Chapter 186: Tempering Dragon Crystal!

Inside the alchemy secret room cottage.

A magical cottage the size of a computer case has taken the form of a monster treasure chest.

It sits on the stone window, continually using its stone arms to pick up the materials placed beside Ta Ke and stuff them into its own mouth.

The feeding materials include blood crystal materials, metal materials, leather materials, living wood materials, roughly refined rune stone fragments, as well as some small weapons and broken weapon fragments, etc.

Every three to five days, Ta Ke feeds it once with first- and second-rank transcendent knight sequence crystals to help it grow better.

Accompanied by its not-so-quick chewing motion, those materials are crushed in the cottage's mouth and then swallowed into its bottomless throat and stomach.

Although the magical cottage's outward outline is not very large.

But its internal space is already not small, roughly about three to four cubic meters.

And the Little Sniff Duck has already moved in ahead of time into this "new home".

As a magical creature, this guy's sense of smell is quite keen.

Nowadays, the magical cottage can eat one to two thousand magic gold of materials each day.

Actually, feeding it those simple low-value materials is also possible.

But if you want this magical cottage to possess extremely strong concealment, flight and levitation, spirit-world stationing, deep-space navigation, tower transformation, source-energy circulation, inner-world ecology, and many other magical abilities, you must invest heavily to cultivate it.

Merely feeding it simple things cannot cultivate so many powerful magical abilities.

Ta Ke previously seized so many resources, and now has acquired so much magic gold.

A large portion of it is for cultivating this magical cottage.

In the future, to enter numerous magical transcendent worlds.

The magical cottage is Ta Ke's vehicle, armor, and dwelling for traveling through numerous transcendent worlds.

Once again, place some materials beside the magical cottage.

While transmitting some scattered life threads over, Ta Ke carefully examines the magical cottage.

"When I first chose this guy, its vitality was especially vigorous."

"Indeed, it still is, and it can eat quite a lot."

"A large amount of transcendent traits are continually absorbed by it and transformed into its own magical traits."

"When its outline grows to the size of an ox, its internal space will be roughly equivalent to a forty- to fifty-square-meter house."

"Then, it can undergo magical transformation."

"If it's fast, it also takes a year and a half; if slow, it may even take two to three years."

After examining the magical cottage.

Ta Ke slowly withdraws his gaze.

He turns his body to look at the crucible on the alchemy stone platform nearby.

A pure, ultimate black dragon crystal is placed inside it.

Violent, bloody, cruel, mad will is wildly bursting forth.

And it holds extreme malice and hatred toward Ta Ke.

It has been a week since obtaining this third-rank black giant dragon crystal.

Giant dragon!

Naturally, it has extremely strong resistance to fire.

Fortunately, the flame from Ta Ke's steam source-energy flame generator is also not ordinary fire.

Moreover, Ta Ke himself has comprehended the flame rune profundity.

Thus, it can to some extent melt this giant dragon crystal.

With the activation of the source-energy steam engine,

"Whoosh!"

A bluish-green flame surges forth.

Ta Ke sweeps a single hand lightly through the flame.

The puppet silk threads have already entwined at the flame's opening.

Accompanied by Ta Ke's flame rune profundity,

Within the bluish-green flame, faint flame rune markings flicker.

And at the flame's tip, the distinctive texture undulation of flame rune power is clearly visible.

Soon, the dragon crystal inside the crucible is heated to a molten state.

Roar——

Roar——

Roar——

Low, ferocious, violent, bloody, cruel, mad……

Such black dragons, beings born of the dark side with legendary traits, have already seen their bodies collapse and their lives extinguished.

But his will still remains within the sequence.

And this is also why many powerful beings seek to pass down their own "sequence".

Life may perhaps wither due to death.

But the sequence, even if life dies and shatters, still exists.

As long as dragons propagate, the hidden Dragon Sequence deep in the bloodline will continue to be passed down.

However, as a lord-level dragon creature,

its will is extremely tenacious.

