Chapter 266: Golden-Scaled Cudgel and 72 Style Earthly Fiends Cudgel Techniques (1/2)
Chapter 266: Golden-Scaled Cudgel and 72 Style Earthly Fiends Cudgel Techniques
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”Boom, boom…” loud sounds spread from within the formation, Junior Leopard, who held twin hammers in his hands was mercilessly hitting on the slender handprint of the Meteorite Metal. The meteorite was quite tough and its weakest part was perhaps the palm print. After the print was hit several times, the meteorite, as expected, cracked. There was just a small opening at first, but then the whole meteorite split open. The process was so fast and simple that it was totally beyond Junior Leopard's expectation.
”Goodness, what the hell is this? It looks like heavy. Ah, is that the kindling of Nanming Ignis?” Junior Leopard asked surprisedly after seeing the cracked Meteorite Metal.
”Don't let this Ignis Essence Qi run away! After being incubated in the Meteorite Metal for so many years, they are even more precious than the kindling of Nanming Ignis!” Green Spirit shouted.
Hearing that, Junior Leopard, who did not intend to lose such a good thing, violently sucked and inhaled all the red gas spurting out from the meteorite. In the twinkling of an eye, he launched the Nine Dragons Heavenly Fire Technique.
”What violent Ignis Essence Qi! Damn it, I inhaled too much!” Like a long dragon drinking water, Junior Leopard inhaled all the Ignis Essence Qi in one breath. However, he failed to instantly digest all of the Qi. Though his body, which was as strong as reinforced iron had practiced into Tendon-Changing Realm and was far superior compared to ordinary refined iron, was still not strong enough. When plenty of Ignis Essence Qi rushed into his body, he could not immediately assimilate them even with the full operation of Nine Dragons Heavenly Fire Technique. As a result, his tendons and meridians were filled with the rushed Essence Qi and began to bulge. Junior Leopard felt that he just looked like a balloon being violently blown into by others.
”I have got to do something!” He thought to himself. Then he concentrated on mobilizing the Ignis Essence Qi that he had inhaled and infusing it all into the External Elixir between his eyebrows. An hour later, his face did not wear as serious an expression as it did before.
”Almost, almost…” He took a deep breath and shouted out, ”Green Spirit, the Ignis Essence Qi almost destroyed me! You did that on purpose, didn't you?”
”I just asked you to keep these Ignis Essence Qi from running away, not to breathe it in!” Green Spirit was apparently in a worse mood and scolded Junior Leopard. ”You idiot! You should have collected all these Ignis Essence Qi into your space rather than your stomach. There is no need for you to absorb so much Essence Qi. What you practice is Fire Way Method, so the Essence Qi at most makes your internal Qi more vigorous. Since you haven't cultivated into Genuine Soul, you couldn't get anywhere with that vigorous internal Qi! It's impossible for you to use it as Genuine Soul!”
Junior Leopard blushed at those harsh words and was on the verge of exploding. Fortunately, Green Spirit felt his anger and quickly changed the topic. ”It's amazing that this Taiyi Jade-scaled Gold has been refined to such a degree. Take out the kindling of Nanming Ignis now. I'll tell you how to concoct it!”
”Hmph! ”Junior Leopard groaned with anger. Then he diverted his attention to the meteorite metal that he had cracked previously.
The Meteorite Metal in black was about 10 feet tall and appeared to be strong, solid and as heavy as tens of thousands of pounds. However, after being broken apart by Junior Leopard with a hammer, the meteorite actually turned out to be a hollow, thin shell akin to that of an egg. The shell was no more than 10 centimeters thick, and its thinnest part was less than one centimeter. In fact, below the slender palm print, its thickness was equivalent to a thin film.
As soon as the shell was opened, Ignis Essence Qi rushed out. Blown by the wind, the red bean-like kindling, floating in the center of the shell, began to move as if its light would be extinguished at any time.
”Quickly, put away the kindling! Just now, the Ignis Essence Qi took away most of its pneuma. If exposed to the air too much, it will soon go out!
Junior Leopard did not dare to slow down. He waved his right sleeve and collected the kindling of Nanming Ignis into his space. It was not until he had done so that he was able to spend time carefully looking at the big egg.
The swarthy and thin shell had a white jade-like liner. With careful observation, Junior Leopard found the fine jade scales scattered around the liner. What surprised him most was the faint purple halo in some scales.
Junior Leopard slightly reached out his hand to touch the shell, but he stopped several centimeters away from the white jade-like liner and asked, ”Can I touch it?”
”Of course you can. This is Upper Grade Jade-scaled Gold! See its texture, color and spirit. It's so delicate and warm! It feels more comfortable than Ten-thousand-year-old Warm Jade and even turned into purified purple scales!” Green Spirit said, immersing himself in his own world, ”The Upper Grade Jade-scaled Gold had been heated by Nanming Ignis and nurtured by the Ignis Essence Qi for thousands of years. Even in antiquity times, such good materials were rare. If it were refined 1,000 years longer, it would have transformed into Purple Jade-scaled Gold, and at that time, ha, ha…What a pity!”
”Can it be used to make a Pure Yang Celestial Device?” Junior Leopard asked with an expectant look on his face.
