chsdbacks Chapter 25 Unique Forging Techniques
Chapter 25 Unique Forging Techniques
Chapter 25 Unique Forging Techniques
Ma Xiaotao didn't understand why Ye Nanxiao was so excited amidst what she considered to be junk, but Ye Nanxiao was generally a bit strange.
The characteristics of the aura that Ye Nanxiao sensed were basically consistent with the "hidden" characteristics of the Living Gold in his memory. If this was not the Living Gold, then he would have no choice but to borrow Huo Gua's.
In a rather old-fashioned display case lay a dusty, round metal stone, about the size of a human head, wrapped in layers of metal parts. Through the tiny gaps, one could vaguely see a layer of unknown mineral inside.
A strange magic circle was carved on the surface of the round stone, but a crack ran through the entire magic circle, indicating that the magic circle was damaged.
Ye Nanxiao opened the display case, and an aura of vicissitudes emanated from it.
Looking at the damaged round stone in front of her, Ma Xiaotao couldn't help but ask, "Is this what you're looking for? This looks like it's been damaged for a long time?"
Ye Nanxiao glanced at her sideways, carefully examining the round stone, and said, "Although it is damaged, it has a level seven soul guidance core array on it, and there are also several level four core arrays hidden inside."
Ma Xiaotao raised an eyebrow and looked at Ye Nanxiao in surprise, saying, "You recognized it at a glance? No wonder the Soul Guidance Department is vying for someone like him."
Ye Nanxiao chuckled twice, pointed to the display case, and said, "There's an introduction on it."
Ma Xiaotao looked at the description on the display case and found that it only said that it was a damaged level 7 soul tool, and there was no mention of the several level 4 core magic arrays hidden in it that Ye Nanxiao had mentioned.
Although she was Yan Shaozhe's disciple, Ma Xiaotao still took the initiative to learn about soul tools.
If the magic array on the round stone is truly as Ye Nanxiao said, composed of several level-four core magic arrays combined to form a level-seven core magic array, then this round stone is more than just a level-seven soul tool. Thinking of this, Ma Xiaotao frowned and asked the girl in the white dress behind her, "Why is this thing sealed here? Why isn't it handed over to Shrek Academy?"
The girl in the white dress remained calm, clearly not the first person Ma Xiaotao had asked this question. She respectfully replied, "Sir, Vice Dean Qian Duoduo also came to see this soul tool, but it was damaged and, for some reason, could not be repaired."
Upon hearing the words "unrepairable," Ma Xiaotao's doubts only grew. Even Qian Duoduo couldn't be repaired?
Although Shrek Academy's soul tool technology is not as advanced as that of the Sun Moon Empire, as the number one academy on the continent, its foundation is still terrifying. The round stone in front of them was actually judged by Qian Duoduo, the vice dean of the Soul Tool Department, to be irreparable.
Ye Nanxiao stroked the core magic array on the round stone, and his spiritual power surged into the inside of the round stone. Under the perception of "Mind's Eye", the structure of the round stone was disassembled in his mind like parts. However, when he reached the innermost part, he could only perceive a dark shadow, and the shadow seemed to resist Ye Nanxiao's exploration.
"Xue'er, please help me." Ye Nanxiao called out to Xue Di in his spiritual sea, promising to cover all the candy for the next few months. After much pleading, Xue Di finally made her move.
Looking at the Snow Empress within the Sea of Spirit, who resembled a homebody more than a snow-dwelling emperor, Ye Nanxiao couldn't help but wonder if it was his fault.
The Snow Emperor lazily pointed a finger at the round stone, and an immense imperial pressure enveloped it. The dark shadow inside the round stone shrank upon contact with the Snow Emperor's pressure, constantly emitting fluctuations representing fear. With the Snow Emperor's help, a piece of emerald green metal the size of a fist appeared in Ye Nanxiao's mind.
