"The material of this box is far from simple..." Su Chen clicked his tongue in wonder. He closed the lid, carried the item back to the training room, and pulled up the precautions for the class requirent: "In an open space, strip naked and evenly scatter the century-old hearth embers within a one-ter radius of the body. Simultaneously, strike the body with a giant tal hamr to induce resonance with the embers. Once the point of harmony is found, the hearth embers will actively rge into the body."
Su Chen read it carefully. At the very end, there was a warning highlighted in red: "Upon resonance, the temperature of the hearth embers will spike. Their integration into the body will cause imnse pain. Please make adequate preparations before attempting."
Having the experience of his predecessors saved him countless rounds of trial and error.
Su Chen stepped into the center of the training room and stripped off his clothes. Following the instructions, he evenly scattered the embers from the box around him. They were a mix of blazing white and scorched black, with crimson sparks flashing within them from ti to ti.
The materials used to construct the training room were also extraordinary; the hearth embers scattered on the floor didn't leave a single scorch mark.
Reaching out, Su Chen retrieved the Formless True Blade from his spatial storage. He gradually transford it into a giant tal hamr about two ters long, then wrapped it in his spiritual telekinesis to suspend it behind his back.
This kind of ritualistic resonance didn't require an overpowering amount of force.
Thud!
With a muffled sound, the giant tal hamr slamd into his back. The sheer impact sent visible, ring-like ripples radiating outward from the point of contact.
At the sa ti, the hearth embers on the floor trembled. Crimson sparks flared up within them, only to quickly fade away.
"This is the state..." Su Chen muttered with a glance. He quickly resud his hamring, adjusting the speed and rhythm—sotis fast, sotis slow—based on the reaction of the hearth embers on the ground.
The sparks igniting within the embers gradually linked together into a continuous sheet of light. At a specific mont, the faintly glowing hearth embers scattered across the surrounding floor suddenly shuddered.
As if drawn by an invisible gravity, they transford into countless crimson specks of light resembling fireflies, converging toward his body from all directions.
When these scorching ember fragnts touched his skin, they didn't bounce off. Instead, they clung to him as if they had a life of their own.
They rapidly lted, turning into a viscous, boiling liquid energy that drilled into Su Chen's body through his pores and the fine lines of his skin.
Wherever the energy current passed, his subcutaneous tissue radiated a brilliant red glow, looking exactly like magma flowing through volcanic veins.
"Hiss—" Su Chen sucked in a sharp breath of cold air. The temperature was outrageously high. Even with the fortification of his Armored Bone stage, he found it sowhat unbearable.
However, despite the agony, Su Chen still hoisted the giant hamr again and smashed it down ruthlessly.
Thud! Thud! Thud!
Muffled booms echoed constantly throughout the training room. The hearth embers continued to perate deeper into his body, fusing into every fiber of his flesh and bone, bringing with them waves of a searing, swelling sensation from the inside out.
"Phew..." It wasn't until a full seven or eight hours later that Su Chen finally breathed a sigh of relief.
The hearth embers on the floor had completely vanished. Faint sparks flickered across the surface of his lean, muscular body before gradually fading away into the skin.
On his interface, the third requirent for the Hundred-Refined Forger class was now marked as completed.
Strictly speaking, the second-sequence class of the Eternal Physique wasn't exactly difficult. Since all the requirents were t, he could officially take on the class right now. However, he still hadn't claid the extra reward from the Sly Fox Essence, so he wasn't in a rush.
After a brief cleanup, Su Chen entered his developnt state once more.
The next day, transport aircraft arrived, and casting equipnt alongside various materials were unloaded one after another.
Song Yang and the other two followed closely behind, their faces showing a mix of excitent and nervousness. The last ti they had visited the Copper Core was over a decade ago.
"Just leave them out here in the open."
Su Chen directed the personnel from the Occupational Support Departnt to set everything down in a random clearing. He then routed a power transmission line over to the setup. All the basic specifications on the floating island were maxed out, providing more than enough power to support these highly energy-consuming instrunts.
Song Yang's trio had already crafted five weapon molds for him. Picking up the dagger mold, Song Yang said, "Your Excellency, the dagger is the simplest. Let's start with this one."
