The Creation Furnace is cast from the unique Profound Gold of the Luofu, its surface engraved with sealing talismans capable of binding formless energy beings and conversely utilizing internal energy to amplify defensive arrays.
However, in front of the King's Sword that can sever all physical and energy structures...
Whether it was the unique metal material of the Xianzhou or the talismanic arrays, neither could be considered impregnable.
After the seal was broken, thousands of streams of flowing fire surged out from the cracks in the furnace, and azure spiritual fire covered the sky and earth.
If this scene were placed on the set of Battle Through the Heavens, it would be a certain Yan's Fire Lotus explosion.
If placed on the set of Chinese Paladin, it would be the Demon Locking Tower being broken, with a swarm of demons escaping and scattering in all directions.
"What are those?"
March 7th, having destroyed the Ambrosial Arbor's root knots, returned piloting Torijinmaru. Through the Mashin Mecha's super vision, she could see the anomalies of those azure spiritual fires.
"I don't know."
Caelus shook his head. He really didn't know!
Before coming to the Artisanship Commission, he wasn't even clear on what the Creation Furnace was.
With Caelus's vast experience in watching anime and his past work experience as a Commander, Doctor, and Master, analyzing the current situation led him to guess that something might be sealed inside that furnace.
But he still had to hack it!
If he didn't hack it open, the Abundance Ebon Deer wouldn't die before the internal energy was exhausted, and many people here in the Artisanship Commission would be done for.
"I finally understand why the Xianzhou people follow The Hunt to eradicate Abundance."
Welt lamented:
"An indestructible creation... once allowed to spread its branches and leaves, it would cause the entire world's ecosystem to completely collapse."
"With this, the crisis in the Artisanship Commission can be considered completely resolved, right?"
Welt habitually wanted to push his glasses, but his finger touched the bridge of his nose directly, reminding him that the seal was already released.
Master Gongshu, who had watched Sword King Ryujinmaru chop off the Ebon Deer's hooves and antlers a dozen times before hacking even the Creation Furnace to pieces with a single sword strike, finally recovered from his shock.
As the Master Artisan of the Artisanship Commission, he knew best about the situation of the Heliobi sealed within the furnace, but right now, there was no other way.
"Many thanks for everyone's assistance."
Master Gongshu thanked them solemnly: "Are you all heading to the Alchemy Commission next? That place borders the Ambrosial Arbor. Looking at the scene before us, it must be even more perilous there."
The old man wanted to remind these heroes to be careful, but thinking of the brutal scene of Ryujinmaru dismembering the Ebon Deer just now, the words at the tip of his tongue suddenly became strange.
He felt that the ones who should be careful were the Denizens of Abundance inside the Alchemy Commission.
Just because they can recover doesn't mean getting hurt won't hurt!
"I can fly everyone over! It should be faster than taking the shortcut!"
March 7th puffed out her chest cutely, her tone lively.
"Well said. How do you plan to carry us?"
Caelus clapped his hands, indicating he was lying down and waiting for March 7th to make her move.
"Uh (°. ) ...There are a bit too many people~"
The pink-haired girl scratched her head with a sheepish smile.
Torijinmaru coordinating in battle with Ryujinmaru or Senjinmaru was fine, but flying into the sky carrying two Mashin Mechas together was a bit too difficult for her.
"March, you are fast. Go to the Alchemy Commission first to support the Master Diviner. We will arrive shortly after."
Welt spoke after thinking for two seconds.
"No problem~ Leave it to this young lady!"
March 7th gave a thumbs up with both hands, preparing to push the control stick.
"Sister March, I'll go with you. Black Abyss White Flower can help a lot."
Seele volunteered.
She couldn't let the Disciples of Sanctus Medicus in the Alchemy Commission get away; those were all Crystals!
"Bronya will go too."
Silver Wing's consciousness had gone to the Honkai World; the one controlling the Big Bronya body now was the Honkai Impact 3rd Little Duck. Little Duck was certainly not at ease letting Seele act alone.
"Okay! Then you guys get on."
Torijinmaru slowly lowered its altitude. Surrounded by butterfly illusions and Seele's quantum flashes, Little Duck made a few double jumps and landed on Torijinmaru's back.
