131: Chapter 131 Infusing Qi and Blood into Materials

"The weight is just right, and the conduction of Qi and blood is incredibly smooth."

"It must be ten thousand times better than those lousy iron hammers that cost one hundred thousand downstairs."

"Alright."

Su Yu picked up the mountain-shaking hammer with one hand and nodded.

"Then many thanks, Senior."

"Let's go."

Su Yu turned around and called out to Lin Xiaoxiao, who was still dazed outside the door.

"We're going to the top floor."

"The Extreme Flame Forging Room."

Master Zong Yan watched Su Yu carrying his life-bound weapon with such a matter-of-fact expression.

The corner of his eye couldn't help but twitch twice.

"This kid is really shameless!"

"However, for the future of the Mythical Rank mecha, this old man will endure it!"

"Let's go!"

Master Zong Yan waved his large sleeve, looking imposing.

"I'd like to see what kind of armor you can forge today!"

The three of them left the assessment area.

They took the private VIP elevator directly to the Extreme Flame Forging Room on the top floor of the Tiangong Pavilion.

Inside the elevator.

Lin Xiaoxiao stood obediently behind Su Yu, not daring to breathe loudly.

Her mind was completely filled with the phrase "Saint-Level Blacksmith" that Master Zong Yan had said earlier.

Looking at Su Yu's back, her gaze had shifted from adoration to the awe of looking up at a god.

Meanwhile, Master Zong Yan stood with his arms crossed, closing his eyes to rest.

He was secretly calculating which advanced technique to use when engraving the array patterns later, so he could shock this ignorant kid to the greatest extent.

Ding.

The elevator door opened.

A wave of scorching heat, far exceeding that of the outside, rushed toward them instantly, causing the air to slightly distort.

Before them lay a wide, circular domed hall. Dozens of high-level forging rooms built from basalt were scattered around.

The tops of most rooms glowed with red light, and through the energy-gathering glass, one could see the furnace fires burning brightly. The rising and falling dull sounds of hammering and the roar of fire veins being drawn intertwined, filling the air with a fanatical atmosphere of metal and sweat.

Occasionally, in the rooms with doors open for ventilation, one could catch a glimpse of middle-aged master blacksmiths, stripped to the waist, obsessively working on their materials.

This place gathered the top batch of blacksmiths in the capital.

Master Zong Yan paid no attention to the surrounding clamor.

With his hands behind his back, he led the two through the hall, straight to a solitary, dark red giant door in the deepest part. Complex high-level restrictions flowed across the door.

Heaven-Number One, the Extreme Flame Forging Room—the exclusive territory of this Saint-Level big shot in the Tiangong Pavilion.

Master Zong Yan casually undid the restrictions and pushed open the giant door.

Boom!

A purer, more violent wave of heat roared out!

Inside the spacious forging room, the four walls were covered with fire-gathering array patterns.

In the center, a huge dark red forging furnace connected directly to the underground main vein. Extremely pure earth-core fire surged wildly within the furnace, like a prehistoric beast ready to devour someone at any moment.

"What pure fire vein power."

Su Yu took a deep breath, feeling the dense fire-type spiritual power in the air.

The environment here was even better than he had expected.

He could even clearly perceive the frequency of every pulse of the earth-core fire vein.

"Kid."

Master Zong Yan walked to the forging furnace and skillfully activated several hubs for the auxiliary array patterns.

The temperature of the furnace fire instantly skyrocketed, yet it was tightly restricted to the area of the forging table.

He turned his head to look at Su Yu, his eyes carrying a hint of examination.

"I have had people bring up the materials."

"Tell me, what level of armor do you intend to forge?"

"War-General Level? Or Army-Breaking Level?"

In Master Zong Yan's view, no matter how monstrous Su Yu's talent was, for his first time forging armor, being able to forge an Army-Breaking Level would be the absolute limit.

"War-General Level."

Su Yu replied calmly.

"I need to finish as soon as possible."

Hearing this reply, Master Zong Yan was slightly stunned.

"War-General Level?"

He had thought that since this kid possessed such heaven-defying purification techniques, he would be arrogant enough to directly challenge Army-Breaking Level, or even Sky-Vault Level armor.

However, on second thought.

This should be his first time forging armor.

For a young person handling it for the first time, not being greedy for success and seeking stability was a good thing.