He pointed to a grayish-black rectangular block of tal resting on a nearby tal table, which twinkled with starlight-like specks. "This is Shadow-Hunting Gold. It has already been refined. All you need to do is lt it down and forge it into the shape of the mold."
Normal casting procedures were far from this simple, but the materials Liu Zheng'an had requisitioned were all high-grade alloys that had already been refined countless tis over. All Su Chen had to do was execute the final step.
"This Shadow-Hunting Gold possesses Tier 5 durability and a lting point around 1,500 degrees. Its primary attribute is sharpness, and simultaneously, it conducts spiritual energy—"
Zhou Yuan, the youngest forger among them, had just picked up the material and imdiately began rambling off its specs.
But halfway through, he was interrupted by Song Yang. "Your Excellency, you don't need to understand all the intricate details. Just listen to our instructions."
Zhou Yuan's expression froze, and he scratched his head in embarrassnt.
Su Chen simply smiled. "What Master Zhou was saying is actually quite interesting."
After easing the tension, Su Chen stood in front of the forging station like a puppet, letting Song Yang and the others calibrate all the paraters.
As the crimson-cyan flas surged, intense heat gradually filled the air, and the Shadow-Hunting Gold slowly turned a glowing crimson.
Song Yang looked at Su Chen nervously and asked, "Are you absolutely certain you want to do this barehanded?"
He had only just found out that Su Chen intended to forge it with his bare hands.
This was a Tier 5 weapon, and from what he heard, Su Chen himself was only at Tier 5. Zhou Yuan and the other forger didn't dare to interject, simply watching quietly from the sidelines.
"No problem," Su Chen replied. The muscles in his arms suddenly coiled tight like a fully drawn heavy bow. Crisp cracks rang out from his joints as he clenched his fingers into fists.
Engaging his core, he channeled his entire body's strength and sank his weight. His fists transford into two blurred afterimages as they plumted downward.
"Clang—!"
A deafening tallic screech exploded outward, and a waterfall of blazing white sparks erupted from the point of impact.
Song Yang and the others swallowed hard. 'Is that even a human hand? Truly worthy of being a Star Seed.'
Everyone had their own specialization. They spent year-round delving into forging techniques, so their main class tiers weren't particularly high. This display of raw physical power vastly exceeded their expectations.
"Tsk..." Su Chen clicked his tongue. Feeling the fierce recoil and the roasting high temperatures, he felt sowhat uncomfortable, but he could endure it.
With Song Yang and the others guiding him from the side, Su Chen continuously adjusted his striking angles, power, and speed. Very quickly, he found his rhythm.
The ceaseless clinking and clanging rang out continuously, only stopping as the Eclipse hour approached. By then, the tal block had already taken on the rough shape of a dagger.
Because Song Yang's trio had lower tiers, it was difficult for them to endure such harsh conditions for too long. Plus, they had families of their own, so they had to leave once their shift was up.
"Sorry to trouble you all," Su Chen said as he saw Song Yang's group off. He clenched his fists, glancing down at his palms, which were already slightly red and stung with a prickling pain.
Several hours of high-intensity impact was certainly no walk in the park. After a brief rest, Su Chen returned to the training room to continue advancing his class developnt progress.
In a hidden space forged entirely from Nether Domain Stone, Fan Zhao wore a cold, hardened expression. He watched as a blurry figure gradually materialized before him. The figure was clad in a black robe, with a faint, black vertical pupil symbol looming above its head.
"Your Excellency Fan Zhao, I have long heard of your na," the figure said, bowing slightly.
Fan Zhao's expression grew heavy, and he asked directly, "Are you absolutely certain you have a way to find the bastard who stole my Spirit Fire?"
"God Heituo is omnipotent," the figure replied in a calm voice.
"Then what price must I pay?" Fan Zhao asked in a deep voice.
"You misunderstand..." the cultist replied. "This ti, you can consider it a free favor from us."
"Free?" Fan Zhao paused. Instead of feeling joyful, he beca highly alert.
The Heituo cultist continued, "However, investigating this matter will not be easy. We will dispatch a Son of God to assist you. We only ask that Your Excellency ets with him in person."
"A Son of God?" Fan Zhao was startled and suspicious. "He's coming to the Sect?"
"Indeed."
Fan Zhao opened his mouth to speak but hesitated. eting directly with a Son of God naturally filled him with apprehension.
