ring. The reason for "nearly" was that he was unsure whether the scoundrel would come out and expose him.

Unexpectedly, Yan Shaozhe did not follow the rules at all. Not only did no one gather around to watch after he came out of seclusion, but he even drank a cup of tea to make his presence known before preparing to run away.

What kind of approach is this?

"Senior brother, aren't you going to ask me what I've been doing in seclusion this time?" Ye Qing couldn't help but ask.

Yan Shaozhe stopped and turned to look at Ye Qing, saying with a gentle smile, "Everyone has their own secrets. If you don't want to talk about them, we won't pry into anything. Junior brother, remember, we are family."

Yan Shaozhe is gone.

Ye Qing sat at the table for a long time, until the tea in front of him had completely cooled down, before getting up to tidy up the tea set on the table.

These words probably weren't spoken by Yan Shaozhe. He doesn't seem like the kind of person who has such awareness. Even if he evolved into a true Phoenix of Light due to Ye Qing's butterfly effect, he probably still wouldn't say such a thing.

It's not that Yan Shaozhe lacked this awareness, but since he had already come to Ye Qing's side, he would definitely have asked her something instead of giving her this seemingly considerate but actually manipulative remark.

So... it's Moon?

"It's been so long, and they still haven't told me how to deal with that eight-petaled fairy orchid. It seems that it has most likely been divided up by those old geezers from the Sea God Pavilion. I just don't know who will ultimately get the eight-petaled fairy orchid." Ye Qing chuckled and silently cleaned the tea set.

Guilt? Compensation? Taking sides?

Who knows? But at least I've repaid some of the resources I got from Shrek Academy. When I run out of materials for battle armor in a couple of years and have to go to the Sun Moon Empire to buy them for free, I'll get some Mingdetang specialties back. That way, I'll have repaid Shrek Academy's kindness enough.

Without that burden, there's no question of ingratitude anymore. All the debts have been repaid, and all that's left is to make Shrek my Shrek.

Don't think that repaying the debt of raising is so simple. A single immortal herb plus the soul guide technology blueprints from Mingde Hall should be enough to repay the debt. Ye Qing has been solving his own problems since his fourth soul ring. The resources Shrek Academy has used on Ye Qing are probably not even enough to exchange for a 100,000-year soul bone.

He's done everything he could, so how can he be considered an ingrate? Besides, Ye Qing didn't 'betray' Shrek Academy; he just wanted to be in charge.

"And my cheap grandfather..." Ye Qing stretched after cleaning the tea set, and rubbed his temples with a headache.

There's no need to worry about Ye Feng's stance. You can tell from the fact that Old Deng came to complain about the immortal herb that he might not be that loyal to Shrek Academy.

It's him...

Ye Qing originally wanted to give him a magical herb, since it was a cheap gift for his grandfather.

To be honest, before Ye Qing awakened his martial soul, he really felt like he was looking at Tang Hao when he saw Ye Feng. Before he was six years old, Ye Feng really didn't care about him much. He probably thought that even if Ye Qing's incomplete soul was healed, it would still be weak and he wouldn't be able to awaken any powerful martial soul. This also resulted in Ye Qing not having much affection for Ye Feng at all.

It's hard to say how much of the reason Ye Feng tried to cure Ye Qing's soul problems was due to his fear of the Ye family line dying out. If Ye Qing hadn't had his own special abilities, Ye Feng would probably have just treated him as a breeding machine for the Ye family.

Ye Qing understood all of this.

However, he still intended to give Ye Feng a magical herb. Regardless of his motives, it was true that he had done his best for Ye Qing.

There was no other way; we had to wait a few years until the hype surrounding the eight-petaled orchid died down. This eight-petaled orchid was related to my severing ties with Shrek, so this plan had to be carried out.

Who knew that Ye Feng couldn't even wait a few years, and Ye Qing couldn't explain his plans to him, so he could only give him a Grade 9 Purple Ganoderma.

Interpersonal relationships.

"This is so troublesome..."

But he did manage to release his sixth spirit ring eventually, so he could start showing off in the Spirit Battle Tournament a little over a month later, just to release the frustration in his heart.

(End of this chapter)