A deep, dark demonic silhouette hovered faintly above the cauldron's mouth.
After refining the tiger god stone, the Demon-Subduing eagle's appearance changed once again.
Its narrow, spindle-shaped head gradually broadened, growing a thick, double-layered mane of black streaked with red. Its plumage became dense and heavy, resembling striped tiger hide.
The merged form of tiger and eagle filled Meng Chuan's vision, leaving him momentarily dazed.
The Demon-Subduing looked truly bizarre now, far beyond the bounds of any normal creature.
Still, Meng Chuan could accept it. After all, he had previously seen a divine weapon spirit born from the fusion of a dragon and a whale, which had been even stranger.
That had been a true divine weapon spirit: Senior Lan Zhan's ninth-tier Dao artifact in Soul Shadow Projection—Dragon Whale Rends Sea!
The tiger-eagle was far stronger now than before, but compared with Senior Lan Zhan's dragon-whale, the gulf was still as vast as heaven and earth.
Meng Chuan was not discouraged. As long as he kept improving it, he was confident that the Demon-Subduing could eventually rival it!
Perhaps sensing Meng Chuan's gaze, the enormous creature above the cauldron shot dazzling red light from its eyes. Straight and sharp as swords, the beams pierced upward, then struck the ceiling and spread outward. Crimson radiance surged like a tide, its intense aura enveloping the entire chamber.
Their minds were connected, and Meng Chuan knew that the Demon-Subduing was desperate to break free.
"Scree!"
But the time had not yet come.
Meng Chuan's gaze remained calm. He flicked his bent fingers repeatedly, sending visible waves of air howling into the cauldron's base in an instant, hammering and tempering the halberd blank poised between the fifth and sixth grades.
Rumble!
The hammering thundered with tremendous force, violent yet rhythmic.
"Add star ore, the