"Ten, nine, eight."
"Three, two, one!"
Quan Yi silently counted down the final ten numbers in his mind. At the very last moment, the hammer's ring and the vibration from within the Sun Gold finally matched, achieving perfect resonance at the same frequency.
One hundred thousand hammer strikes complete!
Not one more, not one less. Exactly right.
The sunlight was dazzling. Powerful vibrational force shook Quan Yi's steadying fingers away, and it flew into the air.
The golden-red light transformed in an instant into piercing Blazing White Light, and the already scorching metal temperature climbed sharply.
Heat reaching several million degrees was sealed inside the Sun Gold, making it look extremely dangerous and unstable.
Yet that immense energy flowed within it in an orderly way, without the slightest sense that it was out of control.
The Sun Gold had left Quan Yi's palm, but it was controlling the energy inside by its own will, keeping it from spilling outward.
The brightness of the light rapidly decreased, and a powerful Mental Power was invisibly regulating everything.
When the light had completely drawn inward, an utterly ordinary-looking Spiral Pattern Gold Sphere drifted up before Quan Yi, radiating warmth.
Spirit Awakening had succeeded! Under Quan Yi's six full days of persistence, the metal had finally crossed into a new realm, reaching the final stage before Tribulation Transcendence.
The evolved Sun Gold had risen by a clear level in both the quality of the Sun Power within it and its temperature.
Moreover, its intelligence had reached the level of a high-grade Soul Beast. Even if it had not yet reached the level of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast or a human, it was only one step away.
The gold sphere made no sound, but Quan Yi could sense the emotions within it.
"You're happy about