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The first soul ring the paper spirit soul granted Xu Yuan alone had such a significant effect that Xu Shengqun felt the resources spent on creating it were far from wasted.
"It perfectly fulfills the role I envisioned."
Xu Yuan continued recording his thoughts onto the scroll, but he soon snapped out of his excitement.
His current focus wasn't to document all his previous ideas on the scroll. Instead, he needed to adapt to his current situation, sense the state of his two martial souls, and use the three soul rings provided by the paper spirit soul to further separate the two martial souls in preparation for their final split.
After wandering around and exchanging words with Li Qiankun, Xu Shengqun and Ye Yuan returned to Xu Yuan's dormitory.
They happened to see Xu Yuan deep in thought in the small courtyard.
"Little Yuan, has the fusion with the paper spirit soul been completed? How are the soul skills? Are they to your satisfaction?" Xu Shengqun asked with a warm smile.
Xu Yuan found his uncle's demeanor a bit odd, but he didn't dwell on it.
He smiled and replied, "The soul skills are very effective. They've greatly improved my strength."
"That's good to hear," Xu Shengqun said with a grin. He walked up to Xu Yuan and placed a large hand on his shoulder.
Xu Yuan sensed something was off.
What's wrong with Uncle?
"Did you really build yourself a mecha?"
"Yes, because of the nature of my martial soul, it's inconvenient to design battle armor right now, so I made myself a mecha instead."
"Entirely forged with Spirit Alloy?" Xu Shengqun pressed.
"The entire thing is made of Spirit Alloy, though not entirely with Divine Alloy—I didn't have enough time." Xu Yuan sighed.
Xu Shengqun's lips twitched.
Is this even human speech?
Divine Alloy—he had seen only a handful of pieces in his life, and those few times were at high-end auctions.
Wait.
Xu Shengqun quickly realized the key point.
Not entirely Divine Alloy!
Entirely used!
"You're telling me there's Divine Alloy in your mecha?"
Xu Shengqun grabbed Xu Yuan's shoulder and shook him fiercely.
Xu Yuan broke free and rubbed his shoulder, saying, "Of course there is. I can forge Divine Alloy—is there a problem with that?"
"And you forged it yourself!"
Xu Shengqun's voice grew even louder.
Beside them, Ye Yuan didn't react with surprise or mockery to Xu Shengqun's outburst—because she too was utterly stunned.
Forging Spirit Alloy alone was already astonishing, especially since she knew Xu Yuan was only thirteen.
Typically, mastering Spirit-Forging would make one a fifth-level blacksmith. After gaining a foothold in Spirit-Forging, one could learn Fusion-Forging. Mastering Fusion-Forging would elevate one to a sixth-level blacksmith.
Surely Xu Yuan couldn't be a sixth-level blacksmith already?
And more importantly, Xu Yuan had successfully Fusion-Forged Divine Alloy?
This sounded like something out of legend.
"Explain yourself clearly, young man. What's going on?" Xu Shengqun took several deep breaths to calm himself down. He no longer cared about scolding Xu Yuan for being wasteful.
If Xu Yuan could forge these materials himself, then using Spirit Alloy and Divine Alloy for his mecha was somewhat justifiable—it was all self-made after all.
"All those Spirit Alloys are just Thousand Refinements First-Class level. I haven't started Spirit-Forging yet—I learned Fusion-Forging first. Fortunately, I have some talent in it…"
"How high is your Fusion-Forging success rate?" Xu Shengqun frowned and asked.
"Huh? Success rate for what fusion percentage?"
"The success rate of Fusion-Forging itself—is it that hard to understand?" A vein on Xu Shengqun's forehead twitched as he formed an angry knot.
"Oh, oh—you mean above sixty percent fusion? It's probably around ninety percent."
"Ninety percent?!"
Xu Shengqun was truly shocked today.
Deeply, deeply shocked.
"For fusions above ninety percent, I have about fifty percent success. But for Divine Alloy, the success rate is very low—less than ten percent." Xu Yuan sighed.
His control over willpower and essence-energy-spirit far exceeded that of ordinary soul masters.
No, not just ordinary soul masters.
Even Yun Ming didn't have the same conditions Xu Yuan did when cultivating the Seven Forbidden Techniques.
With the aid of his Dream Space, Xu Yuan's cultivation of the Seven Forbidden Techniques was practically heaven-sent.
To a certain extent, Xu Yuan had already mastered a domain of space—though it was illusory, nonexistent, it was undeniably under his complete control.
"Little Yuan, your success rates are… quite exaggerated," Xu Shengqun said after taking a deep breath and exhaling slowly.
"Not at all. I'm only talking about the success rate for forging Jade Silver. For other Spirit Alloys, I haven't succeeded very many times."
A master craftsman?
Xu Shengqun felt slightly relieved.
"I've only successfully forged it a few dozen times."
Cough cough!!!
"Little Yuan, let's change the subject. Have you gathered all the rare treasures needed for your martial soul split? Tell me if anything's missing, and I'll get them for you!" He quickly changed the topic.
"Uncle, there's no need to trouble you. I've already prepared everything. For the split, Teacher Yun Ming has arranged for it to take place in the Sea God Pavilion, and he'll personally guard me during the process."
"That's good."
After adapting for about half a month, Xu Yuan absorbed the third and fourth soul rings for his Heaven Origin Brush martial soul.
The three soul rings had fully utilized the capabilities of the paper spirit soul.
Second soul skill: Record.
Third soul skill: Manifest.
Fourth soul skill: Replicate.
After briefly adapting to the three soul skills, Xu Yuan began preparing for the next step.
Pushing for Spirit-Forging!
Before the split, he needed to truly achieve Spirit-Forging.
By completing Spirit-Forging, he would enhance the foundation of Jue's physical body, thereby stabilizing its essence.
For this, Xu Yuan spent three days adjusting his condition.
Jue's physical body was crafted from Thousand Refinements First-Class Spirit Alloy with a fusion rate of ninety-nine percent, forged by Zhen Hua.
Back then, the Spirit Pagoda had paid an enormous price to gather this material for Xu Zhi.
And the Spirit Alloy forming Jue's body was none other than Jade Silver!
Xu Yuan took a deep breath, pushing his state to its peak.
He struck two heavy blows with his hammer onto the Heavy Silver and Magic Silver before him.
Hundred Refinements.
Three more strikes.
Thousand Refinements.
Nine more strikes each.
Thousand Refinements First-Class.
Fusion-Forging.
The Heaven and Earth Furnace Technique activated, integrating essence-energy-spirit into the environment. Xu Yuan's Dream Space shifted from illusion to reality, influencing the real world as much as possible.
Whether it was an illusion or not, under the overlapping realms of reality and fantasy created by the Heaven and Earth Furnace Technique, the piece of Jade Silver Xu Yuan was forging received an extraordinary level of nourishment.
When Xu Yuan returned from Tian Dou City two months ago, his best Fusion-Forging level was around ninety-five percent. With the aid of the Heaven and Earth Furnace Technique, he could push it to ninety-seven percent.
Later, to upgrade his mecha, he forged extensively with the abundant Heavy Silver and Magic Silver provided by Le Zhengyu, raising his stable fusion rate to around ninety-six percent.
Of course, occasionally, with a bit of luck, he could reach ninety-seven percent. With the aid of the Heaven and Earth Furnace Technique, he should be able to achieve a fusion rate of ninety-eight percent.
Unfortunately, he had never managed a fusion rate of ninety-nine percent.
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