"Come, raise your right hand."
At this moment, Xuan Ziwen was rigorously operating the instruments, measuring the data. As for the subject, it was naturally Chen Junting.
Because the concept of Battle Armor was proposed by Chen Junting and the methods were provided by him, after Sect Master Ning Bowen learned that a Three-Word Battle Armor could be forged, he waved his hand grandly, stating that the Battle Armor researchers must first design a Battle Armor for Chen Junting, striving for absolute perfection, while the others would have to wait their turn.
Thus, the current scene came to be. Chen Junting was like a mechanical puppet, constantly adjusting his posture. It wasn't until Xuan Ziwen said, "Almost done, this is the last item," that he stopped.
Once the information was mostly collected, Xuan Ziwen handed the data to Tai Yu. "This data is exaggerated enough! Take a look and see if you can forge the metals required on this list."
"A joke! How could I possibly..." Just scanning it once, Tai Yu immediately swallowed the words that were on the tip of his tongue. Replacing them was a sharp intake of breath.
Seemingly unable to believe it, he scanned the data once more. After thoroughly confirming it, he slapped his own forehead, "My goodness, you really are terrifying."
As he spoke, he waved the stack of data in his hand. "Sigh, looks like I'll be exhausted for a while."
"Uncle Tai, sorry to trouble you." Chen Junting also knew how terrifying his data was, but helplessly, he couldn't really help much with the forging aspect.
"Alright, you go attend to your business." At this time, Xuan Ziwen patted Tai Yu's shoulder, then turned his head and said to Chen Junting: "We can just take advantage of these few days while he's forging the metal to help you design the style of your Battle Armor."
"What color do you want?" For this question, Chen Junting gave the answer without hesitation, "Silver-white. Silver-white as the main color with golden patterns as a supplement."
It just so happened that his formal attire was a matching combination.
"Okay."
So in the following few days, Chen Junting was dragged by a crowd of Battle Armor researchers into the Battle Armor research room. Under the collaboration of Xuan Ziwen and Huo Yuhao, a set of Battle Armor blueprints was born. It was completely tailored to Chen Junting's usual combat style and matched the soul bones all over his body, making it worthy of being called a "peak masterpiece."
At the same time, under the resource tilt of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Tai Yu's sleepless efforts, the Spirit-Forged metals that could perfectly match Chen Junting's data were flawlessly produced. The quantity of Spirit-Forged metals available was even enough to allow for three mistakes in the production of the Battle Armor.
Three days later, a set of Three-Word Battle Armor was born!
"Not bad, not bad." Looking up and down at the silver-white Battle Armor he was wearing, Chen Junting felt his strength actually climb once again. Although the improvement was negligible, the amplification brought by the Three-Word Battle Armor definitely existed. Furthermore...
Suddenly, Chen Junting's mind stirred. The next second, the soul bones all over his body seemed to start boiling. Immediately after, a terrifying energy surged out from within his body, and a suit of armor enveloped the Battle Armor on top of it.
Complete Version · Soul Bone Fusion Skill!
This time, Boom— a terrifying airwave rippled out in all directions with Chen Junting as the center. As combat soul masters, Tai Yu and Huo Yuhao immediately sensed something was wrong and stood in front of those soul engineer researchers.
"Kid, restrain your..." Before the words even left Tai Yu's mouth, he noticed that the rippling airwave seemed to hit an invisible barrier a step ahead, and then dissipated into nothingness.
"Uncle Tai, I'm not unaware of the severity." Obviously, this airwave was dispersed by Chen Junting himself.
However, just as Chen Junting's voice fell, Xuan Ziwen, who had been shielded behind Tai Yu, violently pushed him aside and came before Chen Junting with a fervent expression. He touched and examined the Battle Armor that overlapped with the Soul Bone Fusion Skill, then suddenly looked up.
"How is it!? Did a fusion occur!?"
But to Xuan Ziwen's slight disappointment, Chen Junting shook his head and denied this. "Not at all, and this can't be considered a fusion; it's just the two simply overlapping. However, Teacher Xuan, the thesis you proposed earlier isn't wrong. The two do indeed resonate, but perhaps the quality of the soul bones is too high, causing a mere Three-Word Battle Armor to be somewhat unworthy of a fusion between them."
"Is that so..." Hearing this was the reason, Xuan Ziwen couldn't help but scratch his already bird-nest-like hair in distress, and then looked at the bewildered Tai Yu with a face that... uh, was probably "resentful," saying, "Why can't you complete a Heaven Refinement?"
