Aggressive Momentum

Gu Jinlai thought of Fang Que, Qin Guichuan, and Yang Shengping, whom he had seen earlier.

Then he thought of Wang Dongyu, whom he had killed with his own hands, and a group of Falling Star Guards.

These people all shared a striking characteristic.

Their red name rate was very high.

It was much higher than Starlight City's.

At the time, he thought the Falling Star Guards wanted to suppress the cultivation world and had a great deal of blood debt on them, which was why everyone was entangled in karma.

Now it seemed...

The truth was ready to come out.

Those who abetted villains, even if they had not directly participated in the killing, still saw their karma grow.

It was merely a matter of more or less.

"I can't let this go."

Gu Jinlai supported himself with his hands on the desk and stood up, his upper body leaning slightly forward. "I want to try."

Zhao Fan did not choose to go tit-for-tat with Gu Jinlai, lowering his head instead.

He was merely an insignificant part of the colossal interest group that was Lingxiao City.

This trip...

Was just to deliver a message.

Now that the message had been delivered, he no longer lingered. "I'm only making a suggestion. You are the superior, and the decision on how to act rests in your hands."

With that, he bowed and took his leave.

As Zhao Fan departed, Gu Jinlai stayed by himself for quite a while.

A full ten minutes or so later, he turned his gaze back to the information provided by Zhao Fan and picked it up to read.

The document detailed the participants in the Crimson Blood Sect incident in a way that left no evidence, as well as the power behind them and the people behind them.

The sheer scale of this influence—let alone the current Gu Jinlai, even a Gu Jinlai who was still in his prime years ago and served as an elder of the Purgatory Demon Sect—would never have dared to easily interfere.

Otherwise, at the slightest misstep, even with his status as a Spirit Refining Giant, he would be ground into fine powder in this power struggle.

"So, when it all comes down to it, it only proves one thing: having been born in Blue Star and receiving a good quality education and moral education since childhood... Well, if I didn't know, that would be one thing, but since I do..."

Gu Jinlai casually tossed the document onto the table. "I cannot stomach this kind of mortal suffering."

He stood up and scrutinized himself.

After a good while, he suddenly said, "I really am a good person, hahahaha."

Having said that, he let out a hearty laugh, stepped out of the Falling Star Guard mansion, and headed straight for a courtyard not far from the estate that specialized in casting.

The courtyard had always been managed by Gu Junxiu and Gu Junlei. They were originally skilled in casting artifacts, and Gu Jinlai had given them one hundred thousand taels of silver to spend freely. When Gu Jinlai arrived at the courtyard, the two of them, having received word, had already displayed their results in the main hall of the courtyard.

"Old Ancestor."

Gu Junxiu bowed, at the same time gesturing with an empty hand and saying, "Over this past month, I have led the others in casting armor day and night without a moment's pause. As of today, we have forged ten sets of armor and four swords. Please inspect them, Old Ancestor."

Gu Jinlai walked up to a set of heavy armor.

This set of heavy armor was cast from an osmium-iridium alloy. Because it had not yet undergone spirit resonance, it looked rather crude and its composition was extremely poor.

In terms of quality, it was still inferior to his previous precious armor.

However...

Gu Jinlai originally intended for Gu Junxiu and Gu Junlei to cast the blanks, leaving the precision operations to himself.

He stepped forward, lifted the heavy armor—whose single breastplate alone was over two meters tall—and nodded in satisfaction with its weight.

Immediately afterward, he came to the two-and-a-half-meter-long heavy sword. He lifted it with one hand and could distinctly feel its heaviness.

This was still because he had not yet performed spirit resonance to let it fully grow into osmium metal; otherwise, this sword would have been even heavier.

"Good."

Gu Jinlai nodded in satisfaction.

He turned his attention once more to the set of precious armor.

The sizes of both the precious armor and the precious sword had been cast according to the standards of the Great Sun True Demon Body.

"I will select the highest-quality set out of the ten sets of precious armor and four precious swords to undergo spirit resonance, and in the future, I will even find a way to refine them into spirit artifacts, making them weigh a thousand jun."

Gu Jinlai said.

Speaking of spirit artifacts, he felt a bit of a headache again.

Spirit artifacts took far too long to form.

Depending on heavenly masters for spirit resonance and spirit infusion, it was unlikely a single spirit artifact could be forged in ten years.

Yet the myriad wondrous aspects of spirit artifacts were intensely alluring.

Compared to precious artifacts, their greatest characteristic was that they possessed numinosity.

If a thousand-jun heavy armor were refined into a spirit artifact, it could be made to weigh ten thousand jun, its size could be altered at will, and its form could change according to one's desires.

