Douluo: Not enough blood? Use your brain

Mo Jue smoothed the long hair by her ear and looked at Xu Yuan, seeking the opinion of the blacksmith.

“For chest armor, Blue Womb Copper is essential. With Blue Womb Copper, the battle armor can be considered truly top-tier,” Xu Yuan said, stating the most important point first.

Blue Womb Copper was necessary.

“Senior, you don't need to worry about my forging skills. I'm confident in melting and forging Blue Womb Copper. It's just that forging a spirit alloy with a purity of over ninety percent might take some time. I've tried melting and forging Blue Womb Copper, but achieving a fusion degree above ninety percent might require some practice.”

This was the most difficult point.

Blue Womb Copper was scarce, and Xu Yuan had to gather a large amount to melt and forge, so the loss wouldn't be low.

Of course, the so-called loss actually referred to 'failed products' below ninety percent.

These could actually be sold for money to recover the costs, so Xu Yuan wouldn't suffer any financial loss. The real difficulty was the time cost and the effort required to gather Blue Womb Copper.

However, he didn't plan to give up.

He would have to master it eventually. Whether it was his own battle armor or his companions' battle armor, there would inevitably be this requirement for chest armor. Practicing and mastering it now would be useful later.

A gleam flashed in Mo Jue's eyes.

“Junior, how long will it take you to succeed?”

Xu Yuan pondered for a moment and gave a conservative answer.

“Within three months.”

“Three months?” Mo Jue asked in surprise.

That was very fast.

“Junior, do you have a lot of Blue Womb Copper?”

“No, I still need to gather it,” Xu Yuan shrugged.

“Oh? Then let me help you gather it,” Mo Jue said with a smile in her eyes.

“Hmm?” Xu Yuan looked at Mo Jue.

“Senior can gather a lot of Blue Womb Copper?”

“Of course. You might not know where Senior comes from,” Mo Jue said with a hint of confidence.

“My family has a Blue Womb Copper mine.”

Xu Yuan: ???

What the heck?

Rare metal veins couldn't be controlled casually. If there hadn't been an Ultimate Douluo for generations or a Super Douluo guarding it for over three hundred consecutive years, it would be difficult to stabilize control over a rare metal mine.

In many cases, the mines were controlled by the Federation or the military. It was rare for a city like Sanbao City to control one.

As for mines controlled by families, there were very few, and only the truly top-tier families could control them.

Not to mention Blue Womb Copper, such a precious rare metal.

Was the Mo family so strong?

Xu Yuan suddenly had a flash of inspiration.

“Is the governor and councilor of Tiandou City related to you?”

“Eh!” Mo Jue exclaimed in surprise, “Have you met my Third Grandfather?”

“Third Grandfather?”

“Yes, Third Grandfather didn't have good talent, but he was very politically skilled. With the support of the family, he gradually became the governor of Tiandou City and was elected as a councilor. Of course, because he has to avoid suspicion, he rarely contacts the family.”

He rarely contacted them, but when the family needed it, Mo Wu would definitely fight for some benefits for the family, and when Mo Wu needed it, the Mo family would also support him.

As for starting from scratch?

It was almost impossible.

The councilors within the Federation definitely all had their own backers.

Xu Yuan put aside his many scattered thoughts.

“With Senior supplying Blue Womb Copper and no trivial matters to hold me back, I hope to forge a spirit alloy that meets Senior's needs within two months,” Xu Yuan said confidently.

“However, before that, I still have to ask Senior, what kind of spirit alloy do you need?”

What should Blue Womb Copper be paired with?

“As you know, my martial soul is of the darkness attribute, so it would be best to have something that helps me mobilize the dark elements.”

“In that case, I suggest you choose spirit crystal.”

“Spirit crystal!” Mo Jue's eyes lit up.

That would work.

“I also have Azure Underworld Iron here. In the future, when Senior upgrades to a Two-Word Battle Armor, the chest armor can continue to be upgraded. I should be able to forge a spirit alloy that combines three metals by then,” Xu Yuan said.

He didn't say this to make trouble for himself.

Rather, it was to build a good relationship.

This was a senior whose family had a mine.

And it was Blue Womb Copper, a rare metal widely used in battle armor.

When he heard that Mo Jue's family had a Blue Womb Copper mine, Xu Yuan couldn't help but sigh at what Shrek's greatest resource was.

Connections!

Where did geniuses come from?

Secluded families and powerful martial soul inheritance families were the easiest places to produce geniuses.

Or rather, the most stable places to produce geniuses.

And they brought a large number of connections and resources into the academy, intersecting with other geniuses of ordinary origins, with both sides taking what they needed, thus achieving a virtuous cycle.

Family background didn't necessarily mean being a top genius. After all, the population base was mostly concentrated on ordinary people, and every year there were examples of ordinary people's martial souls mutating into powerful individuals.

Shrek mixed these two types of geniuses together, and valued talent the most, suppressing the problems of atmosphere caused by background to the lowest level, thereby realizing resource interconnection and creating powerful battle armor masters.

A hint of excitement flashed in Mo Jue's eyes.

She knew Xu Yuan's forging level.

In her perception, she hadn't personally seen Xu Yuan's forging, nor had she specifically inquired about Xu Yuan's blacksmith level. Even the known exchange competition between the first and second grades had been stolen by Tang Wulin, but she was very clear that Xu Yuan's forging ability was definitely terrifying.

