Who is the Shame of the Soul Beasts?

Martial souls are the blessings bestowed upon humanity by the plane.

Soul rings are the products condensed from the laws of the plane.

If one were to compare the plane to a sect.

Ordinary people are the masses living under the sect's governance.

Soul Scholars are the chore disciples, while Soul Masters are the outer sect disciples, considered to have official status.

Only by absorbing the first soul ring to become a Soul Master can one be further recognized by the plane.

After becoming a one-ring Soul Master, Mu Han continued his forging.

When he was a level ten Soul Scholar, he had already completed his first thousand-refinement.

Now, the thousand-refinement purification of every piece of metal was exceptionally smooth, much faster than the last time.

The efficiency was higher, and the consumption was lower.

However, the quality of the thousand-refinement had not improved.

There are also grades for hundred-refinement and thousand-refinement.

Generally speaking, hundred-refinement is only divided into three grades: high, medium, and low.

Low grade is the level of a first-rank Blacksmith.

Medium grade is the level of a second-rank Blacksmith, though the second rank also requires an examination in parts processing.

If a hundred-refinement can reach the high grade, it possesses the foundation to attempt thousand-refinement.

Thousand-refinement is divided into five grades, with the first grade being the highest and the fifth grade the lowest.

Reaching the fifth grade counts as completing the task.

Anything above the third grade yields additional benefits.

According to the unspoken rules of the forging world, a probability of over twenty percent for a second-grade thousand-refinement qualifies one as a fourth-rank Blacksmith.

A first-grade thousand-refinement is also known as semi-spirit-refinement because it possesses certain characteristics of spirit-refined metal.

In the forging world, it has always been believed that anyone capable of completing a first-grade thousand-refinement will definitely be able to perform spirit-refinement once their cultivation reaches the required level.

But Mu Han's thousand-refinement was even superior to that.

All forging methods in the forging world involve directly removing impurities and refining.

But in reality, when refining impurities, heavy hammering inevitably damages the internal structure of the metal.

To forge rare metals well, one must meticulously carve and polish from the very beginning.

For a normal thousand-refinement, if the spirit light can rise five feet, it is already quite stunning.

Yet, when Mu Han previously performed thousand-refinement on Sinking Silver, the silver light rose to a full ten feet high.

This represented that he had pushed the thousand-refinement of Sinking Silver to the extreme.

He had achieved the pinnacle of what could be done with a single piece of metal through thousand-refinement.

In the original work, the protagonist Tang Wulin had to wait until the later stages when attempting to reach the level of Saint Craftsman to achieve this.

Moreover, the original work explicitly stated that even Mu Chen, an eighth-rank Saint Craftsman, was not confident in being able to do this.

Perhaps only the Divine Craftsman Zhen Hua could.

But now, relying on his Gold-Water Mutual Containment martial soul, Mu Han had easily reached this step.

Every piece of his thousand-refinement was at an extreme level, with quality far exceeding ordinary first-grade thousand-refinement.

Even Mu Chen had evaluated that the quality was sufficient to rival ordinary spirit-refined metal.

One must know that the price difference between thousand-refined metal and spirit-refined metal is tenfold!

However, Mu Han could achieve this step when he was a level ten Soul Scholar.

Now that he was a one-ring Soul Master, he could still only reach this step.

The bottleneck of spirit-refinement was not so easily broken.

But it was already enough.

After all, he was only eight and a half years old.

One must know that before Mu Han, the youngest examinee in the history of the Blacksmith Association was eight years and six months old.

And that person was only taking the exam for a first-rank Blacksmith.

Mu Han, however, was firmly at the peak of the fourth rank.

For him, the greatest obstacle now was not his forging level, but his Soul Power Level.

Come to think of it, Mu Han was, after all, Innate Full Soul Power.

In order to challenge thousand-refinement as a level ten Soul Scholar, he had suppressed his cultivation for so long.

After absorbing a soul ring and breaking through the bottleneck, his cultivation began to advance by leaps and bounds.

To be precise, however, it was a case of thin accumulation leading to a thick outbreak.

