socalfunplaces Chapter 43 The Infinite Loop
Chapter 43 The Infinite Loop
Jin Peng and his men acted extremely quickly.
Neither Wang Yanfeng nor Huo Yuhao had time to explain.
Seeing the three of them howling in pain as Jin Peng and the other elders beat them up, Huo Yuhao quickly went to Jin Peng's side and briefly recounted the forging experiment they had just undergone.
"The Soul Forging Method?"
After listening to Huo Yuhao's story, Jin Peng put down Wang Yanfeng.
He strode to the forging table, took the fragments of spirit silver iron from the spirit fox and Gu Tong, and began to examine them carefully.
"Metals can actually have life?"
Jin Peng exclaimed in disbelief, "How is this possible...?"
Elders Bai Ming, Xue Yang, and others could not hide their shock.
If Huo Yuhao's idea is really feasible, wouldn't the Body Sect be on the verge of great success?
"Don't jump to conclusions."
Although Jin Peng was equally excited, he ultimately maintained a degree of rationality: "This is just the first attempt. It will require many more trials and tribulations, and even the exploration of several generations."
He turned to look at Huo Yuhao, his eyes filled with an indescribable excitement: "Yuhao, how confident are you that you can fully implement the Soul Guidance System, which is based on the Soul Forging Method, in your generation?"
Huo Yuhao pondered for a long time, not daring to give Jin Peng a casual reply.
The core of the Soul Forging Method lies in borrowing the method of using spiritual power as fire in the crafting of talisman masters, so as to resonate with the metal.
This requires an extremely high level of mental strength to achieve, whether for a Soul Master or a Blacksmith.
However, the Body Sect can cleverly combine the soul power and spiritual power of the Body Soul Master through the Unity of Heaven and Man combat technique, greatly amplifying the power of spiritual power.
Therefore, even a non-spiritual soul master like Wang Yanfeng can perform soul forging.
With Huo Yuhao remaining silent, everyone in the hall fell into a tense atmosphere.
After a long pause, Huo Yuhao carefully considered his words and said:
"Although the Soul Forging Method is only a preliminary attempt, when Senior Brother Wang was forging just now, all of us present were able to use our spiritual detection and shared soul skills to see that his martial soul, soul power, and spiritual power resonated with the internal structure of the metal."
"This is a good start, proving that this path is feasible."
"I think the biggest factor limiting our progress is that our forging skills are too crude, to say the least."
"Secondly, the threshold for the Soul Forging Method is too high. Currently, it seems that neither the original martial soul, nor a martial soul that can be forged, nor those with insufficient mental strength are suitable for Soul Forging."
"If we can obtain the forging insights from the Tang Sect or Haotian Fort, and combine them with the superiority of the main body's martial soul at the Unity of Heaven and Man realm, I think there is a high possibility that this idea can be realized by just one generation."
Finally, Huo Yuhao added, "Regarding the issue of high barriers to entry, Mr. Linghu and I have come up with an idea."
"We considered that the Soul Forging Method requires too much mental strength, making it difficult to achieve large-scale popularization."
"Therefore, we thought, could we customize a set of spiritual power amplification soul guides for blacksmiths and apply them to the forging table and forging hammer to assist in forging?"
"However, for metal to undergo a qualitative change, or even become active, it ultimately requires extremely advanced forging techniques."
Jin Peng seemed to be deep in thought.
Inscribe the soul-guiding core array on the forging table and forging hammer to create forging soul-guiding devices...
"Is it difficult?" he asked.
The spirit fox responded, "Making a soul tool like this isn't particularly difficult."
"Mental amplification soul tools are extremely common in the Sun Moon Empire, and are usually used for detecting soul tools. However, no one has ever suggested that this method could be applied to forging."
"The difficulty lies in how to perfectly integrate the forging of soul tools with the forging process."
Huo Yuhao continued, "The Soul Forging Method requires that every strike during forging resonate with the metal."
"Therefore, the intervention of a soul tool cannot disrupt this delicate mental connection."
"However, vibrations, temperature changes, and interactions between different metals during the forging process may disrupt the stability of the forged soul guide."
Huo Yuhao frowned: "So the best forged soul tools are those that can resonate with one's own mind. But this brings us back to the first problem: we currently have no way to forge such a metal."
The hall fell into a deathly silence, with only Wang Yanfeng and his two companions rubbing their buttocks and occasionally letting out soft gasps.
"In other words, we're stuck in a vicious cycle."
Jin Peng rubbed his temples: "Because we lack advanced forging skills, we need to forge soul tools to assist in forging metals."
"But to create a forged soul tool, we first need high-quality metal."
Bai Ming, whose martial soul was his own muscles, came to the forging table and picked up a piece of spirit silver iron.
He entered a state of oneness with nature and gestured for Huo Yuhao to rekindle the furnace fire, wanting to try forging himself.
With the assistance of shared mental detection, Bai Ming continuously changed his method of exerting force and the landing point of his hammer blows.
Soon, a faint silver glow rose from the spirit silver iron.
Bang!
The spirit silver iron suddenly shattered again.
Bai Ming didn't speak, but closed his eyes and pondered.
"The way you exert force is fine, the point of impact is fine, and your state of mind is fine."
No one would doubt the control a Title Douluo, whose martial soul is his own muscles, has over his own body: "However, the internal structure of metal is too fragile to withstand the resonance of a Soul Master's spiritual power."
"We need to first improve the essence of the metal itself, which is the blacksmith's skill in forging hundreds or even thousands of times."
After listening to Bai Ming's words, Jin Peng let out a long sigh.
However, he also understood that perfecting the Soul Forging Method was not something that could be accomplished overnight.
Therefore, he turned to the crowd and arranged, "Then, as Yuhao said before, I will go to the palace to meet His Majesty and request that His Majesty send someone to contact Haotian Fort."
"After that, I'll go to the old site of the Tang Clan with Yuhao."
"As for Aotian, have him conduct more investigations at Shrek Academy to see if their historical documents mention anything about forging."
"At the same time, the people of the Body Sect," Jin Peng looked at the elders, "should also try to find some blacksmiths to learn from and explore forging techniques on their own. After all, we have an innate advantage, and we can't fall behind."
"In addition," Jin Peng paused, "we also need to make a trip to the Sun Moon Empire."
"They have abundant rare metal deposits over there. Let's see if we can find metals with higher spirituality. Stealing, robbing, or black market trading are all acceptable. Even if those metals don't have high initial spirituality, as long as they can be 'brought to life' through the Soul Forging Method, we'll consider it a success."
Everyone nodded in agreement.
At present, we do need to take multiple measures to break through the bottleneck of the Soul Forging Method as soon as possible.
"Okay, it's settled then." Jin Peng made the final decision.
Finally, he looked at Huo Yuhao and said, "Yuhao, you're going to come with me to Tiandou City to meet His Majesty in the palace and tell him about the Soul Forging Technique."