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Xu Yuan held the Heavenly Origin Brush, hovering in mid-air with an aloof demeanor.
He retracted his previous writing stance, holding the brush in his right hand and watching the endless thunderstorm ahead from where he stood.
At this moment, Xu Yuan appeared like a spectator, detached from worldly affairs, as if everything before him had nothing to do with him, and this chaotic heavenly calamity was unrelated to him.
If it weren't for the fierce blood flames still erupting from his body, no one would have thought that this person could so effortlessly force the five emperors into a desperate situation.
What kind of ability was this?
Divine Skill!
All soul masters present couldn't help but marvel.
While marveling, they were also filled with awe.
Their doubts also remained unanswered.
Even if it was a divine skill, what kind of divine skill could achieve such results?
The chains that emerged from the void were so unexpected, their terrifying pressure seemed to instinctively suppress living beings. Just looking at them made one's scalp tingle.
It was utterly unbelievable.
However, Zhen Hua, as well as many blacksmiths present, quickly accepted this fact. Even the spies sent by other forces to investigate the situation rapidly came to terms with reality.
Yet, among the crowd, there was still one person who refused to believe this fact.
Tang Wulin stared wide-eyed at the figure in the air, his breath almost stopping.
How could this be?
At the same age, how could the gap be so enormous?
What kind of technique was this?
Tang Wulin, who believed he somewhat understood Xu Yuan, was now completely dumbfounded.
Hadn't Xu Yuan's Heavenly Origin Brush always been abandoned?
Why did his Heavenly Origin Brush martial soul suddenly have eight soul rings, each reaching orange-gold? Even if that were the case, why were the abilities of his Heavenly Origin Brush so exaggerated? So unreasonable?
If he remembered correctly, part of his Heavenly Origin Brush martial soul was even separated, forming Xu Yuan's Heavenly Origin Five Elements Spear.
Even so, did this pen still possess such overwhelming power?
What kind of martial soul was this?
Tang Wulin couldn't understand why such an overpowered martial soul existed.
"Wulin, you must find the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud soon. After observing Xu Yuan's forging this time, return to Douluo Planet, break through Heavenly Forging, and go to the Tang Sect headquarters to search for the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud. Given the current situation, only by undergoing the Sea God's Exam can you catch up to him."
This time, Old Tang didn't guarantee anything.
He truly felt the terror of Xu Yuan.
Why did such a massive variable appear in the 20,000 year plan? Not only did it intercept the rise of his son, but it also triggered celestial phenomena, changing all future events, making them completely different from what he had seen before.
Such a stumbling block, if allowed to continue growing, would be too terrifying.
However, Xu Yuan's wings had already grown full. What means could possibly stop him now?
Old Tang was conflicted.
The final move was meant to deal with the Abyssal Sage King..
Once diverted, the 20,000 year plan might very well be declared bankrupt.
No!
Old Tang suddenly realized a key point.
"Yun Ming has already become a god, restraining the Abyssal Sage King.. My ace-in-the-hole might not necessarily be indispensable."
Overall, Xu Yuan already had a way to die.
Xu Yuan was unaware that his actions stirred Old Tang's intent to kill.
Even if he knew, he wouldn't care at this point.
If the God King could truly be powerful enough to act across vast spans of time and space, then he would be helpless.
But in reality, across such a great distance, Tang San absolutely couldn't transmit his divine power here.
Even if he could, that weak divine power absolutely couldn't cause fatal damage to Xu Yuan. At this point, Xu Yuan had the Scroll World and the Dream Space. Whether from the perspective of the soul or the physical body, he had a complete world defending him, giving him ample self-protection.
If Tang San's main body could kill him from afar, what could he say?
Of course, if Old Tang was willing to sacrifice the opportunity to communicate with Tang Wulin and directly unleash the seal's power to kill Xu Yuan, then Xu Yuan would have nothing to say.
In fact, even so, Xu Yuan wasn't worried.
Only the last layer of Old Tang's seal could pose a threat to him now, and Xu Yuan certainly wasn't without a chance to counter it.
Unbeknownst to him, Xu Yuan had long grown to a level where Old Tang couldn't restrain him.
Time didn't drag on for long.
When Dong Zi'an and Xu Shengqun, two Limit Douluos from Star Dou City, arrived, the five emperors had already been severely injured and were easily killed.
Seeing the attack resolved, Dong Zi'an left immediately.
He still had to guard Star Dou City.
