Douluo: I am a blacksmith

"Practice?" Hu Liena recalled her past training, the battles with the vicious soul beasts in the Death Canyon, and the devil training given by the top brass of Wuhun Palace.

Don’t these count as exercises?

In order to complete the training content given by the higher-ups of Wuhun Hall, he had passed by the God of Death many times.

However, in the face of desperate situations, he has never failed.

Why do I feel frustrated and defeated repeatedly in the hands of someone weaker than myself?

Thinking of this, Hu Liena shed a few more tears without realizing it. She had never cried before. This was the only time she cried in front of the most annoying person.

Qiu Ruolin sighed. He had just passed nine years of compulsory education, so he didn't have any big ideas to brainwash her.

People like Hu Liena are typical good people and fun-loving people, but they still stay stuck when they can't play.

In desperation, Qiu Ruolin had no choice but to take out a few bottles of potion from the small yellow grid of the ring and treat her wounds.

These potions were obtained at the auction house. It is said that they are magical potions jointly developed by food-type soul masters and healing-type soul masters. Drinking them will have magical powers.

Qiu Ruolin tried to help Hu Liena up.

But she didn't appreciate it and tried her best to shake off Qiu Ruolin's hand that was holding her.

She could not even die to accept the kindness of a man who had deprived her of her dignity. She thought it was the pretentiousness of a winner.

The moment she pushed Qiu Ruolin away, Hu Liena collapsed to the ground due to lack of strength. When she fell, she accidentally hit the wound, causing her to let out a miserable scream.

Qiu Ruolin took back the potion he just took out.

This potion is very expensive, with hundreds of gold soul coins per bottle, why waste it on a woman who doesn't know each other?

"If you are still here squatting next to me tomorrow, I will really kill you. No matter you are from Wuhun Palace or a member of the royal family, you will all die——"

Putting down a warning, Qiu Ruolin crossed Hu Liena and walked out of the alley.

Suddenly, Hu Liena's unwilling cries became louder and louder. The wounds on her body were tormenting her, and the wounds on her mind were also tormenting her. The blow she suffered was too great.

As she cried, she fainted.

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Gengxin City, a certain medical clinic.

Hu Liena lay on the hospital bed, opened her eyes slightly, and saw the white ceiling. Then she looked around casually from the corner of her eye until a figure appeared in her field of vision.

Blinking her eyes, her vision became much clearer. The person sitting next to her was not a nurse, her brother or Yan, but Jie.

A man who made her suffer so much humiliation.

Hu Liena stood up suddenly and subconsciously searched for the dagger on her body.

Qiu Ruolin threw a dagger directly on her bed and said with a smile, "Hey, if you think you can kill me. Just try it~".

Hu Liena quickly picked up the dagger and swung it towards Qiu Ruolin.

Just when the tip of the dagger was about to pierce the side of Qiu Ruolin's face under the mask, the dagger actually penetrated Qiu Ruolin's body.

He was like a disembodied shadow, unable to hit him at all.

"See, what you have to do now is not think about how to defeat me, because you can't defeat me at all...".

"I was just like you before. Facing an opponent I couldn't defeat, I really wanted to win once. So I was very aggressive and thought about how to defeat my opponent all the time every day, and how to use victory to prove that I had not failed... ."

Qiu Ruolin recalled the training with Gu Qing, Yu Qian, and his father Qiu Ren many years ago.

These three people were all Soul Saint level experts. It was simply a dream for Qiu Ruolin to defeat them at that time.

The opponent was a senior with absolute strength and experience. Qiu Ruolin didn't feel ashamed to lose to them.

But if he loses too much, he will inevitably become negative and depressed, and even doubt whether he is really talented. Even if he grows up, can he really defeat them?

Do you really have the strength to become a soul master?

During training, Qiu Ruolin never thought of giving up the idea of ​​winning once. With this thought, he competed with himself and looked forward to training every day so that he could have one more chance to win.

But when the battle training began, he always ended up defeated, without exception.

