Chapter 580

Brother Qian Chen used the Divine Art of Reversing Creation to disassemble the Green-Scaled Boat…

This magic treasure's structure was extraordinarily complex, consisting of over thirty components and seven distinct forbidden arts, which combined into the Great Yi Green Spirit Boat—a simplified version of some divine treasure.

Brother Qian Chen was also familiar with this style of crafting multiple components into a single magic treasure.

It was precisely the style of the Great Fangshi of the Fangxian Dao, whose pinnacle achievement was the Luo Tian Immortal Artifact known as the Zhou Tian Starship, requiring an entire world as its foundation and forged under the direction of a Great Great Fangshi who mastered Reversing Creation!

For Brother Qian Chen, such a treasure could be crafted with some effort.

Only the vessel's spirit, which unified all components, required considerable time to forge.

The Great Fangshi of the Immortal Qin used virtual deity technology, creating corresponding deities through the Luo Tian spiritual spirits of the Twelve Golden Men—known as Immortal Qin Spiritual Spirits—perfectly suited to unify all spiritual prohibitions and command such composite treasures!

"One day when I return to the Central Lands, I might ask Brother Zhu Zhu Jiuyin for a few spiritual spirits!"

Brother Qian Chen sighed: "If I wield the Great Divine Art of Tai Shang Shi Siming, I could also bestow divine titles; combined with the Great Divine Art of Reversing Creation, this would surely be the origin of the Great Fangshi's virtual deity technique! But the Immortal Qin spiritual spirits were all re-refined and trained—far superior to the original versions!"

"Even Reversing Creation cannot replicate the Immortal Qin's ability to mobilize an entire world's resources to create such artifacts!"

"This Green-Scaled Boat is indeed different from the swords that dropped—though not substantial, its prohibitions are complete, its essence a single spiritual light. With proper materials, it's easy to reforge it in the real world."

"After all, the power of a magic treasure relies mostly on its prohibitions; as long as they remain intact, crafting the vessel body according to the original blueprint is not difficult!"

Brother Qian Chen mentally recorded this set of Great Yi Green Spirit Boat prohibitions—originally, upgrading its rank only required adjusting the data of this illusory realm.

But Brother Qian Chen was a practical man; he wouldn't settle for such a shortcut. He rummaged through his own belongings and selected many materials imbued with spiritual light.

Most items dropped by the venomous jiao were illusions formed from their essence—a mist-like phantom energy—but this phantom energy was wondrous, capable of solidifying illusion into reality, borrowing falsehood to become truth, gradually nurturing a spiritual light.

Thus, the inner cores and materials dropped by ancient deep-sea venomous dragons always contained a portion of spiritual light essence—not entirely illusory.

He detached the spiritual light and forged it into prohibitions, preparing to upgrade them according to the original design of the Green-Scaled Boat…

Brother Qian Chen casually reached out and picked up an inner core dropped by a deep-sea venomous dragon.

Within the Luo Tian world of the Immortal Qin's Golden Men, there were many databases left behind by Great Fangshi in the Langhuan Library.

Thus, Brother Qian Chen was no stranger to modifying magic treasures; following Great Fangshi records, he used the forbidden art of the Hundred Poison Cold Light Veil to forge the venomous dragon's inner core into a Cold Light Pearl using Creation Art. The complete Hundred Poison Sea Cold Light Veil was a ninth-rank treasure, but after Brother Qian Chen's simplification, it became a fourth-rank artifact, capable of transforming the venomous dragon's yin-cold energy into an ice armor and raising a defensive shield.

The shield had approximately three thousand defense points—enough for the new Green-Scaled Boat to withstand dozens of strikes from same-rank flying swords!

Brother Qian Chen embedded the Cold Light Pearl into the Green-Scaled Boat's components, then pulled out two venomous dragon vertebrae, refining them into wheels, and with a casual wave of Creation Art, summoned Xuanming True Water to cleanse them, forging them into two circular artifacts.

Each of these newly forged Xuanming Ice Light Rings added three thousand speed points; combined with the Green-Scaled Boat's original propulsion system, its speed surged to nearly ten thousand…

Plus the water-diving evasion, and the Green-Scale Armor providing basic defense…

The entire Green-Scaled Boat now resembled a small green jade vessel, its hull covered in overlapping scales like jade armor, its overall form like a green fish—elegant and refined!

Brother Qian Chen removed those jade-like scales and fused them with the venomous dragon's scales to create composite plates!

Fine green spiritual threads wove into a dense inner armor covering the entire boat, while the venomous dragon scales were forged into large armored plates protecting key areas. Brother Qian Chen also borrowed the concept of post- Dreadnought-era armor boxes, encasing vital components—propulsion, firepower, defense, command, and crew—in armor boxes forged from venomous dragon bones and scales, fully enclosing them!

The modified Green-Scaled Boat's hull now had sharp angles, its overall color scheme black and green, composed of multiple prismatic facets capable of effectively resisting attacks from thunderfire, flying swords, sword pills, and flying needles.

The intersecting edges of the polyhedral hull emitted a faint aura of lethal intent, no longer smooth and fluid in form…

Brother Qian Chen gazed at this industrial-style mechanical creation, stroking his chin with satisfaction: "Such powerful propulsion engines; such thick, reliable armor; this Cold Light Shield, though low in defense value, recovers rapidly in water; plus the bow ram I personally designed, forged from dragon horns and ten-thousand-year frozen iron; two hidden Gui water divine thunder cannons within the hull… Built upon the classic design of the sail era, fused with the unmatched defense of the ironclad era, and infused with the soul of post-Dreadnought armor!"

