The soul is not equivalent to consciousness, lacking complete thought, but they too have their own "desires."

Even if they are to be sculpted into artifacts, they must become the best artifacts!

And a Soul Sculptor who doesn't even believe in themselves, how can they earn the recognition of souls...

On the contrary, someone like Yun You, who is "self-empowered," willing to put aside all so-called worries and strive fully to manifest the perfect creation of their mind, will receive the souls' tolerance instead.

This is also why Yun You could quickly get started.

Before long, the young girl completed her painting.

The final stroke was drawn by her finger, transforming into a sky full of stars, scattering towards the distant horizon, forming a splendid galaxy.

Afterward, this soul world gradually faded, all the light spots and stars fused into one, turned into a scorching energy sphere, floating in Yun You's palm.

Her consciousness returned to reality, but the sculpting was far from over.

The energy sphere carried the soul core of the Young King, constantly rotating, while conveying a thought into Yun You's ear.

"Forge the artifact."

[The first phase of "drafting the blueprint" is over! Little one!]

Seeing this, Master Zero quickly reminded.

[Now it's the second phase! You must have heard it say "Forge the artifact," right? What it means is for you to find a suitable tool to mold the shape of this soul energy, like the steel shaping engineering in heavy industry]

[Any hammer will do!]

"Hammer..."

Upon hearing this, Yun You didn't dare to hesitate and quickly looked around.

However, this place, located in Bottom City, is just a wasteland, with few factories or blacksmith workshops in sight, let alone any handy tools or hammers?

After searching for a long time, the little one could only barely dig out a large cement block with steel bars, weighed it slightly, and then directly smashed it towards the energy sphere...

Fizz——

However, before the cement could touch the sphere, it was instantly vaporized by the high-temperature energy in mid-air, even the steel within melted rapidly into red-hot iron, exploding silver sparks all around.

"Hiss..."

Yun You couldn't help but take a sharp breath.

The nature of this soul energy sphere is quite peculiar, contact with human or other biological flesh won't cause much harm, but if one tries to use lifeless objects to touch it, it will burst forth with extremely terrifying thermal energy.

[Oh dear, I didn't think of this just now!]

Watching the cement powder evaporate completely, Master Zero exclaimed somewhat frustratedly.

[Sorry, little girl... I just dug this out from memory...]

[The second phase of Soul Carving, "Forge the artifact," usually requires external assistance, such as using forging hammers or files made of special alloy, or buying blessings from high-level Death Gods]

[If you have none, you can only use the mortal body to tough it out...]

"No problem, it's not a big issue."

Yun You shook her head, thought a bit, and then directly bent down to headbutt the energy ball!

Dong!

A remarkably crisp sound echoed.

The little girl's headbutt was a full-force hit, smashing the energy sphere into a dent!

Of course, her own forehead was slightly swollen as well.

[Wow, you went directly with your head?]

Master Zero widened his eyes, totally not expecting Yun You to be so bold.

"The skull is considered one of the hardest bones in the human body, so I tried my head first."

Yun You grimaced, rubbed her aching head.

"If the headbutt works, it proves that I can forge this thing, and if it doesn't budge, there's no need to try with other parts."

[Uh, that seems pretty reasonable]

Master Zero mumbled...

[But it seems a bit not so wise]

"If you can follow my line of thought, you'll realize I'm the one who is extremely smart! It's just that I appear a bit silly."

Yun You casually replied, and then head-butted the energy light sphere again.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

After a few headbutts, the energy sphere lost its previous shape, knocked into a polyhedral figure.

But it's still far from being truly formed.

[At this rate, I think you'll need at least 200 more times]

Master Zero looked at the little girl's highly swollen forehead and cautiously asked...

[Are you sure you want to continue headbutting?]

"..."

Yun You went silent.

She wanted to finish all at once, but she really couldn't bear it anymore.

The skull of the Apprentice Death God is hard indeed, but if she keeps hitting like this, even if the bone were made of steel, it couldn't withstand it.

200 times is really too many, if she forces herself to finish it, she might as well not go on any Floating Island missions, just find a grave and throw herself in, cover with a little blanket and sleep forever...

"What should I do then..."

Yun You slightly frowned.

But at this moment, her gaze inadvertently caught sight of a person.

To be precise, a shattered body.

The black-and-white middle-aged Soul Sculptor she had just taken down.

Originally, Yun You intended to consume him, but after thinking it over, she felt eating such a person was a bit nauseating, so she didn't take a bite.

And now it seems, the little girl's earlier decision was correct, because this guy could serve a much better purpose...

"Hehe."

[Hehe...]

Yun You and Master Zero both chuckled.

Then, the little girl grabbed the Soul Sculptor's legs, used his head as a hammer, bang bang banged it against the energy polyhedron.

Bang... Bang...!

Finally, when the sound of the 204th strike fell, the energy polyhedron was completely forged into a block of light particles, completing the second phase of "Forging the artifact."

With a swish, it suddenly unfolded, and then kept changing shapes mid-air, like a piece of glowing clay, forming its final shape.

Yun You knew this was the last step of Soul Carving—shaping.

During this phase, the Soul Sculptor needs to do nothing, just wait for the soul transformation to finish, then receive a new Soul Carving.

"I wonder what form the soul of the Young King will end up—an attack type? Or a function type?"

The young girl was quite expectant.

However, what happened next completely caught both her and Master Zero off guard.

That soft, clay-like energy suddenly split in two, forming two entirely different objects in the air.

The former was an emerald-colored bracelet, and the latter... was a fish.

An 80-pound freshwater fish.

The two just floated side by side in front of Yun You, occasionally emitting golden light, vibrating a few times, constantly attracting and contending for her attention.

This scene seemed almost like...

Urging Yun You to stop hesitating and quickly choose her favored one from the two.

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