He was unwilling, he was angry, and he hated Gu Qing and the others for not letting go, winning for themselves once, and experiencing the joy of a winner.

Later he discovered that he was wrong.

He used defeating Gu Qing and the others as motivation to practice. This idea was a good one.

But he went astray, thinking only about how to defeat them every day and ignoring the experience gained when he failed.

In fact, every failure made him see clearly his own shortcomings and the differences and restraints between different types of soul masters.

After summing up these failure experiences, he realized that failure is really the mother of success.

Unknowingly, he has turned all his flaws into strengths, and his ability to withstand pressure is far beyond ordinary people.

This is the extra surprise and mentality he gained from practicing over the years.

"Facing an opponent you can't defeat. Do you think that if you think about challenging him every day and how to defeat him, you can get what you want? Can you beat him?" Qiu Ruolin asked Hu Liena.

Hu Liena threw the dagger aside and gave Qiu Ruolin a cold look without replying.

"What you have to do is not to challenge him every day. But to cherish the feelings and experiences gained after failing the challenge, and then find out your own shortcomings and make up for them in time!"

Seeing that Jie was speaking eloquently, Hu Liena was not alarmed by him, but instead became more dismissive of him.

"You won. Everything you said is right!" Hu Liena smiled, "I lost, but I don't need you to reason with me here.".

Hu Liena pointed to the outside of the ward and shouted, "That's it. Get out of here and don't chant sutras in my ears!".

Qiu Ruolin didn't have the arrogance of a winner on his face. His smile was gentle, as if he saw his former self in Hu Liena.

He and Hu Liena are not relatives, and they are even opponents in the Great Soul Fighting Arena. He should not care too much about her, but as a person who has experienced it, everyone wants to help his former self when he sees his past self...

Qiu Ruolin wore a mask, but the curve of the corners of his mouth was obvious. He was smiling, and his eyes under the mask looked like a pair of crescent moons.

"Let's use an analogy, just like the dagger you swung at me just now, why did it penetrate my body and not cause any harm to me?".

Qiu Ruolin said frankly, "Because my soul skills can be immune to all physical attacks, and I have the means to be immune to your mental control!".

"So even if you challenge me a hundred, a thousand, or ten thousand times, you will always lose. Why?"

Hearing this, Hu Liena's cold face became more interested and stunned. No wonder her attacks couldn't hit her. It turned out that he was immune to physical attacks.

"Because you have been using failed means to win, do you think you will succeed if I challenge you tens of thousands of times?"

Qiu Ruolin smiled and said, "You calm down, accept every failure, and summarize the reasons for the failure. This is far more meaningful than your aimless challenge, isn't it?"

"Let me use another analogy. Your soul skills and martial arts are completely restrained by me. During the soul fight, you were unable to find my location and control my soul skills. This is the fundamental reason for your failure."

Qiu Ruolin looked directly into Hu Liena's eyes seriously, "If you can accept failure and look for the reasons, you will find that since you can't find my location, you should protect yourself, because no matter what tricks I use , the ultimate goal is to get close to you and attack you."

After listening, the disdain on Hu Liena's face turned into astonishment, as if she had been awakened, her mouth was half-opened, her eyes were wide open, and her fan-like eyelashes stopped blinking.

"If you think about it from another angle, failure is success. If you want to defeat me, what you have to do is not challenge me without planning, but find out my weaknesses."

"For example, if you use some method to lock my position, no matter if I am invisible or otherwise, you will be able to know my location and deal with it calmly!"

After the words fell, Hu Liena was enlightened, and the astonishment on her face turned into astonishment.

She didn't expect that in order to encourage her, Jie actually told her the effects and weaknesses of the soul skills.

Only then did Hu Liena realize that what Zed said was not to show off the superiority of the winner, but really wanted to help her and tell her how to accept defeat...

"If you tell me all your weaknesses, aren't you afraid that I will tell my companions?" Hu Liena's pretty face showed a hint of surprise, "Tomorrow you will have a gambling battle with Yan!".

Qiu Ruolin smiled and said, "You can tell them boldly, I won't blame you."

