Chapter 363: Sea Kun Hammer

"Speaking of that, have you found the Spiritual Material I need?" Yan Buji asked lightly.

"Found it… this should be a Sea Kun corpse bone from the ancient era, but it's only a single piece." Yang Long carefully placed a massive bone before Yan Buji, not daring to touch it.

The innate suppression in the Dragon People's bloodline causes even a centuries‑dead Sea Kun bone to react violently, yet Yang Long saw Yan Buji snatch it up in one hand and examine it closely.

"Such a rich water spirit aura… and this chilling demonic qi—this really is a Sea Kun bone that died many years ago?" Yan Buji looked at Yang Long in puzzlement.

"That's natural; otherwise I couldn't have retrieved it. Moreover, Kun Peng‑type demonic beasts are inherently massive, massive enough that few in the world can oppose them. The Sea Kun bone probably wasn't very strong in life, or perhaps it's simply too ancient."

"So you can't determine the bone's age," Yan Buji said lightly. "Don't tell me it was found by chance—where exactly did you obtain it?"

Yang Long frowned. "Is there a problem?"

"This Sea Kun bone is an array device used in a certain formation; that formation has probably vanished, but this bone has been through quenching."

"Huh?" Yang Long was startled, scrutinizing the bone in Yan Buji's hand. "Why didn't I see that?"

"Is that so, you didn't see it…" Yan Buji gave a faint smile. "I don't care whether you saw it or not—where exactly was it discovered?"

Yang Long frowned, pondering, "It was beneath Soul Mountain."

"Soul Mountain?" Yan Buji mused. "Was Soul Mountain established by the Dragon People in the past?"

"How did you know that?" Yang Long was a bit puzzled, but explained, "I only heard that back then the Dragon People, to solve food shortages, gathered coral reefs from all over the Boundless Sea Rift and piled them there, which indeed attracted a great number of demonic beasts."

"I see." Yan Buji smiled in sudden understanding.

Yang Long asked, "Is there any problem with that?"

"My wandering to this place began at Soul Mountain," Yan Buji said lightly. "Soul Mountain likely contains a spatial node that leads out of the Boundless Sea Rift. However, I'm not well‑versed in array arts; have someone investigate."

Yang Long was taken aback. "You suspect that Soul Mountain, as a spatial node, had a teleportation formation set up by the Dragon People long ago?"

"That's certainly possible, and besides, do you think the priest does nothing all day?" Yan Buji retorted.

Yang Long's face darkened, and he remained silent.

He naturally understood Yan Buji's implication: if Soul Mountain truly harbors a teleportation array, why was the Dragon People's array unknown? Or perhaps… only the priest alone knows of it.

He had long been ready to leave the Boundless Sea Rift, but what would happen after leaving it?

The Dragon People's fatal flaw cannot be remedied; whether they stay or leave, it's the same—they lack the capital to compete with other forces.

So the priest is waiting for someone who can change the Dragon People to appear?

Yan Buji, who are you really?

Yang Long nodded, then left the place.

Yan Buji carefully examined the Sea Kun bone. Kun Peng‑type demonic beasts are at least a kilometer in length, so a body of that magnitude consumes an enormous amount of energy, which likely means that within the Five Realms only the Dongxing Sea Region can support Kun‑type beasts.

Whether Peng or Kun, they share one common trait.

"They are born as masters of the Way of Space; their innate talent is the skill of their survival." Yan Buji himself understood the Way of Space and had even cultivated the Heaven Gate Law, which could not be called weak.

Thus he could sense that the Space Power within this Sea Kun bone had undergone some refinement, becoming hidden and silent.

This is why Yan Buji speculated, and if all this were the work of the ancient Dragon People, it would prove one thing.

The Dragon People, once numbering in the six‑figures, have now dwindled to nearly four‑figures, and the refinement method of this Sea Kun bone only shows that the Dragon People's accumulated weakness is not solely due to laziness.

Perhaps there are Dragon People outside who have broken the bloodline sealing curse.

The Dragon People priest does not wish to use that method, so he has been searching for an alternative.

Those matters can be discussed later; this Sea Kun bone possesses an enormous water spirit aura and must retain its inherent oppression toward the Dragon People, so the demonic qi cannot be removed…

"It can't be refined into an Accumulation Device, but a simple quenching will suffice."

Yan Buji smiled, saying that this Sea Kun bone is meant to make people believe there is a way to break the bloodline sealing curse, and as for Yan Buji's own bloodline seal issue…

Since he already has a method and has dissected the refining steps of the counter‑destiny blood pill, he naturally resolved it long ago.

If he hadn't experimented, he wouldn't know the principle behind it.

Thus, Yan Buji performed a quenching on the Sea Kun bone.

Unlike refining, most Spiritual Materials need to undergo the process of being refined into an Accumulation Device to unleash their proper power, whereas for some Spiritual Materials that must retain their original function, quenching is merely a simple removal of impurities, allowing them to accommodate one's own magical energy.

However, this Sea Kun bone is exceptionally tough and is a special Spiritual Material that can channel True Essence, so Yan Buji did not intend to refine it into an Accumulation Device; instead, he kept shrinking it until it fit his hands, then stopped.

Upon close inspection, the original four‑ or five‑meter bone was reduced to just one‑meter‑five, resembling a short rod; after quenching it became even straighter and tougher, and the infusion of True Essence can further stimulate its water spirit aura.

"Hmm… not bad."

In terms of quality, this Sea Kun bone is not low, but the rough quenching does not cause any material change; although it became tougher than before, it is merely tougher.

Yan Buji recalled his past experience forging Accumulation Devices, took out some gold‑stone Spiritual Materials, and began refining.

Several days later.

A large hammer materialized in Yan Buji's hand; combined with the original one‑meter‑five Sea Kun bone, the hammer reached nearly one‑meter‑six in length, and its head was of the usual square, fairly flat shape.

Using the Sea Kun bone as a staff, the forged square hammer head serves as the main source of damage; the head can absorb the emitted water spirit aura and, upon a powerful strike, release it explosively, causing strong penetrating damage!

However, the added component still requires magical energy to control the water spirit aura, so during use the hammer also needs Yan Buji to employ both True Essence and spirit energy bidirectionally to unleash its extreme lethality.

Of course, the hammer head is not fused with the Sea Kun bone; he did not perform sealing refinement, so it does not count as an Accumulation Device—simply a weapon.

Any weapon inevitably has many issues; for example, the junction between the hammer head and the Sea Kun bone will inevitably have cracks, and if anyone discovers and destroys them, the hammer head becomes useless.

But Yan Buji does not care; this method of adding components is solely to give the weapon greater killing power, regardless of whether it would break after a single strike.

The Sea Kun bone is fine; just replace the hammer head, and that's that.

"Let's call it the Sea Kun Hammer," Yan Buji laughed.