Chapter 512: Flame Light Cannon

This exoskeleton armor, named “Demon Star,” uses two special materials—demon stone and star stone—making its composition entirely reasonable.

According to the blueprints, the design of this sentient artifact draws from two worlds’ systems; once forged, it possesses immense power, yet with the blueprint’s precise specifications and dimensions, its forging difficulty is not as great as imagined.

The only real trouble lies in these two special materials.

Perhaps during its simulation, the system never considered material quantity—it simply used whatever was required without restraint.

Demon stone is manageable; in the design, it serves merely as a reservoir for spiritual energy, requiring only a small amount.

The single demon stone in his possession, though small, could still suffice if a few minor details on the blueprint were slightly weakened.

But this exoskeleton armor, designed to massively amplify star thought force, employs an astonishing quantity of star stone, along with a special alloy formula that fuses star stone into iron mother—nearly the entire exoskeleton is made of this material, so the required star stone quantity is unimaginable.

Though the Bi Shui Palace, as a Nascent Soul sect, may indeed possess such vast quantities of star stone, the problem is that if he were to exchange for so much all at once, it would draw far too much attention.

He would need to seek out Yan Lingxiang again, to have him take him to that so-called stone gambling ground—there, even buying vast amounts of chaos stone would likely raise no suspicion.

As Wang Yu pondered this, he exhaled slightly, then redirected his focus back to the power of the “Flame Demon Star Armor” itself.

This exoskeleton armor artifact, like the earlier parent-child floating mirror designed by the system, combines both offensive and defensive capabilities.

For offense, besides closing in on opponents and activating six long blades for close-range strikes, each of these six weapons is engraved with a flame-blade spell pattern.

That is, when all six long blades strike at full power, they can unleash six flame-blade spells simultaneously.

A combined strike of six second-rank limit spells, each bearing ninety-eight spell runes, would be impossible for anyone below Golden Core to withstand—though such terrifying power cannot be sustained by ordinary spiritual stones, not even high-grade ones, due to the immense instantaneous drain.

Hence, the demon stone, a special material capable of storing vast amounts of spiritual energy in advance, is used alongside embedded high-grade fire spiritual stones to ensure smooth release of the six flame-blade spells.

Beyond this offensive method, the six arm-armor units, like the earlier parent-child floating mirror, can transform and merge into a massive cannon barrel, fusing the fire spiritual energy cultivated by the Red Sun Great Art with star thought force, then ejecting it in a more violent manner—the blueprint calls this the “Flame Light Cannon.”

As for the Flame Light Cannon’s power, the blueprint merely describes it with simple terms: “pierces all,” “unavoidable,” and states its strength increases alongside the Red Sun Great Art and star thought force.

Thus, if the combined strike of six flame-blade spells is unbeatable below Golden Core, the Flame Light Cannon may possess an upper limit surpassing Golden Core—making it even more critical.

The Flame Demon Star Armor blueprint also provides an advanced scheme for the parent-child floating mirror, upgrading it to second rank, and includes a precise design for integrating the floating mirror into this exoskeleton armor.

Moreover, other blade or sword artifacts can be used with this exoskeleton armor without any conflict whatsoever.

Even second-rank flying daggers can be stored in hidden compartments on the arm armor, and at a single thought, they can be instantly launched—no need to retrieve them from storage pouches.

Of course, beyond offense, the defensive design of this sentient artifact is also extremely simple and practical.

Aside from the armor’s base material, which incorporates star stone into a special “alloy,” its structure employs the strongest defensive “honeycomb structure” from Blue Star exoskeletons, granting exceptional multi-layered defense and shock absorption—nearly matching the performance of a standard second-rank low-grade defensive artifact.

Furthermore, the outer and inner armor plates are engraved with a total of thirteen layers of flame-shield spell runes.

Yes, not three layers—thirteen layers!

Six layers on the inner armor, seven on the outer.

Everyone knows that the more defensive spells engraved on an artifact, the stronger its defense—but this raises the question of how many alchemists can engrave so many spell runes onto a single artifact.

Once a spell reaches rank, each additional rune engraved on an artifact tests the alchemist’s skill, and since most artifacts have limited surface area, the number of runes they can hold is inherently restricted.

The inner and outer plates of this Flame Demon Star Armor use a double-sided engraving design—four surfaces total—allowing just enough space to accommodate so many ranked spells.

This is likely why the Taiyuan System chose the flame-shield spell—a ranked spell—instead of a second-rank defensive spell.

After all, second-rank defensive spells require twenty to thirty runes at minimum, up to fifty or sixty, making their engraving far more difficult than the flame-shield runes, which have been engraved countless times already.

More importantly, he currently knows no second-rank fire spells at all.

The flame-shield spell, with its twelve original runes, has a higher upper limit than most ranked spells; when amplified by the Red Sun Great Art, its defensive power likely rivals that of standard second-rank defensive spells.

Of course, as an exoskeleton armor, mobility is indispensable.

On this point, the blueprint’s design left Wang Yu deeply impressed.

The blueprint perfectly integrates the wind-fire wheel spell onto both leg armor plates.

A cultivation technique that previously placed immense strain on the body poses no issue for the exoskeleton’s metal structure, allowing it to achieve maximum speed.

The only drawback is that, while the Flame Demon Star Armor’s wind-fire wheel spell enables astonishingly swift short-range maneuvers, prolonged flight drains spiritual energy excessively—even with high-grade wind and fire spiritual stones installed, it cannot fly far.

Even so, Wang Yu is highly satisfied with this Flame Demon Armor as his sentient artifact.

His only concern is that, if all these numerous components are simultaneously nurtured within his spiritual sea, wouldn’t the process be vastly slower than nurturing a single artifact?

After all, the spiritual energy consumed nurturing one artifact versus seventeen is obvious—clearly, the latter is far slower.

But then again, his spiritual power exceeds that of peers by more than tenfold; even nurturing this Flame Demon Star Armor, his speed won’t be much slower than an ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivator’s.

And from his current stage, this Flame Demon Star Armor is indeed the most suitable sentient artifact for him, capable of maximizing nearly all his combat potential.

Wang Yu pondered thoughtfully, hesitating slightly, when suddenly he remembered something and uttered, “Exit interface.”

The next instant, seated on the metal chair, a flash of white light swept before his eyes, and he returned to the real world inside his cultivation chamber.

He slapped his storage pouch with one hand, and a white jade slip appeared in his grasp.

It was the half-sword scripture given to him by the Golden Core true cultivator of Mo Jian Men—apparently containing methods for forging and nurturing a sentient flying sword.