When Su Qingwei heard the news, she clearly found it unbelievable-shocking, even.
An Imperial Weapon was hardly something one could forge on a whim. Even she, now at the Mahayana Eighth Stage, had only just nurtured an embryonic form. It would still be a long time before a true Imperial Weapon emerged.
Su Qingwei was confident she was no weaker than any other prodigy. Yet even with her cultivation, forging an Imperial Weapon was this difficult. After producing the Red Dust Immortal Furnace, Bai Yu had actually begun helping someone else forge a new Imperial Weapon?
"Are you really forging a new Imperial Weapon?"
When Bai Yu said nothing, Su Qingwei asked again.
At her words, Bai Yu shook his head.
"You've misunderstood, Miss Su. Neither Luo Shuang nor I have reached Mahayana, so how could we forge an Imperial Weapon? For a personal Imperial Weapon to emerge, its owner's cultivation must reach the Mahayana stage. That's an ironclad rule."
Listening to Bai Yu, Su Qingwei knitted her brows slightly. That was indeed how it worked, but ever since Madam Jiang's Red Dust Immortal Furnace had emerged, Bai Yu seemed to have demolished that unbreakable rule.
"Then the Red Dust Immortal Furnace..."
Su Qingwei spoke instinctively.
Bai Yu smiled at her question. He first invited her to sit, then explained.
"That only evolved after Madam Jiang broke through to Mahayana. What we're forging now is, at most, the embryo of an Imperial Weapon. To complete it, the Mahayana Realm is essential."
Bai Yu had not lied about that. In Madam Jiang's case, all he had done beforehand was make some preparations.
It was the same with Luo Shuang now; they had simply started a little earlier.
But that was only possible because Luo Shuang's long accumulation was finally bearing fruit.