Chapter 145: Guarding Creation.
The so-called Thousand Forgings is by no means as simple as forging it a thousand times with a hammer. Instead, it is to remove all impurities in the metal through continuous forging and increase its density. At the same time, the greatest special effect of the Thousand Forgings is sublimation.
Only when the metal is forged to produce sublimation effects can it be truly forged.
The sublimation effect is not ordinary light pollution. Strictly speaking, it is an additional ability. Just like tungsten steel, it has great strength in itself. After thousands of forgings, the volume of the tungsten steel itself is reduced by one third. At the same time, the strength is increased by 200%, and its sublimation effect will increase the weight by 30%.
The same piece of metal can only increase its weight and thus demonstrate its super high strength if it undergoes a qualitative change.
Increasing weight is the simplest type of sublimation. Excellent thousand forgings can also produce some special sublimation effects. The better the sublimation effect, the higher the value of the metal produced by thousand forgings.
When it comes to the level of Thousand Forgings, one must first forge the metal itself, and then use the same technique to forge it into shape.
Qian Renxue swung her two hammers and began to forge continuously. She did not use her full strength. She only used 10% to 20% of the strength when swinging the forging hammers with both arms.
Suddenly, sparks flew and rhythmic knocking sounds rang out in the forging room like cheerful percussion music.
Just like protecting a precious treasure, Qian Renxue's hammering force not only did not increase, but was slightly restrained. Through continuous hammering, she was able to judge the texture of the magic silver itself, feel its characteristics, and complete the purification process bit by bit.
There was a relieved smile on Lou Gao's face. This was the right thing to do.
Rare metals should be treated as if they were loved ones. They should be protected during the forging process instead of being blindly hit hard. The surface of rare metals is strong, but once the internal texture is damaged, their own properties will be affected to a certain extent.
Qian Renxue's previous heavy blow was entirely supported by her powerful mental strength, otherwise the metal texture would have been shattered long ago.
Although tapping with less force will take more time, it is undoubtedly the safest approach.
Half an hour passed, and the sound of Qian Renxue's forging became more frequent.
Even Qian Renxue herself didn't know how many times she had hammered it. Gradually, the roar caused by the hammering disappeared. In front of her eyes, the magic silver seemed to be releasing a faint light. With every hammering, it seemed to breathe and match Qian Renxue's breathing.
Qian Renxue's pupils gradually turned into dark golden diamonds, hidden within her clothes, and faint golden lines gradually appeared on her skin.
Lou Gao, who was standing next to him, focused all his attention on the magic silver and did not notice the changes in Qian Renxue.
The dark golden color deep in Qian Renxue's eyes brightened slightly, and the forging hammer in her hand seemed to have become a part of her body. With every strike of the hammer, the magic silver seemed to emit a comfortable chanting sound.
Qian Renxue's eyes became brighter and brighter, and the frequency of her hammering began to increase faster and faster.
The magic silver became more and more solid, and its volume gradually shrank by 5%, 10%, and 15%.
At this point, its density seemed to have reached its limit and would no longer shrink inward, but every time Qian Renxue hammered it, it slightly improved its texture, making it more reasonable.
The firelight illuminated the entire No. 8 forging room red. Lou Gao, who was standing next to him, already had sweat on his forehead as he was not very sensitive to heat.
On the contrary, Qian Renxue, who was forging, had a relaxed look on her face. The boiling heat waves made her body feel refreshed and happy.
For her, this temperature is like basking in the warm sun in winter, which is quite comfortable.
Qianduan has a spirit. This is the feeling of Qianduan having a spirit. Lou Gao was extremely sensitive in capturing the sense of fit between Qian Renxue and the magic silver in front of him when she struck.
Suddenly, the piece of magic silver vibrated slightly while Qian Renxue was forging it. Then, a strange silver light suddenly broke through the blockade of the fire, turning the entire forging room into a silver-white color.
Qian Renxue's two hammers fell at the same time, hitting it heavily, and suddenly, the silver light became more wild.
"The Thousand Forgings were successful! Quick, perform the blood sacrifice! That is the metal that best suits your martial spirit!" Lou Gao shouted excitedly.
