The Fusion of the "body" and the "Soul" is absolutely not a simple 1+1, but rather an essential complement and sublimation,
achieving perfect coordination and circulation on some higher level, realizing a leap in life form.
The "Battle Armor" part is relatively simple. After all, the concept of "Battle Armor" is to put mecha onto the Spirit, while what Kong Deming did was to shape a "body" for the Spirit.
Both are equivalent to giving the Spirit a vessel, except the latter is more difficult than the former, and the two methods even seem combinable.
Taking the above conclusions, and combining them with his previous idea—still under conception—of using the spirit ring as a foundation, fusing Spirit Metal, and forging a "Lifebound Treasure"...
Could such a "Lifebound Treasure" be Fused with a Spirit? Could he forge his own Spirit and spirit rings entirely into a "Lifebound Treasure" tied to his life?
In just a moment, Kong Mingan thought of many things. Furthermore, based on his calculations, this path was genuinely promising.
The only problem was that deducing this path would be relatively more troublesome than "Spell Cultivator" and "Body Cultivator," requiring a significant amount of time.
After a brief pause, Kong Mingan temporarily constructed a framework from the numerous inspirations and ideas that had just surfaced in his mind, throwing it to the "Spiritual Pivot" for preliminary deduction and analysis.
He then looked at his grandpa: "These achievements of yours are enough to keep me busy for quite a while."
"As long as they are useful to you, that's good."
Kong Deming nodded, turned around, and continued leading Kong Mingan and Xu Tianzhen deeper into the laboratory, explaining as they walked:
"Over the past few years, relying on the theories and resources you provided, as well as the computing power support of the 'Spiritual Pivot,' I have primarily achieved three relatively important results."
"The first item, the deep Fusion of the Spirit and the spirit tool—I believe you have already seen most of this, so I will not elaborate further."
"And the second item..." He paused, glancing toward the testing field in the distance.
"...is a derivative technology that I incidentally conquered while researching the Fusion of the Spirit and the spirit tool: a method to enhance the quality of the Spirit by having the Spirit fuse with specific Spirit Metal."
"That child Ji Juechen is the most successful example." Kong Deming's tone carried a hint of admiration.
"His extraterrestrial meteorite iron sword, having been nourished by his own Sword Intent and spirit power for ten years without fail, had long since developed complete sentience."
"After I provided some ideas regarding the Fusion of the Spirit and the spirit tool, he successfully and completely Fused his own Spirit with that sword."
"The only pity is that the quality of the extraterrestrial meteorite iron sword's material was limited, ultimately only raising the quality of his Spirit to the level of an AdvancedSpirit."
"But from this, it can be confirmed that for a Tool Spirit, fusing with Spirit Metal that has been nurtured by one's own spirit power for a long time, or metal whose attributes highly match one's own, through specific secret methods, can directly enhance the quality of one's Spirit!"
"This is similar to a Spirit Master consuming a Heaven And Earth Treasure to promote Spirit evolution. Fusing Spirit Metal is equivalent to letting the Spirit 'consume' the Heaven And Earth Treasure most compatible with it."
Kong Deming slightly slowed his pace and continued to explain: "In order to systematically verify this idea and seek possibilities for popularization, I borrowed the powerful computing power of the 'Spiritual Pivot' to deeply analyze the essence of Spirit Metal."
"The core conclusion given by the 'Spiritual Pivot' is that so-called Spirit Metal is the product of metal being in a high-concentration, highly active spirit power environment for a long period of time, allowing the weak inherent sentience within it to be nourished, naturally grow, and transform."
"Traditionally, Spirit Metal could only be nurtured by a Rank 9 Soul Engineer using their own spirit power over a long period of time."
"This resulted in the nurtured Spirit Metal carrying an extremely strong personal spirit power imprint, making it virtually unusable by other Spirit Masters."
"Just like my Silver Moon Divine Light Shield, even if an outsider obtained it, they would be unable to wield it due to incompatible spirit power."
