Over fourteen days, amid Haika's unceasing hammering and the blazing sea of fire, the rough outline of the Heavy Profound Ruler gradually took shape.
Using the Heavy Profound Ruler's original materials as its foundation, it was reforged again and again, reconstructed with Flame-Fusing Steel as its bones, Stellar Black Iron as its surface, and Fire-Glory Plate Iron as its veins.
Haika truly deserved to be Pill Tower's foremost forging master. In just fourteen days, he had completed most of the Heavy Profound Ruler's reforging. Of course, one most crucial step remained—giving the new Heavy Profound Ruler a soul: the magic core of a ninth-tier ferocious beast, the Heavenly Demon Phoenix!
After forging for so long, Haika had become visibly exhausted. His broad face was steeped in weariness. An ordinary Dou Zun expert would not be affected by going without rest for over ten days, but Haika's fatigue ran from the inside out. During the forging process, the others only needed to release their flames. Only he had to endure so many flames with different properties while carrying out the most vital forging work.
He had already consumed two of the three eighth-tier medicinal pills in the jade bottle. His skin had cracked like parched earth from excessively taking pills to wring out his potential, while dark-red blood scabs mixed with iron filings clung to his robes. Trembling slightly, he raised a water gourd and took a gulp. Yet because he had failed to control the strength he used for forging, he crushed the gourd the moment he drank.
Wiping his lips, Haika said, "The magic core... it's time to set it in."
His hoarse voice was like sandpaper scraping against black iron. His bloodshot right eye stared fixedly at the Heavy Profound Ruler blank floating in the center of the