544. Chapter 529: Heavenly Craft Hall, Group Beatdown
After two Jiazi of cultivating in seclusion, Tang Song had digested the rule comprehension gained from Dao integration with an entire world. His current Dao cultivation was already catching up to some ancient Golden Immortals, but accumulating magic power was not so easy.
If not for the portion of primordial spirit contributed by the Supreme God back then, Tang Song would have needed at least hundreds of thousands of years of painstaking effort to break through to the Golden Immortal stage.
Although the essence of the Supreme God's primordial spirit was profound, it ultimately did not perfectly match Tang Song's own attribute. Moreover, Tang Song's studies were too diverse.
Others walked the path of specializing in a single Dao, but he wanted it all. In terms of magic power, he cultivated the Tianhe True Method, which was known as the most vast and profound magic power technique in the Jambudvīpa World.
In terms of Dao cultivation, he integrated with an entire Middle Thousand World, comprehending its rule comprehension, and achieved perfection in the Six Paths of Space, Time, Reality, Soul, Strength, and Mind.
In terms of physical body, he used the Ancestral Witch Avatar formed by the Twelve Capital Heaven Underworld King Banners to temper his physical body, cultivating the Nine Cycles Profound Cultivation Method, the foremost body tempering technique in the Jambudvīpa World.
He evolved the Taiji True Form Diagram, evolved the Twelve Capital Heaven Underworld King Banners, visualized the Twelve Ancestral Witch True Form Diagram, refined the Chaos Bell, refined the Main God's remnant artifact... Even if the Supreme God's portion of primordial spirit was more profound, it couldn't withstand Tang Song "shearing the wool" like this.
All things considered, Tang Song had only cultivated for four Jiazi. Relying on himself and some minor opportunities, he finally reached the peak of the Golden Immortal realm, and this was with comprehensive development in Dao cultivation, magic power, and physical body.
His essence, qi, and spirit had all reached perfection.
Unfortunately, there was no second sucker like the Supreme God for him to shear wool from!
Tang Song sighed inwardly. The path ahead would require him to rely on his own diligent cultivation to improve his magic power cultivation base.
"Ding-a-ling!"
Tang Song raised his hand, and the Chaos Bell, after shrinking, landed in his palm. Tang Song shook the Chaos Bell, like a Taoist Priest catching ghosts and warding off evil.
A clear bell sound echoed within the Heavenly Craft Hall, without releasing any power.
It was hard to imagine that if this clear sound were to erupt, it could completely turn half of the Milky Way Galaxy into chaos.
With vast resources from dozens of universes piled up, and heavenly materials and earthly treasures and rare metals equivalent to several planets worth being forcefully thrown in, this replica Chaos Bell had gained some of the power of the genuine article.
But according to Tang Song's estimation, for this Chaos Bell of his to truly rival the one in the Demon Emperor's hands, it would likely be impossible without devouring thousands of Middle Thousand Worlds.
Where could he find thousands of Middle Thousand Worlds for it to devour? He could only rely on slow, painstaking effort to gradually refine it.
"Master Craftsman! Mr. Wade would like to invite you over!"
Outside the Heavenly Craft Hall, a Heavenly Soldier on duty from the High Heavens Hall hurried over and found a Dwarf Craftsman whose beard reached his waist and whose skin was reddish-brown from being constantly exposed to earth fire.
"No time, can't you see I'm busy?!"
The Dwarf Craftsman also had a fiery temper. He held a yellow gourd in his hand and was pouring some transparent liquid into the artifact forge.
After the earth fire in the artifact forge came into contact with the transparent liquid, the flames instantly soared dozens of meters high, and the temperature inside the entire Heavenly Craft Hall immediately rose by dozens of degrees.
However, the Dwarf Craftsmen and Heavenly Soldiers on duty inside the Heavenly Craft Hall seemed accustomed to it, not even dripping a few sweatdrops.
"What are you standing around for? The sword embryo has melted, clamp it out and forge it, use the spirit engraving machine to carve runes and draw restriction formations!"
