Chapter 45: Divine‑Grade Materials

Bai Yuan passed through the Five Elements Array and sensed that the Silver Dragon King had truly left; he opened his attribute panel.

【Host: Bai Yuan】

【Cultivation: Foundation Establishment (early)】

【Item: None】

【Special: Intermediate Alchemist, Intermediate Array Master, Junior Artificer, Junior Talisman Master】

【Number of Disciples: 7】

【Bound Disciples: Bai Yu, Wang Qiuer, Mu Junwu (current binding limit: 3) (After a disciple is bound, each time the disciple advances, the host advances the same cultivation.)】

【Teacher Virtue Points: 0】

【Shop: Click to open】

【Current Task 1: Forge Destined Spirit Weapon, Reward: Intermediate Artificer, 1,000 Teacher Virtue Points】

【Current Task 2: Breakthrough to Golden Core stage, Reward: binding disciple limit ×7, 100,000 Teacher Virtue Points】

【Current Task 3: Recruit 21 disciples (7 already recruited), Reward: current most needed treasure chest, 100,000 Teacher Virtue Points】

Seeing the Teacher Virtue Points at zero, Bai Yuan let out a long sigh.

Earlier he had planned to exchange his cultivation technique, but now it seems he must start over again.

Fortunately, within the Five Elements Array now truly belongs to him, and he need not worry about Di Tian barging in at any time.

A series of "dong dong dong" sounds rang out then.

"Master, we have returned."

The door opened automatically, and the couple Su Yin and Su Yue, each with fox ears and snow‑white tails behind them, came into Bai Yuan's view.

Bai Yuan nodded, "You did well this time; in a few days I will teach you the cultivation method."

Su Yin and Su Yue both clasped their hands and said, "Thank you, Master."

Bai Yuan lightly nodded, turned his gaze to Bai Yu and said, "Bai Yu, go and call Rong Rong down to cook; I'm feeling a bit hungry."

"Alright, Master." Bai Yu left.

Su Yin and Su Yue also took their leave to bring their daughter.

Wang Qiuer then stepped up, grasped his hand and asked, "Master Father, what are the Demon Emperor and Demon Empress? Why does Master Father want to become Demon Emperor and let the Lord become Demon Empress?"

Bai Yuan's mouth twitched slightly.

He had just been trying to tease the Silver Dragon King, hadn't he?

How did his disciple's daughter suddenly ask that?

At that moment, Bai Yuan felt a space within the Five Elements Array tear open, and two silhouettes stepped out.

"That quick?" Bai Yuan was slightly surprised; he could sense that these two silhouettes were acquaintances.

A series of "dong dong dong" knocking sounds rang out.

"Please come in," Bai Yuan said.

As if words summoned law, the door opened automatically again.

The visitors were the acquaintances he had recently partied with: Jade Swan Biji and the strongest beast, Beast God Di Tian.

At this moment, the two looked somewhat odd.

Not long ago they were fighting to the death.

Now one comes as a bodyguard and the other to heal Bai Yuan's wounds—utterly absurd.

"Sorry to trouble you, Biji," Bai Yuan said with a smile.

Biji returned a shy smile, said nothing, and emitted a teal light that enveloped Bai Yuan.

It was an extremely dense life energy, capable of regrowing severed limbs and reviving those on the brink of death.

Bai Yuan felt his cells frantically absorbing the energy, his body healing rapidly.

Bai Yuan felt as if he had been reborn.

After a short while, Bai Yuan felt his injuries had mostly recovered; the remaining ones only needed slow convalescence.

After treating Bai Yuan, Di Tian, with a glance, turned and left; a silvery vortex slowly materialized, pulling him back to the Life Lake in another realm.

Inside the room, Di Tian glanced at the auspicious beast beside him, then cast his slightly odd gaze at Bai Yuan and said, "Bai Yuan, the Lord said she doesn't know what you need to forge your destined spirit weapon, so she gave you the best material from Douluo Continent."

"The best material?"

Bai Yuan felt a surge of excitement; he truly hadn't expected his good neighbor to be so reliable, instantly bringing the best material from Douluo Continent.

"Let me see," Bai Yuan said impatiently.

Di Tian raised his hand, crushing a pocket of space; a medium‑sized scale was plucked from the rift.

Bai Yuan took it without a word, reaching out to receive it.

He began to examine it.

The first scale was blood‑red, palm‑sized; the moment he grasped it, Bai Yuan felt a chill, sensing an unparalleled murderous intent.

That murderous intent seemed to solidify, forcefully surging into Bai Yuan's mind, making the world appear blood‑red, the terrifying intent threatening to shatter his consciousness.

Unfortunately, the intent had existed for an unknown duration, and with the Five Elements Array's reinforcement, it could not truly threaten Bai Yuan.

In an instant, Bai Yuan mobilized the Five Elements Array's power, dispersing the murderous intent that had entered his mind.

He caused it to hover in his palm.

The second scale was pure black, an abyssal darkness like a lightless region of the universe, giving Bai Yuan a sense of deathly silence.

Even a 99th‑level peerless Douluo would surely be consumed by the dead aura within and perish.

"Is this a Silver Dragon King's scale?" Bai Yuan asked.

Di Tian's eyes flashed with surprise; he nodded and said, "Indeed it is the Lord's dragon scale, but the power in these two scales does not belong to the Lord. The blood‑red one belonged to a strong who gravely wounded the Lord, and the pure black one formed from the death aura that gathered on the Lord when he was near death."

Bai Yuan said, "What a clever method—if you can't force those powers out of the body, you push them onto the dragon scales and make them fall off. But your Lord is rather stingy, giving only two pieces of such waste?"

That's right, this thing is junk to the Silver Dragon King, but to people in this world it's a god‑level material; on Douluo Continent such a grade could never form naturally.

Di Tian was instantly enraged.

But he immediately steadied his mind and said, "My lord said you're too weak now; giving you too much would risk you killing yourself."

Bai Yuan smiled and walked straight upstairs; he would forge equipment first, and with the Five Elements Array assisting here, forging would be quick.

Di Tian concealed his form, but he didn't leave; instead he lingered behind Bai Yuan's rear, wanting to see how Bai Yuan would forge the so‑called Destined Spirit Weapon.

It was one of the missions the Silver Dragon King had given him.

Bai Yuan naturally sensed it, but he didn't care at all; on the contrary he was happy to show the Silver Dragon King's eyes.

In fact, if possible, Bai Yuan even wanted to bring Di Tian over as a disciple, turning him into a demonic beast.

Given Di Tian's current strength, if transformed, at minimum his core would be a complete Golden Core, and more likely he would reach the Nascent Soul stage; moreover, the chance of Di Tian jumping straight to Nascent Soul is high.

Because when he had a hundred‑thousand years of cultivation he was equivalent to level ninety‑nine; in the past few hundred thousand years his strength has barely increased, yet his accumulation has deepened ever more.

(End of chapter)