Chu Chengzhou lifted his hand and beckoned. The fused metal sphere that had survived the Heavenly Refining Tribulation flew to him.
The sphere was azure, a pure azure, crystal clear, with a hazy azure halo on its surface. To anyone who did not know, it would look like a top-grade sphere of azure jade.
Just from its surface, Chu Chengzhou could not tell what attribute this ninefold fused metal possessed. It seemed to have no attribute inclination at all.
"Tsk~, forged from nine metals of different attributes and tempered by the Chaos Thunder Tribulation, I'll call you Nine Heavens Chaos Gold."
Clicking his tongue, Chu Chengzhou gave it a name.
Then scarlet fire-attribute soul power surged out. In an instant, the spherical Nine Heavens Chaos Gold melted into a blazing mass of liquid metal.
"Split!"
With a pointed finger and a low shout, Chu Chengzhou controlled the blazing metal to divide.
Before long, the liquefied Nine Heavens Chaos Gold formed into a set of azure armor, a great azure bow, a pair of azure twin hammers, and over a hundred azure arrows.
This batch of Nine Heavens Chaos Gold came out to more than four thousand jin. The armor weighed a thousand jin, the Nine Heavens Chaos Armor. The bow weighed eight hundred, the Nine Heavens Chaos Bow. The hammers weighed five hundred, the Nine Heavens Chaos Twin Hammers. The rest became arrows, three chi three cun long, the Nine Heavens Chaos Arrows.
"Not bad. I'll wait for my battle armor crafting skill to level up."
Looking at the bow, armor, twin hammers, and hundred arrows floating before him, all haloed in azure light, Chu Chengzhou nodded in satisfaction, then stored them all into his body.
Among these, the Nine Heavens Chaos Twin Hammers were already considered finished. They were forging hammers, so there was no need to make them into soul tools. As long as the material was hard enough and could conduct soul power, that was enough.
As for the Nine Heavens Chaos Bow and Nine Heavens Chaos Arrows, once his battle armor crafting skill advanced to gold grade and he could forge Heavenly Refined battle armor, he would inscribe on the bow and arrows the soul guidance amplification formations required by Heavenly Refined battle armor.
Three days later, Chu Chengzhou returned to Heaven Dou City.
He came back late because he had made a trip to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
The soul ring configuration black, black, black, red, black, red, red, red, red looked a bit unsightly. At the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well he upgraded his soul rings, raising the years of his first, second, third, and fifth rings to one hundred thousand years. His configuration advanced to nine red.
As for nine golden rings?
The Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well could not withstand him doing that. Chu Chengzhou planned to make a trip to Spirit City later. After returning from Spirit City, he would head to Sea God Island.
Then he would transform his summoned spirits into essence and merge with his body, use the True Spirit Domain's domain skill, Command Heaven and Earth, to rapidly draw on the ocean's inexhaustible water-attribute energy, and have Nine Breaths Qi devour and refine it to feed the summoned spirits' upgrades.
After his first, second, third, and fifth rings advanced to hundred-thousand-year rings, aside from a great increase in strength, the Fire Phoenix summoned spirit Xiao Hong changed little.
But the Heavenly Azure Tree summoned spirit Xiao Qing, the Light Lion summoned spirit Xiao Bai, and the Mysterious Water Turtle summoned spirit Gui Er changed a lot.
Unlike human Title Douluo, hundred-thousand-year soul beasts inevitably possess domain power. Hundred-thousand-year summoned spirits are no exception. After Xiao Qing, Xiao Bai, and Gui Er transformed into hundred-thousand-year summoned spirits, they automatically awakened the Life Domain, the Sacred Domain, and the Mysterious Water Domain.
Yes, Xiao Qing and Xiao Bai awakened the Life Domain and Sacred Domain.
Unless they possess a powerful bloodline to begin with, a soul beast's bloodline grade will automatically evolve with the increase of its years, most notably when crossing the hundred-thousand-year threshold.
