Chapter 1103: A Fine Sword (First Update!)
"So, Earth Mother, will you do this or not?" Heaven Duke asked.
Earth Mother gritted her teeth. "If I do this, there will be no place for me in Xuan Du. Ancestral God King will surely hunt me down, leaving me with no way to ascend to heaven and no door to enter the earth! Your purpose in saving me is merely to use me to eliminate the Heavenly Court's influence in Xuan Du!"
Heaven Duke looked at her and said, "After you do this, I will lend you the Western Emperor's Xirang."
Earth Mother Yuanjun's killing intent surged, and she shouted fiercely, "I'll do it!"
Qin Mu and Ling Yuxiu parted ways, and he returned to the Supervision and Construction Factory. At the factory, Village Chief, Medicine Master, Granny Si, Cripple, Horse Master, and Deaf had all arrived. Butcher had contacted them, and they had come through the teleportation arrays built in various cities.
Now, Yan Kang was wealthy and powerful, continuously transporting all kinds of materials from various great heavens. Forging divine weapons in Yan Kang, refining them into elixirs, and supporting the teleportation gates of each city was more than sufficient.
The elders of the Crippled Village gathered together, and it was a lively affair once more. Mute had already sorted and prepared various materials, matching the proportions of divine weapon materials according to everyone's techniques and divine abilities.
When Yan Kang forged divine weapons for the Heavenly Court, they were all standard-issue weapons, produced by the Supervision and Construction Factory like an assembly line, with each factory responsible for one or two sets of processes.
But as Yan Kang's most powerful Artisan and Formation Master, Mute and Blind personally forging was naturally extraordinary.
What Village Chief wanted was a sword with a scabbard, not a sword pellet. Butcher wanted two divine blades. Granny Si's divine weapon was a Dao Wheel capable of carrying her own Dao techniques. Horse Master only wanted a single monk's staff. Cripple wanted a pair of gloves and a pair of boots.
Deaf wanted a brush and an inkstone. Medicine Master wanted an alchemy furnace. Blind wanted to refine his Dragon Tuo Divine Spear. As for Mute himself, he was forging a new furnace and hammer.
Qin Mu observed from the side. When forging Village Chief's sword, Village Chief sat to one side, spreading out his sword Dao techniques. Sword Dao runes flew through the air. Blind used formations to solidify the sword Dao techniques, turning them into microscopic runes, which Mute hammered heavily, striking them into the sword blank!
Qin Mu looked closely. Within the divine gold of the Ancestral Court, microscopic divine gold particles were imprinted with the smallest sword Dao runes, a breathtaking sight.
This kind of forging path required microscopic mathematics, microscopic carving, microscopic formations, microscopic runes, and microscopic casting—tasks that could only be completed by Artisans and Formation Masters who had cultivated their Dao to the extreme!
Even for an existence like Village Chief, refining such a divine weapon required consuming a vast amount of primal energy, mental focus, and divine consciousness. His essence, energy, and spirit all had to be integrated into his divine weapon.
Only by fusing the divine weapon with one's own spirit could the weapon's power be maximized!
During the forging process, Village Chief's primal energy was exhausted, his mental focus depleted, and his divine consciousness drained. He had to rest several times before he could continue.
Blind said, "If we keep stopping and starting like this, the divine sword might not be completed in one go, affecting its power."
Qin Mu immediately had Dragon Qilin fetch the Gourd Heaven Bottle, take out some Primal Chaos Origin Liquid, and distribute it to everyone, allowing Village Chief to recover quickly.
Mute glanced at the Primal Chaos Origin Liquid and said decisively, "Mu'er, get more water for quenching!"
Qin Mu was startled, his head aching, but he gritted his teeth and had Dragon Qilin fetch more Primal Chaos Origin Liquid to give to Mute for quenching the divine sword.
Village Chief's sword was the most exquisite art, allowing no room for error. The power of the forged divine sword might even far exceed Village Chief's own strength!
Qin Mu observed for a long time and gained a great deal.
Microscopic mathematics was something he had pioneered, but microscopic formations, microscopic carving, microscopic imprinting, microscopic casting, and microscopic runes were all pioneered and developed by Yan Kang.
Back then, the leaders of the Yan Kang Reformation had all seen the potential of microscopic mathematics and rushed to study it. By now, it had finally yielded many achievements!
Village Chief's divine sword took over ten days to forge, consuming a large amount of Primal Chaos Origin Liquid, and was finally completed!