The Big Beard Craftsman reprimanded a dwarf beside him. The dwarf quickly operated the mechanical arm on the artifact forge, clamping out a sword embryo from the earth fire artifact forge at tens of thousands of degrees.
The mechanical arm sent the sword embryo under a high-strength forging press made from a meteorite planet core.
"Clang, clang, clang, clang, clang—"
A series of muffled hammering sounds rang out. A Dwarf Craftsman operated a forging press weighing millions of tons, continuously forging the sword embryo synthesized from Essence of Five Metals, Meteorite Iron, Pure Metal Essence of Tai Bai, and Star Sand.
This was to shape it.
While forging with the forging press, another Dwarf Craftsman operated a spirit engraving machine during the forging intervals, using a 0.01 nanometer needle and ink shimmering with golden light to carve spirit marks onto the red-hot sword embryo.
A few dozen, or even hundreds, of spirit marks combined to form runes.
Dense runes then combined to form restriction formations. Seventy-two Earth Fiend Restrictions combined into a Heavenly Stem Restriction... The two craftsmen were clearly not doing this for the first time and cooperated extremely well. Whenever a restriction formation was carved, the million-ton forging press would clang down, smashing the entire restriction formation into the sword embryo's interior.
In the Jambudvīpa World, a magic treasure that would take even some item refining masters several years to complete was finished in just three Shichen after a Dwarf Craftsman took out the sword embryo for quenching and skillfully took out a gourd with a seal, injecting a strange beast soul essence into it.
From heating with earth fire to the formation of the treasured sword, it took a total of only three Shichen.
"Grade Void Spirit, Mid-Tier B!" After the Big Beard Dwarf carefully evaluated the treasured sword's grade, a Heavenly Soldier naturally recorded it, stamped it with a talismanic seal, and sent it to the warehouse for nurturing, awaiting its master.
There were at least several hundred people like the Big Beard Dwarf in the entire Heavenly Craft Hall. Just thinking about it showed how many magic treasures could be produced every day.
This was just the Heavenly Craft Hall. In the Heavenly Soldier Valley, a subordinate of the Heavenly Craft Hall, the manufacturing of magic tools was even more assembly line-like, even achieving the disassembly and combination of various magic tool components.
Otherwise, they wouldn't be thinking of combining technology and magic treasures to create magic treasure warships.
"What does Wade Wilson want with me?" After finishing the work at hand, the Big Beard Dwarf finally found time to look at the waiting Heavenly Soldier.
"Master Wali! Mr. Wade said he has a batch of magic metal materials he'd like you to appraise! The remuneration is two jars of Thousand-Day Brew!" The Heavenly Soldier relayed Mr. Wade's words to the Big Beard Dwarf.
Master Wali, the Master Craftsman of the Heavenly Craft Hall and also the current Dwarf King of the Heavenly Court, heard the Heavenly Soldier mention Thousand-Day Brew and his eyes immediately lit up: "Thousand-Day Brew? That kid Wade Wilson still has this kind of good wine? Why didn't you say so earlier, you're wasting time!"
Without waiting for the Heavenly Soldier to speak, Wali gave instructions to a few old dwarf mates to watch his artifact forge. Amidst their shouts of "Share the wine!", he hurried away from the Heavenly Craft Hall.
Leaving the Heavenly Craft Hall, he stepped on two Wind-Fire Wheels under his feet, carrying him at super speed towards the High Heavens Hall in the cloud layer.
After Wali left, a figure slowly walked out of the Heavenly Craft Hall amidst the salutes of the Heavenly Soldiers and craftsmen.
Tang Song stood with his hands behind his back In front of the High Heaven Treasure Palace, followed by the bruised and swollen Kane and Chi You. The three of them looked together at the noisy and lively scene In front of the High Firmament Palace.
"So many magic metals, Abyssal Demonic Metal, Abyssal Mithril, Demon Blood Gold, Lava Crimson Copper, Earth Core Tungsten Steel, Obsidian Profound Iron, and this is Skyfall Abyssal Magic Gold!"
Wali arrived In front of the High Heaven Treasure Palace and was also shocked by the scene before him. There was a golden sea of gold, and various rare treasures piled high.
