Douluo Continent II: The Peerless Tang Sect: I, Huo Yuhao, join the Sun Moon Sect.

Chapter 373 Kong Deming's Surprise
If we classify blacksmiths according to the levels in Douluo Continent III, he should be considered a peak level four blacksmith now, after all, he has forged metal of grade one after a thousand refinements.

Those who can forge second-grade metal with a thousand refinements are considered fourth-level blacksmiths. There is naturally a significant gap between ordinary fourth-level blacksmiths and peak fourth-level blacksmiths.

Only when he masters spirit forging can he be considered a level 5 blacksmith. Thousand forgings have spirit, which, to put it bluntly, means endowing the metals of a thousand forgings with spirituality, but spirit forging is different.

Spirit forging is the fusion of life and metal. It is a process of giving life to metal by using one's own martial soul as a bridge. Compared with Thousand Forging with Spirit, this is undoubtedly a qualitative change.

Even Tang Wulin, the recognized blacksmith genius in Douluo Continent III, took two full years to go from Thousand Refinements with Spirit to Spirit Forging. This was with someone guiding him. Of course, Tang Wulin's cultivation level was not high at that time, so he naturally had to improve his cultivation level before he could achieve Spirit Forging.

After all, every attempt at spirit forging is a huge test of a soul master's soul power and mental energy. If it fails and the practitioner's cultivation level is not high enough, their mind and spirit will inevitably be severely damaged.

However, there is one point worth complaining about regarding spirit forging: the cultivation level required for spirit forging is completely different before and after Douluo Continent III. At first, it was said that at least a three-ring Soul Master cultivation level was required to attempt spirit forging, but during the competition, it was said that at least a four-ring Soul Grandmaster cultivation level was required to attempt normal spirit forging.

If we have to find a way to justify this setting, we can only say that a three-ring Soul Master can try abnormal spirit forging, such as forging spirit forging metal of relatively poor quality.

This is similar to the level 6 soul guide defense shield made by Shrek Academy. It can indeed withstand the attack of a Soul Emperor, but the effect is not that good. Moreover, under the evaluation system of Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy, the level 6 soul guide defense shield made by Shrek Academy will be demoted to the level 5 if the quality is slightly inferior.

"Yuhao, I see a smile on your face. Did you succeed?" Kong Deming walked over and asked with a smile.

Huo Yuhao nodded: "Of course it was successful. I have now forged a first-grade spirit metal. Compared to the previous thousand-refined metal, its biggest feature is that it has spirituality. Therefore, if this kind of metal is used to forge soul tools, the effect will be better than before."

"A thousand-times-forged, first-grade metal with spiritual energy?" Kong Deming was somewhat puzzled, as he wasn't particularly clear about this concept.

Xuan Ziwen also came over at this moment, looking at Huo Yuhao with a puzzled expression.

Huo Yuhao looked at the two of them and began to patiently explain the difference between the grades of Hundred Refined and Thousand Refined. After explaining the matter, he said bluntly: "The biggest advantage of the so-called Thousand Refined Grade 1 Spirit Metal is that it can amplify the soul power of the soul master!"
Generally speaking, the better the soul power conduction of forged metal, the greater the amplification of the soul power of the soul master. The metal I just forged is now a first-grade spirit metal with very few impurities and possesses spirituality.

Based on my forging experience and the feeling after infusing it with soul power, I can deduce that if it is forged into a humanoid soul tool component, it can increase the soul master's own soul power by at least eight percent.

The reason it's called a humanoid soul tool is mainly because it hasn't reached the spirit forging level yet, so it can't create battle armor that can be combined with a martial soul. Battle armor is like inscribing a core magic array on a martial soul; you can think of it as putting a suit of armor on a martial soul.

“Eight percent!” Kong Deming’s face showed surprise. “Doesn’t that mean that the higher one’s cultivation level, the greater the advantage of using a soul tool made of this kind of metal? After all, the stronger one’s cultivation level, the greater the total amount of soul power.”

His breathing became rapid; an eight percent increase in soul power could definitely narrow the gap in soul power between Title Douluos.

It's important to understand that once a Soul Master reaches the Title Douluo stage, there will be a difference in Soul Power with each level up. This difference becomes even greater at level 95 and beyond.

“You could say that.” Huo Yuhao nodded, not denying Kong Deming’s words. However, he continued, “Of course, the main reason is that the soul power conductivity of this metal is not good enough. Otherwise, I could have done better. Elder Kong, I suggest that we arrange for people to collect rare metals with better soul power conductivity. In this way, we can forge humanoid soul tool components with stronger soul power amplification effects.”

In fact, in Douluo Continent III, there is a metal called Blue Pregnant Copper. As long as it is forged into a first-grade metal and then used as a component of the battle armor, it can provide at least a 12% increase in soul power.

Kong Deming nodded in agreement: "Yes, Yuhao, what you said makes sense. I will arrange this matter later. However, there is currently no metal in the empire with better soul power conductivity."

However, the Douluo Three Kingdoms and the Sun Moon Empire had a poor relationship, making it difficult to send people to explore. Therefore, the Sun Moon Empire could only assemble a fleet to travel to the ocean and see if they could find rare metals with better soul power conductivity from the seabed.

Although assembling a fleet and venturing to the ocean would require a great deal of manpower, material resources, and financial resources, finding a metal with better soul power conductivity would undoubtedly be a huge boost to the Sun Moon Empire's national strength.

"By the way, Elder Kong, tomorrow I will use my ability to glimpse the future through the Eye of Destiny to try and find some storage locations for rare underwater metal minerals," Huo Yuhao said.

With the help of dimensional consciousness, he could naturally know where the rare metal minerals were stored.

If he weren't worried about Tang San discovering it, he could have easily had the plane's consciousness relocate the mine. However, the plane's consciousness couldn't be on guard against Tang San all the time, and relocating the mine would be too noisy. According to the original novel, Tang San was very protective of Douluo Star's mineral resources.

Tang San's reason for implementing the ten-thousand-year plan was that Douluo Star's resources would be overexploited and it would face destruction due to the disorderly development of soul guide technology. How could he not even discover that the mineral veins had been moved?

It's important to understand that mineral veins are quite large, not small things.

Soul Masters need a large amount of rare metals, but they currently do not have the ability to relocate mineral veins, and Soul Beasts have no need to relocate mineral veins either. As for destruction, that is even more impossible.

If Tang San suspects the consciousness of the plane of existence and takes action, that would be troublesome. Even a beggar version of a God King is still a God King.

Kong Deming smiled and said, "Yuhao, with you here, the Sun Moon Empire will surely prosper."

Mingyue Hotel.

in the room.

Ning Tian sat in a chair, leaning back and holding the armrest. She looked at Wu Feng, who was facing away from her and adjusting his clothes, and said hesitantly, "Wu Feng, do you think it's possible for Huo Yuhao to become my future husband?"

Wu Feng was stunned, her body stiffening for a moment. She turned her head to look at Ning Tian, ​​a look of worry on her face: "Ning Tian, ​​Huo Yuhao is now a member of the Sun and Moon Clan. You want Huo Yuhao to become your husband? That's far too difficult."

(End of this chapter)