Divine Craftsman Zhen Hua

Every year, when Shrek Academy's first-year students took their first final exam, a horde of thugs appeared across the Federation.

A group of thirteen- and fourteen-year-old boys and girls recklessly attacked passing Soul Masters, provoked law enforcement officers, and even stormed military bases.

Every one of their actions seriously disrupted public order.

After the final exams, the academy always sent people to explain the situation to the affected Soul Masters and apologize.

But along the way, quite a few students ran into someone they couldn't handle and got detained.

In that case, they were basically eliminated or had points deducted from their final exam scores.

But Mu Han was different! There was no way anyone could detain him!

Even if the entire Sea God Pavilion came after him, they might not be able to hold him.

But whoever tried to detain him would be in for a bad time—and so would the city they were in.

Back then, Shrek City had nearly been blown up by Mu Han.

Shrek City was full of powerful people, so in the end, no one died.

But things might not have gone so well in another city.

They would have to pass through at least ten cities on the way, including Ming Capital.

In other words, at least nine cities along the route were at risk of being blown up by Mu Han.

With Mu Han's strength, the academy ultimately granted him an exemption from the exam.

Besides, the whole reason he had come to Shrek was political, after all.

Shrek Academy needed Mu Han to enroll,

and Mu Han needed to spend some time at Shrek Academy.

The examination was just a formality.

But Mu Han left that very day as well. After all, there was still a stretch of plot coming up in the original story.

The terrorists from the original story never appeared.

After all, Mu Han had changed far too many things over the years.

But Divine Craftsman Zhen Hua, just like in the original story, began his lecture at the Blacksmith Association in Heaven Dou City.

After all, Zhen Hua was giving the lecture because he had recently discovered a little trick related to Fusion Forging.

What Mu Han had done wouldn't affect Zhen Hua's research.

So Zhen Hua still chose an auspicious day to hold his lecture.

And Mu Han followed the same path Tang Wulin had taken in the original story. "May I give it a try, President?"

Without waiting for a reply, he quickly walked over to Zhen Hua.

"I need Sinking Silver, Magic Silver, and some Heavenly Moon Essence powder."

"All right. Get those for him," Zhen Hua said to the staff beside him.

The Heavenly Moon Essence powder was the universal catalyst he had recently discovered,

something like a budget version of Gold-Water Mutual Containment.

It definitely couldn't match Gold-Water Mutual Containment, but it cost far less.

The Blacksmith Association had no shortage of rare metals,

and soon everything he'd asked for was brought over.

Mu Han didn't hesitate at all. He went straight behind the forging table.

He activated the forging table, put the two pieces of rare metal inside, adjusted the forging temperature, and sank them into the table.

He didn't need a forging table to forge, but he still had the basics down.

Only then did he turn to Zhen Hua. "President, I'll have to trouble you with one more thing. I'd like to borrow your forging hammers."

The moment he said this, the whole room erupted!

Borrowing a forging hammer was already an extremely rare thing in the forging world, let alone borrowing one from a Divine Craftsman.

He was the only Divine Craftsman in the world today.

Zhen Hua was taken aback by the request. This little fellow really was interesting!

Mu Han had no choice. Wasn't this why he'd come all this way?

Normally, he didn't need forging hammers to forge—not even a forging table.

This time, he was making an exception.

"All right." Zhen Hua pondered for a moment, then a flash of light appeared in his hand, and a pair of forging hammers materialized before him.

They were white hammers, their entire surface shimmering with a faint glow.

Their design was quite traditional, and faint blue clouds drifted across their white surfaces.

"Spirit Forged Cloud Gold Vibration Hammer," Mu Han murmured.

Zhen Hua, who had been smiling all along, finally showed a hint of surprise.

Although he didn't think Mu Han could perform Fusion Forging, he had never been stingy with encouragement for young people.

But now Zhen Hua straightened slightly, and those who understood what that meant gaped.

They were Cloud Gold, a Spirit Alloy created by fusing Cloud Copper and Platinum Crystal.

Mu Han's ability to recognize Cloud Gold showed that he had a solid store of knowledge.

But how had Mu Han known at a glance that the hammer's defining property was "vibration"?

Zhen Hua knew, of course, but not because he was a Divine Craftsman—

only because he was the owner of these Cloud Gold Vibration Hammers.

How could Mu Han tell at a glance that they were Vibration Hammers?

The truth was, Mu Han couldn't tell. He'd only seen the hammers in the original story.

The metal had now melted completely and intertwined.

This was definitely not something Heavenly Moon Essence powder alone could accomplish.

Mu Han had used his Martial Soul, Gold-Water Mutual Containment.

Then Mu Han struck just once, flattening the metal.

Everyone stared in shock. Cloud Gold was a Spirit Alloy famous for its weight. Anyone who had ever touched it knew that.

But they'd never seen anyone flatten metal outright while forging it. Wouldn't that damage its structure?

Yet the flattened metal sprang up, and the Fusion Forging was complete.

A beam of light a full zhang high shot up into the sky.

This wasn't ordinary forging, but a state in which the heart and the forge became one.

This time, the clang was even louder. The flattened metal rang out with a hum,

and light visibly rippled across its surface.

Fusion Forging and Thousand Refinement with one strike was already impressive. But what about Spirit Forging with one strike?

How many blacksmiths were stuck at Level Four, never managing to reach the threshold of Spirit Forging for their entire lives?

Yet in Mu Han's hands, a single strike was all it took to complete Spirit Forging.

Just then, a dark shadow charged straight at Mu Han with a ferocious aura.

Spirit Forging came in many forms. Most methods bestowed life, while the highest-level method called life forth.

Spirit-Forged Metal created this way had the strongest vitality and the greatest spiritual nature.

Creation Spirit Forging was the highest realm of Spirit Forging,

but without a Martial Soul capable of creating life, it was impossible to forge this most powerful kind of Spirit-Forged Metal.

Mu Han naturally couldn't do it either.

The next best thing to Creation Spirit Forging was Spirit Forging Backlash.

Evil Spirits weren't bad in themselves; they made Spirit-Forged Metal more aggressive.

Evil Spirit Forging was usually the best choice for offensive weapons,

but once an Evil Spirit appeared, it could injure the blacksmith, interrupting the Spirit Forging and ruining it at the last moment.

But now, the Spirit Forging was already complete.

Mu Han could face the Evil Spirit's backlash head-on!

After the shadow plunged into Mu Han's Sea of Consciousness, the maze closed in around it from every direction.

Unable to escape, it was gradually eroded by the corrosive properties within the maze.

In its final death throes, it broke through one of the maze's walls.

The next instant, that area exploded, and the blast swallowed the Evil Spirit whole.

At the same time, explosions went off one after another in every corner of the maze surrounding his Sea of Consciousness.

His mental world suddenly felt as if it had been forced wide open,

and his stagnant mental power suddenly began to rise by geometric leaps.