Mu Chen

"Were you really hoping I'd come over that much?"

"I still have to go learn forging from my senior brothers."

The young girl looked at her father and gave a cold snort.

"Hey, you little brat, you don't come by once a month. What could you possibly learn from them?"

"Come home, and your dad will give you private lessons. How's that?"

"Forget it. I can't even understand your methods. You explain everything so profoundly—do you think I'm you?"

"I've only been learning for a few years!"

As the daughter of a Level 8 Blacksmith, she naturally held a very high standing in the Blacksmith Association.

But she was also a little helpless. Her father was incredibly skilled, but Mu Xi couldn't understand any of the techniques he taught her.

That was the most frustrating part. And because Mu Chen had studied such advanced techniques, he now struggled to explain the basics.

After all, the things he could finish with a couple of casual hammer blows would be difficult for him to teach slowly over dozens of strikes.

So for now, Mu Xi could only learn Hundred Refinement forging from the senior brothers here.

But before Mu Xi could continue, the door was suddenly slammed open.

It was an unexpected sight. After all, this was the chairman's office.

Aside from Mu Xi, who dared to kick the door open, no one else would have dared.

So this startled not only Mu Xi but even Mu Chen.

He looked toward the doorway and saw Cen Yue panting as he hurried over, then placed a piece of blue crystal in front of him.

At first, Mu Chen couldn't make sense of the blue crystal.

He didn't know what it was, because he had never seen this kind of crystal before.

Their forging didn't require crystals, so naturally, he had no interest in them.

But when his gaze swept over the blue crystal a second time, he felt something familiar coming from it.

It had a particular fluctuation that he recognized.

He took another careful look at the crystal and froze.

Before Cen Yue could say a word, he sprang to his feet and opened the display cabinet behind his chair.

It held all kinds of metals, every one of them already refined.

He quickly took out a piece. Its surface was blue-black, while its body shimmered with a faint blue sheen.

Yet its interior still looked black.

Holding the blue metal, he carefully compared it with the crystal before him.

The two were almost identical. The only difference was that the crystal was made entirely of this blue metal.

The Soul-Forged Metal in his hand only had this metal on its outermost layer.

"Holy shit, Cen Yue! How did you do it?"

"How did you extract the Blue Pregnancy Steel?"

Mu Chen stared at Cen Yue and couldn't help cursing aloud.

His eyes brimmed with disbelief.

Even after this metal had undergone Soul Refinement and then Heavenly Refinement, it could only remain in this state.

That was why Blue Pregnancy Steel couldn't become a top-grade metal.

Blue Pregnancy Steel had astonishing properties, almost absurdly so. It possessed both vitality and defensive power.

For support-type Soul Masters, it was the most suitable material for crafting Battle Armor.

The reason pure Blue Pregnancy Steel couldn't be used to craft it, and had to be combined with various metals, was precisely this.

Blue Pregnancy Steel couldn't be purified. In fact, most metals couldn't be purified.

So the only option was to combine these metals, broadly incorporating the properties of all kinds of materials through fusion forging.

But now, looking at this blue metal—or rather, this purified metal—Mu Chen was stunned.

He had never seen metal like this before.

Seeing their chairman so shocked, Cen Yue panted, then abruptly pointed at Li Ang behind him.

"Chairman, this kid did it."

"He has a special ability that lets him purify metal. I tried this piece myself, and it can undergo Hundred Refinement too."

"If we make this pure Blue Pregnancy Steel into Thousand Refinement or even Soul-Forged metal, the results will be incredible!"

Cen Yue spoke with awe and excitement on his face.

If they could produce this metal on a large scale, the quality of Battle Armor would improve tremendously in a short time.

They might even be able to use pure metal as the foundation for Three-Word Battle Armor, which normally had to be made through fusion.

Battle Armor made from Blue Pregnancy Steel would then possess at least two traits: powerful vitality and exceptional defensive strength.

Most fusion materials couldn't offer those qualities.

Cen Yue had realized this, but Mu Chen reacted even faster.

His figure flickered, and he appeared right in front of Li Ang.

He looked at the boy before him, then reached out with his pale hand to grab his arm.

Li Ang froze for a moment, then instinctively raised his hand and clasped Mu Chen's.

In the next instant, nearly a ton of terrifying force surged toward him.

Fortunately, Mu Chen was a Titled Douluo, and no weak one at that. If he'd been an ordinary person, he might have crushed the other man's hand to powder with that grip.

Feeling this terrifying, domineering strength, Mu Chen's face lit up with excitement.

"Impressive, boy! What terrifying strength. In all my years, I've never seen anyone with strength like yours."

"Your strength must be approaching a ton!"

As he spoke, Mu Chen abruptly released his hand.

He could already feel his palm going numb.

Though he was a Titled Douluo, his Martial Soul was Fire Element, related to flames.

He wasn't suited to close combat, let alone strength-based fighting.

But under Mu Chen's admiring gaze, Li Ang's mouth twitched.

"May I ask if you can teach me forging now?"

"I came here to learn forging, not to be treated like a monkey."

Li Ang looked at Mu Chen. He knew who the man was, but his tone didn't soften in the slightest.

The man's words left him speechless.

He'd come here to learn forging. Sure, he might have done something astonishing, but that had nothing to do with him.

Purifying metal consumed his Soul Power too. He couldn't exactly do it for others for free.

And there was no chance he'd ever share this technique.

In this situation, he had no idea what these two were getting so excited about.

As far as he was concerned, he'd spent the whole day here without cultivating or doing any research, all for the sake of learning to forge.

Looking at Li Ang's calm, placid expression, Mu Chen paused.

He was a little surprised by the boy's insolence, but that was all.

Before he could speak, though, Mu Xi beside him exploded.

After all, this was her own father. And now someone had dared to speak to him like that in the Blacksmith Association.