When the divine sword was finished, in the Supervision and Construction Factories on both banks of the Tu River, thousands of divine weapons sang in unison, trembling incessantly!
When Village Chief grasped the sword, the resonance of the ten thousand weapons grew even more intense.
He steadied his mind and was about to draw the sword from its scabbard when Blind quickly stopped him, saying, "The king of ten thousand weapons, its power even stronger than yours. The first time it's drawn, the divine sword will inevitably establish its authority! Go outside to draw it, far away from here. The divine weapons in the factories on both banks cannot withstand the sword's might."
Village Chief walked out of the factory, and everyone else poured out after him, filled with excitement.
Village Chief drawing his sword was not only a verification that their hard work over this period had not been in vain, but also a testament to the achievements of the Yan Kang Reformation over the past ten years!
Just as Village Chief was about to draw the sword, Blind frowned and said, "Further away."
Village Chief soared into the air, moving far away from the factories on both banks, and asked, "How about here?"
Mute shouted in a loud voice, "A bit further!"
Village Chief had no choice but to ascend higher and called out loudly, "How about here?"
Mute checked the vibrations of the divine weapons in the factory and shouted, "Further still!"
Village Chief rose higher and higher, until his figure could no longer be seen with the naked eye, and his voice came from afar: "And now?"
"Dragon Tuo, how is it?" Blind asked the Dragon Tuo Divine Spear.
The black dragon spear at his waist slowly moved and said, "The sword hasn't even been drawn yet, but I can already feel the sword's aura piercing my body, an immense pressure. If it is drawn, the divine sword will establish its authority, suppressing all sharp objects around it. I will surely be severed by the sword's aura!"
Blind shouted loudly, "Even further away!"
Village Chief flew into the sky, even higher than the Yuan Wood of Yan Kang's capital city. Looking down, he could only see the capital and the Yuan Wood, while the dragon veins around him had become very thin.
He looked up. If he flew higher, he would soon reach the vicinity of the star charts. He quickly sent his divine consciousness downward to inquire, "How is it now?"
After a moment, Qin Mu's divine consciousness came back: "Village Chief, Grandpa Blind and the others mean for you to go even higher."
Village Chief was furious. "If I go any higher, I'll be outside the heavens! The sword's might of this divine sword can't possibly be that strong, cutting off the divine weapons in the factory from this far away!"
He resolutely drew his sword. The divine sword left its scabbard.
The divine consciousness that Qin Mu had sent to his side instantly melted away like ice and snow. Before it was destroyed, all he could see was an incredibly dazzling sword light!
At the same time, in the Supervision and Construction Factories on both banks of the Tu River, one divine weapon after another vibrated and sang. In an instant, countless runes within the ten thousand weapons lit up on their own. Feeling the threat, the divine weapons' own power was triggered, and dazzling divine light surged from each weapon!
The next moment, everyone outside the factories heard cracking sounds coming continuously from the various workshops. Their faces changed drastically, and they rushed into the factories.
Before they could even enter the factory, a sword pellet that had just been forged and finished not long ago suddenly shattered with a crash. The sword pellet contained three hundred and sixty divine swords, and each one snapped and was destroyed in an instant!
Inside the factory, the light emitted by the ten thousand divine weapons dimmed one after another, followed by the sound of shattering, causing the faces of those who rushed into the workshop to turn extremely ugly in an instant.
"That old bastard Village Chief, still can't sit still like a child!"
Butcher gritted his teeth in anger. Suddenly, his two divine blades emitted cracking sounds. He quickly said, "Careful! The divine sword is establishing its authority, and it's spreading to our divine weapons!"
Blind quickly channeled his primal energy, urging the Dragon Tuo Divine Spear. The Dragon Tuo Divine Spear let out a mournful cry, and suddenly, multiple sword marks appeared on its dragon head and dragon body.
Inside the factory, more divine weapons shattered one after another, the strange sounds unceasing. The light emitted by the divine weapons was extinguished one by one, and everywhere were divine weapons that had suddenly snapped.
The Artisans in the factory stood there helplessly, stunned. The broken divine weapons were all sharp implements like swords, spears, halberds, and blades. Other divine weapons, such as shields, hammers, towers, and pagodas, showed no abnormalities and were not cut by the divine sword.
After a moment, everything calmed down. The Supervision and Construction Factories on both banks of the Tu River were in a complete mess!
Suddenly, Village Chief's voice came from outside, laughing, "Truly a fine sword! Holding this divine sword, I feel like I've gotten a few years younger!"
Inside the factory, everyone's eyes gleamed with murderous intent.