Su Ming's eyes shone brightly!
This time, he was going to attempt to impact that realm.
The judges around him felt Su Ming's aura undergo a earth-shaking change.
At this moment, Su Ming seemed surrounded by a halo, full of divinity and majesty.
His first Spirit Ring was already shining. The Su Ming from Douluo 1 and Douluo 2 had stopped cultivating, lending all their power to him across the river of time.
Trinity, achieved!
Faith, merge!
When Su Ming's will unified, he merely hammered three more times before the Primordial Spirit Iron before him erupted with a dazzling light.
Water, fire, earth, wind, light, darkness.
The six elements intertwined, rising into a pillar of light a full three feet high.
Su Ming did not stop forging in his hands because of the birth of the light pillar.
And precisely because of this action, the judges understood his intention.
"Spirit Refinement! He's going to attempt Spirit Refinement!"
"Thousand Refinement has spirit, Ten Thousand Refinements create life, hence it is also called Spirit Refinement Creation."
"If guiding the growth of the metal's spirit through Thousand Refinement is an accumulation, a quantitative change, then Spirit Refinement Creation is a qualitative change, truly bestowing life upon the metal."
"With the heart as the hammer, the Martial Soul as the guide, heart and spirit as one, Ten Thousand Refinements create life. This is the communication between Spirit Power and metal, the fusion of one's own heart and the metal, the process of bestowing life upon the metal!"
The judges grew excited one by one.
After sensing Su Ming's current aura, they very wordlessly ignored the cultivation level required to attempt Spirit Refinement.
What a joke! The Spirit Power fluctuations Su Ming was emitting now were seriously exceeding the standard. The judges present even felt his Spirit Power had surpassed that of the Spirit Ancestor geniuses in the youth group teams from the Spirit Master competition next door.
Su Ming was fully focused.
The voices of the judges reached his ears, Zhen Hua's past guidance vivid in his mind.
His heart was unprecedentedly calm.
At this moment, he was like an omnipotent god, examining the Primordial Spirit Iron before him, seeing through its essence.
Thump!
A heavy hammer strike suppressed the timid Primordial Spirit Iron.
The spiritual accumulation was sufficient, so charge forth!
Su Ming could feel the spirit within the Primordial Spirit Iron hesitating, being afraid, and feeling fear.
But with just one hammer strike, he consolidated these scattered spirits.
His hammer was like a drill instructor in an army, each strike training the spirit within the Primordial Spirit Iron.
Water, fire, earth, wind, light, darkness.
The six great elements gathered, dancing around Su Ming, full of spirit. They collectively merged into the Primordial Spirit Iron before Su Ming, integrating into it with each fall of Su Ming's forging hammer.
Martial Soul as the guide.
At this moment, Su Ming and the Primordial Spirit Iron were in perfect harmony.
His Martial Soul was elemental control. Using the six great elements, he established deep communication with the Primordial Spirit Iron.
The most difficult part of the Spirit Refinement process was the Spirit Master integrating their own vitality into the metal, immersing their body and mind in the spiritual ocean of the metal, awakening the metal's spirit, giving the metal its own consciousness to unify its spirit.
Su Ming immersed himself in it.
His technique still needed improvement.
But he possessed Faith at this moment.
As Forging Faith merged into the Primordial Spirit Iron before him, as Su Ming's forging hammer repeatedly integrated the spirit of the Primordial Spirit Iron, the so-called process of awakening the spirit was also being completed bit by bit.
The surrounding judges dared not even breathe heavily.
They had already sensed a different aura.
It was a spiritual fluctuation completely different from Su Ming's.
It had developed its own characteristics, the spirit began to integrate—this was the sign of initial success in Spirit Refinement.
They exchanged glances, all feeling incredible.
Because they were judges, and due to Su Ming's exaggerated performance in the previous two rounds, they all knew Su Ming's profile, knowing he was genuinely ten years old this year!
Ten years old, a Spirit Refinement Grandmaster?
Only true blacksmiths knew the significance of this achievement.
Unprecedented in history.
And... unlikely to be surpassed!
In their understanding, no matter how things developed later, no matter how much forging techniques improved, they couldn't comprehend achieving Spirit Refinement any faster.
In fact, they already couldn't comprehend the current Su Ming.
As the shock subsided, they noticed the Primordial Spirit Iron before Su Ming was becoming smooth and rounded.
That distinct aura erupted and began to radiate a light unique to itself.
Su Ming also适时 (shìshí - timely/at the right moment) withdrew his own aura, becoming merely a衬托 (chèntuō - foil/supporting role). He only continued hammering with his forging hammer, guiding the condensation of the spirit.
The Primordial Spirit Iron became the protagonist on the stage.
Su Ming's forging hammer fell for the last time.
Unremarkable.
But then it erupted with an indescribable roar.
Boom!
This was a roar from the realm of life, piercing straight through the heart and soul.
Rays of light shot out from the Primordial Spirit Iron, representing the six elements respectively. The lights coiled around each other as they climbed upwards, reaching a full five feet high.
Unlike the spiritual light of Thousand Refinement, First Grade, the spiritual light now was full of life and vitality.
That spirit was filled with the cheers and joy of a new life.
Spirit Refinement, achieved!
Su Ming gasped for breath, sitting directly on the ground and beginning to meditate.
In his mind, the roar from moments ago continuously echoed.
The feeling of creating life had given him unprecedented stimulation.
Above his Sea of Consciousness, countless strands of Faith spontaneously condensed into Faith Power, intertwining as if simulating the Spirit Refinement process just performed.
Ultimately, there was still insufficient Faith Power; it only intertwined into an incomplete form.
On the other side.
Tang Wulin's hammer struck off target.
Incredulously, he directly turned his head to stare fixedly at the Primordial Spirit Iron on Su Ming's forging table, which was still emitting joyful emotions.
He succeeded?
The Primordial Spirit Iron, before him, erupted with a burst of light.
Thousand Refinement, achieved.
Even though the strike was off, his Thousand Refinement was complete, and it hadn't destroyed this piece of Primordial Spirit Iron, though the quality of this Thousand Refinement wasn't great.
His expression was bitter.
Even if he preserved the Thousand Refinement level, could the Primordial Spirit Iron he forged compare to Su Ming's Spirit Refined Primordial Spirit Iron?
Su Ming comprehended from morning until evening.
He did not go to the Spirit Master competition, and no one disturbed him.
When he woke up again, the sky was dotted with stars, and six-colored light rose before him.
He followed the six-colored light to look at the forging table before him.
The spirit of the Spirit Refined Primordial Spirit Iron was pulsating.
Su Ming showed a smile and put away the Primordial Spirit Iron.
With just a beckoning gesture, the Primordial Spirit Iron directly integrated into his body.
Compared to Thousand Refinement, First Grade, Spirit Refinement's improvement, so "the extent of improvement" to the metal's spirit wasn't large, but it belonged to a qualitative change. This was because Spirit Refinement had already merged the metal's external substance with its spirit into one.
Under countless hammer strikes, the metal was no longer purely material but a life form led by spirit.
Spirit Refined metal could directly integrate with a Spirit Master.
This was also the foundation of Battle Armor technology.
Top floor of the Tianhai City Blacksmith Association.
Mu Chen consoles Tang Wulin over and over.
"Su Ming is different; his Spirit Master talent is too strong," Mu Chen said. "Wulin, your talent in forging is absolutely not worse than his. It's just because your Martial Soul is Blue Silver Grass and your Spirit Power is too low, which has delayed your progress in forging."
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