Douluo Dalu: This Soul Master is to Weird

"Alright then, Master Mu, could you tell us what's so special about this Thousand-Refined metal?"

Glancing at the dull-colored, unknown metal on the forging table, Shui Yanyu asked with a smile.

Mu Yang didn't answer immediately. Instead, he released his Iceflame Fire and melted a small portion of the newly forged Thousand-Refined Liquid Silver ingot, shaping it into a one-foot-long silver-gray short blade.

Once a Thousand-Refined metal is reshaped, its internal structure gets damaged, affecting its quality.

To preserve its integrity, the Thousand-Refined Liquid Silver, now molded into a short blade, shouldn't be reshaped into any other form.

In truth, after completing the Thousand-Refinement and gaining some forging experience from it, Mu Yang no longer saw much value in this piece of Liquid Silver.

After all, he wasn't planning to sell it, and aside from forging hammers, he had no intention of using Thousand-Refined Liquid Silver to craft other tools. Wasting it didn't matter much to him.

As his skills improved, he would forge countless pieces of Thousand-Refined metal. A small amount of material like this was insignificant to him.

Next, Mu Yang used the same method to forge another short blade of the same size from a Hundred-Refined Liquid Silver ingot he had found in the corner of the forging chamber.

"Aunt, both of these short blades are made from a rare metal called Liquid Silver. The only difference is that this silver-gray one is Thousand-Refined Liquid Silver. If you want to see its effect, try injecting your soul power into them."

With that, Mu Yang handed both short blades to Shui Yanyu.

"They're the same metal? Your so-called Thousand-Refinement even changes the color?"

Taking the two short blades, Shui Yanyu asked curiously.

"I'm not exactly sure either. But it's definitely Thousand-Refined Liquid Silver. Maybe it's similar to how some soul beasts change color after reaching a certain cultivation level?"

Mu Yang wasn't sure why the originally silver-white Liquid Silver turned silver-gray after Thousand-Refinement, but he wasn't particularly surprised by it.

For example, he had once hunted a Evil Warding Golden Bamboo. It was green below a hundred years, turned silver at a hundred years, became gold at a thousand years, and transformed into purple-gold past ten thousand years. A mere color change was nothing unusual.

Shui Yanyu: "..."

The next moment, as Shui Yanyu injected her soul power into both short blades, a look of surprise appeared on her face.

As an eight-ring Soul Douluo, Shui Yanyu was extremely familiar with the strength of her own soul power.

The moment she injected her soul power into the silver-gray Thousand-Refined Liquid Silver short blade, she keenly sensed a slight enhancement in the power she infused. However, when she injected soul power into the silver-white Liquid Silver short blade, there was no such enhancement.

That said, the amplification effect of the Thousand-Refined Liquid Silver was so weak that it seemed practically useless.

"Xiao Yang, this Thousand-Refined metal of yours doesn't seem all that impressive. While it does enhance soul power to some extent, the effect is too negligible. It's basically a useless gimmick."

After testing it, Shui Yanyu shook her head and gave her assessment.

Hearing this, Mu Yang's expression turned a bit awkward as he said, "Aunt, have you considered the possibility that your soul power level is simply too high?"

Come on, you're an eight-ring Soul Douluo! The fact that Thousand-Refined Liquid Silver could enhance your soul power even slightly was already a remarkable feat, alright?

It's like when a low-level soul master tries to use a support-type soul skill on a high-level soul master—even if it's not completely ineffective, the impact is bound to be greatly diminished, right?

"Is that so?"

Shui Yanyu frowned slightly.

"Mhm, mhm."

After a brief silence, Shui Yanyu said, "It still seems pretty useless. After all, soul masters rarely rely on external objects in battle."

She still didn't think Thousand-Refined metal was particularly praiseworthy, at least not in any practical application she could see.

For battle-type soul masters, their strength came from their martial souls and soul skills; they had no need for external weapons like swords or knives.

As for support-type soul masters, aside from rare exceptions like Mu Yang, they were generally weak and wouldn't need weapons either.

And when it came to forging armor, Shui Yanyu could clearly feel that while Thousand-Refined Liquid Silver might provide a decent soul power boost to lower-ranked soul masters and was exceptionally durable, its density was several times that of ordinary copper or iron. It was simply too heavy.

Wearing a suit of armor made from Thousand-Refined Liquid Silver would drastically reduce speed, if not make movement entirely impractical.

Sacrificing mobility for defense and a minor soul power boost was not an option for soul masters whose physiques weren't strong enough to bear such a weight.

"Heh..."

Feeling underestimated, Mu Yang twitched the corner of his mouth but didn't argue.

Mu Yang: Prejudice! The prejudice of the times! When will we blacksmiths rise up?!

That being said, on its own, Thousand-Refined metal was indeed limited in function.

However, as the level of metal refinement increased, even pure metal alone could have an immense impact.

Take Spirit-Refined Blue Mother Copper, for example. If it were forged into a full-body armor set, its formidable defense, solid soul power amplification, and the unique trait of Spirit-Refined and above metals being able to be stored within a soul master's body and instantly materialized would make it comparable to an external armor-type soul bone for five- or six-ring soul masters.

And that was merely the metal's natural properties. A blacksmith's greatest contribution wasn't in refining metal alone—it was in crafting battle armor.

Without Thousand-Refined metal, soul tool array inscriptions could only be carved onto Hundred-Refined purified rare metals. No matter how advanced the soul tool arrays were, battle armor crafted this way would only be a mere imitation, incapable of granting a five-ring Soul King the power to rival a seven-ring Soul Sage.

This applied not only to battle armor but to all soul tools.

Without high-performance metals as a foundation, how could future soul engineers ever create soul tools powerful enough to slay gods?

"Oh, right, Xiao Yang. Didn't you say you wanted soul tools a while ago? I found some for you. But the crafting methods for soul tools have long been lost. These are mostly scrapped soul tools, and even the ones that aren't are probably close to breaking."

Shui Yanyu handed Mu Yang a soul tool storage wristband.

"Thank you, Aunt! It's fine if they're scrapped. I just need them for reference."

Hearing that there were soul tools, Mu Yang's eyes lit up, and he immediately took the storage wristband from Shui Yanyu.

Whether the soul tools were broken or not didn't matter much to Mu Yang. What he truly wanted was to see the soul tool arrays inscribed within them.

His ability to deduce techniques was extremely profound. As long as he had a direction and a goal, if something was feasible, then all the laws of the world could be deduced—at most, it was just a matter of time.

And having accurate knowledge, firsthand observations, and relevant information all helped improve the efficiency of his deductions.

Thus, Mu Yang felt it was necessary to examine as many existing soul tool arrays as possible.

Mastering various soul tool arrays counted as knowledge, seeing them counted as observation, and his understanding of battle armor theory counted as information he had heard. Mu Yang wasn't aiming for complete theoretical mastery—he just needed to go from knowing about them to seeing them firsthand.

If even a small part of the soul tool arrays he examined could be applied to battle armor, it would significantly accelerate his progress in deducing the method to craft battle armor.

As such, whether the soul tools were scrapped or damaged was of little consequence.

As long as the exterior of a soul tool was intact, the internal soul tool arrays wouldn't be completely ruined—at worst, they would have some minor defects.

Though flawed soul tool arrays might render a soul tool useless, they still provided the same visual reference as intact ones for Mu Yang.

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