Chapter 108 Level Two Soul Master Yun Ze
The requirement for the Level Two Soul Master assessment is to independently complete the creation and use of three different Level Two Soul Tools.
The experimental field contains an extremely large quantity of rare metals, clearly prepared specifically for Yun Ze.
With a casual wave of his hand, Yun Ze condensed the chilling ice element into an ice crystal carving knife. The blade radiated a sharp edge. Although it wasn't a standard carving knife, its quality surpassed most ordinary carving knives, even comparable to some exquisitely crafted carving knives made from rare metals.
The reason was simple: since comprehending the earth-shattering sword strike after his battle with Ji Juechen, Yun Ze, like Ji Juechen, had initially grasped the rudiments of sword intent.
With the enhancement of sword intent, the sharpness of the ice crystal carving knife was naturally greatly improved.
"After the Soul Master Competition starts next year, I'll go to Star Luo City and see if I can get an invitation to sneak into the Starlight Auction House and get my hands on the Soul Devouring Carving Knife," Yun Ze thought to himself.
The Soul-Devouring Carving Knife was quite useful to Yun Ze. Although it was a carving knife made with Life Gold as its base, and Yun Ze already possessed a considerable amount of Life Gold within him, the more Life Gold the better, both for himself and for Ilex. Anyway,
it was only 100,000 Gold Soul Coins, a drop in the ocean for Yun Ze with his current wealth.
Over the years, the commercial networks radiating outwards from Xuanbing City had earned Yun Ze a considerable amount of money. Although most of it was in the hands of the Ling family, Yun Ze wasn't worried about them embezzling it.
After all, Di Tian had once contacted Ling Tianyi, the head of the Ling family. With Di Tian's strength, the Ling family wouldn't dare to act recklessly, otherwise, they would face annihilation.
Gathering his thoughts, Yun Ze rummaged through the counter behind the crafting table, and soon emerged with a piece of metal.
"Steel Essence?"
Several powerful Soul Masters nearby all turned their gazes to Yun Ze, and when they saw the metal he had produced, they were all stunned.
While steel essence isn't bad, it's still a very common metal, its main characteristic being its hardness.
Generally, this metal is used to make the outer shell of soul tools.
"Judging from the size of the steel essence in his hand... could he be making a melee soul tool?" An eighth-level soul master frowned. Melee soul tools are among the easiest to make in lower-level soul tools; basically, they only require purification, shaping, and engraving a magic array—truly a low-tech process.
The quality of a soul tool depends primarily on its core magic array. Generally, the more refined the core magic array, the greater the power and effect of the soul tool.
For melee soul tools like this, a highly refined magic array isn't necessary.
"Regardless, if it's successfully made, it's still a soul tool," another soul master said.
The last remaining eighth-level soul master, who hadn't spoken until now, stared intently at Yun Ze, expressionless, his face completely blank.
Jing Hongchen also remained silent, simply watching Yun Ze's next move.
The workshop within the testing grounds was incredibly functional. Besides the main workshop in the center, there was a soul-guided smelting platform nearby.
Inscribed on it was a special flame array; when activated with soul power, it could generate high temperatures, and the temperature and flame size could be freely adjusted.
After activating it, a cluster of flames suddenly burst forth from the array. Yun Ze casually tossed some steel essence into it and then turned the firepower up to maximum.
"Has this kid gone mad? With the temperature of this array's fire at its maximum, it could melt the steel essence into molten steel in a very short time." An eighth-level Soul Master frowned. This smelting method was something no one would dare use unless their control over fire and temperature was extremely refined.
Generally speaking, only Soul Masters who had reached the sixth level or above, and who had created countless Soul Tools, could possess this level of fire control.
And Yun Ze was just an eleven-year-old kid taking the second-level Soul Master exam. How dare he use fire like that?
"Genius."
Just then, the eighth-level Soul Master who hadn't spoken until now spoke up calmly.
The eighth-level Soul Master beside him looked at him with some doubt. "Old Xuan, did you see something?"
"Pay attention to his soul power fluctuations. His soul power is extremely powerful ice-attribute soul power. While using the fire array to forge the steel essence, his soul power has already been fully charged and can be used at any time." "
This kind of technique is not commonly used by people unless they have extremely strong control over their own soul power."