It was just that his soul skill was a bit less than ideal.

The first soul skill: Wind Eye.

In the understanding of soul masters on the Douluo Continent, everything in this world is composed of elements.

Among them, water, fire, earth, and wind are the most fundamental existences; they are the basic building blocks of the world.

Mu Han had mastered the three elements of water, fire, and earth, even managing to create a balance and a cycle for them within his body.

This caused the wind element to be somewhat repelled by him.

The first soul skill, Wind Eye, creates a vortex of wind capable of pulling in thousand-jin boulders, or even forcibly ripping the blood out of a human body!

It sounds powerful; after all, who could survive if their blood were pulled from their body?

However, this method can only bully the weak. If he were to encounter someone stronger than himself, they could even use the force to close the distance.

Unless he possessed a soul skill that provided a repulsive force to complement the suction of the Wind Eye, Then, with the two working in tandem, the effect would undoubtedly be ferocious!

It was just a pity that he currently only had one soul skill.

So, in the end, this Wind Eye was merely a control-type soul skill.

Could it be considered a soul skill version of Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon?

Although Mu Chen, with his status as an eighth-rank Saint Craftsman, certainly had ways to obtain a spirit bone.

But since his own daughter didn't have one, how could he, a mere foster son, bring himself to ask?

However, when Na'er left just as she did in the original story, Mu Chen gifted him a spirit bone to comfort him.

This moved Mu Han quite a bit.

He had known all along that Na'er would leave, so he wasn't angry or sad.

But he hadn't expected Mu Chen to actually gift him a spirit bone just to console him.

He had schemed to become the man's foster son, driven by his own calculations.

Yet, Mu Chen had treated him with genuine sincerity all these years.

His foster sister, Mu Xi, was the same; she truly had feelings for him.

Thinking of this, Mu Han did not absorb the spirit bone, but instead gave it to Mu Xi.

Come to think of it, as a transmigrator, Mu Han had always assumed he could treat the people of this world like two-dimensional characters.

Just like those playmates from the orphanage.

After his martial soul awakened, he had never contacted them even once.

To him, those childhood playmates were like NPCs in a game.

He believed he wouldn't be like the Silver Dragon King in the original story, bound by fake emotions.

Whether it was his foster father Mu Chen, his foster sister Mu Xi, or even the Silver Dragon King Gu Yuena.

But facts proved he was wrong.

Emotions do not care about one's dimension.

He was able to forget those people from the orphanage because their relationship was never that deep to begin with.

Mu Chen and Mu Xi had genuine feelings for him.

Furthermore, he had indeed become a person of the Douluo Continent now.

So, he finally truly understood the Silver Dragon King.

Questioning, understanding, becoming, transcending...

The only thing to be thankful for was that Mu Han did not carry any deep-seated blood feuds.

People often say Ah Yin and the Soft Bone Rabbit are the "disgraces of soul beasts."

But looking at it now, they are at most the "disgrace of Blue Silver Grass" and the "disgrace of the Soft Bone Rabbit."

Moreover, they transformed into humans because, with their weak bloodlines, they had no chance of surviving the heavenly tribulation.

Besides, at the very least, they came out on top.

Originally, with the bloodlines of Blue Silver Grass and the Soft Bone Rabbit, it was impossible for them to become gods, whether through normal cultivation or by transforming into humans.

But now, they had become gods.

Even if they were just "pendants," they had ultimately succeeded in becoming gods.

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion was also a "disgrace of soul beasts," but that was more because she had been schemed against by God King Tang.

That was a matter of different dimensions; there was nothing to be done about it.

But Gu Yuena was the "disgrace of soul beasts" in the true sense of the word.

The Sovereign of Soul Beasts, carrying the blood feud of the entire soul beast lineage, yet choosing to commit suicide in exchange for peace?

It would be one thing to fall in battle and die, but to commit suicide?

When it was clearly a case of "the advantage is mine," yet she chose to commit suicide?

Isn't that the very definition of a "disgrace of soul beasts"?