Chapter 145

Lou Gao, meteoric iron, forging platform generic.

"Then I'll start now? Watch closely." Lou Gao turned his head to look at Qian Renxue, and gave a worried reminder.

Qian Renxue nodded, "Hurry up, do you think I'm a child? I don't zone out in class."

Lou Gao, forging platform, purple soul power light generic, martial soul — Forging Saint Pen. So we have martial soul (already in glossary), Forging Saint Pen.

Saint Forging Pen.

Saint Forging Pen martial soul, identify treasures generic, Douluo Continent.

metal texture generic.

One white, one yellow, two purple, two black—six soul rings rose from beneath Lou Gao.

Both arms rose together and then came down with a boom; his forging hammer was specially made, conducting soul power well, and when it fell it not only had great force but could also amplify his own soul power output, then squeezing that piece of metal.

For an ordinary person it would surely be hard to control the output of soul power, but for Lou Gao, all the characteristics of these two forging hammers were already second nature to him.

meteoric iron, forging hammer, Saint Forging Pen martial soul.

From Lou Gao's appearance, the resonance produced by the internal structure of these two meteoric irons had already been completely perceived by him.

Qian Renxue, Lou Gao, martial soul, Huo Yuhao, spiritual detection generic.

The hammer was raised again and fell; at the same time, Lou Gao's rotund body began to spin in place.

This is complex. Let's write the original line exactly:

The Chaotic Wind Hammer Technique uses body rotation, borrowing force to strike force, continually increasing the striking power; each rotation adds to the force, but the recoil is also huge.

Soul Emperor already, ninety-nine eighty-one strikes.

forging level generic, Divine Artisan.

blacksmith generic.

The two meteoric irons continually changed shape; the gray layer on them also began to change, and under the hammering of wind and rain, they soon emitted a faint gold, the gray layer disappearing silently, while their volume slowly shrank.

Hundred Forging completed.

The booming continued, he had no pause, continuing the thousand-forging; the Chaotic Wind Hammer Technique made his two hammers fall heavier and heavier, and the light on the two meteoric irons grew stronger and stronger.

forging hammer generic, air flow generic.

Tang San already, Chaotic Split Hammer Technique.

"Boom, boom, boom——" In the booming sound, Lou Gao's six soul rings beneath his feet rose unnoticed; soul power was input and output, using soul power and soul skill to make his forging stronger and more effective.

Lou Gao mainly wanted to show off a skill in front of Qian Renxue, so he chose to directly forge the two meteoric irons, however flashy he could be, just so his partner wouldn't look down on him! But Qian Renxue doesn't understand forging, so naturally she couldn't grasp the value of directly thousand-forging two pieces of metal.

just sound effect.

soul rings, first and second soul rings.

insight generic, strength generic.

"Boom——" The eighty-first hammer! Two golden shafts also shot up into the sky at the same time, the two brilliant golden lights lasting a dozen seconds before gradually fading.

"Damn! His grandma's, I've been hammering iron for so many years, this is the first time I've seen forged metal emit golden light!"

Lou Gao wiped the sweat from his forehead, his eyes filled only with the metal he had forged; he gently caressed the two meteoric irons, his eyes showing obsession.

Spirit Forging.

Qian Renxue, golden radiance generic, eyes generic.

Qian Renxue stepped forward and touched it, then immediately started spewing flattery, a rush of praise: "Congratulations! Master Lou Gao! But I have some bad news and some good news to tell you; which would you like to hear first?"

Lou Gao, metal generic, Divine Artisan, Spirit Forging.

Qian Renxue shook her head: "You're getting happy too early; I swear on my martial soul, this is not spirit forging."

Lou Gao stared at Qian Renxue in disbelief: "What are you saying? This isn't spirit forging?! But it just glowed! It has life! I've been using my martial soul to communicate with it, understand its inner nature, and it has already responded to me!"

Qian Renxue, martial soul, life attribute generic, blacksmith generic, Spirit Forging.

Spirit Forging, metal generic, body generic, Battle Armor.

Spirit Forging, owner generic, blood generic, soul bone.

Lou Gao, metal generic, body generic.

metal generic, body generic.

Lou Gao, Qian Renxue, metal generic, iron rack generic, Spirit Forging, Fusion Forging.

"Come with me, I'll first arrange a forging room for you here. You're a newcomer; forging beside me would actually make it easy for the noise to disturb your rhythm. Every forger develops their own forging rhythm, which is very important." Lou Gao led Qian Renxue to the door of the room marked with the number eight; after entering, the equipment inside was no different from that of his previous forging room, just less messy and looking neat and clean.

"From now on this will be your exclusive room; I'll later have someone send you a set of rare metals—whatever I have, you'll have too. Newcomers can have a forging room here, and you're the first."

Qian Renxue, Lou Gao, Chaotic Wind Hammer Technique, soul skill, the Clear Sky Sect.

Lou Gao's face turned a bit embarrassed; he rubbed his big belly and said, "Don't go spreading this around to others—back when Tang Hao worked as a blacksmith here for a few years, after watching long enough he naturally learned it; basically it's just the borrowing force to strike force method, though I normally don't use it in front of outsiders."

Tang Hao already, Chaotic Hair Hammer Technique.

Qian Renxue, Lou Gao, Chaotic Wind Hammer Technique.

Lou Gao's mouth twitched a little—you really aren't being polite at all! He only has this little bit of stuff, and Qian Renxue is going to strip it all clean.

But he didn't refuse either, saying, "Do as you like, just don't go around saying you learned this from me later; I don't know any Chaotic Wind Hammer Technique—I'm just a smelly old blacksmith."