The three of them left a step ahead on the Little Bird Toot-Toot, leaving only Senjinmaru, Ryujinmaru, and Tingyun here.
"Tingyun, I'll take you. It's faster."
Caelus controlled Ryujinmaru with a beaming smile to place its giant mechanical palm in front of the Foxian girl.
"Many thanks, Benefactor~"
Phantylia thanked him sweetly, stepping onto Ryujinmaru's palm with graceful steps. She looked around curiously, carefully sensing the condition of the mecha.
She was becoming more and more interested in the mecha summoned by the Star Rail crew.
This was absolutely not an ordinary technological creation!
Phantylia felt that if someone jumped out now and told her this Mashin Mecha had the technical support of Nous, she would probably believe it eighty percent of the time.
"No death, no death."
Caelus chuckled while holding the golden dragon horn, pondering: If I control Ryujinmaru to squeeze hard right now, how much damage would Phantylia take?
Better wait a while and just give her a sword strike directly!
Compared to the soft-hearted Caelus, the fellow Stelle was a bit excessive.
She controlled Ryujinmaru to lift the hand Tingyun was standing on high, using the Mashin's super vision to look up the Foxian girl's skirt.
"Tsk tsk, Stelle-cub, Bro is very disappointed in you. I didn't expect you to do such shameful things, tarnishing the name of the Little Savior."
Caelus condemned Stelle's behavior.
"Heh, then don't look, okay?"
Stelle huffed and rolled her eyes.
"I'm looking at the golden light. What are you looking at?"
Caelus spoke with righteousness.
"Lotus blossoms with two petals congealing dew, lush fragrant grass on Parrot Island?"
Stelle chanted tentatively after muttering for two seconds.
"Hachi-Stelle, you guy... when did you go to school for advanced studies?"
It was a good thing Phantylia couldn't hear what the two fellows inside Ryujinmaru were discussing, otherwise it would have been hard for her to hold back her acting.
"Speaking of which, when that Ebon Deer stomped on the ground, golden twigs grew out of thin air from underground. The fruits formed on the twigs were glistening gold, just like the records mentioned in the Xianzhou myths."
'Tingyun' raised her eyes to look directly into Ryujinmaru's eyes and smiled:
"It is said that in ancient times, the ancestors of the Xianzhou transformed into long-life species precisely because they obtained the Immortal Fruit bestowed by the Ambrosial Arbor."
"If this little woman were to eat this fruit, I wonder if I could possess infinite life like the Xianzhou people..."
Tingyun lowered her voice and asked:
"Benefactor, are you not moved by such an opportunity?"
"Of course I'm very moved."
Caelus responded as a matter of course, his tone gradually becoming desolate, filled with the aura of mortality theories:
"The moment I think that ten thousand years later I will still be in the prime of my youth, while you, Tingyun, will already be a pile of yellow earth, my heart aches so much I cannot breathe!"
"?"
Phantylia's eye twitched, typing out a question mark.
Ten thousand years later, still in the prime of youth?
Do you want to listen to what you are saying?
Having accompanied the Express crew through various events on the Xianzhou, Tingyun basically understood the special nature of the Star Rail crew. She could determine that even if these two were somewhat special in terms of lifespan, they couldn't reach the lifespan of true long-life species.
In the past, Phantylia treated Caelus's words as spouting nonsense, thinking the gray-hair with brain problems was having a fit.
But now... being able to summon Mashin Mechas she had never heard of and wielding unknown powers, could it be true?
Phantylia narrowed her fox eyes and began to ponder.
While Caelus engaged in banter with Phantylia, he was thinking about how to extract the Crystals. This Crystal spawn point was truly too outrageous.
It must be Aha's doing!
The Creation Furnace was located in the core of the Artisanship Commission, and there was still some distance from here to the shortcut leading to the Alchemy Commission.
Although neither Senjinmaru nor Ryujinmaru could fly, their overland speed was not slow.
Under normal circumstances, two behemoths of nearly 40 meters would really be inconvenient to move inside the Artisanship Commission; walking on the road would crush public facilities and buildings.
