Douluo: Trinity, I run through the timeline

"Huh?"

Chapter 41 Limitations of Mental Power

"What do you mean?"

Zhu Jiuyang couldn't understand it for a moment.

"It means that the same soul spirit can attach multiple soul rings to me at the same time," Su Ming said.

Xiao Jin was very confused. He hadn't even realized it himself, so how did the Soul Master know?

He began to confidently sense things from the side, gradually finding his footing, and realized that he seemed to indeed have this talent, and could add another soul ring to Su Ming.

Zhu Jiuyang understood Su Ming's meaning and also showed a look of surprise.

However, instead of directly echoing Su Ming's tone, he raised a question.

"Even if you could provide multiple spirit rings, it wouldn't be necessary, would it? With that spirit ring slot, you could simply choose a new spirit."

"Roar!"

As soon as Zhu Jiuyang finished speaking, before Su Ming could respond, Xiao Jin became displeased and growled at Zhu Jiuyang in a very unfriendly manner.

Zhu Jiuyang didn't hold Xiao Jin's offense against him. He simply reasoned with Xiao Jin: "Xiao Ming has more souls, and he will definitely be forged along with them in the future. Your work will be much easier in the future."

"Roar!"

Xiao Jin continued shouting.

Zhu Jiuyang looked at Su Ming, not understanding what Xiao Jin meant.

Su Ming translated it for him.

"Xiao Jin said what you said makes sense, but it's useless because he's forging for his own improvement, not being forced to work by me."

A big question mark seemed to appear above Zhu Jiuyang's head.

He looked at his apprentice and was surprised that Su Ming was so outstanding at such a young age, and that he had already shaped Xiao Jin's values ​​so well.

Zhu Jiuyang was no pushover either. He turned to Xiao Jin and said, "However, you are Xiao Ming's first soul spirit, the eldest brother of all the soul spirits. You forge for cultivation, but can't you leave the trivial matters outside of forging to them?"

"Roar?"

Xiao Jin was surprised.

It seems to make sense.

Repairing the forging table is fine, it's still forging, but repairing the house is a bit of a waste of energy.

Moreover, there is a lot of unnecessary work in the forging process. If someone helps, he can save some effort and enjoy the full progress effect himself. This is called achieving twice the result with half the effort!

By applying what he learned to other situations, Xiao Jin felt like he had discovered a new world.

Zhu Jiuyang had just convinced Xiao Jin when he received a helpless reply from Su Ming.

"Teacher, the spirits also burden my spiritual power."

Mental strength?

Zhu Jiuyang was shocked and looked at Su Ming to ask what was going on.

"My spiritual power should be considered high among the Soul Masters, which is why I was able to absorb Little Gold back then. It has been improving over time, but I am still far from being able to absorb a second Soul Spirit. At least from my perspective, I am already finding it very difficult to bear Little Gold."

Su Ming's description was vague; there was no way he could quantify it precisely in the era of Douyi.

If we use Dou San's stats as a benchmark, he is now at the Spirit Realm, and his stats are not low, probably close to 200.

Over the next 20,000 years, Soul Masters developed both the physical and spiritual realms. Among them, spiritual power was divided into specific realms, from low to high: Spiritual Origin Realm, Spiritual Connection Realm, Spiritual Sea Realm, Spiritual Abyss Realm, and Spiritual Domain Realm. Above that is the realm of gods, which is defined as the Divine Origin Realm.

1到50点为灵元境，51到500为灵通境，501到5000为灵海境，5001到20000为灵渊境，20001到50000便是灵域境。

Even for Soul Masters with a spiritual attribute, they usually only break through to the Spiritual Realm around the age of nine or ten, and to reach one hundred points, they generally need to be twelve years old.

Gu Yue was just nine years old when she took her first test at Donghai Academy, and her mental strength was as high as 150 points.

Su Ming in Dou Yi is nine years and eight months old, and his mental strength is close to two hundred, which is enough to show his talent in mental aspects.

It's not that he possesses a talent for spiritual attributes, but rather that he had this talent from the moment he transmigrated.

In the Douluo Continent, the improvement of spiritual power mainly depends on two aspects: one is the growth of the spirit driven by the body, and the other is the cultivation purely based on talent. The former is a kind of fixed growth. As the Soul Master's body develops and grows naturally, his spiritual power will also increase.