"I believe he belongs to this category."
Xuan Ziwen, a senior researcher at Mingde Hall, is an eighth-level Soul Master.
According to Master Jing Hongchen, Xuan Ziwen is actually one foot in the door of a ninth-level Soul Master; the only thing missing is his cultivation level.
As one of the three eighth-level Soul Masters who came to observe, Xuan Ziwen actually volunteered to come.
The reason is simple: he is a person who greatly appreciates talent. After learning about Yun Ze's situation, he also had the intention of taking him as a disciple.
Originally, Xuan Ziwen had very few students, and none of them were ordinary people. The fact that he was willing to take on a disciple shows how much he valued Yun Ze's talent.
Now, Yunze was showing Xuan Ziwen through his actions that his choice was right.
As the flames continued to burn, the originally solid steel essence quickly turned into a pool of steel mud. Yunze's eyes flashed, and a wisp of cold light in his left hand suddenly pierced into the flame array.
"What is he doing?"
At this moment, several soul masters' eyes showed a hint of confusion, which instantly turned into shock!
Because at this moment, Yunze was actually using ice element soul power to forcibly complete the shaping in the smelting platform!
On one hand, he used the high temperature of the fire to make the steel essence controllable, and on the other hand, he used his ultimate level ice soul power to continuously shape the steel essence.
Such efficiency was terrifying, completely bypassing the step of shaping after smelting with a magic array.
Genius, an absolute genius.
At this moment, everyone's mind was filled with only this thought.
With Yunze's ultimate attributes, it only took a very short time to completely complete the process from smelting to shaping.
He gripped the hilt of the steel after it had been forged, and with a sudden pull, a long, slender, jet-black sword appeared in his hand.
The blade possessed a strong steel texture, and although it had a somewhat primitive style, it gave off a very capable feeling.
Yun Ze placed the sword on the crafting table, grasped the ice crystal engraving knife, and began to engrave on the blade.
After a long while, when Yun Ze withdrew his hand, the originally jet-black blade was now covered with engravings, like stars, dazzlingly bright.
After finishing the engraving, Yun Ze picked up the soul-guided longsword and injected his soul power into it. The next moment, the blade was instantly enveloped in a layer of cold, icy air, and not a single drop of it was lost.
"The level two melee soul-guided longsword is complete. Its core array is a fusion array, which can fuse the injected soul power and convert it into the sword's own enhanced soul power, increasing the soul tool's attack power, sharpness, and hardness. The maximum amplification that the array can achieve is fifty percent."
Yun Ze held the soul-guided longsword and smiled slightly at his teachers.
Jing Hongchen, "."
Lin Jiayi, "."
Xuan Ziwen, "." After a moment of silence, Jing Hongchen stepped forward and took the soul-guided longsword from Yunze's hand.
"Steel is one of the harder metals, easy to shape, and not expensive; it's a common item. Judging by the material alone, your close-combat soul-guided longsword is ordinary, but the magic array inscribed on it is one of the most powerful level-two core magic arrays, and one of the rarest core magic arrays among close-combat soul-guided weapons."
"Generally speaking, a level-two soul-guided weapon can be inscribed with two core magic arrays, giving it two different amplification effects. However, your core magic array has reached its limit; it can't accommodate another magic array at all."
At this point, a smile appeared on Jing Hongchen's face. "A very excellent level-two soul-guided longsword. With your soul-guided techniques, under the same conditions, even some level-four soul-guided masters might not be able to make a better close-combat soul-guided weapon than yours."
"Thank you, Dean. I'll continue making the next soul-guided weapon then."
Lin Jiayi couldn't help but ask, "Yunze, aren't you going to rest for a bit before starting?"
"No need, everyone's tired from staying here. I'd better finish this quickly." Yunze shook his head and went back to the counter to select materials.
Soon, Yunze finished choosing the materials for his second soul tool—two kinds of metal. For
his second soul tool, Yunze decided to make a level-two propulsion soul tool.
One rare metal would be the main material for the core array, and the other metal would be used for the inner and outer shell.
