181 Chapter 181 (1/2)
A white-haired man was sitting down, he was surrounded by various blades and weapons from all sides. His chest was exposed and it was glistering with sweat. His body was glowing in a golden hue radiating more and more power. This bright golden light soon filled the entire room, everything became bathed in its radiance.
”Ugh...”
His muscular frame expanded slightly and you could hear cracking sounds. The top layer of his skin was cracking and peeling away, what was underneath wanted to see the light of day. With a resounding explosion, all the items around him that weren't secured flew to the sides. The room was filled with even deeper golden light, his body crackling with awesome power.
// True Golden Body [Nascent Soul Early Stage] //
”True Golden Body huh? Thought I'd move into Platinium, or maybe Diamond?”
Matt slowly stood up, the whole place was ruined and he would need to spend some time on rearranging everything. After almost two days of absorbing he had finally pushed his body refining technique over the limit. He was now a true nascent soul body refiner, together with his Qi cultivation he was truly one of the best masters in the land.
”Wonder if I can tank early-stage hits now...”
He took out the other heaven grade weapon that he had earned from the sacking, this one belonged to the elder named Zhu. This was a green dao saber. He moved it over to his forearm and applied some pressure the moment he did he could feel the sharp age scraping against his skin.
His skin was quite hard yet elastic at the same time, it was really good at resisting this heaven graded weapon. If he didn't add much of his cultivation, it didn't even leave a scratch behind, but he felt that if he tried whacking himself really good he would draw some blood.
”I should be able to resist some attacks, but I probably shouldn't get too cocky...”
He felt like he could brush off early nascent soul practitioners with this. But if they had some better weapons then it got tricky, he should be fine if they didn't get any good hits in.
”Done with this, on to the next one...”
He remained in his crafting abode and headed into the place where he kept the manuals he copied over. He had received some formation manuals from the secret ground. The grand defensive formation that was running through the city was also heaven graded, he would use that one as a base and level it up.
”The problem is the power source...luckily there were some treasures in those spatial rings, I think I should be able to make something akin to a Qi battery.”
He focused on the grand defensive formation, he needed more time before his allies increased their power and had no idea when the Dark Palm sect would arrive. The process was similar to the previous one, though this time around the compatibility of his cultivation technique with the grand defensive formation was quite low.
The only thing he could do was to put some other heaven grade formation manuals and spend some points to achieve a formation at the high heaven grade.
”This will have to do... the more important thing is the power source... It requires many tower-like nodes to be spread throughout the city and they all need to be powered...”
He rubbed his chin, he could place the cultivators that weren't fighting as batteries around these spots. As long as the formation held up they wouldn't need to fight. He could then battle the enemies outside the barrier if it came to it.
”Uh... luckily the Qi gathering formations are spread through the city...but they can be improved upon...”
He had all of the formations in the city mapped out. They were all placed during the two years of peace and were of high quality all things considered. He didn't think they would stack up against the nascent soul monsters all too well though.
”Damn, if we have enough time to prepare... I could have made this into a giant fortress...”
He gave out a sigh and continued spending points while improving the formations with the help of his system. The millions of points were steadily decreasing.
”I need to get all the resources available in the clan, not sure I can make it cover the whole city...”
He left his crafting abode and raided the main Zhang Clan vault. The people guarding it after peeking inside couldn't find a single spirit stone or beast core left to be found. Zhang Dong also gave an order for his people to gather all of the spirit stones, spirit cores, and spirit herbs that were good at storing Qi.
What followed was a slight backlash from the order, no one wanted to give up their riches. They relented soon though, some due to fear of their Patriarch, some realizing that riches like these meant nothing if they were all dead, others just loyal and not caring about the monetary gains.
While the people were gathering the items Matt was busy, he returned to his crafting abode and decided to start crafting. There was one thing in particular that he could make. It was a spirit cube, it was strangely similar to the one that he saw back at the secret ground. He remembered that it had given him a major injection of spirit points and he had a crafting method for it.
”This might be the crafting method that the cube was based on, not sure if it's the same this one is mostly used for storing spiritual energy and information. I wonder if you could record movies on this...”
He recalled that that cube was made from some sturdy metal as at that time he couldn't leave a dent on it. He began the smelting process almost immediately, he chose the best spirit metal that he could use and even began melting down the weapons that were made from it. This cube had to be tempered multiple times, each time he hammered a part into place some of the impurities would be dispersed into the surroundings.