Spirit Armor, Ye Ling, Slash Me!

Very soon, as Ye Ling willed it, every piece of Battle Armor appeared on his body.

Starting with the headband, then the breastplate, it gradually extended until it finally reached the leg armor. In an instant, Ye Ling was fully armed, his entire body flashing with brilliant radiance that left everyone stunned.

At that moment, countless people present silently turned their eyes toward Ye Ling, utterly astonished.

"So this is the armor Brother Ye forged? Why is it so terrifying?" Long Haochen stared at Ye Ling before him, his mouth hanging open in disbelief. The light it emitted alone already felt incredibly wondrous and extraordinary to him.

Cai'er was equally surprised. She could sense how terrifying the armor Ye Ling wore was. Any single piece of it had reached the Brilliant Grade, yet when combined, it had reached the level of Brilliant Peak.

It was truly extraordinary.

With that thought, Cai'er silently walked toward Ye Ling. Long Haochen froze when he saw this, but said nothing and followed after her.

A One-Word Battle Armor really is terrifying. My own combat strength is already formidable, yet once I put on the full set, I can feel my strength surge dramatically. While this boost cannot instantly let me cross two major ranks, it is enough to push my strength straight up to the Fifth Rank for now.

Ye Ling pondered inwardly. He needed to find somewhere to test just what level his current abilities had reached.

Then, he saw Cai'er and Long Haochen silently walking toward him. He shook his head. What a joke—if they fought with his current strength, Long Haochen would be instantly defeated. Cai'er might barely be able to put up a fight, but she would lose soon enough.

He should find someone else.

"Brother Ye Ling, your armor is so special. Even the Sword of Reincarnation cannot suppress it through quality alone." Cai'er walked over and, after receiving Ye Ling's permission, reached out to touch him, carefully sensing the armor he wore.

She had not felt much from a distance just now, but after experiencing it firsthand, she could only think that it was so cool and so powerful. If she could equip armor of this level too, her strength would rise greatly, perhaps even by a whole step.

"You like it? Then later, I'll forge a set for you according to what suits you best." Ye Ling reached out and rubbed Cai'er's head with a faint smile.

However, as soon as he said that, Long Haochen's eyes sparkled. "Brother Ye, I want one too! I want one too!"

He did not like owing others favors, but if the person he owed was Ye Ling, then it did not really matter.

Besides!

What knight could refuse armor this handsome?

However, hearing this, Ye Ling felt a little awkward. He said helplessly, "Haochen, according to my judgment, to bear the power of a Battle Armor, you need at least the strength of a Fifth Tier Earth Knight. Even if your talent is good, you would still need to be past the fifth or sixth level of the Fourth Rank before you could barely withstand it."

"Ah?" Long Haochen was shocked. He felt as though his dream had shattered. Then he looked at Cai'er and asked, "Then why can Sister Cai'er use it?"

"Don't you know?" Ye Ling said as he rubbed Cai'er's head. "Cai'er's combined Internal and External Spiritual Power is around one thousand five hundred points. She is an eighth-level Great Grandmaster!"

Long Haochen: "!!!"

He had only just found out.

No, wait.

Cai'er was younger than him, so why was she this strong?

Was she cheating or something?

Just as Long Haochen was reeling in shock, Long Xingyu returned as well. He landed in the mountains, looking delighted. Hehe, Yue'er spoke two more sentences to me today. Even though she was asking about Long Haochen, she still spoke two more sentences to me.

However, after sensing the radiance released by Ye Ling's Battle Armor, Long Xingyu immediately became alert and rushed toward Ye Ling.

A Ninth-Order Divine Seal Knight was incredibly fast. In an instant, he arrived before them. Seeing Ye Ling clad in armor and sensing the aura he gave off, he was rather surprised.

"Brilliant Grade battle armor, and every single component is Brilliant Grade? What is going on?" The smile Long Xingyu had gained from Bai Yue vanished completely. He looked at the armor Ye Ling wore with intense excitement.

What a joke. No knight would be uninterested in battle armor—not even Long Xingyu, who possessed the Slaughter and Judgment Divine Seal and its armor.

Hearing Long Xingyu's question, Ye Ling began explaining.

"This is an armor-forging method I developed. It is called Battle... no, Spirit Armor. According to my plans, it must be forged from Thousand Refined Metal and nurtured with one's own spiritual power before it can perfectly merge with the wearer." Ye Ling explained.

"Spirit Armor!" Long Xingyu's eyes lit up. No one knew what he was thinking, but he eventually asked again, "Do you have plans for further development?"

Ye Ling nodded. "According to the plan, it will progress upward alongside the forging grades. Thousand-Temper corresponds to one word, Spirit Forging to two words, Soul Forging to three words, and Heavenly Forging to four words. What I have mastered now is a One-Word Spirit Armor, called Light."

"Under normal circumstances, a One-Word Spirit Armor can only be used after reaching the Fifth Rank. However, those with good talent and sufficient endurance can use it in the middle stage of the Fourth Rank, when they have one thousand points of spiritual power."

Ye Ling spoke slowly, revealing everything that could currently be disclosed.

From the moment Long Xingyu heard Ye Ling mention Spirit Armor, his face had been filled with a smile. Even after hearing everything that followed, that smile remained, as though he were listening to the most wonderful words in the world.

Good heavens.

This was a tremendous invention!

Compared to everything Ye Ling had created before, this was truly a revolutionary change.

If every Fourth Rank—no, those were geniuses. The Alliance did not have that many geniuses.

But if every Fifth Rank could be equipped with this kind of Battle Armor, even if its quality was not as high as Ye Ling's, it would still be enough to elevate them to another level. They would also have a greater chance of victory when attacking the Demon Clan!

"How much is the increase?" Long Xingyu asked directly. This was the most crucial question.

Ye Ling closed his eyes and sensed it carefully. Then he said quietly, "I have not forged ones of other qualities, so I do not know the exact figures. But according to my estimates, the minimum increase should be around five hundred to eight hundred points."

"As for the set I have, the minimum increase is one thousand five hundred points. I do not know the upper limit for now. I cannot withstand it yet, but it is at least two thousand points, perhaps even more terrifying." Ye Ling said.

As his words ended, the Battle Armor on Ye Ling's body—no, the Spirit Armor—also flashed with corresponding light, continuously bursting forth. The increase within it was clearly around one thousand five hundred points of spiritual power.

"Hiss!" Long Xingyu could not help drawing in a sharp breath.

That meant that with Ye Ling's current strength, he could directly rise to the Fifth Rank.

And once he reached the Fifth Rank, with the armor's boost, he could possess the strength of the Sixth Order!

And Ye Ling was not far from the Fifth Rank!

Thinking of this, Long Xingyu became delighted.

At the same time, he wanted to test it himself.

"Ye Ling, slash me!" Long Xingyu looked at Ye Ling and shouted.