ALL NOVEL Chapter 69: Chapter 70: Life Planning
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Even being held back by his own strength, Lou Gao still earned the title of 'King of Divine Blacksmiths' from the arrogant and self-assured Titan.
This shows just how profound Lou Gao's mastery of Forging is.
In the original story, Lou Gao spent ten years, conducting countless experiments to find eight rare metals, which he then combined in a special ratio to create a unique, flexible memory metal. The 'Eight Treasures如意Soft Armor' made from this magical metal is highly elastic, capable of expanding even if a Beast Soul Master's body grows to twice its size after using their soul skill, maintaining the same level of defense.
The toughness of the 'Eight Treasures如意Soft Armor' can withstand a strong attack from a Sixth Soul Skill of a Soul Emperor!
This is attested by Qian Renshuo, the daughter of two successive Popes of the Soul Temple and the new Angel Goddess in the original timeline! Such an existence is undoubtedly a divine artifact in the thousand-year history of the Douluo Continent!
A Sixth Soul Skill, a Soul Emperor! In a world where a Soul Noble can be ennobled as a Baron in the Tian Dou Empire and a Soul Sage as a Viscount, what does a Soul Emperor mean?
Being able to withstand a strong attack from a Sixth Soul Skill, even with Qian Renshuo's profound strength and the quality of her soul skill, even if she was weakened layer by layer in her battle with Tang San, the full-force strike she used to kill Tang San—was it just an ordinary level 60 attack?
Resisting such a strike and leaving Xiao Wu unharmed, the 'Eight Treasures如意Soft Armor' is one of the two finished products that Lou Gao spent ten years researching and crafting.
Honestly, if Lou Gao hadn't been tricked into crafting the ultimate mechanized weapon for the Tang Sect, exhausting his heart and soul, and even sacrificing his life to activate the 'Deep Sea Silver Mother's' sharpness, creating the world's top concealed weapon 'Rain of Pear Blossoms Needle' for Tang San, in those five years, he could have crafted a special attack squad capable of taking down a封号斗罗!
It's really a mystery how Tang San, in his past life, managed to create the 'Buddha's Wrath Tang Lotus,' which requires the assistance of a Super Douluo like Tang Xiao and a Divine Blacksmith like Lou Gao, who is at the Soul Saint level.
Ling Yi still remembers that Tang San, in his past life, was 29 years old when he jumped off a cliff to show his resolve.
Then, he spent twenty years to complete the pinnacle work of the Tang Family's external concealed weapons—the 'Buddha's Wrath Tang Lotus'?
Emmm...
Putting aside the confusion over some of the original story's plot points, the moment Ling Yi met Lou Gao, seeing his unique and distinctive appearance, and hearing the names 'Gengxin City' and 'Lou Gao,' he made a decision: he was going to cling to this powerful ally!
At just over forty years old, Lou Gao is already a high-level Soul King, one step away from becoming a Soul Emperor, with the skills of a Blacksmith Grandmaster and the theoretical knowledge inherited from the Divine Craftsman Iron Buddha. As the Vice President of the Blacksmith Association, which is headquartered in 'Gengxin City' in the Star Luo Empire but has influence across the entire Douluo Continent, affecting every blacksmith to some extent, he is an excellent gateway for Ling Yi, who is currently trapped in a corner, to reach the higher echelons of the Douluo Continent!
Although Ling Yi won't rashly venture into the central stage of the Douluo Continent, where experts gather, until his strength and resources reach a certain level, having a ticket to enter is a world apart from standing outside with no way in!
With this mindset, Ling Yi, while learning the 'Chaotic Wind Hammer Technique,' put in 200% effort, fully activating his mental power to focus his mind, and directly entered a 'superior state' to study and practice.
He demonstrated what it means to master the 81 moves of the 'Chaotic Wind Hammer Technique,' which would normally take a whole day, after just one viewing and one question.