Wali's gaze fell on the magic metals piled up like a Small Mountain, muttering to himself.
"Master Wali! You're here. Please help me appraise the value of these magic metals!" Wade Wilson saw Wali and stepped forward to greet him warmly.
"Easy to say, give me the wine first!" Wali glanced at Wade Wilson, spread his hand, and directly demanded his remuneration.
Wade Wilson didn't waste words and directly pulled out two jars of wine from his Five Yin Pouch: "Three hundred-year-old Thousand-Day Brew. I finally managed to get it from the Black Market. It cost me several hundred Contribution Points!"
Wali took the wine jars from Wade Wilson's hands, put his nose to the seal and sniffed. Smelling the faint aroma of wine, he let out a satisfied sigh, then quickly put the two jars of wine away.
"These magic metals should be produced in the Abyss World. Only the Hellish Abyssal World could have so many types of magic metals, and only the Abyss World could mine such a massive amount of magic metals."
"Abyssal Demonic Metal, Abyssal Mithril, Demon Blood Gold, Lava Crimson Copper, Earth Core Tungsten Steel, Obsidian Profound Iron, all of them contain a trace of Abyssal Demonic Qi!"
"Hey! There's even Skyfall Abyssal Magic Gold, that's not simple."
Wali took his remuneration and immediately started appraising the Old Demon Dragon's magic metals, clicking his tongue in wonder.
Wade Wilson's eyes darted around: "Very valuable?"
"More than just valuable!" Wali shook his head and said, "This kind of magic metal comes from meteorites that fall from the sky. If the planet core contains rare Sky Melt Heavy Gold, and the planet core just happens to break through the Reality Dimension and fall into the Hellish Abyssal World, the Sky Melt Heavy Gold needs to be eroded by Abyssal Demonic Qi for at least a thousand years and absorb enough Abyssal Demonic Qi to form Skyfall Abyssal Magic Gold."
"Sky Melt Heavy Gold is already rare. Not one in ten thousand falling meteorites might have a planet core containing Sky Melt Heavy Gold. The falling meteorite also has to happen to shatter the Reality Dimension, rush into the Abyss World, and then absorb demonic qi in the Abyss World for a thousand years to finally form. This probability is simply too low."
Wali stroked the metal lump, which was as tall as he was, his expression filled with intoxication, as if stroking his old Lover: "The largest Skyfall Abyssal Magic Gold sent to the Heavenly Craft Hall from the Netherworld these past few years was no bigger than a human head. This thing is truly too rare!"
Wali stroked this meteorite gold and transmitted magic power into it.
The meteorite gold emitted a beautiful and captivating deep purple gleam, and then it just hovered in the air.
An extremely stable magic power aura spread out from the meteorite gold. The magic power aura was stable to the extreme, without even a trace of fluctuation.
An unnatural blush appeared on Wali's face.
He stared intently at the hovering Skyfall Abyssal Magic Gold for a moment. "Wade Wilson, this thing is yours, how about you let me have it? With this material, I'm confident I can refine a set of True Spirit Level White Bone Shattering Heart Hammers!"
The Heavenly Craft Hall had experimented and found that Skyfall Abyssal Magic Gold possessed extremely powerful dark attribute magic power and magic power transmission ability. It had extremely excellent magic power amplification ability and could also stabilize the inlaid rune restrictions when refining some demonic artifacts.
The previous piece of Skyfall Abyssal Magic Gold was carefully used by the Heavenly Craft Hall to forge several magic treasures of Illusion God Grade.
The most recent magic treasure mixed with Skyfall Abyssal Magic Gold was the Tiger Soul Blade he refined for Chi You!
The magic treasures that the Heavenly Craft Hall could currently mass-produce were Void Spirit and True Form Stage magic treasures. They used the souls of exotic beasts, spirit beasts, and gods as the artifact spirits of the magic treasures, but this kind of mass-produced magic treasure also lost the qualification to advance further.
As for forging masters like Wali, after more than a hundred years of dedicated research, they could already refine Illusion God Level magic treasures.
