Chapter 173: Learning

However, although it has been dyed and can truly amplify arm strength.

The primary function of this bracer is still to enhance fire-attribute power.

After being fully activated, the bracer undergoes a special transformation, wrapping around Zhou Heng's palm and forearm with raging flames attached to it; this form is called the Flame Fist form by Zhou Heng.

Honestly speaking, by the standards of later generations, the Green Bead Bracer is already fully capable of being crafted into battle armor in terms of materials.

But although the materials are up to standard, battle armor also contains elements belonging to Soul Guidance Devices; only when the two are perfectly combined can true battle armor be forged.

Although the Green Bead Bracer is considered an exceptionally outstanding creation in the eyes of Lou Gao, capable of combining with a Spirit Master's body and life to grow like an External Spirit Bone, and possessing the ability to increase attributes to the point of finally being able to contend with a Title Douluo-level Tool Spirit.

Yet in Zhou Heng's view, compared to the battle armor of later generations, the Green Bead Bracer is still far too lacking.

Forged in this manner, even if a full suit of armor were created, the amplification effect would barely be equivalent to the level of a one-word battle armor of later generations; it could be said that the amplification is somewhat unworthy of the materials.

For him right now, the improvement from this bracer is not non-existent, but it is hard to call it significant.

During this period, Zhou Heng and Lou Gao used Xiao Yin as the core to craft a special belt.

Under Zhou Heng's control, Xiao Yin can serve as a core to temporarily contain a soul bone and, to a certain extent, trigger the soul skill within it.

Take the head spirit bone that Zhou Heng obtained when he killed the Human-Faced Demon Spider in the past as an example; that soul bone's skill is the concealment that only appears after a Human-Faced Demon Spider reaches ten thousand years of age.

After Xiao Yin contains it, it can barely trigger about thirty to forty percent of its power, allowing Zhou Heng's aura to be restrained, yet it cannot reach the state of near-physical invisibility of the Human-Faced Demon Spider.

But if the head spirit bone were replaced with a soul bone from another part, and the functional soul skill were replaced with an offensive soul skill, then in Xiao Yin's current state, it would be unable to trigger the soul skill.

This should count as a Soul Guidance Device; after all, it does indeed use structures like arrays, but as for what level of Soul Guidance Device it specifically counts as, Zhou Heng is completely unaware. He estimates that if he met a truly professional Soul Guidance Device master, he would be scolded for wasting precious materials.

After all, soul-forged level metal is a top-tier material that can be used to manufacture three-word battle armor even two or three tens of thousands of years later.

Fortunately, Xiao Yin itself has properties similar to liquid memory metal; once better technology is obtained, it can be completely reorganized, so there is no need to worry about good materials being ruined.

In this month, Zhou Heng not only acted as an assistant to Lou Gao but also learned a few forging techniques, practicing the Chaotic Cloak Hammer Technique that was praised to the heavens in the original work.

But after his personal experience, Zhou Heng felt that the Chaotic Cloak Hammer Technique is fine for forging, and the special method of stacking power is somewhat interesting, but it is not very good for fighting.

After all, hitting people is not like hitting iron; iron can obediently stay in the furnace and let you stack hammer blow after hammer blow, but how could a person stay still and let you stack the power of the Chaotic Cloak?

Theoretically, the Chaotic Cloak's ninety-nine-to-one strike has explosive damage, but in reality, even when hitting iron, it is quite difficult to stack the power to the ninety-nine-to-one level.

It is not bad for forging, but forget about using it to hit people.

If anyone were hit by a ninety-nine-to-one Chaotic Cloak strike in a one-on-one fight, Zhou Heng could laugh at them for a whole year.

Although the contact time was not long, by relying on his own control and learning ability, Zhou Heng's forging skills progressed by leaps and bounds, surpassing Lou Gao's disciples in just one month and reaching a level close to that of a God Craftsman, or at least close to what this era considers a God Craftsman.

Compared to Tai Tan and Tang Hao, what Zhou Heng lacks is merely experience in forging.

Zhou Heng can achieve higher-level things like spirit forging by relying on his own uniqueness, but that is not very "forger-like," and the gap between things forcibly fabricated and battle armor is still somewhat large.

So even Lou Gao finds it difficult to evaluate Zhou Heng's current forging level, but Zhou Heng estimates himself that with his unique talent and current strength, if he could focus on studying the techniques of a forger, in about ten years—no, within five years—he could become a true God Craftsman, with every piece of work capable of triggering a Heavenly Tribulation to complete a heavenly forging.

But as the saying goes, there is really no great necessity for that.

Everything must be judged by cost-effectiveness; five years is really too long for Zhou Heng.

If he were to improve his strength first and then turn back to improve his forging techniques, he might only need to spend a few months to become a God Craftsman.

During the period of recuperating Lou Gao's health, Zhou Heng also asked Lou Gao about his research on Soul Guidance Devices.

Although Zhou Heng had not held any expectations, Lou Gao's answer made Zhou Heng somewhat disappointed.

In this era, the Soul Guidance Device technology of the Douluo Continent has truly been lost.

It is rumored that a thousand years ago, there were several families on the Douluo Continent that studied storage Soul Guidance Devices, but following some chaos, those families that were originally focused on Soul Guidance Devices were destroyed in the turmoil, and only a few descendants survived, but the technology for Soul Guidance Devices was considered completely broken.

In the last few hundred years, some people have relied on archaeology to dig up some Soul Guidance Devices for research, but the research has not gone smoothly, and they have barely managed to research a little bit of maintenance technology for Soul Guidance Devices.

Nowadays, those Soul Guidance Devices in major auction houses are basically shell products; they look new on the surface, but in reality, if you take apart the outer shell, the ones underneath are actually old antiques dug out from the ground.

The Tiejiang Zhi Du has collected some basic knowledge about Soul Guidance Devices, but it is extremely fragmented and basically derived from blacksmiths dismantling rare materials from within Soul Guidance Devices.

When Zhou Heng asked if there was any data on Soul Guidance Devices like soul-guided ray guns, Lou Gao looked blank and stated that this was the first time in his life he had heard this strange name.

In the eyes of the people of the Douluo Continent, Soul Guidance Devices refer to storage Soul Guidance Devices; they have no idea that Soul Guidance Devices actually have other functions.

After receiving the answer, Zhou Heng gave up and decided to go to the future Sun Moon Continent to take a look, to collect the technology of Soul Guidance Devices, or simply bring back a few Soul Guidance Device masters to continue studying battle armor.

Subsequently, Zhou Heng first went to the Blue Silver Forest and took away the Blue Silver Empress, A Yin. After the seclusion ended, Zhou Heng would take A Yin to the Sun Moon Continent to develop the Faith Power of the Blue Silver Grass clan there.

Upon returning to Geng Jin Cheng, Zhou Heng borrowed an underground secret room from Lou Gao and began his own seclusion, preparing for his journey to the Sun Moon Continent.

In the seclusion room built of lead blocks, Zhou Heng injected his spiritual power into the Godhead of Death within his Sea of Consciousness.

Now, Zhou Heng has the Zui E Wei Ban Shen Ge and the Pseudo-Demigodhood of Death in his hands; after a month of contemplation, these two things.

They began to reveal some special aspects; the death energy emitted by the Pseudo-Demigodhood of the God of Death possesses powerful erosive properties; as long as the target possesses life, it will be eroded by the death energy.

With the erosion of the death energy, the target will slowly weather away; metal will be rusted by the death energy, plants will wither, and the human body will constantly age—these are all abilities of the death energy.