Spirituality Grafting (Please Follow!!!)

"Roar!" (It hurts!)

Little Gold's roar failed to interrupt Su Ming's forging.

"It'll hurt a little at first. You'll get used to it."

Su Ming comforted him as he ruthlessly brought down the Forging Hammer, sending Little Gold's power into the metal through his Soul Power.

He already had an exceptionally profound understanding of Thousand Forgings and could interact with metal on a deep level.

There was no spirit within the metal, so he would hammer an external spirit into it!

That was his idea, and also the method he would use to solve the problem of being unable to perform Spiritual Forging in Dou Yi and Dou Er.

If the Plane's laws had not developed fully, then he would use grafting.

If metal had no spirit of its own, he would graft one into it and have it transform the metal itself.

"At worst, other blacksmiths without Spirit Systems won't be able to become forge masters. That doesn't affect me. As long as I can become a forge master of the Spiritual Forging System, that's enough."

"Roar!" (It hurts!)

"Be good, don't move around. I'll try to be gentler."

"Roar!" (It still hurts!)

"Bear with it a little longer. We're almost there."

Su Ming brought his hammer down on the metal again and again.

His Dou San self had already begun seeking guidance. Taking advantage of having just become Zhen Hua's disciple, he asked about the origins of forge masters and, incidentally, why there had been no forging system in the past.

Zhen Hua truly lived up to his title as a Divine Blacksmith.

Heavenly Forging involved the domain of laws. Having performed Heavenly Forging time and again, he had also gained an understanding of the essence behind forging's development.

"The laws of the Douluo Plane inherently possess a special power of nurturing. All things have spirits and all have a chance to become Soul Beasts. It was simply that twenty thousand years ago, those laws were still extremely primitive. Over the following twenty thousand years of development, especially after the Ice Spirit Douluo established the Spirit System ten thousand years ago, the influence of Soul Masters propelled the laws of spirits forward and made them more complete, allowing them to spread into more fields. We forge masters benefited the most, because Soul Tool development had reached a bottleneck at the time, creating an increasingly urgent demand for materials. That was how the forging system emerged. Many other fields benefited during the same process as well, such as Artificial Spirits, which also enjoyed a bit of the era's dividends."

Su Ming of Dou San asked again: was it possible to achieve Spiritual Forging twenty thousand years ago?

"It was possible. All things have spirits, and those laws have always existed. Only the extent to which they could manifest differed. Even without forge masters, there were rock- and metal-type Soul Beasts in nature. Before they transformed into Soul Beasts, their Main Bodies had already been favored by the laws of spirits, allowing them to be used for Spiritual Forging."

Was there a universal method? Could he graft the spirit of another lifeform into it?

"Haha, how could that be possible? Unless someone possessed a Spirit System twenty thousand years ago, there might have been the slightest chance. Otherwise, how could a lifeform's spirit be casually grafted onto metal?"

Could a Spirit System's spirit really be grafted?

"Of course. Forge masters originally developed the Spiritual Forging System in cooperation with their own Spirit Systems."

"..."

With Su Ming of Dou San acting as an intermediary, Su Ming of Dou Yi forged while receiving guidance from the Divine Blacksmith ten thousand years in the future.

"Roar~" (It feels different now~)

Su Ming's gaze shifted slightly.

Little Gold's reaction undoubtedly told Su Ming that his spirit was adapting to the metal.

He continued swinging his hammer.

Bang!

Bang!

Hammer after hammer fell. Little Gold's roars grew increasingly relaxed, and eventually even carried a sense of pleasure.

"Roar roar roar!" (This feels so good!)

From the Mental Fluctuation Little Gold transmitted, Su Ming understood what he meant and realized that Little Gold was now experiencing the sensation of his soul being nurtured.

His spirit had already merged into the metal and, as the metal's spirit, was being forged by Su Ming and guided into becoming stronger!

Very soon, Su Ming himself sensed the spirituality within the metal.

This spirituality differed from Little Gold's. At first, it had been covered by Little Gold's spirituality, but it gradually began to grow and become distinct.

"Little Gold, you can withdraw now."

Reluctantly, Little Gold retracted all of his spirituality.

Without Little Gold's interference, Su Ming's subsequent forging went very smoothly. With his abundant forging experience, once he had resolved the issue of the spirit, everything that followed naturally fell into place.

A beam of light over a foot tall erupted within Xiao Ming's Blacksmith Shop.

Su Ming took a deep breath, directly pulled out a dagger, and sliced open his left hand.

Blood spilled over the Thousand-Forged Sinking Silver and swiftly seeped into it.

The red glow receded. When Su Ming sensed the Sinking Silver before him again, he could clearly feel an additional layer of connection between himself and it.

"I just wonder what this piece of Sinking Silver's trait is."

"Roar!" (Mine!)

Little Gold called out beside Su Ming, declaring that the piece of metal belonged to him.

Su Ming froze.

He looked at Little Gold, feeling that he would not ask for this piece of Sinking Silver without reason.

"Roar." (This metal suits me very well.)

Su Ming smiled. "Since you want it, I'll give it to you. Come to think of it, I'm quite curious whether a Soul Spirit can have a set of Battle Armor."

Battle Armor?

Little Gold did not understand.

His eyes remained fixed on the Sinking Silver on the table, and he nearly drooled.

This was Rare Metal whose Spirituality had been nurtured through Su Ming's spiritual power, so he could naturally sense some of the metal's properties.

"Since you want it, I'll forge you a pair of Claw Covers."

"Roar!" (Long live the Soul Master!)

Su Ming rested for a while, then began swinging his hammer again, shaping the piece of Sinking Silver.

Two hours later.

"All right, try them on."

Su Ming handed the pair of Claw Covers to Little Gold and watched him expectantly.

Little Gold put the Claw Covers on his two bear paws. They fit exceptionally well.

"Roar."

"Don't worry. Later, I can perform Spiritual Forging on them and inscribe some Core Arrays. Then these Claw Covers will be able to change along with your size."

"Roar." (As expected of a Soul Master, you can do anything.)

"Try them out. The properties of this Sinking Silver are definitely extraordinary."

This was Su Ming's first Thousand Forgings creation, and he had even used Blood Sacrifice. The qualities born from it would usually not be poor.

Normally, metal forged through Blood Sacrifice could only be used by the Forger himself, but a Soul Spirit belonging to that Forger could use it as well.

Little Gold let out an excited roar and then swung his claws.

Su Ming's pupils contracted.

Oh no!

Little Gold had actually unleashed a streak of Claw Light, which struck the forging table directly in front of him.

Boom!

The forging table was all right—its quality was hard enough—but a clear claw mark still appeared on it. Everything behind the table was destroyed, torn apart by that Claw Light, and even the wall farther back was pierced through.

"Solidification? Or Tear?"

Su Ming stared at Little Gold's handiwork in astonishment.

Rather than blame Little Gold for wrecking the place, he stepped forward to inspect the marks on the forging table and the wall behind it, carefully sensing the aura lingering on the claw marks.

"Tear!"

"Roar!" (These Claw Covers are incredible! A Soul Master's things are actually this useful!)

Little Gold lowered his head to look at his two bear paws, overjoyed as he prepared to keep experimenting.

"Don't. Don't try again yet. When I have time, I'll find you a place where you can test them to your heart's content. For now, fix all this for me."

Su Ming pointed at the claw marks on the forging table and the wall behind it.

Little Gold immediately became unhappy.

"Roar!" (I don't know how to fix things!)