A vortex shot straight into the sky, dispersing the clouds that were faintly gathering.
Su Ming also forcefully hammered a few more times, making the Spirit Alloy before him behave.
This wasn't Heaven Refinement this time.
Also, this Spirit Alloy couldn't meet the standard for Heaven Refinement.
At least for now, Su Ming was unable to forge this nine-in-one Spirit Alloy custom-made for Ye Yulin to the Heaven Refinement level.
If he had truly let the earlier scene happen, what might have descended wasn't an elemental thunder tribulation, but a heavenly tribulation—the million-year heavenly tribulation belonging to spirit beasts.
Su Ming was also surprised by his own perception. While promptly suppressing everything, he pondered what was wrong with this era.
"Could it be because there's no Plane Will blessing?"
Without the Plane Will's recognition, it would be considered a spirit beast, then subjected to the million-year heavenly tribulation for becoming a god?
All things possess spirit—this was the law of the Douluo Continent. Anything could give birth to spirituality, condensing that bit of spirit power, then transform into a spirit beast.
Therefore, Spirit Metal was somewhat similar to spirit beasts.
Before the Douluo 1 era, there were some naturally nurtured special metals. After being hammered by blacksmiths, guided, and their spirituality stabilized, they transformed into spirit beasts over hundreds of years.
"In the Douluo 3 period, as long as the forging reached the level, what was attracted was clearly the elemental thunder tribulation. And this Sun Moon Spirit Gold also isn't at the Heaven Refinement level."
Su Ming's body in Douluo 1 and Douluo 3 also joined in to start thinking.
Why was it like this?
Does the spirit beast heavenly tribulation govern such a wide scope?
"Let's try Heaven Refinement in Douluo 1 first."
Su Ming thought about it and decided to try Heaven Refinement in Douluo 1 first, to avoid crashing on the stage he had prepared for so long in Douluo 2.
Fortunately, there was still a day left.
[Douluo 1]
After nearly three months, Su Ming was living quite comfortably in Douluo 1.
He was the first among the three bodies to reach Spirit Sage and the first to escape the cage.
He now had absolute confidence to fight a Limit Douluo across levels. Combined with his infinite revival ability, he wasn't afraid even if the God Realm's Shura God openly confronted him.
Therefore, he was rampantly searching for god inheritances across the Douluo Continent.
These gods also gave him face. Except for some second-class gods who really had nothing impressive to offer, they all gave a unified Red Seven Trials.
However, their trial rewards were also uniformly lacking in cultivation-level rewards, only constantly giving Su Ming opportunities to accumulate foundation.
There was no choice. If they directly boosted one level of spirit power, ten god trials would mean ten levels. The key was there were seven trials each.
And Su Ming only had ten trials now; who knew about the future.
Look, he was already aboard a giant ship, on his way to the Sun Moon Continent. There were several god inheritances there too.
At least the remaining Elemental Gods, except for the God of Space, were on the Sun Moon Continent.
"Hmm, the fusion of the three elements—wind, darkness, and fire..."
Su Ming had long completed the first trials for the Wind God and Fire God, but the second trials hadn't appeared, clearly not involving the fusion of two elements with the dark element.
But he was a good student and would preview in advance, so he had already delved into the fusion of three elements.
Now needing to verify Heaven Refinement in Douluo 1, he very smoothly completed his realization.
"So that's it. If I apply the fusion of these three elements to forging..."
He wore an 'excited' expression and came to the ship's deck.
The forging table was set up.
Rare metals representing the three major elements were laid out.
A three-in-one Spirit Alloy could also undergo Heaven Refinement, but the prerequisite was that the Fusion Forging was perfect enough. Because Su Ming used the Spirit Infusion method to draw out the corresponding spirituality, Fusion Forging was also easier than in Douluo 3.
Three-in-one, ninety-nine percent fusion rate!
Thousand Refinement.
Fusion Forging.
Spirit Refinement.
Soul Refinement.
Done in one go.
Su Ming's actions had long alerted the various personnel traveling together this time. They all stuck their heads out to watch Su Ming forging on the deck.
"Forging can have such spectacle? His strength is even more unfathomable," Chen Xin said solemnly.
He had now become an external personnel of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan, used to traveling everywhere.
But there were benefits. The Sword Douluo, long confined to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan, had broken out of the cage, causing his mental state to change day by day. Previously breaking through to level ninety-seven, he now had hope of reaching level ninety-eight.
"Thousand Refinement, Spirit Refinement, Soul Refinement, plus Fusion Forging. It seems Fusion Forging is excluded from the system, an auxiliary technique. In reality, Fusion Forging is the core, at least indispensable for the subsequent Soul Refinement."
Fusion Forging not only provided a solid foundation of Spirit Alloy capable of withstanding hammering but also provided the basis for weaving the legacy.
Zhu Jiuyang was also learning.
Back when he broke through to Spirit Refinement, he relied on Spirit Fusion metal, forcibly achieving Spirit Refinement through sheer value. Actually, he had touched the threshold of Soul Refinement back then.
Over the years, he had spent too much energy on the development of the Blacksmith Association. Although he hadn't abandoned forging, he could only maintain his feel for it, having no time to delve into Soul Refinement.
Now watching Su Ming's forging, he felt deeply.
Exploring the fusion of darkness, fire, and wind, simultaneously drawing analogies to Soul Refinement—this was different paths leading to the same destination.
Having realized this, he began deducing his own Soul Refinement formula.
"My Martial Soul is Sacred Flame,light and fire. But Xiao Ming also said he'd take me to obtain the Phoenix God's trial, fusing Nirvana Flame. Then I can also incorporate life. As long as I control these three attributes well, I'll definitely find a suitable Soul Refinement plan for me."
God Realm.
"What is he doing?"
Undoubtedly, even after becoming a god, not everyone could casually observe lower planes. After all, they were separated not only by two worlds but also by space-time.
The God Realm was artificially established on an extremely high temporal dimension. Crossing this dimension to perceive lower planes would greatly weaken a god's divine sense.
Even a first-class god would be weakened by seventy to eighty percent.
But if there were trials, it was different.
This was the God Realm's mechanism.
The dimension where trials resided was another relay station, the true core of the God Realm. Even the God Realm Core was just a conduit referencing the power of this dimension.
Therefore, at this moment, the gods who had given Su Ming trials could observe everything Su Ming was doing.
Ten gods, plus Shura, Destruction, and Life, were all watching Su Ming's forging this time.
Among them, Destruction's expression was the gravest.
"This guy is playing with fire."
The mechanism for the spirit beast heavenly tribulation was right there.
Spirit Metal would also be judged as spirit beasts.
There were ways to solve this problem, but did Su Ming currently possess the conditions?
"The nascent form of the God of Forging's godhood he already possesses, but its strength isn't enough to support an entire system yet."
Destruction sighed, preparing to interrupt the heavenly tribulation later.
"And those Elemental Gods, still happy? They even dared to hand over the Elemental Gods' Divine Punishment Array. If Su Ming truly masters that array and integrates the Elemental Gods into the forging authority, those seven first-class gods will be working for him obediently."
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