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"It's been two and a half months, and Yun Ming's whereabouts have been frequently leaked. It must be intentional on his part. The Federation must already know that Yun Ming has appeared on the Star Luo Continent."
A variety of thoughts arose in Enci's mind.
However, no matter what, he couldn't understand Yun Ming's intentions.
Starfall City.
"You've finally arrived." Lin Yuhan said with a resentful expression.
The exchange period was supposed to last a year, and nine months have already passed before this guy finally showed up.
“Yuhan, I’m giving you more time to improve your forging skills, and also to facilitate better communication,” Xu Yuan explained.
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After a year of traveling in Douluo Continent, Lin Yuhan must have a lot to digest upon returning to Starfall City.
In fact, that's exactly what she did.
For the past nine months, she has been mostly engaged in forging, reviewing her experiences in Douluo Continent over the past year, and mastering the many forging techniques she had never encountered before.
She was originally a level 5 blacksmith.
He can easily perform spirit forging, but he has been unable to break through to the fusion forging stage for a long time.
It's not that she lacked experience, but rather that the legacy of the Star Luo Continent was insufficient.
The forging technology of the Star Luo Continent is more than one version behind that of the Federation, and the proportion of blacksmiths stuck at level five and unable to advance to level six is far greater in the Star Luo Continent than in the Federation.
This is a deficiency in the inheritance of tradition.
After entering Douluo Continent and spending a year exchanging ideas with the Federation, Lin Yuhan learned a great deal. Not only her, but also her teacher Chang Gongyan, both gained new understandings of fusion forging.
Taking advantage of this trip, Lin Yuhan also successfully completed the forging process not long ago, and quickly mastered the forging techniques, successfully forging three kinds of spirit alloys and successfully performing spirit forging on them.
In the next year or two, she was confident that she would master all the spirit alloys and then begin to strive for the seventh level of soul forging.
The forging techniques of the Star Luo Continent have some flaws. The inheritance of the fusion forging technique is too imperfect, so many blacksmiths are stuck at level five. However, they are not without attempts to break through. Some follow the orthodox training, while others try to use the purest rare metals for soul forging.
Unfortunately, the reason why forging and melting came into existence is because, in a higher realm, the strength of a single rare metal can no longer support the gifts of heaven and earth.
Soul forging has extremely high requirements for rare metals.
Of course, the Star Luo Continent is rich in rare metal resources, and there are actually a few metals that can be forged with a bit of soul forging. So a few blacksmiths have successfully made it through this path, directly breaking through from level five to level seven.
Unfortunately, it's only level seven.
Few are able to continue making progress.
Lin Yuhan wasn't on this path, but she did receive this kind of training. However, she was never able to succeed in fusion forging, so she had to go back to studying spirit forging.
Back then, her ability to complete the spirit forging of blue-coated copper in one go in Tiandou City was enough to demonstrate her spirit forging skills. In the Federation, only a level six blacksmith would be confident enough to attempt the spirit forging of blue-coated copper in a competition.
After all, forging always involves a success rate and a failure rate.
"By the way, have you successfully forged it?"
Xu Yuan changed the subject.
Looking at Lin Yuhan's expression, he knew that she had most likely broken through.
However, we still need to ask.
Lin Yuhan looked delighted, with a proud expression, and tilted her head back.
"hold head high."
"Impressive. With your accumulated skills, you should be able to attempt Soul Forging soon?"
Lin Yuhan crossed her arms and said, "Of course, with the spirit alloy, forging has indeed become much simpler. My success rate in spirit forging has increased by more than ten percentage points."
Ten percentage points? That's outrageous.
Using spirit alloys for spirit forging is indeed easier because they have a better foundation and a higher tolerance for errors during forging.
"By the way, what brings you here this time? You're not here to spar with me on forging techniques, are you?" Lin Yuhan didn't forget to ask Xu Yuan's purpose.
She was well aware that Xu Yuan was far superior to her in forging.
Back in Tiandou City, Xu Yuan easily completed the fusion of spirit crystal and blue copper, achieving an extremely high degree of fusion!
