After returning from the ruins of city b3, Lin Ze rushed to the Swordsmiths Guild without stopping.
His original intention was to ask Pan Zongchang about the Soul Knife's awakening, but after thinking about it, he finally decided to ask Su Lin for advice first. If she didn't know, he would seek help from the guild.
Su Lin happened to be resting in the past two days. When she saw Lin Ze coming to her door, she couldn't help being slightly surprised. When she saw that the latter was dusty and had just come back from outside the settlement area, her expression couldn't help but she said in a deep voice: "What's going on?"
What happened?"
Hearing this, Lin Ze was stunned for a moment. After looking down at his appearance, he suddenly realized.
He had just come back from outside and ran over to find Su Lin without even changing into his combat uniform. No wonder the latter thought something urgent had happened.
"It's nothing serious, I just want to ask you something."
Su Lin's expression relaxed, a smile appeared on her pretty face, and she turned slightly to get out of the way.
"Come in first."
Lin Ze nodded and walked in.
"Where are Xiaojie and Xiaowen?"
"They went to school."
"Going to school?" Lin Ze was a little surprised, but after thinking about it, the two little guys had reached the age of going to school. They just lived in a slum before and couldn't even eat well, so they put it aside for the time being.
But now Su Lin has become a trainee swordsmith and a core member of the swordsmiths guild. She earns a lot of money and naturally wants to send her two younger siblings to school as soon as possible.
Although force is paramount in the wasteland world, the cultural knowledge that should be learned cannot be left behind.
Lin Ze was already very familiar with Su Lin, so Lin Ze was not polite. After sitting down on the sofa, he went straight to the topic.
"Do you know about the Soul Knife's awakening?"
"Soul Knife Awakens?"
Su Lin was stunned for a moment when asked, "I know, I know, the senior swordsmith of the guild told me about this, but you're asking this."
Speaking of this, she seemed to have thought of something, and a look of astonishment appeared on her face, "You can't forge a soul knife, right?"
Lin Ze admitted frankly: "That's right."
After the words fell, Su Lin couldn't help but take a breath, and her eyes suddenly filled with shock as she looked at Lin Ze.
You must know that the Soul Knife Red Lotus that Lin Ze is forging is an advanced formula. It is extremely difficult to cast. The time is usually measured in years. It took many genius swordsmiths seven or eight years to successfully cast the Soul Knife.
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However, how long did it take Lin Ze to use it? It was only a little over half a year. Even if this time was used to forge a lower-level soul knife, it would not be enough. However, he actually succeeded in forging an upper-level soul knife, which is simply unbelievable.
After a long while, Su Lin recovered from the shock. She stared at Lin Ze blankly, opened her mouth, and said something after a moment.
"I will keep your secret!"
It took half a year to forge an advanced soul knife. This can no longer be explained by genius, but by the category of monster. Once word spreads, it is inevitable to attract attention, but it may also be followed by a lot of jealousy or suspicion. Su Lin
I am familiar with Lin Ze's character and know that he never wants to attract attention, so he said this.
"Thank you." Lin Ze thanked him. He really didn't want to attract too much attention, "About the Soul Knife Awakening."
Su Lin understood and continued: "The awakening of the soul knife refers to the stage in which the soul knife continues to grow and strengthen after it is cast. When it is fully awakened, the soul knife can release more powerful power than liberation. You can also
Think of it as a second liberation.”
"In the process of forging the soul knife, the blade absorbed a large amount of soul energy from the insect beasts. This huge energy is hidden in the blade. When we free the soul knife, we can use this energy to perform various
Such ability.”
"However, this soul energy is too strong and huge. The newly promoted official swordsmith can only use part of it at most. Only through continuous communication and understanding, and improving the compatibility with the soul energy, can more soul energy be used!"
"The degree of compatibility, or the degree of awakening, represents the amount of soul energy that a formal swordsmith can use!"
Lin Ze suddenly realized that Honglian's current awakening level was 10%, which meant that he could only use up to 10% of the soul energy contained in the soul knife.
"Only 10% of the soul energy is so powerful. Then when it is fully awakened, the power of the red lotus will be unparalleled." Lin Ze was secretly shocked, but after thinking about it, he was relieved.
After all, in the process of forging the red lotus, he absorbed the soul energy of nearly ten thousand insect beasts. The amount of soul energy gathered was unimaginable. If he could control it all freely, the power that would burst out would be absolutely terrifying.
"It seems that the potential of the Soul Knife's power system is much higher than I originally expected!" A strange color flashed in Lin Ze's eyes, and then he looked at Su Lin and continued to ask, "Then how can we increase the level of awakening?"
"There are three ways!" Su Lin raised three fingers and said softly, "The first way is to exercise through the Soul Liberation Knife. This is also the most appropriate way."
"Frequent use of soul energy can quickly increase the compatibility between the swordsmith and the soul energy, thereby promoting awakening."
Speaking of this, Su Lin specifically added, "In addition, only by liberating the soul knife and actively using soul energy can the awakening level be improved. Just stimulating the characteristics of the soul knife without liberating it, and passively borrowing the power of soul energy will not achieve training.
It’s a suitable effect!”
Hearing this, Lin Ze's heart couldn't help but move.
When he activates the characteristics of the soul knife, he usually uses Qi to fuse the flame soul energy in the soul knife to strengthen its power. Does that count as actively mobilizing soul energy?
Not to mention the flame sword energy formed by using Qi as a medium to fuse the flame soul energy and release it. This should be the active use of soul energy, and it should also have the same training effect.
In this way, even if he does not liberate the soul knife, Lin Ze can use this to exercise his compatibility with the soul energy and promote his awakening.
This is undoubtedly amazing news!
Liberating the Soul Knife is very energy-consuming and cannot be used frequently. Therefore, if an ordinary swordsmith wants to increase his awakening level, the process must be very slow. You can imagine how long it takes. But he is different. He does not need to liberate the Soul Knife, even just for a moment.
You can also exercise to activate the characteristics of the Soul Knife. If things go on like this, your awakening level will definitely increase much faster than others.
Suppressing the joy in his heart, Lin Ze continued to ask: "What about the second one?"
"The second is to improve through spiritual solutions!"
"Lingshi?" Lin Ze recalled it and was sure that he had never heard of similar items.
Su Lin explained: "The solution spirit stone is a little-known strange object. Most swordsmiths don't know the existence of this kind of thing. I also accidentally saw it in an ancient book in the guild library. It said
The Spiritual Solution Stone can greatly increase the awakening level of the Soul Knife, but I don’t know if it is true or not. I will find an opportunity to ask the seniors in the guild later."
"Does the ancient book say where to find the spiritual solution stone?" Lin Ze thought for a while and asked.
"The specific method was not mentioned, only that it was related to the emperor-level insect beast."
Imperial insect beast?
Lin Ze couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this. If this was really the case, then there was really nothing he could do.
Insect beasts are divided into levels one to ten in ascending order according to strength and danger. However, above level ten, there are even more powerful and terrifying insect beasts. Humans call them the emperor level, which means the emperor of insect beasts.
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Emperor-level insect beasts are disaster-level existences. Every time they appear, they are accompanied by an overwhelming swarm of insects, which is enough to threaten the survival and safety of any settlement. Its own strength is extremely terrifying. Only swordsmiths who are above the tenth level can contend.
It's just a matter of contending.
Swordsmiths of this level are also called 'human pillars', which means the pillars of the human race. There are only three in the entire Blackstone settlement.
President of the Swordsmiths Guild, Chairman of the Autonomous Committee and General Counsel of the Blackstone Chamber of Commerce!