Compared to the first soul tool, this one used more materials, but the manufacturing techniques were much less sophisticated, relying entirely on formulaic methods.
Yunze inscribed two soul arrays on this soul tool: an acceleration array and a deceleration array.
Yes, a deceleration array, one of the most difficult arrays to create in propulsion soul tools.
In a sense, this soul array was almost a half-defense soul array; defensive soul tools are the most difficult to make and the rarest.
So when Yunze successfully used the finished product, everyone present fell silent.
"What a monster!"
they all thought.
Without exaggeration, Yunze was absolutely the most outstanding and talented Level 2 Soul Master they had ever seen.
Whether it was inscription, metal smelting, or inner and outer shell construction, Yunze was already a level above other Soul Masters at this level.
And this was a freshman who had only studied for two weeks!
"Hall Master," an Level 8 Soul Master swallowed hard, "How did we get him?
" Jing Hongchen
remained silent, but her eyes never extinguished as she looked at Yunze.
In her eyes, only Yunze remained.
If Yunze were merely handsome, Meng Hongchen would only be interested in him, but now, her heart was completely conquered by Yunze.
After finishing the second Soul Tool, Yunze didn't stop but continued to create the third.
But shortly after he began making it, Jing Hongchen and the others stared at him in utter astonishment.
Holy crap!
He's actually making a level-two defensive soul tool!
Jing Hongchen had already considered that since Yun Ze could inscribe a slowing array, perhaps he could try making a level-two defensive soul tool.
Now he'd actually started!
Level-two defensive soul tools were beyond the capabilities of many level-three soul masters, unless they were geniuses like Xiao Hongchen or Meng Hongchen.
Even Xiao Hongchen couldn't create a level-two defensive soul tool during the level-two soul master assessment.
This soul tool was far more difficult than the previous two, especially the inscription of the core array.
However, for Yun Ze, it was nothing.
After cultivating the Myriad Shadows Secret Technique taught by Ilex, his mental strength had reached an incredibly formidable level, perfectly capable of supporting this level of inscription. After he
completed the core array and assembled the inner and outer shells, Yun Ze looked up and found that everyone's expressions had completely changed.
Yun Ze's lips twitched, a hint of amusement in his eyes.
He had inscribed two core arrays on this level-two defensive soul tool: one to amplify its defensive power, and the other to absorb energy.
Another top-tier core array!
"Meng, you try it," Jing Hongchen said, suppressing his excitement. He spoke to Meng Hongchen beside him, who nodded and walked to Yun Ze.
"Little Ze, I'm starting now."
"Okay."
After a brief exchange, Meng Hongchen raised her slender fingers, and with a surge of soul power, a beam of ice-blue light mixed with crimson light burst forth.
Yun Ze instantly injected his soul power into the soul tool, quickly forming a defense around himself.
As Meng Hongchen's soul power attack struck the defense, a low explosion occurred.
Jing Hongchen's eyes lit up; the defensive performance of this soul tool exceeded his expectations, even comparable to the strength of a level-three defensive soul tool!
It's important to know that a level three soul tool has an extra core magic array compared to a level two soul tool. To reach this level, Yun Ze's soul tool mastery is beyond question!
Taking a deep breath, Jing Hongchen took out a badge he had prepared beforehand and walked up to Yun Ze, handing it to him. Jing Hongchen said, "Congratulations, from now on, you are a level two soul tool master."
"Thank you, Dean." Yun Ze smiled slightly and accepted the badge.
"Yun Ze, classmate." Just then, Xuan Ziwen stepped forward, his sharp eyes fixed on Yun Ze. "I am Xuan Ziwen, a researcher from Mingde Hall, a level eight soul tool master. Would you like to learn from me?"
Xuan Ziwen?
Hearing this name, Yun Ze was silent for a moment, then suddenly thought of something.
This person...
"Ziwen," Jing Hongchen smiled at Xuan Ziwen beside him, "You should know about the relationship between this kid and my Xiao Meng, right?"
"What relationship?"
Xuan Ziwen said calmly.
Jing Hongchen, "..."
(End of Chapter)
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