Douluo: When Tang Wulin Met Little Huo Niang

Chapter 529 Soul Forging (8k)

Zhenhua laughed and sat down next to Tang Wulin.

"Hahaha, okay, I'll teach you now. If you can really use soul-forging-level metal to forge the prototype of a four-character battle armor, then we'll be making history this time."

The so-called prototype of the four-character battle armor, as the name suggests, is a four-character battle armor that has not yet been completed and only has a shell.

Although the prototype of the four-character battle armor is not the complete four-character battle armor, its value is even higher than the complete four-character battle armor.

The reason is very simple. Battle armor is closely related to the ability of the soul master. The benefits of forcibly wearing battle armor that does not belong to you are very low. If a strong attack soul master wears the four-character battle armor of an auxiliary soul master, it is probably not as good as wearing his own three-character battle armor.

However, the prototype of the four-character battle armor is different. It does not have any attributes. Its greatest function is to integrate with the existing three-character battle armor.

After the fusion is completed, the materials of the original three-character battle armor can complete the evolution and officially evolve into a four-character battle armor of the Tianduan level.

There is no shortage of three-character battle armors on the continent today, but four-character battle armors can only be possessed by the most powerful people in each major force. Therefore, something like the prototype of the four-character battle armor is an absolutely priceless treasure no matter where it is.

Theoretically, the only person who could complete the forging of the prototype of the four-character battle armor was Zhenhua. After all, he was the first and only master craftsman on the continent. Only he could complete the heavenly forging, and only he could create a true four-character battle armor.

But after Tang Wulin completed his soul forging, this theory had loopholes.

Even if it is impossible to complete the true Heavenly Forging, if the quality of the forged metal can match or even surpass that of Heavenly Forging, then it may not be completely impossible to use this metal to forge the prototype of the four-character battle armor.

In fact, Zhenhua was also very curious about what kind of strange chemical reactions would occur when using the strange metals forged by Tang Wulin to cast battle armor.

He said:
"Well, as we said last time, soul forging is to inject the soul and use the blacksmith's own power to thoroughly sublimate the forged metal."

"The properties of the soul-forged metal forged by each Saint Craftsman are not exactly the same. Therefore, the soul-forged metal is also called the forger's clone. If the soul-forged that has been initially endowed with vitality is a plant, then the soul-forged that has been injected with soul and consciousness is already an animal."

"It is precisely because soul-forging metals are so important that high-level blacksmiths have such an important position on the continent. In the field of one-word battle armor and two-word battle armor, the importance of blacksmiths is actually not very high. But once it reaches the field of three-word battle armor, that is, soul forging, blacksmiths are the most important of all secondary professions."

Of course, the relative lack of holy craftsmen is also a very important reason.

"The reason why your soul forging is so powerful is not only because the soul forging you forge is more advanced than other soul forgings, but also because your soul forging metal has inherited some of your strength. Your strength is much stronger than that of ordinary blacksmiths, and the soul forging you forge is also much stronger."

"Oh, by the way, crazy old man, the reason why you were able to complete soul forging and become a holy craftsman at such an old age is because of your own strength, right?"

At the end, Zhenhua looked at Feng Wu Yu who was listening quietly at the side and asked casually.

Feng Wu Yu curled his lips.

"Yes, it's not a secret."

It would be fine if he was just teaching soul forging, but forging the prototype of four-character battle armor was completely beyond his ability.

Although he is a rare talent in the history of the forging world, and his talents and insights in some areas are even more profound than Zhenhua's, when it comes to knowledge related to Tianduan, the gap between him and Zhenhua cannot be described in the slightest.

Therefore, in this class, Zhenhua is the absolute protagonist, and Feng Wuyu is really just here to watch.

Although he felt somewhat unwilling in his heart, he still stayed here obediently and listened to Zhenhua's story.

After all, Zhenhua is a very cunning guy. It is probably only a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to hear him talk about his forging experience so unreservedly.

Even for a Saint Craftsman of Feng Wu Yu's level, the Divine Craftsman's class is extremely important. No matter how proud Feng Wu Yu is, he has to admit this.