Even now, Lin Yuhan is not confident that she can surpass Xu Yuan back then.
Not to mention Xu Yuan now.
"I do need your help with something. I need a batch of silver." Xu Yuan got straight to the point and stated his needs.
"Turning it into silver? How much do you need?"
"Five tons?" Xu Yuan asked.
As he spoke, he also observed Lin Yuhan's expression.
Sure enough, he saw shock on Lin Yuhan's face.
"What do you need so much silver for? Even if you're doing forging, you probably don't need that much silver to practice, right?"
Although there are silver veins, silver is ultimately a very precious rare metal and a specialty of the Star Luo Continent. A small amount of silver flowing out of the continent is acceptable, but the large amount of silver that Xu Yuan mentioned is already a strategic resource.
With so many requests made at once, even if Lin Yuhan's family tries their best, it will be difficult to resolve the issue.
The Lin family is already one of the three major families in Starfall City, and they practically control all affairs in Starfall City. In recent years, due to Lin Yuhan's forging talent and her apprenticeship under Chang Gongyan, the Lin family has also become on good terms with this eighth-level master craftsman. It can be said that in all forging-related industries in Starfall City, they have surpassed the other two families and have the greatest say.
However, even with the entire Lin family's combined efforts, they dare not say they could provide Xu Yuan with five tons of silver.
It's not that they can't produce five tons of silver, but that they can't give five tons of silver to Xu Yuan.
"Is it a bit difficult?" Xu Yuan sighed inwardly upon seeing this.
He had no choice but to resort to his trump card.
“I can trade at a premium.”
Because he is capable of forging, and unlike some forging geniuses who have a great need for spiritual objects and are usually very frugal, he is often quite wealthy.
"Premium?" Lin Yuhan's eyes flickered as she looked at Xu Yuan. "How much of a premium?"
"Use first-grade jade and silver of the thousand-refined level to exchange for silver. The fusion rate is basically 70% to 80%. The part below 80% can be exchanged for silver of three times the quality, and the part above 80% can be exchanged for silver of five times the quality."
Lin Yuhan's eyes widened.
She suspected that she had heard wrongly.
"You have so much jade and silver?"
According to Xu Yuan, this would require at least a ton of jade and silver.
If it were a normal size, it would cost at least several hundred or even a thousand yuan.
“Jade and silver of the first grade of a thousand-times forging can be forged a second time, undergoing spiritual forging or even attempting soul forging,” Xu Yuan said calmly.
These jade and silver pieces in his possession were the last batch.
Previously, he had made many transactions using jade and silver, but he always used those with a fusion rate of over 90%. The largest quantity of those with a fusion rate below 90% was used, but he used the least. He was waiting for such an opportunity.
He had planned to participate in this exchange activity long ago, so he was also prepared to make large-scale purchases of rare metals in the Star Luo Continent.
He has kept this batch of jade and silver.
These are all the results of his research on fusion forging back then.
Lin Yuhan's eyes were unfocused.
So much jade and silver.
Taking a deep breath, she looked at Xu Yuan with a hint of respect.
Even though she hadn't seen Xu Yuan make a move with the jade and silver, she already had a vague guess that Xu Yuan had probably forged all of it himself.
The fact that he has forged such a spiritual financial system so many times, regardless of the purpose or the outcome, demonstrates his perseverance.
Lin Yu-han asked herself if she could do that.
"Let me ask for you." She still didn't give a direct, definite answer.
Five tons turned into silver—that's an enormous amount.
The Lin family definitely couldn't afford it; she would have to ask her teacher, Chang Gongyan.
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Starfall City, Blacksmith Guild.
This is just a branch of the Star Luo Continent Blacksmith Association.
Chang Gongyan is considered the president of this branch.
In matters related to forging, his influence is even greater than that of the three major families of Starfall City.
After all, he was a true eighth-level master craftsman.
He also gained something from his travels across the continent. Although he did not see any hope of Heavenly Forging, he made great progress in Soul Forging. The root cause of this was still the Fusion Forging.
With the advancement of forging technology, the quality of forged spirit alloys is better, which can also lead to better soul-forged works.