It can be said that every hundred-thousand-year soul beast has a bloodline at least top-tier.
If such a soul beast were a martial soul, then the martial soul's quality would likewise be no less than top-tier.
The Mysterious Water Turtle already belongs to the top-tier water-attribute defensive soul beasts, so Gui Er's species did not change and its bloodline grade did not improve.
But the Heavenly Azure Tree and the Light Lion were only high-grade bloodline soul beasts. After their years rose to one hundred thousand, their bloodlines automatically evolved.
Chu Chengzhou had never seen the species that Xiao Qing became after its transformation, so he was not one hundred percent certain. But since its original wood attribute transformed into life attribute, Chu Chengzhou defaulted to calling Xiao Qing's species the Tree of Life.
Goddess of Life: I got a new relative?
Likewise, Chu Chengzhou could not identify the species that the Light Lion summoned spirit Xiao Bai became. Xiao Bai might even be a brand-new species never before seen on the continent. In view of Xiao Bai's attribute shifting from light to sacred, Chu Chengzhou named its species the Holy Spirit Lion.
And he did not just raise the years of the four summoned spirits. Relying on the spirit-transformation trait of his True Spirit Banner martial soul, he also condensed yin-yang complementary tri-soul cores of the corresponding attributes for all nine summoned spirits.
It can be said that although the years of his nine summoned spirits are all at one hundred thousand, and the highest, the Dark Devilgod Tiger summoned spirit, is only a little over a hundred thousand, in a direct comparison they would definitely not be much weaker than ordinary level 97 or even level 98 Title Douluo of the same martial soul category.
Without question, on the strength of his nine summoned spirits alone, Chu Chengzhou could rank among the top three on the continent.
It was just a pity that the summoned spirits could not wield his chaos soul power, nor could they convert their own attributes into the chaos attribute.
Night, Heaven Dou Imperial Palace, inside Qian Renxue's bedchamber.
"Xue'er, I'm going to Spirit City. Will you come back with me?"
After an intense battle, gently caressing the little angel's graceful figure, Chu Chengzhou asked.
"Spirit City? You're going to see my grandfather?"
Qian Renxue blinked, a little surprised.
"Mm. Not only our grandpa, but our mom too."
Chu Chengzhou nodded.
"Hmph~, Bibi Dong is not my mother."
Qian Renxue snorted and turned her head away.
Clearly, in Qian Renxue's eyes, Bibi Dong did not count as her mother at all.
"Stubborn as a dead duck~"
Chu Chengzhou curled his lip. Who doesn't know your greatest wish is to gain Bibi Dong's motherly love?
Qian Renxue turned back and glared at him. "What did you say?"
"Hehe~, let's not talk about her. Are you coming with me?"
Waving his hand, Chu Chengzhou skipped the topic.
"Forget it. I'll go back after some time."
After a moment's thought, Qian Renxue shook her head.
It was not that she did not want to return to Spirit City, but that the Heaven Dou Empire could not be left unattended.
Moreover, she had to consider this point. If she, the Heaven Dou Emperor, went back to Spirit City to undergo the Angel God Trials, who would preside over the situation in the Heaven Dou Empire?
Before she revealed her identity as the Spirit Hall's young master, she could not return to Spirit City. As the Heaven Dou Emperor, Xue Qinghe could not disappear for long.
If she brought her identity to the front stage, things would be better inside the Heaven Dou Empire. After this punitive war that was destined to be victorious yet oddly conducted, the court and local officials, as well as the senior commanders of the military, had all been replaced by her loyal subordinates. Even if the swan banner of the imperial Xue clan were raised tomorrow, there would be no great chaos within the Heaven Dou Empire. But she had to consider the reaction of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
If she did not have a teacher-disciple relationship with Ning Fengzhi, and if Chu Chengzhou had not gotten involved with Ning Rongrong, then Qian Renxue would not need to hesitate. She could lay her cards on the table and make the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect choose between submission and destruction.
With those ties in place, she could not force it.