The master of the Purgatory Sect, Lu Dengxian, possessed a superior-grade spirit artifact named the Heavenly River Armor.

It was forged from Heavenly Star Gold.

Heavenly Star Gold was extremely sturdy, but lacked toughness.

Yet Lu Dengxian's Heavenly River Armor, being a superior-grade spirit artifact, possessed two heavy numinosities.

First, it could be soft or hard.

It was said that the Heavenly River Armor stimulated to its absolute limit was like a layer of golden gauze, or like a stream of water circling around one's body.

This first numinosity perfectly resolved the problem of the Heavenly River Armor's insufficient toughness.

Second, it could grow large or shrink small.

To ensure defense, Lu Dengxian's Heavenly River Armor was three meters tall and weighed three thousand jun when the armor was formed.

Through the numinosity of altering size at will, this piece of Heavenly River Armor fit his body perfectly, allowing him to move with complete ease.

Currently, Lu Dengxian constantly had heavenly masters refine the third numinosity of this spirit artifact.

That was to reduce its weight in order to conserve physical stamina.

Once this flaw was remedied and the Heavenly River Armor advanced to a peerless-grade spirit artifact, an ordinary person wearing it would likely leave Core Forming experts helpless.

"Even though demonic beasts leave behind spiritual nature upon death, the quantity is far too small. If one could venture deep into the Demon Realm, slaughter demonic spirits that have not yet entered the bodies of fierce beasts, extract their spiritual nature, and inject it to evolve the precious armor, the efficiency of transforming precious armor and precious swords into spirit artifacts would definitely advance by leaps and bounds."

Gu Jinlai had already mastered the Great Sun Ever-Radiant Soul Secret Technique, acquiring the power to slaughter demonic spirits.

Only, venturing deep into the Demon Realm...

Could only be joked about.

"Old Ancestor, aside from the precious armor, the molds you requested have also been cast."

Gu Junxiu once again pulled several items out from the side.

They were precisely a Type 1130 close-in weapon system and a six-barreled Gatling machine gun.

To be precise, they were models.

Although things like the Type 1130 close-in weapon system even included radar and display screens, they were showy and impractical.

They could not be used at all.

Still, Gu Junxiu's craftsmanship was quite good; looking at the metallic luster on them, anyone unaware would have thought these were some kind of real deal.

Gu Jinlai inspected them and nodded in satisfaction. "The efficiency is very fast."

"Since the Old Ancestor gave the command, we naturally will do our utmost."

Gu Junxiu said modestly.

"Next, put the forging and casting of the precious armor and precious swords aside for now. I want you to manufacture a sufficient quantity of bullets with all your might."

Gu Jinlai pondered for a moment and added, "I will bring another batch of people over from the lineage. Since we lack automated techniques, bullets can only be manufactured by hand. As for the standards, the two of you will strictly vet them for me."

Saying this, his tone turned solemn. "Especially the gunpowder formula. Under no circumstances must anyone other the three of us come into contact with it."

"Understood."

Gu Junxiu nodded heavily.

"Alright, once the people from the lineage arrive, go all out to rush the production of bullets. Let's set a small target first—forge ten thousand rounds."

Gu Jinlai said, "To ensure the formula doesn't leak, from now on, I will have Gu Chifeng lead a team to take charge of your safety."

"We obey the Old Ancestor's command."

Gu Junxiu and Gu Junlei respectfully bowed.

Gu Jinlai gave a few more instructions regarding the details, told someone to carry the precious armor, precious swords, as well as the Gatling gun and close-in weapon system models, and returned to the Falling Star Guard mansion.

Right now, the precious armor, the precious swords, and the bullets cast by Gu Junxiu and the others were all extremely crude.

Especially delicate items like bullets; their estimated yield of qualified products was probably less than ten percent.

Even if they passed, because the gunpowder was close to raw materials, the might would not reach Gu Jinlai's expectations.

When the time came, he would still have to rely on himself to bring those bullets "to life" through the method of spirit resonance, optimizing the gunpowder and structure so they would automatically grow into qualified bullets.

Bullets were like this, and the Gatling machine gun was no different.

He still had many manufacturing processes that needed to rely on spirit resonance to supplement them.

"It looks like I need to acquire some more clear light, and raise the Great Sun Ninefold Refinement Visualization Method so that I can condense more spiritual consciousness."

Gu Jinlai thought to himself.

He returned to the Falling Star Guard mansion, and before he even had time to begin working, Gu Zhaoyang hurried over in a rush. "Old Ancestor, Fang Que is leading a group of Falling Star Guards and Wang family experts, and they are aggressively coming toward the west of our city."