Qian Renxue, Lou Gao, the Clear Sky Sect, the Spirit Hall.

Lou Gao, the Spirit Hall, the Clear Sky Sect.

Lou Gao, like a seal, happily patted his belly, making a pap-pap sound.

Lou Gao, Qian Renxue, strength generic, release force generic, transform force generic, borrow force to strike force generic.

Soul Emperor already.

"What the hell?! Are you joking with me? How old are you? And you're a Soul Emperor?"

two months later, Number Eight Forging Room.

Qian Renxue is now fourteen years old.

Lou Gao looked solemnly at Qian Renxue; his spirit forging over the past two months had been a complete failure, with not a single success. Clearly, each time the meteoric iron could be spirit-forged to have a spirit, and even the quality kept improving, yet he simply could not truly give birth to new life.

The only thing that gave Lou Gao some comfort was that this brat Qian Ling'er's comprehension was terrifyingly high; whether it was strength or understanding of forging, it completely surpassed his imagination. In just a short week, she mastered the ability of thousand-forging. Of course, she could only thousand-forge the metals Lou Gao had taught her, not all metals.

Like a master copyist, after seeing something once she could imitate it perfectly; this abnormal perceptiveness and adaptability left Lou Gao not knowing how many times he had been amazed.

Even in the thousand-forging technique for some metals, Lou Gao's quality was still inferior to Qian Renxue's; of course, the meteoric iron that Lou Gao prided himself on, she could not compare at all.

After all, Lou Gao had been researching meteoric iron for who knows how many years.

And the metal Qian Renxue selected for spirit forging this time was demonic silver, which is also very suitable for her martial soul.

Demonic silver is similar to the heavy silver that Tang Wulin, the protagonist of Douluo Dalu III, likes most; it is also an extremely precious metal. Demonic silver possesses a certain demonic nature, and during the forging process the forger needs to have relatively strong soul power control, otherwise they are easily subject to its backlash.

If thousand-forging fails, the side effects will be severe; however, once successfully forged, the power of demonic silver products cannot be underestimated.

Because demonic silver has a strong affinity for magic, after forging it can absorb and store a certain amount of magical energy; for soul masters who excel in magic-type skills, using weapons or equipment forged from demonic silver can enhance the power and effect of their magical attacks.

It has some similarity to heavy silver, but its attributes are more inclined toward the magical aspect.

Put simply, it's elemental attacks; the Eight-Winged Angel martial soul already commands many elements, so rather than choosing a metal with a single-oriented attribute, it's better to choose this all-purpose metal that amplifies all elements.

The heating ended quickly, and she used tongs to clamp the demonic silver out and fix it in place.

She raised both hands and lightly swung; two forging hammers with spiral patterns fell into her palms. After all, she was a quick study; at first she only liked to use her left hand for forging, and Lou Gao gave her a stern talking-to, after which she began using double-hammer forging.

The left hammer lightly tapped and bounced up, the right hammer fell down, striking the demonic silver steadily.

Accompanied by the hammer's roar, the forging began.

Because her strength is not small, Qian Renxue's hammer strikes are very heavy; given the demonic silver's quite excellent ductility, each strike causes it to undergo severe deformation, and in less than a minute the hundred-fold forging and refining is completed.

And after Qian Renxue completed the hundred-fold forging of the demonic silver, she suddenly spread her arms, and both hammers simultaneously struck the demonic silver from the two sides toward the center; the hammers hammered from the sides upward, causing the rare metal that had sunk downward in the high temperature to instantly inward-press and fuse.

The demand on the forger is very high, because both hands must strike exactly in unison, with no slightest deviation; otherwise, under uneven force, the inward pressing and fusion simply cannot be completed.

Lou Gao's eyes lit up; it was actually inward pressing and fusion. This girl's thinking is wildly imaginative—this is clearly a technique for forging alloys, to fuse two metals. Lou Gao originally taught her just to show off in front of Qian Ling'er, never expecting she'd use this trick to refine metal. But it makes sense, because her demonic silver had been completely deformed by her strength, so it indeed needed to be reshaped.

Qian Ling'er's strength is indeed too great; of course, this is also her unique forging style. Lou Gao won't stop her; it doesn't matter if the metal looks a bit strange during the forging process, as long as the final plasticity is fine. After all, the quality of the products she forges is indeed high, and the shaping is also very beautiful.

Her hammers rose again, and at the same moment, Qian Renxue's body flashed with light, golden feathers fluttered, and six peculiar soul rings appeared on her body: one yellow, two purple, three black.

Even though Lou Gao had seen it many times before, he still couldn't help but be astonished: how exactly had this monster cultivated? At such a young age, having six rings is already remarkable, and the age limits of the soul rings break the traditions of the soul master world. If he didn't know her martial soul was that of an angel, not a dragon-type martial soul, Lou Gao would really have thought Qian Ling'er was the world-famous Yutianlin.

The two tungsten steel hammers suddenly burst forth with brilliant golden light, then fell down again.

The demonic silver was coated with a layer of brilliant golden hue brought by soul power; due to the inclination of her martial soul, the soul power Qian Renxue cultivated is not only formidable, but also has a high affinity for elemental power, making it perfectly suited to communicate with the demonic silver.

In Qian Renxue's nonstop forging, the glowing demonic silver continually deformed, like a soft chewing gum, being inwardly pressed and then re-fused.

When the volume of the demonic silver gradually became only half its previous size, Qian Renxue's forging style suddenly changed; the originally heavy, forceful hammer turned into a gentle light tap.