Chapter 247

Do you have a way to solve the earthquake?

It's just a change in the earth veins; if you trust me, sir, let me try.

Suo Ya nodded: "Then let me see how capable you are."

Yan Buji leapt down to the center of the earthquake; many stone and wooden houses here had already collapsed. After a moment's thought, he circulated his True Essence!

Boom!

As Yan Buji activated Instant Shadow Step, his whole body became like a ghost, appearing and disappearing without trace; immediately afterward he struck True Essence into the ground at several points in succession!

True Essence cannot control the earth veins, but the power of the Shaking Dragon Classic can influence them.

Yan Buji used True Essence to envelop the power, clearing several nodes of the earth veins and spreading the earthquake's vibrations outward.

Thus, the earthquake gradually subsided, but Yan Buji looked around.

Run!

Without a word, Yan Buji, who had quelled the earthquake, ran off; Suo Ya stared for a moment, then immediately gave chase:

What are you running for?

Senior, don't chase me; I have nothing else to do here, I'll take my leave first!

In the blink of an eye, Yan Buji could no longer attend to anything else; this Suo Ya seemed to have detected a clue to his true identity, so next time he must be more careful and cannot dig into someone else's underground.

With the Lightning Flash Technique, Wind-Tuning Secret Technique, and the activation of Instant Shadow Step, Yan Buji's figure became faster than a mad wind, covering a hundred li in the blink of an eye; Suo Ya exclaimed:

"Indeed a human cultivator! Don't run, don't run!!"

Seeing Suo Ya give chase, Yan Buji dared not linger; he could only flee at full speed.

"Damn, how is he so fast?" Suo Ya was completely unaware; she confidently believed the opponent's strength was inferior to hers, which is why she dared to let him out to quell the earthquake.

But she didn't expect this old fellow's speed to be inhuman; he was actually three-tenths faster than her!

Seeing that she truly could not catch up, Yan Buji's figure grew smaller and smaller, finally disappearing outright; Suo Ya sighed helplessly:

"It's been over ten thousand years since I last saw a human cultivator; where did he come from?"

After running far away, Yan Buji directly used a stone ball to return to the Yang realm, giving the opponent no chance to employ any spell or restriction.

"Phew, I finally got out. However, since the other side didn't attack me, it shows that even if they discovered I'm human, they harbor no great malice.... or perhaps they have another agenda."

Yan Buji still did not know the situation of Youming Jie; he even thought he was still within the realm of the Netherworld's underworld, so he worried that if Suo Ya caught up, he might also encounter the underworld's officials.

But in the end Yan Buji got what he wanted; after changing his cultivation method, he had also condensed earth-origin fire, and with the claws he obtained, he could begin refining into Accumulation to forge his own Accumulation Armor.

Instinctively, Yan Buji still felt that preserving his life was most important, so he planned to use all the claws to forge the Accumulation Armor, and this was also a major project.

The Accumulation Armor was based on the design Yan Buji had drawn from the Shura Blood Sea Diagram's Shura armor; now the heart-protection mirror part is complete, leaving only the helmet, arm guards, full-body armor, and leg guards—four pieces. Taken separately, each could serve as a defensive Accumulation Device, so these four components must be forged to the standard of an Accumulation Device.

Yan Buji referred to the Shura Blood Sea Diagram, painstakingly revising for half a year before finally completing the drawings of the four armor parts; then he used the claws as the core, combined with other Spiritual Materials he had previously obtained, to assist in the forging.

Thus, Yan Buji began his first attempt at forging Accumulation Armor.

The refining experience he had accumulated gave Yan Buji much help; the turbid refining method obtained from the Clear Wind Observatory also allowed him to handle many Spiritual Materials without being stretched thin as before.

Six years.

After Yan Buji finished refining the four components, he reached the most crucial step of sealed refining: this step requires a cultivator to use his own essence, energy, and spirit as an adhesive to bind the refined Accumulation Device parts together; any crack, no matter how slight, constitutes a failure.

Besides this, before the sealed refining, Yan Buji also considered the differing natures of the Spiritual Materials; especially the heart-protection mirror part lacked Spiritual Material from Youming Jie, so he incorporated the crystal cores of netherworld demons he had previously obtained, altering its nature somewhat so it could accept the sealing of the other parts.

"As I expected, the Spiritual Material from Youming Jie possesses a unique power, likely due to overly heavy yin-nether qi. However, after harmonizing it with various yang-realm Spiritual Materials, the fluctuation of the yin-nether qi has weakened considerably and can still be concealed within the armor." Yan Buji watched as the earth-origin fire before him turned into threads, continuously using his own essence, energy, and spirit as fuel to scorch and weld the armor's joints.

Using the method given by Li Dao Ren, if sealed refining is supplemented with one's own essence blood and a special secret art, the success rate can be increased.

Indeed, that is the case; I also don't know what background Li Dao Ren comes from—is he truly a cultivator of the Xuan Gen Dao?

Whether we will meet again in the future is another matter; for now, we must hurry to finish forging the Accumulation Armor, then go out to seek resources and new cultivation methods, striving to break through quickly.

Two years passed.

Yan Buji put on the finished Accumulation Armor, finally gaining a sense of security and belonging; even if the armor he forged is of low grade, it at least has room for improvement.

"Hmm, probably about first transformation... upper-grade level? Too bad the materials are really not good enough; otherwise it could have been refined to second transformation."

The strength of an Accumulation Device is judged by its transformation number; the higher the number, the stronger it is, and the greater the power required to match it.

Many Accumulation Devices are not precious; a few tens of thousands of Spiritual Stones can buy third- or fourth-transformation ones, but practicality must be considered.

If it requires you to exert your full effort to activate it, and the effect still doesn't meet expectations, then even if the transformation number is reached, poor performance means few will choose it.

The Accumulation Armor Yan Buji forged is considered relatively luxurious among Lianqi Phase cultivators; five individual pieces that are usable on their own combine to form one Accumulation Armor, but the poor materials limit its transformation number, and this is not due to any mistake Yan Buji made in the forging—it shows his experiment has been validated, merely indicating that his knowledge of Spiritual Material properties and other aspects is still insufficient.

The forged Accumulation Armor emits a faint, dim light; this Accumulation Armor has no other function besides its own defensive power. In other words, Yan Buji standing here need not rely on spells to block attacks; the armor's defense alone suffices.

Naturally, judging by the endurance Yan Buji has tested, even the explosion produced by the Breath-Tight Secret Art combined with a thunder spear would not greatly affect the Accumulation Armor, indicating its defensive capability is up to standard.

Moreover, the Accumulation Armor was designed from the outset to absorb external blows and reduce self-injury; combined with Yan Buji's not-weak physique and his Martial Dao Profound Skill at his side, dealing with a Lianqi Phase peak cultivator is now as easy as taking candy from a baby.