"Dark Blue Silver Grass, Mysterious Heaven Technique, devouring ability."
The compatibility is truly high.
Worthy of being a product nurtured by Sea God Divine Power for ten thousand years.
"Could it be that he wanted to merge the devouring ability of his Eight Spider Lances with his own Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul, and that's why he experimented on the lower plane?"
Su Ming's expression turned strange.
That really was possible.
After all, the original Tang San didn't seem to intend to pass down the Mysterious Heaven Technique for the purpose of devouring the Abyss in later generations.
It was just that Shrek, messed up by him, had a severe vacancy in its control over the lower plane. Tang San could only bring out this move, relying on its counter to the Abyss to rebuild his faith foundation and push Tang Hao into the position of Lord of the Plane.
Beep beep beep.
A message came through the communication Spirit Tool. Su Ming looked—it was from Huo Yuhao.
"Still wants to redeem Tang Ya?"
Su Ming directly refused and informed Huo Yuhao that Tang Ya was already dead.
Moreover, he had just researched the anomaly on Tang Ya's body. After the research, Tang Ya was of no further use.
Just a trace of Sea God Divine Power, not much to work with. Su Ming simply killed Tang Ya.
However, he did isolate and extract that portion of Sea God Divine Power.
Might be useful against Tang San in the future.
"Next, it's time to wait for the Spirit Master Grand Competition."
Nearly five years had passed since the last Soul Fighting Tournament. This edition's Soul Fighting Tournament was different from the previous ones that only involved advanced Spirit Master and Spirit Engineer academies. This time, sects were allowed to form teams to participate.
According to the Sun Moon Empire's official name for it, this Soul Fighting Tournament could be simply called the Spirit Master Grand Competition.
This was the true grand competition in the field of young Spirit Masters.
The previous ones were just small-scale skirmishes between academies.
"Alongside this Spirit Master Grand Competition, there will be a series of popularization demonstrations of the forging system. Forging masters of every rank will take the stage to demonstrate, showing the basis for the forging master ranking system. I will personally demonstrate Spirit Refinement, starting from Rank Five onwards."
Su Ming stated that his purpose wasn't to show off and harvest faith.
This time, it was to sprint towards the Sacred Blacksmith realm.
"I am now preparing to charge towards the Sacred Blacksmith realm and condense my third Spirit Core."
As long as he completed the breakthrough during the competition, successfully triggering the elemental heavenly tribulation, he would directly use it to complete the formation of his third Martial Soul.
However, there were too many prerequisite elements that needed to be satisfied. Su Ming even needed the Trinity to coordinate and complete them together.
"Digesting the essences is the easiest part. The current key is the crucial step of Heaven Refinement."
"I have never actually witnessed Heaven Refinement."
So-called Heaven Refinement requires the recognition of the Will of the Plane. Su Ming stated that this point wasn't difficult.
So, Douluo 3 me, I'm counting on you.
[Douluo 3]
Su Ming did not return to the continent with the Shrek delegation but stayed behind on the Star Luo Continent.
However, he wasn't just staying here idly; he planned to return to the Federation with the Star Luo Continent's second delegation.
When he helped Tong Yu resolve his mental knot, there were only six months left before the delegation's departure. Now, seven months had passed, and the fleet was already more than halfway through its voyage.
"It will take at least another three months to return to the continent. Over in Douluo 2, the competition opens in two months. Time isn't enough..."
Su Ming could only turn his gaze to parallel worlds.
"This time, I want to personally nurture a Sacred Blacksmith."
He looked at the parallel world of Xu Yuan.
This future line was basically fixed by him. Just like when his past self was still within the River, before there was a real 'future', everything he experienced would solidify. The River of Time, in its evolution from Douluo 2 to Douluo 3, would to some extent maintain this for him—essentially, timeline correction.
But this corrective force was limited. Once the River of Time couldn't explain things for you, it could only cast you out.
Xu Yuan's timeline was roughly this situation. Under Su Ming's interference, the future was set, but the preceding ten-thousand-year history wasn't.
Despite Douluo 2 Su Ming causing all sorts of trouble, this line hadn't collapsed. It still held considerable weight.
Now, Su Ming wanted to overturn his previous achievements and start a new file.
He appeared in the era fifty years before Xu Yuan's time.
"Starting from here this time. Although Sacred Blacksmiths exist in this period, the old Sacred Blacksmith will die in ten years, and a new Sacred Blacksmith will be born—that new Sacred Blacksmith is Teacher Zhen Hua."
Even in a parallel world, Su Ming still maintained respect for Zhen Hua.
But respect aside, defying the natural order was still necessary.
He was going to nurture Teacher Zhen Hua into a Sacred Blacksmith!
"Teacher Zhen Hua has no advantages here."
In the original storyline's development, Zhen Hua was naturally on good terms with Shrek and exchanged his talent for recognition from Tang Hao, the Lord of the Plane, becoming the new generation's Sacred Blacksmith.
But in this line, Zhen Hua hailed from the Blacksmith Association, was on good terms with the Body Sect, and was in opposition to the Clear Sky Clan.
"This Tang Hao, the Lord of the Plane, really blocks a lot of things."
Tang San had his methods to push him into this position.
Su Ming analyzed this point seriously.
He hadn't paid much attention to it before, but now he realized the severity of the problem.
"This timeline is projected by the River of Time. That means, with the Douluo 2 me's current accumulated foundation, without my Trinity ability, it would be absolutely impossible to overthrow Tang San. Under the multiple layers of Destiny's Child and Son of the Plane, I might even watch as Tang San pushes Tang Hao into the position of Lord of the Plane."
This was essentially telling Su Ming that his foundation wasn't sufficient yet.
"My ability to become a god is affirmed by the River of Time. The Blacksmith Association and Spirit Transmission Pagoda I left behind also exist. But I just couldn't manage to deal with Tang San. The gap between a God King and an ordinary deity isn't just normally large."
No matter. If the foundation is insufficient, then continue accumulating.
The one occupying Douluo Star is Su Ming, not Tang San.
At worst, he could be a local emperor on Douluo Star for a hundred years.
Su Ming didn't have the habit of comparing cultivation speeds with others.
If he really had to compare, he was creating his own God Seat, a God King Seat at that. The object of comparison definitely wouldn't be Tang San.
Finding Zhen Hua in this timeline, Su Ming directly possessed him.
Unlike with Xu Yuan, Zhen Hua accepted his existence very easily and trusted him immensely.
Su Ming didn't need to spend time proving himself. He simply returned all the techniques he had learned from Zhen Hua in the past, exactly as they were, back to this Zhen Hua.
"Senior Su, your teachings always come at such a timely moment for me. It feels tailor-made," Zhen Hua said joyfully, looking at his first Fusion Forging piece with a fusion rate reaching ninety percent.
Su Ming smiled without speaking.
"Senior, I have mastered the Fusion Forging of divine foundation metals. I feel ready to attempt Spirit Refinement."
Zhen Hua was full of confidence.
With divine foundation metals, his material problem for attempting Spirit Refinement was solved.
As for the technique...
He felt he had absorbed about seventy to eighty percent of what Su Ming had explained about Spirit Refinement.
Su Ming didn't blame Zhen Hua for being overconfident. Instead, he pondered.
He felt Zhen Hua truly had the confidence to attempt Spirit Refinement.
"Could he have fully comprehended it? I recited all the teachings Teacher Zhen Hua gave me back to this Zhen Hua, directly saving him several years of detours?"
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