Of course, more attention is given to the spiritual nurturing within the metal.
The Spiritualization Array operates constantly, nurturing with one's own Soul Power and Spiritual Power, so the spirituality will naturally improve. However, this progress is slow and requires a considerably long time to complete.
Xuan Ziweng's Spiritual Power has reached the standard, and he has also contracted all the Spiritual Metal needed for his Advanced Battle Armor crafting.
But the nurturing duration is too long, so he took the opportunity during this interval to research the Star Staff, in order to increase his future success rate in crafting a Ninth-level Soul-guiding Device.
Of course, Advanced Battle Armor can also have the Core Array purely inscribed on Spiritual Metal without using spirituality to draw it.
However, this places a limit on the upgrade potential of the Battle Armor later on.
Spiritual nurturing relies on the Spiritualization Array, and inscribing a large number of arrays on the metal surface leaves less space for the Spiritualization Array, reducing the potential for its optimization.
It will be extremely difficult to enhance the spirituality of the metal later.
The optimal solution Su Yu and the others decided on is to inscribe the Spiritualization Array during the forging process to awaken the spirituality afterward.
Only arrays beneficial for nurturing the metal spirit are physically inscribed on the metal.
The true arrays involved in the Battle Armor are drawn using spirituality.
"Senior Brother, I have another project here, are you interested?"
Su Yu initially wanted to explore the Bone Pattern System on his own step by step.
But then he thought, this system involves a vast amount of Bone Patterns, and the Soul Bones he can refer to are limited.
It's better to find someone to research together.
"What's the idea?"
Xuan Ziweng was curious about Su Yu's intriguing ideas.
The Rune System and Armor System are already enough to explain everything.
Su Yu explained his conception of the Bone Pattern System to Xuan Ziweng.
After listening to Su Yu's explanation, Xuan Ziweng once again showed a look of astonishment.
"Wonderful! It can be done this way too!"
It must be said that the application field of runes is genuinely broad.
It's not only an enhancement to the overall Soul-guiding Device, but it significantly reduces the barriers when a Soul Master manipulates it.
It can even directly be used as a Secret Technique for Spiritual Power cultivation.
Moreover, it can perform various effects or be applied within the Armor Domain, completing the integration of Battle Armor and Soul Master.
Now, Su Yu proposed a new idea of inscribing runes on his own skeleton to strengthen the bones and flesh.
"After reinforcing the bones comes the flesh, and after the flesh come the internal organs, ultimately tempering the entire body to make it peerlessly strong." Xuan Ziweng admired Su Yu's vision and praised it.
Su Yu indeed made the right call by finding Xuan Ziweng.
Even without further ideas, just a conception of Bone Pattern enabled Xuan Ziweng to comprehend the subsequent matter of tempering the flesh.
"No, your idea is too brilliant. I will try it as soon as I have time."
Xuan Ziweng planned to pause his research on the Star Staff.
This Bone Pattern System reveals a promising prospect akin to the Armor System.
"Teacher, the spirituality test results for Spiritual Metal are out."
A crisp female voice came from behind Su Yu.
Su Yu turned his head and saw a beautiful girl with long black hair, looking drowsy, pushing the door open.
"Orange? Just leave the report here for me." Xuan Ziweng looked up and greeted.
"By the way, this is Su Yu, my junior disciple."
Orange's initially drowsy eyes immediately became more clear as she assessed Su Yu.
"You're the Brother Su that Yuhao speaks highly of?"
She seemed very curious about how this fifteen-year-old boy, Su Yu, was so remarkable in Huo Yuhao's words.
"Orange, this is my junior disciple, don't be disrespectful."
"I got it, I got it." Orange waved her hand and extended it towards Su Yu, "Hello, I'm Orange. Yuhao probably mentioned me to you, right?"
Su Yu's lips twitched.
He wished to know what Orange's reaction would be if he claimed Yuhao hadn't mentioned her.
"Hello, Su Yu."
He held back that mischievous thought and didn't act on it.
"Xiaoyu, since you're also here, the spirituality detection report for Spiritual Metal is out. Let's have a look together." Xuan Ziweng suggested.
