Chapter 447: Mirror Reflects Shell Formation, Adding Precious Materials

Since the bell must be untied by the one who tied it, the culprit who caused the Mirror Crow eggshell to become like this must not be allowed to get away.

Facing the unceremonious attitude displayed by Du En, the God of Darkness did not have any complex thoughts or opinions; he merely sighed slightly, then nodded in agreement and began to discuss how to refine it to make the most perfect use of his own discarded shell.

Looking at his familiar and casual posture and his articulate ideas, he had likely considered this long ago, but because he previously needed to utilize its unique properties to stabilize that deep space, he had not taken action against it.

The God of Darkness had long had the idea, and Du En had also come prepared.

As for what style the magical artifact should be forged into and what specific mysterious powers it should possess, the two did not constrain themselves too much; they only considered a broad range beforehand, and the only thing truly determined was the borrowing, lending, and control of the Mirror Crow Divine Fire!

Do not look down on the Mirror Crow Divine Fire just because it is inferior to the Sun Divine Fire in direct lethality, to the point that when the Holy God erupted earlier, the God of Darkness mistook the true nature of the other's divine fire at the first moment.

However, this does not mean it is some second or third-tier ordinary divine fire; it was purely because the Holy God's consistent "brute force" output broke through it violently that it could not actually exert its various mysteries.

"Simply put, my Mirror Crow Divine Fire is actually inclined toward technique. Each flame can be said to be a mirror-box space, and even after I refine the void and merge with the body, it can be expanded into a mirror-box space-time. If I can reach the Great Vehicle and pass the tribulation in the future, I can further deepen and widen it, and it can even contain heaven and earth within."

"Its seemingly crude usage is to directly burst the mysteries contained within upon hitting an enemy, expanding its own heat several to dozens of times, and carrying additional lethality like mirror-space splitting and splashing. Then there are many other wonderful techniques, like the one before where I reflected countless versions of myself to attack you together; that is one of them."

The God of Darkness appeared to be speaking eloquently, but in fact, he held some things back, only explaining in detail those aspects that Du En might have noticed or personally experienced.

He actually did not care that the situation of the Mirror Crow Divine Fire was known, because what if it were known? Unless it was like the Holy God, who could use hard violence several times his own to launch a surprise breakthrough at the first encounter, one could only slowly savor his endless variety of techniques and eventually be trapped, burned, and killed alive!

The key is not just the Mirror Crow Divine Fire, but also the various wonderful methods and mysterious techniques he created from nothing, secretly, over hundreds to nearly a thousand years, relying on his own talent and the slight remnants left by his predecessor, the Emperor Venerable.

Otherwise, relying only on simple and crude usage, the Mirror Crow Divine Fire would probably be the bottom of the first-tier divine fires, a gatekeeper-like role.

In other words, this divine fire is a new type of divine fire tailored by the God of Darkness for himself! Now that Du En wants to borrow the Mirror Crow eggshell to indirectly master the Mirror Crow Divine Fire, the God of Darkness considers that they were enemies after all and he almost beat him to death; now that they are to cooperate for mutual benefit, it is no problem to let him have his way a little.

In any case, Du En could never outplay him in the tricks of the Mirror Crow Divine Fire! However, although the God of Darkness has many tricks, Du En, having obtained the corresponding artifact as he wished, also has his own crude and technical ways of using it.

Self-detonation!

If things go wrong, just blow it up directly, instantly increasing the lethality by several to over ten times, which can be considered a disguised achievement of the Holy God's standard practice.

Seeing that he knows many techniques, but this person is essentially of the crude school, the same path as the Holy God! The God of Darkness slandered him in his heart.

The person himself is actually very self-aware of this, so he just wants to make full use of the Mirror Crow eggshell.

"Since the situation is understood, let's not delay and start refining immediately."

Du En listened to the narration patiently, his expression without ups and downs, like an ancient well without ripples, completely without hesitation.

The God of Darkness's rhombic mirror spun around the Mirror Crow eggshell and flew to his opposite side. The God of Darkness inside raised a finger, and a cluster of mirror flames instantly appeared out of thin air, pouncing into the eggshell, causing it to emit a faint light. The origin began to be driven and excited, coating the whole thing evenly like a smear.

A wisp of light wandering outside of all light appeared. Du En had come into contact with it before, but now his gaze became brilliant, and under the dual effect of his spiritual body and Golden Eyes, he saw it more thoroughly.

That was actually not light.

A beam of mirror light, not among the ten thousand!

To the human eye, it looks like a refraction of light, but in reality, it is a certain kind of gap, or perhaps, a line?

A bit interesting...

