"This is the feeling of Thousand Refinements with Spirit."
Zhu Jiuyang closed his eyes, savoring the sensation.
His right hand had been cut by Su Ming, and blood sprinkled onto the Thousand Refined Heavy Silver before him. The blood sacrifice allowed him to experience the changes in the metal on a deeper level.
To the side, Duan Jin revealed an expression of envy.
The teacher learned too quickly.
Of course, it wasn't that Zhu Jiuyang learned fast; more accurately, his cost of trial and error was low. After one failure, he could immediately proceed to the next attempt.
Duan Jin was different. He could forge for at most three consecutive hours before needing to rest for the better part of a day.
In the first three of these six days, Zhu Jiuyang had attempted Spirit Infusion thirty-six times during his learning process, while Duan Jin had only managed five attempts. Subsequently, Zhu Jiuyang attempted another thirty-three times in the next three days, whereas Duan Jin only tried Spirit Infusion five more times.
This created the gap where Duan Jin remained stagnant while Zhu Jiuyang could rapidly learn.
"Little Gold..." Zhu Jiuyang called out.
A mass of dark golden light shot out from Su Ming's body. A small bear looked at Zhu Jiuyang with confusion.
Duan Jin also stopped his rest, opening his eyes to look at his teacher.
"Little Gold, he's not talking about you." Su Ming picked up the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, Little Gold, and had him return to the Sea of Consciousness.
"Next, you will learn with your teacher. It just so happens that I can also consolidate my understanding through teaching."
"Okay," Duan Jin said.
These past two days at Su Ming's place had been awkward for him because Su Ming always needed Little Gold to cooperate during each teaching session, constantly calling out "Little Gold." It made him quite uncomfortable.
Su Ming also breathed a sigh of relief.
This upside-down teaching ended in six days, faster than he had imagined.
Although it wasn't exactly stressful, it was always somewhat awkward.
Zhu Jiuyang prepared to continue forging, wanting to experience this feeling a few more times. Simultaneously, he needed to continue improving the details in his forging.
"Teacher, don't rush. First, let's see what the characteristic of this first piece of Spirit Metal is."
Zhu Jiuyang shaped the blood-sacrificed metal into a hammer and then attempted to swing it.
Behind the hammer, a phantom image condensed, and the sound of a hammer striking metal rang out three times in succession, dong, dong, dong.
"Stacked Hammer?"
A top-tier characteristic, identical to Tang Wulin's first Thousand Refined work, perfectly applicable in forging.
Stacked Hammer, and a Double Stacked Hammer at that.
Zhu Jiuyang pondered for a moment and understood the power of this characteristic.
"This teacher will first try forging with this Stacked Hammer."
Although he had abundant accumulated experience, using the Stacked Hammer ultimately required predictive skills, which differed from conventional forging thought processes. Thus, his first attempt undoubtedly failed.
However, after trying for a while, he adapted to the new rhythm.
After successfully completing his first Thousand Refinements with Spirit, he attempted a fifth time and once again replicated Thousand Refinements with Spirit.
Su Ming looked at Zhu Jiuyang in surprise.
Was he this outstanding?
During the Douluo 3 era, after blacksmiths succeeded for the first time, replicating Thousand Refinements usually required ten or even twenty attempts. Unexpectedly, Zhu Jiuyang replicated Thousand Refinements with Spirit on his fifth try.
Not only that, but the more he forged, the more excited he became. As a Spirit Douluo, his body was robust, and his Spirit Soul was an eighty-thousand-year Flame Lord. He simply didn't know fatigue. Together, man and spirit conducted a staggering forty forging attempts over the next three days.
Out of these forty attempts, he successfully forged ten pieces of Spirit Metal!
This absurd efficiency and outrageous success rate forced Su Ming to re-evaluate his teacher's talent.
Duan Jin stayed in a corner by himself, following the experiences of Su Ming and Zhu Jiuyang, still attempting Spirit Infusion.
It had been a month since the reform of the Blacksmith Association.
The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan's actions arrived as scheduled.
A full three core disciples plus thirteen inner sect disciples were enough to show the importance the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan placed on this.
Title Douluo Sword personally led the team to Gengxin City.
Gengxin City Spirit Hall Main Hall.
Platinum Bishop Miles was very concerned about the reform of the Blacksmith Association.
"The Iron Smith Association renamed itself the Blacksmith Association. This wouldn't be without reason. Is it an internal power shift? Or did some special technological change occur?"
Gengxin City was the Metal Capital. It wasn't actually very famous on the continent, only considered a holy land among blacksmiths. But in such a city, there was a Spirit Hall Main Hall, with Platinum Bishop Miles presiding!
There were only four Platinum Bishops in the entire Spirit Hall. Although Miles was the weakest among them, with Spirit Power only at the sixty-third rank, his status wasn't low since he could hold this position.
Strength was respected.
But similarly, status and power were also very important, especially when the backing force lacked no deterrent power. Even as a Spirit Emperor, when Miles acted outside with the identity of a Platinum Bishop, the outside world had to treat him as a Spirit Douluo.
Looking at the report in his hand, Miles fell into thought.
"The title of Divine Blacksmith was abolished? These blacksmiths have all become humble one by one?"
Continuing to read the report, Miles was sure there was something fishy.
A group of blacksmiths, originally at the bottom layer and most eager for recognition, would never abolish the title of Divine Blacksmith, the highest symbol of honor, for no reason.
"Hmph, Blacksmith Association? Blacksmiths are just blacksmiths. Using such a name, they truly don't know their place."
Miles decided to go to the Blacksmith Association tomorrow to investigate.
"The matter of the Blacksmith Association is handled, its status initially stabilized!"
Su Ming quietly withdrew into his Xiao Ming's Forging Shop, returning to his previous state of dedicated cultivation.
Guiding the establishment of the Blacksmith Association and serving as its first president were not what he sought.
No matter what technology, capable of changing the continent's situation, holding it in his own hands was not as good as spreading it out to seek future status for himself.
Of course, the Spirit Refinement system was just the beginning and also the easiest one for Su Ming to disseminate.
Douluo 3.
Tianhai Academy.
"Su Ming, the Junior Group of this Tianhai Alliance Grand Competition is up to you."
Long Zhan, responsible for the training of the Tianhai team, looked at the youngest member of the team and gave his instructions.
Su Ming was only ten years old this year but was going to participate in the Tianhai Alliance Grand Competition. This was the first time Long Zhan had seen such a thing in his teaching career.
Of course, Su Ming fully met the conditions because, although he was only ten, he was a bona fide Spirit Elder!
In this competition, Su Ming, as a member of the Tianhai team's junior squad, was also the absolute ace.
East Sea Academy.
Class Zero.
Wu Zhangkong was also giving his final speech to the students of Class Zero.
"This competition is a key test of your cultivation results over the past year. I hope you can all exert your full strength in this competition."
After Wu Zhangkong left, the Class Zero members felt immense pressure.
"The Junior Group of the Tianhai Alliance Grand Competition allows Spirit Masters aged ten to fifteen to participate. We're only ten years old; it's too much of a disadvantage," Xie Xie complained. "Thankfully, Teacher Wu didn't set a hard rule for us to win the championship."
"Although Teacher Wu didn't require it, we can still strive for it," Xu Xiaoyan spoke up, quite confident. "The strongest opponents in the fifteen-year-old Junior Group are only Spirit Elders. It's not like we haven't fought Spirit Elders before. With proper coordination, we still have a chance."
Tang Wulin smiled wryly upon hearing this.
Championship?
How was that possible.
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