thefictionvixens Chapter 79 Bright White Iron
Chapter 79 Bright White Iron
At midday, the sun shone brightly. The spirit beasts in the forest didn't feel much of a difference, but those living in terrain without much tall vegetation to block the sun's rays could definitely feel its power clearly.
Logically, this should be a good time for Soul Masters to walk, search, and act in Soul Beast habitats. After all, Soul Beasts also know how to seek advantage and avoid harm, and they are unwilling to move when it is too hot.
If a Soul Master can endure the scorching sun, this period often becomes the golden time to hunt Soul Beasts, because during this time, the possibility of being disturbed by other Soul Beasts is greatly reduced.
However, this hunting rule for spirit beasts does not apply to Long You and his group now. This is a volcanic area, and 99% of the spirit beasts living here are fire-type spirit beasts. These spirit beasts are only afraid of not being hot, and are definitely not afraid of being hot.
Midday is the peak activity time for spirit beasts in the volcanic area. Although, based on the Longyou team's previous experience traversing the forest, even with the spirit beasts being very active, their chances of remaining undetected were high, why bother?
At midday, normal Soul Masters wouldn't like to wander around outside. Since Soul Beasts are active during this time, let's wait until the sun sets and they become less active before doing anything.
The temporary camp, with its air conditioning and soul-guided devices running all afternoon, provided everyone with ample rest. After dinner in the evening, seeing that the temperature in the volcanic area had dropped significantly and that it was getting dark, Long You and the others finally emerged from the temporary camp.
The camp activated its fully automatic alert and defense mode. Fully armed, the group, aided by optical invisibility and silent soul tools, silently stepped onto the basalt surface of the volcanic area.
Previously, when we were in the forest, we had to clear a path to move forward, and optical cloaking was completely useless in that situation. But now, in this place, the ground is all hard, solid rock, without a single blade of grass, so with proper optical cloaking, we can definitely achieve a complete visual invisibility effect.
Instead of clearing the way, they needed to lead the way, so Long You and He Caitou switched places. Walking 3.6 kilometers would take a considerable amount of time, but Long You and his companions were the kind of people who could speed through the forest at 120 km/h, so why not accelerate even further on this "flat" open space?
Even though they bypassed a herd of fire goats on the way, Long You and his group of five arrived at the target volcano in less than five minutes.
The tactical soul guide helmet has a built-in internal circulation function, so no one can smell the pungent sulfur smell of the crater. However, just by looking at the visual effects, everyone can actually feel that this place is not friendly to low-level soul masters at all.
The golden-red magma was quite active, appearing not viscous at all, just like ordinary lake water. Based on this alone, Long You dared to assert that the temperature of the magma in this crater was terrifyingly high. Magma, magma—it's all rock and metal, yet it melted so smoothly; doesn't that say something?
Zhang Lexuan, being a Soul Saint, couldn't tell anything, but Bei Bei and Tang Ya were in a rather disheveled state. Unlike He Caitou and Long You, who were wearing full-body soul-guided power armor, these two were already sweating profusely from the heat, and their exposed clothes were showing signs of being soaked.
A layer of golden flames occasionally drifted across the surface of the magma, often followed by a plume of black smoke. Although there was no smell, Long You glanced at Bourne's display screen and immediately knew that this stuff was actually highly toxic gas. It wasn't corrosive, but if a low-level Soul Master inhaled it, they could instantly lose consciousness.
Originally, Long You planned to take his self-made high-temperature detection soul tool in to see if there were any suitable targets, but now he has changed his mind. This temperature and this environment are beyond the capacity of a level four soul tool.
Carefully taking out a gold and red box, Long You took out a dark red soul tool that looked like a small tank.
Long You had actually planned what kind of soul beast to find for He Caitou, which is why he prepared a high-temperature resistant unmanned detection soul tool in advance. However, he couldn't leave when the holiday started and ended up staying at the academy for another two months.
During these two months, Fan Yu once forged a batch of Yangyan Gold without knowing what he was doing. After forging it, he also fused it with a batch of rare metals that Long You didn't know what they were. Long You wasn't sure what other characteristics these rare metals had after fusion, but they were definitely resistant to high temperatures.
After Fan Yu used up this batch of materials, he had some scraps left over. Long You asked about them, and Fan Yu gave them all to him. This batch of metal was specially crafted by Fan Yu, and these scraps were indeed of little use.
Upon receiving the batch of metal, Long You first analyzed what metal had been melted into the sail feathers. However, when he looked at the words displayed in the Book of Witness, Long You was dumbfounded: it was pure white iron.
Its name is quite ordinary, because its original material is indeed very ordinary—just refined iron. However, the way luminous white iron is formed is anything but ordinary. This thing needs to be continuously burned by the breath of the Holy Dragon of Light for seven days to transform the most ordinary refined iron into the purest and most yang luminous white iron.
Normally, to find this thing, you would first need to find the Holy Dragon of Light. But where on the Douluo Continent now are there any powerful soul beasts like this? As for rare metals like Ming Iron, they are just words written in books; I've never actually seen one.
However, while there are indeed no spirit beasts like the Holy Light Dragon on the Douluo Continent, there are definitely Holy Light Dragon spirit masters. Everyone knows about Martial Soul True Body, right? A Holy Light Dragon spirit master who uses their Martial Soul True Body can also breathe dragon breath.
Who is the Holy Dragon Soul Master of Shrek Academy? No need to elaborate, right?
Having figured this out, only one thought popped into Long You's mind: "Hey, this person has already done so much work, what's the Soul Guidance Department supposed to do?"
We've digressed, let's get back to the point. Knowing that Fan Yu was melting and forging bright white iron within the Yangyan Gold, Long You was at a loss. This metal was beyond his current capabilities; even with the small electric furnace Long You had created, it wouldn't melt no matter how hard he burned it.
There was no other way, so Long You turned to Fan Yu for help again. He was too embarrassed to let Fan Yu handle the core magic array, so Long You just asked his teacher to turn it into a moving tank model.
After returning, Long You installed a core magic array in the tank's interior space that Fan Yu had specially reserved. Then, wielding a hammer and chisel, he carved a very rough soul power circulation magic array using a chisel method.
Let's put aside Long You's idea of recycling this rare metal for now and talk about this small tank, the one Long You is currently holding.
This is also a detection soul tool. It's a bit small, and its level is indeed only level four, but it's reliable in some extreme situations. Soul beasts under 50,000 years old shouldn't even think about destroying this thing.