But Qian Renxue did not stop at his command. Instead, she continued to hammer. She wanted to forge her spirit!
There is a qualitative difference between spiritual forging and thousand forging. Spiritual forging will sublimate the metal and elevate it to another realm.
Qian Renxue is now completely immersed in the process of communicating with Mo Yin. She can feel the joy and a hint of timidity coming from Mo Yin. It seems that it is a little afraid to take that step, and what Qian Renxue has to do is to guide it to take this crucial step.
Spirit forging is the communication between soul power and metal, the fusion of one's own mind and metal, and the process of giving life to metal.
Thousand forgings only fully bring out the potential of the metal itself, but spiritual forging is the process of causing the metal to mutate, allowing it to truly change from quantitative change to qualitative change.
In order to complete the spirit forging, one must merge one's body and mind into one, truly immerse oneself in the world of metal, and bring it to life the moment it is completed.
Spiritual forging is to create life.
One step of sublimation, forging thousands of living beings.
The mind is forged thousands of times, it is a constant exchange and communication, every gentle hammering is maintaining the spirituality of the Thousand Forged Magic Silver, injecting soul power and guiding it to produce its own life.
This is like the cultivation of soul beasts. A ten-year soul beast has no difference in intelligence from an ordinary animal, while a hundred-year soul beast already has a certain level of spirituality.
After a thousand years, their vitality will have a qualitative leap, and their wisdom will gradually grow. The wisdom of a ten-thousand-year soul beast is no less than that of humans.
The higher the level of the soul beast, the stronger it is, not only because of the power of their own energy, but also because of their enhanced wisdom.
The same goes for metals. The more spiritual they are, the more they can improve themselves and produce qualitative changes.
A strange scene began to unfold. The piece of Thousand Forged Demon Silver, which had shrunk a lot, was constantly trembling under Qian Renxue's gentle tapping. The silver-gray light emitting from it gradually began to change. Layers of colorful stars were gently rotating like nebulae in the universe, and its size was shrinking naturally. The silver light emerging from it began to become stronger and stronger.
This means that Qian Renxue's communication with it is going smoothly, and a connection has now been successfully established between the two.
Now it depends on whether Qian Renxue can maintain this connection, continue to trigger the qualitative change of the magic silver, and finally complete the sublimation process.
The soul power was continuously injected into the magic silver through hammering and the golden feathers floating in the forging room. The soul power and angel holy core in Qian Renxue's body were running violently, replenishing their own consumption.
The magic silver was like a bottomless pit, constantly devouring her soul power. Qian Renxue was not surprised but happy. Eat it, eat more, the more you eat, the stronger you will be.
The real difficulty of spiritual forging, apart from communicating with the metal, lies in whether the blacksmith's soul power can last until the metal is sublimated.
Qian Renxue's total soul power has long surpassed that of ordinary Super Douluo. Every time she drops her hammer, every time she communicates with Mo Yin is just right, causing Mo Yin to constantly undergo miraculous changes. As long as Qian Renxue and Mo Yin maintain communication, these changes guide her to perform better.
Lou Gao's eyes lit up instantly. There's hope! If they keep going like this, there will be a chance of success. Qian Ling'er has already established a connection with the metal.
When forging spirits, the most feared thing is that the connection with the rare metal is broken, and the life construction is not continuous. Once that happens, the rare metal will instantly lose its spirituality and become ordinary metal, not even a thousand forgings. This is why spirit forging is so resource-consuming. Lou Gao didn't know how many pieces of meteorite iron he had lost in the forging in the past two months. Fortunately, Gengxin City is not short of rare metals, and the Blacksmith Association is not short of money.
The silver flame became brighter and brighter. Qian Renxue's forging hammer continued to move around Shenyin. The two hammers in her hands kept hitting the sides of the magic silver. The originally bright silver light of Shenyin suddenly had a layer of light gold.
"Ding ding, ding ding, ding ding!" The crisp knocks and strange collisions make everything wonderful and rhythmic.
At this moment, Lou Gao's eyes were wide open, hoping to witness the upcoming miracle.
