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Xu Yuan didn't waste a moment.
He used flames to smelt the two pieces of Heavy Silver and Magic Silver, both at first-grade thousand-forging, adjusting the spiritual fluctuations within the metals by varying the intensity of the flames.
After achieving a preliminary integration, he poured all his blood energy, spirit, and soul power into the metals.
His essence, energy, and spirit erupted simultaneously.
But Xu Yuan was no Tang Wulin.
Tang Wulin was different. His forging skills were already advanced, but his soul power and blood energy were too low. Even with his forging expertise, he had to exhaust every ounce of his blood energy and soul power to barely complete each forging session.
Xu Yuan, on the other hand, was different. His soul power had already reached rank fifty-one, and his blood energy had always kept pace. In fact, in terms of sheer explosive force, his blood energy even surpassed his soul power. As for spiritual power, it had always been Xu Yuan's strongest attribute.
With an abundance of power in all three systems—spiritual, physical, and soul—he naturally didn't need to worry about running out of energy.
With each hammer strike, he expended large amounts of essence, energy, and spirit. These three energies served as conduits, first merging into the Heavy Silver and Magic Silver, then acting as bridges to guide their spiritualities to fuse together. Each hammer blow also promoted the fusion of their spiritualities.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
In Zhen Hua's forge room, Xu Yuan continuously swung his dual hammers with perfect precision. The resounding clang of each hammer strike was uniform and powerful.
The two streams of spiritual light intertwined before Xu Yuan's eyes.
When the fusion rate reached ninety-eight percent, certain anomalies began to appear. This was different from when the fusion rate was at ninety-seven percent. At ninety-eight percent, the moment the metals took shape, their spiritualities radiated light individually, and the two lights merged organically to form a single, independent spiritual light cluster.
At this moment, the spiritualities of the two metals had almost completely fused into one, perfectly seamless.
On the forge table, an oval-shaped piece of metal resembling jelly cooled quietly in place. Its surface was flawless, dotted with star-like specks, and it looked like a piece of blue jade.
This was Jade Silver with a fusion rate of ninety-eight percent.
Although its appearance was already impeccable, in the judgment of the forging world, this was still only considered to have a fusion rate of ninety-eight percent.
In reality, once an alloy reached the level of a godly alloy, it was impossible to measure its spiritual fusion rate accurately because the margin of error was extremely small. For alloys with spiritual fusion rates above ninety-five percent, the standard for evaluation was based on their completeness, divided into five tiers. Of these, the first four tiers were related to completeness, with "flawless" corresponding to ninety-eight percent. Below that were the tiers for ninety-five to ninety-seven percent.
As for alloys with a fusion rate of ninety-nine percent, they transcended mere fusion—they represented the creation of entirely new metals.
A perfect alloy referred to an alloy with a fusion rate of ninety-nine percent. From another perspective, a perfect alloy was essentially a new type of rare metal, created by a blacksmith through forging techniques that combined two or more existing rare metals into a new variety.
"Not bad," Zhen Hua praised without reservation.
During this forging session, Xu Yuan's state was excellent, and he remained fully focused throughout. Remarkably, he managed to successfully forge a flawless alloy with a fusion rate of ninety-eight percent in a single attempt.
Moreover, the most crucial point was that Xu Yuan hadn't relied on the Heaven and Earth Furnace Method!
This was a prerequisite for Xu Yuan's attempt to forge a perfect alloy during this visit.
Before coming here, Xu Yuan had estimated that his success rate for independently forging Jade Silver with a fusion rate of ninety-eight percent was around five percent.
In other words, among twenty forging attempts, he could reliably produce one piece of Jade Silver with a fusion rate of ninety-eight percent. If he used the Heaven and Earth Furnace Method, he could stabilize his success rate at twenty percent.
This was already incredibly impressive.
A master of extraordinary skill.
For other spirit-infused alloys, such as Lingjin or Xingyín, Xu Yuan could also perform fusion forging, but even for alloys with a fusion rate of ninety-four percent, his success rate couldn't reach five percent.
