SSS-Rank Talent: Heavenly Craftsmanship!

Clang!!

The arrow nailed itself into the light figure's chest with a deafening metallic crash.

The light figure's body trembled slightly. A tiny patch of golden light on its chest dimmed, but it was quickly filled back in by the surrounding radiance.

-154978!!

The light figure's health bar finally appeared in Jiang Chuan's view.

He had been unable to see it before because the light figure's level was too high, beyond the range he could inspect.

But now, as his first arrow struck and the damage number appeared, the light figure's health bar was forcibly revealed as well.

That health bar was unbelievably long. One hundred and fifty thousand true damage had taken away less than one percent of its health!

"What level is this thing?"

Jiang Chuan was startled.

However, he did not panic. Since he had dared to attack the light figure, Jiang Chuan naturally had his own confidence.

The second arrow!

The third arrow!

His hands moved so fast they left behind streaks of afterimages.

"You despicable ant!"

The light figure roared and raised the iron hammer in its hand high. Dark-red patterns on the hammerhead instantly flared with blinding light, like a tiny sun condensing in its palm.

Boom!!

The light exploded.

It was as though searing magma had instantly flooded the entire valley.

Jiang Chuan's body was wracked by stabbing pain, and his health plummeted rapidly, but his eyes remained fixed on the light figure as arrows shot forth!

"Hmph!"

The light figure crushed the incoming arrow in one hand. Suddenly, the longbow in Jiang Chuan's hands trembled and flew from his grasp beyond his control. Its string drew taut, aiming at Jiang Chuan himself!

The light figure sneered, "Who gave you the courage to use a weapon before the God of Craftsmen!"

What the fuck!?

Jiang Chuan was genuinely dumbfounded this time.

His confidence lay in Yi's third effect. No matter how thick the opponent's health bar was, after taking nine instances of ranged damage, they could be executed at full health!

But now that he had lost even his weapon, how was he supposed to hit the light figure nine times!?

The valley shook.

A piece of shattered rock flew toward Jiang Chuan's face.

He instinctively dodged, then his eyes lit up as he raised his hand and picked up a pebble.

The talent's activation condition was a ranged attack, but it never said he had to attack with arrows. He had been constrained by the legend of Hou Yi shooting down the suns!

Crack!

Jiang Chuan clenched his fingers, crushing the pebble into countless grains and flicking them out in an instant!

"Pfft!"

The light figure thought Jiang Chuan had gone mad. He actually wanted to threaten it with a single pebble? It could not even be bothered to dodge, letting the stone fragments strike its body.

However.

It had overlooked one extremely strange detail.

Why could every grain of stone Jiang Chuan casually scattered precisely track it?

Pfft pfft pfft!!

The demigod body that even arrows could not pierce was instantly riddled with tiny holes by the pebbles.

Then.

Those insignificant holes began expanding at a terrifying speed.

Like festering sores, they grew to the size of bowls in the blink of an eye!

The light figure froze in place and muttered:

"How is this possible..."

Boom!!

Its entire body exploded.

[Notification: You have killed Craftsman God's Soul (Level 80). Experience +500000! As your current level's experience is full, it has automatically been converted into talent proficiency!]

[You have successfully cleared the Craftsman Tomb Secret Realm (Normal Difficulty). Experience +200000!]

[Talent "Emperor's Oath" has successfully advanced to three stars!]

Jiang Chuan opened the interface. Sure enough, he could now leave the secret realm. Just as he had expected, killing this so-called inheritance guardian was also one way to clear it.

He did not necessarily have to accept the God of Craftsmen' inheritance.

Although,

to outsiders, what he had done was the very definition of killing the goose that laid the golden eggs.

The inheritance of the God of Craftsmen was the highest inheritance countless artificers dreamed of. Yet not only had he rejected it to its face, he had even killed the guardian of that inheritance!

But Jiang Chuan did not feel the slightest regret. He picked up the Sun-Piercing Longbow and walked over to the light figure's shattered corpse.

Universal Extraction,

activate!

Buzz!!

Dazzling golden light erupted with the brilliance of the sun, illuminating the entire valley as bright as day!

[Extraction successful! Obtained SSS-rank talent—Heavenly Craftsmanship (Unique)!]