Of course, this required the Heavenly Court to provide the necessary materials, earth fire, and essence souls that were compatible in attribute, of a sufficiently high grade, and had been processed.
Just like the Tiger Soul Blade he handled, the main material for that blade was a god in the Fierce Tiger True Form from a Cycle World.
Its spine was used as the blade's dragon bone, supplemented with various rare metals, using Skyfall Abyssal Magic Gold to draw its restriction formation blood vessels, and using the essence soul of that fierce tiger as the artifact spirit.
Only by using the original ingredients in their original form was this Illusion God Level Tiger Soul Blade refined.
The best magic treasures refined by these forging masters in the Heavenly Craft Hall, including Wali the Master Craftsman, were Illusion God Level magic treasures.
True Spirit Magic Treasures, however, were not something that could be produced by simple forging. A True Spirit meant that the artifact spirit was no different from a real person. Even without the master's control, it could still unleash the power of a Primordial Spirit Cultivator, or even surpass it.
Just like the Seven Killings Blood Transformation Blade back then, even without Tang Song's control, the artifact spirit, Blood Daoist, still caused blood to flow like a river in the Hell Abyss.
As for the next level up, Pure Yang Level Magic Treasures, there was even less to say. Pure Yang Magic Treasures needed to be nurtured by True Immortals themselves, so Pure Yang Magic Treasures were also called immortal treasures.
Unless Wali's own cultivation base could break through to the Pure Yang True Immortal Realm, he shouldn't even think about forging one.
Of course, Wali wasn't being overly ambitious either. He wanted to try refining a True Spirit magic treasure now, but the materials for refining this kind of magic treasure were not the kind of ore found everywhere.
Without materials, even a master level forging master couldn't hope to forge magic treasures.
On the surface, the Heavenly Craft Hall didn't seem large, but it had seven subordinate departments. Just the craftsmen who smelted basic consumables like Essence of Five Metals numbered tens of thousands. This didn't even include the outermost Mining Company and its subordinate Miners.
Even a clever cook cannot make a meal without rice. For things like Skyfall Abyssal Magic Gold, besides manpower, it relied on luck.
Now, with such a large lump of Skyfall Abyssal Magic Gold in front of him, Wali's eyes were bloodshot.
Wade Wilson felt his scalp tingle from Wali's cannibalistic gaze. He gave a dry laugh.
"Master Wali, this thing isn't mine. I'm just running a gambling game. The thing belongs to the Old Demon Dragon!"
Wali's gaze turned to the Old Demon Dragon.
The Old Demon Dragon blinked his eyes. From Wali's expression, he could tell that his magic metals must be very valuable.
He spread his hands, "I'm sorry, I need to use these magic metals to participate in this gambling game."
"Gambling game?!" Wali's hand stroked the Skyfall Abyssal Magic Gold. After asking about the reason for this, he muttered about wasting heavenly materials and earthly treasures, trembling and almost pulling out his forging hammer to give both of them a strike on the head.
So many magic metals were being used as gambling stakes. He had the urge to kill the Old Demon Dragon and Wade Wilson on the spot.
"No matter who wins or loses, we in the Heavenly Craft Hall want these magic metals. As a reward, we in the Heavenly Craft Hall can refine three Illusion God Quality Magic Treasures for you!"
Wali looked at Wade Wilson, then at the Old Demon Dragon, and said in a deep voice.
"Three Illusion God Grade magic treasures!" Wade Wilson's eyes darted around.
"Okay, deal. These Skyfall Abyssal Magic Gold and these magic metals are my filial piety to you, old man!"
Wali's complexion turned from gloomy to sunny. The Old Demon Dragon beside him, however, was unhappy. He glared at Wade Wilson: "This thing is mine, I didn't agree!"
Although these magic metals were something the Old Demon Dragon could always dig up in some extremely dangerous places in the Abyss World as long as he was willing to sacrifice the lives of those Slaves.
But these magic metals were also accumulated from scouring several Abyss Worlds over tens of thousands of years.
Even if they were to be exchanged for magic treasures, they should be his. What did this kid Wade Wilson mean?
