The Decomposition and Reconstruction of the Life Scepter, It Said It Was Ready (Signal Axe)

Gu Yue watched Zhuang Minghui toy with his Life Scepter and asked in confusion, "Wait, you're going to summon the undead now?"

Zhuang Minghui put away the Life Scepter and nodded. "Yeah. I've got some ideas, but I haven't decided who to summon first yet, or whether there are any prerequisites for the summoning."

He paused, then looked toward the forging table piled with all kinds of rare metals beside them.

"Let's put the summoning aside for now." Zhuang Minghui pointed at the forging table and said to Qian Duoduo, who was still standing there in a daze, "Dean Qian, you don't mind if I borrow your private forging room and these rare metals, do you?"

Qian Duoduo had not fully recovered from the shock of the Life Scepter and the summoning of the undead. He waved a hand subconsciously. "Use whatever you want. As long as you can make it, pick any materials here you like!"

This decision of Zhuang Minghui's was a good thing for him.

If Zhuang Minghui ended up taking a liking to soul devices because of this, then his focus on the Soul Guidance Department would increase even more.

When the time came, they would have an even better chance of keeping him in the Soul Guidance Department.

Seeing Zhuang Minghui walk up to Qian Duoduo's forging table, Gu Yue also moved closer.

She truly wanted to see just how powerful the soul guidance technology this world had mastered was.

Zhuang Minghui took a deep breath, and the design blueprints for the Signal Axe surfaced clearly in his mind.

As one of the few Kamen Riders he had watched, Kamen Rider Drive was something he could say he still had some impression of, whether it was famous scenes or other parts of the plot.

The thing that had left the deepest impression on him was the Signal Axe, which he often saw appearing in Douluo Continent fanfics.

He walked toward the pile of materials, his gaze sharp as lightning, and quickly selected several core metals:

Deep Silver would serve as the base, ensuring absolute soul power conductivity. Deep Sea Cold Iron would be used to forge the axe blade, granting it ultimate toughness and sharpness. Then there were two fist-sized Soul Pupil Stones, the perfect medium for making the red and green display panels on the Signal Axe.

After choosing the materials, Zhuang Minghui drew a deep breath and once again grasped the Life Scepter in a reverse grip.

He did not light a furnace like an ordinary soul engineer, nor did he pick up a forging hammer.

He merely tapped the Life Scepter lightly, and a mass of emerald-green light so dense it had nearly turned tangible surged out from the Spirit Gold at the tip of the scepter. Like a thin veil, it enveloped the Deep Silver, Deep Sea Cold Iron, and Soul Pupil Stones completely.

Under Gu Yue and Qian Duoduo's shocked gazes, those incomparably hard rare metals actually melted within the emerald light like ice and snow dissolving, directly analyzed and stripped into the most primitive metallic particles.

Zhuang Minghui closed his eyes. Vast spiritual power intertwined with life energy and began rearranging the structure of those particles.

Under the guidance of his will, the soul power conductivity of the Deep Silver was compressed and condensed to the extreme. The sharp particles of the Deep Sea Cold Iron were reconstructed into flawless crystals, transforming into the uncanny bright purple along the outer edge of the axe blade and perfectly interlocking with the tough silver-gray blade surface. Meanwhile, the two Soul Pupil Stones were reorganized at the molecular level into precise liquid-crystal-like dual-color display panels.

"Buzz..."

Along with a soft hum, the green light abruptly withdrew.

A heavy battle-axe with a futuristic sci-fi feel, interlaced in silver, black, and purple, condensed out of thin air.

On the axe body, the white axe-wielding figure against a red background and the white axe-swinging figure against a green background shone brilliantly. Above them, strange characters glowing with faint blue light had also been clearly imprinted.

Zhuang Minghui put away the Life Scepter and reached out to grip the Signal Axe's warning-patterned long handle, yellow with black markings.

He deftly spun the axe in his hand, feeling its steady weight and the smooth flow of soul power through it.

Then he turned around, looked at Qian Duoduo and Gu Yue, who had already completely turned to stone, and raised the corners of his lips slightly. He joked, "Well?"

That question finally hooked their souls back into their bodies.

"Th-this is practically a miracle!" Qian Duoduo sucked in a sharp breath, nearly tripping over nothing.

He scrambled over to Zhuang Minghui, his trembling hands hovering above the Signal Axe, not even daring to touch it lightly.

As one of Shrek's only two rank-eight soul engineers, if he had not seen it with his own eyes, he would never have been able to imagine that without using a forging hammer, without an engraving knife, without setting up formation patterns, and relying only on a single scepter, several types of rare metals could be purified and reconstructed at the molecular level within a few dozen seconds to create a Class 4 soul device!

And a melee soul device at that!

Beside him, Gu Yue's beautiful eyes also contracted as she stared fixedly at the Signal Axe.

Was this also an ability of Spirit Gold?

Decomposition and reconstruction?

Was that right...

It was probably right.

Zhuang Minghui looked at their reactions and smiled.

With just a turn of his wrist, the silver, black, and purple Signal Axe turned into a streak of light and was withdrawn into the storage soul device on his wrist.

"Thank you for the materials, Dean Qian. We'll take our leave, then."

Zhuang Minghui patted Gu Yue, who was still standing there in a daze, on the shoulder.

Gu Yue gave Zhuang Minghui a deep look, suppressed the waves in her heart, and silently followed behind him. The two of them soon disappeared at the end of the passage outside the forging room.

As for Qian Duoduo, he still remained in that posture, hands trembling and waist half-bent.

His mind was blank at that moment, filled entirely with the scene of the rare metals dissolving and reorganizing within the green light just now.

That method, which had overturned traditional forging and core formation engraving, was simply devastating in its impact to a rank-eight soul engineer who had immersed himself in this path for decades.

A full five minutes passed. Only when a cool breeze blew in from outside the forging room did Qian Duoduo suddenly shiver and completely come back to his senses.

"Where are they? Zhuang Minghui! Kid?!"

Qian Duoduo abruptly raised his head, only then discovering that aside from himself, there was no sign of Zhuang Minghui or Gu Yue anywhere in the forging room.

"Oh no! How did that kid just leave like that?!" Qian Duoduo slapped his thigh, his face flushed crimson from extreme excitement and regret.

Qian Duoduo could no longer sit still. He did not even bother sorting out the rare metals piled up at the scene. His figure flashed, and he turned into a gale as he charged out of the forging room, rushing in a frantic hurry toward the Soul Guidance Department dean's office.

"Lin'er! Lin'er! Something huge happened! You'll never believe what I just saw!"

Before he even arrived, Qian Duoduo's booming voice was already echoing through the entire Soul Guidance Department building.

Martial Soul Department, freshman teaching building.

Gu Yue looked at Zhuang Minghui suspiciously and asked, "How did you do that just now?"

Even she, the Silver Dragon King who had inherited the Dragon God's wisdom and elemental persona, could not see through that miraculous scene just now.

Zhuang Minghui raised a finger to his lips. "Secret. I'm just not telling you—what can you do about it?!"

Seeing Zhuang Minghui act so smug, Gu Yue was so angry her teeth itched, yet there was nothing she could do.