Great Sound Has No Note, Great Form Has No Shape

Lin Fan moved his mind.

The pitch-black, giant scythe Calamity and the pair of silver-white wings Sky Splitter appeared simultaneously.

The next instant, both erupted with light.

Centered on Calamity, a black-purple domain spanning nearly ten meters in radius was released.

Sky Splitter, meanwhile, released a silver-white domain covering a similar range.

The black-purple domain and the silver-white domain overlapped, shrouding the pile of alloy ingots in front of Lin Fan.

Under the shroud of these domains, the stacked alloy ingots actually began to tremble violently.

"Good grief, so this is what it means when the absorption range increases."

Looking at the surrounding domains, Lin Fan's eyes were full of wonder.

Sizzle...

Following a fine, decomposing sound, those incredibly hard alloys began to liquefy and disintegrate at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Then, they transformed into streams of silver, winding their way up into mid-air.

Like a hundred rivers returning to the sea, these liquid metal streams surged frantically into the pitch-black blade of Calamity and the silver-white feathered blades of Sky Splitter.

As the streams poured in, the devouring speed of the two weapons became faster and faster.

The small mountain of metal worth nine billion was shrinking and disappearing at an astonishing rate.

Lin Fan watched all of this quietly, without a shred of heartache.

Money?

Money converted into strength is what you call a resource.

If it can't be converted, it's just waste paper.

As time ticked by, twenty minutes passed.

The last stream of liquid metal was completely absorbed by Sky Splitter. The floor of the Martial Arts Hall had become completely empty, leaving only some worthless, grayish-white residue powder.

Just then, the system's notification sounded in Lin Fan's mind.

[Ding! Calamity's growth progress has reached 100%.]

[Conditions met, beginning rank transition.]

Boom!

An invisible shockwave centered on Calamity spread wildly in all directions without warning.

The dust on the ground was instantly swept up, forming a small cyclone.

Then, an unprecedented, terrifying aura erupted from the blade of Calamity, instantly shrouding the entire Martial Arts Hall.

Under the shroud of this aura, Lin Fan felt his breathing hitch, as if a heavy boulder had been pressed against his chest.

It felt as if the gravity around him had suddenly increased tenfold; his whole body felt heavy and extremely uncomfortable.

Immediately after, the surface of Calamity's blade, which had been pitch-black and matte, appearing unremarkable, began to change.

The dark purple patterns that originally flowed across the surface of the blade all lit up at this moment.

In an instant, a deep purple light suddenly erupted from the blade of Calamity.

Although the light was not blinding, it carried a sense of brutality.

Lin Fan squinted as he watched the purple light erupting from Calamity.

"Is this... lightning?"

Under the reflection of the purple light, the black of Calamity's blade appeared even darker.

The light at the edges of the blade seemed to be distorted, causing even Lin Fan's vision to experience a slight misalignment.

He felt as if he were no longer looking at a scythe, but at a "shadow" that pressed down so hard the space itself slightly collapsed.

As the purple light radiating from Calamity grew more intense, Lin Fan could even faintly hear the rumbling of thunder.

Whoosh!

Just as the purple light reached its peak, the system's notification sounded.

[Ding! Weapon "Calamity" promotion complete.]

As the system's notification faded, the terrifying aura released by Calamity instantly retracted, and the dazzling purple light vanished completely.

The lines of the blade were cleaner, as if it had been reforged; all its sharpness was hidden within the blade itself.

It hovered there quietly, all its brilliance restrained to the extreme.

"Feels like it's become pretty badass."

Lin Fan was just about to summon Calamity when the system's notification sounded again.

[Ding! Sky Splitter's growth progress has reached 100%.]

[Energy accumulation complete.]

[Conditions met, beginning rank transition.]

Clang!

A clear, resonant metallic chime instantly pierced the air.

The sound was sharp and high-pitched, carrying a keenness that seemed to tear through everything, making Lin Fan's eardrums ache.

Then, the silver-white wings of Sky Splitter unfolded with a boom in front of Lin Fan, all the feathered blades trembling in unison.

Boom.

An equally terrifying aura erupted from Sky Splitter.

But the feeling Sky Splitter gave Lin Fan was completely different.

If Calamity was the ultimate sense of oppression—the heaviness of breaking all laws with a single force—then Sky Splitter was the ultimate sharpness and illusion.

Hum...

The light inside the basement suddenly underwent a strange distortion.

The originally bright lights seemed to be captured by some invisible force field, converging toward the pair of wings.

The light no longer traveled in straight lines but refracted; all the light seemed to be rotating around Sky Splitter.

The scene before Lin Fan's eyes began to become bizarre and kaleidoscopic, and the edges of the silver-white wings began to blur, as if they no longer existed in this space.

No, to be more precise, it was as if they no longer existed in the same time as him.

Lin Fan frowned as he looked at Sky Splitter, an extremely uncomfortable sense of misalignment welling up in his heart.

He clearly saw the wings on the left, but his spiritual perception told him they were on the right.

"Good grief, is this... light and... time?"

Before Lin Fan could perceive it in detail, an even more astonishing change occurred.

The 216 feathered blades that were originally hovering suddenly seemed to turn into flowing liquid light.

Click, click, click...

A dense series of sounds rang out.

He saw that at the base of some feathered blades, the light suddenly flared, and new branches actually grew out!

One split into two, light and shadow interlaced.

A full 108 brand-new feathered blades were born out of thin air within the light!

They were thinner, more transparent, and the entire body presented a near-void, translucent crystal state.

At this moment, the total number of feathered blades hovering in the air had reached a terrifying 324!

A full 324 feathered blades rotated rapidly around Lin Fan, finally closing up to transform back into silver-white wings, floating in front of him.

"Good stuff."

Lin Fan looked at the silver-white wings in front of him, the love in his eyes overflowing.

On his retina, the blue data stream slowly refreshed.

[Ding! Weapon "Sky Splitter" promotion complete.]

As the system's notification faded, the fantastical aura released by Sky Splitter instantly retracted, and the dreamy luster flowing on the feathered blades vanished completely.

Replacing it was a return to simplicity and silence.

The 324 feathered blades locked together seamlessly, transforming back into that pair of seemingly ordinary silver-gray metal wings, quietly resting against Lin Fan's back.

"Tsk tsk, this reminds me of a saying..."

Lin Fan held Calamity in his left hand and stroked the right wing of Sky Splitter with his right, a playful arc hooking at the corner of his mouth.

"Great sound has no note, great form has no shape."

This "hidden master" attribute—harmless to humans and animals in daily life, yet capable of taking a life in an instant when it strikes—was exactly to his taste.