Time flew. Seemingly in the blink of an eye, Li Che had already spent more than five thousand years as the chief overseer of the universe-wide review for the Giant Axe Life-and-Death Battle.
On this day, in a desolate stretch of starry space on the edge of the Nine Flames Universe Country in the Primal Universe, Li Che's human main body sat cross-legged atop the Guixu Fortress, his entire body wreathed in boundless origin law power.
That power did not belong purely to the time or space origin laws. Instead, it was a blend of fire, metal, lightning, and space laws, bound and shaped by wondrous secret patterns into an enormous furnace over eight thousand kilometers tall.
This was a secret technique created by Manhu, the Lord of Laws from the Jin World. It was not an offensive technique, but a support technique used solely to form the "artifact furnace" required for forging.
Judged by the standards of the Primal Universe, this self-created secret technique, named the Manhu Divine Furnace, already qualified as a Universe Master's peak secret technique.
At that moment, the planet-sized furnace rumbled thunderously. Flames, golden light, and lightning surged within it, tempering the artifact blanks through a process that was brutally violent yet exquisitely precise.
After more than five thousand years immersed in artifact forging in the Jin World, he had finally spent his last four supreme treasure points to purchase a complete set of materials for forging a heavy treasure.
Through the endless golden light, flames, and lightning, individual armor plates could be glimpsed slowly rising and falling.
Two spectators were also present in the starry expanse, witnessing the forging of this brand-new heavy treasure.
"Heavens..." One of them was Army Lord Mo Alanni of the Giant Axe Arena. This Immortal Army Lord had now