Thinking this, his hands were not slow; he pinched his fingers to form a seal, and with another point, three-colored flames appeared one after another.

The red Phoenix Fire, the white Bright Fire, and the golden Sun Fire—the three points merged into one. With a "poof," a heat wave spread out, causing the God of Darkness's gaze to jump slightly.

Among the three True Flames, except for the Southern Bright Departure Fire, he had seen the others before. At this moment, the three merged into one, and it actually went from shallow to deep, able to achieve the name of a divine fire. It was something he had not expected, and he could not help but praise it secretly.

One must know that Du En is only at the level of a Weak Heaven's Pride, and then he began to initially master a divine fire just like him, and it was not the Sun Divine Fire, but a new type of divine fire deduced from all his own spells and mysteries. Watching him control it so skillfully, it was even slightly higher than his own! If it weren't for the fact that the power of the Three True Divine Fires was still clearly inferior to the first-tier divine fires, he would have been stunned for a while, unable to help but wonder who the real Strong Heaven's Pride was and whether he had been too arrogant before.

Then, as the Three True Divine Fires pounced on the Mirror Crow eggshell, he calmed his heart, not daring to be negligent, and directed his finger from afar, letting his own mirror flames only play an auxiliary role, making the texture of the eggshell uniform without hindering the specific refining.

To tell the truth, having him participate in the refining actually has extra benefits.

That is to observe the artifact-refining techniques of the Immortal Sects!

The artifact-refining methods of the five great immortal sects, including the Falling Feather Immortal Sect, are clearly different from those the God of Darkness figured out himself, so by watching up close and drawing inferences, he can strengthen and improve his own artifact-refining attainments.

One provides the Mirror Crow Divine Fire, the other provides the artifact-refining methods; both sides benefit. Of course, Du En clearly gains more, because the artifact-refining methods he mastered, to be honest, are a bit too basic. The upper limit is refining at the sixth rank, and when perfected, he can barely refine seventh-rank artifacts, but he cannot go any higher.

It is not that the Immortal Sects do not have more profound skills; of course, the focus now is on artifact refining.

Crack!

Du En's approach was quite crude. Seeing that the eggshell had a crack left when the God of Darkness broke out, and no matter how it was mended, it was difficult to eliminate it completely, he simply used a hot knife through butter to split it into two, intending to refine two magical artifacts.

It was also because the God of Darkness did not hold back and fully activated the origin contained in the eggshell, which was unexpectedly abundant, that it was enough to support two artifacts.

Next was the melting. With the power of the divine fire, there was naturally no problem. Even though the Mirror Crow eggshell was very special, it had been damaged after all, and with the original owner guiding it from the side, it had no resistance and was melted very smoothly.

Treasures have spirits; the higher the rank, the more so. This point alone makes many cultivators have a headache; after all, if they resist too fiercely, a careless move could lead to mutual destruction, leaving not even a scrap for you.

The initial melting and refining of the essence were quickly completed, and the next step was to orderly add other spiritual materials.

Du En took out a large pile of spiritual materials from the Empty Mulberry Mountain.

Unknowingly, he could be considered to have a small reserve.

The remaining essence materials of the Puppet Sect Tower structure were hard enough. After a fierce battle, they could still remain, so even though they were only fifth-rank, there was no problem using them to fill in as a skeleton.

There were also some other sixth-rank spiritual materials.

"She really emptied out the entire star!" The God of Darkness looked at them, his gaze complex and his expression filled with emotion.

That's right, these sixth-rank spiritual materials were all gifts from the Holy God.

The spiritual energy quality of the Source Life Star Realm was only fifth-rank before. Theoretically, it was impossible to nurture sixth-rank spiritual materials, but after all, there was the Unmoving True Monarch constantly stirring things up, which unexpectedly formed a barely sufficient environment in some areas, thereby giving birth to some sixth-rank spiritual materials with insufficient spirituality and very simple properties.

Du En does not need the artifact to have any spirituality; if it really had a spirit, it would probably only avoid him, so these spiritual materials that others would dislike are now the best to use.

Moreover, simple properties mean that as long as they are matched properly, they will not hinder the main pursuit of power and can solidly play an auxiliary role.

The God of Darkness also put away his emotions and, addressing the current situation of the spiritual materials, spoke of some available artifact schemes.

Among the several schemes that could all be used, Du En picked one and added his own modifications, adapting it to things like self-detonation restrictions, and then let the God of Darkness cooperate.

With the divine fire burning, the materials immediately turned into clusters of molten essence and were quickly produced.

