There are significant differences between lives.
And these differences are even greater than the gap between life and non-life.
The important factor causing this difference lies in whether one possesses the wisdom to think independently.
If a comparison must be made, it's like the difference between plants and animals.
During the forging process, Quan Yi was like a dutiful father, not only giving life to the metal but also passing on everything he had to the newly born life.
Of course, the stimulation of the Dragon Soul played a crucial role in the end, but without Quan Yi's earnest teachings, it would have regressed to the creation realm due to insufficient foundation.
With this successful experience, Quan Yi's forging level successfully advanced to a higher standard.
This further stimulated Quan Yi's interest in forging.
It can be said that, apart from normal training and rest time, Quan Yi was basically forging.
Time came to the fourth month of Seclusion. On the day Quan Yi broke through to Level 77, he was surprised to find that the practice metal he had prepared before Seclusion had been exhausted.
It had been a month since he advanced to the Spirit Awakening realm.
Quan Yi had successfully increased the success rate to 70%. Of course, this was without the aid of the Dragon Soul's power.
In the state of using his Martial Soul, Quan Yi's success rate in completing Spirit Awakening would reach 100%.
Logically speaking, after consuming all the metal, Quan Yi should have gone back to replenish it, but after thinking about it, he gave up the idea.
Because he discovered that, according to the characteristics of the created metal, the metal he had given life to would reject the touch of others.
In other words, he couldn't send the metal he forged back home for other blacksmiths to use, as he had done before.
Therefore, after reaching a certain level, continuing to consume metal without necessity would be a waste of resources.
However, this didn't mean that Quan Yi would give up practicing forging.
On the contrary, what he was going to do next was more complex and challenging than simple refining: alloy forging.
Previously, Quan Yi had envisioned that after consolidating his forging techniques, he would immediately create and awaken intelligence for weapons and equipment.
However, when Quan Yi re-examined the Scarlet Dragon Skyfire Armor with his current perspective, he realized for the first time the superb forging skills of Divine General Lou Gao.
It should be known that the Scarlet Dragon Skyfire Armor was entirely made of eight types of quasi-creation-level rare metals refined by Quan Yi.
It not only perfectly inherited the characteristics of various rare metals but also gave birth to the characteristics of ductility and Memory Metal.
Although Lou Gao was weaker than Quan Yi in metal refining, Lou Gao's level in alloy technology far exceeded Quan Yi's.
Except for not making the metal give birth to spirituality, Lou Gao could be said to have achieved the pinnacle of alloy technology.
Faced with the almost perfect alloy material, Quan Yi found that his forging level was not enough to create life for it.
Because the complexity of alloy materials far exceeded that of a single metal, Quan Yi's understanding of it was far from enough.
Without a perfect understanding of the metal, Quan Yi's forging process would not go far.
In this state, rashly reforging it would only damage the armor's spirituality.
Therefore, Quan Yi planned to practice alloy technology with other metals before that.
Fortunately, Quan Yi had many kinds of metals on him that he could use for various experiments.
And, just as Quan Yi's forging practice was in full swing, Huo Wu successfully broke through Level 69 in Soul Power after four months of hard cultivation.
Having experienced the baptism of the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, Huo Wu's cultivation speed had also improved to a certain extent compared to before.
According to the current cultivation speed, perhaps in less than a year, she might successfully break through Level 70.
This matter made Quan Yi feel happy, but it also gave him a sense of urgency.
Phoenix Blood Ruby, after being immersed for four months, due to the refining of the Fire Element, the material not only did not soften but became harder and more stable.
In a natural state, the denser things are, the deeper they sink.
However, the greater the depth in the Yang Spring, the higher the temperature. However, the higher the temperature, the faster the refining speed of the Phoenix Blood Ruby.
In other words, in the process of the Phoenix Blood Ruby naturally sinking, it formed a delicate balance.
The softening speed couldn't keep up with the material's strengthening speed.
Now, after four months of continuous descent, the Phoenix Blood Ruby had surpassed the depth Quan Yi's physical body could withstand, reaching a distance of about 20,000 meters.
Keep in mind that after four months of arduous training, Quan Yi had only managed to descend a mere hundred meters.
Converted to the weight borne per square meter, this depth already exceeded the level of ten million kilograms.
If converted to a smaller square centimeter, its weight would also exceed one thousand kilograms, which is one ton.
Imagine, with a pressure of one ton per square centimeter, the entire back would have to bear a weight of ten thousand tons (ten million kilograms).
Reaching this level of physical fitness, it is extremely difficult to improve even a little.
Even with the Dragon Scale Shock Body technique, Quan Yi's progress was still minimal.
But so what? As long as he could still improve, Quan Yi would continue to dive downwards unswervingly.
Quan Yi did not lack Time and perseverance. As long as he had not reached his limit, Quan Yi's pace would never stop.
Returning to the Phoenix Blood Ruby, not long ago, when it had just crossed the depth of 20,000 meters, Quan Yi discovered that its internal Fire-attribute had successfully transformed into Ultimate Fire.
This also meant that its amplification effect could be applied to Huo Wu and Quan Yi.
The successfully transformed Phoenix Blood Ruby directly raised the temperature around the Spring Water by several degrees.
This was a phenomenon that had not occurred before.
After its evolution, the Phoenix Blood Ruby's material also underwent a qualitative change, and its temperature resistance and hardness surpassed the concept of a gemstone.
At this stage, rather than a mineral, it was more like a pure element crystal solidified from a massive amount of Ultimate Fire.
This could be said to have far exceeded Quan Yi's previous expectations for the Phoenix Blood Ruby.
The improvement in material meant that the upper limit of temperature and energy it could withstand had increased a lot.
Following this trend, the Phoenix Blood Ruby might be able to dive into the Burial Grounds at the deepest part of the Yang Spring.
Fortunately, Quan Yi's forging skills had greatly improved; otherwise, it would not have been easy to create a ring that could withstand the Phoenix Blood Ruby.
"It's time to forge the ring."
Huo Wu's breakthrough was a signal.
That day, Quan Yi came to the side of the Yang Spring and took out a rather large furnace from the Blazing Sun Heart.
The furnace was very large, almost occupying more than half of the Yang Spring.
Quan Yi did not hesitate to put the furnace into the Yang Spring, and then inserted a bracket on the shore to fix the furnace.
Then, Quan Yi flew into the air, opened the huge opening at the top of the furnace, and then took out dozens of pieces of Fine Gold that looked quite heavy from the Blazing Sun Heart and put them into the furnace.
This was natural Fine Gold. At the Auction House, such Fine Gold could be sold for one thousand Gold Soul Coins per kilogram.
And there were more than a thousand kilograms of such Fine Gold here.
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