Douluo: Trinity, I run through the timeline.

Chapter 95 Miles' Choice (Please read on!!!)
“Borrowing power once will extend the connection by one year. If that’s all there is to it, then even if I borrow power once a day, it would still take more than 20 years to reach the second node of Dou. That’s too slow.”

Su Ming recalled the number of times he had leveraged external resources over the past year and confirmed that he had not yet reached the four hundredth time.

Let alone four hundred times, it wasn't even a hundred. He stayed in Gengxin City and didn't engage in frequent battles; in fact, he rarely fought. Even forging was only done when he lacked soul power.

"So there are other factors that influence the extension of the illusory future."

Su Ming couldn't analyze anything for the time being, so he could only continue his normal cultivation.

Let's return to the present moment.

"Our teacher can now almost replicate the spirit forging technique, and our second senior brother has also mastered the Thousand Forging with Spirit."

Unlike Su Ming in Dou Er and Dou San, Su Ming in Dou Yi focused on forging spirit forging. After his first spirit forging, Zhu Jiuyang also started learning from his apprentice again. Now, in addition to success, he has mastered all the necessary skills.

Dou San Su Ming happened to achieve a breakthrough by forging faith during the forging process. After that, all three Su Mings were replicating the feeling at that time.

Dou Er Su Ming succeeded once.

Su Ming also succeeded twice more in this year.

In the past year, Su Ming of Dou Yi did not use any external objects such as faith, but relied purely on his forging skills to replicate the spirit forging thirty-six times!

This is an achievement that even Su Ming, who shares complete memories and thoughts with him, could not replicate in Dou Er and Dou San.

Su Ming looked at Xiao Jin, who was holding a large piece of dark silver and meditating in the forging shop, and couldn't help but smile.

Xiao Jin was the key to his success.

Of course, in the third battle, Su Ming was learning fusion forging from Zhen Hua without focusing on having Zhen Hua guide him in spirit forging, and in the second battle, Su Ming was also consolidating his fusion forging skills. These two points are also somewhat important.

Gengxin City Martial Soul Main Hall.

Miles stared at the two pieces of spirit metal in front of him, his eyes flashing, and a desire called greed burst forth from them.

"So that's what happened with this technology. No wonder the entire association underwent reforms from top to bottom, and even the title of 'Master Craftsman' was abolished."

A raging fire ignited in Miles' heart.

Can I eat this?
As a greedy platinum bishop, Miles's first thought after finally confirming the changes in the Blacksmiths' Guild was to take over the guild and control all the blacksmiths who had mastered the new forging techniques.

However, being able to reach the position of Platinum Bishop also means having the ability to weigh the pros and cons.

After a brief moment of greed, a sudden wave of fear washed over me.

“Zhu Jiuyang, this piece of spirit metal was forged by Zhu Jiuyang. On the contrary, the former master craftsman Lou Gao has no works, which proves that this technique is in Zhu Jiuyang’s hands.”

A look of apprehension flashed in Miles' eyes.

The Spirit Hall has four Platinum Bishops. Compared to positions such as the branch hall master, the Platinum Bishop is a nominal position, more of an honor, representing one's status in the Spirit Hall, but without any real power.

Salas is a true Platinum Bishop, with a soul power level of 87. He also holds the position of Hall Master of the Heavenly Dou City Martial Soul Temple, one of only two Martial Soul Temples in the capitals of the two great empires. His status and power are second only to the Pope, Elders and Venerables.

Miles, on the other hand, was only at the Soul Emperor level, yet he held the title of Platinum Bishop.

The bishop of the Spirit Hall is not a hereditary title of the Empire. Miles' ability to serve as a Platinum Bishop clearly indicates that he has made great contributions to the Spirit Hall, and he is certainly not brainless.

Of course, there's no denying that he was greedy and lustful; he truly was greedy and lustful.

Zhu Jiuyang had already reached the Contra Douluo level. Although he hadn't announced it publicly, Miles had deduced this from various sources among his subordinates. Crucially, Zhu Jiuyang's identity was extraordinary; while others feared him as a Platinum Bishop, Zhu Jiuyang didn't.

If they really kill him, the Spirit Hall will probably only issue a symbolic condemnation. If the investigation finds that the problem lies with him, Miles may have to bear all the blame.

"My size is too large to swallow the current Blacksmiths Association."

Miles was somewhat annoyed.

He came to Gengxin City because he had his eye on the Blacksmiths' Association.

This is a gathering place for blacksmiths on the continent, and it can be said to be the place where armies are built. As long as all the blacksmiths here are controlled, a well-equipped army can be quickly built.

In other words, the Spirit Hall has not yet established a nation and cannot openly expand its army, so it has never been able to take over the Blacksmith Association.

But Miles had already begun making arrangements here. A Soul Emperor had suppressed the Soul Saints of the Blacksmith Association, who dared not defy him. This had already crushed the morale of the Blacksmith Association, and the Spirit Hall could take over the Blacksmith Association at any time if needed.

He originally thought he had a sure thing about getting the credit for such a big thing, but now he's being told that the meat around his mouth has become even fatter and juicier, and he can't eat it.

Miles felt as if he had eaten shit.

His face was grim as he made a difficult decision.

"Let the Papacy send someone to discuss cooperation. I'll only take credit for the discovery and the effort I put in."

Having made his decision, he sent a message to the Papal Palace.

"Speed ​​up, don't waste time. There are ten pieces of spirit metal being released at this auction, and it's hard to guarantee that other forces won't notice this place."

Miles's discovery of the spirit metal was naturally due to an auction organized by the Blacksmiths' Guild, which auctioned off a total of twelve pieces of spirit metal.

Among them, the Martial Soul Main Hall only managed to acquire two pieces of spirit-infused metal.

Miles was warned on the spot that he was not allowed to monopolize the auction, and was even made to look foolish by Zhu Jiuyang's soul power from a distance.

He could imagine that not only other forces would pay attention to this area, but the Blacksmiths' Association itself was also sending out signals and trying to attract attention.

After completing his daily forging task, Su Ming brought Xiao Jin to the Forging Masters Association.

It has been more than a year since he began to expose his soul and spirit-enchanting techniques to the outside world, and the entire association only has two new forging masters—Zhu Jiuyang and Duan Jin.

Not bad, Duan Jin.

When he and Zhu Jiuyang were learning Spirit Infusion from Su Ming, he seemed to perform poorly, but in reality, he was already very excellent. It's just that Zhu Jiuyang's foundation was too good, and he was able to force continuous forging, resulting in a high frequency of trial and error, which made Duan Jin look very dull in comparison.

In fact, Su Ming had calculated that Duan Jin failed about the same number of times as Zhu Jiuyang when completing the first spirit-enchanting operation. After completing the spirit-enchanting and continuing to forge, the number of failures to complete the full Thousand Refinements with Spirit was also not much different.

There are only three master blacksmiths so far, including Su Ming, but there are still some blacksmiths with soul spirits, more than ten in total.

Among them, the original master craftsmen and the other grandmasters except Zhu Jiuyang are still a long way from breaking through. Three of the original master craftsmen have broken through their levels. In addition, there are seven newcomers with lower forging skills.

Of the seven newcomers, four were from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, and the remaining three were Lou Gao's grand-disciples.

Two of the three were originally master blacksmiths. They cooperated with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School and obtained authorization for the Soul Spirit Array, thus absorbing Soul Spirits. The third one contributed to the association and absorbed Soul Spirits from Su Ming.

Su Ming pondered the changes in the association over the past year and secretly considered the direction of future reforms before heading towards Zhu Jiuyang's forging room.

(End of this chapter)