Two Years Later, Thousand Refinement Forging Hammer

Listening to Yun Ming, Yun Ze rubbed the bump swelling on his head and said, "It would be better to have fewer assessments like this."

Yun Ming looked at Yun Ze and said, "Alright, we'll tend to your injuries once we return to the academy."

Yun Ze asked with a hint of curiosity, "Father, look at these injuries of mine. If Mother sees them, will you even be allowed to sit at the dinner table?"

Yun Ming shuddered at this, retorting indignantly, "If she sees them, I'll be the one being served on the table."

After saying this, Yun Ming led Yun Ze toward Shrek Academy.

Yun Ze suddenly asked curiously, "By the way, Father, what was up with those Evil Soul Masters on the way here?"

Yun Ming shook his head and said, "It was just a coincidence. You could say you and the Soul Guidance Train have a bit of a clash in your fates; it's your first time riding one, and you run into something like this."

"Those Evil Soul Masters were members of a small gang. Their boss was just arrested by the Federation a few days ago."

"Now that they've run into you and gotten caught as well, the whole group is finally reunited. They'll be facing the firing squad soon enough."

Yun Ze nodded, unable to help but sigh, "The Federation's criminal law is harsh, yet the results seem mediocre. After all, terrorist attacks still occur from time to time."

Yun Ming sighed and said, "The era ten thousand years ago was too barbaric. The Sun Moon Empire was oppressing the three original nations of the Douluo Continent, and even Shrek Academy was filled with anxiety."

"In times of turmoil, no one had the time to carefully study whether every martial soul was truly evil, or if evil attributes necessarily corrupted one's nature."

"Everyone could only rely on empiricism, or even a 'better safe than sorry' mentality when dealing with the problem of Evil Soul Masters."

"This led to an unresolvable rift between ordinary soul masters and those with dark martial souls. It is a rift cemented in blood."

"Even after thousands of years, it has never been fully reconciled."

Yun Ze sighed and said, "That era was indeed incredibly barbaric, and it truly cannot be blamed entirely on normal soul masters. After all, the actions of Evil Soul Masters were indeed uncontrollable."

"Slaughtering an entire village for a meal, or killing thousands of infants for the sake of their own cultivation."

"In that era of war, even I would have chosen to eliminate such existences as quickly as possible."

Yun Ming nodded and said to Yun Ze, "You were born in a relatively peaceful era. I hope that if you have the ability in the future, you can try to bridge the rift between dark martial souls and ordinary soul masters."

Yun Ze smiled and shook his head, saying, "That is definitely not something that can be achieved by the power of one person alone."

Even by the time of the fourth generation, that person surnamed Qiangu didn't achieve his goals through individual strength, but by relying on the power of an entire organization.

Moreover, that was ten thousand years later, in a more peaceful time. While the current era is ostensibly much calmer, it is still surging with hidden undercurrents.

Yun Ming then said, "Let's not talk about that. After we go back and I find a healing-type soul master to treat your wounds,"

"You need to think carefully about what you want to choose as your second profession, as well as the cultivation technique you intend to practice."

"I've discussed this with you before; you don't want to join the Tang Sect, but in truth, the neutral and peaceful nature of the Mysterious Heaven Skill is best for you. Your own martial soul temperaments conflict with each other, so having a neutral and peaceful cultivation method to harmonize them would be a good thing."

Yun Ze replied, "As long as one's spiritual power is strong enough and one's control over each martial soul is precise enough, there is no such thing as a conflict in temperament between martial souls."

Yun Ming smiled, then said to Yun Ze, "Your confidence in yourself is very much like I was when I was young."

After returning to Shrek Academy, Yun Ze searched carefully through the library of the Inner Court of Shrek Academy.

He finally settled on a meditation technique named Battle to Heaven Standing, which was said to be a cultivation method left behind by a Limit Douluo predecessor who specialized in battle energy.

Yun Ze only had to recite it once, and his blood and qi surged along with his soul power through the described meridians.

It could be said that it was extremely compatible with Yun Ze's body.

After a night of careful deliberation, Yun Ze finally decided to pursue both forging and design as his secondary professions.

Yun Ming initially rejected this plan, but when Yun Ze memorized an entire book of first-level designer reference diagrams in a single night, Yun Ming finally decided to let Yun Ze try it for himself.

His forging teacher was naturally Feng Wuyu, a famous figure from the original records.

As for his teacher in mecha design, it was the president of the Shrek Mecha Designer Association, Cai Yonghong.

This was a character who did not appear in the original work, possessing strength roughly at the level of a rank 96 Super Douluo and serving as a rank 9 Mecha Designer.

This rank 9 Mecha Designer had a unique specialty: designing Battle Armor for those with Twin Martial Souls and multi-attribute Martial Souls.

It was said that the Battle Armor blueprints for the vast majority of Twin Martial Soul soul masters at Shrek Academy came, to one degree or another, from his hand.

He possessed genuine expertise in the study of Martial Soul resonance, and his insights into related professional fields often left Yun Ze stunned.

Under the guidance of these two teachers, Yun Ze's sub-professions also progressed rapidly.

Yun Ze truly had talent; after only one year, he was already able to barely complete forging at the Thousand Refinement level.

After Yun Ze had spent a year mastering Hundred Refinement and grasping the theoretical knowledge of complete forging, Feng Wuyu put him through a round of intensive training.

Afterward, he prepared to let Yun Ze forge his very first pair of forging hammers himself.

The forging material Feng Wuyu chose for Yun Ze was also quite significant.

It was a rare metallic material called Dragon-Patterned Blood Gold.

Although it had "dragon" in its name, it actually had nothing to do with dragons; it was a crimson, metal-like substance excavated from extraterrestrial meteorites.

Because the patterns on its surface naturally resembled a five-clawed coiled dragon, it was given this name, and it was considered an extremely non-renewable resource.

Its greatest characteristic was its ability to generate a magnetic field that acted in opposition to the owner's state of mind.

When the owner was irritable, it would soothe their emotions; if the owner felt hesitant, it would bolster their morale.

Much like a nimble little sidekick, it possessed a natural, innate spiritual charm.

However, precisely because of this, subduing it was an extremely difficult task.

Basically, no blacksmith was willing to take on the job of forging this metal.

Feng Wuyu set this test for Yun Ze partly because the indomitable battle intent brought about by Yun Ze's Twin Spear Martial Soul grew increasingly formidable as his cultivation increased.

Anything taken to excess is harmful, and if the battle intent became too intense, it could easily turn into recklessness, so having a metal object that could balance his mindset was a good thing.

Yun Ze took a deep breath; he was now a rank 20 Soul Grand Master, and handling a Thousand Refinement was not a problem for him at all.

The test was actually more about his state of mind...