But his eyes flickered, and he asked, "Since you can find the person who stole my Spirit Fire, can you also find my master, Qin Yun?"
"Venerable Qin Yun..." The Heituo cultist nodded. "I have already said it. God Heituo is omnipotent, provided you can pay a sufficient price."
'Can they really find her?'
Fan Zhao couldn't help the turbulent waves rising in his heart. Dealing with cultists of the Aberrant Gods was no different from asking a tiger for its skin.
Throughout history, many people believed they could control the situation, thinking that associating with these cultists was rely mutual exploitation, but very few ever t a good end.
But right now, he truly had no other options. The Spirit Fire had been right in front of his eyes, only to inexplicably vanish. He simply couldn't accept it.
Furthermore, if he really managed to track down the Spirit Fire, he might just be able to use the opportunity to uncover what happened to his master.
'If sothing really goes wrong, the worst that happens is a direct fallout. We are currently inside the Sect, after all. That so-called Son of God won't be able to stir up much trouble...'
He continuously made excuses to justify his decision. After a long silence, he gave a heavy nod. "Alright."
Back in the training room, waves of molten gold-like flas roared and churned, completely swallowing Su Chen's figure. Sotis, the flas contracted like a giant cocoon, and at other tis, they exploded into thousands of wildly dancing fire snakes. What was even more bizarre was that beyond the raging flas, the entire space seed to be rippling. It wasn't an air current, but rather an invisible, viscous force that was undulating.
A long while later, the flas rolled backward, and the dispersing spiritual energy retracted, revealing Su Chen's figure once more.
After the energy completely settled down, Su Chen exhaled a long breath and opened his eyes.
It turned out that both his [Fla-Lightning Bone-Refining Body Forging Technique] and [Fla-Thunder Clear-Heart ditation Technique] had leveled up to the Master stage, each granting him an enhanced ability.
[Fla-Lightning Body: Slightly increases physical fortitude.]
[Fla-Thunder Heart: Slightly increases spiritual resilience.]
His class developnt progress had simultaneously hit 32%. The speed of his advancent was nothing short of terrifying.
The new physical training and ditation routines were already prepared, but he wasn't in a hurry to try them just yet.
Shifting his gaze to the interface, he noted that a portion of the Sly Fox Essence had perfectly finished slting.
He directly applied it to the first requirent for the Hundred-Refined Forger class. Originally, the condition demanded four top-tier physical classes. If he could extend that to include spiritual classes, he would be able to save a portion of Crimson Essence.
Unfortunately, the requirent imdiately skyrocketed to six top-tier physical classes.
"It seems this portion of Crimson Essence is destined to be spent." Su Chen had anticipated this outco, so he wasn't overly surprised.
Utilizing the Crimson Essence, he reduced the difficulty once more, then imdiately initiated the class advancent.
In an instant, his body felt as though it had been ignited by an invisible furnace. The blistering heat suddenly surging beneath his skin caused every inch of his flesh and blood to violently boil.
The sound of bubbling liquid echoed from deep within his abdon, imdiately followed by a dense staccato of clinking—like a torrential downpour hamring against a copper plate.
It was as if countless unseen forging hamrs were striking inside his body, causing his entire physique to beco increasingly dense and solid.
However, Su Chen only let out a muffled grunt. Accompanied by the steady increase in his physical fortitude, the toll brought by taking on the new class wasn't too overwhelming.
[Hundred-Refined Forger class successfully acquired. Received Class Ability - Hundred-Refined Physique: All stamina consumption reduced by 30%.]
[Received Bonus Reward: Stamina consumption reduced by an additional 20%.]
Su Chen quickly skimd over the prompt. He had already inherently understood what this class ability entailed the mont he acquired the class; it functioned much like a passive skill.
"Still, factoring in the bonus reward, my total stamina expenditure has instantly been cut in half." Su Chen couldn't help but click his tongue. The original ability of the class was perfectly balanced for its tier, but with the added bonus, it suddenly beca sowhat terrifying.
"I wonder if my hypothesis is correct," Su Chen murmured. Using his Holy Hand ability, he drained his own spiritual energy, then attempted to convert it back.