"Wade Wilson, they haven't decided the winner yet?"
Before the Old Demon Dragon finished speaking, a golden bridge emerged from the Tai Chi Qi cyclone above their heads, and the figures of Frank and Lane reappeared In front of the High Firmament Palace.
"Frank, Lane, who won and who lost between you two?"
The Old Demon Dragon looked at the two of them, neither showing any mark of injury, and asked directly in a loud voice.
"Draw!" Frank shook his head under the curious gazes of the crowd.
"Draw!" The Old Demon Dragon turned to look at Wade Wilson: "What do you say about this?"
Wade Wilson's eyes darted around. He chuckled, unhurriedly collecting his treasures that were pressed in the middle of the gambling table, and pointed to the empty gambling table.
On the gambling table where people had bet on Lane and Frank's outcome, there was a line of almost invisible small print. He slowly said:
"I forgot to mention just now, if the two of them draw, the Banker wins!"
As soon as Wade Wilson said this, the scene immediately exploded. Several Decepticons who had bet a few meteorite planet cores were already short-tempered. They directly raised their hands and aimed their thick gun ports at Wade Wilson:
"This is fraud, blatant fraud!"
If Starscream hadn't stopped these few leader-level Decepticons, their already charged gun ports would have already blasted Wade Wilson's body.
"Fraud?! Don't slander me. You bet yourselves. Once the bet is placed, there's no going back. Do you want to renege?!"
Wade Wilson said this while quickly collecting the gambling stakes into his Five Yin Pouch. Wade Wilson's actions were very quick, but he completely failed to notice that the hundreds of people around him were looking at him with increasingly dangerous eyes.
"Beat him!"
In the crowd, someone spoke first, and instantly various binding spells, particle beams, and high-energy cannons rained down on Wade Wilson.
"Johnny! We are beloved friends and brothers, how could you take action against me!"
Wade Wilson was immobilized by dozens of binding spells and dark magic. Looking at the chain burning with hellfire wrapped around his body, he couldn't help but curse directly.
"You bastard (scoundrel) have no loyalty!"
"Loyalty? Give back the soul of the Hell Lord I bet first!" Johnny clenched his fists, making cracking sounds, and walked towards Wade Wilson with a sinister grin.
Wade Wilson pursed his lips, his face full of unyielding determination: "No! I won that!"
"Don't talk nonsense with him, snatch his storage bag, we'll take back our own things!"
The Old Demon Dragon stepped forward and kicked Wade Wilson to the ground, reaching into his chest to pull something out.
"Stop touching, I transferred the things long ago!" Wade Wilson had a smug look: "That Five Yin Pouch is just a cover!"
The Old Demon Dragon took out the Five Yin Pouch in disbelief, violently broke open the restriction formation on it, his divine sense probed, and his face immediately turned black.
"Wade Wilson, hand over the things!"
"Impossible!" Wade Wilson looked death in the face: "I won that!"
"You cheated!"
"I didn't cheat. Since you guessed the winner and loser, it means you were certain one of them was stronger and one was weaker! A draw doesn't affect your judgment!" Wade Wilson argued sophistically.
The Old Demon Dragon was stunned by Wade Wilson's argument.
Johnny, however, had been mixed up with Wade Wilson for over a hundred years. He knew this bastard (scoundrel)'s personality. This gambling game was clearly a trap.
Perhaps even the two people in the contest were involved, but Johnny couldn't afford to offend either Lane or Frank.
To get his things back, he had no choice but to make an example of Wade Wilson! "Crack, crack!"
Seeing Johnny walking towards him with clenched fists, Wade Wilson's complexion changed: "What are you doing, Johnny!"
"What am I doing? Beating you. Everyone, attack!"
Hundreds of people, led by Johnny, surrounded Wade Wilson, the black-hearted gambling Boss, and gave him a good beating.
"Aiya*die..."
From within the packed crowd, Wade Wilson's miserable and lewd cries could be heard. Hearing his lewd voice, everyone's actions became even heavier! "It's really lively!" Tang Song rubbed Between the Eyebrows, watching Wade Wilson clowning around there!
(end of chapter)