Lu Chuan chose Frost Meteorite Iron for his second piece of metal.
Frost Meteorite Iron—
Lu Chuan actually wasn't familiar with it.
Since he had started learning blacksmithing, he had only encountered it twice.
The first time had been during a lecture demonstration by Mang Tian.
The second had been as a component in a Thousand-Refined mecha radiator!
So,
this was
Lu Chuan's first attempt at Spirit Forging Frost Meteorite Iron!
As soon as he heated it,
the Frost Meteorite Iron's heat-absorbing properties kicked in.
Its pull was tremendous.
Lu Chuan hadn't even begun forging,
yet the surface of the forging table had already frozen over.
An ordinary blacksmith might have needed to clear away the ice,
but Lu Chuan started forging immediately!
His feel for the metal wasn't affected in the slightest.
The abundant Bloodline Power within him surged.
At that moment, Lu Chuan was like a human-shaped sun!
With every hammer blow,
the frost on the Frost Meteorite Iron's surface melted instantly.
It did nothing to interfere with his ability to receive the metal's feedback.
In just eighteen blows,
the Frost Meteorite Iron became exactly what Lu Chuan wanted.
Thousand-Refined with Spirit, Thousand-Refined Grade One!
Everything seemed so simple
that Cen Yue was left staring in disbelief.
Elder Zhao, the blacksmith, was no less astonished.
Mu Chen didn't even want to watch anymore.
Just moments ago, his daughter Mu Xi had called,
wanting to come practice forging at the Blacksmith Association Branch,
and he had rejected her outright!
He was genuinely afraid
that his precious daughter would lay eyes on Lu Chuan and ruin her life!
With the Thousand Refinement complete, next came Spirit Forging!
When it came to unfamiliar metals,
Lu Chuan always preferred to first understand their structure and properties.
What you learned from books was shallow.
Only practice could reveal the true taste of it.
After placing both hands on the surface of the Frost Meteorite Iron,
he released his tremendous Soul Power like a rising tide.
But
for some unknown reason,
the moment his Soul Power touched the metal's surface,
it felt as if it had hit an invisible wall of ice.
Not only could it not get inside,
it slid right off the metal's surface.
The feeling
was like being a greenhorn who couldn't find the way in for the first time—
especially frustrating!
Lu Chuan held the Frost Meteorite Iron and fell silent for about ten seconds.
During those ten seconds,
he considered many possibilities.
He could keep hammering away with Soul Power,
refusing to turn back until he hit a wall.
Or he could give up on Soul Power
and switch to spiritual power.
With his usual Divine Origin Realm spiritual power
combined with the Spirit Forging techniques of the Spirit Folding Art,
he was one hundred percent certain he could successfully bestow a spirit!
But in the end,
Lu Chuan chose neither.
Instead, he wanted to try one of Tang Wulin's techniques from the original story—
Blood Resonance Spirit Forging!
Rather than relying solely on spiritual power to awaken the metal,
he would use bloodline suppression and summoning
to rouse the metal and make it submit!!
This could be called a king's forging method,
because
metals forged this way
were not only of superior quality—
they also had another important trait:
submission!
Submission to the blacksmith!
From the moment the spirit was successfully bestowed,
whether the metal was eventually forged into a mecha component
or became part of Battle Armor,
it would forever submit to the blacksmith!
In the future,
if Lu Chuan became a Godsmith,
then he would be able to control all of humanity's four-word Battle Armor worn by Limit Douluo!
At the thought,
a sudden heat flared inside Lu Chuan!
The Golden Dragon King Bloodline boiled within him,
and a terrifying, indescribable pressure swept across the entire Evaluation Room.
Mu Chen looked at Lu Chuan in shock.
At that moment,
the one standing before him didn't feel like a person—
but an ancient beast that had just awakened!
Without anyone noticing,
the Evaluation Room, which had been somewhat chilly just moments before,
now
felt inexplicably warm!
"Clang! Clang! Clang!"
An unbroken series of hammer blows rang out through the Evaluation Room.
At that moment,
Lu Chuan drove his Bloodline Power to its absolute limit!
His heart pounded in his chest like a war drum,
each beat pumping scorching blood through every limb.
Bloodline Power surged down his arms,
like a roaring golden dragon
crashing savagely into the Frost Meteorite Iron.
As Lu Chuan's Bloodline Power burned at full force,
in Mu Chen and the others' eyes,
Lu Chuan gradually became like a blazing red sun,
scorching and dazzling!
His breakthrough using Bloodline Power could hardly have gone better.
By the tenth hammer blow,
the Frost Meteorite Iron reacted.
A series of deep hums rang out from its surface,
as if it had been conquered by the overbearing Bloodline Power of the Golden Dragon King within Lu Chuan
and had begun to beg for mercy!
But Lu Chuan still didn't stop.
Clearly,
the Frost Meteorite Iron's spirituality wasn't strong enough yet.
If possible,
Lu Chuan would rather create life itself,
building up the Frost Meteorite Iron's spirituality until it could call him "Daddy" outright!