A small 'Ling Yi-style' shock, and Lou Gao's initial lackadaisical attitude immediately changed.
If it weren't for the fact that, through their masters, they were considered peers, Lou Gao would have considered taking Ling Yi as a disciple.
Even if he can't take him as a disciple, having such a talented younger brother, Lou Gao can already imagine how he will show off to Titan next time they meet.
For Ling Yi, besides being a ticket to the central stage of the Douluo Continent, Lou Gao's Forging skills and his vast knowledge of metal alloys and the properties of metals on the Douluo Continent are like Yu Xiaogang is to Tang San.
The difference is that Yu Xiaogang's own strength is weak, and apart from his theoretical knowledge of soul skills and soul beasts, which hasn't been very useful, he has provided little help to Tang San.
The educational debt between them, in the form of the 'Ninth-Rank Purple Lingzhi' herb that allowed Yu Xiaogang to break through the 30th-level bottleneck, which had plagued him for decades and would have trapped him for life, actually means that Yu Xiaogang owes Tang San a life-changing favor.
For Ling Yi, Lou Gao is completely different.
In the Waterwood Principality, Ling Yi's original plan was to spend five to six years in the military, reaching the level of a Great Soul Master and gradually refining his Forging skills to the level of a blacksmith master.
Then, carrying the principality's top Forging skills, he would return to 'Wood Plant City,' forming alliances and integrating all the blacksmiths in the Waterwood Principality into a 'Blacksmith Association-Waterwood Principality Branch,' without arousing the suspicion or opposition of other forces in the principality.
At that time, although his strength would still be lacking, he would be the leader of a small faction, with access to various resources and manpower that would be incomparable to his current situation!
After that, he would develop the 'Blacksmith Association-Waterwood Principality Branch' steadily, serving the various forces in the Waterwood Principality while using the branch's resources to accelerate the collection of resources needed for his own strength growth.
Ling Yi estimated that this dormant phase would take about ten years to reach the level of a Soul Noble, or even a Soul Sage!
By then, Ling Yi would be around 25 or 26 years old.
A 25 or 26-year-old Soul Sage, in any part of the Douluo Continent, would be a notable achievement.
At that point, Ling Yi would consider, as the president of the 'Blacksmith Association-Waterwood Principality Branch,' crossing the vast distance between the north and south of the Douluo Continent to go to 'Gengxin City' in the Star Luo Empire, to plan the next step in his life...
However, Lou Gao's sudden arrival revealed a shortcut in his life development path!
This is the second time Ling Yi has planned to revise his life plan.
The first time was when the letter of recommendation from Master Jiang in Beikouhe Town helped him establish a relationship with Old Master Jin, one of the three great blacksmiths of the Waterwood Principality.
Similarly, because of Old Master Jin's existence, Ling Yi abandoned his plan to stay at the Green Leaf Junior Soul Master Academy for a few more years and then enter the principality's military through the retired veteran Master Huang's connections in Beikouhe Town.
Compared to Master Huang, the connections through Old Master Jin are naturally much higher in level, bringing various visible and invisible benefits that are more valuable.
Now, let's start by extracting all the blacksmithing knowledge from Lou Gao!
High-level Forging techniques, the secrets of various metal alloy formulas, and even some information about soul skills and soul beasts—Lou Gao, as a high-level Soul King, is an absolute treasure trove of golden knowledge for Ling Yi!
He wants it all!
And will Lou Gao be willing to teach?
Hehe, Brother Lou, you wouldn't want your master's disciple's unparalleled blacksmithing talent to be buried, would you?
Lou Gao, who will become a Divine Blacksmith and the president of the Blacksmith Association in the future, values the blacksmith profession and identity so much that he is willing to entrust his life to it, just to uphold the dignity of blacksmiths!
Even now, before he has grown to that level, this seed was already deeply planted in his heart when he became a blacksmith, a disciple of Divine Craftsman Iron Buddha, and the Vice President of the Blacksmith Association!
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