Then, adding it to one of the eggshell essence clusters, the molten slurry immediately began to boil. It required powerful magic power and divine sense to control it, then further increase the firepower to let them fuse into one, and then deeply intervene to forge the binding-nature artifact restrictions.

This process took a full few days.

For Du En, this was a rare length of time, especially now that his Earth-Wood Holy Refining had been raised to perfection. Even fifth-rank treasures could be refined by him in a moment or two. As for the ordinary top-grade artifacts used for quantity under Holy Refining, he could produce three thousand in the blink of an eye, and tens or even hundreds of thousands in a single breath.

"Fix."

Accompanied by Du En's whisper, the main hub of the artifact restrictions was completely formed.

Four restriction chains of artifacts are linked here, managed and overseen by their chief controller.

The first chain is Self-Detonation.

The second chain is Divine Fire.

The third chain is Mirror Reflection.

The fourth chain is Toughness.

Overall, it can be considered that the expectations have been met.

A suit of armor shimmered with silver light; looking closely, it was not cast from silver, but pieced together from individual mirrors reflecting a silver luster, appearing exceptionally magnificent.

"Although this Mirror Reflection Armor did not become a Tier 6 precious artifact as expected, it has reached the level of a mid-grade Tier 6, and combined with the profound nature of the restrictions, it is comparable to an ordinary high-grade Tier 6 magical artifact; it can be considered quite good."

An Shen commented thus, eyes flickering constantly, evidently having gained much from the artifact-refining process.

Du En merely nodded lightly, easily imprinting his own mark, and after the initial flow of magical power refined it, the Mirror Reflection Armor flashed and appeared on his body, already worn and hidden beneath his cyan-dark dharma robe.

"As expected, even if it is a Tier 6 magical artifact, I can easily activate it now; I fear only a Tier 6 precious artifact would make me feel somewhat incapable."

"That is quite normal. I observe that this artifact-refining method should be a foundational practice. In this way, normal Tier 6 magical artifacts are prepared for those genius cultivators, and they are to us as ordinary people are to gods; even the most immature god can easily wield the weapons of ordinary people."

An Shen said this as if having gained much inspiration, and was about to continue explaining to Du En how to truly attempt to refine the remaining half of the eggshell essence into a precious artifact.

However, just at this moment, Meng Changqing came to disturb them.

Because Jiang Ying had already made a decision on her side, he came to invite them to discuss it together, striving for perfection.

"I can do the rest on my own; Fellow Daoist An should go out and discuss important matters with the resolution."

Du En cast his divine sense out and saw Jiang Ying, who was somewhat bruised and swollen but appeared calm; he did not know if she had found confidence by going to find Nangong Sheng, but in any case, the matters there were more important.

Furthermore...

An Shen's gaze flashed, and he said, "Exactly, I also wish to have a good exchange with the Quasi-True Monarch. I have long wanted to explore the realm where the legendary peerless figure, the former Emperor, resided!"

The diamond mirror flashed and vanished, appearing outside to join Meng Changqing and Jiang Ying.

The three of them turned to go elsewhere.

At this moment, Du En sent a voice transmission to Meng Changqing's true body: "I am still missing some materials here, not ordinary spiritual materials, but Tier 6 precious materials. Do you have any?"

Can I say no? Meng Changqing wanted to roll his eyes at this moment; seeing his subordinate start tinkering with Tier 6 matters so early, he really could not help but break into a cold sweat for his own small treasury.

"Speak, what type do you need? If they are too obscure, I might not necessarily have them on me."

"Those of the 'shattering delusions and destroying spirits' type, and also, those of the 'causal entanglement' type."

This 'spirit' is not the spirit of An Shen, but the spirit of the Primordial Spirit.

Meng Changqing did not misunderstand and quickly checked his storage space, a portable grotto-heaven, then nodded secretly: "Here, the Delusion-Shattering Dharma Eye, the Sun-Scorched Withered Wood, and the Yin-Yang Causal Stone."

Three Tier 6 precious materials appeared before Du En's eyes.

A blood-stained demon eye; one did not know which true demon it had been plucked from.

A section of withered wood; Du En felt a sense of familiarity the moment he saw it, because it had been scorched to death by being too close to the sun, yet it had managed to retain its form and undergo a profound transformation, imprinting a unique 'scorching kill by the blazing sun' specifically targeting the Primordial Spirit.

There was also a stone, on the surface of which were a mass of black and a mass of white, intertwined with each other; it was not the orderly arrangement of normal Yin-Yang treasures, but complex and intricate, appearing tangled and impossible to sever.

This was actually a semi-miraculous object; the reason it was only 'semi' was because it had been affected by a true miraculous object, which caused it to mutate into its current state.

(End of chapter)