Chapter 304: Soul Tool Hall

The three arrived at Shrek City, found a building, and entered it.

Upon entering, Tang Wulin instantly felt his eyes light up.

Hundreds of Tang Sect disciples gathered here, the sounds of hammering, shouting, and explosions making it incredibly lively.

Although its scale is still far behind Shrek City's soul tool testing ground, among the three nations originally belonging to Douluo, this Tang Sect Soul Tool Hall can already be considered quite large.

Xuan Ziwen led the two deeper into the Soul Tool Hall, came to a table, and gestured to Tang Wulin:

"Your chance to perform has come."

He wanted to see just how much ability Huo Yutong's boastful Tang Wulin actually had.

"Good."

Tang Wulin nodded and stepped up to the table.

The table held various rare metals; aside from a few especially rare ones, basically all metals circulating on the continent could be found here.

This is Xuan Ziwen's dedicated experimental table for processing metals; normally he doesn't let anyone else near it except Huo Yutong, but this time, out of respect for her, he allowed Tang Wulin to use the equipment here.

Two silver flashes appeared, and Tang Wulin now had two hammers in his hands.

For him now, the weight of these two hammers was practically negligible.

He took a deep breath, adjusted his state, was about to pick a metal, when suddenly his eyes widened.

A full‑dimensional three‑dimensional image suddenly appeared in his mind without a sound.

As for this soul skill, Tang Wulin was naturally very familiar with it—it was Huo Yutong's Mental Detection Sharing.

At this moment, Tang Wulin stared blankly as, under Huo Yutong's control, Mental Detection gradually enveloped the metals on the table, revealing their internal structures in his mind with her help.

Next, Huo Yutong's voice sounded in his mind.

"Idiot, what are you standing there for? Get moving!"

Huo Yutong also knew Tang Wulin hadn't done forging for several years, and no one could tell what level he could still maintain.

As his girlfriend, Huo Yutong naturally didn't want him to leave Xuan Ziwen with the impression of all talk and no action, so she unleashed her Mental Detection at full power to help Tang Wulin with the forging.

Tang Wulin blinked and replied gratefully in his heart: "Mm, thanks."

If he had still felt a bit nervous before, now his heart was filled with confidence.

With Huo Yutong's Mental Detection helping him, his feeling was better than ever, and he was confident he could achieve his best result yet.

After taking a deep breath, Tang Wulin focused his mind, shielding himself from external perception.

"——"

He was so focused that he missed Huo Yutong's crucial reply.

He reached out and Tang Wulin placed a piece of golden metal onto the forging platform.

Xuan Ziwen frowned, feeling doubtful. Normally, shouldn't metal be heated before forging?

Immediately, he swallowed the question he had been about to ask.

Because he saw a tiny fire dragon's head suddenly sprout from Tang Wulin's right hand, opening its mouth to spew a ball of fire onto the metal.

Xuan Ziwen: "……"

"Can you even play like that?"

What he thought was actually not wrong—Tang Wulin originally wouldn't dare to do that.

After all, his control over the Fire Dragon King's temperature wasn't strong, making operational mistakes easy.

But now it's different—with Huo Yutong's Mental Detection aiding him, his control over his own power has become exquisitely terrifying, and the changes in the metal's internal structure constantly guide him on what to do next.

This was the first time Tang Wulin had felt this way, making him feel utterly enchanted.

Thus, in less than three seconds, Tang Wulin heated the metal to the proper temperature, raised his hand, golden light flashed from his eyes, and he struck down with a hammer.

Beside him, Xuan Ziwen's gaze shifted; in his perception, Tang Wulin's strike was utterly natural, as if he himself had merged with the light and vanished on the spot.

He had entered such a state before, but only once, and after that he could never get back into it no matter what.

This was precisely Tang Wulin's head‑bone skill, Heaven‑Man Unity.

The metal he chose this time is called Goldlight Stone, a relatively common light‑attribute rare metal.

He didn't pick his familiar Deep Silver but chose Goldlight Stone precisely because of this metal's attributes.

In the Heaven‑Man Unity state, Tang Wulin not only can his mental realm rise, but the fusion of soul power, blood vitality, and mental power becomes more perfect, and he can also to some extent control the light element.

With this ability's help, forging light‑attribute metal can be done with twice the result for half the effort.

As the first hammer fell, Tang Wulin never paused; countless hammer shadows rained down like a violent storm, and the Goldlight Stone immediately began to shrink at a visible speed.

He wasn't using full force—after all, with his current strength this Goldlight Stone couldn't even withstand a full punch from him—he merely, with the aid of Mental Detection, precisely controlled his power while continually reducing the impurities in the metal before him.

After many years without forging, Tang Wulin's movements showed not a hint of hesitation; as he hammered rapidly, the flames of the Fire Dragon King sprouting from his arm began to flicker, controlling the applied temperature.

Beside him, Xuan Ziwen was now utterly absorbed; metal smelting indeed falls within the realm of making soul tools, so his prior knowledge on this counted as some understanding.

But after all, he merely understood; he had never considered that a gap in forging skill could affect the quality of a soul tool.

But now, watching Tang Wulin's smooth, flowing movements, his breath quickened involuntarily; if this kid could really change a metal's grade by human strength alone, his importance in Xuan Ziwen's eyes would already be no less than Huo Yutong's.

Why can the Ri Yue Di Guo's soul tool field so thoroughly crush the three nations originally belonging to Douluo? Besides their vastly different emphasis, another key reason is the disparity between the two sides in the rare‑metal domain.

Many rare metals can only be produced by the Ri Yue Di Guo; the three nations originally belonging to Douluo can obtain them only by importing from the Ri Yue Di Guo, and the Ri Yue Di Guo's strict control over rare metals means that, as for high‑end soul tools, the three nations not only may lack the relevant manufacturing techniques, but even if they mastered them they might not have the metal needed for production.

As the saying goes, even a clever woman can't cook without rice—precisely because of the huge gap in the rare‑metal field between the three nations originally belonging to Douluo and the Ri Yue Di Guo, Xuan Ziwen had always believed they could never overtake the Ri Yue Di Guo.

But now that Tang Wulin is here, everything is different.

(End of chapter)