"I show my shortcomings in order to better make up for the shortcomings and turn them into advantages...".

Sighing, Qiu Ruolin felt relieved, "I believe what I said has inspired you to some extent. Whatever you want to do next is up to you."

"If you still block me in the alley tomorrow, I will still beat you mercilessly——".

After saying that, Qiu Ruolin smiled at Hu Liena, then left the ward, planning to go to the Blacksmiths Association to continue studying the forging of the Barrett sniper rifle.

Looking at Zed's leaving figure, Hu Liena felt very complicated. Recalling what Zed said, she seemed to be able to accept this failure...

Expose shortcomings and then make up for them?

Let it become your new advantage?

Jie's approach completely refreshed Hu Liena's understanding of experience.

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Geng Xincheng, the big soul fighting arena.

The soul fighting stage in the gambling area.

Qiu Ruolin's pseudonym Jie stood on the ring, and standing opposite him was Yan, a soul sect above level [-].

In a gambling fight, as long as the two parties in the gambling fight reach an agreement, they can ignore the difference in soul power levels and stand on the soul fighting stage to fight.

At this moment, Yan had been waiting for a long time, and now he could finally teach this arrogant soul master a lesson, Jie.

Qiu Ruolin moved his tibia, full of fighting spirit. He also wanted to see how resistant the legendary golden generation of Wuhun Palace was.

"I'm very pleased that you didn't run away, but stood boldly in front of me!" Qiu Ruolin said with a smile.

Hearing this, Yan was startled. This was what he was about to say, but Jie said it first?

As a Soul Sect, why should I be afraid of a useless Soul Lord?

"I thought you would be too scared to come, but you didn't expect to keep the appointment?" Yan clasped his fingers slightly, making a clicking sound, "Here, I have to praise you!".

Qiu Ruolin tidied his clothes. The clothes he wore today were another set of clothes given by Lou Gao yesterday.

Just like the previous set of clothes with super defensive and blocking power, the clothes worn today still have special effects.

In addition to having a certain degree of defense, it also has the effect of resisting cold and heat, and can increase its own toughness, reduce the erosion of fire and ice, and reduce the time it takes to be controlled.

Seeing the two people on the stage with high enthusiasm and fighting spirit, the host was also inexplicably excited, especially the audience in the auditorium.

Screams filled the entire gambling and soul-fighting area before the two of them even entered the stage.

Gambling fights not only ignore level restrictions, but can also bring weapons to fight souls.

Spectators can also place bets on the outcome of the spirit fight.

Therefore, for those spectators who cheered for Jie or Yan, it was clear who won and who lost their bet.

"Come on - Zed, I put all my wealth on you.".

"It doesn't matter whether he is a Spirit Master of the Spirit Hall or whatever. Give him a good beating. If you are a fighting spirit in the Great Spirit Fighting Arena, you don't have to worry about the revenge of the Spirit Hall if you kill him."

Some enthusiastic spectators stood up and shouted at the top of their lungs, repeatedly reminding Qiu Ruolin that he could fight without restraint.

However, more viewers chose Yan, after all, Yan's level 45 soul power was there.

However, his soul power is ten levels higher than that of Qiu Ruolin, and he also has an extra soul ring. With this huge difference in strength, anyone with a discerning eye can tell which one is stronger and which one is weaker.

Those who bet that Jie will win do not have brain problems and cannot understand the situation, but they believe in Jie's strength.

You must know that Jie is a soul master who has started the leapfrog spirit fighting. He once instantly killed a soul master who was one level higher than Yan in the leapfrog spirit fighting.

The spectators who won the bet and robbed all saw it.

On the contrary, most of the people who bet on Yan to win saw that Yan was a soul master from Wuhun Palace, so they felt that Yan was incomparable to ordinary soul sects, so they firmly bought Yan to win.

"Both sides, are you ready?" The host glanced at Jie and Yan.

Yan and Jie nodded at the same time, indicating that the game could start at any time.

"Then you two, fighting spirit, let's start——".