At least, it wouldn't be worse than Tang Wulin.

Because she had personally witnessed the burst of Xu Yuan's mecha.

The marksmanship was excellent, and the mecha was also indispensable.

That mecha was the most extreme mecha she had ever seen in her life.

Even red-level mechas seemed inferior to that yellow-level mecha in front of her.

“Okay, if you have time in the future when I upgrade my Two-Word Battle Armor's spirit alloy, I'll also ask you to forge it.”

“Sure.”

After separating from Mo Jue, Xu Yuan returned to his dormitory.

With a wave of his right hand, the Heavenly Origin Brush appeared in his hand.

Looking at the Heavenly Origin Brush in his hand, Xu Yuan smiled.

Compared to before, he now found the meaning of his Heavenly Origin Brush martial soul.

Chapter 196 Five Elements Evolution

Looking at the Heavenly Origin Brush in his hand, Xu Yuan had a clear understanding of his future path.

Gunmanship was bound to be his strongest means.

Even if the Heavenly Origin Brush martial soul transformed, Xu Yuan couldn't possibly change this.

The Brain Martial Soul provided him with the greatest advantage, which was a powerful spiritual force.

The power of spiritual force, as well as means to assist cultivation.

Now, the Heavenly Origin Brush also had a purpose.

“The Heavenly Origin Brush collects materials for me.”

The ability to replicate and materialize gave Xu Yuan hope to quickly personally comprehend the abilities of other martial souls and other spirit beasts, so as to improve his gunmanship.

Of course, this time, after replicating Mo Jue's martial soul and soul skills, Xu Yuan's goal was not to improve gunmanship, but to improve the Heaven Devouring Earth Consuming Great Art.

“The Heaven Devouring Earth Consuming Great Art hasn't been improved for a long time. This time, I don't know if Senior Mo's third soul skill's devouring effect will be useful.”

Xu Yuan waved the Heavenly Origin Brush, and with a stroke on the space scroll in front of him, the image of a black swan had already leapt onto the paper.

This was not drawn by him, but the replicated Black Swan Martial Soul.

Xu Yuan thought for a while and let the paper soul spirit attach to himself.

Xu Yuan's appearance began to change, with a pair of wings unfolding behind him, and black feathers began to quickly cover his body, with a dark aura permeating.

“Is this the beast martial soul?”

It was a pity that Xu Yuan clearly had three martial souls, but he had never experienced the feeling of a beast martial soul possessing him.

At this moment, feeling the improvement of the beast martial soul possession for the first time, he couldn't help but sigh.

“There is a reason why beast martial souls are naturally powerful in physique.”

This time after time of beast martial soul possession doubled the basic qualities, not to mention the soul skills that strengthened themselves.

It can be said that under the long-term possession of any beast martial soul, his physical fitness would be improved more easily than that of a weapon martial soul soul master.

The higher the cultivation and the higher the soul power level, the higher the degree of fusion between the soul master's body and the martial soul, and the stronger the feedback the body would receive from the martial soul itself.

Weapon martial soul soul masters would naturally rise in the later stage, using their relationship with the weapon martial soul to distribute the damage to the martial soul and use the power of the martial soul to strengthen the body.

But this could only be done after the Soul Saint possessed the Martial Soul True Body.

“If I have the opportunity in the future, I will have Yang Nianxia replicate the Dark Gold Bear Martial Soul and experience the feeling of the Dark Gold Bear possession more, which should be conducive to further improving my physique and qi and blood.”

Xu Yuan secretly wrote down this operation, and then began to try Mo Jue's Black Swan Martial Soul's soul skills.

“The first soul skill, Weak Curse, can be used for mutual reference with my Forbidden Seven Absolutes.”

“The second soul skill, Dark Magic Flame, is a dual mental and material burning damage. It doesn't match my abilities very well, but I can also study it. Maybe I can study my own qi and blood flame and life flame.”

“The third soul skill, Darkness Erosion, is the most useful to me, and it contains the most primitive power of darkness devouring.”

Xu Yuan experienced each soul skill one by one, focusing on feeling the third soul skill.

As the dark elements gathered, the wings behind Xu Yuan suddenly opened and flapped, and a circle of dark green halo appeared, devouring everything in front of him, even the space seemed to be swallowed up.

Xu Yuan's eyes flickered, carefully experiencing the power of devouring in the whole process.

The powerful spiritual force enabled him to clearly feel the power of devouring contained in the dark green halo, and also facilitated him to comprehend the artistic conception of this devouring.

“Darkness is to devour everything, but I don't have the attribute of darkness, but I can borrow the theory.”

Darkness can erode everything, so it has the effect of devouring.

Then what abilities does Xu Yuan have that can erode everything?

Xu Yuan thought about his abilities.

The Heavenly Origin Brush in his hand waved, and the five elements gathered.

“The five elements encompass all things.”

The five elements, gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, are the creation of all things, cooperating with yin and yang, and are the essence of all things.

With all five elements complete, they can evolve all things in nature under mutual generation and restraint. If they cooperate with yin and yang attributes, the five elements transforming into yin and yang can create all things.

Conversely, all things can be contained by the five elements.

Isn't this another kind of devouring?

Xu Yuan secretly pondered, adding a new direction to the development of his Heavenly Origin Five Elements Spear.

Based on the five elements, evolve yin and yang, devour everything, and achieve the supreme!