Hah?! Tai Yu was shocked: 'How can you blame me for this? Besides, is it that I don't want to complete a Heaven Refinement? The difficulty is just too high, I can't do it!'
Anyway, amidst the eye contact between the two, Huo Yuhao also came over to Chen Junting and asked curiously, "Brother Junting, the amplification this Three-Word Battle Armor brings to you shouldn't be very large, right?"
"Indeed." Chen Junting nodded, "It has to be a Four-Word Battle Armor."
A Four-Word Battle Armor, huh. Almost subconsciously, Huo Yuhao looked at Elder Tai Yu. Obviously, the thoughts of this teacher-student duo were aligned; in terms of Battle Armor design and manufacturing, the birth of a Four-Word Battle Armor was no problem. The main bottleneck was still the Heavenly-Forged metal.
[Yuhao, is there something you want to tell me?]
Just as Huo Yuhao was letting his mind wander, Chen Junting's mental voice suddenly rang in his head, causing Huo Yuhao to subconsciously look up, allowing the two to meet eyes for a moment.
This was nothing more than Chen Junting seeing through Huo Yuhao's thoughts; of course, it was also because he himself had no intention of hiding it, at most just wanting to find a suitable time to speak.
So, [Brother Junting, the God of Emotions senior sent me a message, telling me to just do what I have to do.]
[Then just follow what he says.]
[?]
[Don't forget, we still have to wait for Niu Tian to come.]
[Understood.]
When the two finished their conversation, Xuan Ziwen and Tai Yu also withdrew their gazes, looking at the Three-Word Battle Armor, which could be considered the "peak masterpiece" of their kind, with identical expressions.
"What a pity, it would be great if it were a Four-Word Battle Armor." Seeing Xuan Ziwen's face full of regret, Chen Junting reached out and stroked his Battle Armor, seemingly having an idea. The corners of his mouth suddenly curled up slightly as he said, "I think this isn't impossible."
"What?" Thinking he had misheard, Xuan Ziwen looked surprised.
However, Chen Junting didn't repeat his answer, merely tapping the Battle Armor with his knuckles, and instead shifted to talking about the reason Tai Yu couldn't successfully perform a Heaven Refinement.
"Uncle Tai's difficulty in succeeding lies in the lack of affinity, making it hard to trigger a resonance with the power of the world's elements, right?"
"Correct." Tai Yu admitted decisively. After all, he had never developed in this direction before, and his spiritual power level wasn't high enough, so the great difficulty was completely normal.
"In that case, let me try it myself."
"What?" Hearing this, Tai Yu was first taken aback. Then he took out a forging hammer from his storage soul tool and handed it to Chen Junting, "Then do you need me to teach you how to forge?" His tone didn't harbor the slightest doubt about what Chen Junting had just said.
"That won't be necessary." Chen Junting waved his hand and strode outside. After a few steps, he paused, turned his head, and said, "Do you want to come and watch?"
The crowd didn't hesitate at all, "Of course!" ×N
...
Not long after, the group, who were still in the Battle Armor research room, followed Chen Junting's lead to a spacious plain outside the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. There were no main roads here, so ordinary soul masters and civilians wouldn't come here; it was just right to do this here.
So, under the watchful eyes of the crowd, Chen Junting drove everyone back, "Step back." Anyway, there wasn't a single ordinary person here; they could see clearly even from a distance. If they were too close, once the Heavenly Tribulation was drawn after success, someone would suffer.
After doing all this, with his eyes closed, a terrifyingly powerful spiritual energy spread out.
'What powerful spiritual power!'
This thought flashed through everyone's minds simultaneously. Even though this spiritual energy wasn't directed at them, it still made them tremble endlessly. Especially the Skydream Iceworm in Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Sea, who had already started screaming and shouting. Unsurprisingly, he was quickly suppressed by the Ice Empress.
It wasn't long after the spiritual energy spread out before, "Hum—" a buzzing sound came from all directions. And this was exactly elemental resonance.
Under Chen Junting's Divine Origin Realm spiritual power, all the surrounding elements were responding to him. However, this didn't rely on his comprehension of the elements; it was purely because his spiritual power was so strong that he could brute-force it.
In a short while, in the originally unremarkable air, the quantity of various attribute elements suddenly increased at this moment. The four most basic elements—water, fire, earth, and wind—took the lead in emerging.
Following that was a faint golden color and a thick purple-black, representing light and darkness. Of course, there was also the faint, elusive silver color, representing the most profound spatial elemental power.
As the elemental powers arrived, Chen Junting also felt the changes and fluctuations of various elements. The gentleness of water, the fierceness of fire, the lightness of wind, the heaviness of earth, the holiness of light, the gloom of darkness, and the ever-changing nature of space.
