Douluo Continent: The Book of Witness and Peerless Tang Sect

If you observe the rare metals on the Douluo Continent under a microscope, you will find that although these naturally formed metallic bonds have given rise to many magical rare metals, their arrangement is very random.

Everyone knows that a team that can cooperate effectively can achieve maximum efficiency. However, the metallic bonds existing inside rare metals, although they appear to be clustered together, are actually scattered and disorganized. Their ability to produce results can only be attributed to the strong individual capabilities of each bond.

The forging technique exists to organize these metal bonds, transforming them from a disorganized mob of Yellow Turban rebels into the Han Imperial Guard led by Huangfu Song.

The tenth forging process involves removing impurities, similar to eliminating all the old, weak, women, and children from the Yellow Turban army, leaving only the able-bodied young men to form the army.

The process of forging a hundred times is a process of civilians transforming into soldiers. In this process, the metal bonds scattered within the rare metal begin to passively form small square formations under the force of the hammering. Although it still appears scattered in the overall picture, when viewed in detail, the metal bonds have already formed connections, which can be considered a semblance of order within chaos.

A thousand forgings represents a significant improvement over a hundred forgings. The scattered small squares of metal keys began to combine into a complete large square formation. At this point, the rare metals had transformed from the original Yellow Turban peasant army into a well-trained army of new recruits.

The process of spirit forging is to further refine the metal bonds that have already formed a military formation, allowing the rare metal to exhibit spirituality after this step.

This step of analysis is a detailed analysis. After the detailed analysis is completed, the rare metal metallic bonds can autonomously make the correct response when dealing with external shocks.

Using the military as an analogy, it's like transforming from a well-trained soldier into a true elite veteran. Only elite veterans can guarantee that they won't panic no matter what situation they encounter, and even if the commander's orders can't be conveyed immediately, they can still make appropriate responses based on their experience.

So what is meant by the spirituality of rare metals? To put it simply, rare metals that have undergone spiritual forging are no longer just metals; they possess characteristics of life. While they cannot be like animals, some plant-like features begin to appear on rare metals.

Now that we understand the signs of successful rare metal spirit forging and what metal bond arrangement represents in the process, let's explain why Long You was unable to succeed in the rare metal spirit forging process due to limitations in his own physical strength.

Carefully examine the description of the spirit forging process just now, and the difference between it and the previous descriptions of the ten, hundred, and thousand forging processes. This difference is "refined and streamlined".

The metal bonding during the forging process is a coarse process, mainly relying on the external impact from the forging hammer. Occasionally, a wisp of soul power is sent into the rare metal to explore its interior.

However, the refinement of metal bonds in the spirit forging process no longer relies primarily on simple external vibration and impact. Instead, it requires soul power to penetrate deep into the rare metal, combined with the vibrations from the external forging hammer, all working together.

Now you understand. Before, Long You's physical strength was insufficient, and he could have easily amplified it with his soul power. But now his soul power has other things to do: it needs to maintain the insight glasses' ability to analyze the internal structure of the rare metal, and it also needs to delve deeper into the rare metal to sort out the metal bonds. It can't help Long You amplify his physical strength anymore.

In this situation, if Long You's physical strength can't keep up, his hammer-wielding movements will naturally slow down. This causes a mismatch between the soul power vibration and the external vibration, weakening the sorting effect, prolonging the sorting completion time, and ultimately leading to the failure of the spirit forging.

Alright, now that we've explained why Long You is eager to use whale glue to enhance his physical attributes and strength, let's get back to the main topic. We're still at the Freshman Competition Awards Ceremony!

After the top three awards were distributed, the usual procedure of announcing the list of core disciples began. As Du Weilun announced the benefits for the core disciples, Long You clearly heard several people swallowing hard behind him.

When the list was announced, Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi were included, but Long You unsurprisingly failed to make the cut, only receiving a temporary spot that would grant him the benefits of a core disciple. However, this wasn't surprising, as Qian Duoduo had already confided in Long You. What truly surprised Long You was that Tang Ya had also made it onto the core disciple list in this life.

Long You's eyes darted around, and he felt he understood Yan Shaozhe's meaning. Tang Ya's performance in this freshman competition was definitely beyond that of a normal Blue Silver Grass Soul Master.

Although her soul power level wasn't particularly strong, level 24 wasn't exactly weak. Considering that the Tang Sect had produced some exceptionally powerful mutated Blue Silver Grass in its history, Yan Shaozhe was mistaking Tang Ya's Blue Silver Grass for a mutated one.

【What a coincidence! Sister Xiaoya's martial soul might actually have the potential to mutate! Otherwise, she wouldn't have been able to become the Holy Maiden of the Holy Spirit Sect.】

However, this was a fortunate coincidence. Yan Shaozhe was essentially blind. If he had been able to see the signs of mutation in Tang Ya's martial soul, even though Tang Ya's strength was inferior, then at least Tang Ya wouldn't have been lured into the Holy Spirit Cult.

Alright, none of that matters. Long You is happy that his friend is receiving attention and training from the academy. But Long You's happiness doesn't mean Bei Bei and Tang Ya are happy too.

What does it mean that a new Soul Master can't get a core disciple spot? Shrek Academy is getting stronger and stronger, so they look down on 12-year-old Soul Masters. Then what do you want me for? I'm not even at that level yet!

Beibei and Tang Ya argued with Du Weilun, and their homeroom teacher, Han Yu, once again stood up to defend his students. However, Yan Shaozhe's plan was to temper Long You's character. He felt that Long You's behavior in the freshman competition was not stable enough and did not meet his requirements for a control-type soul master, so he wanted to "suppress" him for education.

Based on this principle, neither Yan Shaozhe nor Du Weilun gave a specific explanation, simply stating, "This student does not meet the standards for a core disciple of Shrek Academy," and brushed it off with a single sentence.

This attitude was utterly speechless. Long You noticed that even the usually expressionless homeroom teacher, Han Yu, had a flash of anger and helplessness in his eyes.

However, this is a good thing for Longyou, because...

"Oh, that's great." Qian Duoduo's rather inappropriate voice made Bei Bei and Tang Ya, who were about to continue their attack, suddenly stop, feeling as if they had strained their backs.

"Long You, the Martial Soul Department may not want you, but the Soul Guidance Department does! I saw it clearly yesterday; many of those soul tools were designed by you yourself, weren't they? Ingenious designs! Our Soul Guidance Department is desperately missing a genius like you!"

"Come to our Soul Guidance Department! We'll specially recruit you; you can study directly in our department and receive the benefits of a core disciple. Don't worry, the treatment and benefits are exactly the same as in the Martial Soul Department."