Peerless Tang Sect: Becoming a God Through Medicine

Chapter 40 Forging! The First Attempt
"Yes, Grandpa!"

Xiao Hongchen blushed and agreed. The reason was simple: the pie in the sky that Lin Nuo had painted for him was so tempting that he couldn't resist taking a bite.

After several years of getting along, Xiao Hongchen had come to accept the fact that his martial soul talent was inferior to Lin Nuo's. He had just broken through to the Soul King level, while Lin Nuo had already taken drugs and become a Soul Emperor.

What's the point of comparing these two?

Not to mention Lin Nuo's six super-sized spirit rings that everyone envies.

Although he later regained his genius-level confidence in the field of soul tools, how could someone as proud and arrogant as Xiao Hongchen be content with his 'ordinariness'?

He was born to be a superman!

Lin Nuo didn't even need to offer him any more promises; Xiao Hongchen was already bursting with energy and fighting spirit, eager to pick up a hammer and try smashing a couple of pieces of metal.

But clearly, neither Lin Nuo nor Jing Hongchen intended for him to directly knock on the metal; that would be a complete waste of time.

The Douluo Continent has a foundation in forging, but no one has ever paid attention to it. Back when Tang Sect's hidden weapons were still prevalent, the blacksmithing tradition in the Douluo Three Kingdoms was quite good. However, after the Sun Moon Empire's powerful arrival, hidden weapons were superseded by soul tools.

Even the blacksmiths who forged hidden weapons were gradually buried in the long river of history.

Although the tradition of blacksmithing still exists today, it is not as glorious as it once was.

Without Lin Nuo's prompting, Jing Hongchen naturally thought of hidden weapons and blacksmithing. They had acquired quite a few of these during the Holy War, but out of pride in their soul tools, and because the hidden weapons of the Tang Clan war profiteers all had safety mechanisms and would self-destruct if disassembled, they hadn't bothered to study them.

Now we can pick it up again and give it a try.

According to the tradition of the Tang Clan, some components of hidden weapons do indeed need to be forged by blacksmiths to ensure that the metal has sufficient strength to meet the requirements for assembling the hidden weapons.

Thinking of this, Jing Hongchen felt somewhat annoyed.

The primitive people of Douluo Continent had already told them how to overcome the limitations of materials, but they were blinded by the glory of soul tools, which led to the stagnation of soul tool technology for so many years.

It really shouldn’t be!

It was as if Lin Nuo had absorbed all their sharp points, making his own mind even sharper, but it broadened the horizons of Jing Hongchen and the others.

With a broader perspective, Jing Hongchen naturally stopped being bound by his previous rigid thinking. He first found some forging knowledge from the Sun Moon Empire for Xiao Hongchen, and then secretly infiltrated the Douluo Three Kingdoms to find those blacksmith shops with long-standing traditions and used money to buy out their forging secrets.

These are all necessary sacrifices for the breakthrough of soul tools.

Ever since.

Xiao Hongchen was buried under a mountain of forging knowledge.

Moreover, the forging experience passed down by the blacksmiths, a group of rough and unskilled men, was sometimes very simple and crude, while in other places it was extremely mysterious and confusing, leaving Xiao Hongchen completely bewildered.

Occasionally, when I see something crucial, I have to tap a couple of pieces of metal myself to test the feel of it.

Fortunately, Lin Nuo was with him during this process; otherwise, he probably would have felt even worse.

Linno is also quite interested in forging.

Not only is Xiao Hongchen talented in forging, but Lin Nuo is also talented in forging. However, unlike Xiao Hongchen's metal-attribute martial soul talent, Lin Nuo's strength lies more in his physical talent.

He possessed strong blood and qi, and his martial soul was of the life attribute. Lin Nuo was well aware that the most important aspect of spirit-forging was to allow the spirit to communicate with the metal, using life to imbue the metal with life. That's why it was called spirit-forging, making the metal a true living being.

He lacks innovation ability, but he is good at learning. As long as he uses the original ideas to drive Xiao Hongchen forward, he can learn the new knowledge that Xiao Hongchen develops, and then combine the new knowledge with the information he already knows from the original work to give a new understanding.

This is a combination of the armors 'Let Me Ask You' and 'Then You Ask Me'!

An infinite perpetual motion machine!
A month later, Jing Hongchen brought back the forging techniques of the primitive people from Douluo Three Kingdoms, plunging Lin Nuo and Xiao Hongchen into a sea of ​​books once again, continuing their painful yet joyful learning journey.

Without a complete forging system, everything had to be learned through trial and error.

The prerequisite for exploring a path is to have a reasonable and feasible theory. Linno has already provided the general theory, but the real path requires the two of them to walk it step by step.

After three months of exploration, Xiao Hongchen and Lin Nuo were finally ready to begin their first forging attempt.

This is a real forging, not a simple attempt.

Their goal is to forge a piece of metal that has been refined a hundred times.

According to the requirements of the Dragon King Legend, metal that has been forged a hundred times needs to be forged hundreds of times to remove impurities and purify its quality without damaging its internal structure. Only when it reaches a score of '60' or higher can it be considered to have completed the hundred-forging process.

Lin Nuo didn't know how the score for Hundred Refinements would be calculated ten thousand years later, but he only had one requirement for Xiao Hongchen: the purer the better.

This is the foundation of forging, the first step into the forging profession.

"Don't be nervous. We've thoroughly researched the basic theory. Didn't you also test your affinity for metals? If all goes well, you'll definitely succeed this time," Lin Nuo reassured Xiao Hongchen, who was taking deep breaths, and gave him a thumbs up.

"Keep it up! If you succeed this time, you'll be the new father of soul tools after Master Kong. Even Master Kong will look at you with new respect!"

"You're making me even more nervous now that you've mentioned it," Xiao Hongchen said with a helpless wry smile, waving his hand at Lin Nuo. "Alright, stop talking and let me prepare for a while."

After saying this, Xiao Hongchen closed his eyes again, his chest heaving several times.

When he opened his eyes again, all other emotions had disappeared from his face, leaving only intense confidence and a smile.

"I am Laughing at the Mortal World, I will definitely succeed!"

A faint golden toad phantom flashed behind him. Xiao Hongchen pressed the ignition button on the workbench, began heating the fixed metal, and then picked up a forging hammer in each hand.

The metal fixed to the workbench gradually turned red as the temperature rose, and waves of scorching heat began to emanate from it.

When the metal temperature reached the predetermined threshold, Xiao Hongchen, who was already prepared, raised the forging hammer high and then swung it down suddenly.

"clang--!!!"

The crisp sound echoed in the studio.

Lin Nuo's eyes were deep as he looked at the piece of silver that Xiao Hongchen had hammered.

"It all starts with the sunken silver!"

(End of this chapter)