After the broadcast ended, Zhen Hua eagerly asked Su Ming, "Little Ming, was what you said true? Is there really a higher realm beyond Heaven Refinement?"
Su Ming calmed Zhen Hua's excited mood and said, "Teacher, what you should focus on now is your own cultivation. In the future, you won't need to perform Heaven Refinement; you can focus on healing the injuries left by the elemental tribulations from before."
Zhen Hua was taken aback.
Su Ming didn't say it outright, but he understood the implication.
If you don't improve your cultivation, even if a realm beyond Heaven Refinement is pioneered, you can only look, not experience it.
Zhen Hua's eyes dimmed somewhat.
"Sigh..., I know my own body."
He gave a bitter smile.
Originally, breaking through to Titled Douluo and reaching the Spirit Domain Realm in spiritual power overdrawn his potential and future.
Especially the Spirit Domain Realm's spiritual power, which practically destroyed all his future.
But he had no regrets.
If he hadn't seized that opportunity back then, he would inevitably have been unable to break through to the Spirit Domain Realm by now.
"My potential was squeezed out destructively. There's no way to advance further."
Zhen Hua's gaze was dim, somewhat helpless.
If Mu Ye took a wrong path in cultivation, then he simply had no potential left.
Su Ming was perplexed and pressed Zhen Hua for the specific reason. reason).
"Because we deal with spirituality all year round, actually, blacksmiths' spiritual power isn't weak. It's just inferior to the spiritual attribute of Spirit Masters. But if a blacksmith inherently has a spiritual attribute, then the ceiling for their spiritual power is higher."
"I have a bit of a spiritual attribute. But even so, it was virtually impossible for me to break through to the Spirit Domain Realm."
The Spirit Domain Realm isn't simply achieved by talent.
"Don't even mention the 20,000 points for the Spirit Domain Realm. Back then, I was stuck at 10,000 points. My spiritual power couldn't advance an inch."
"I did it with my teacher's help, utilizing a forging session to complete the mental domain transformation—that is, prematurely condensing a mental domain, forcefully giving myself partial capabilities of Spirit Domain Realm spiritual power, thereby enabling Heaven Refinement."
Su Ming was stunned.
He had witnessed the cultivation of a parallel world's Zhen Hua.
And because of that, he hadn't seen that parallel world's Zhen Hua undergo this step.
No, wait.
Su Ming realized. Under his guidance, Zhen Hua's cultivation was as comprehensive as possible, not delayed by forging.
Plus seizing opportunities like the Gaze Penetrating Dew, that parallel world's Zhen Hua had managed to break through to the Spirit Domain Realm on his own.
So—
Su Ming opened his mental domain, invaded a parallel world, observing the parallel world where he had guided Zhen Hua.
Back then, he only needed Heaven Refinement experience, so he hadn't paid attention after Zhen Hua succeeded.
Now, entering a subsequent node, he saw that Zhen Hua's future was no longer stuck at level 94.
Su Ming paused for a moment, then directly killed the parallel world's Zhen Hua, stripped his origin essence, and brought it back to the Real Future.
"Teacher, try again after fusing this."
Zhen Hua also stared blankly at Su Ming and fused his soul origin in his hand.
"Can you continue cultivating now?"
If the foundation still wasn't replenished, then Su Ming would just go and kill two more 'Zhen Huas'.
"My spiritual power and Spirit Power both seem able to continue improving."
Zhen Hua was shocked.
He didn't know what Su Ming had given him, only that after fusing it, he inexplicably felt his origin essence had grown stronger.
All origin essence!
Including—
Zhen Hua's gaze trembled.
Including his perception of the power of heaven and earth, and his comprehension of forging.
He found that recalling Su Ming's Heaven Refinement process just now yielded even more insights.
"Is this the same thing you gave Mu Ye before?"
"Yes. If Teacher feels your aptitude isn't enough, I can get you a few more portions."
Zhen Hua waved his hand.
"Don't."
