Aolai City Center, Spirit Pagoda.
On the top floor, an executive office had been cleared out within half a day and swiftly converted into a forging room.
Although the sounds of hammering occasionally drifted down from upstairs, the Spirit Masters below kept their mouths shut, not daring to discuss it.
"Clang! Clang!"
"Clang! Clang!"
Before a high-grade forging table.
The Dragon Emperor had long since swept his pale purple hair behind his shoulders, giving him an exceptionally clean and crisp appearance.
His right hand gripped a hexagonal Crow-Absolute Stone as he struck the Deep Silver on the forging table again and again.
Bursts of compressed air boomed continuously through the forging room with every rise and fall of his arm.
It was as though each strike soothed a fraction of the obsession stirred within him by the Golden and Silver Dragon Kings that afternoon.
The Crow-Absolute Stone in his hand, which had been born alongside the Flower Immortal Body, had not been shaped into a tool-like stone hammer. Instead, it had become a hexagonal block with a groove on its back, convenient for his five fingers to grip.
In other words, whoever held this Crow-Absolute Stone had to use stone to smash stone, relying on their own unparalleled strength to strike and forge a finished Deep Silver product!
Even a level-nine Divine Blacksmith would have found that impossible.
Yet this piece of Deep Silver, wrapped in rings of orange-red flame, had shrunk to exactly four-fifths of its original volume. Its density had been compressed to a point nearing its limit, and its surface shone with a crystalline silver-red luster.
Only when the final strike fell did a three-foot silver-white spiritual radiance burst forth from the Deep Silver!
Deep Silver had gained sentience—Thousand-Forging, first grade!
It had been completed with effortless ease.
Yet the method looked like a barbarian smashing two ores together and somehow producing a piece of mech armor.
But the Dragon Emperor did not relax. He quickly closed his eyes and placed his hand against the sentient Deep Silver...
Thousand-Forging Sentience meant granting metal spirituality.
When that spirituality appeared, a fifth-rank blacksmith would use their Martial Soul as a bridge to communicate with the sentient metal as quickly as possible. That would begin the journey of Myriad-Forging, granting life to the metal.
Thus, every fourth-rank blacksmith remembered one saying before advancing to the next rank:
Fifth-rank forging was the creation of life.
The Martial Soul of the Dragon Emperor's new body was every inch and fraction of this body. Even the Crow-Absolute Stone born alongside his hand was part of the Lovesick Heartbreak Red body.
His left hand finally grasped the scalding Deep Silver. After sensing the changes in its internal structure, the Dragon Emperor directly adjusted its angle, raised the Crow-Absolute Stone high in his right hand, and swung down with a precise blow!
Two crisp, pleasant chimes of "ping ding ding" echoed through the forging room.
One came from the Crow-Absolute Stone striking it.
The other was the response of the sentient Deep Silver.
The Dragon Emperor used the will carried by his own dragon soul to maintain constant communication with the sentient Deep Silver, while the wisps of Soul Power transmitted through his left hand protected the stability of its spirituality.
After being reshaped by thousands of strikes, the sentient Deep Silver let out a delighted hum. Yet when it received the communication of the Will of Destruction, it revealed a trace of timidity.
But wrapped within the Dragon Emperor's will, as calm as the ocean floor, that timid emotion was swiftly soothed.
Thus, after enduring more than ten thousand improved strikes, the sentient Deep Silver finally took its most crucial step.
Rings of cloud patterns spiraled across the surface of the Deep Silver like vortices.
As the vortex-like cloud patterns spread, the Deep Silver's volume, already compressed nearly to its limit, continued to shrink naturally...
At a certain moment, a blazing silver light erupted at last, enveloping the entire piece of Deep Silver.
A single thought of sublimation—Myriad-Forging Creation!
The Dragon Emperor let out a long breath, and the Crow-Absolute Stone in his right hand sank into his palm.
He clasped both hands together, enclosing the Deep Silver between his palms. Then he gently closed his eyes and carefully sensed the "power of creation" that had appeared in that fleeting instant.
It was a peculiar power entirely opposed to the power of destruction, yet capable of combining with destruction to form the entire universe: creation.
For six years, the Dragon Emperor had used this simple shortcut. With every successful spiritual forging, he seized that brief instant to slowly comprehend the fleeting power of creation and touch upon the power once wielded by his old friend, the Phoenix.
As the former owner of the Destruction Godhead, he sought a path where destruction and creation could coexist, hoping to find the right steps along the road where his younger brother had fallen.
But every field was like a mountain apart. The Dragon Emperor had to start everything from scratch.
Fortunately, his Body Martial Soul, Lovesick Heartbreak Red, possessed the exceptionally pure dual attributes of life and spirit. Otherwise, as the Dragon Emperor who commanded destruction, he might not have been able to comprehend creation so smoothly...
This session of Myriad-Forging also finally calmed the Dragon Emperor's mind.
The problem of his soul and body being separated after Tang Wulin's collision had been soothed away, strike by strike, as he comprehended Myriad-Forging Sublimation.
After calming himself through this forging session, the abrupt contact with Tang Wulin that afternoon was gradually sorted through and clarified in the Dragon Emperor's mind:
The Creation Godhead, the Annihilation Godhead, the complete Golden Dragon bloodline, and the Golden Dragon King's forty-ninth rib—the Golden Dragon Spear—were all on this Douluo Continent, in this coastal town.
Once he developed steadily for a few more years and his body grew strong enough to bear a hundred-level cultivation, he would join forces with the Holy Dragon King and take down both the Golden and Silver Dragons in one stroke.
At that time:
He would first extract the Creation and Annihilation Godheads from their bodies one by one.
Then he would devour the Golden Dragon bloodline and the Golden Dragon Spear, thoroughly unifying and fusing the Amethyst Dragon bloodline with the Golden Dragon bloodline, the True Dragon Origin with the Sub-Dragon Origin.
Then, with the Dragon Clan's ultimate bloodline surpassing the Supreme God realm, he would master both the Creation and Annihilation Godheads and stride down the path that had killed his younger brother.
Finally, he would casually complete creation, reshape a new Five-Dimensional Divine Star, become the universe's sole apex, and enjoy the faith offerings of countless starfields.
Then the Dragon Clan would be revived, and his great undertaking would be complete.
For now, however, what the Dragon Emperor lacked most was time to grow. Yet the divine-grade Flower Immortal Physique was already the fastest-growing physique in the world.
When it came to growth, haste made waste.
He had already waited several million years. He did not mind waiting for this final flick of a finger.
The Dragon Emperor slowly opened his eyes and set down the Deep Silver in his hands.
He extinguished the forging table before him, and the entire room instantly returned to silence. He could even faintly hear the traffic outside the building below.
Only the piece of Deep Silver on the table continued to cool with a soft hiss, while a Peony Cloud Seal still curled upward from its surface.
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Author's Note:
An explanation of why the Lovesick Heartbreak Red Martial Soul had the dual attributes of life and spirit.
Proof from the original work:
1. Life: Old Luo (Xiangxiang) had emphasized that all the immortal herbs in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well possessed extremely pure life attributes, including that Lovesick Heartbreak Red that was over one hundred thousand years old.
2. Spirit: Old Luo (Xiangxiang) had personally said that Lovesick Heartbreak Red was immersed in a spiritual illusion it had constructed for itself. Therefore, Lovesick Heartbreak Red's second attribute was the spirit attribute.
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