Lu Chuan's choice for his second piece of metal was Frost Meteorite Iron.
Frost Meteorite Iron—
In truth, Lu Chuan was not familiar with it.
Since he began learning blacksmithing, he had only encountered it twice.
The first time was during a demonstration in a lecture by Mang Tian.
The second time was a component for a Thousand-Refined mecha radiator!
Therefore, this was still
Lu Chuan's first time attempting Spirit Forging on Frost Meteorite Iron!
The moment it was heated, the heat-absorbing properties of the Frost Meteorite Iron were activated.
The suction was immense;
before Lu Chuan had even begun forging, the surface of the forging table had already frosted over.
An ordinary blacksmith might have needed to clear the ice, but Lu Chuan began forging immediately!
His tactile sense was not affected in the slightest.
With the surging, boundless blood energy within his body, at this moment, Lu Chuan was like a human sun!
With every hammer blow that fell, the frost on the surface of the Frost Meteorite Iron melted instantly, never once hindering his ability to receive feedback from the metal.
In a mere eighteen strikes, the Frost Meteorite Iron had taken the shape Lu Chuan desired;
Thousand-Refined with spirit, Thousand-Refined Grade One!
Everything seemed so simple, to the point that Cen Yue's eyes were fixed in a blank stare.
Elder Zhao the blacksmith was no less astonished.
Mu Chen no longer wanted to watch.
His daughter, Mu Xi, had just called, wanting to come to the Blacksmith Association Branch to practice forging, but he had rejected her outright!
He was truly afraid
that his dear daughter would ruin her life the moment she laid eyes on Lu Chuan!
The Thousand-Refining was finished; what followed was Spirit Forging!
With metals he was unfamiliar with, Lu Chuan always preferred to first grasp their structure and properties.
Knowledge gained from books is shallow, only through practice can one truly experience the essence of things.
After placing both hands on the surface of the Frost Meteorite Iron, his boundless soul power was released like a tidal wave.
However, for some unknown reason, the moment his soul power touched the surface of the metal, it was as if it had collided with an invisible wall of ice.
Not only could it not penetrate, but it slid right off along the surface of the metal.
This feeling
was like a novice failing to find the way on his first attempt, exceptionally frustrating!
Lu Chuan held the Frost Meteorite Iron, remaining silent for about ten seconds.
Within those ten seconds, he had considered many things.
To stubbornly persist with soul power, refusing to turn back until hitting a dead end.
To abandon soul power, and switch to using spiritual power instead.
With his spiritual power at the Divine Origin Realm, combined with the Spirit Folding Art's forging techniques, he had a hundred percent certainty of successfully imbuing the spirit!
But in the end, Lu Chuan chose neither.
Instead, he wanted to attempt a technique used by Tang Wulin in the original work—
Blood Resonance Spirit Forging!
Rather than relying solely on spiritual power to awaken the metal, he would use bloodline suppression and invocation, forcing the metal to awaken and submit!!
This could be called a king's forging method, because, the metal forged through this technique, besides having superior quality, possessed one other important characteristic—
Submission!
Submission to the forger!
From the moment the spirit was successfully imbued, regardless of whether this piece of metal was later forged into mecha parts, or became Battle Armor, it would forever submit to the forger!
In the future, if Lu Chuan were to become a Godsmith, then the four-word Battle Armor of every Limit Douluo in humanity would be under his control!
Thinking of this, a sudden wave of heat surged within Lu Chuan!
The Golden Dragon King bloodline boiled in his body, and an indescribable, terrifying pressure suddenly swept through the entire Evaluation Room.
Mu Chen looked at Lu Chuan in shock, feeling as if, at this very moment, the one standing before him was not a man, but an ancient beast that had just awakened!
Unknowingly, the Evaluation Room, which had been somewhat cold just a moment ago, was now, inexplicably, growing hot!
"Clang! Clang! Clang!"
The sound of hammers striking rang out continuously within the Evaluation Room.
At that moment, Lu Chuan pushed his blood energy to its absolute limit!
His heart hammered against his chest like a war drum, each beat pumping scorching blood to every limb and bone.
The power of his blood energy surged out along his arms, Like a roaring golden dragon, it slammed fiercely into the Frost Meteorite Iron.
As Lu Chuan burned the power of his lifeblood to its limit, he appeared to Mu Chen and the others like a blazing red sun, scorching and dazzling!
Using the power of lifeblood to break through was an immense success; after Lu Chuan's tenth strike, the Frost Meteorite Iron finally reacted.
Its surface emitted low, humming vibrations, as if it had been conquered by the tyrannical power of the Golden Dragon King's lifeblood within Lu Chuan and was now begging for mercy!
However, Lu Chuan did not stop; clearly, the spirituality of the Frost Meteorite Iron was not yet sufficient.
If possible, he wanted to complete an act of creation, accumulating enough spirituality for the Frost Meteorite Iron to call him "Daddy" directly!