Su Yu flipped his wrist.

Those cheap goods he had bought in the basic materials area downstairs.

Black iron mother, red copper essence, Wind Demon Wolf spine, and star-patterned steel ore.

With a "clatter".

They were all dumped into the alloy tray next to the forging table.

Master Zong Yan frowned slightly and glanced at those materials.

"Kid, do you intend to use these scraps?"

"I just said that the Tiangong Pavilion's treasury is open to you."

"You could have gone to pick some high-level materials like deep-sea heavy silver or ten-thousand-year cold iron."

Master Zong Yan advised earnestly.

"Using these low-level materials, no matter how heaven-defying your purification technique is, the physical limit of the materials is right there. What kind of good thing can you forge?"

Su Yu shook his head.

High-level materials are indeed good.

But the higher the level of the material, the denser and stronger its internal structure.

Even with the assistance of the Extreme Flame Forging Room's earth-core fire vein, wanting to perfectly melt and reshape them, and use Qi and blood to deeply engrave array patterns, would require several times, or even ten times, more time.

That was definitely not a project that could be finished in a few hours.

And he had to arrive at the Dark Net Auction House before 6:00 PM tonight to sell that demon saint-level demon core for money.

This was the main event of the day.

If he used high-level materials, there would simply not be enough time.

"No need."

"These are enough."

After saying that.

Su Yu stopped talking nonsense and turned directly to face the Extreme Flame Forging Room furnace burning with pure earth-core fire.

He picked up the mountain-shaking hammer, which weighed tens of thousands of tons, with one hand.

He closed his eyes.

He took a deep breath.

Hum—!

Deep in his mind, those long, boring years of forging spanning billions of years fully awakened at this moment.

Records of Celestial Craftsmanship, Great Perfection!

Su Yu suddenly opened his eyes, and a heart-stopping focus flashed in his deep, transparent pupils.

He did not use any conventional molds.

He directly wrapped the pile of basic materials with his Qi and blood and threw them roughly into the Extreme Flame Forging Room furnace!

Boom!

The violent earth-core fire instantly engulfed the materials, turning them into a mass of scorching liquid metal.

Su Yu raised the mountain-shaking hammer.

His waist sank slightly, and his spine stretched like a bow.

He brought the hammer down!

The moment the hammer head was about to touch the mass of liquid metal.

Inside Su Yu's body, that one thousand points of intentionally suppressed Dark Gold Divine Blood flowed down his arm and was injected into the mountain-shaking hammer without reservation.

Tiangong Divine Enlightenment!

This forging technique, which could be called heaven-defying, was suddenly activated!

Bang!

The dull sound of hammering echoed in the forging room.

Master Zong Yan had originally stood with his arms crossed, preparing to watch how Su Yu would handle the initial fusion of the materials.

But the next second.

Master Zong Yan's pupils suddenly contracted to the extreme!

He took a sudden step forward, staring fixedly at the forging table.

"This..."

"What kind of technique is this?!"

Master Zong Yan's voice changed pitch due to extreme shock.

What had he seen?!

As Su Yu's hammer fell.

Those wisps of Dark Gold Divine Blood (disguised on the surface as ordinary Qi and blood) did not just stay on the surface of the material for guidance like in conventional forging.

Instead, following the vibration of the hammer head, they were hammered directly into the interior of the scorching liquid metal!

Kneading Qi and blood into the material!

As a Saint-Level Blacksmith, Master Zong Yan had seen countless ancient forging schools.

But he swore he had never seen such an unreasonable, yet exceptionally profound technique!

Ordinary forging uses high temperature and external force to change the shape of the material and remove impurities.

And what was Su Yu doing now?

He was using his own Qi and blood to forcibly penetrate into the microscopic structure of the material!

Combining Qi and blood with the material at the deepest level!

Those originally fragile material properties, under the stimulation of Qi and blood, were like dry wood meeting a fierce fire, instantly and completely activated!

Impurities were directly annihilated by the Qi and blood.

And the essence of the material, under the wrapping and nourishing of the Qi and blood, underwent an incredible qualitative change!

Thereby activating the material's hidden properties to the greatest extent, achieving the effect of forcibly raising the material's level!

"Insane..."

Master Zong Yan felt his scalp go numb, and even breathing became exceptionally difficult.

The requirements for controlling Qi and blood were too high!