Zhenhua smiled at Tang Wulin and said:
"You see, this is the secret of the crazy old man's success. As far as I know, he is also the most powerful among all the holy craftsmen in the world today. The greatest feature of his soul forging metal is that the power attached to it is significantly stronger than the soul forgings forged by other holy craftsmen."

As he said this, Zhenhua thought of the piece of spiritual alloy forged by Tang Wulin.

A few months ago, when Tang Wulin met him for the first time, he forged a spiritual alloy under his guidance that was close to the quality of the heavenly forged alloy. The degree of fusion reached an unprecedented 100%, which was even impossible to achieve in theory.

As to why the degree of fusion could reach 100%, Zhenhua thought about it again and again, and still believed that the key was the suppression of the forging metal by the blood aura of Tang Wulin at that time.

Under the suppression of this powerful bloodline, the forged metal completely surrendered to him and, as a result, gave up its own characteristics on its own.

This kind of thing is really magical. If another person told Zhenhua about this, he would definitely think that the other person is crazy. But when this kind of thing really happened around him, Zhenhua helplessly discovered that this was the most reasonable explanation.

Normally, the quality of a spiritual alloy with a 100% fusion degree is no worse than that of ordinary soul forging. The reason why it can rival the heavenly forging is obviously thanks to Tang Wulin injecting his own power into the metal in the last step.

During the two months that Tang Wulin entered deep meditation, Zhenhua conducted a comprehensive study of the spiritual alloy he forged.

Finally, the conclusion is drawn: This spiritual alloy, no matter which properties it has, has reached the extreme that a normal spiritual alloy can achieve.

Not only are all the elemental attributes fully compatible, but the material itself is incredibly all-round. If Zhenhua guessed correctly, as long as the spiritual alloy forged by Tang Wulin is fused with the battle armor, the battle armor that is fused with it can even directly obtain a trace of the attributes of Tang Wulin's bloodline.

Anyone who has felt Tang Wulin's bloodline can understand how exaggerated this is.

Tang Wulin's soul forging was even better than that spiritual alloy. It was still two levels away from heavenly forging, but with the nourishment of the Dragon God's power, it was already stronger than ordinary heavenly forging.

This is also the reason why Zhenhua believes that Tang Wulin can complete the forging of the prototype of the four-character battle armor in the next period of time.

Because if Spirit-forged Alloy allows the metal to acquire a trace of the blacksmith's aura, and Soul-forged Metal allows the metal to acquire the properties of the blacksmith, then Soul-forged Alloy allows the metal to acquire the talent that the blacksmith possesses.

For example, a saint craftsman with a fire-attributed martial soul would often forge a soul-forging alloy with an extremely powerful burning property, and this property usually does not require the consumption of soul power. If it can be attached to a battle armor, it can instantly greatly enhance the soul master's ability.

Therefore, when the soul masters on the mainland are forging battle armor, they often try to find out the different abilities possessed by different saint craftsmen on the mainland. Otherwise, it would be really not funny if a soul master with ice attribute forged a battle armor with fire attribute talent.

Considering Tang Wulin's experience with spirit alloy and soul forging, the quality of the soul forging alloy he forged should also be of a heaven-defying level.

In the following time, Zhenhua talked to Tang Wulin in detail about the matters that need to be paid attention to when forging soul forging alloy.

Most of them were actually similar to those used when forging spirit-forging alloys. Tang Wulin had already memorized them by heart, but he still did not interrupt Zhenhua and listened very carefully.

After he finished speaking, Zhenhua took a breath, picked up the water on the table and took a sip. He kicked the table leg and stepped back a few meters with the chair. He gestured to Tang Wulin and said:
"Okay, I've told you the most basic and most important things. The following content can only be continued after you try forging the melt-forged alloy yourself."

When one reaches the level of a saint craftsman, there are some things that one can never learn just by talking or listening; only practice can lead to true knowledge.

If we just tell Tang Wulin all those advanced theoretical knowledge now, he might not be able to digest and absorb it all, but might even misunderstand it and cause problems.

It would be better to let him try it himself. It doesn’t matter whether he succeeds or fails. What matters is the forging experience.