[Heavenly Craftsmanship · SSS-rank]

[Rank: One Star]

[Effect ①: Passive. Success rate for all forging-related activities +100%.]

[Effect ②: Passive. Base attributes of forged equipment +100%.]

[Description: Heavenly craftsmanship forges divine weapons; all things possess spirit. Those who obtain this talent suffer no losses from a hundred forgings, become gods through a thousand refinements, and create nothing but extraordinary works.]

Jiang Chuan's pupils abruptly contracted.

SSS-rank,

another SSS-rank talent!

Before he could examine it closely, a second notification arrived.

[Extraction successful! Obtained item: Craftsman God's Legacy Stone (SS-rank)!]

[Craftsman God's Legacy Stone: SS-rank. Upon use, grants the God of Craftsmen class inheritance. If used by a non-artificer class, the user's existing combat/life class will automatically be overwritten and converted into the God of Craftsmen class. Limited to first-stage class users.]

Jiang Chuan looked at the two items and took a deep breath.

He quickly decided to keep the SSS-rank talent for himself.

Talents could not be manifested unless absorbed.

Giving it up would be a waste.

Besides, having another SSS-rank talent was never a bad thing. In any case, he could contain unlimited talents. There was no reason to refuse something free.

But this SS-rank class inheritance stone was not very useful to him.

A class user could possess one combat class,

and one life class.

An artificer should have been a life class, just like a dismantler, yet this God of Craftsmen inheritance was so overbearing that inheriting it would actually occupy the combat class slot as well.

That made it rather worthless.

Besides.

It was merely an SS-rank class...

Rumble!

A tremendous crash suddenly echoed between heaven and earth.

Jiang Chuan looked into the distance. The sky, laden with gray-black clouds of dust, was being torn apart. Bottomless chasms split open across the earth, as if an earth dragon were churning beneath it.

This scene.

Was exactly the same as the final scene he had witnessed in the Tree God Secret Realm.

"Because I extracted the Tree God's corpse, the Tree God Secret Realm was completely destroyed. This secret realm was probably ruined for the same reason."

"In that case, every secret realm must contain an extremely crucial core item."

"And its value is at least equivalent to an SSS-rank item!"

At that thought.

Jiang Chuan's expression became somewhat strange. "Could it be that I'll become a professional destroyer of secret realms in the future?"

He opened the secret realm interface and chose to leave. White light gradually enveloped him.

"Wait!"

Jiang Chuan suddenly realized a serious problem. "Don't tell me it's going to teleport me hundreds of thousands of miles away again!?"

Fortunately.

This time, the teleportation deviation was not too far.

Jiang Chuan could still connect to Tianyuan City's network signal. He sent Yuan Ziyi a message, and before long, she arrived in a flying artifact shaped like a gold ingot.

The moment she landed, she anxiously asked, "Mr. Jiang, what exactly happened inside the secret realm!?"

She had been guarding the entrance to the secret realm the entire time and had personally watched the furnace explode. Even now, she was still completely dazed.

Besides being dazed,

she was terrified.

The Craftsman Tomb Secret Realm was the foundation of the Yuan Family in Tianyuan City. The Artisan Pavilion could go bankrupt, but this secret realm absolutely could not be lost!

Yet now,

the entrance to the secret realm had exploded right before her eyes!

"There was a little accident."

Jiang Chuan looked awkward. If he had simply defeated the guardian and cleared the secret realm normally, the secret realm would naturally have been fine.

Perhaps.

That inheritance could have condensed again a few years later.

But after all, he had destroyed the entire secret realm in order to extract an SSS-rank talent. It would not be right not to compensate Yuan Ziyi a little.

Therefore.

Jiang Chuan took out the Craftsman God's Legacy Stone, which was completely useless to him.

"Although the secret realm was destroyed, I got this."

"It's not really a loss."

Yuan Ziyi took the Craftsman God's Legacy Stone, and her gaze immediately froze. Then her entire body began to tremble. "SS-rank... class inheritance!?!"

Her eyes shone as she became so excited that she could barely speak coherently. "Not a loss! Absolutely not a loss!... The secret realm was destroyed wonderfully! Hahaha, wonderfully! Mr. Jiang, you're incredible!"

Jiang Chuan smiled faintly. Xu Yinyin had praised him like that too.