Chapter 1070: Thunder Tribulation (Second update, requesting everything)

Without a doubt, the Six Paths Return to Ruins Gem is an absolutely rare treasure for an artifact refiner, especially applicable now; its importance to Li Zhangsheng is comparable to a World Wonder-level precious material, increasing the probability of refining a Zifu Qizhen-level artifact furnace.

The Six Paths Return to Ruins Gem was tossed by Li Zhangsheng into the Earth Fire Melting Furnace, instantly turning into a lump of liquid, and in the blink of an eye, it merged into the liquid formed by the melting of various materials.

During this process, Li Zhangsheng immediately employed the "Hundred Refinements Returning to Origin" technique to further refine away impurities.

Wisps of five-colored mist emerged, causing the volume of the liquid in the furnace to shrink a bit more.

Until the impurities were completely gone, Li Zhangsheng waited quietly, taking advantage of the gap to silently recover the Mental Power he had exhausted by more than half.

In the Earth Fire Melting Furnace, the viscous liquid formed by the melting of various precious materials became increasingly crystal clear, like a large lump of jelly mixed with various colors.

The jelly began to squirm frantically; it was the Six Paths Return to Ruins Gem starting to take effect.

In the process of squirming, the originally distinct liquids showed signs of fusion.

In less than ten minutes, the originally colorful viscous liquid had transformed into a deep red.

It was only at this moment that Li Zhangsheng cast several Seal Techniques, which turned into a ray of light and fell into the deep red liquid.

In an instant, the deep red liquid squirmed again, and under the will of Li Zhangsheng, it took the shape of an artifact furnace.

The moment it took shape, the artifact furnace rushed out of the Earth Fire Melting Furnace.

Before the artifact furnace had solidified, Li Zhangsheng quickly pinched out Seal Techniques, and countless Silver Seal Scripts emerged, frantically pouring into the artifact furnace.

At the same time, Ning Bizhen on the side cast a mass of Mysterious Yellow Merit Qi, which also merged into the artifact furnace.

Under the effect of the Mysterious Yellow Merit Qi, a large number of Silver Seal Scripts merged almost perfectly into the artifact furnace; they combined in different postures, turning into strange and profound Restrictions.

As the Restrictions took shape, the aura of the artifact furnace became increasingly Vigorous.

When the final Restriction took shape, the phoenix remnant soul and the fire dragon remnant soul turned into two streams of light, successively diving into the artifact furnace.

A hazy fire-red radiance emerged, and the sound of a dragon and phoenix singing in unison faintly echoed from the artifact furnace.

Before the artifact furnace had completely solidified, Li Zhangsheng silently took out a Demon Emperor Fire-type Demon Core; this was a Demon Core from a Burning Mountain Ape. Demon Emperor-level Demon Cores possess the characteristic of automatically absorbing energy and can serve as the power source for the artifact furnace, and to a greater or lesser extent, they can also increase its power.

The Demon Emperor Fire-type Demon Core turned into a stream of light and dived into the groove located at the bottom of the artifact furnace; this was a groove Li Zhangsheng had specifically left for a Demon Emperor-level Demon Core.

"If only I had a Fire-type Demon Emperor-level Demon Core!"

Li Zhangsheng still felt a slight imperfection, thinking that if there were an opportunity in the future, he would use a Demon Emperor-level Fire-type Demon Core to replace it.

When the artifact furnace completely solidified, a strong momentum began to erupt, accompanied by scorching heat, which stirred up a large number of ripples in the void.

Before Li Zhangsheng could check the results, suddenly, dense sounds of thunder echoed in the void. Li Zhangsheng looked up and saw dark clouds pressing down on the dark sky above, and streaks of Thunder light flashing frantically on the dark clouds.

In an instant, a silver Thunder pillar several meters thick struck down, aiming directly at the artifact furnace.

Li Zhangsheng frowned; he had not expected such a turn of events when refining a treasure in an alien world. This Thunder pillar was not a test, but an attempt to destroy the artifact furnace.

