Chapter 168: Primal Core Spirit Weapon
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
In the history of Ziyun planet, the youngest Primal Core adept had been at least 35 years old. The young man in front of him looked as if he was not more than 20 years of age. Could he already be a Primal Core adept?
In the hall of the Yang family, the Yang family members watched a young man dressed in a flowing white robe lead the middle-aged man away. Their eyes filled with shock. The look of disbelief remained for a long while.
After leaving the Yang family, Zhou Donghuang found a weaponry and bought a Core furnace, as well as some rare metals that he needed.
“Master, I can understand why you bought the Core furnace, to produce the Core drugs, but why did you get all of these metals?” Su Mo asked Zhou Donghuang curiously, looking at the heap of precious metals in his hands.
“To produce spirit weapons,” answered Zhou Donghuang flatly.
“Primal Core weapons?!” Hearing the words that had just left Zhou Donghuang’s mouth, Su Mo’s eyes narrowed rapidly. “Master, you … you know how to make spirit weapons?”
Martial artists beyond the Primal Core stage could make use of their inner Yuan to crystallize a Samadhi fire that could not only be used to produce Core drugs but could also be used to produce weapons. The weapons that were forged in the Samadhi fire were called “spirit weapons.” The s.p.a.ce ring was one such spirit weapon. Spirit weapons were special not because of the methods used to forge them. Instead, they required a special material to be used in the forging: the s.p.a.ce stone.
However, his master had not purchased a s.p.a.ce stone among the rare metals that he had just bought. This meant that his master was about to produce another spirit weapon besides the s.p.a.ce ring.
“Very rare?” asked Zhou Donghuang. In his past life, he had been most proficient in producing Core drugs, but he could also easily forge spirit weapons beneath the heavenly spirit weapon tier without any effort.
While purchasing the Core furnace, the rare metals that he had bought together were the materials that he was planning to use to forge inferior Primal Core spirit weapons.
Hearing this, Su Mo laughed as he said, “Master, it is extremely difficult to forge a spirit weapon, and it is much harder than what is needed to produce most other Core drugs. I have heard that among the ten premier sects of the Ziyun planet, two sects each have one spirit weapon. Furthermore, these weapons were obtained by one of the sects a few centuries ago, when they were bought from a Dharma Laws adept who had arrived on Ziyun by accident. They paid a huge sum of money for the weapon. It was only an inferior Primal Core spirit weapon, but even so, it allowed the user to increase the power of inner Yuan by a tenth!”
As he spoke, Su Mo’s eyes seemed to glint with a burning flame.
“Just as I thought … in Ziyun planet, the spirit weapon is indeed a rare item.” Zhou Donghuang’s eyes flashed as he thought this.
“We will return to the guest inn first. Tomorrow I want to make a trip to the black market and get some spirit stones, ” said Zhou Donghuang to Su Mo.
The two of them made their way back to Yuntai Inn. Their journey was smooth. It seemed like the seventeenth elder of the Divine Light sect, Liu Xuanyu, had not sent anyone to stop them, as if he had simply disappeared into thin air. Of course, Zhou Donghuang was well aware that the fact that Liu Xuanyu was in no hurry to make any move did not mean that he had given up, and most likely was just observing Zhou Donghuang’s actions.
Just as Zhou Donghuang had predicted, not long after he and Su Mo returned to Yuntai Inn, Liu Xuanyu, the seventeenth elder of the Divine Light sect, who was waiting in the black market, received the information report from his men.
“Seventeenth elder, the two people not only killed the men we had sent to Yuntai inn, but were even brought to the Yang family household by the Yang people.” The old man stood respectfully in front of Liu Xuanyu, as he continued seriously, “However, they left the Yang family household in one piece. Our plan clearly failed.”
“The Yang family did not try to stop them?” Liu Xuanyu was surprised. “Isn’t that man just a late Connate-stage adept? Even if the two late Connate-stage adepts in the Yang family did not make a move, the Yang family would have had no problem stopping him.”
“Seventeenth elder, ” said the old man with a bitter smile. “At the start, I had the same doubt. But I asked around and found out some news which I am unsure about. The son of one of the Yang elders personally released the news that both the man who had killed the Yang eighth elder, Yang Wei, and the young man alongside him were Primal Core adepts! In fact, the older man even calls the young man ‘Master.’ The young man looks to be not more than twenty years of age.” As he spoke, the old man’s eyes could not help but seem extremely suspicious. “A Primal Core adept who is not even twenty years old? Even though this news has been circulating, I don’t really believe it.”
“A Primal Core adept who is less than twenty years of age?” Liu Xuanyu was first taken aback, then could not help but chuckle. “In the history of Ziyun planet, the youngest Primal Core adept achieved the Primal Core stage when he was thirty-six years old. And that man is none other than the ancestor of our Divine Light sect, one of the only two Dharma Laws adept in the history of Ziyun planet. A Primal Core adept who is not even twenty years old … maybe in those planets which have more training resources … but, here in Ziyun planet, such an occurrence is simply impossible!” As the seventeenth elder of the Divine Light sect, Liu Xuanyu had the authority to say this.
