Refining Spirit Weapons

Early the next morning, Zhao Xiaotian gave Zhao Wuji some money and asked him to buy one or two Alchemy Furnaces. Zhao Wuji took a casual trip around Suotuo City and bought four Alchemy Furnaces made of excellent materials.

Zhao Xiaotian found a random cave on the academy's back mountain and placed the four Alchemy Furnaces inside. Then, he took four soul bones from the Soul Tool on his wrist.

One of them was the Eight Spider Lance Soul Bone, also known as the Eight Spider Lance. The other three had been gifted to him by elders from Spirit Hall and the White Shadow Sect to improve his strength.

Zhao Xiaotian smashed the four soul bones and placed the fragments into separate Alchemy Furnaces. He thought to himself, If I can forge Spirit Weapons in this world, the entire landscape of the Douluo Continent will change because of it!

The four Alchemy Furnaces were placed in the east, south, west, and north, while Zhao Xiaotian sat in the middle. He used the Yin Yang Fire in his hands beneath each furnace.

The extreme heat soon turned the entire cave as scorching as a volcano. Liu Junxi and the recently returned Liu Jin quietly stood guard outside the entrance.

Ghost Charm, meanwhile, was helping them handle the procedures for the Shrek group to join the White Shadow Sect. He felt utterly aggrieved; if he had known this would happen, he would never have left the White Shadow Sect and departed Ghost Gate.

Three days later, Ghost Charm was completely exhausted. He had spent three whole days repeatedly traveling back and forth between Spirit City and Suotuo City, to the point where he was nearly driven into depression.

With the addition of the Liu Ruyan and Liu Ruxue sisters, the Shrek group had also entered a normal training routine. Although Shrek's training consisted of nothing but team battles in the Great Soul Arena.

Still, it was not entirely useless. At the very least, their Soul Power would improve under the pressure of powerful opponents, while their coordination in team battles and combat experience would also rise to a certain level.

Over the past few days, the Shrek Team had made a resounding name for itself. The entire Suotuo Great Soul Arena had gained enormous crowds and challengers drawn by its reputation.

However, those challengers who came seeking fame were almost all beaten into the ground, until the Shrek Academy team had no more matches to fight.

This left Flender with no choice but to give them a break. Liu Ruyan and Liu Ruxue were delighted by this, as the two sisters' Soul Power was already close to the Soul King rank.

With the instruction from Spirit Academy and Shrek's training, the sisters' Soul Power had already risen by an entire major realm.

Three months later...

Liu Ruyan and Liu Ruxue arrived outside the mountain cave where Zhao Xiaotian was staying. Liu Jin and Liu Junxi did not allow them to enter, although neither of them knew what Zhao Xiaotian was doing inside.

However, judging by the powerful bursts of energy that had continuously erupted from the cave during the final days of those three months, they were certain that Zhao Xiaotian was creating some powerful weapon or pill inside.

Soon, the time reached the middle of the fourth month. Zhao Xiaotian opened his eyes in the cave and looked at a furnace radiating purple light. He stretched out his hand as Spirit Energy began to gather.

Bang!

The purple-glowing Alchemy Furnace instantly exploded. Amid the furnace's ruins appeared a purple longsword, its hilt bearing eight blinking eyes.

Zhao Xiaotian smiled and was about to summon it over when the other three furnaces began to emit different-colored lights as well. Overjoyed, Zhao Xiaotian gathered Spirit Energy in both hands at once.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The three furnaces instantly exploded. Above the ruins of each furnace floated a different Spirit Weapon, the most dazzling of which was the armor glowing red.

A wide-open eye sat on the chest of the red armor. Another was a brown hammer, with an eyeball at the end of its handle.

The remaining one was a bow radiating extreme cold. Two open eyes sat at both ends of its bowstring, making it the only Spirit Weapon with two eyes.

Overjoyed, Zhao Xiaotian beckoned, and the armor floated over and covered his body. In an instant, Zhao Xiaotian felt his absorption speed for spiritual energy increase.

Zhao Xiaotian gripped the Spirit Weapon forged from the Eight Spider Lance Soul Bone. The moment he held the sword, it began to release a powerful devouring force. Zhao Xiaotian smiled. "Since your material was the External Soul Bone, the Eight Spider Lance, I'll call you the Eight Spider Divine Sword!"

Upon hearing that name, the eight eyes on the hilt closed. This meant it had acknowledged the name, and the devouring force of the Eight Spider Divine Sword no longer targeted Zhao Xiaotian.

Before long, Zhao Xiaotian had named the four Spirit Weapons: the Eight Spider Divine Sword, Blazing Battle Armor, Earth Battle Hammer, and Extreme Cold Divine Bow. Of the four, his favorite was the Eight Spider Divine Sword.

In his previous life on the Black Tortoise Continent, Zhao Xiaotian had been a collector of famous swords. There had been a hidden passage in his room in his previous life, and opening it revealed famous swords displayed one after another inside.

Zhao Xiaotian was not obsessed with swords; he had collected those famous blades simply because he loved them. Yet good times did not last, and during the siege by the major sects, those swords had ultimately been divided among the disciples of those sects.

Because Zhao Xiaotian had sealed the cave with Spirit Energy, Liu Jin and Liu Junxi had not sensed any movement within. Although Zhao Xiaotian had sealed the cave's interior, the shockwaves inside had never spread outside and had remained trapped within the cave.

After placing all the Spirit Weapons into the Soul Tool on his chest, Zhao Xiaotian waved his hand. The Spirit Energy seal instantly dissipated, and with its support gone, the cave began to shake.

Outside the cave, Liu Jin and Liu Junxi immediately noticed something. Turning around, they saw Zhao Xiaotian emerge. Zhao Xiaotian slowly walked out and said, "Let's go. I've finished what I needed to do."

Liu Jin and Liu Junxi did not ask further questions. Instead, they flew back to Shrek with Zhao Xiaotian and the Liu Ruyan and Liu Ruxue sisters. Zhao Xiaotian could no longer wait to let the people of Shrek witness the power of the Spirit Weapons he had forged.

In Shrek's plaza, Flender, Zhao Wuji, Dai Mubai, and several other teachers and students were waiting. Liu Jin set Zhao Xiaotian down on the ground.

After sensing a power on Zhao Xiaotian that could threaten him, Flender laughed. "Hahaha! Xiaotian, it's only been a few days, and you've grown stronger again!"

Zhao Xiaotian smiled at that. "Then why not have Headmaster Flender test out my new power?"

Flender awkwardly scratched his forehead. "I'll pass. Your Teacher Zhao can do it for me!"

Zhao Wuji: You *****

Flender glared at Zhao Wuji. Zhao Wuji immediately behaved himself and stepped forward. "Xiaotian, come on! I, Zhao Wuji, am not the same as before!"

Seeing that the two were about to spar, Liu Jin and the others moved some distance away. Liu Junxi used Soul Power to protect the sect's two young princesses from being injured by the Soul Power.

Zhao Xiaotian and Zhao Wuji stood twenty meters apart. Zhao Xiaotian said with a faint smile, "I won't use any soul skills or Self-Created Soul Skills. Teacher Zhao, do as you please. You only need to withstand the attack of my Spirit Weapon."

Zhao Wuji laughed. "Hahaha! Good! Come at me!"

Zhao Xiaotian instantly charged forward, throwing a fist wrapped in Spirit Energy. Seeing this, Zhao Wuji's soul rings flashed, and the Immovable Ming King Form instantly activated to protect him.