Tang Wulin nodded and looked at Feng Wuyu who was sitting in front of him.

"Um, Mr. Feng, please step back as well."

Feng Wu Yu curled the corner of his mouth.

"It doesn't matter. I am different from that brat. My body is very strong and will not be hurt by the noise of your forging."

Zhenhua kept his distance from Tang Wulin not because he was afraid of disturbing him. For an excellent blacksmith, the most important thing is concentration. If he can't even achieve the most basic concentration, then the success rate of forging high-grade metals will be infinitely close to zero.

Even the master craftsman Zhenhua could only complete spiritual forging level when his concentration was not focused.

What he feared was the energy fluctuations produced by Tang Wulin the Forger.

It was not difficult when the spirit-forging alloy was being forged. In order not to damage the metal, Tang Wulin always used very little force, so there was no problem for Zhenhua to watch from a close distance.

However, since the soul forging some time ago, the energy fluctuations generated by Tang Wulin's forging began to become somewhat terrifying.

At least for a Titled Douluo like Zhenhua, whose realm is somewhat unstable, watching Tang Wulin's forging at a close distance for a long time may cause damage to the body.

Feng Wu Yu is a Super Douluo, and a Super Douluo produced by Shrek. His strength is much stronger than the average Super Douluo, so he was able to watch him forging in front of Tang Wulin until yesterday.

Unfortunately, his privilege will end today.

Tang Wulin said seriously:

"Master Feng, I am going to be serious this time. I will unlock more power and I might really hurt you. Please step back. And if possible, I hope you can protect your teacher."

Seeing Tang Wulin's serious expression, Feng Wu Yu's face froze. He coughed dryly, nodded, took a few steps back, obediently distanced himself from Tang Wulin, and came to Zhenhua's side.

"alright, I got it."

He was well aware of Tang Wulin's strength. If he was the strongest fighter among blacksmiths before, then the strongest fighter in the blacksmith world now was undoubtedly the boy in front of him.

Feng Wu Yu had actually asked Yun Ming a long time ago, and he learned from Yun Ming that Tang Wulin was a power-type strong attack spirit master. When such a person is a blacksmith, the thing he has the most is strength, and he is also the one who makes the loudest noise when forging.

Feng Wu Yu knew very well that if this kid really used his full strength to strike with his hammer, the aftermath would probably kill him instantly.

Seeing that Feng Wuyu had also distanced himself from him, Tang Wulin finally put his mind at ease. Then, his eyes became extremely focused.

At this moment, all he could see were the pieces of metal on the forging table in front of him, nothing else.

All of these metals emitted nine-color light. They were all spirit-forged metals that Tang Wulin had successfully forged. Now, Tang Wulin decided to directly melt-forge them into the soul-forging level.

Last time, Tang Wulin got the process wrong because it was his first time to perform fusion forging. He performed fusion forging before spirit forging.

After studying for several months, Tang Wulin has realized that this kind of forging is a thankless task, so this time he chose to perform soul forging first and then complete fusion forging.

Tang Wulin did not make long preparations. These were all metals forged by him personally, and he was already familiar with them.

As a violent aura rose in the forging room, the dazzling spirit rings of six golds and one color appeared beside Tang Wulin again.

No matter how many times he saw his spirit ring combination like this, Feng Wu Yu couldn't help but sigh from the bottom of his heart: What a monster...

Golden dragon scales rose above his body, and nine-colored light spread through his hands to the forging hammers he held in both hands. Tang Wulin raised both hammers high and slammed them down.

"Dang! Dang!"

Then, he began to strike out with his hands continuously to a special melody, striking the two pieces of spirit-forged metal at the same time, as if he were playing a percussion instrument.

The two people watching on the scene were both blacksmiths with extremely sharp eyes, so they could tell at a glance that Tang Wulin was forging two pieces of spirit-forging metals at the same time, trying to complete the soul forging of them at the same time.

If someone else performed this level of forging in front of them, they would definitely be astonished. No matter whether it was Zhenhua or Feng Wuyu, the success rate of completing soul forging in this way was extremely low. The gain would not outweigh the loss. It would be better for them to perform soul forging honestly piece by piece.