Every hammer blow that followed was infused with tremendous Bloodline Power.
The domineering aura of the Golden Dragon King Bloodline was like a cleaver,
smashing apart the Frost Meteorite Iron's stubborn defenses, blow after blow.
The Frost Meteorite Iron went from fiercely resisting at first,
to begging for mercy,
then gradually growing docile,
until finally,
it began to actively absorb Lu Chuan's Bloodline Power,
as if it had been completely tamed!
When the one hundred and eighth hammer blow landed,
a layer of faint blue light suddenly shone across the Frost Meteorite Iron's surface.
It wasn't the cold gleam from before,
but a gentle blue, brimming with life.
Like the shimmering waves of the Far North's deep sea beneath the moonlight.
The Frost Meteorite Iron's spirit had awakened.
And because it had absorbed the Golden Dragon King's Bloodline Power,
its spirit now possessed a quality utterly different from that of ordinary Frost Meteorite Iron.
Indomitable!
From then on, it would submit to no energy—only the Golden Dragon King Bloodline!
Lu Chuan set down his Forging Hammer
and looked at the piece of Frost Meteorite Iron glowing faintly blue in his palm.
The corner of his mouth lifted slightly.
Spirit Forging: successful.
Time taken: thirty-one minutes.
Twelve minutes slower than with Flame Copper,
but still far beyond everyone's expectations.
After all,
Frost Meteorite Iron was notorious as a "blacksmith killer."
In the entire Eastsea City, no one else could finish Spirit Forging it in under forty minutes.
Mu Chen silently watched the piece of Frost Meteorite Iron,
This was a forging method he had never seen before!
The usual way to forge Frost Meteorite Iron was to chip away at the surface, like water dripping through stone.
You used a trickle of Soul Power to probe it without pause, then, when the Frost Meteorite Iron let down its guard, surged inside and imbued it with a spirit, finally shaping it into what you wanted.
But Lu Chuan was different.
His method was conquest by sheer force!
Lu Chuan paid no attention to Mu Chen's reaction.
His first successful attempt at forging with the Blood Resonance Method had left him undeniably excited!
Besides that,
he had also discovered
that using Bloodline Power seemed far smoother than forcing his way through with Soul Power and mental power.
So all this time, I've been overlooking the greatest treasure my body holds!
Lu Chuan's lips curled slightly, and his mood lifted.
Forging felt great in the moment,
and forging nonstop felt great nonstop!
He reached out and gripped the third piece of metal—Thunderclap Gold—
and prepared to forge again!
This time,
he didn't even try to clear a path with Soul Power or mental power.
He simply urged his Bloodline Power straight into it.
The moment the arcs of electricity on Thunderclap Gold's surface touched the Golden Dragon King's Bloodline Power,
they shrank back on their own, like mice running into a cat.
The charges that had been so violent they could knock someone flat
became as docile as a cat grabbed by the scruff
before the Golden Dragon King's domineering bloodline aura.
Lu Chuan swung his hammer.
Under the resonance of his Bloodline Power,
Thunderclap Gold put up almost no meaningful resistance.
The charges that a blacksmith would normally have to guide with painstaking care
fell into orderly circuits of their own under the pull of the Golden Dragon King's Bloodline Power.
Its spirit awakened at a speed that beggared belief!
Spirit Forging succeeded.
It took just twelve minutes.
Even faster than the Flame Copper.
So fast that the old men began to question their whole lives.
Cen Yue stared at Mu Chen, dumbfounded.
"President, should we limit this kid's orders? Otherwise, he's going to forge every Spirit Forging order in Eastsea City! He's way too fast!"
Mu Chen was still in a daze. Once he came around, he waved his hand.
"No need. Let him take them. I'll go grab a few from Skysea City later!"
The moment he finished the third piece,
Lu Chuan started forging the fourth, Shadow Steel.
When faced with the Golden Dragon King's Bloodline Power,
Shadow Steel's bottomless Devouring finally tasted what it was like to be unable to swallow something.
Was it too much, too large, too concentrated?
Shadow Steel couldn't digest Lu Chuan's Bloodline Power fast enough.
Instead, the Bloodline Power turned the tables and took control,
leaving a spiritual mark deep within its core.
Spirit Forging succeeded.
Time: sixteen minutes.
The fifth piece was Life Crystal Ore.
This time, Lu Chuan didn't go at it with broad, brute force.
Instead, he adjusted his Bloodline Power to a gentle resonant frequency
and cautiously drew close to the surface of the Life Crystal.
Lu Chuan had expected to spend ages on tedious attempts,
but he never imagined
that his Bloodline Power would be exactly to the Life Crystal's taste.
It was love at first sight.
The Life Crystal almost impatiently opened up its inner structure,
welcoming the Golden Dragon King's Bloodline Power as it flowed inside.
Spirit Forging succeeded.
Time: five minutes.
The fastest of all!
Five metals, five extreme properties, all successfully Spirit Forged.
Total time: less than an hour and a half.
Success rate: one hundred percent.
And from the third piece onward, Lu Chuan had barely even broken a sweat!