"Hah!"
With an angry shout, the girl spun and leaped into the air.
Drawing on the power of her waist, she swung an enormous hammer utterly out of proportion to her delicate figure and slammed it onto the iron, making the spacious room shudder violently.
"Hah, hah..."
Steam rose, filling the entire forging room.
Wang Dong'er panted, propping her hammer against the floor with one hand while wiping sweat from her forehead with the other. Delight spread across her pretty face.
"Did it work?"
She hurried forward to examine the lump of iron on the forging bench.
Ignoring the heat, she grabbed it and inspected it.
"Is this the ordinary spirit iron described in the Spirit Forging Master's manual?"
According to the manual, true Spirit Forging Masters could guide the elements of heaven and earth to temper metals, granting them elemental properties. Higher-ranked Spirit Forging Masters could even condense Divine Core metals and forge true divine artifacts.
But before truly crossing the threshold to become a Spirit Forging Master, one had to hammer ordinary iron hundreds of times, removing its impurities and refining it into ordinary spirit iron.
Although the lump in her hand was still iron, its quality had undergone an earth-shattering transformation. Soul Tools made from it would undoubtedly be stronger in every respect.
And this was only iron.
Keen interest blazed in her eyes.
The Spirit Forging Master's manual also said that preliminary refinement could improve the quality of all kinds of metals, not just iron, but mithril, sunken gold, and others.
And...
She hefted the iron in her hand.
This ordinary spirit iron could even respond when infused with soul power, something ordinary iron could never do.
In other words, whether it was used to make a weapon or a Soul Tool, it would resonate with