The Luminous Moon Cauldron was forged using many precious materials, so logically speaking, it should still have plenty of room for improvement. Reaching pinnacle or even consummation shouldn't be a problem at all. However... forging at such a time would not only affect the formation of the pill, it would also be troublesome to execute it. It was several dozen times more difficult than normal smithing!
The cauldron was already on the verge of exploding. If the hammer were too heavy, it would explode on the spot. If the hammer were too light, it wouldn't even leave a mark on the cauldron, needless to say, raise the grade.
Putting aside them, even a grade-9 blacksmith wouldn't dare to do such a thing.
He was truly a lunatic.
Kacha! Kacha!
While the cauldron was being repaired, the cracks on the other side didn't lessen at all. Instead, more and more cracks appeared, and some of the pill energy was already leaking out.
The Luminous Moon Cauldron was on the verge of collapsing.
Even though Sun Zhao, Xu Chong, and the others had been smithing for many years, they had never seen such a dangerous situation before. Their faces paled, and cold sweat trickled down their backs.
In contrast to their anxiety, Su Yin had a grim look on his face. "It seems like it's too late to repair the cauldron through conventional means..."
The pill the size of a soccer ball was simply too powerful. The Luminous Moon Cauldron was already on the verge of collapsing. It was clear that it couldn't keep up with the speed of the explosion. At this rate, the result would be the same. It was just a matter of time before the explosion occurred!
"Let's try that!"
Zhang Xuan's eyebrows shot up as an idea popped into his mind.
This was the content of the seventh smithing examination. Back then, he had spent quite a bit of effort to clear it.
Taking a deep breath, Su Yin stopped hammering. He turned to the crowd and said, "Increase the firepower. Forget it. Xiao Wu, come here and breathe fire!"
"Yes!" The parrot flew over.
Xu Chong, Sun Zhao, and the others glanced at one another, not knowing what to say. On the other hand, Mo Yuan panicked. "Junior Uncle, the higher the temperature, the stronger the pill energy will be. The cauldron is already at its limit. If we continue to increase the temperature, I'm afraid that... it will explode!"
Crazy, this is really crazy!
The best solution at this moment was to lower the temperature and continue to heat it up.
"Shut up!"
Su Yin harrumphed coldly. Unable to be bothered with the nonsense, he turned to the parrot and said, "Hurry up!"
Nodding its head, Xiao Wu opened its mouth.
Boom!
Scorching true fire gushed out of its mouth and shot toward the furnace. In an instant, the temperature of the furnace nearly doubled. The Core Qi inside the Bright Moon Cauldron, which was already violent to begin with, became even more violent and violent as it collided with the cauldron.
Just as the furnace was about to reach its limit, Su Yin suddenly took a step forward and smashed the iron hammer in his hand into a spot.
A sound like that of a giant bell rang out, and the violent Core Qi inside seemed to be drawn out. It rushed out and slammed into the place where the hammer had struck.
Boom!
Everyone felt as if there was an earthquake. The huge shock wave spread to the ground and smashed a deep pit. The place where the Core Qi and the iron hammer had hit was extremely flat, as if it had been tempered again.
"This …"
Sun Zhao and the other refiners of the Grand Master Realm were confused, but Xu Chong's pupils contracted and he couldn't believe it. "This is the Dual Fate Tempering Method. How dare someone do it?"
Seeing the confused look on everyone's face, Xu Chong explained, "This forging method was created by a grade-9 blacksmith. It was said that his favorite aluminum teapot was dented. Due to it being at the bottom, tools were unable to penetrate it. No matter what he did, he was unable to restore it. One day, he unintentionally closed the lid tightly and blocked the opening of the teapot. He boiled water inside, and under the immense pressure, not only was the teapot restored, it was also perfectly flat. There wasn't the slightest mark on it!
"Thus, he was inspired to create this forging method. The principle behind it is simple. It is to guide the violent energy inside to strike the walls of the cauldron, hammering both the inside and the outside together! This way, the air pressure inside can be reduced, and the cauldron can be tempered even more firmly without deforming! "
Everyone widened their eyes in shock, unable to say a word.
"This method doesn't destroy the structure of the cauldron, and it can even refine it. It's a good method, but … there are many problems with it. Firstly, how can one control the violent energy inside and condense it into a single force? Secondly, the hammering energy has to be perfectly aligned with one another for the effect to be even better! Thirdly, and also the most difficult and fearsome problem, if one can make the energy inside produce a hammering effect, it can only mean that the energy within is equally frightening, such that it can explode at any moment. How can one control this seemingly impending explosion … "
Sun Zhao and the others nodded.
Indeed, it was too difficult. Even the slightest mistake couldn't be made.
No matter how skilled their little senior uncle was in smithing, it would still be difficult for him to complete it!
Ding ding ding ding!
While Xu Chong was explaining, Su Yin's hammer had already struck the cauldron several hundred times. Coupled with the impact of the medicinal energy within and the precious ores on the outside, the rate at which the cracks were spreading had already slowed down significantly. At the same time, the entire Luminous Moon Cauldron had been tempered once more.
However, the pill energy within was simply too powerful. Without using his cultivation, he was still unable to control it properly, and it could explode at any moment.
"Melting and purifying the ores is too slow …"
Su Yin knew where the problem lay.
There was nothing wrong with his smithing method, and he could control the conflict between the internal and external of the cauldron, but … the ores had to be purified, mixed, and fused together. It was simply too time-consuming.