Su Ming was an exception in this respect. He had a high initial mental strength, and as his body responded, it naturally increased more.

Not only Su Ming in Dou Yi, but also Su Ming in Dou Er, has slightly higher mental strength than ordinary soul masters.

Zhu Jiuyang frowned.

"The fusion of souls is actually linked to spiritual power. In that case, it seems feasible for you to absorb the soul ring given to you by Xiao Jin in your third ring. But are you sure you don't want to consider ordinary soul rings with higher age?"

The advantages of a spirit are obvious. Since a spirit can be further improved, a spirit ring will also have the opportunity to increase its age.

However, the disadvantage of the soul is also obvious, namely, its singularity.

A soul spirit is endowed with three soul rings, which is equivalent to a soul master's martial soul. These three soul rings can only obtain characteristics from this one type of soul beast and cannot be diversified!

For Soul Masters, all nine Soul Ring slots are extremely precious. Each Soul Ring can acquire certain traits from external Soul Beasts, which is the key to the growth of the Martial Soul, the manifestation of the differences between each Soul Master's Martial Soul, and a testament to each Soul Master's cultivation.

Moreover, does Xiao Jin still have room to grow?

Zhu Jiuyang believes that there is none left.

This evolution is probably the limit, and there's no news of any higher evolutionary paths for the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear.

Therefore, Xiao Jin bestowed a spirit ring, and this third ring is basically four thousand years old. Su Ming can definitely try for a third spirit ring of five thousand, six thousand, or even seven or eight thousand years old!

"Roar!"

Xiao Jin also roared.

He felt that he had no further opportunities for improvement, so he might as well try for a higher-age soul ring.

Although he has been forging and enriching himself with the spiritual energy fed back from the forged metal, the time limit has not been changed. The spiritual energy he absorbs is only stored in his body, just like the soul power that a Soul Master cultivates at every ten levels. It cannot be revealed and needs a qualitative change to continue to be transformed into cultivation.

However, he has already evolved into a Dark Gold Devilclaw Bear, so there is no hope of a qualitative change.

Of course, the most important thing is that he feels he doesn't have any special soul skills that he can give to Su Ming. The strongest thing on his body right now, the Dark Gold Terror Claw, is his racial talent. If he were to give it to Su Ming as a soul skill, it would probably just be a simulated Terror Claw with soul power, and the difference between it and his real Terror Claw would be very obvious.

Su Ming patted Xiao Jin's head.

"Teacher, I believe in Xiao Jin. He can still improve."

Zhu Jiuyang and Xiao Jin reacted differently.

"Don't forget, I have a lineage of soul tools. The key to Xiao Jin's evolution this time is the soul tool I made, or to be precise, I would like to call it the Soul Armor."

Zhu Jiuyang's expression flashed with understanding.

Oh right, I almost forgot about that.

Through normal soul beast pathways, Xiao Jin has reached its peak of evolution, but it can still continue to improve. For example, as Su Ming mentioned, Xiao Jin can be armed with human intelligence to allow it to undergo unnatural evolution!

"Huh?" (Is it really okay?)

Chapter 42 I Understand

Arm the soul with external objects, and then allow the soul to undergo an evolution that cannot occur through the normal soul beast path!

"Is it really possible?"

Zhu Jiuyang took a deep breath, also feeling a bit skeptical about the idea.

"Teacher, when you resolutely chose the blacksmithing profession, wasn't it because you believed that metal could undergo a qualitative change through repeated hammering and forging?" Su Ming asked.

Zhu Jiuyang fell silent.

indeed.

Ordinary iron can be transformed into divine iron.

This was the idea of ​​that young master craftsman more than a decade ago, which shocked the blacksmiths' association when it was first proposed.

The high-ranking blacksmiths within the association all share similar beliefs.

In the past, Zhu Jiuyang also thought that the transformation of ordinary iron into divine iron was a pipe dream. Only special metals that were originally divine iron could be imbued with spirituality by blacksmiths.

But now, he doesn't think it's impossible.

Su Ming's spirit forging system, created using his soul, directly solved the material problem. Metals capable of being forged with spiritual energy were no longer limited to a few exceptionally rare divine irons, but rather to most high-grade metals—what Su Ming defined as rare metals.

