"Deep Sea Sunken Silver is lacking, Crimson Demon Essence Gold is excessive, Mysterious Yellow Copper is insufficient, Wind Spirit Iron is lacking, Mysterious Lightning Gold is too much..."
Carefully sensing the changes within the mixed metal sphere, Chu Chengzhou occasionally added rare metals that were in short supply, while simultaneously precisely controlling the Four Symbols Deep Silver hammers infused with Chaos soul power. Through forging strikes, he vibrated out several rare metals that seemed slightly excessive within the mixed metal.
Unconsciously, a quarter of an hour passed.
Under Chu Chengzhou's manipulation, the metal sphere floating in mid-air had significantly decreased in size, but its actual weight had not diminished—in fact, it had increased. It was estimated to have reached over four thousand jin, and this was after removing the impurities originally contained within the metal ingot rough material.
"Boom boom boom—"
Accompanied by the forging strikes of the Four Symbols Deep Silver hammers infused with Chaos soul power, suddenly, a brilliant nine-colored spiritual light bloomed from the metal sphere.
Nine metals fusion thousand-refinement—success!
"Hmm? Why does the ratio feel off again?"
The next moment, Chu Chengzhou frowned.
In his spiritual perception, after completing the thousand-refining, the proportions of various metals within the thousand-refined metal sphere had again developed a slight feeling of incompatibility.
Perhaps because the forging level of the fusion metal had increased, the metals had undergone qualitative changes, breaking the fragile balance and causing disharmony?
With no choice, Chu Chengzhou could only continue playing the role of a patchwork artisan.
With more practice, he naturally became increasingly skilled. In no time, after another round of "patching and repairing," under Chu Chengzhou's spiritual perception, the metal sphere again displayed the "perfect sense" of nine metals mutually balancing each other.
"Boom boom boom boom boom—"
Half an hour later, after another round of "patching," accompanied by the continuous falling of the Four Symbols Deep Silver hammers, brilliant colored halos danced around as a joyful, excited emotion emanated from the metal sphere in mid-air.
Nine metals fusion soul-refinement—success!
This time, the disharmony that had appeared after completing thousand-refining and spirit-refining did not reoccur.
"Draw!"
Soul-refining complete, Chu Chengzhou shouted loudly. Attribute-less soul power surged from his body, transforming into the eleven basic elemental attribute soul powers.
Then, metal-wood-water-fire-earth five elements fused, combining with space to form Creation. Wind-lightning-light-darkness four elements fused, combining with time to form Destruction. Creation and Destruction united, transforming into Chaos.
With a thought shift, using his own Chaos as the guide, in an instant, the elemental energy of the surrounding heaven and earth surged violently. Countless cyan Chaos energies gathered, turning the nearby desolate mountain into a faint cyan hue.
'Excellent!'
Seeing that what gathered wasn't the eleven basic elemental attribute soul powers, but the ultimately fused Chaos energy, Chu Chengzhou nodded inwardly in satisfaction.
Since Chaos energy rather than eleven basic elemental energies was gathering, whether the subsequent "Chaos Heavenly Refining" would succeed was yet to be seen—but at least it wouldn't cause that previous "great terror" again.
Accompanied by the frenzied influx of Chaos energy, the Four Symbols Deep Silver hammers in mid-air expanded significantly in size. Immediately after, two giant hammers carrying surging Chaos power fell like raindrops onto the fusion metal sphere.
"Boom boom boom boom boom—"
Each strike injected a portion of the Chaos energy carried by the Four Symbols Deep Silver hammers into the metal sphere.
As Chaos energy was injected, the still scorching hot, temporarily crimson-colored fusion metal sphere gradually became translucent, seemingly transforming into a massive spherical cyan jade gem.
Seeing this, Chu Chengzhou retracted the Four Symbols Deep Silver hammers, guiding the metal sphere floating in mid-air to hover before him. He spread his arms, closed his eyes, and channeled all his strength into guiding the gathering Chaos energy.
"Hum!"
Soon, a soul-penetrating humming sound echoed. At this moment, Chu Chengzhou seemed to become part of heaven and earth.
Chu Chengzhou: Heart merges with heaven and earth, body merges with heaven and earth—I am your heavens!
Simultaneously, the heaven and earth energy churned violently, and again large amounts of Chaos energy gathered. But this time, they revolved around Chu Chengzhou.
Quickly, the Chaos energy continued gathering, gradually condensing into a cyan energy vortex above Chu Chengzhou's head.
The next moment, the Chaos energy vortex formed from massive amounts of Chaos energy in the air moved. It slowly shifted from above Chu Chengzhou's head to above the metal sphere before him. Then, a stream of cyan energy radiance poured down.
Instantly, cyan light flickered on the metal sphere, emitting both Creation and Destruction intent.
As if this spherical metal was simultaneously a Creation divine artifact and an Armageddon divine artifact.
In the blink of an eye, seemingly reaching its saturation point, the cyan energy vortex in mid-air suddenly became violent, with faint cyan electrical arcs flashing within it.
"It really works!"
Seeing the tribulation clouds forming, Chu Chengzhou couldn't help but feel excited.
One must understand—he had only injected singular Chaos energy, breaking the fundamental principle that metal heaven-forging required at least four elemental energies to participate.
Of course, he had already pondered this point earlier—there was actually little gamble in his heart.
Back when he first attempted Deep Silver heaven-forging, he had injected Four Symbols soul power formed by fusing earth-water-fire-wind four elemental energies.
Though Four Symbols soul power appeared to be four elemental energies, strictly speaking, it was actually a single-attribute fused energy—only its exterior displayed intertwined yellow, blue, red, and green colors.
Since Four Symbols worked, Chaos naturally would work too.
However, Four Symbols heaven-forging had four layers of heavenly tribulation lightning—now the question was, how many layers would Chaos heaven-forging have? How powerful would it be?
Not daring to be careless, Chu Chengzhou circulated Chaos power throughout his body. A soul power flower materialized above his head, with petals drifting down as a layer of cyan protective divine light emanated around him.
"Rumble rumble rumble!"
At this moment, a cyan lightning bolt suddenly appeared at the center of the Chaos energy vortex in the air. Accompanied by violent rumbling sounds, fierce cyan lightning descended from the heavens, striking toward the jade-like metal sphere.
But at this critical moment, Chu Chengzhou shifted his thoughts. Under his guidance, the Chaos tribulation lightning that was originally meant to strike the metal sphere forcefully landed on the protective divine light emanating from his body surface.
In an instant, violent energy fluctuations spread out. The descending Chaos tribulation lightning dyed Chu Chengzhou's entire body with a cyan radiance.
"Not bad!"
With tribulation lightning upon him, sensing that only a small portion of his internal soul power was consumed, and that the lightning's power was far from reaching the defensive limit of Flowers Bloom in an Instant, Chu Chengzhou nodded inwardly.
The tribulation lightning made quite a commotion, and its attribute was Chaos—not ordinary elemental tribulation lightning. But Chu Chengzhou was no longer what he used to be. Compared to his first attempt at heaven-forging, his strength had improved by more than just one tier. Plus, this was only the first layer of tribulation lightning with the weakest power—it was naturally blocked with ease.
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