One Hammer Spirit Forging! Forging King? God of Noble Metals!

Clang!

With the metallic ring of a massive hammer striking metal, countless sparks scattered in every direction.

Once, twice, five times...

At first, Xu Yue's hammering was still crude and stiff.

But gradually, his movements became smoother and smoother.

Every strike was accompanied by progress visible to the naked eye.

Under the black-gold hammer in his hand, the metal being forged steadily shrank at a visible rate.

The impurities within it were continuously tempered out by the furnace fire and hammer blows.

Faint glimmers of radiance bloomed across the metal.

At the sight, Mu Xi's red lips slowly parted, the comforting words she had prepared vanishing as her mouth soon formed an O.

Beside her, the light in her father Mu Chen's eyes grew increasingly fervent.

If he had not been afraid of disturbing Xu Yue's forging, he would already have burst into laughter.

A genius—an absolute genius in blacksmithing.

This level of efficiency could not possibly be explained by sheer strength alone.

"Could it be because of his second martial soul? Is the effect of improving learning speed really this obvious?"

Clang, clang, clang...

The forging continued, and the metal's radiance grew ever more apparent.

"A hundred refinements."

Mu Chen's voice was exceedingly soft.

In an instant, Mu Xi's heart shook violently.

Only two or three minutes ago, Xu Yue had been a beginner who had just started learning forging.

Yet now, he could already be called a first-rank blacksmith, standing on the same level as her.

And the shock continued to build.

Three more minutes later, the metal had shrunk by more than thirty percent.

"Hundred Refinements Grade One—a second-rank blacksmith!"

Mu Chen spoke again, but Xu Yue's forging had yet to end.

The crisp strikes rang out without pause, like the notes of a magnificent composition.

When the final hammer fell heavily—

A dazzling beam of radiance shot skyward from the metal.

When metal gained spirit, a thousand refinements made it exceptional.

A third-rank blacksmith!

Before the forging table, Xu Yue panted softly as he looked at the metal before him, which emitted a faint spiritual glow.

At the beginning, he truly did not know how to forge. But soon, the Herrscher of Reason's authority began to take effect.

The scenes of Mu Chen teaching Mu Xi replayed in his mind over and over. With that personally imparted knowledge and experience, he quickly grasped the underlying principles.

"Haha... Little Yue, you're a born blacksmith!"

At that moment, Mu Chen suddenly pulled Xu Yue into an embrace and laughed loudly.

"Give me twenty years—no, fifteen years—and you'll become the next Divine Artisan after my senior brother."

At this point, he paused abruptly and immediately changed his words.

"No... no! You'll become someone who surpasses my senior brother! Haha..."

"My senior brother was only a second-rank blacksmith at eleven, but Little Yue, you're already third-rank at six! There's no comparison, no comparison!"

A smile also bloomed on Mu Xi's face. "Congratulations, Ah Yue! You've become a third-rank blacksmith!" Yet deep in her eyes was a trace of dimness.

Although Mu Chen could not have been more satisfied with Xu Yue's performance, Xu Yue himself felt that he could go even further.

"Uncle Mu! I want to try again!"

Hearing this, Mu Chen's laughter halted for a moment, but he soon burst out laughing again and patted Xu Yue on the shoulder.

"No problem. You can try as many times as you want."

With Mu Chen's agreement, Xu Yue swept his gaze over the pile of metals nearby and eventually selected a piece of somewhat black rare metal.

It was entirely black, yet beneath the furnace light, tiny golden flecks shimmered across its surface, resembling stars in the night sky.

Xu Yue had heard Mu Xi mention it during her lessons. It was called Starfall Iron, a top-tier rare metal left behind by meteorites from beyond the heavens.

Although the piece of Starfall Iron before him was only around twenty centimeters in diameter, it weighed an astonishing one hundred and fifty kilograms or more, its density extraordinarily high.

Next, Xu Yue selected a sixth-grade fusion-forging hammer from the rack beside him.

The sixth-grade forging hammer was astonishingly heavy, no lighter than the Starfall Iron from before. It already amounted to half of Xu Yue's arm strength.

Trying to forge with it would be extremely difficult, and he might even injure himself.

Seeing this, Mu Chen was just about to offer a reminder.

When a dark blue glow appeared beside Xu Yue.

It was Eden's Star.

The next moment, blackish-red light rippled across Eden's Star's surface, and an invisible gravitational field descended instantly.

After breaking through to become a Soul Master, the gravity field's multiplier had increased from onefold to twofold.

And now, Xu Yue intended to use it in forging.

Gravity Field · Twofold Weakening!

Target: forging hammer!

In an instant, the forging hammer's surface was covered in blackish-red light.

Xu Yue's arm, which had been swaying slightly, immediately steadied with the gravity field's assistance.

Mu Chen's eyes filled with surprise at the sight. He had not expected Xu Yue's gravity field to be usable like this.

Returning to the forging platform, Xu Yue did not immediately begin forging as he had before.

Instead, he stood quietly in place and slowly closed his eyes.

Mu Chen and Mu Xi were both puzzled by this, but neither spoke to interrupt him.

What they did not see was that Xu Yue's eyes beneath his closed lids had already lit up.

Authority of Rock, activate!

This time, Xu Yue was not doing as he had when giving Azhdaha its eyes. He was doing it to perceive.

With gold and stone as his eyes, he saw through the past!

In but an instant, his consciousness completely sank into the Starfall Iron, witnessing the story of everything it had experienced throughout its life.

He saw an incomparably dazzling light, sensed extreme heat, and heard the eruption of a star at the end of its life.

Thus, amid the supernova explosion, this metal formed through nuclear reactions was ultimately cast into the endless depths of space.

After billions of years of interstellar travel, it finally fell upon Douluo Continent, lay buried for a million years, and was mined out by a miner.

At that moment, Xu Yue sensed the spirit of the Starfall Iron—the emotions contained within those memories.

On the forging platform.

Without anyone touching it, the Starfall Iron resting quietly there began to tremble at that moment, releasing a faint hum.

"Th-This... this is... spirituality?!"

Mu Chen's eyes widened. Faced with the scene before him, he did not know how to understand it, let alone describe it.

That metal possessed spirit was common knowledge among all blacksmiths, but to awaken that spirit, it had to undergo a blacksmith's hammering.

Yet in the ten seconds Xu Yue had his eyes closed, a piece of Starfall Iron that had never undergone any tempering had awakened on its own, its spirituality more active than ever before.

The next moment, Xu Yue abruptly opened his eyes.

The rock insignia in his eyes bloomed with unprecedented golden light, shooting straight onto the Nebula Iron before him.

At the same time, he raised the forging hammer high. When it reached its highest point, a blackish-red gravitational field covered the hammerhead, and it came crashing down.

Gravity Field · Twofold Amplification!

The instant the forging hammer descended, an extremely faint cry rang out from the forging platform.

It was as though it had been captured by gravity, yet also as though it were responding of its own accord.

The Starfall Iron, weighing over a hundred kilograms, actually sprang up from the platform on its own and met the forging hammer smashing down toward it.

It was paying homage to its king, welcoming new life!

Loyalty! Devotion!

Clang! The forging hammer crashed down heavily.

The next moment.

A brilliant spiritual radiance surged upward, shooting straight into the forging room's ceiling.

One hammer strike—Spirit Forging!!!

"Forg... forg..."

"Forge... Forge King?!!!"