Because of Xu Yuan, the four Limit Douluos swiftly supported Divine Forging City. Now that the problem here was solved, he had to rush back to Star Dou City immediately; otherwise, if Star Dou City was attacked, the losses would still be severe.
Xu Shengqun stayed behind.
After killing the five emperors, Xu Yuan flew into the air, lost in thought.
The resurrection methods of the Abyss Emperors made him associate something.
"Resurrection, origin."
Why could the Abyss Emperors resurrect?
Because their origins were in the Abyss.
Born in the Abyss, nurtured in the Abyss, everything existed within this energy plane.
The characteristic of an energy plane was that any life form within it was inherently part of the plane, thus part of the plane's origin.
They all had origins, their original selves recorded.
That's why they possessed the ability to resurrect. As long as the Abyss energy recording their information wasn't completely obliterated, there was still a chance for resurrection.
"Plane, life forms…"
In his contemplation, Xu Yuan had a certain idea.
Perhaps, by leveraging the support of the world, he could more effectively condense the metal's origin during forging?
Returning to the forge, Xu Yuan closed his eyes and meditated for half an hour.
At this time, no one disturbed Xu Yuan.
The scene of the heavenly calamity descending just moments ago was vivid in everyone's minds. Everyone knew how terrifying the power of the lord of Divine Forging City, the youngest divine craftsman in history, was.
Half an hour later, Xu Yuan opened his eyes and resumed forging, offering no explanation for the recent attack by the five emperors.
What explanation was needed?
There were no casualties on site, and the five emperors had been dealt with—no explanation required!
Xu Yuan didn't know that with his actions this time, the entire Netherworld war fell into an eerie calm. The Abyss finally stopped sending Abyss Emperors to attack the Federation's cities.
Indeed, the power he displayed this time was extraordinary.
Abyss.
The Abyssal Sage King.'s expression was heavy, his huge eyes filled with anger.
How could this be?
A tiny Douluo plane, how could it suddenly produce such a freak?
Too unreasonable.
Even his home plane never had such a terrifying genius.
And remember, the home plane of the Abyssal Sage King. was a super-large plane with quasi-God Kings stationed, encompassing endless territories in the universe.
Such a vast plane hadn't produced an existence as exaggerated as Xu Yuan, and their plane master, during his weaker period, was absolutely not as extreme as Xu Yuan.
"The opportunity here is more than I can handle alone. I must request reinforcements."
Though reluctant, the Abyssal Sage King. had to admit that Douluo Planet had already slipped out of control. While dealing with Yun Ming, he also had to be wary of Xu Yuan's rise.
He no longer had the extra energy to probe another potentially fatal question—whether the Douluo God Realm had truly disappeared.
"And the Ardent Emperor, it's time to respond."
The competition for celestial phenomena had fallen into an absolute disadvantage. They could only wait for reinforcements to arrive and think of a way. Before that, he could only interfere with the Federation from other angles.
The Abyssal Sage King. hadn't expected that the promise he made under Xu Yuan's threat to leave Ardent Emperor on Douluo's side would become his opportunity now.
"Demon King, I hope you don't remain stubborn." A cold glint flashed in the Abyssal Sage King.'s eyes.
Previously, the scheming with the Demon King was amusing, but now he had no such interest. If the Demon King tried anything sneaky, he wouldn't hesitate to eliminate him first.
Divine Forging City.
The Scroll World enveloped the forge, overlapping with the blood energy domain and the Dream Space.
With three domains overlapped, Xu Yuan became the master of this space.
Any changes in the metal before him couldn't escape Xu Yuan's perception.
"This is the condensation of origin!"
Loud hammering sounds spread out, and the metal on the forge became even more dazzling.
Intense spatial fluctuations gestated from within it.
Xu Yuan sensed it—it was the pulsation of the origin.
At this moment, this piece of Heavenly Saint Void-Breaking Crystal had only just completed fusion forging.
Yes, just completed fusion forging.
Not even spiritual forging had begun.
But after just activating its spirit, Xu Yuan integrated all the spirituality to condense the origin.
"Divine forging starts from casting the foundation. Subsequent spiritual forging and soul forging must all be done with the presence of origin."
This was the divine forging method Xu Yuan found.
The previous success on the Sea God Island was accidental, yet such accidents had too low a probability and lacked methodology, relying entirely on accumulated insights, uncontrollable.
Now with a systematic forging method, Xu Yuan felt his chances of success had appeared.