Ye Nanxiao let out a long breath, twitched his fox ears, and said happily, "Gold of Life! Got it."
Ye Nanxiao exited the exploration mode and turned to the girl in the white dress, asking, "I'll take this round stone. How much?"
The girl in the white dress was stunned when she heard Ye Nanxiao ask for the stone, but her years of training allowed her to quickly recover. She bowed and said, "I cannot make the decision on this round stone. Would you please wait a moment?"
Upon hearing that the girl in the white dress was named Linglan, and thinking of the lily of the valley flower, Ye Nanxiao smiled and said happily, "What a lovely name. If there's nothing else, we'll just wait here."
This was the first time Lily of the Valley had heard someone praise her.
After being bought by a merchant here when she was young, she has been receiving training ever since. The name Lily of the Valley was given to her by the kind-hearted woman after she bought her.
Lily of the Valley still remembers what that woman said: "From today onwards, Lily of the Valley will be your name. Isn't it nice?"
Forcing back the tears welling up in her eyes, she gave Ye Nanxiao a bright smile and said, "Okay, I'll go right away."
The two returned to the lobby to wait. Ma Xiaotao looked at Ye Nanxiao, wondering if he was doing it intentionally or unintentionally, and simply asked, "Hey, is this how you usually treat girls?"
Ye Nanxiao was still immersed in the joy of obtaining the Gold of Life. Hearing Ma Xiaotao's words, he looked at Ma Xiaotao in a daze, not understanding what she was talking about. However, Ye Nanxiao's innocent and cute appearance was even more attractive to the girls around him. All the reception girls around him were smitten, wanting to look but not daring to.
Looking at Ye Nanxiao, who was in a daze, Ma Xiaotao suppressed her inner turmoil and quickly turned her head away, refusing to look at Ye Nanxiao.
Ye Nanxiao found Ma Xiaotao's behavior somewhat inexplicable, while Xue Di said quietly, "If you don't keep your ears shut, you'll attract even more unwanted attention from other women."
The fox surnamed Ye replied weakly, "...But Nan Nan likes it..."
Linglan quickly brought over a middle-aged woman, who smiled slightly and said, "My name is Chu Wei, and I am the manager of Jubaoge."
Ye Nanxiao politely shook hands with Chu Wei. The still-charming Chu Wei blushed slightly upon seeing Ye Nanxiao, a rare occurrence. Feeling Ma Xiaotao's murderous gaze, Ye Nanxiao considered, "Should I just have the Snow Empress seal away my bloodline talent?"
"Think about it, I can't handle this thing." Xue Di said this and retreated back into her inner chamber of the Sea of Spirit.
"Lily said you've got your eye on that level-seven soul tool, the Purification Stone? It's an irreparable soul tool, are you sure?" Chu Wei asked, then added after a moment's thought, "The Purification Stone has been sitting in storage for almost thirty years."
"Yes, I want that stone," Ye Nanxiao replied with a smile.
"Then you can take him with you, Ye Nanxiao," Chu Wei replied.
"Hmm? Can you tell me why?" Ye Nanxiao asked, puzzled, as this was his first time here.
"You're already our top VIP here. You can take away one item from the Treasure Pavilion every year." Chu Wei clearly knew some information about Ye Nanxiao and tried to win him over on their first meeting.
Ye Nanxiao didn't care about Chu Wei's little scheme and laughed, "Then I won't be polite." After saying that, he pulled Ma Xiaotao over and put the purification stone into his storage ring, thinking to himself, "News travels pretty fast in the academy."
Chu Wei wasn't angry about Ye Nanxiao's behavior. She simply instructed Linglan, "From now on, you will be in charge of receiving this person. If necessary, get closer to him."
Linglan naturally understood Chu Wei's subtext. She closed her eyes, bowed slightly, and gave a perfunctory reply before walking away to do her own thing.
