Chapter 546: Armament Design Blueprint

The armament design diagram, from Yan Buji's original heavy armor concept, hasn't changed to this day.

The heavy armor structure offers little practical use for ordinary Magical Cultivators; it consumes resources, and in battle requires a large amount of mana to activate, so its practicality is low.

Most Golden Core Cultivators who forge armaments obtain a median type—combining offense, defense, and support; though none excels, it still appreciably boosts their strength.

"However, my divine consciousness is sufficient to wield heavy armor, especially since after refining the Heaven-Expanding Art, the intangible thread control will further enhance my command over the armament."

This is because Yan Buji's own divine consciousness is strong enough; few have the chance to achieve Martial and Law Dual Cultivation as he does.

In a sense, Yan Buji is fortunate; at least he sits here with resources and time to improve himself.

The armament's purpose is to augment a Golden Core Cultivator's power, so they are not completely defenseless in sudden situations.

Of course the cost is high, so most cultivators adopt beast forms for the armament's appearance, stemming from the frailty of human bodies that cannot match those monsters.

Consequently, the development of Beast Accumulation Armament follows a massive, established system; historically, Golden Core Cultivators with lineages always have some beast‑form armament design diagrams as references.

First, some Beast Accumulation Armaments can be made from Spiritual Material harvested from monsters, which is refined into Accumulation Devices and recombined into armaments, replicating the monsters' former strength.

Second, it remains a matter of resources.

Few have enough resources to design armaments; if one can obtain sufficient Spiritual Material from a monster, it isn't that troublesome.

However, that was a story from many years ago; today Golden Core Cultivators' Beast Accumulation Armaments are no longer bound to beastly forms, but are made however they are most useful.

There are human‑like and ghost‑like ones, yet they are all called Beast Accumulation Armament.

Yan Buji feels that calling it non‑human armament might be more fitting.

The heavy armament he intends to forge does not directly reference monster or others' design diagrams; such things rarely circulate on the market.

Nevertheless, Yan Buji's overall direction is clear: to possess absolute firepower while being adaptable to prolonged, brutal battles.

Though vague, it essentially means boosting the armament's firepower; the emergence of the spiritual cannon together with the Earth Fiend Divine Ability's copying forced Yan Buji to abandon giving the armament amplification spells, opting for the spiritual cannon instead.

And having also seen the spiritual spear, Yan Buji no longer worries about ranged firepower.

As for melee?

Don't forget I'm still a Martial Cultivator; do you think my fists can't hit anyone while wearing armament?

"But how do we assemble the designed helmet and great sword into it?"

These two Accumulation Devices are to be refined into primary Accumulation Devices; although a Lianqi Phase cultivator may have up to three primary Accumulation Devices, each advancement grants an additional slot.

From this perspective, modern Magical Cultivators differ greatly from ancient ones; ancient Magical Cultivators never had so many primary treasure slots.

Even cultivators who forge a specialized primary treasure like a sword formation merely use the main to substitute the auxiliary. It's not that it's weak, but its power is singular.

However, Accumulation Devices can develop many different paths, and primary Accumulation Devices can be re‑refined at will.

As for those with special techniques, unique aptitude, or extra encounters, they are excluded; thus a Golden Core Cultivator may possess five primary Accumulation Devices.

The Jun Dan Stage is merely a transition between Foundation Establishment Stage and Golden Core Stage; it is an extension of the former and not included here.

Beast Accumulation Armament also requires a primary Accumulation Device combination to link with a cultivator's mind; of course, someone like Yan Buji, who already has divine consciousness in the Golden Core Stage, can assemble armament without primary devices, but the cost is the inability to deploy instantly.

And if Yan Buji does not use the Rift Staff, he only has four primary Accumulation Devices to combine armament; designing it as a beast would require enlarging the devices, which is unsuitable.

"In that case… perhaps we should stick to a human anatomy. That way we skip the main body and simply add some components…"

The added components are the spiritual cannon and spiritual spear, or any Accumulation Devices added later.

As long as your divine consciousness is strong enough and mana can sustain, pulling out dozens of Accumulation Devices for free control at once, no one can criticize you.

Yan Buji thought it over; intending to enlarge the armament's size and suit his flesh, he decided to focus on armor.

Then come the added components and the extensible parts forged from mutated bone…

Consider the recoil when the spiritual cannon fires…

After splitting, the great sword becomes twin blades attached to the arms…

Yan Buji pondered for a long time and finally sketched a draft.

The draft's structure is quite odd; the mutated bone seems to sprout from Yan Buji's chest, branching into four limbs—two at the shoulders and two on the arms—to house the great sword, spiritual cannon, and spiritual spear.

Later Yan Buji considered that the terrifying recoil of the spiritual cannon would, even for his own body, not endure prolonged activation, so he added a shock‑absorbing device.

But this made Yan Buji's armament body rather fragile and somewhat incongruous.

Thus Yan Buji plans to re‑refine the Asura Accumulation Armor and add protective plates, both to ward off damage and make the armament's structure harmonious.

Overall, Yan Buji's constructed armament resembles a person entering a gigantic humanoid puppet; with so many components, he could only draft a sketch at first, then gradually decide which parts to add or remove.

"But these added components must be re‑refined on primary Accumulation Devices; besides designing the mutated bone's extension interface, overall mana flow must also be considered…"

Time passed slowly, and Yan Buji renewed a ten‑year lease here, finally completing the armament design diagram.

This is thanks to Yan Buji's ample knowledge of Spiritual Material, knowing which materials he needs and whether he can achieve the effect he wants; likewise, taking his own circumstances into account, he kept revising the armament design diagram—deleting, then adding—until he finally obtained a design suited to himself.

"But the design diagram is one thing; forging the Accumulation Devices is another."

Yan Buji sighed; after all, refining Accumulation Devices can, due to the Spiritual Material and method, result in devices stronger or weaker than intended, making perfectly meeting expectations very difficult.

Moreover, Yan Buji is currently only at the third‑turn Refining Master level, so producing all these components in one go is essentially impossible.

So Yan Buji plans to go out, search for Spiritual Material while also gathering clear information about She Shen Temple.

Then, after reaching the later Golden Core stage, he will forge the Beast Accumulation Armament.

Along the way, he will also make a detour to Youming Jie, then transfer back to Dongxing Sea Region.

The plan is as such; whether other circumstances arise is uncertain.