Every kind of element was a part of the laws of heaven and earth, so these purest elements could naturally bring the purest energy.
Under the suppression of Chen Junting's spiritual power, the rich elemental fluctuations gradually became viscous. Even the clouds directly above him took on a seven-colored appearance, transforming into a funnel that poured these elemental powers into the Battle Armor.
And Chen Junting, wearing the Battle Armor, was naturally affected by this as well. However, this step was exactly what he needed. Soul Bone Fusion Skill activated, resonating with the Four-Word Battle Armor!
It seemed that at the moment their frequencies aligned, "Hum!" A wonderful buzzing sound came from within the entire Battle Armor, and a peculiar, yet equally powerful energy arose spontaneously!
And when this energy fluctuation appeared, the surrounding air became entirely different. The elemental powers in the sky that he had drawn himself instantly became violent.
Whoosh—
At the moment Chen Junting fiercely opened his eyes, a mass of seven-colored clouds condensed above his head. Now, the tribulation clouds had arrived!
And to the people watching, these tribulation clouds were just like when Chen Junting displayed his spiritual power earlier. It wasn't aimed at them, but that oppressive force still gave people a feeling of being unable to breathe.
Towards this, Chen Junting wasn't panicked in the slightest. It was merely a tribulation cloud. Even if it meant he would be struck along with it... then let it strike.
Rumble!
In an instant, three bolts of seven-colored thunder descended from the sky, heading straight for the Battle Armor Chen Junting was wearing, striking down at him as a bonus.
Chen Junting didn't move a muscle, letting the thunder do its work. The moment he was hit by the lightning tribulation, Chen Junting only felt the seven elements contained within the lightning tribulation explode instantly.
Besides that, the elements also generated relationships of mutual generation and restraint among themselves, which could massively increase the explosive might. For example, the collision between water and fire, and the collision between light and darkness, instantly erupted into geometrically multiplied terrifying energy fluctuations.
Yet even so, to Chen Junting, this only felt a bit numbing. Bear in mind, he hadn't even defended against it.
At this moment in the distance, Huo Yuhao and the others, having witnessed the might of the thunder and seeing Chen Junting being struck without any defensive measures, couldn't help but be frightened. But they quickly found that he, who was struck head-on by the lightning, seemed completely fine, having tanked it without even moving his body.
This guy was more of a monster than a monster! He would be fine.
So, everyone put their hearts at ease.
Just like that, the lightning tribulation was withstood bolt by bolt.
It wasn't until the seventh thunderclap sounded that, Rumble—, the entire sky turned seven-colored. The terrifying elemental aura seemed as if it wanted to completely destroy Chen Junting.
At this moment, it could be seen even from a hundred miles away.
At this time, Niu Tian, who had been strolling around the mortal realm for a while and was officially heading to the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, also noticed the existence of the heavenly tribulation. He knitted his brows, "A heavenly tribulation? And an elemental lightning tribulation at that. Which fierce beast is undergoing its tribulation over there?"
So he immediately hurried towards the direction of the heavenly tribulation.
While Niu Tian was on his way, this seventh heavenly tribulation also completely fell. Feeling the might of this lightning tribulation, Chen Junting's eyes also lit up. The Soul Bone Fusion Skill was immediately activated, overlapping with this suit of Battle Armor that was about to complete its advancement.
"Good timing!" His eyes shining, after a loud shout, without even using his Martial Soul, he raised his fist and, under the surging of blood essence, smashed it towards the heavenly tribulation!
Boom—
That was roughly the sound. After all, the sound produced by the collision of these two terrifying forces could already be considered "the greatest sound is silent," surpassing the threshold of hearing.
Under the collision between the heavenly tribulation and Chen Junting's punch, the heavenly tribulation, having fulfilled its duty, finally receded.
Now, the one still standing in the sky was naturally Chen Junting, clad in his Battle Armor. It was just that compared to before, the Battle Armor Chen Junting was currently wearing was even more powerful, even noble.
The golden patterns on the head took the shape of the Three-Eyed Golden Lion; then came the torso, right arm, left arm, right leg, left leg... the patterns on every single area had all changed, perfectly corresponding to each part in the Soul Bone Fusion Skill state.
Obviously, the two had merged into one!
As for whether the Battle Armor had smoothly advanced... the four large, dazzling golden characters on this suit of armor—"Qi Sha Jue Shi" (Peerless Seven Kills)—explained everything.
(T/N: Tried to find a way to use 4 words but couldn't.)
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