The grayish silver light of the metal itself was getting weaker and weaker, but the faint colorful spots were still lingering on it.
Finally, when only the last bit of silver was left of the magic silver, Qian Renxue's whole body shook, and with a "wow" sound, she spurted out a mouthful of light golden blood, which just fell on the last layer of the magic silver.
At the same time, he withdrew his right hand, held the two hammers, and smashed them down fiercely.
"boom--"
A colorful flame suddenly shot up into the sky, rising more than five feet. Even more bizarrely, a holy song was heard. In the colorful flame, it seemed as if an eight-winged angel was flying in it. The dazzling seven-color light was full of fluctuations of the breath of life, giving people an indescribable strange feeling.
It was clearly a living being, admiring its own existence and cheering for its own appearance.
born!
Thousands of forgings have spirits, tens of thousands of forgings have living beings, the spirit forging is completed!
The colorful flames lasted for more than ten seconds before gradually fading. Qian Renxue's eyes were fixed on the metal in front of her. The original silver-gray magic silver had turned into bright silver emitting colorful light. It looked crystal clear and extraordinary. The spiral patterns created by the Qianduan had all disappeared, replaced by faint angel patterns.
It was no longer the feeling of blood connection as before, but a feeling of being one with the whole body. A silver light flashed on Qian Renxue's left hand, and the magic silver on the forging table silently merged into her palm and disappeared. That's right, it merged into her palm, not disappeared into her storage soul guide.
Spiritual forging, connected by life!
Once it reaches the realm of spiritual forging, the metal will come to life and will inevitably merge with the existence that gives it life. This is why spiritual forging is so precious.
Qian Renxue looked at her palm in disbelief, still a little dazed, and muttered to herself, "I actually forged it!"
"She, she succeeded. She actually succeeded. She is just a newcomer, but she is ahead of me in spiritual forging and can integrate metal into her body."
Lou Gao's eyes were also a little dull. She succeeded, she successfully completed the spirit forging. The fourteen-year-old spirit forger surpassed the master forger and walked a path that no one else had ever walked. She was the real pioneer on the road of forging.
There are only three master craftsmen in the entire Douluo Continent, but in Lou Gao's opinion, they are nothing! The girl in front of him is the real master craftsman!
Lou Gao swallowed his saliva, and strode to Qian Renxue, his face flushed with excitement. He rubbed his palms together and bowed directly: "Master Qian Ling'er, can you let me see your spirit-forged metal? This is my lifelong request!!!"
Qian Renxue flipped her wrist, and a piece of spirit-forged magic silver appeared in her palm. Lou Gao didn't even dare to touch it, for fear of damaging the only spirit-forged metal. He just stared with eyes wide open, studying every detail intently.
Lou Gao couldn't stop exclaiming, and finally asked curiously: "What different insights did you have during the spiritual forging? Why can't I complete the spiritual forging? Obviously, there is no difference between the two of us in the early stage?"
Qian Renxue thought for a while and then replied.
"There was a problem in the process of giving life to the metal. The metal itself will gradually develop spirituality during the forging process. When the spirituality accumulates to a certain level, the metal itself will have the basis for qualitative change. At this time, we, the forgers, will use our own vitality to awaken its spirituality and truly give the metal vitality, thus completing the spiritual forging. After all, metal originally has no life, so the degree of spiritual awakening is very important for whether the spiritual forging can be completed."
"I watched you forging before. Although meteorite iron can also have spirituality, the total amount of spirituality generated is not enough. This is very strange. Your forging skills are obviously stronger than mine. I don't know if it's because your soul power is not enough. After all, every time I see you forging spirit, your soul power is insufficient and you are exhausted. Maybe you should try another metal forging spirit instead of continuing to stick to meteorite iron."
"Do you know? The moment the life of this magic silver was created, it suddenly produced an energy that ordinary people cannot fully perceive. It is almost inaudible, but extremely pure. If it weren't for my angel martial spirit possessing life attributes, even I wouldn't be able to perceive it. Perhaps, the birth of this unknown energy is the possibility of successful spiritual forging. It is something that can only be born under rules."
