Chapter 131 - CHAPTER 130 – THE SECOND CLUE (2)

The moment Solanky made up his mind to go with his selected cauldron, the remaining cauldrons aside the harvester's cauldron vanished. Black god Solanky sent a trace of his spiritual body into the cauldron to scan its interior, but he discovered something that shocked him to the core. Before he could react, the voice of Bragon's will guiding the inheritance of the second pyramid resounded once again, saying, "Proceed to the next floor; there are manual resources at the third grade comparable to third-turn weapons or materials needed to refine a weapon for your technique. You can take at most one weapon and restructure its elements and components and meld them or incorporate them into the weapons and materials you selected on the second floor. The test of the second floor had already been passed the moment you chose a cauldron, but the real test is refining a weapon at the third-grade or third-turn of the nine peak-turns level. The moment you finish crafting your new weapon and create a technique at the true peak-turns level first turn level or above, you will be directly teleported into the third floor and automatically claim possession of the second pyramid. Note that your true bodies would fall into a deep slumber when you begin refining or creating these techniques. You can summon your true bodies, but once you die here, you cannot be resurrected by time reversal or reincarnation." Solanky, hearing this, was shocked because never in his wildest dream would he have thought that the harvester was just a clone. This meant her true body must be terrifying and even possess an early-stage second-turn spiritual body and awareness. The harvester was equally shocked because it had never crossed her mind that Solanky could be a clone, with his original body hidden just like hers.The harvester, assessing the risk of being totally annihilated just like Solanky restrained herself from summoning her true body, flipped her hand, and the cauldron she obtained earlier fell before her and the ground beneath it. She sat down and spread her spiritual sense to envelope the cauldron; flames burst out of the cauldron, and it began to form a dome to cover her. She spread her wings and activated her domain; she began selecting materials and weapons, tossing them into her cauldron to begin crafting and refining. Solanky, being the bearer of the source-defying flames, realised that the flames of the harvester's cauldron were just a level beneath his flames. Solanky's true body, with his connection to Supremo, decided to search for the kinds of flames in existence, with the vast knowledge of things beneath the 7th turn at compact power at his disposal. He realised that the flames of the harvester's cauldron belonged to a group of flames beneath the source-defying flames called calamitous flames. And there were a total of nine different kinds of these flames, and the combination of all these flames was terrifying enough to even injure 5th turn peak-turns beings and suppress most of the structural laws of the beyond realm, making its all-out attack comparable to the 6th turn of the nine true peak-turns level(guardian-level combat). Solanky was surprised but not shocked because his original body posed much more terrifying flames, a tier above the calamitous flames, and the source-severing blade made from the source-defying flames was a testament to how terrifying his flames were. The harvester was only able to control 45% of the calamitous flames and that was terrifying for a being her level because only calamitous lifeforms at the true peak-turns level could control more than 40% of the flames.Solanky also waved his hand to summon his cauldron; the moment it appeared, dark clouds began to form in the empty space above them on the third floor. The moment the cauldron touched the ground, roars of violent thunder echoed throughout the floor, and sparks of lightning could be seen on the surface of the cauldron. He sat cross-legged facing the harvester and planted his axe behind him, activating the giant world axe domain, which seemed to form a universe shaped like an axe. Solanky knew it would be very difficult for anyone without the power of the 2nd turn to break his domain. He sent a trace of his spiritual sense into the cauldron; within the cauldron was a vast world of dark clouds with a 100km continent suspended amongst the clouds. His spiritual sense took the form of his body and landed on the continent. The moment he landed, he could see that the continent, although charred at its edges, still remained intact with lush vegetation sprouting on it. At the center of the continent was an ancient, charred anvil standing several meters high. Without wasting time, Solanky waved his hands and the materials appeared suspended around him. He waved his hand once again, and the heavy hammer appeared in his hands. He struck the anvil with the hammer with all his strength, but he could only see tiny sparks of lightning, and he could also hear tiny rumbles of thunder coming from the dark clouds.Solanky deduced that in order for him to create a technique at the true-peak turn level, he needed to practice with all his heart and mind, hammering the anvil until it gave out a substantial amount of lightning spark and thunder. He closed his eyes and made his true body in the forsaken realm fall asleep and experiment with the possibilities through the spiritual realm because at this point his physical body couldn't be of much help to him. His 1st turn peak-turn spiritual body dispersed into a thousand spiritual clones all carrying the power of a half-step peak-turn being, and ventured into the beyond realm; some visited secret regions as they latched themselves onto weaker saint transcendent beings and below, others visited other sects and regions of the beyond realm to seek inspiration.Black Solanky continued with hammering the anvil, and the number of sparks and thunders became much denser and potent. He realised that the anvil encased the lightning seed needed for refining and crafting his weapon to pass the test. He became overly excited because this same lightning was the type of lightning Bragon used in his crafts. This lightning was called the Nine Lightning Tribulations; this lightning was terrifying enough to mend any weapon or artifact beneath the 9th turn peak-turn warrior's 9th grade artifacts and weapons. This was another reason why the gluttonous god and the levian progenitor targeted Bragon to steal the lightning and fix a 9th-grade weapon destroyed by supremo and Govot. That weapon was the reason why they were able to kill Bragon's true body and injure his clones.To Solanky, such knowledge wasn't useful to him now, so it was naturally hidden from him until he got stronger. Solanky had been striking the anvil for over 100 million times, and he seemed to have grasped the basics for creating a true peak-turn technique. With the help of his dispersed spiritual bodies observing various beings in different realms and regions of the beyond realm, observing countless beings sparring and fight using their techniques. Solanky's spiritual bodies possessed these beings fighting each other to experience their techniques for himself. These beings were mostly below the transcendent saint emperor level; the moment they were possessed by Solanky, they seemed to have received a boost in their power, and their wounds healed miraculously.As the 1000 possessed beings fought, Solanky experienced their techniques and thoughts firsthand and understood the mysteries behind them. The moment he understood the mysteries, he dispersed and dissolved his spiritual bodies' essences to serve as energy reserves for the 1000 beings. After doing this, his spiritual power and body, which seemed to be stuck at the late-stage, effortlessly broke through to the second-turn early-stage spiritual body level. Unlike beings beneath the transcendent saint emperor level who die the moment their spiritual bodies are killed outside their original bodies, transcendent saint emperors have their spirituality embedded within every existence of their being, with their internal worlds serving as the source and origin of their spiritual power.The internal world space of Solanky's original body began supplying spiritual energies throughout his body; this took an instant because his clones and reincarnation carriers were all alive and conscious. His true body remained asleep while his tyrannical black god clone remained in the cauldron, striking the anvil. He had been striking the anvil for over 900 million times, and cracks could be seen spreading on the surface of the anvil, and he could sense a terrifying lightning and thunder essence with the anvil.