Limitless potential?
Tang Wulin let out a bitter laugh.
The Golden Dragon King bloodline was absolutely his trump card, but it was also a time bomb buried within his body.
"I only have one Qi and Blood Spirit Ring right now. If I could have two, perhaps things would be very different. Also, my Spirit Power is almost about to break through to the thirtieth rank. After my Blue Silver Emperor Martial Soul awakened, my cultivation speed underwent a qualitative change compared to before. Perhaps catching up to Senior Brother Su Ming isn't impossible. After all, Spirit Power becomes harder to cultivate the higher you go."
Su Ming would be stuck at each subsequent level for a very long time, while as long as Tang Wulin himself took less time than Su Ming, he could gradually catch up to Su Ming's Spirit Power level!
Tang Wulin comforted himself.
Seeing this, Lao Tang silently went into lurking mode, no longer bubbling up.
This kid was just so reassuring.
Outside Training Ground No. 3, someone had witnessed the entire battle from just now.
"What do you think?" Cai Yue'er looked at Wu Kong beside her.
"Very strong," Wu Kong said.
This was a result he had known for a long time.
Su Ming had already displayed an invincible demeanor back during the Tianhai Alliance competition.
This challenge match was also the academy's attempt to fully pull Su Ming into Shrek's fold, or at least get Su Ming to participate in the academy's competitions.
The only pity was that Su Ming was too strong, so strong that he didn't want to train, and they had no way to force him.
"After this challenge match, consider it again. If you feel confident, I will arrange another exchange event for you, and have Su Ming join the exchange group as well." Su Ming arrived home.
He found an old man pacing anxiously in circles at his door.
"Elder Feng?"
Su Ming was puzzled why the other party would look for him at this time.
Hearing Su Ming's voice, Feng Wuyu was overjoyed.
"Su Ming, you're finally back! Where did you go? You weren't home."
He didn't know about Su Ming's participation in the challenge match.
"Right, let's get to the main business first. Come with me to the Association. No, if you have a forging room at home, we can do it here too."
Su Ming said decisively, "I don't."
Laughable. His forging room couldn't be used by others.
Too many secrets.
He didn't want anyone to know his true forging level yet.
Feng Wuyu didn't think too much about it. He grabbed Su Ming and quickly ran to the Blacksmith Association.
"Look."
He took out a piece of Heavy Silver and placed it on the forging table.
Su Ming followed his gaze but didn't see anything special.
"This is a piece of rare metal. It has a spirit seed; it doesn't need Spirit Infusion." Feng Wuyu's face was flushed, extremely excited as he spoke: "What if... what if we use Spirit Infusion on it?"
Hearing this, Su Ming understood Feng Wuyu's purpose.
This old fellow really had a lot of messy ideas.
"The Fusion Forging Spirit Infusion you corrected for me before, I've already made some progress. I was thinking, since we can fuse the spirituality of two spirit souls during the Spirit Infusion process, then we should also be able to fuse the original spirituality of the rare metal with the spirituality of a spirit soul."
"Haha, this way we wouldn't need so-called Spirit Alloys anymore. The metal's foundation could be supplemented by the spirit soul, the metal's strength could also be enhanced, and there wouldn't be any physical drawbacks due to fusion compatibility issues."
Feng Wuyu was so excited he gestured animatedly while speaking.
After finishing, he calmed down again and looked at Su Ming, waiting for his judgment.
"The idea is good. So, Elder Feng, have you tried it?"
Feng Wuyu gave an embarrassed laugh.
"I've tried. I just couldn't succeed. That's why I thought of asking you to come and help me see where the problem is."
Su Ming's forging skill level was very high; Feng Wuyu felt that, at least theoretically, he was not inferior to himself.
When it came to the field of Spirit Infusion, Su Ming definitely surpassed him.
So, Feng Wuyu came to Su Ming with his problems.
Su Ming was thoughtful.
Was it feasible?
At least logically, it seemed fine.
The key reason Feng Wuyu couldn't succeed was actually quite easy to analyze: the spirituality of the rare metal itself was perfectly fused with the metal; they were the original pair.
Forcibly stuffing the metal with the spirituality of spirit souls without providing support to the metal's foundation was like raising mistresses with no backing for no reason. How could they get along with the legal wife?
In that case, how could they be made to get along?
There were two methods.
One was to destroy the legal wife's backing, her family's trump card, which meant destroying the metal's form and forging a life embryo.
The other was to find backing for the mistress.
"Elder Feng..."
Su Ming told Feng Wuyu about his second method.
"How to find backing? I developed this technique to break free from the constraints of form," Feng Wuyu said, troubled.
Did they still have to fuse additional metal through Fusion Forging?
Su Ming was speechless.
"Elder Feng, your thinking is so active in forging, why can't you extend it? The spirituality of the spirit soul comes from the spirit soul itself. Isn't the spirit soul the best backing for this spirituality?"
"Use the spirit soul as backing?" Feng Wuyu was stunned. "Wouldn't that mean binding the spirit soul to this piece of metal forever?"
"Right. The purpose of forging is originally to enhance the Spirit Master. The spirit soul being bound to the metal also means the Spirit Master is bound to the metal. Battle Armor is meant to be worn constantly anyway; this point isn't too hard to achieve."
Time passed.
One month later.
The challenge match arrived as scheduled.
The first to begin were the auxiliary profession competitions.
Forging was the first.
When Su Ming stepped onto the stage, the forging committee member from the third grade fell silent.
Should he go up?
Su Ming could develop the Spirit Infusion method; his understanding of spirituality couldn't be low, so how could his forging be weak?
Maybe just forfeit directly?
It wouldn't be shameful anyway.
While this forging committee member was struggling, Su Ming spoke.
"Come up."
Hearing this, that forging committee member very obediently went on stage.
Behind Su Ming, from the first-grade area, another person also stepped onto the stage.
"Yiran, what are you doing?"
Tang Wulin exclaimed, signaling for Zheng Yiran to come down.
Zheng Yiran pointed at Su Ming.
"I asked her to come on stage. I need her cooperation for this forging session."
Cooperation?
Wasn't having two people in a match cheating?
Members from both sides were stunned.
Damn, cheating so openly?
Cai Yue'er was thoughtful.
Zheng Yiran
If she remembered correctly, her auxiliary profession wasn't forging.
Then what could she do on stage?
"What do you need Yiran for?"
"To provide a spirit soul."
"Just the spirit soul?"
"Yes."
"Then she is permitted on stage."
If it was just the spirit soul, then it was forging material, completely acceptable.
After Cai Yue'er finished speaking, she turned her head to look at the spectator stands and saw Feng Wuyu waving his arms vigorously.
Feng Wuyu had just sent her a voice transmission, telling her not to stop Su Ming.
Stepping aside, Cai Yue'er gave the stage to Su Ming.
She also wanted to see what Su Ming intended to do, something that could make Feng Wuyu so excited.
Su Ming took out the Heavy Silver. After completing the heating, he looked at Zheng Yiran.
Zheng Yiran gritted her teeth and summoned her spirit soul.
It was a Jade Phosphorus Snake spirit soul.
Su Ming gathered his mental power, forming a sharp blade that directly slashed towards the Jade Phosphorus Snake spirit soul.
The Jade Phosphorus Snake spirit soul let out a miserable cry. Part of its body was restrained by Su Ming's mental power and thrown directly into the furnace.
At the same time, Su Ming swung his forging hammer.
Boom!
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