"As for meteorite iron, I have some doubts that it can't be used for spiritual forging. Have you forgotten? Meteorite iron is a rare ore extracted from meteorites from outer space. The spiritual forging of blacksmiths is completely based on the ability of the soul master system, which is the native system of Douluo Continent. Perhaps meteorite iron really has unknown potential in other worlds, but can meteorites from outside the world really be spiritually forged to awaken life under the rules of Douluo Continent?"
"If it doesn't work, you can just teach me how to forge it first."
Lou Gao's eyes lit up. That's right! It wasn't his technique or process that had problems. Could it be a problem with the metal itself?
But if the meteorite iron cannot be spiritually forged, its future value will be greatly reduced, and Lou Gao couldn't help feeling worried.
He had been researching the forging of meteorite iron. After all, meteorite iron, an ore that could not be produced, was the most scarce ore in Douluo Continent. It was also his favorite metal. His research for more than ten years would become useless in the future battle armor system.
Lou Gao pondered for a while, then said: "That's good, your forging progress can't slow down, then I will teach you the alloy forging first. Although I haven't learned spiritual forging, I am a real expert in alloys!"
"An alloy formula of eight kinds of metals! Have you never seen it?! I have the strongest alloy formula ever! I researched it myself! It's not inferior to your spiritual forging!"
Qian Renxue nodded, said goodbye to Lou Gao and returned to the main hall of Wuhun. The work was not over after the metal spirit forging was completed. There was also the design of the battle armor. In addition to the style, it seemed that a core magic array was also required. She didn't know how to do it, so she could only figure it out by herself. It would be great if she had a teacher who knew about formations.
Just like Huo Yuhao's teacher, the Undead Calamity Alex, he must know things like magic arrays, but I don't know if Jin Huang'er can do it? No, I should ask if there are other sword forms who know how to use magic arrays.
After all, Jin Huang'er had said before that although they were all sword masters, they each had other abilities besides sword moves, such as medical skills or something like that. And Jin Huang'er said that her ability was different from others. It could not be taught, but was given directly. Her ability was good luck.
Qian Renxue didn't ask in detail at the beginning, but she must find out more about it when she returns this time. If there really is a master who knows the formation, then she will go straight for the sword shape.
Also, what Qian Renxue said to Lou Gao before was not entirely correct. Ordinary Thousand Forgings could not be sublimated into Spirit Forgings. The real Spirit Forging needed to be born in the alloy created by fusion forging.
Of course, meteorite iron really cannot be spiritually forged, because it cannot be melted into alloys with other metals. Even Lou Gao himself has not been able to research it.
He originally wanted to incorporate meteorite iron as the ninth metal, but he never succeeded, so what he created was the Eight Treasures Ruyi Soft Armor, otherwise it would have been the Nine Treasures Ruyi Soft Armor.
The better the metal, the greater the possibility of being spiritually forged and creating life, which is an extremely sacred thing in the entire universe.
The moment life is created, the energy generated is so subtle that it is even imperceptible to soul masters.
But for those objects that have no vitality themselves, it is extremely huge. If the metal is accepted and completed, it will become a living thing. However, if the metal itself cannot withstand this special energy, then the metal will be damaged.
This is also the reason why rare metals will be lost if spiritual forging fails.
A big reason why Qian Renxue was able to succeed was because the soul power she transferred was too abundant.
Soul power poured into the magic silver. With the help of her own powerful angel soul power, the magic silver had enough endurance and was finally given life successfully. This forging step was called Guardian Creation, and it required several times the soul power of ordinary alloy spirit forging.
Qian Renxue couldn't remember the details very clearly. She only knew terms like Hundred Forging, Thousand Forging, Spirit Forging, Fusion Forging, Soul Forging, and Heaven Forging, as well as some summary words. She thought that metal was also upgraded step by step like a soul master.
In fact, it was not the case, or she remembered it wrongly. Fusion forging should be before spirit forging. She had forgotten a lot of the contents after so many years. Besides, she didn't know that she would be reincarnated in Douluo Continent in her previous life, so why should she remember that? This was the result of her good memory.
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