“My thoughts exactly,” agreed the old man with a nod of his head.
“As for that middle-aged man, it is possible that he may really be a Primal Core adept, ” continued Liu Xuanyu. He turned to look at the old man. “Has he returned to Yuntai inn? If not, you keep a close eye on him, then send someone to call me over. I will meet him for myself!”
As he spoke, Liu Xuanyu’s eyes shone with greed. “We must not wait any longer. If he really is a Primal Core adept, within half a year, of those thousand pieces of spirit stone he will have used more than a hundred!”
“Yes, seventeenth elder, ” responded the old man as he left.
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Yuntai inn.
After returning, Zhou Donghuang began producing the Core drugs in his room as Su Mo observed from the side. Of course, Su Mo had not dared to make such a request, but Zhou Donghuang had personally offered to allow Su Mo to observe him.
“Refining Core drugs is similar to producing elixirs or potions, but only in terms of the pharmacology. The refining of Core drugs is very particular about the management of the fire, besides the mixing of the ingredients…” shared Zhou Donghuang as he released the inner Yuan from within his body. It circled around the Core furnace, bringing the Core furnace to float in the air in front of him.
Next, the many different ingredients were sliced into near blocks using the inner Yuan that had been converted into a knife in his hands. “Cutting the herbs helps allow the medicinal effect of the herbs to spread evenly throughout after they are thrown into the Core furnace…”
A young man who was not even twenty years old was here sharing the ways of refining the Core as he worked. On the other hand, there was an old man who was more than seventy years old, but who looked at most forty years old, looking on like a curious baby, learning intently as he watched the young man refine the Core drugs, as if he were afraid to miss a single detail.
After half an hour, the young man lifted his hand and patted the Core furnace. With that, pieces of Core drug shot out from within and entered the bottle which he had prepared earlier.
“These are ten Connate drugs, with the same effect as the Connate elixirs which I had made previously, but the effect is three times that of the Connate elixir.” Keeping the bottle, Zhou Donghuang looked at Su Mo as he told him what he had just produced.
“Three … three times?!” Su Mo was stunned. He had already been amazed by the Connate elixirs that his master had produced. Now, his master was telling him that the effect of the Connate drugs which he had just produced was three times stronger than the elixir?
Before Su Mo could recover from his shock, Zhou Donghuang had already picked up the precious rare metals that he had just purchased. His inner Yuan made them float in the air, then Zhou Donghuang used the Samadhi fire to melt the metal.
Next, as Su Mo watched, after he had recovered from his shock, the Samadhi fire from Zhou Donghuang’s inner Yuan transformed the mix of molten metals into an Exquisite Hill about the size of a fist.
After the Exquisite Hill had taken its shape, Zhou Donghuang, who had originally looked relaxed, now had a serious expression. His hands waved rapidly in dance as thousands of streaks of inner Yuan flew across the surface of the Exquisite Hill, like pulling the silk from a coc.o.o.n.
These actions all amazed Su Mo. “Master, this is setting up a s.h.i.+eld?”
“In forging a spirit weapon, the essence of it is setting up a s.h.i.+eld. The stronger the s.h.i.+eld, the more complex it is and the more difficult it is to set it up, ” Zhou Donghuang said. “The spirit ring can only be considered among the most inferior tiers in terms of difficulty of forging the spirit weapon. The spear sphere is roughly similar in difficulty to the s.p.a.ce ring, but the difference is that the material used in forging the s.p.a.ce ring, the s.p.a.ce stone, is so rare and precious that the material used to forge the spear sphere cannot compare at all. Hence the spear sphere cannot be considered a spirit weapon, and will not be of any a.s.sistance to a Primal Core adept.”
Zhou Donghuang’s words gave Su Mo a greater understanding of spirit weapons. In the past, he had known only that spirit weapons were extremely precious, but knew nothing about why. Now he had a newfound respect for the young man in front of him.
“Done, ” declared Zhou Donghuang. He finally finished his work after an hour. Clearly the effort needed to forge a spirit weapon was far more than that needed to refine a Core drug.
“Try it, ” said Zhou Donghuang as he threw the Exquisite Hill in his hands to Su Mo carelessly, as if he was throwing away a piece of rubbish. Now, the Exquisite Hill was not only extremely realistic but on its body there were also visible tiny lines cl.u.s.tered densely.
“For a Primal Core adept, whether activating a spear sphere or a spirit weapon, one would not need to be familiar with the s.h.i.+eld within. As long as one injected energy into it, it can be used directly, ” added Zhou Donghuang.
Su Mo nodded as he tried to inject some of his inner Yuan into the Exquisite Hill. In that instant, the Exquisite Hill flew up under his command. As it fell with a loud booming sound, the energy that was released made Su Mo widen his eyes in shock.
“The power increased by a whole tenth!”
This was the hallmark of an inferior Primal Core spirit weapon.