Ye Nanxiao naturally couldn't concern himself with the troubles of this girl who was like a lily of the valley. If there was nothing else to do, Ye Nanxiao would not deal with merchants, because merchants were the most difficult people to deal with.
Although Ye Nanxiao is also someone who likes to extort, no, like to drive down prices.
Back at the academy, Ye Nanxiao hurriedly said goodbye to Ma Xiaotao and headed straight for Fan Yu's experimental area. He Caitou saw that Ye Nanxiao had brought back a round stone and curiously went over to take a look. Fan Yu also put down what he was doing and came up to see.
When Fan Yu saw that Ye Nanxiao had brought back the Purification Stone from the Treasure Pavilion, he frowned and asked, "What do you plan to do with this Purification Stone? This soul tool is beyond repair."
Ye Nanxiao's actions made Fan Yu feel an urge to take a heart-saving pill. Ye Nanxiao's left hand formed a knife, and a cold aura emanated from it, with frost forming. Ye Nanxiao's left hand directly became an ice knife, which he forcefully slashed at the purification stone.
Ye Nanxiao imbued the ice blade with a trace of the Emperor's Sword's sharpness, ensuring it could cleave through the outer container of the Golden Guardian of Life.
"A self-created soul skill?" Fan Yu looked at the ice blade that Ye Nanxiao had conjured in his left hand. The coldness and sharpness of the ice blade made Fan Yu feel a little scared.
Ye Nanxiao was halfway through his cut when he felt a hard object blocking his ice blade. He quickly sliced open the Purification Stone like peeling an apple. When the Life Gold was exposed to the three of them, Fan Yu looked at the Life Gold, which possessed a strong life force, and asked in confusion, "Nanxiao, I feel like this peculiar metal can't be forged. What do you plan to do with it?"
The Life Gold continuously emitted evasive fluctuations, making even Fan Yu, an eighth-level Soul Master, feel unable to make a move.
Ye Nanxiao frowned slightly, examining the living metal closely, and asked, "Teacher Fanyu, do you recognize this metal?"
Fan Yu shook his head and said, "Although I am an eighth-level Soul Master, my knowledge is not very broad, and I don't recognize this peculiar metal."
Ye Nanxiao withdrew his gaze, closed his eyes, and mobilized the great demon bloodline within his body. Ye Nanxiao had already decided from the beginning that since it was a metal of life, it would be forged using blood rich in life energy.
The ice blade sliced across the right thumb, creating a wound about three centimeters long, before pressing the thumb against the Life Gold.
Watching Ye Nanxiao's actions, Fan Yu couldn't help but think of a rare forging technique in the forging world, the Blood Forging Method, and asked worriedly, "Nanxiao, the Blood Forging Method consumes a lot of vital essence blood. Are you sure you can handle it?"
Ye Nanxiao had no idea about the Blood Forging Technique. This was a gamble, a gamble on whether the great demon bloodline within Ye Nanxiao could subdue the living metal.
As Ye Nanxiao's blood was absorbed into the Life Gold, carrying the oppressive aura of the great demon of Qingqiu, the Life Gold, which had been happily absorbing Ye Nanxiao's blood, suddenly felt as if it were being stared at by a great demon, and began to tremble slightly.
Sensing the trembling of the Living Gold, Ye Nanxiao increased his blood output, making a cut on his palm and sticking it to the Living Gold. The flowing blood quickly stained the entire piece of Living Gold red.
As blood continued to gush out, the trembling of the living gold gradually intensified.
Finally, just as Ye Nanxiao was feeling a little dizzy, the Gold of Life emitted a wave of submission.
The living gold, now completely crimson, expelled the blood it had been absorbing from Ye Nanxiao. The blood, suspended in the air, enveloped the living gold and, under Ye Nanxiao's control, continuously squeezed it.
Seeing the strange scene before him, Fan Yu began to feel that his knowledge of soul tools was still too limited and his vision was not broad enough. He quickly found and turned on the recording soul tool to record Ye Nanxiao's blood forging process.