Every subsequent strike from Lu Chuan was accompanied by an infusion of massive lifeblood power, the tyrannical aura of the Golden Dragon King's bloodline acting like a woodcutter's blade, shattering the stubborn defenses of the Frost Meteorite Iron blow by blow. From its initial violent resistance, it moved to begging for mercy, then gradually became docile, until finally, it began to actively absorb Lu Chuan's lifeblood as if it had been completely broken in!
When the one hundred and eighth hammer fell, a layer of deep blue light suddenly ignited on the surface of the Frost Meteorite Iron.
That light was different from the previous cold gleam; it was a gentle, vibrant blue, full of life, like the shimmering waves of the deep northern seas under moonlight.
The spirituality of the Frost Meteorite Iron had awakened, and because it had absorbed the lifeblood of the Golden Dragon King, its spirit possessed a quality distinct from any ordinary Frost Meteorite Iron.
Unyielding!
From this moment on, it would submit to no energy, only the bloodline of the Golden Dragon King!
Lu Chuan set down his Forging Hammer and looked down at the piece of Frost Meteorite Iron glowing with a deep blue luster in his palm, the corners of his mouth curling slightly.
Spirit Forging successful.
Time elapsed: thirty-one minutes.
Twelve minutes slower than the Flame Copper, but this already far exceeded everyone's expectations.
One had to know that Frost Meteorite Iron was notoriously known as the "Blacksmith Killer," and in the entire East Sea City, there wasn't another person who could complete a Spirit Forging on it within forty minutes.
Mu Chen watched that piece of Frost Meteorite Iron in silence.
This was a forging technique he had never seen before!
The conventional method for forging Frost Meteorite Iron was to break through the surface with a single point, like water dripping through stone.
One would use a faint trace of soul power to probe continuously, and finally, when the Frost Meteorite Iron was caught off guard, rush in to imbue it with spirit, ultimately shaping it into the desired form.
But Lu Chuan was different.
His was a domineering conquest!
Lu Chuan ignored Mu Chen's reaction.
Having successfully forged using the Blood Resonance Method for the first time, his heart was undoubtedly filled with excitement!
Beyond that, he also discovered that using the power of blood and qi seemed far smoother than brute-forcing it with soul power and spiritual power.
So, I've been neglecting the greatest treasure within my own body all this time!
The corners of Lu Chuan's mouth curled up slightly, his mood immensely pleasant.
Forging is a thrill for a moment, but forging continuously is a thrill forever!
Reaching out to grasp the third piece of metal—Thunderclap Gold—Lu Chuan prepared to forge once again!
This time, he didn't attempt to use soul power or spiritual power to pave the way at all; he directly channeled his blood and qi power into it.
The moment the electric arcs on the surface of the Thunderclap Gold touched the Golden Dragon King's blood and qi, they acted as if a mouse had encountered a cat, immediately retracting.
The charges that were originally violent enough to electrocute a person were, in the face of the Golden Dragon King's domineering bloodline aura, as docile as a cat held by the scruff of its neck.
Lu Chuan swung his hammer.
Under the influence of the Blood Resonance Method, the Thunderclap Gold offered almost no effective resistance.
Those charges that usually required a blacksmith to guide them with extreme caution were, under the traction of the Golden Dragon King's blood and qi, automatically arranged into orderly circuits, the speed at which their spirituality awakened was staggering!
Spirit Forging successful.
It took only twelve minutes.
Even faster than the Flame Copper.
So fast that the group of old men began to doubt their lives.
Cen Yue stared blankly at Mu Chen. "Chairman, shouldn't we limit the number of orders this kid takes? Otherwise, I'm afraid he's going to finish all the Spirit Forging orders in East Sea City! It's too fast!"
Mu Chen hadn't yet recovered from his state of bewilderment, but once he did, he waved his hand grandly. "No need, let him take them. When the time comes, I'll just go to Tianhai City and snatch some!"
The second after the third piece was finished, Lu Chuan began forging the fourth piece, Shadow Steel.
The Shadow Steel's characteristic of being a bottomless pit for consumption tasted the feeling of being "unable to swallow" for the first time when faced with the Golden Dragon King's blood and qi.
Was it too much, too vast, too dense?
The Shadow Steel's consumption speed couldn't digest Lu Chuan's blood and qi power at all; instead, it was overwhelmed by that power, which directly branded its spirituality deep within its core.
Spirit Forging successful.
Time taken: sixteen minutes.
The fifth piece was a raw Life Crystal.
Lu Chuan did not resort to brute force this time.
Instead, he adjusted the power of his lifeblood to a gentle resonant frequency, carefully bringing it into contact with the surface of the Life Crystal.
Lu Chuan had expected a tedious and lengthy process of trial and error.
To his surprise, however, his lifeblood energy was exactly what the Life Crystal craved.
It was practically love at first sight; the crystal could hardly wait to open up its internal structure, actively welcoming the integration of the Golden Dragon King's lifeblood.
Spirit Forging successful.
Time elapsed: five minutes.
The fastest in the entire arena!
Five pieces of metal, five extreme attributes, all successfully Spirit Forged.
Total time elapsed: less than an hour and a half.
Success rate: one hundred percent.
Moreover, starting from the third piece, Lu Chuan hadn't even broken a sweat!
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