"Sovereign, shall we just go and seize it directly?"
Behind Gu Yue, a tall, burly man spoke, his voice deep and thunderous.
As soon as he spoke, he was reprimanded by Di Tian.
"Bear Lord, do not act recklessly!"
Bear Lord curled his lip, looked to the side, and said no more.
"We cannot expose ourselves yet," Gu Yue said in a low voice.
She took a deep look at the Tianhai Spirit Transmission Pagoda, then the surrounding silver light flickered, and she disappeared.
Di Tian looked down at the hotel below, making eye contact with the other two Fierce Beasts.
The three Fierce Beasts concealed themselves and did not reappear.
After Su Ming learned from Zhang Tianyang about the vast scale of the phenomenon he had caused this time, he immediately had the light sphere conceal itself within his Sea of Consciousness.
"Don't run around recklessly. Otherwise, if bad people catch you, you'll be lying on a research lab bed every day, being dissected over and over, and they won't even let you die."
After admonishing the small light sphere, Su Ming mobilized his Forging Faith Power, dispersing it around the periphery of his Sea of Consciousness to create interference.
He also consumed half a unit of Forging Faith Power to filter through himself, ensuring any Faith aura related to Spirit Souls was thoroughly scattered.
Being cautious was always correct, no matter what.
The Douluo Continent of this era was no longer what it was ten thousand years ago. In an age without the suppression of the God Realm, although Limit Douluos had not yet broken through that barrier, they had already thoroughly researched the domains beyond. Quasi-Gods in various fields had taken their own steps forward, and among them was a group that had studied Faith Power.
Yun Ming was the only one who had condensed a semi-Divine Seat, but was he the only one who dabbled in Faith Power?
Being careful and cautious was never wrong.
The light sphere had just hatched, he had just achieved the true Trinity, everything was just beginning. It was always better to be cautious.
That night, Su Ming did not continue cultivating at the Tianhai Spirit Transmission Pagoda. He went to the Blacksmith Association and stayed the night, setting out for the Tianhai City Stadium first thing in the morning.
Today, the forging competition was entering the assessment for the final round, which could also be called the ultimate finals.
The first round's assessment required Hundred Refinements. Su Ming scored full marks.
The second round's assessment was to forge a familiar metal. Su Ming forged a piece of Blue Pregnancy Copper, a very difficult metal to forge. It was extremely hard, requiring great force to hammer, yet its interior was very fragile; the slightest carelessness could damage its internal structure. Su Ming performed Thousand Refinement, First Grade on it, directly obtaining full marks.
After these two rounds, Su Ming had harvested a total of twenty-five units of Forging Faith.
Now the third round assessment began. The content was to process the metal designated by the competition, with scoring based on the finished product.
"It's actually Primordial Spirit Iron."
Su Ming looked surprised at the metal on the forging table, which emitted a faint, hazy white light.
Primordial Spirit Iron was a rare metal produced in Sanbao City. Its output wasn't high, belonging to the category of rare metals. Ordinary blacksmiths couldn't obtain it without the proper channels.
This forging competition could actually produce Primordial Spirit Iron as assessment material.
Su Ming looked around and showed an understanding expression.
Although it was said that the final ranking would be determined by three rounds of results, in fact, each round had a passing threshold. Sixty points were needed to pass and enter the next round's assessment, while scoring over eighty points allowed one to keep the metal they forged.
After two rounds of elimination, only eight people actually remained.
Eight pieces of Primordial Spirit Iron. Among the many cities under the Tianhai Alliance, half a piece contributed by each city would be more than enough.
Su Ming took a deep breath and adjusted his state.
He had forged Primordial Spirit Iron before. This metal could amplify elemental power. Its characteristic was almost fixed: amplifying elemental effects. The degree of amplification possible was the standard for judging its quality.
What type of elemental power the Primordial Spirit Iron ultimately amplified depended on the blacksmith.
Which element was used to induce it would determine which element it amplified.
Generally, blacksmiths had limited mastery over elements, so the most widely used method was to use the fire element to induce the spirit of the Primordial Spirit Iron and complete the activation of its characteristic. The resulting Thousand Refined Primordial Spirit Iron was an important component of a blacksmith's forging hammer. Often, by the Grandmaster Blacksmith level, after mastering Fusion Forging, they would integrate Primordial Spirit Iron into their own forging hammers.
As a disciple of the Divine Blacksmith, Su Ming also knew the greatest use of Primordial Spirit Iron: it was the main practice material for impacting the Divine Blacksmith level.
The forging table began to heat up.
The Primordial Spirit Iron began to melt.
The hazy white light that originally permeated the metal's outer layer was dyed a dark red.
Seeing this, Su Ming drew upon elemental power.
His right hand rose, and three purple Spirit Rings appeared.
"Hiss~ Am I seeing things? How does he have three Spirit Rings?"
"I think I'm seeing things too; I see three purple Spirit Rings."
Tell a joke: a ten-year-old kid can not only perform Thousand Refinement but also has three purple Spirit Rings.
Some felt their resolve shatter, feeling they had lived all these years for nothing compared to this.
Su Ming paid no attention to the mental breakdown of those around him. His second Spirit Ring shone, and above his raised right hand, the six elements of water, fire, earth, wind, light, and darkness gathered.
His left hand controlled the flames on the forging table, manipulating the fire attribute elements within them.
Coordinating both hands, his right hand moved the elemental vortex over the Primordial Spirit Iron, while the fire elemental power from the forging table flames controlled by his left hand cooperated with the elemental vortex to simultaneously temper the Primordial Spirit Iron.
The dark red glow of the Primordial Spirit Iron also began to change, turning into six colors.
The spatial element was not within the amplification scope of Primordial Spirit Iron.
The judges had one by one left their seats and come to Su Ming's forging table, preparing to carefully observe Su Ming's forging this time.
Tang Wulin's face showed bitterness. He sneakily glanced at Su Ming's side and felt he had no hope.
If nothing else, the six-element amplified Primordial Spirit Iron had already secured Su Ming's success in this assessment.
He sighed,could only try his best to make a comeback.
He erupted with a dragon's roar, channeling his Qi and Blood power through the forging hammer into the Primordial Spirit Iron before him, causing the dark golden light released by the iron to be imprinted with a faint golden dragon-shaped mark.
Su Ming was fully focused.
He utilized the characteristics of his forging hammer to the extreme.
His brain operated frantically, his thoughts entirely concentrated on how to apply the delayed force within the following three seconds and how to coordinate it with the strikes from the previous three seconds.
Every hammer strike was the result of extensive calculation.
The Primordial Spirit Iron before him changed from its initial outer glow to a multicolored hue, and slowly the entire piece of metal began to fuse with these elements.
The heartstrings of the audience also trembled with the rise and fall of Su Ming's forging hammer.
They shifted their gaze from Su Ming's Spirit Rings and focused their attention on Su Ming's forging.
Countless strands of Faith gathered and, without Su Ming actively absorbing them, integrated into his body, even spontaneously converging on the forging hammers in his hands.
When Su Ming sensed this, he did not means stop, so "he did not stop it"). In that instant, sensing the Faith that had extended to his forging hammers, and perceiving the restless spirit within the Primordial Spirit Iron before him, he had a new idea.
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