There was no relevant memory in the memories of the Hundred Victories King; perhaps the Hundred Victories King had never refined a World Wonder in other planes, or perhaps it was because the planes were different.

"Slash!"

Li Zhangsheng pointed with his hand, and the Huangquan Sword turned into a sword light, forcefully slashing the Thunder pillar apart.

However, after the first Thunder pillar, a second Thunder pillar formed immediately after; it was clearly thicker than the first, and even the color had deepened a bit.

Li Zhangsheng once again controlled the Huangquan Sword; this time, he felt obvious resistance, but in the end, the Thunder pillar was still slashed apart by the Huangquan Sword.

While the third Thunder pillar was gestating, Li Zhangsheng and Ning Bizhen opened the Secret Realm Gate, and one Demon Pet after another flew out.

Baitian and Heiye condensed a black and a white light sword, which collided with the third Thunder pillar in an instant.

Boom—

A strong roaring sound rang out, and the two light swords collapsed rapidly, but they had slashed the Thunder pillar apart first.

While the fourth Thunder pillar was still brewing, the Demon Pets began to divide the work and cooperate, led by several Saint Grade Spirit Pet and Pseudo-Demon Saint-level Demon Pets, with numerous Demon King-level Demon Pets assisting, preparing to intercept the Thunder pillar together.

After ten seconds, the fourth Thunder pillar finally condensed into shape.

Unlike the first three Thunder pillars, the fourth Thunder pillar was mixed with some purple, and its power had clearly skyrocketed.

Without hesitation, several Saint Grade Spirit Pet exerted their power together, and several light pillars met the Thunder pillar.

Rumble—

In an instant, an astonishing explosion rang out; even though the Seal Heaven Lock Earth Forbidden Array was still working, gray spatial cracks appeared in the void.

The strength of the spatial barrier of the Dawn World was clearly a notch inferior to that of the Fairy World.

When the radiance disappeared, the fourth Thunder pillar had already vanished.

"Attack the Thunder clouds!"

Taking advantage of the fact that the fifth Thunder pillar had not yet formed, Li Zhangsheng resolutely gave the order to attack the Thunder clouds.

The next moment, numerous Demon Pets simultaneously released long-range attacks, and light pillars, light orbs, and light beams frantically rushed into the Thunder clouds.

Rumble—

An explosion even more intense than before resounded through the heavens and earth, turning into a colorful energy tide that annihilated most of the Thunder clouds.

Twin Swords Combined!

At this very moment, Li Zhangsheng pointed at the Biluohuangquan Twin Swords, which turned into two sword lights tens of meters long, intertwining as they rushed toward the remaining Thunder clouds.

Under Li Zhangsheng's control, the two sword lights roamed frantically within the Thunder clouds, Cutting and shattering patches of Thunder clouds.

By the time the two sword lights returned, the Thunder clouds had already disappeared.

Even after roaming through the Thunder clouds, the Biluohuangquan Twin Swords remained the same as before, without any damage appearing; clearly, this level of Thunder clouds could not hurt them.

Li Zhangsheng held his head up and waited specifically for a long while; upon confirming that no more Thunder clouds would appear, he finally let go of his anxious heart.

Originally, Li Zhangsheng had been prepared to immediately take the artifact furnace and return to the Fairy World if there was another wave after the first, but it turned out he had worried for nothing.

It seems the plane consciousness of the Dawn World is still quite magnanimous; if it were the "narrow-minded" Heavenly Dao of the Fairy World, it would definitely not stop until its goal was achieved, and it would go all out from the start until annihilation or departure.

However, Li Zhangsheng's heart was not completely at ease. He looked at the artifact furnace floating in front of him, could not help but take a deep breath, and began to check its grade.

Even though so many precious materials were used, it did not necessarily mean it could reach the Zifu Qizhen level; in the end, one still had to look at luck.

(End of this chapter)