Only by deeply practicing the proportions of essence, energy, and spirit during the fusion forging of Jade Silver could Xu Yuan achieve such astonishing results.
Of course, by thoroughly mastering Jade Silver and gaining a profound understanding of the coordination between essence, energy, and spirit in fusion forging, Xu Yuan developed a foundational method of calculation. This would allow him to quickly determine the optimal proportions for other spirit-infused alloys in the future.
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"Uncle Zhen, as you said, my state today is exceptionally good." Xu Yuan was pleasantly surprised that he had succeeded in a single attempt at fusion forging.
However, there was still a long way to go to reach ninety-nine percent.
"A perfect alloy with a fusion rate of ninety-nine percent is built upon complete fusion. By harnessing the power of heaven and earth, it is reborn with the most suitable essence, granting it a new origin."
"And the method to achieve this—"
Zhen Hua finally began explaining to Xu Yuan the process of forging a perfect alloy.
Previously, Xu Yuan had been baffled, unable to understand how to transform an alloy into a new metal when increasing the fusion rate from ninety-eight to ninety-nine percent.
Before his martial soul split, Xu Yuan had attempted a fusion forging with a fusion rate of ninety-nine percent. At that time, his state was excellent, and he forged a piece of Jade Silver that far surpassed the quality of Jade Silver at ninety-eight percent. He had assumed it to be Jade Silver with a fusion rate of ninety-nine percent and integrated it into Jue's main body.
However, Zhen Hua had repeatedly told him that it wasn't a true perfect alloy.
Still, for Jue, that piece of Jade Silver could be considered a perfect alloy because what Jue absorbed was its spirituality. At that time, Xu Yuan had approached the problem from a different angle, using deductions from both real and virtual spaces to achieve nearly perfect fusion on the basis of spiritual perfection. Its spirituality had reached the level of a perfect alloy.
But it was only the spirituality that had reached that level. There was another critical factor: the essence.
Xu Yuan listened attentively.
"Destruction followed by rebirth."
"After destruction comes rebirth. The essence of a fully fused spirit-infused alloy must be obliterated, leaving behind only a trace of spirituality as an inducement. Then, under the nurturing of heaven and earth, a new essence is formed. This is the method for forging a perfect alloy with a fusion rate of ninety-nine percent."
As Zhen Hua revealed this method for forging a perfect alloy, Xu Yuan's eyes widened in astonishment.
Destruction followed by rebirth?
Destroy the original essence and nurture a new essence!
So that was it.
Even if the original essences were perfectly fused after being separately nurtured, they would still bear traces of their separate origins.
Only by destroying the original essence could a new essence be born—a new essence that perfectly fused the two metals.
"In the history of forging, no perfect alloy has ever been achieved by a blacksmith below the level of a divine craftsman."
"Not even by a saint craftsman, or even one on the verge of becoming a divine craftsman."
Zhen Hua's tone was resolute.
He understood just how difficult it was to forge a perfect alloy with a fusion rate of ninety-nine percent.
The mastery required to guide the forces of heaven and earth was too profound. Any blacksmith who hadn't undergone Divine Forging, hadn't experienced the transformation of metals during celestial tribulation, or hadn't grasped the concept of rebirth amidst destruction was incapable of forging a perfect alloy.
This was universally acknowledged in the forging world.
Yet Zhen Hua was allowing Xu Yuan to attempt it now.
Because Xu Yuan was qualified.
"The Heaven and Earth Furnace Method is one approach. You already have the foundation to nurture spirit-infused alloys with the forces of heaven and earth. Moreover, when you fuse spirit-infused alloys, you achieve perfect fusion of two metals through the coordination of essence, energy, and spirit. Their spirituality relies on your essence, energy, and spirit. After destroying their original essence, your essence, energy, and spirit can serve as the foundation to help the faint spiritual light shine again. Under the nurturing of heaven and earth, it will transform and give birth to a new essence."
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