Spirit Forging Creation! Life Feedback!

Li Jinsheng stepped into the lobby of the East Sea Blacksmith Association, and a heavy atmosphere washed over him.

There were not many people in the lobby. Just then, the elevator doors opened, and a middle-aged man stepped out. The familiar young man was the first thing that caught his eye.

Seeing the youth enter from outside, a faint, barely noticeable smile flickered across the steady face of the East Sea Blacksmith Association's president.

"Li Jinsheng!" Mu Chen's voice was not loud, but it carried a trace of excitement. "Come with me!"

He led Li Jinsheng into the elevator. Over the years, he had visited the Spirit Pagoda Headquarters several times and confirmed that the boy had not neglected his forging.

However, another genius had emerged in East Sea over the past year, and he could not attend to both sides.

When they stepped out of the elevator again, their footsteps echoed through the empty corridor, one heavy and one light. After passing through several passageways, they entered a Forging Room.

Only then did Mu Chen say, "This is the place. Let me see the results of your training!"

He stepped forward and seemingly casually selected a piece of metal from the shelf. Turning to Li Jinsheng beside him, he said, "This piece of metal will definitely test the foundations of your forging!"

The youth nodded, with no particular thoughts about what metal it was. To him now, all metals were the same.

When Mu Chen saw the calm expression on the youth's face, a faint smile appeared on his own. He knew the kid was very confident in this forging attempt.

But blind confidence could lead to a terrible loss.

Let me put some pressure on him!

This Blue Pregnant Copper would definitely make him take things seriously.

Among Rare Metals, Blue Pregnant Copper was absolutely one of the most difficult to forge. It possessed immense activity within it, and during purification, that activity had to be continuously sorted out. It absolutely could not be allowed to scatter, making purification extremely difficult.

Before long, a gleaming blue piece of metal was placed on the metal Forging Table.

After taking a long breath, Li Jinsheng took out a Forging Hammer of his own. They were a pair of entirely gilded Iron Hammers, faintly giving off a light Life Aura.

Li Jinsheng had forged them from Eternal Radiance Gold. This was a top-tier forging metal with time-related properties rarely seen in the mundane world. Yet because of those time properties, no blacksmith wanted to forge this metal.

During forging, it would diminish the blacksmith's time and lifespan, so very few Soul Masters dared to challenge it.

Yet Li Jinsheng had chosen this metal as his Thousand Forging Hammer, bound to him by blood. It had also granted him a powerful forging trait, ensuring that his forging could never fail.

Anchoring!

It anchored a point in time, allowing metal to return to that moment!

There was also another ability he had yet to discover, one that guided him toward a desired future.

Out of a whole pile of passive skills, he had somehow rolled an active skill! And it came with a passive skill too.

Li Jinsheng was very satisfied with this effect. Once he accepted a forging commission, it became a business with no capital required. Over the years, he had made a small fortune through Thousand Forging.

But he did not yet know that, under the effect of their blood connection, his perception of changes in time was growing clearer and clearer.

"Eternal Radiance Gold! A Spirit Forging Hammer!" Mu Chen had clearly recognized the metal. Although Thousand Forging did not consume much time, few blacksmiths would choose to forge this metal, much less use it as their first Blood Sacrifice metal.

A Thousand Forging metal that had undergone Blood Sacrifice could even, in a sense, develop a faint intelligence linked by blood, thereby evolving even stronger traits.

This kid had actually chosen that metal. What kind of forging effect did he have?!

Little did he know that the kid only wanted to make money right now. In the future, he would use that effect to make quick cash by directly anchoring the future and pulling it back into the present.

As he watched the youth skillfully heat the metal, the selected Blue Pregnant Copper rose from within the Forging Table.

Li Jinsheng's Forging Hammer struck the Blue Pregnant Copper, producing three crisp sounds at once. The sounds lingered in the air, as though they came from the present, the past, or even the future. At that moment, the anchor point was set.

The next instant, his twin hammers came down like lightning. Every swing carried a shrieking gale, and when the Obsidian Gold Hammers struck the Blue Pregnant Copper, the immense force produced a thunderous roar.

One ethereal note after another echoed through the Forging Room.

The next moment, he used the forging method every blacksmith dreamed of—Life Purification.

This was an exceedingly rare purification method, but it placed extremely high demands on one's Martial Soul and even greater demands on control. If a blacksmith's attribute were lightning, it could be called Lightning Purification. But compared to Li Jinsheng's purification method, that was like comparing a firefly to the moon. They were not remotely comparable.

A life attribute! Other than Li Jinsheng, who would dare squander it like this? This was bare, naked lifespan!

Even Soul Masters with Martial Souls rich in life attributes rarely dared to do this.

Then, a flash of light appeared!

In less than a minute, Hundred Forging was complete.

A halo flickered over the Blue Pregnant Copper, its patterns orderly. It had already entered the initial state of Metal Purification.

But Li Jinsheng clearly had no intention of stopping there. What he displayed was far more than this. His eyes were intensely focused, fixed firmly on the metal before him.

His twin hammers fell. With every strike, the metal underwent a subtle transformation, as though he were giving it life.

Mu Chen was so shocked that he could not speak. This was not even Thousand Forging yet! He had actually begun granting the metal true life, turning it into genuine living metal.

How was this Thousand Forging? This was plainly Spirit Forging!

During Spirit Forging, the greatest fear was losing the connection with the Rare Metal. If the construction of life was not sustained, then once that happened, the Rare Metal would instantly lose all Spirituality and become ordinary metal—not even Thousand Forging metal anymore. That was also why Spirit Forging consumed so many resources.

It could even cause the blacksmith to suffer an unimaginable backlash.

With each booming strike, the Blue Pregnant Copper shrank at a rate visible to the naked eye.

After only a brief moment, a ray of light rose up, reaching a full five feet high.

Thousand Forging with Spirit! First Grade.

Li Jinsheng was not satisfied with this. Two black soul rings lit up beneath his feet, and his Second Soul Ring shone at that moment as surging life force was infused into the Blue Pregnant Copper.

The next instant, an exquisite transformation took place within the Blue Pregnant Copper.

The Blue Pregnant Copper began to glow with a gentle halo. A vortex emerged and spun, crystal-clear blue without a single impurity. It gave off a fresh, carefree feeling, brimming with Life Aura.

A clear, soaring hum naturally rang out from within the Blue Pregnant Copper.

Dense Life Aura transformed into specks of blue light that drifted through the air and flowed into Li Jinsheng's body.

Spirit Forging Creation! Life Feedback!

The highest realm of Spirit Forging.

Mu Chen stared blankly at the sight. After Thousand Forging, he had directly stopped forging, injected boundless life force into the metal, and bestowed life upon it?!

What kind of monster was this?!

He was barely ten years old.

Even if his Spirit Forging had taken a tiny little shortcut, he had still broken through to Spirit Forging—and even reached its highest realm.

At the very least, Mu Chen had never seen metal so full of life.

The gentle hum continued for a full half-minute before gradually fading. Only then did Mu Chen come back to his senses.

"Not bad! Very good! But compared to today's Zhen Hua, you're still a little lacking. He broke through to Spirit Forging earlier than you did!" His face did not redden, nor did his heart ache. After all, he was the one lying, but it was his senior brother he was bragging about.

It couldn't be helped. Geniuses needed goals. He was clearly not qualified, so his senior brother would have to suffer a little!

"Oh, right, Jinsheng, what is your Second Soul Skill?"