”Why do you want to use such a good thing to make celestial device rather than wizard weapons?” Green Spirit's good mood was interrupted by Junior Leopard's words. Green Spirit continued, ”Of course, you should use such a good thing to develop weapons. Jade-scaled Gold is one of the few materials in the world that are the hardest to destroy. It's the best material for weapons. However, making celestial devices with it is not greatly beneficial!”
”Now that it's the hardest to destroy, what method should I apply to refine it?”
”Tusita Fire, you have Tusita Fire!” Green Spirit shouted. ”Tusita Fire is one of the highest achievements of those necromancers. The ultimate objective of refining it is to produce weapons. It is the flame specifically used by necromancers to refine weapons and make pills of immortality. Though it's less powerful than the congenital fire, it overshadows the latter from the perspective of making weapons and elixir.”
”Specifically used for refining weapons and elixir?” Junior Leopard queried.
”Exactly,” Green Spirit added, ”Tusita Fire dwarfs other flames in melting and refining. Melting means making different materials become liquid, while refining signifies removing foreign matters from the substance!”
”It seems that I got an incredible thing!” Green Spirit's words provoked Junior Leopard's thoughts. Though Junior Leopard knew Tusita Fire was not an ordinary thing, he had never thought that the stuff could be described with the word, 'MOST'!
There were too many treasures of heaven and earth in antiquity times, but he hardly heard of a treasure modified by an adjective with the word 'MOST'. He had never expected that his Tusita Fire deserved this modifier. The descriptions made him really happy.
However, happiness did not last for long. Junior Leopard then slightly moved his mouth and asked, ”What should I do next?”
”Take out your Tusita Fire. I'll teach you how to make use of it. The first thing you need to do is to melt the Jade-scaled Gold, which requires you to stimulate the force of Purple Bright Heavenly Fire in Tusita Fire. The Purple Bright Heavenly Fire is the hottest fire among all the congenital ones, it is known for its capability of refining everything in the world. Though the temperature of Tusita Fire can only reach one or two-tenths of Purple Bright Heavenly Fire's, the heat is enough to refine the Jade-scaled Gold. However, you should be careful during the refinement and the time won't be long!”
”I see!” Junior Leopard said, lifting his hand in the air, before a glimmer of Tusita Fire appeared in front of him. According to the incantation from Green Spirit, he slightly moved his fingertips and the flame thus jumped like an active person. Subsequently, a ray of light purple gas emerged and rushed to the eggshell-like Jade-scaled Gold. The moment it touched the substance, something eccentric happened.
In an instant, Junior Leopard retreated 10 meters away. Even so, the hot airflow still made him flushed. He attempted to release the Poison Cold Shield, but it did not work. In fact, he had no sooner released the Poison Cold Shield before he took it back.
The unexpected high-temperature airflow could burn down his Poison Cold Shield.
”Your Poison Cold Shield is nothing but a celestial device at Mysterious Level. However, the Purple Bright Heavenly Fire can burn weapons like the Taihao Fairy Weapon. Although Tusita Fire only exerts one or two-tenths of the power of the Purple Bright Heavenly Fire, you can't defend against it with your Mysterious Level celestial device!” Seeing that Junior Leopard immediately took back the Poison Cold Shield that he released, Green Spirit laughed and said, ”You launched the Tusita Fire, so you will at most be scalded once or twice, but not to death. As for the fate of other things, it's hard to tell. See…”
Enduring the incandescent heat waves, Junior Leopard looked ahead. Sure enough, as Green Spirit said, all things, except the Jade-scaled Gold, were instantly vaporized once touched by that purple flame. Exposed to the purple fire, the Jade-scaled Gold was slowly melting.
”Goodness! This place is as hot as an oven!” Junior Leopard exclaimed. In addition to the Jade-scaled Gold which became liquid as result of being heated by the Tusita Fire, everything else was gasified by the heat flow.
”Put away the Jade-scaled Gold! This place is not suitable for refining weapons,” Green Spirit said, pointing at the melted Jade-scaled Gold.
”Well, I have no other choice. I don't want to take a risk and refine the weapon here!” Junior Leopard said with a lingering fear after seeing the power of the Tusita Fire.
”Don't worry. Tusita Fire could indeed exert a little of the power of Purple Bright Heavenly Fire, but not for long!” Green Spirit comforted Junior Leopard. With the temperature dropping quickly, he continued, ”Though it's enough to refine materials!”
”Yes, more than enough!” Junior Leopard murmured. He thought of the main reason why major smelting families spared no pain to search for the underground fire vein. If they had the Tusita Fire, the underground fire vein would immediately lose half of its value.
After putting away the Jade-scaled Gold and the Yin and Yang Dust Formation in sequence, Junior Leopard said, ”Well, the next time I go to the cold pool, I should give the kindling to Cao Xuetang!”
”It seems that you want to make friends with this guy”, said Green Spirit.
”I have saved this guy's life twice. You can say that I have doubled down on him. If I ruin our relationship right now, I will get nothing. You once said that the kindling of Nanming Ignis was useless for me, but I could give it to this guy to help him enhance his strength and status and I'll get some benefits from this man. Don't you think it's a good choice?” Junior Leopard smiled and added, ”To maximize the potential yield, what I need to do is to make the most of my resources rather than use all those good things!”