"They didn’t necessarily steal the nuclear bombs with the Kingdom of Ice and Snow in mind," Yu Ruoyun said indifferently, leaning against the wall.
"Due to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, nuclear weapons are firmly controlled by the nine major nations. Terrorist organizations can buy any conventional armants from the White Eagle Country, but they absolutely cannot obtain nuclear bombs. Paradise Bird has acquired two nuclear bombs, and with their capabilities, they could deliver those bombs to any city in any country. We must find the whereabouts of these two bombs. Otherwise, the death toll could reach the millions."
As soon as Wang Lan finished speaking, Princess Aier’s face turned deathly pale. This was a responsibility the Kingdom of Ice and Snow could not bear under any circumstances.
"Oh, you’re all up!" From a distance, a senior student waved as she approached, gracefully sitting down beside Wang Lan. "My na is Aiwei, and I’m a senior in the Close Combat Departnt."
"Huh?" Wang Lan looked at the senior in surprise, not expecting such a sweet-looking young woman to be from the Close Combat Departnt. He had heard from two louts in his dormitory that the male-to-female ratio in the Close Combat Departnt was a terrifying twenty to one. Even if there were a dozen or so won in the departnt, each supposedly looked like a muscle-bound monster.
Just as Wang Lan was about to return the beauty’s greeting, a system alert suddenly appeared in his mind: "Special tal detected. Can repair damaged Saint Cloth."
The last ti, his Saint Cloth had shattered in the Ti-Space Gemstone explosion, leaving only a Heart Mirror fragnt. After that, he’d encountered a series of misfortunes before even having a chance to mourn its loss. Although the Phoenix Saint Cloth possessed a Self-Repair ability, the damage was so severe that the chances of it repairing itself were slim.
The sudden system alert left Wang Lan sowhat dumbfounded. Special tal? Where is it? Why can’t I see it?
Staring intently at Aiwei, Wang Lan was on the verge of activating his Void Purple Eyes when he noticed a pendant on her chest. It was a silvery-white, teardrop-shaped piece of tal, sowhat twisted and with an uneven surface.
Could it be this?
Wang Lan’s unabashed staring at Aiwei’s chest made even a typically casual Close Combat Departnt student blush instantly.
I didn’t expect Wang Lan to be so lecherous... What if he makes so excessive demand? If I refuse... Wang Lan is so outstanding, being his girlfriend wouldn’t be a loss, would it? Powerful n all seem to be playboys. They say Lord Qing Emperor also has several confidantes... But... I haven’t graduated yet... What if I accidentally get pregnant?
Who truly knows what goes through a woman’s mind at tis, or how far their thoughts can drift when they’re caught up in them?
"Um, Senior Aiwei, could you let see the pendant on your chest?"
"Ah?" Aiwei’s cheeks imdiately burned crimson. Princess Aier, standing nearby, quietly sighed in relief.
Indeed, Wang Lan wasn’t interested in this girl. She doesn’t have a figure like mine, nor is she as beautiful as I am; how could Wang Lan reject for her? Yes, it must have been a misunderstanding.
Without hesitation, Aiwei removed the necklace and held it out to Wang Lan.
"Where did you get this?"
"I pried it off a teorite fragnt. It looked pretty, so I made it into a necklace."
Wang Lan quickly opened his Star Palace and summoned the Phoenix Saint Cloth, now reduced to a single piece of chest armor. No one would believe that this battered piece of tal before them was once the magnificent Star Palace Artifact that had danced like a phoenix before disassembling and fitting itself onto Wang Lan.
If Yihui were here, he would probably fight Wang Lan to the death over this, the kind of fight where neither would rest until the other was dead.
The Phoenix Saint Cloth possessed the ability to Self-Repair. However, this required the correct materials. With only a palm-sized piece of tal remaining, even a thousand years might not be enough for it to recover.
"This pendant is incredibly hard; my warhamr broke trying to damage it, yet it remained pristine. It must be so special material from outer space. My family is in the steel business, so I was planning to take it back for them to research," Aiwei explained.
Wang Lan placed the pendant on the Heart Mirror. He was about to open the system and ask how to repair the Saint Cloth when, in an instant, the bead lted on the Heart Mirror and then seeped into it. In the blink of an eye, the bead vanished without a trace.
"Was it... eaten?" Aiwei asked, dumbfounded. Princess Aier and Yu Ruoyun also stared at Wang Lan, awaiting his explanation.
"My Star Palace Artifact is called the Phoenix Saint Cloth. It has a Self-Repair ability, but the materials required are very hard to find. I thought repair was hopeless, but I never expected Heaven itself to deliver the necessary materials."
"Are they in the teorites? I’ll send people to collect them imdiately!" Princess Aier exclaid.
The teorites had fallen right near their location, and almost everyone present had witnessed it. Thus, collecting the teorite fragnts was not a difficult task for Princess Aier. The asteroid impact had been an accident for Wang Lan, but now, it was an unexpected blessing.
Perspectives differ; what constitutes a disaster for one can be a boon for another. For the Kingdom of Ice and Snow, this asteroid was a catastrophe. But for Wang Lan, damn it, this was a surprise bonanza!
The Kingdom of Ice and Snow operated with remarkable efficiency. Almost as soon as Princess Aier issued her orders, the people of the Kingdom sprang into action. Furthermore, the support team from the Jade Country, having little else to do, also joined the effort to collect teorite fragnts.
By afternoon, the first batch of teorites had been delivered. The teorites were dark and smudged, resembling lumps of charcoal. Wang Lan picked up a teorite and placed it on the Heart Mirror. He stared at it for a long ti, but nothing happened.