Among the crowd, Tang Wulin wore a look of shock.
He was studying Xu Yuan's heavenly forging method, observing the differences between heavenly forging and soul forging. The fifteen previous observations had benefited him greatly. Hearing that Xu Yuan would continue forging, he naturally wouldn't waste the opportunity to observe.
Each observation deepened his understanding of heavenly forging. He felt that with some seclusion, he had a chance to attempt heavenly forging.
However, this wasn't the reason for his shock.
Tang Wulin was shocked because an incredulous voice from Old Tang echoed in his mind.
"How could this be? Origin? This is origin! He condensed an origin for the metal!"
"How did he do it?"
"Condensing origin—this isn't the heavenly forging method, absolutely not the heavenly forging method!"
Xu Yuan was unaware of Old Tang's reaction.
He saw Tang Wulin's presence and knew that if Old Tang was awake, his actions must be under observation.
But so what.
The threshold of the divine forging method was too high.
High to the point that Xu Yuan didn't believe any subsequent blacksmith could succeed.
If someone could succeed, it would only be the ultimate expert.
A unique kind of sentient alloy, the ultimate expert most suited to their own martial soul's sentient alloy forging, then becoming a divine craftsman, mastering the heavenly forging method, breaking through to Limit Douluo, and further reaching god-level. Only under serendipitous circumstances could they complete the divine forging of this kind of sentient alloy.
Only this possibility.
Nothing else.
"This time, it will definitely succeed!"
Xu Yuan fiercely swung the forging hammer in his hand.
A light three meters tall shot up into the sky.
The highest spiritual light of spiritual forging reached only one meter, but now the spiritual forging Heavenly Saint Void-Breaking Crystal before Xu Yuan emitted a spiritual light three meters tall, surpassing the limits of spiritual forging.
Terrifying spiritual fluctuations dispersed, impacting one's spirit.
Such intense spirituality emanated from a metal that hadn't yet been endowed with intelligence.
Even the condensed spirituality of a ten-thousand-year-level soul beast released in one burst wouldn't be much different, right?
However, just half an hour of forging created a spiritually forged metal with such intense spirituality, showcasing the miraculous skills of the blacksmith.
Xu Yuan's forging hammer didn't stop, falling again.
Boom!
A hum, seemingly from space, or perhaps from the past, or the future.
This hum appeared, making those present feel as if this sound had existed before, present the moment the metal's fusion forging was completed.
Soul forging resonance.
Xu Yuan swung the forging hammer again, each strike precisely landing on the internal texture of the Heavenly Saint Void-Breaking Crystal before him, penetrating force levels, fundamentally hammering this sentient alloy.
Boom boom boom!
One hammer after another, the resonance of soul forging became increasingly clear.
Above the sky, various elements gathered.
Five-element forces were indispensable; this was the foundation of Xu Yuan's divine forging.
His assertion that even if new divine forging craftsmen appeared in the future, they could only be ultimate experts, was not baseless.
Even he, at this moment, could only perform divine forging based on the five elements.
Only the system derivable from the five elements was diverse enough for him to forge different kinds of sentient alloys, thereby achieving divine forging.
Aside from the five elements, spatial power also gathered.
Then, it seemed that purple-black lightning power also converged into it.
Seven elements.
Based on purple-black lightning power, a seven-colored calamity cloud condensed.
Boom!
The metal on Xu Yuan's forge soared into the sky, transforming into a spear.
The shape of the spear was identical to Xu Shengqun's Heavenly Saint Void-Breaking Spear, charging head-on towards the first seven-colored calamity.
Beside him, Xu Shengqun released his martial soul, the Heavenly Saint Void-Breaking Spear twitching with anticipation.
If Xu Yuan hadn't restrained his emotions and told him not to intervene, he would have rushed forward to help this Heavenly Saint Void-Breaking Crystal withstand the calamity.
"Uncle, your Heavenly Saint Void-Breaking Spear is the original body. Don't be misled by its life level."
When this Heavenly Saint Void-Breaking Crystal's origin condensed, Xu Yuan replicated the imprint of the Heavenly Saint Void-Breaking Spear, integrating it into this metal. Thus, it had countless connections with Xu Shengqun's Heavenly Saint Void-Breaking Spear.
At this moment, this Heavenly Saint Void-Breaking Crystal had already achieved life form status, possessing origin, directly surpassing Xu Shengqun in level, which stirred strong emotions in the original body, nearly reversing roles.
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