"Therefore, I changed my approach." Kong Deming glanced at Kong Mingan and said slowly:
"I utilized the massive, relatively pure, and attribute-less spirit power gathered in the 'spirit power Pool' you forged in the demi-plane to establish a stable, high-spirit power environment."
"By placing selected metal blanks into it, and spending half a year, I successfully 'catalyzed' a batch of'semi-finished' Spirit Metal, which possessed nascent sentience but was not yet fully solidified."
"Subsequently, I recruited a group of Spirit Masters with different Tool Spirits and had them use their own spirit power to perform the final directional nurturing on these semi-finished products."
"At this point, the steps for the Spirit Metal to 'recognize its master' and finalize its form were successfully completed."
"Finally, using my improved Fusion method, I had their Spirits fuse with the Spirit Metal they had personally nurtured."
"After the final testing and observation, the quality of the Spirits belonging to all the Tool Spirit Masters who participated in the experiment was enhanced to varying degrees."
"This completely proves that the path of Tool Spirits fusing with Spirit Metal to enhance quality is viable and reproducible."
Kong Mingan's eyes slightly brightened, and he unconsciously nodded slightly.
He had to admit that when it came to research on metals and spirit tools, his grandpa certainly knew how to innovate.
This was only after a few years of research. Furthermore, during this research period, he still had to step out occasionally to handle important state affairs for Sun Moon.
Achieving such results under these circumstances was truly outrageous.
However, the method of mass-producing semi-finished products and then having the Spirit Master complete the final step cleverly bypassed the problem of incompatible spirit power attributes, greatly increasing the applicability of Spirit Metal.
Still, the half-year "catalysis" time was not short, and the manufacturing efficiency was still somewhat low.
Perhaps he could try to develop the forging techniques from ten thousand years in the future ahead of schedule? After all, since forging techniques appeared in later generations, it meant they were absolutely feasible.
Thinking this, Kong Mingan casually added another pending deduction project to the "Spiritual Pivot."
As the few people talked, the three of them arrived at Kong Deming's personal laboratory.
This was where Kong Deming specifically researched highly confidential projects that were difficult to disclose publicly.
Kong Deming signaled the two to make themselves comfortable, and then spoke about his third achievement:
"This third item can currently only be considered a semi-finished product. It relates to 'the interference and alteration of Spirit form by the Fusion of Spirit Metal.'"
Kong Mingan immediately became interested. After thinking for a moment, he tentatively asked:
"Similar to the change in Ji Juechen's Spirit?"
"That's right." Kong Deming smiled and nodded.
"Ji Juechen's Spirit was originally just the most common longsword form, but after fusing with the extraterrestrial meteorite iron sword, his Spirit's form was permanently fixed to the appearance of that meteorite iron sword."
"This proves that the Fusion of Spirit Metal can directly interfere with, or even reshape, the external form of the Spirit."
He paused, and his gaze turned toward Xu Tianzhen, who had been quietly listening while obediently standing beside Kong Mingan.
"Tianzhen, take out that spirit tool of yours."
"Okay, Grandpa Kong."
Xu Tianzhen nodded. With a flip of her wrist, a longsword-shaped spirit tool, streamlined and glowing with a reddish metallic luster, appeared in her hand.
It was the exact item Kong Mingan had seen before.
The so-called "Artifact Cultivator" is divided into two types:
First, the traditional "Artifact Cultivator," such as Ji Juechen, who is a "Sword Cultivator," and Xiao Xiao, who will be written about later and uses a cauldron. Their Spirit structures are relatively simple and not complex.
Second, the spirit tool "Artifact Cultivator." This type is a flourishing field, such as Kong Deming, who integrates spirit tools into his Spirit. As his own spirit tool technology continuously improves, his Spirit will also be continuously refined and strengthened.
PS: Auxiliary professions, like "Mecha Masters," are classified under the spirit tool "Artifact Cultivator" category. The next chapter will cover this content.
PSS: What era is it that people are still practicing traditional "Artifact Cultivator"?!
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