But since it was Tang Wulin who was doing this work, their expressions remained calm and they just watched his actions very calmly.

The reason was simple. Tang Wulin had repeated the same work dozens of times in front of them. Tang Wulin's learning process of soul forging was not as easy as learning the spirit forging alloy. After all, he had been stagnant as a fifth-level blacksmith for several years. His understanding of spirit forging had reached the pinnacle, and soul forging was a completely new attempt for him.

Therefore, even someone as talented as him had to go through half a month of failures before he could officially complete his soul forging and become a true seventh-level blacksmith, one of the dozen or so saint craftsmen on the continent.

Zhenhua and Feng Wuyu were not dissatisfied at all about this. Instead, they were very happy.

Are you kidding? The two of them were stuck at the threshold of level seven blacksmith for longer than each other. Not to mention Feng Wu Yu, even Zhen Hua took him five whole years to officially complete it, and yet he was called the greatest genius in the history of the blacksmithing world.

It only took Tang Wulin half a month to complete the feat that took him five years to accomplish. This forging talent is more than unprecedented. Zhenhua can say with confidence that this is a forging talent of a level that will never be surpassed.

What’s even more terrifying is that the difficulty in learning soul forging disappeared like a joke after Tang Wulin completed the soul forging work for the first time.

After officially being promoted to a level seven blacksmith, Tang Wulin's soul forging became incredibly easy. It was not known whether he had grasped the feeling or what, but his soul forging success rate had reached a staggering 95 percent.

This is equivalent to him performing soul forging twenty times, and only one of them will fail.

This is simply unbelievable. If it were any other blacksmith who had just reached level seven, the failure rate would be about 95%, and it would be normal to succeed once in twenty attempts.

Even after he completely mastered soul forging, he soon learned more advanced techniques from Zhenhua and started to perform some fancy tricks.

The simultaneous forging in front of us is a typical example.

In the past forging world, simultaneous forging was considered useless. It was a technique that significantly reduced the success rate of forging in order to speed up the forging process. Normally, no forger would use this technique unless time was really tight.

But after Tang Wulin mastered this technique, he couldn't let it go. After that, he would soul-forge two pieces of metal at the same time almost every time he forged.

It has to be said that for a blacksmith like Tang Wulin who has a very high success rate, forging two pieces of metal at the same time does save a lot of time.

After a while, the sound of Tang Wulin's two hammers hitting the two pieces of metal was mixed with a sound that was not there before.

"Dang! Ding! Dang! Ding!"

This is one of the phenomena that symbolizes the initial completion of soul forging, the soul forging echo.

Soul Break Echo can almost be said to be a staged victory in Soul Forging. As long as the Soul Forging Echo can be completed, the success rate of Soul Forging will have reached more than half.

At the same time, this is also the most difficult step to complete in the soul forging process, because this step cannot be taught. Even top blacksmiths like Zhenhua and Feng Wuyu can only teach Tang Wulin and others how to feel when they complete the soul forging echo. How to complete the soul breaking echo can only be comprehended by the blacksmith himself, and it requires extremely high comprehension from the blacksmith.

Therefore, the vast majority of level six blacksmiths actually get stuck at this step. What they lack is not accumulation or experience, but the epiphany that is sufficient to achieve a breakthrough.

After completing the soul forging echo, the next step is soul forging solidification.

After completing the most difficult step, Tang Wulin no longer held back. He swung his hands at a faster speed. The clanging sounds instantly resounded throughout the forging room. The strong wind created by his waving hands was even so strong that it was difficult for ordinary people to stand.

Under his hammering, the surfaces of the two pieces of metal began to emit nine-colored light. Before the nine-colored light faded, Tang Wulin's next hammer fell on them, injecting more light into them.

Under the continuous hammering, the two pieces of spirit-forged metal seemed to be completely soaked in the nine-color light. The fading speed of the nine-color began to slow down slowly, and finally gradually solidified.

At this moment, the two pieces of metal suddenly jumped up from the forging table as if they were frightened, as if they wanted to escape from Tang Wulin.

