Douluo Dalu: This Soul Master is to Weird

Two months later.

In the forging room, Mu Yang placed a one-foot-square ingot of silvery-white metal, shimmering with a soft silver glow, into the heating furnace, silently brimming with anticipation.

Long before he set out for his spirit hunt, through diligent practice, he had deduced a forging secret technique: Heavenly Hammer, elevating his forging skills to an elite level within the continent.

Although he could only refine metals and lacked the skills to craft finished swords, armor, or weapons, it was undeniable that his forging had already reached the pinnacle of the hundred-refinement level.

Could elite-level blacksmiths on the continent reach the pinnacle of hundred refinements?

If they could, what level would the so-called "Three Great Divine Blacksmiths of the Age"—Lou Gao, Tai Tan, and Tang Hao—be at?

Well, the three "Divine Blacksmiths" were also at the pinnacle of hundred refinements.

According to the later classification of metal forging on the continent, the hundred-refinement level was simply about purifying metals and removing impurities—a basic skill for blacksmiths. Blacksmiths who had worked for years and could be considered industry elites could all achieve it.

Moreover, it wasn't limited to professional blacksmiths. As long as someone could wield a forging hammer and learned earnestly, they could inevitably reach the pinnacle of hundred refinements. The only variable was how much time it would take. For ordinary people, there were no barriers at all.

However, even among those at the pinnacle of hundred refinements, the upper limit of the metal quality they could forge differed.

Take Tang Hao as an example. As a Title Douluo, his strength was far beyond what Mu Yang could currently compare to.

If Mu Yang could remove the impurities from an iron ingot and compress it to half its original size, under Tang Hao's Great Force Miraculous Hammer Technique, it might be compressed to just a tenth of its original size.

In such a case, while both ingots would still be at the hundred-refinement level, could their quality be the same?

Even with steel from the same batch, homogenous steel and forged steel are entirely different.

But things were different now. Mu Yang had a feeling that starting today, purely in terms of forging skills, he would surpass Tang Hao, one of the so-called Divine Blacksmiths of the Age.

Although it was just forging, surpassing the renowned Clear Sky Douluo of the soul master world was still an exciting prospect!

The difficulty of thousand refinements was as high as reaching the heavens. This could be seen from the fact that no one had ever broken through the hundred-refinement level since the profession of blacksmiths emerged on the continent.

The reason why thousand refinements were so difficult wasn't that all blacksmiths of the current age were dimwitted and lacked the talent for it. It was because, aside from him as a transmigrator, no one in the entire Douluo Continent even had the concept of thousand refinements.

Without the concept of thousand refinements, how could anyone become a pioneer? It would naturally be a hell-level challenge.

But he was different. With his mysterious talent for deduction, he had already found the correct answer. He even had the solution's methodology; all that remained was to follow it and fully master it.

Fifteen minutes later.

"Tsk, a Divine Blacksmith's journey ends halfway due to insufficient fire?"

Looking at the silver ingot in the heating furnace that had been burning for fifteen minutes and was still only faintly red on the surface, Mu Yang clicked his tongue and couldn't help but complain.

As expected, heavy silver, a rare metal with an extremely high melting point, simply couldn't be heated with ordinary flames.

It was only faintly red on the surface, far from the temperature most suitable for forging. Using a hammer directly now wouldn't make much of a difference.

Mu Yang had originally planned to use the first piece of metal forged through thousand refinements to craft a forging hammer.

After all, to do a good job, one must first sharpen their tools. His working tools couldn't afford to be subpar.

And since heavy silver had high density and excellent soul power conductivity, he had gone out of his way to purchase a considerable amount from the Seven Treasures Merchant Guild in Sky Water City.

But unexpectedly, he had overlooked heavy silver's characteristic of an extremely high melting point, making it difficult to heat. He hadn't even started forging and was already stuck at the heating stage.

"Change the fuel?"

Casting a disdainful glance at the glowing coke in the heating furnace, Mu Yang considered the idea of replacing the fuel.

However, this thought was quickly dismissed.

Replacing the cheap coke with high-temperature special minerals rich in fire elements, such as fire crystals, wasn't exactly cost-effective. He feared he wouldn't have enough even if he emptied his entire savings!

After all, to improve his forging skills, he would inevitably be doing a lot of metal forging in the future.

The fire crystal required for a single session of forging wasn't much, but over time, the accumulated cost would be staggering. Coupled with the fact that rare metals were already expensive, his small savings couldn't bear the expense.

Of course, if he was willing to sell the metals he forged, it wouldn't be an issue. At the very least, he could recoup his costs.

But the problem was that he had no intention of selling the metals he forged in the future.

First, to avoid attracting unwanted attention. And second...

Earning money from forging? Wouldn't that make him a worker?

As a transmigrator, Mu Yang firmly believed in one principle: "It's impossible to work. It's impossible to work in this life!"

Although he hadn't had the chance to experience the working life before his untimely transmigration, he had heard plenty about the grievances of workers.

If he had to come to Douluo Continent only to end up as a worker, then what was the point of transmigrating?

Fuel costs weren't cheap. Should he find a reasonably strong fire-type soul master to act as a "fire tool"?

If he were in Blazing Academy, it would be simple. He could just have his older cousin and elder sister provide the fire.

Both of them were fire-type soul masters, and since the battle armor he would create in the future would surely include the two siblings, there was no such thing as a free lunch. Acting as his "fire assistants" would only be fair.

But this was Sky Water Academy, a place teeming with water- and ice-type soul masters. As for fire-type soul masters? Sorry, not a single one.

Suddenly, Mu Yang remembered something crucial. It seemed that there wasn't entirely no fire-type soul master in Sky Water Academy?

Not someone else, but himself.

Though he cultivated the Ice Flame Meditation Method and his soul power was a fusion of ice and fire attributes, that didn't mean he couldn't separate his Ice Flame soul power back into fire and ice attributes.

Without hesitation, Mu Yang grabbed the tongs nearby and moved the faintly glowing heavy silver ingot from the heating furnace onto the forging table.

Then, ice-blue Ice Flame soul power emanated from his hand. The blue light faded, revealing a crimson glow as Ice Flame soul power transformed into pure fire-attribute soul power.

But at that moment, Mu Yang paused slightly, dispersing the fire-attribute soul power in his hand and reactivating his Ice Flame soul power.

Although Ice Flame didn't generate high temperatures, it was still fire, wasn't it?

Perhaps this extremely cold Ice Flame could also be used to heat metal—or rather, cool it?

Recalling a novel he had read in his previous life, Mu Yang remembered that a certain alchemist on the Dou Qi Continent had used cold flames to extract the essence of herbs and refine pills.

Since refining pills worked, using cold flames for forging should also be feasible, right?

In the next moment, with a surge of soul power, an ice-blue stream shot out from Mu Yang's hand, landing on the cuboid heavy silver ingot on the forging table.

As soon as it made contact, the ice-blue stream transformed into burning ice-blue flames, beginning to "burn" the heavy silver ingot.

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