Only then did Su Yu snap back to reality and inquire, "What is a spirituality detection report?"
He was also puzzled about this test.
Xuan Ziweng organized his thoughts and explained, "All energy can be detected for data. The spirituality inside the Spiritual Metal is so prominent that I conducted numerous studies to detect data representing the intensity of its spirituality."
Listening to Xuan Ziweng's explanation, Su Yu roughly understood.
"What stimuli allow the spirituality inside Spiritual Metal to grow fastest is a topic I'm currently researching."
The forging of Spiritual Metal can also be done without a Blood Covenant, but just awakened rare metal spirituality may not be as strong as after a Blood Covenant.
However, such Spiritual Metal can be used for research.
After all, the contracted Spiritual Metal occupies a spot in the contract. Any mistake in utilizing spirituality or perfecting the Spiritualization Array on the metal surface will lead to permanent loss.
Therefore, it's necessary to conduct research using non-contracted Spiritual Metal.
At Xuan Ziweng's invitation, Su Yu also looked at the spirituality detection report on Spiritual Metal.
"This is the control group for nurturing through pure Soul Power, pure Spiritual Power, and combined nurturing of both Soul Power and Spiritual Power."
"These are the comparison groups for the three nurturing methods under different environments."
Su Yu looked at the neat comparative data and quickly analyzed the key factors of spirituality enhancement.
"Soul Power is indispensable, while Spiritual Power plays a significant role, and in certain extreme conditions, it may aid in spiritual nurturing."
Nurturing the spirituality of Spiritual Metal requires Soul Power first, and on this foundation, Spiritual Power's nurture significantly boosts the efficiency.
"This is the situation of the Soul Masters responsible for nurturing in various extreme conditions."
Xuan Ziweng took out another record and began to compare the data from all the extreme conditions with the Soul Masters involved.
"The fact proves that the positive stimulus brought by extreme environments is also related to the Soul Power attributes of the Soul Masters responsible for nurturing."
Su Yu had to admire the comprehensive and rigorous nature of Xuan Ziweng's experiments.
"Senior Brother, perhaps we can add various attributes' amplification on the Spiritualization Array."
Xuan Ziweng nodded, "I've had that thought as well."
Su Yu was very interested in Xuan Ziweng's research.
The data clearly showed that nurturing with Soul Power combined with Spiritual Power, supplemented by extreme environments compatible with the Soul Master's Soul Power, exponentially accelerated the speed of spirituality nurture.
This holds significant implications.
"In saying this, absorbing Thunderous Yanyu Vine as a Soul Spirit indeed played a role."
Without the Thunderous Yanyu Vine, Su Yu's Soul Power would be purely Life Attribute.
But now, Su Yu can transform into Thunder Attribute Soul Power, and nurture his Battle Armor under thunder with the help of Thunderous Yanyu Vine.
Furthermore, if the subsequent research aligns with Su Yu's expectations, then the perfection of the Spiritualization Array need not rely solely on adding layers to the array itself.
Su Yu flipped through the report and was attracted by the name "Huo Yuhao" on the last page.
"Yuhao's Ultimate Ice seems even more effective than ordinary Ice Attribute Soul Masters in nurturing spirituality."
Xuan Ziweng marveled.
"Could the intensity of an attribute also affect nurturing efficiency?"
He jotted it down, planning to arrange such a test group next.
After reviewing the research report at Xuan Ziweng's lab, Su Yu gained a lot.
"By the way, Teacher, Yuhao is crafting Basic Battle Armor recently. It seems he plans to use Spiritual Metal, will there be any issues?"
Huo Yuhao is Mirror Hongchen's disciple, and Mirror Hongchen is concerned about his cultivation progress.
Orange inquired about it with Xuan Ziweng...
"Using Spiritual Metal for Basic Battle Armor?" Xuan Ziweng frowned.
"Since the Hall Master didn't stop him, his Spiritual Power should be sufficient to support contracting these Spiritual Metals."
He immediately eased his brow and waved it off.
"Xiaoyu, let me make some arrangements first, you can find me tomorrow, we'll discuss the Bone Pattern matter."