Metal that has been endowed with life will have its own intelligence once its life force reaches a certain level due to the stimulation of soul forging.

At this time, it will become panicked and will not want to be controlled, so it will try to escape.

And once it escapes the control of the blacksmith, because the newly elevated soul has not yet been solidified, the soul will quickly disperse and return to the spirit forging stage. At that time, this piece of metal will no longer be soul forged. .

However, for Tang Wulin, who had undergone soul forging too many times, this step was already expected. He did not do anything else. He just snorted coldly, and a nine-color light flashed in his eyes. The two pieces of metal that were about to escape fell back onto the forging table, still trembling slightly, as if they were afraid.

After being forged by Tang Wulin, these two pieces of metal have a certain amount of dragon blood in them. In a sense, they are an extension of his power. He only needs to move his mind and mobilize the suppressive power of his dragon god blood on his own clansmen to easily stop the opponent's actions.

Seeing that he had completed suppressing the metal that wanted to escape, Tang Wulin looked calm, as if nothing had happened, and entered the next stage, the solidification of the soul.

Soul Forging Solidification not only needs to solidify the soul power, but also the soul. Only when the newly born soul in the metal is completely stabilized, the second step of soul forging, soul forging solidification, can be considered completely successful.

The nine-colored light in Tang Wulin's eyes suddenly became stronger. As he hammered, layers of mental power began to cover the two pieces of metal.

Although not as good as Huo Yutong, Tang Wulin's mental power has actually entered the level of the Divine Origin Realm. Considering that his mental power has completely transformed into divine consciousness, his mental power level is even higher than Yun Ming.

To use this level of mental strength to forge and solidify the soul can only be described as using a butcher knife to kill a fly.

As a result, the speed of soul solidification was even faster than the previous soul power solidification. After a while, layers of nine-colored dragon scales began to emerge on the surface of the two pieces of metal.

At this moment, Tang Wulin's beating speed, which was originally like a violent storm, gradually slowed down and became much more normal.

Of course, this so-called normality was only relative. The two onlookers present had both performed soul forging themselves and knew that even at this moment, Tang Wulin's forging speed was much faster than what they had done back then, at least twice as fast.

Under the hammering of the two hammers, which had slowed down a lot but were still fast, soon the surfaces of the two rare metals were covered with nine-colored dragon scales. While their surfaces continued to emit nine-colored light, the aura emanating from them also became very condensed and steady.

The occurrence of this phenomenon means that Tang Wulin's soul solidification has been officially completed and the soul forging and solidification has ended.

After completing the soul forging and solidification, the only thing left is the final step of soul summoning.

This step, like the previous Soul Forging Echo, is also the type that can only be understood but not explained. Tang Wulin was also stuck at this step for the longest time.

Fortunately, those failures are already in the past. For Tang Wulin now, the soul summoning step is no longer an obstacle for him.

As a loud dragon roar sounded, a huge golden dragon head emitting nine-colored light appeared behind Tang Wulin. It was his third soul skill, the Golden Dragon Roar.

He hardly used any strength in his body. For him now, if he really launched the Golden Dragon Roar with all his strength, the entire Shrek City would be in trouble.

He is using this soul skill now simply because it is the soul skill that best combines his soul power and mental power, and it is also the soul skill that is easiest to master.

Under the shock of the golden dragon's roar, the two pieces in front of Tang Wulin actually responded with two dragon roars. Under the nine-colored light, the soul-calling ceremony ended and the soul forging was officially completed!
The two pieces of soul-breaking metal on the forging table continuously emitted nine-color light, as if they were cheering and conveying excitement.

Since the quality and characteristics of soul-forged metals forged by different Saint Craftsmen are different, every time a new Saint Craftsman is born, the new metal he forges will have its own unique name.

Because the properties of the metals forged by Tang Wulin are too strong and uniform, the names of these metals are mostly the same, that is, Nine-Colored Dragon Scale Steel.

This name was obviously derived from the uniform appearance of these metals. After that, if one saw a piece of soul-forged metal covered with nine-colored dragon scales on the market, then this piece of metal was most likely forged by Tang Wulin.