He said, "I can sense this thing has benefits for me, but also drawbacks. Vaguely, I feel like I'm missing something."
Su Ming knew he was missing a foundation.
A parallel world supporting him. in the river.
No.
Zhen Hua was different.
Su Ming suddenly looked again at that parallel world line.
Having lost Zhen Hua's origin essence, the entire parallel world line re-evolved.
This time, it was without Zhen Hua.
Throughout the deduction process, there was no trace of Zhen Hua. And at the Douluo 3 node, there was no Divine Blacksmith.
The entire history underwent major changes. Even reaching the same time point as the current Real Future, the entire Douluo Planet had only two Quasi-Gods, and the forging world was also incredibly declined.
Su Ming was helpless.
From this, he pretty much understood Zhen Hua's role.
He was a specially significant existence.
As for Mu Ye...
Su Ming glanced at the parallel world from which he had taken Mu Ye's origin essence. There weren't many changes.
Tsk.
You couldn't say there were no changes, only that they weren't significant. Zhen Hua just lost a friend and bodyguard, encountered a few more crises, retired early, and the quantity of The metal forged in Heaven Refinement shrank drastically.
But the mission of influencing the forging world was still completed.
Back to the main topic.
Su Ming shifted his gaze from the parallel world, looking at Zhen Hua, saying, "Teacher, focus on your cultivation first. Your Spirit Power must reach at least level 99, and your spiritual power must reach the true Spirit Domain Realm."
Being given tasks by his disciple felt strange, but Zhen Hua had no mind to dwell on this upside-down scene. He only felt immense pressure.
"I'll try my best," he gritted his teeth.
"As for the realm beyond Heaven Refinement, I can confirm it exists."
Su Ming gave his teacher a shot of confidence.
With this goal, Zhen Hua should have More motivation, right? Su Ming observed for a moment, confirming Zhen Hua's gaze was indeed firm, with the look of someone determined to improve himself for the sake of the realm beyond Heaven Refinement.
"Can you talk about it first?" Zhen Hua said.
He was scratching his head and ears, still unable to resist.
Su Ming smiled wryly.
"There are two directions."
"Two?" Zhen Hua exclaimed.
"One breakthrough idea was already unbelievable, and you actually have two?"
"As is well known, Divine Artifacts exist. Above Divine Artifacts, there are Super Divine Artifacts. Our forging, I actually lean towards the view that we are creating embryos. The subsequent forming of Divine Artifacts and Super Divine Artifacts doesn't count as part of forging."
"Heaven Refinement metal, strictly speaking, counts as a Divine Artifact embryo. It's just that evolving into a Divine Artifact requires too much cost and isn't necessarily successful."
"Therefore, if we incorporate this part into forging, directly forging a formed Divine Artifact, that is also a form of progress. Moreover, the forging content has made substantial progress. I also have an idea: have the Heaven Refinement metal completely accept the elemental tribulation baptism. During this process, the Spirit Master continuously forges, artificially guides the tribulation baptism, forging for the metal a 'stature' belonging to the metal, thereby elevating it to the Divine Artifact level."
"This method, I call it Divine Refinement."
Divine Refinement...
Zhen Hua muttered to himself.
After a long while, he took a deep breath.
"It's a breakthrough, but it feels more like Heaven Refinement's horizontal development. Just like—"
Zhen Hua paused, then continued.
"Just like the difference between two levels within the blacksmith titles."
A Level One blacksmith requires Hundred Refinement. Level Two requires the ability to shape, molding the metal into the corresponding embryo form.
This Divine Refinement, compared to Heaven Refinement, is actually equivalent to truly shaping the capabilities a Heaven Refinement metal should have.
Su Ming nodded.
" That's how it is. So I will develop this Divine Refinement, but I won't consider it a higher-level technique to Heaven Refinement in forging technology."
Like Fusion Forging, it's an additional forging technique.
"Compared to Divine Refinement, I give more credence to my second direction."
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