Could I have guessed wrong?
"Wang Lan, even if the Phoenix Saint Cloth has Self-Repair capabilities, you can’t expect it to eat rocks, can you? I think we should first refine the tal from the teorites. It’s even possible that only one specific type of tal within them is the required repair material," Yu Ruoyun said with a speechless expression, watching Wang Lan tap a rock against the Heart Mirror. He’s so silly, it’s almost endearing, she thought.
"That’s true. Do we have the ans to refine it? I recall the Kingdom of Ice and Snow doesn’t have any heavy industry, right?"
"Indeed, we don’t have heavy industry for steel production. However, extracting so tal from the teorites should still be possible. If we know the thod, we can even do it ourselves. We should start by lting them at high temperatures to separate the rock from the liquid tal. Then, through forging, we can remove impurities. Let’s first isolate the tals, then send them to a testing facility for compositional analysis," Princess Aier suggested softly.
"Alright! Let’s build a furnace and lt the tal into a molten state!"
"Is all this trouble really necessary?" Yu Ruoyun walked past Wang Lan with a look of disdain, gently nudged him, and said, "Move over. Let handle this."
She picked up a teorite the size of a fist, and Star Power surged within her. Instantly, a purple fla erupted in her hand. The purple fla, far hotter than the bluish flas of a steel mill, could not only lt iron but could even turn rock into magma.
After a minute, Yu Ruoyun’s brow furrowed; the teorite in her palm showed no change whatsoever. Could the purple fla not be hot enough? She increased her Star Power output, and the purple fla shot skyward like a roaring bonfire.
Despite maintaining the output for nearly three minutes, the teorite remained unchanged.
"Strange. What kind of teorite is this? It can’t even be lted by my purple fla."
"That’s to be expected." Director Longya suddenly appeared, his long hair flowing as he slowly approached. "I heard the students were all looking for teorite fragnts," he said. "I was curious, so I ca to ask: what do you need the teorites for?"
"Last ti in Space Five, my Phoenix Saint Cloth shattered when I was preventing the Ti-Space Gemstone from activating. Although it can be repaired, the materials needed for its repair are extrely rare. By chance, I discovered that these teorites contain a tal that can repair the Saint Cloth, which is why I asked my classmates to help collect the fragnts."
"The teorites do indeed contain an exceptionally hard tal. We sent the first fragnt we found for analysis. This tal is unlike anything previously discovered on Sky Blue Star. It’s thirty tis harder than titanium found on Sky Blue Star and also possesses incredible toughness. Objects made from it would be virtually indestructible. But this tal has an extraordinarily high lting point. Currently, our scientists haven’t yet figured out a thod to extract this tal. It’s precisely because of this tal that the teorites didn’t disintegrate upon entering the gravitational fields of Sky Blue Star and the moon, nor did they burn up significantly when passing through the atmosphere. How to refine this tal is sothing our scientists are still researching. You lot should save your energy."
"Director Longya, would it work if the temperature were high enough?" Wang Lan quickly asked.
"Theoretically, every substance can exist in solid, liquid, and gaseous states; tals are no different. High-temperature refining is one of the most common thods. But where would you find such extre temperatures? Purple flas are already at the upper limit for fla temperatures. Your only other option would be sothing like a laser beam."
Wang Lan held a teorite and activated his Extre Heat Light Beam Star Martial Skill. His Extre Heat Light Beam, at Platinum Four, could generate temperatures of twenty-five thousand degrees—more than double that of purple flas.
As Wang Lan’s Star Power surged, his palm instantly emitted a dazzling light. The light wasn’t blinding, but it was intensely bright, reminiscent of the captivating glow the asteroid had emitted as it fell.
"This... this is..." Director Longya’s face instantly filled with disbelief.
Considering Wang Lan had already demonstrated so many incredible abilities—using Star Martial Skills to shoot down missiles and asteroids, and breaking through cultivation realms with casual ease—Director Longya thought he should have been desensitized to any further bizarre displays.
But... he couldn’t remain numb to this!
As the tactical director of the Modu Star Martial Academy, Director Longya was known as an invincible warrior, second only to those with bestowed titles. While his strength might not be peerless, his breadth of knowledge certainly was.
The light emanating from Wang Lan’s palm... could it be the Extre Heat Light Beam, a power that supposedly existed only in theory? In the Star Martial world, the Aurora developed by high-level Ice Attribute Star Martial Warriors is considered a pinnacle of combat. The difference in strength between an Ice Attribute warrior who can’t use Aurora and one who has mastered it is as vast as that between an ocular power at its three-tomoe stage and one that has achieved the full Kaleidoscope Vision. Once Aurora is unleashed, it can freeze thousands of miles in an instant; even powerhouses like the Five Emperors might not dare to face it directly. If the Extre Freezing Light exists, then an Extre Heat Light Beam should also be possible. After all, if the Nine Yin Scripture has appeared, a corresponding Jiuyang Divine Power wouldn’t be out of place, would it? Yet, for millennia, the Extre Heat Light Beam has remained a re legend. Countless Fire, Fla, and Sun Attribute warriors have poured their lifeblood into trying to manifest it, only to fail and die with regrets. They even charged their descendants to burn paper offerings at their graves if the Extre Heat Light Beam ever ca into being—a wish unfulfilled for ages. But now... this light in Wang Lan’s hand... what else could it be, if not the Extre Heat Light Beam? What else could generate such intense heat that it warped space, distorted gravity, and made the very air shimr as if it were a vacuum?
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