"Just as I thought!" A sharp glint flashed through Su Chen's eyes. He could clearly feel that the rate at which his spiritual energy replenished outpaced the speed of his stamina consumption.
"The Reverse Originator extracting stamina to convert into spiritual energy is also registered as consumption..." Su Chen couldn't help but grin widely. Calculating the math, the number of tis he could use the Holy Hand had just increased by three out of thin air. If he factored in the Endurer class, he could squeeze out another two uses.
Of course, asuring it purely by the Holy Hand was rely a thod of estimation. This overall enhancent ant that he could accomplish far more tasks, remain in the Nether Domain for extended periods, and explore a much broader scope of territory.
"Not bad at all... Excellent..." Thoroughly satisfied, Su Chen tidied himself up and left the training room, issuing a command to the mitic constructs to prepare so delicious als.
Perhaps due to the physical transformations, he developed a ravenous appetite every ti he successfully took on a new class.
Halfway through his al, a mitic construct approached to report that he had a visitor.
"A visitor?" Su Chen's cheeks bulged with food as he finally unmuted his wristband and glanced at it.
"Almost forgot about that..." He quickly swallowed his food, rose from his seat, and walked out of the dining hall, heading straight toward the docking port.
Soone was already waiting there. It was Jiang Mufeng.
"Brother Jiang..." Su Chen hurried forward with an apologetic tone. "I'm truly sorry. Once I started my class developnt, I completely lost track of ti."
"No harm done." Jiang Mufeng brought a hand out from behind his back, passing over a piece of parchnt covered in densely packed symbols. "This is what you asked for."
Seeing Su Chen take it, he firmly instructed, "Once you finish reading, rember to destroy it."
"Many thanks, Brother Jiang." Su Chen nodded, then added, "I've prepared so food inside—"
"No need," Jiang Mufeng waved him off. "There are a lot of matters to attend to lately, so I won't stay."
Su Chen didn't insist. After watching him depart, he gripped the parchnt and returned to the dining hall.
"Information on Divine Dawn-grade talents. This definitely wasn't easy to get..." Su Chen muttered to himself, staring at the symbol-covered parchnt before him.
Ever since he learned that Divine Dawn-grade talents were extraordinarily complex, he had been trying every thod possible to gather intelligence. However, there were virtually no public records about them within the Sect.
He even had Ming Lin visit the Seer Society to inquire about purchasing the details. However, the relevant data was exorbitantly priced; just to learn a few hidden pieces of information, the asking price exceeded a staggering fifty billion Star Coins.
Spending that much would severely bottleneck his progress in collecting essences. Therefore, he shifted his focus back to the Sect's internal resources and approached Jiang Mufeng for help.
Sure enough, the Sect possessed similar archives, but they were strictly classified, which led to today's secretive exchange.
Placing a hand on the parchnt, the symbols quickly dissolved, revealing neat rows of text: "...Divine Dawn-grade talents are not ordinary talent sequences. They carry certain congenital factors..."
Divine Dawn-grade talents were incredibly rare to begin with, aning there were practically no specins to support systematic research. This information was the culmination of countless years of fragnted accumulation.
"..piling intelligence from various sources, a preliminary conclusion can be drawn: Divine Dawn-grades can only be born within lineages that have previously possessed a Morning Star-tier class..."
"...The smaller the generational gap from the Morning Star-tier ancestor, the higher the probability..."
"They can only be inherited through a bloodline?" Su Chen frowned as he skimd this line. "That's going to be a problem..."
Suddenly, he froze as a prompt popped up on his interface: [Upon learning more secrets regarding the Divine Dawn-grade talent, The Flawless One is shocked to realize he is not truly flawless. A deep desire is born, hoping the host can undergo a tamorphosis into the Divine Dawn-grade...]
The anticipation in Su Chen's eyes instantly morphed into speechlessness. "Brother, I want to evolve too, but this requires the glory of my ancestors..."
It was rare enough to trigger a reaction from The Flawless One, but this guy wanted to reap the rewards without any effort even more than he did.
But imdiately after, his heart skipped a beat as more text surfaced: [The Flawless One senses the host's helplessness. Deep in thought, he seeks guidance from the Great Paragon Crimson Fla Echoing Thunder...]
[The Flawless One wishes to obtain the blood of a Divine Dawn-grade talent to conduct further research...]
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