If it were normal, Tang Wulin's work would have ended here, and he would have turned his attention to the metal afterwards.

But today is different. Today he still has to continue with the subsequent work, which is the alloy forging at the soul forging level.

Tang Wulin dropped his hands holding the hammers to his sides, took a deep breath, and focused his eyes on the two pieces of soul-forged metal on the forging table.

Then, as a red light lit up, the Fire Dragon King, which Zhenhua and Feng Wuyu had become very familiar with during this period of time, appeared again from Tang Wulin's left arm.

It opened its big mouth towards the two pieces of metal on the forging table.

"boom--"

Suddenly, the blazing flames burned towards the two pieces of soul-forged metal.

Feng Wu Yu and Zhen Hua's expressions suddenly changed.

They finally understood why Tang Wulin had just told Feng Wu Yu to retreat as well, and also said that he would do his best to protect Zhen Hua.

When Tang Wulin used the power of the Fire Dragon King before, the temperature of the flames he spewed out was actually not that high. Even if Zhenhua was hit directly by it, he would probably not be seriously injured.

But this time it was different. Perhaps because the two pieces of metal used to make the alloy were soul-forged, although Tang Wulin still suppressed the Fire Dragon King's flames to a considerable extent, its temperature still reached the level of an ordinary Fire-type Super Douluo.

In other words, even if Feng Wu Yu himself were to cast the flame, the temperature would be about this level.

The corners of Zhenhua's mouth couldn't stop twitching.

You have to know that Tang Wulin hasn't even started the formal forging yet. He was just preparing the preparatory ceremony before soul forging, but such a big commotion has been caused.

If the noise really got bigger and bigger, he felt that he would not be able to stay here any longer.

Unlike him, Feng Wu Yu, as a Super Douluo who possesses the Blazing Fire Dragon Martial Spirit, has a deeper feeling for the aura of the Fire Dragon King.

It wasn't obvious before that the Fire Dragon King was suppressing his power, but now that he used a little bit of his power, he could feel his martial soul and blood trembling, as if they were paying homage to the monarch.

What is the origin of Tang Wulin's soul? Is it a little too strong? How did he find such a powerful soul ten thousand years ago?

No, if you think about it carefully, it was only the era ten thousand years ago when wild soul beasts were running all over the ground that could provide such powerful souls.

Although the combat effectiveness of a soul is largely influenced by the soul master, its own quality is the most critical part.

Feng Wu Yu dared to bet that until now, Tang Wulin's fire dragon soul has not yet displayed its full strength.

If it fires at full power, how strong can it be? It can't possibly be at the level of Ultimate Douluo, right? You have to know that even Yun Ming, the most powerful soul, is only at the level of an ordinary Titled Douluo.

What Feng Wu Yu didn't know was that he actually guessed it right.

As the soul of Tang Wulin's Blue Silver Emperor martial spirit, the power of the Water and Fire Dragon King has actually been suppressed to a great extent all along.

At least when Tang Wulin and Huo Yutong have the same soul power level, the strength of either Water or Fire Dragon King is inferior to that of Snow Empress who has retained most of her original power.

The gap between the Blue Silver Emperor's martial spirit and the Ice and Snow Girl's martial spirit is simply too big.

But things are different now.

As the current first successor to the Dragon God throne, Tang Wulin obtained the power of the Dragon God's bloodline from the soul core bestowed by the Dragon God.

Since the life attribute soul core that controls the power of the Blue Silver Emperor was wrapped in the Dragon God soul core, not only Tang Wulin's bloodline aura, but even his soul power was contaminated with the power of the Dragon God bloodline.

Because of this, the power of the Water and Fire Dragon Kings has been greatly enhanced.

Now, any one of them, if fighting with all their strength, would be able to be as powerful as the Snow Emperor, and could even compete with Emperor Tian and the Evil Emperor.

In other words, their combat power is at the peak level of quasi-gods. Not to mention Yun Ming's soul, even Yun Ming himself would definitely lose more than win if facing the combined forces of these two Dragon King-level souls.

(End of this chapter)