"Young Master Chu!"
Seeing Chu Chengzhou arrive, Ma Jieke stood and greeted him.
"Old Ma, how's the optimization of the soul guidance arrays for the Thousand-Refined battle armor?"
Chu Chengzhou asked with a smile.
"Not ideal. There is progress, but not much."
Ma Jieke shook his head.
Battle armor had only just come into being, and Ma Jieke, unlike Chu Chengzhou, could not cheat. He did not have the ability to greatly optimize the arrays adapted to battle armor in such a short time.
"The arrays for Thousand-Refined battle armor no longer need optimizing. The textbook is here. Study it at your own pace.
Also, this is the secret method of metal forging, from Thousand Refinements up to Heavenly Refinement. Learn it when you have time."
As he spoke, Chu Chengzhou handed Ma Jieke Hammer of Creation(Incomplete) and the "deluxe edition" method for manufacturing Thousand-Refined battle armor.
One thousand nine hundred and ninety-eight days from now, to be exact one thousand nine hundred and ninety-seven and a half days later, he would grasp the Law of Chaos and ascend to Chaos Godhood. It was time to teach the metal forging secrets and the battle armor manufacturing method to his own people.
Even if an outsider learned them by accident, they could not threaten him.
The Heavenly Refinement Divine Craftsmen was unique in this era. Which meant that before he left Douluo Star, no matter how skilled other forgers on the continent were, they could not forge Heavenly Refinement metal.
Without Heavenly Refinement metal, there could be no four-character battle armor.
As for the future after becoming a god and leaving the Douluo Continent:
Even a level-99 Limit Douluo wearing four-character battle armor at Heaven Refinement would be nothing but a slightly larger ant before divine might.
Of course, not only Ma Jieke. His father-in-law Ning Fengzhi could be taught as well.
Yes, with a son-in-law like him, the Ning family must have accumulated quite a bit of virtue.
"Wait, Young Master Chu, you finished optimizing the arrays for Thousand-Refined battle armor?"
Ma Jieke's eyes widened. He looked at Chu Chengzhou in disbelief.
If he remembered correctly, in soul guidance arrays, Chu Chengzhou had only heard about them, right? He had not even done hands-on work. How could he be better than me?
"Mm, mm, I wrote it all down.
Old Ma, you must admit your boss is a genius. A genius can do what others cannot, and knows what others do not. That is normal."
Patting Ma Jieke's shoulder, Chu Chengzhou spoke unhurriedly.
Whether I am bluffing or not, just believe it.
Ma Jieke opened his mouth several times, but found he did not know what to say.
Perhaps he and Chu Chengzhou lived in the same world, yet not in the same world.
Ignoring Ma Jieke, Chu Chengzhou entered the rare metal warehouse in the small courtyard.
With his spirit power stepping into the Limit realm and bearing chaotic soul power, his current strength was near the peak before godhood. Even a million-year soul bone and a million-year soul ring could not bring another qualitative leap.
There was still a gap, but more in potential than in immediate combat power.
Therefore it was time to forge the strongest nine-element Heavenly Refinement metal, to prepare for crafting the strongest Heavenly Refinement battle armor later.
Nine was the max number. If nothing unexpected, he could at most fuse nine kinds of metal, and the elemental attributes participating in metal Heavenly Refinement would at most be nine.
"Uh, what if during Divine Refinement I only inject chaotic soul power into the metal?"
Suddenly this thought flashed through Chu Chengzhou's mind.
If Heavenly Refinement only injected the chaos attribute, with a single attribute, would there be no baptism of elemental tribulation lightning so that Divine Refinement could not be completed, or would there still be elevenfold elemental tribulation lightning, or the limit of ninefold tribulation lightning?
He shook his head and did not dwell on it. In the warehouse Chu Chengzhou began selecting rare metals.
After one circuit, he frowned.
With the power of chaos, he naturally wanted to use nine rare metals of different attributes for Heavenly Refinement.
The rare metals in his warehouse were all the rare metal stock from the Seven Treasures Chamber of Commerce headquarters in Heaven Dou City back then. Of the eleven basic elements, he found only metals of the metal, fire, earth, light, darkness, wind, and lightning systems. There were none of the water, wood, time, and space systems. Even nine-metal fusion would still be short two.
Moreover, the wind-type Wind Spirit Iron and the lightning-type Mysterious Thunder Gold were in very small quantities, only a few samples.
"For water-system metal, it seems I can use Sinking Silver as a substitute. Its proper name is Deepsea Sinking Silver, which barely counts as related to water. As for the ninth metal… forget it, I'll go take a look at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School."
Touching his chin, Chu Chengzhou thought to himself.
Of course, nine-metal fusion did not absolutely require nine rare metals with entirely different elemental attributes. Nine rare metals with repeated attributes but different types could also be fused.
But then it would be hard to forge Heavenly Refinement metal with strong performance.
The logic was similar. Since he could perfectly fuse nine-element soul power, then when fusing nine rare metals of different elemental attributes, if the fusion ratios of the metals were unreasonable, he would sense it. He could then add or reduce one or more metals and, according to the use case, make the fused alloy possess the strongest performance.
Just like iron plus carbon gives steel. Yet though both are steel, good steel can forge fine blades and swords, while scrap steel can only be made into hoes. If the quality is too poor and it shatters at a touch, it is not even fit to be made into a hoe.
Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School.
"People don't visit the Seven Treasure Hall without reason. Tell me, what do you want this time?"
Ning Fengzhi asked as Chu Chengzhou showed up unannounced.
"Tsk. We are father-in-law and son-in-law. That sounds a bit distant."
"Save it. Would you come to me if nothing was up?"
Ning Fengzhi said irritably.
"Fine. Since you said so, I won't give you the good stuff. I'll go back now."
With that, Chu Chengzhou pretended to leave.
"Come back. What good stuff?"
Ning Fengzhi hurried forward, grabbed him, and asked.
"Who am I to you?"
Chu Chengzhou asked back.
"Ha ha. Good son-in-law. Sit, don't stand on ceremony. Someone, tea."
"How mercenary."
"Listen to yourself. We are father-in-law and son-in-law."
Ning Fengzhi spoke righteously.
Chu Chengzhou: "…"
Rolling his eyes, Chu Chengzhou presented Hammer of Creation(Incomplete), he had rewritten before and the Thousand-Refined battle armor manufacturing method to Ning Fengzhi.
"Hm? You are willing to give me the complete metal forging technique? And what is this battle armor thing?"
After a rough look, Ning Fengzhi asked in surprise.
"I am already invincible in the world. It is just forging. Nothing much."
Waving a hand, confidence written on his face, Chu Chengzhou continued, "As for battle armor, it is a special soul tool that can turn a weakling into a powerhouse and make a powerhouse stronger."