Normally, when smithing a weapon, one would have to prepare all of these beforehand. Who would bother with such basics at such a crucial juncture?
It was like rearing a pig after a guest had arrived … It would be too late!
"Right …"
A thought suddenly flashed through Zhang Xuan's mind, and he turned around to take a look. "Hook, what are you waiting for?"
Following his words, the tattered Frostfrost Soul Seizing Hook immediately flew over and landed before him.
Cracks had appeared on the hook due to the lightning strike from the old tortoise, and its spirit had already weakened a little. However, upon hearing Zhang Xuan's shout, it didn't hesitate.
Ding ding ding ding!
Su Yin didn't waste any time. With a few consecutive strikes, he widened the arc of the hook by twofold, and he pushed it forward.
Kacha!
It happened to fit right below the mouth of the Luminous Moon Cauldron.
"Fuse!"
Su Yin's eyebrows shot up as he continued hammering on the hook. All kinds of ores were melted and embedded at the junction between the Frostfrost Soul Seizing Hook and the Luminous Moon Cauldron.
"Fusing two weapons together?"
Sun Zhao was taken aback. "The lower the tier of the weapon, the easier it is to fuse them together. These two weapons have already surpassed high-tier, and the Frostfrost Soul Seizing Hook is a pinnacle Spirit artifact as well. It won't be that easy to fuse them together!"
"I don't think it's possible. How can two weapons with different attributes fuse together?"
A Zongshi realm blacksmith couldn't help but comment.
"It's possible to fuse them together. It's [One Artifact Twin Spirits]!" Xu Chong's expression turned grim. "That's a spirit artifact with two spirits. However, the conflict between the two spirits will be huge, making it difficult to resolve …"
Before he could finish his words, the hammer in the young man's hand struck the junction between the cauldron and the Frostfrost Soul Seizing Hook.
Weng!
A long sound echoed. At the start, there was still the sound of cloth being torn apart. However, as the hammering grew faster and faster, the sound became more and more concentrated, as though a unique song was being played.
Hu!
In just a few breaths, the sound of the Frostfrost Soul Seizing Hook and the cauldron had completely fused together.
"To make use of the resonance of sound to fuse the spirit of two spirit artifacts together perfectly … How did you think of this? This is practically a new forging method … "
Xu Chong widened his eyes in disbelief.
The spirit of a spirit artifact was a kind of will. If the frequency of the spirit artifact was different, it would be impossible to communicate with the spirit artifact. In battle or pill forging, not only would the spirit artifact be unable to exert its strength, it would even be a burden.
This was similar to how two people were working together. If they didn't have a tacit understanding with one another, how could they possibly exert their full strength through mere verbal communication?
This was the most difficult problem to resolve when forging two spirits in a single artifact. Yet, this young man was able to resolve this problem just by hammering on the cauldron. To be able to perfectly synchronize the frequency of the spirit artifact … This was too frightening!
"This is the means of a musician. I am a blacksmith, as well as a 5-star musician, so I can tell the difference clearly. This Senior Uncle is not only skilled in smithing, he must have a deep understanding of the means of a musician as well. That's also the reason why he was able to perfectly synchronize the two spirit artifacts to the same frequency … "
A Zongshi realm blacksmith said.
Ordinary musicians were only able to discern a small portion of a spirit artifact's range. On the other hand, formidable musicians were able to discern a larger portion of the spirit artifact's range. Ordinary musicians wouldn't be able to discern similar frequencies, but the latter would be able to discern them perfectly.
This was also the reason why the young man was able to forge two spirits in a single artifact without clashing with one another!
Whoosh!
The spirit artifact no longer resisted. The fusion of the two weapons was considered a success. Everyone looked over again and saw that the Frost Soul Stealing Hook was stuck at the bottom of the cauldron. It was like a shackle that firmly bound the crack.
After repeated hammering, the Soul Stealing Hook no longer looked like it did before. It now resembled a coiling dragon. The fusion of the two spirit artifacts made it look like a dragon flying to the moon. Not only did it not destroy its beauty, but it also made the Bright Moon Cauldron even more profound and dazzling.
Boom!
Complete fusion. The forging was considered complete. A powerful force shot up into the sky. The Bright Moon Cauldron emitted a powerful aura.
"A perfected spirit artifact! It actually reached the perfected level … "
Mo Yuan and Xu Chong looked at each other in disbelief.
The spirit artifact that had been fused by Junior Uncle had not only succeeded, but it had also broken through the previous shackles and reached the perfected level!
Although it might be the weakest spirit artifact, it was still perfected … There were only a few in the entire Great Yan Province!
As the Bright Moon Cauldron reached the perfected level, the violent spirit energy inside was finally suppressed. There was no longer any danger of the cauldron exploding.
The parrot's true fire continued to burn. Su Yin waited for a moment before shouting.
"Open the cauldron!"
Boom!
The lid of the cauldron flew up. Then, a huge cloud flew out from the mouth of the cauldron into the sky. Then, ten pills the size of footballs floated quietly in the air. Each of them had a ring that looked like a white cloud. They emitted a shocking pressure.
The parrot was too fast. Coupled with the fact that everyone was busy, Mo Yuan and the others only saw the appearance of the pills at this moment. They were all dumbfounded.
It was not that they had never seen pills before. They were the size of glutinous rice balls and could be swallowed in one mouthful. However, this thing looked like a head …
Was it really for humans to eat? Damn it … even a donkey could not swallow it!
(Updated for Alliance Leader Feng Qinyan. Continue to beg for votes!)
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