Chapter 1568: Forging begins

At this moment, Leon no longer had the heart to care about the old man's muttering.

Feeling the aura radiating from Auntie Auntie Ai Ma—that kind of dead and cold, yet inexplicably familiar aura—Leon couldn't help but be stunned.

And upon noticing her own changes, Auntie Auntie Ai Ma's expression also couldn't help but show a hint of confusion, then she subconsciously raised her head and cast a slightly helpless gaze toward Leon.

"I am..."

"This is a good thing for you! A great thing!"

Before Leon could answer, the old man behind him spoke first, giving a thumbs up and praising with amazement:

"Although your eye for men is a bit rotten, your talent in the Death Authority is truly high. Your understanding of death is clearly different from ordinary people! Hmm... let me see."

Reaching into his bosom and fumbling twice, he took out a dirty pair of reading glasses and put them on. While scratching the back of his head, which was a bit balding, the Third Director said without surprise:

"This child of yours has a connection with death in her bloodline. She was born with several fragments of 【Death】 authority. If you count back through her ancestors, there should have been at least eight or nine Great Witch-level mediums, and they passed down the authority fragments to you."

"Great Witch-level mediums?"

"That's the kind of human medium who, by relying on years of practicing the Great Court Secret Arts, has slightly comprehended a bit of the corresponding authority."

After turning his head to glance at Leon, who had a look of surprise, the old man explained:

"Although those great mediums were seriously lacking in power, only at the level of twenty or thirty Leon-values, because they practiced the Great Court Secret Arts all year round, their insights into authority were not bad. Basically, they could all cross the threshold of a True God.

And people like them who touched the threshold of a True God in terms of authority are just like the situation of the Thirteen Royal Families; they can pass on a portion of the authority fragments they have mastered to their descendants through their bloodline."

After explaining the bloodline issue, the old man turned back and sized up Auntie Auntie Ai Ma again, then nodded with a look of understanding:

"And besides being naturally gifted, your acquired experiences are also... hmm... basically you've been accompanied by death the whole time, not a moment of separation.

Not only were you targeted by the Lord of the Dead World very early on, giving birth to a child naturally capable of crossing life and death, but later you also witnessed and experienced a large amount of death, and even the anomalous objects you awakened were related to death, often dying and living... With so many things accumulated, you should indeed have some understanding."

"Lord Third!"

Fearing that if the old man continued to speak, he would touch upon those overly painful experiences of Senior Auntie Auntie Ai Ma, Leon hurriedly said:

"Senior Auntie Auntie Ai Ma is like this now, will there be any danger?"

"What danger could she have?"

Upon hearing this, the old man couldn't help but sneer:

"Rest assured, I said before that this is a good thing.

We humans basically cannot transcend death. Even someone as strong as me has to die, and in a lifetime, one generally only experiences death once. Therefore, very few people can comprehend the Death Authority, and what those mediums mastered were only fragments of death.

It's just that the Death Authority itself is 'big' enough. Even if one only comprehends one-fifteenth or one-twentieth, it is enough to support a True God-level Lord of the Dead World. And her current situation is equivalent to a living Lord of the Dead World.

With the potential she has shown, when she dies one day, if you can kill another Lord of the Dead World and vacate the position, she can almost directly ascend."

Senior Auntie Auntie Ai Ma... ascend to become a Lord of the Dead World? After exchanging glances with Auntie Auntie Ai Ma, who had a complex expression, Leon was just about to continue asking when he heard a harsh sound of metal deformation coming from the iron pot behind him.

"Ouch! My pot!"

Watching the men and women falling out of the pot like dumplings after he overturned the hanging pot, the Third Director couldn't help but stomp his feet, then hurriedly ran back and shouted with a look of heartache:

"What are you squeezing for! Would it kill you to come out one by one? My pot is cracked!"

"Apologies, Lord Third."

After tidying up his somewhat messy outer robe, the Sagittarius Director, who had quite a few yellow mud spots on his temples and looked quite disheveled, stood up and explained:

"Even though the Gate of the Dead has already been occupied by Leon, the Dead World is ultimately the territory of the Lords of the Dead World. Wanting to bring so many people in without alerting them is really not an easy thing. We could only follow the Mirror World passage opened by Leon and sneak..."

"Alright, alright, how you got in is none of my business."

Somewhat roughly interrupting the Sagittarius Director's explanation, the old man looked toward the Taurus Director, who was standing up while holding onto a tombstone, and said impatiently:

"Where are the things! Hurry, hurry! Hurry up and take them out for me to see! Your level is not good enough, don't ruin my materials!"

I knew it would be this sentence...

Read every word correctly!

Upon hearing the old man's quite impolite evaluation, the usually kind Taurus Director couldn't help but roll her eyes at him, then raised her hand and threw over a small pocket embroidered with lotus leaves, and then patiently exhorted:

"Lord Third, I have already done all the preliminary processing. There is nothing to pay attention to with the other materials, but that Pillar God is an exception. Compared to other True Gods, it..."

"Its fluctuations are more special. No matter how you suppress it, it cannot match the other materials, so it must either be used as a 'base' or as an 'embellishment', and must be processed separately... You can see this, can't I?"

"..."

"Alright, no need to talk such nonsense, leave the rest to me!"

Reaching out to pull open the drawstring of the small pocket and looking at the forty True God corpses neatly arranged inside, the old man laughed until his gums were exposed, and said with a look of irrepressible joy:

"The material processing is passable. I will start working on it now. Everyone else just watch from the side... except you!"

When he said this, the old man seemed to have remembered something. He hurriedly retied the bag and hid it in his bosom, then turned his head to look at Leon behind him, and said with a look of vigilance while pointing to the distance.

"You stand further away! It's best if you stand directly behind the tree! You are absolutely not allowed to approach my pot!"

"..."

Looking at the old man's expression as if he were guarding against a thief, the corners of Leon's mouth couldn't help but twitch slightly.

You old... Director, those dozens of True Gods were brought by me, and yet you treat me like this?

"Go, go, go, hurry up!"

Seeing Leon standing in place and seemingly not wanting to move, the old man couldn't help but take half a step back, as if he were afraid of being contaminated by something dirty, and shooed him away again with a look of nervousness:

"The secret arts you learned... anyway, I have no bottom in my heart when you are nearby! My forging secret arts emphasize wholeheartedness. If you are too close, it's easy to affect my performance!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 1569 =====