Soul Land Iii: The Return Of The Dragon God - Volume 1 Chapter 12 Overwhelming Talent

After leaving Wu Zhangkong’s office, Tang Long without a single care in the world, especially about the 2 kid behind him arguing about their faces or something, directly headed to the blacksmith assosiation to meet the saint blacksmith that promised to teach him more about this world’s forging method.

They met each other when Tang Long took his 4th rank Blacksmith Grandmaster test, where he suceed the thousand refinement and fail the spirit forging. The saint craftsmen offered to help Tang Long on his path to became a Divine Craftsmen.

Normally, the thousand refinement will be impossible for a 9 years old kid, but with past life knowledge and his martial soul is the dragon god that control life and elements, if he still failed, it would actually be a very good joke. The spirit forging on the other hand, cannot be completed just by pouring an enourmous amount of life energy, because some of the metal would not be able to hold such an amount of pure life force. Sadly for Tang Long, with his cultivation base stuck at 28 and the spiritual power that is still at the spirit sea realm with 1,002 points for the time being, controling Regalia’s power of life would be impossible. Even though, for kids at this age, it would be 1 in a billion talent and would cause even the older generation to eat their own shoes with this shocking talent, for Tang Long, its not enough.

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Mu Xi was in a bad mood recently. It should’ve been her most glorious day two days ago. However, it was ruined by a sudden change in circ.u.mstances.

Just as she completed her forging and refining and had passed all the assessments, thus gaining herself the title of second-rank blacksmith, she was informed that during her assessment, a nine-year-old kid succeeded in the fourth-rank blacksmith’s test.

Nine years old? Was that even possible?

This was simply unbelievable!

Since the time not long after she was born, her favourite pastime had been to observe her father as he forged. Her father had mentioned that this rough and weight-laden process of forging was not suitable for girls, but was for men. However, the stubborness in her kicked in and she stood by her choice to become a blacksmith. She started training at the mere age of five, and started crafting small hammers. Her father thought that it was a joke at first. However, after seeing her persistence for two years, and mimicking his every action, it finally moved the heart of the Eastsea City’s Blacksmith’s Association President, Mu Chen.

Mu Xi inherited her father’s martial soul. That alone made it suitable for her to become a blacksmith. In addition, she was willing to put in the extra effort. Mu Chen couldn’t help but search for some rare herbs in order to try maintaining his daughter’s figure. While she was training to gain the adequate strength to become a blacksmith, her figure had taken the toll and turned stockier in the process.

Mu Xi’s passion for forging came from the bottom of her heart. She was officially a first-rank blacksmith at the age of eleven. Her progression grew at an exhilarating speed under Mu Chen’s tutelage. Not long after her thirteenth birthday, she took the rank promotion test and passed immediately.

She had remembered clearly that her father mentioned that she had progressed faster than others her age. That she was worthy of being called a child prodigy in the world of blacksmithing.

However, how could she had been surpassed by a nine-year-old boy? Fourth-rank blacksmith? He’d also been held in high esteem by the surveyor. In fact, although the surveyor didn’t mention it, her gaze alone revealed her feelings. In her eyes, the boy was obviously stronger than her.

Mu Xi heard that this boy would be at the Blacksmith’s Association sometime today in order to collect his badge. She was keen to see who this boy was. Did he have 4 heads and 8 arms, maybe he is a forging god reincarnation, or a different species entirely?