"It's the very essence of human shipbuilding!"

"Add to this the Xuanming water-prohibitions refined by Xuanming True Water and venomous dragon blood!"

"Plus the accompanying Mist Concealment Formless Evasion technique, and the original Great Yi Green Spirit prohibitions' Four Dao Arts: One Leaf Sailing, Azure Void Without Trace, Heavy Mystery Breaking Waves, and Subterranean Formlessness… This is the perfect fusion of Immortal Dao and shipbuilding industry—an absolute masterpiece among seventh-rank treasures, capable of reaching the eighth-rank threshold with minor refinement!"

Gazing at the dark-green vessel, radiating a chilling aura, Brother Qian Chen crossed his arms and admired it for a moment, thinking: "Calling this treasure 'Green-Scaled' is no longer appropriate!"

"Most of the materials I used to upgrade it came from venomous dragons—should I name it Shattered Scales Dragon Fang? Fierce Dragon Breaking Seas? Great Yi Black Dragon?"

Brother Qian Chen ran through several names that would make a ten-year-old riding a blue ox shudder, then settled on a modest name—Xuanming.

【Xuanming Boat】

【Collection】

【Attributes】: Seventh-rank magic treasure, forged by the wandering immortal Master Yucheng Daoist using Creation Art, crafted from deep-sea venomous dragons and the Immortal treasure Green-Scaled Boat, immensely powerful, gliding unseen, charging with unmatched force. Base defense: 3000, flight speed: 9800～. Attached prohibitions: Mist Concealment Formless, One Leaf Sailing, Azure Void Without Trace, Heavy Mystery Breaking Waves, Subterranean Formlessness, Cold Light Shield, Gui Water Divine Thunder… Requirement: Level 130!

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Outside the cavern's core, the ten-year-old riding the blue ox, bored out of his mind and afraid to leave the cavern lest his precious collection treasure flee, had long since logged onto the forum.

He immediately saw a flurry of activity.

Posts about Yizhou demons attacking cities, a mysterious True Immortal at level 390's related quest, extraterrestrial demons descending, demonic monsters appearing in the Eastern Sea, and threads about the first demonic tide were flooding the screen. He opened the blinking private messages in the upper-left corner, glanced at them—all insults from players of the Canghai Guild—and ignored them.

He clicked open a related thread, and the first thing he saw was the quest posted by a mysterious NPC in Yizhou.

【Investigate Extraterrestrial Demon I】

【Quest Description: Extraterrestrial demons entered this world with the Spirit Pearl; as demonic energy grows, the inhabitants of Western Kunlun gradually become corrupted, demons multiply, and chaos spreads! To save all beings, one must find the extraterrestrial demon who descended with the Spirit Pearl.】

【First Quest Requirement: Investigate demons and locate the source of demonic energy…】

"The source of demonic energy looks like a main quest! But the quest is in Yizhou, and the nearest teleportation array is five thousand li away on Xiao Xie Xuan Gui Island. Plus, the forums say demonic creatures now swarm the Eastern Sea, and many unscrupulous players are hunting others for PK! Very dangerous…"

"My current quest is also very important…"

The ten-year-old impatiently opened the pinned threads, browsing the new version changes—gradually, his expression changed.

"The source of demonic energy lies deep in the Eastern Sea; the earliest corrupted players appeared on Qingyu Island, not far from me. And the mysterious True Immortal mentioned several traits—the extraterrestrial demon is also at the Immortal realm, skilled at disguise, and may appear as an Xiao Xie Xuan Sect immortal…"

The more he read, the more uneasy he felt—a chill crept down his spine…

At that moment, the cavern's core prohibitions suddenly opened, and the entire cave's light dimmed for an instant.

The cavern fell silent. The ten-year-old riding the blue ox felt a cold draft behind him—he spun around and saw a figure hovering in midair, sliding out from the cavern's core, embraced by shadows.

The figure wore white robes, silver hair flowing behind, a crimson dot on the forehead elongating slowly, like a blood-red eye.

The ten-year-old's body stiffened. As the figure slowly approached him, his elongated shadow seemed to writhe—as if countless eyes were struggling to open.

A nameless terror struck the ten-year-old, making it nearly impossible for him to speak.

Only when Brother Qian Chen noticed his terrified, frozen expression did he realize he still carried a trace of the Supreme Heavenly Demon's aura.

Brother Qian Chen retracted his demonic energy and spoke: "The array's prohibitions here are nearly half complete. I'll refine them further while I cultivate. But, young friend Shi Sui, the treasure you entrusted to me has been re-forged—take a look, does it suit your taste?"

He sent forth the Xuanming Boat!

The ten-year-old's heart trembled, but he thought: "Just take the treasure first! This guy can't be the extraterrestrial demon—how could a main villain of this new update be so low-key, just casually following me back? Without tens of thousands of demonic minions, how would he appear so casually?"

He took the Xuanming Boat, opened its attribute panel—and his scalp exploded!

"My Green-Scaled Boat! How did it turn into…? Still, it looks kind of nice? Just the art style feels off…"

Gazing at the small boat, radiating a sinister aura, black and green intertwined, clearly no benevolent object, the ten-year-old grew more conflicted—this looked more and more like the extraterrestrial demon!

Would upgrading a treasure with extraterrestrial demon energy come with side effects?

A flicker of regret stirred in the ten-year-old's mind—but as he opened the full attribute panel, only one thought filled his mind—so good.