Are rare metals rare? Yes, they are rare, but not in the exaggerated sense that there are only a few pieces across the entire continent. On the contrary, they exist in clearly defined categories and can be mined in large quantities. The so-called rarity refers to their unique characteristics, which can be awakened through the process of refining and imbuing them with unique properties.

Previously, with limited materials, the "Thousand Refinements with Spirit" technique was the limit. But now that the material problem has been solved, is the "Thousand Refinements with Spirit" technique truly the limit?

Zhu Jiuyang took a deep breath, and the image of the thousand-refined metal forged by Su Ming flashed through his mind, its tender spirituality seemingly leaping right before his eyes.

He had his answer—a thousand refinements was definitely not the limit!

"I understand."

Zhu Jiuyang understood, and Xiao Jin shouted with a hint of doubt.

"Roar."

He was asking Su Ming what other soul skills he could bestow upon him.

“Basic soul skills are best, such as soul skills that control the metal element. If you can materialize this soul skill and give it to me, then this soul skill will be the most important soul skill for me,” Su Ming said.

"Roar!" (This is a talent, something I can't give you!)

"Then develop your talent. Once you've successfully developed it, the ability you control will also be considered a soul skill."

"Roar"

Xiao Jin felt the pressure.

“Strictly speaking, my first soul skill also mutated because of you, and now it’s Dark Gold Power. You can start with my first soul skill and see if you can also give my first soul ring to you. With this experience, you will be able to give me my third soul ring more freely,” Su Ming said.

"Roar." (Soul Master, you're making things difficult for me.)

"Go for it, Xiao Jin! I've prepared all three spirit ring slots for you, don't let me down." Su Ming patted Xiao Jin on the shoulder.

At this moment, Xiao Jin felt as if he were carrying a huge mountain on his shoulders, an immense weight.

He nodded solemnly.

"Roar!" (I tried my best!)

"Don't worry, I'll help you too."

After making arrangements for Xiao Jin and giving him a pep talk, Su Ming sent him back to his spiritual sea to begin his cultivation.

For at least the next six months, Xiao Jin would cultivate 24/7.

Are soul beasts slow to cultivate?

Sleeping all day and relying on one's past achievements will naturally lead to slow progress. How could someone as hardworking as Xiao Jin not make progress?

Moreover, Su Ming knew that the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear had an advancement path, and that its Behemoth bloodline could be tapped in the future. The Behemoth race originally fed on dragons, and the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear was a soul beast born from the perfect combination of Behemoth bloodline and the ultimate metal attribute. The Dark Gold Terrorclaw is even more extraordinary, a perfect combination of strength and metal attribute. It is this innate ability of the Dark Gold Terrorclaw that makes the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear no less powerful than a pure-blooded Behemoth. However, tapping into the Behemoth bloodline would definitely be an enhancement for the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, allowing it to continue evolving.

The most important talent of the Behemoth race is devouring.

This is also an aspect that Su Ming plans to focus on improving Xiao Jin. He will then forge similar thousand-forged works to add to Xiao Jin's soul armor and stimulate his Behemoth bloodline.

"Teacher, you should also work hard."

Su Ming looked at Zhu Jiuyang, who was still deep in thought, and said in an encouraging tone.

Zhu Jiuyang sensed something was wrong.

However, he couldn't immediately pinpoint what was wrong.

“Teacher, a blacksmith is still a blacksmith, but a soul can free us from the title of blacksmith. We are forge masters.” Su Ming said earnestly, “I am under a lot of pressure right now and I need your help, teacher.”

Zhu Jiuyang also felt the pressure.

"I will find the soul as soon as possible."

After encouraging each other, we must work even harder.

Su Ming returned directly to Gengxin City and went into seclusion to cultivate diligently. At the same time, he focused on forging every day, gambling on the devouring type of characteristics. He also began to stop focusing on metals like sunken silver and, based on some knowledge from later generations, selected rare metals that were most likely to have devouring type characteristics, and kept trying.

Zhu Jiuyang personally ventured into all the major soul beast habitats, except for the Star Dou Great Forest, frantically searching for suitable soul spirits.

Under Su Ming's constant pressure and encouragement, Xiao Jin first tried to master the power of dark gold, then cooperated with Su Ming in continuous forging, and tried to explore his own devouring ability. Every time he absorbed the spirituality of metal, he would simulate the devouring scenario.