Furthermore, it is unknown how long this dragon crystal has been placed.

The giant dragon's will completely permeated every corner of the material.

Ta Ke still used the Steam-Origin Spirit State to comprehensively suppress it.

Then, using Precision Correction as a scalpel, he continually cut its will.

Continually eliminating the negative traits of the black dragon's will.

And those giant dragon traits, Ta Ke naturally wanted to preserve.

After all!

The giant dragon is a powerful being that can stand shoulder to shoulder with the Angel Sequence.

Over the past week, Ta Ke has been busy every day sparring with the giant dragon's will.

Cutting and eliminating it.

His main approach is all-out battle.

The giant dragon's will is very ferocious.

Ordinary superhumans who dare to spar would likely have their legs tremble from being intimidated directly by the giant dragon's will.

Fortunately, it's Ta Ke.

Only he can sustain a long-term spar with the giant dragon's will, not losing but even gaining a slight edge.

As time passed.

Ta Ke's advantage has been growing larger and larger.

Only then did Ta Ke start at a slight disadvantage.

Now Ta Ke has stabilized at a slight advantage.

With the advantage established, Ta Ke redoubled his efforts, comprehensively cutting and eliminating the black dragon's negative will that had permeated deep into the dragon crystal.

Ta Ke estimates that in another week he will be able to thoroughly refine the giant dragon crystal.

About two or three hours later.

Ta Ke finished today's cleansing of the giant dragon's will inside the giant dragon crystal and began annealing.

Continue to keep the crystal in a molten state so its properties dissipate.

Let it cool, stabilizing its own giant dragon traits.

Remelt it tomorrow and then perform the cleansing again.

This way it won't harm the giant dragon traits themselves.

Repeating this process also effectively eliminates residual black dragon will.

「Hah…」

After finishing today's work, Ta Ke let out a long sigh.

Although refining this third-tier giant dragon crystal was somewhat arduous, thinking that he could devour it to advance to third tier made all the effort worthwhile.

After all!

When Ta Ke advanced to become an official mage, he was dirt poor and his means and strength were also very weak.

He could only advance using one elite plus two ordinary materials.

The weakness of his first-tier foundation.

Thus he needed to strengthen his sequence with stronger materials later on.

This time, the giant dragon traits, angel traits, and the top-tier leader-grade material from the deep sea.

Under comprehensive reinforcement.

It was enough to make Ta Ke's foundation substantially solid.

Besides, Ta Ke's dragon scale armor, possessing giant dragon traits, could also better exert its effects.

Ta Ke is fine when entering the Blazing State of Light and Flame.

The dragon scale armor can enter that state well.

But when Ta Ke enters the Shadow State,

the dragon scale armor shows some resistance, causing Ta Ke, when entering the Shadow State, to not go deep enough and fail to perfectly match.

It's not that the dragon scale armor has its own will.

Rather, the original owner of these dragon scales was an earth giant dragon.

Earth-system giant dragons mainly have the trait of being able to withstand blows and resist.

Dodge?

Dodge a hammer?!

This set of dragon scales is meant to resist the enemy's output.

Naturally, for this reason, the death appearance of this fifth-tier earth giant dragon is extremely miserable.

But Ta Ke doesn't want that.

Now, after Ta Ke has absorbed this dark giant dragon crystal,

Ta Ke can to some extent regulate the traits of his own black dragon crystal and the earth dragon scale armor.

This way, when Ta Ke is in the Shadow State, he can also better exert the effects of the dragon scale armor.

After all, the dark-system giant dragon and the Shadow State are still quite compatible.

「In a few days, it will be the time for the next round of the Ashen Day transition. 」

「I should also make a trip to the underground black market. 」

「This time, I'll go and refine more materials. 」

「Try to obtain the materials promised to me by the Dark Wanderer Lord Gu Si Ta Fu of the Holy Light Dao Association. 」

「In that case…」

Ta Ke's eyes narrowed slightly.

"The promotion materials are all ready."