The Crazy Expansion Plan
Star Luo City.
The grand spectacle of the Soul Fighting Tournament attracted tourists from all over the continent.
Although hosting a major competition requires a huge amount of human and financial resources, the massive influx of people it brings can well compensate for this.
Shops selling unique products are located throughout Star Luo City, and various Soul Tool stores are open for business.
Meanwhile, all the large and small shopping malls in Star Luo City brought out their stockpiled products and sold them off in droves.
The most profitable venue has to be the auction house. Even before the Soul Fighting Tournament officially opened, an auction house had already held a small Auction.
Compared to usual, the same item fetched a higher price at auction, with the final price increasing by at least 10%.
This massive influx of people did not excite Emperor Xu Jiawei Star Luo Emperor.
He was extremely worried.
A year ago, the Star Luo Royal Family learned of the auction of ten Spiritual Metal at the Starlight Auction House and took immediate action. The day after the auction, they contacted the Blacksmith Association and quickly negotiated with the president, eventually winning the bid for the remaining three Spiritual Metal at the auction price.
To the delight of the Star Luo Royal Family, the Blacksmith Association's efficiency in Forging Spiritual Metal was truly low, producing only twenty pieces a year.
Having secured three out of twenty, the Star Luo Royal Family naturally gained an advantage, and in the following year, they successively acquired three more.
There were a total of twenty pieces of Spiritual Metal, and they took six of them.
Shrek Academy was more powerful, so they only took seven pieces.
The remaining seven pieces were divided equally among the other forces. The Heaven Soul Empire and Dou Ling Empire Royal Family received one and two pieces respectively, while the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect acquired two of the remaining four pieces at an extremely high price.
The last two pieces were divided up by two other major sects.
Even the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect only has two pieces!
The Star Luo Royal Family directly acquired six pieces, plus one more they obtained at the Auction, for a total of seven. Naturally, they were at the forefront of developing this Spiritual Metal.
Furthermore, a Level 7 Soul Engineer from the Star Luo Royal Family used one of the Spiritual Metal as its core to create a Soul Tool, whose power was comparable to Level 8 Soul Tool!
After completing the Soul Tool, the level Level 7 Soul Engineer immediately went into seclusion, indicating that he wanted to break through to the Eighth-Level Soul Engineer realm.
As of now, Xu Jiawei is certain that his company has taken a leading position in the field of Spiritual Metal.
However, with the Soul Fighting Tournament about to begin, a piece of bad news kept Xu Jiawei up all night.
The Blacksmith Association will collaborate with the competition organizers, namely the Star Luo Royal Family, on the competition rewards.
The champion of the competition can order ten pieces of Spiritual Metal the same grade Thousand Forgings First Grade at Auction within the association; the runner-up will receive three pieces, and the third-place winner will receive one piece.
"Damn it, the champion gets such a high reward."
What's the purpose of this?
Isn't this blatant funding of the Shrek Academy?
Xu Jiawei couldn't understand why the Blacksmith Association Blacksmith Association would choose to set the prize for the cooperative competition as ten pieces of Spiritual Metal, when the Body Sect was clearly close to the Body Sect, and the Body Sect had just fallen out with Shrek Academy a year ago.
What?
Why is Shrek considered the champion by default?
Those who question this should look at the list of champions from previous Soul Fighting Tournament.
It's one thing that the champion can be customized, but the Blacksmith Association has also set up rewards for the runner-up and third place, which can also be customized with Spiritual Metal.
If Shrek Academy is the undisputed champion, then the runner-up will almost certainly be the Sun Moon Royal Team.
If the Sun Moon Empire were to obtain Spiritual Metal, wouldn't that be aiding the enemy?
Xu Jiawei sent people to negotiate with the Blacksmith Association multiple times, but to no avail.
Today, he received even more new information.
The Blacksmith Association has added three new Forging Master and will establish branches in the Three Great Empires. Each branch will produce at least twenty pieces of Spiritual Metal annually.
This news directly confirmed to Xu Jiawei that the Blacksmith Association had no intention of imposing a technological blockade on the Sun Moon Empire.
He's going crazy.
However, Shrek Academy has remained silent on this matter.
Upon arriving in Star Luo City, Su Ming found Duan Lin.
"President, can you really Forging all Rare Metal?"
Customized Spiritual Metal are different from rewarding Rare Metal.
For example, if Shrek wins the championship, they can directly customize ten pieces of Spiritual Metal with their team members, and then make them into Soul Tool, which would be a real boost to their combat power.
In a short period of time, it is no less valuable than a Soul Bone.
"Fortunately, at least I can Forging the Rare Metal that I have access to in the Sun Moon Empire into Thousand Forgings First Grade."
Upon hearing this, Duan Lin gasped.
Is it that scary?
There are quite a few known Rare Metal, definitely over a hundred.
In other words, Su Ming Forging at least one hundred pieces of metal of the Thousand Forgings First Grade)?
Duan Lin cursed under his breath.
In one year, one hundred pieces of metal of the Thousand Forgings First Grade) Forging, but the Blacksmith Association only gave twenty of them, and they weren't even of the Thousand Forgings First Grade), but rather of the Thousand Forgings Second Grade).
"President, are we going to continue to strictly control the production of Spiritual Metal in the future?"
"No need. From now on, each branch will have at least one Forging Master 'Thousand Forgings with Spirit' overseeing the work. The annual output will depend on their success rate and Forging frequency. In addition, each branch will also train new Blacksmith."
"There will be no further plans; it will all depend on the development of the association's branches themselves."
Upon hearing this, Duan Lin swallowed hard.
Isn't this a bit too much power delegation?
"Don't be afraid. It doesn't matter if the Blacksmith Association branch is controlled by the local ruling forces."
He holds the most advanced Forging technology in his hands. No matter how much the power of the Blacksmith Association is dispersed or eroded, it must still obey him.
This couldn't be done during the Dou Yi, because Su Ming didn't have a powerful backer.
Dou Er is different.
He's Du Busi, he has Electrolux, and now he's basically affiliated with the Mingde Hall.
What Su Ming needs is not an absolutely loyal association, but an absolutely devout Blacksmith's Faith.
What?
You don't like me?
What do you think of this Heavenly Forged Metal?
Does it smell good?
If he becomes a legend, brings over the Forging system from Dou San, and completes the Heavenly Forging that even enhances Limit Douluo, then he will be the God of Blacksmith.
The collection of Faith must first be broad enough.
Only after the scope is large enough can Su Ming hope to quickly condense the prototype of Divine Throne, attract the attention of the God of Destruction, and find a backer belonging to the Divine Realm.
"Our association should have a partnership with Starlight Auction House Starlight Auction House, right? We've been communicating with them beforehand. Within the next year, the branches of the Blacksmith Association in the Four Great Empires will all be completed. We'll continue to expand then, initially planning for ten slots. However, the specific cities where they will be built haven't been decided yet; we'll let all the forces participating in the auction compete for them."
Duan Lin's lips twitched.
Is this even allowed to be auctioned off?
"All the funds raised from the auction will be invested in the construction of the Blacksmith Association; what I want is expansion at absolute speed."