However, this area had long been ruined into rubble and broken walls by the Edge-Holding Yazi and Tablet-Carrying Bixi, so it didn't matter if Ryujinmaru and Senjinmaru stomped on it some more.
Along the way, they handily saved many trapped craftsmen, as well as Cloud Knights who had come to the rescue but were injured in battle against the Denizens of Abundance. The difficult part was dealing with the Cloud Knight soldiers who were heavily injured and, influenced by the Power of Abundance and the Stellaron's power, had fallen into the Mara-struck state.
Clearly, they came in to save people, but they ended up becoming the enemy force.
In Ryujinmaru's hand, a Cloud Knight's body twitched incessantly, emitting terrifying roars from his mouth.
His body expanded more than twofold. Sharp bone spurs emerged from his shoulders and torso, and layers of armor-like keratin grew on the outside of his body.
Lucky. I'll play more Celestial Jade when I get back.
Inside the Mashin's internal space, Caelus held the dragon horn. His golden eyes were dyed with a faint crimson, as if a red and white gradient lotus was rotating within.
The Cloud Knight, whose appearance was rugged and monstrous, gradually reverted to his original form. The branches that had burst through his clothes seemed as if they had never appeared, and the metal-like keratin vanished.
Saving everyone was unrealistic, and Caelus had no obligation to go to that extent for the Xianzhou unless Jing Yuan or Fu Xuan gave him a mission to save Cloud Knights with a Crystal reward.
However, encountering them on the road, saving them in passing was no problem.
Amidst the Cloud Knight's dazed gaze, as if he had met a god, Ryujinmaru placed the dying Cloud Knight in a relatively safe corner and turned to leave.
"The shortcut entrance is just ahead."
Stelle glanced at Senjinmaru, which was digging people out from under architectural ruins on the other side, and prepared to call out to Uncle Yang. But then she discovered that Ryujinmaru was moving toward the rear side.
"What's wrong?"
"Situation over there. Someone is surrounded by Mara-struck."
Mainly, that figure looked very familiar to Caelus.
Ryujinmaru's eyes glowed, and the vision before Stelle's eyes zoomed in.
It was a girl as exquisite as a puppet. Her eyes were dark red, and her jet-black short hair didn't quite reach her shoulders, but the inner layer bore red and green highlights—verdant green dripping with color, embellished with rosy clouds.
A long-sleeved, off-shoulder outfit, white on the outside and green inside, was paired with two exquisite red ribbons tied at her waist. Tight black shorts connected to her thighs, with a red and green silk ribbon floating in between.
Xianzhou's specialty white silk stockings hung beneath her skirt hem, tightly showcasing the plump and flexible lines of her thighs.
"Caelus-cub, let's go save her!"
Stelle's eyes instantly became sharp.
White silk beautiful girl!
And the white silk has golden light!
It's a treasure chest!
No need for Stelle to shout; the moment he saw the golden light on the white silk, Caelus coordinated with Stelle, and the two drove Ryujinmaru to speed out.
"Let go of that girl!"
"Halt! Eat a sword from this Little Savior!"
The King's Sword rose and fell, slicing the Mara-struck into minced meat with the momentum of autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves.
In less than a minute, the battlefield quieted down completely, aside from the smell of blood being a bit stronger.
The diamond-shaped crystal on Ryujinmaru's forehead emitted light, and two gray-hairs, pushing and shoving each other, emerged from the Mashin Mecha amidst the girl's blank expression.
Then, the two gray-hairs ran over together.
Xueyi felt herself being helped up by the gray-haired young man. She gazed into those brilliant golden eyes, and just as she was about to speak, she heard the young man's voice full of sincerity.
"Sister, first meeting, cute, solo stan, marry me."
"?"
A string of question marks popped out in front of Xueyi's forehead, followed by a realization.
My auditory components must have been damaged in the battle just now. Something went wrong!
The gray-haired girl spoke, her words equally shocking:
"By the way, can machine dolls get pregnant?"
"???"
At this moment, Xueyi felt that the problem might not be her auditory components, but the two gray-hairs in front of her!
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