The blood in the air condensed into a blood sphere, which then shrank continuously, slowly revealing the original emerald green color of the Life Gold. Under the forging pressure of the blood sphere, the Life Gold transformed into a necklace. Finally, Ye Nanxiao's blood sphere condensed into a ruby the size of a fingernail, which was inlaid in the center of the necklace.
This was Ye Nanxiao's idea: to forge a soul tool using his own essence and blood. Although it deviated somewhat from the original plan, he had used a lot of blood.
One of the characteristics of the Living Gold is that it can continuously absorb energy to strengthen itself. Now that the Living Gold has been subdued by Ye Nanxiao, the energy it has absorbed will be transformed into life energy and fed back to the owner of the necklace.
Overjoyed at the successful forging of the Life Gold, Ye Nanxiao collapsed to the ground, his face deathly pale. It seemed that only Ye Nanxiao dared to use this blood forging method within Shrek Academy, as it consumed too much blood.
The necklace was forged according to the necklace in Ye Nanxiao's memories of his previous life, with a carrot-shaped pendant in the very center, and a ruby formed from Ye Nanxiao's blood in the middle of the carrot.
The Life Gold will continuously absorb the energy from the ruby to strengthen itself. As long as the ruby does not break, this soul tool made of Life Gold will continue to operate.
Intricate patterns filled the entire necklace. Ye Nanxiao had scattered the core magic array throughout the various parts of the necklace, with the most crucial array engraved on the back of the carrot pendant.
Looking at the necklace floating in front of him, brimming with life, He Caitou couldn't help but exclaim, "Such a powerful life force! Teacher Fanyu, please assess it."
Fan Yu also snapped out of his shock, took the device in his hand, examined it carefully, and tried to feel the soul tool that Ye Nanxiao had created. He said somewhat uncertainly, "What I can sense is only around level five."
Seeing the confusion on Fan Yu's face, Ye Nanxiao smiled. This was something he did on purpose. When he was forging it, he also activated the "low-key" characteristic of the Life Gold to hide his true aura. He thought to himself, "It has consumed more than half of my body's essence blood. This is a starting level seven soul tool, and it can even grow."
If it weren't for subduing the living metal, allowing Ye Nanxiao to forge freely, and having enough energy, Ye Nanxiao wouldn't be able to create a level seven soul tool at his current level.
Fan Yu stepped forward and asked, "Nan Xiao, this is your soul tool. What type is it?"
"A defensive barrier-type soul tool, with the potential for growth," Ye Nanxiao replied confidently.
Upon hearing this, Fan Yu immediately perked up and exclaimed in surprise, "It has growth potential? I've never seen anything like it!"
He Caitou was also looking at Ye Nanxiao with great interest. Ye Nanxiao deliberately kept him in suspense and said, "This is the Blood Forging Technique, which comes at a great cost."
Upon hearing the words "Blood Forging Method," He Caitou and Fan Yu's enthusiasm was immediately dampened. Fan Yu coughed and asked tentatively, "Nan Xiao, I've recorded your forging process. Can I submit it to the academy?"
Ye Nanxiao put away the necklace and ran away without looking back. Apart from being a little pale, he didn't look like someone who had just lost half of his life essence. He only left behind the words, "You decide what to do."
Fan Yu was somewhat embarrassed, after all, the forging method was also a Soul Master's privacy, but the Blood Forging Method was too mysterious a forging method. The academy didn't even have any records related to it, and even Fan Yu himself had only heard about it by chance.
After thinking for a long time, Fan Yu asked He Caitou beside her, "What do you think I should do?"
Upon hearing this, He Caitou's expression turned somewhat serious, then he chuckled sheepishly and said, "I believe in the academy."
Fan Yu seemed to have made up his mind. He took out his communication soul tool and contacted Qian Duoduo. He had a premonition that Ye Nanxiao would be the leader who would lead the soul tool department forward.
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