Chapter 2758 - 1273: Sword Refining
Chapter 2758 - 1273: Sword Refining
Purple Brilliance Sword Intent had long been refined into the Thousand Swords Dharma Body by Chen Mobai, even serving as the foundation of the Dharma Body.
However, with so many sword intents within the Thousand Swords Dharma Body and Chen Mobai’s short cultivation years, the Great Dao was more crucial, leaving him little time to allocate to these sword intents. Purple Brilliance Sword Intent was no exception; its usual upgrades entirely depended on the Purple Electric Sword.
Therefore, when the Purple Electric Sword was stuck at the Fifth Rank Peak, this sword intent also stayed at this level.
The bottleneck from Fifth Rank Peak to Sixth Rank, although just a half-step away, is an insurmountable chasm for most magic artifacts and beings.
Since Chen Mobai already possessed the Sixth Rank Primordial Yang Sword, he wasn’t too anxious about the Purple Electric Sword, always reassuring it not to rush and to take it slow.
Of course, he did hope for the success of the Purple Electric Sword’s advancement, given their years of fighting together and deep bond, and also having invested an extremely precious piece of Sixth Rank Nine Heavens Mysterious Thunder Metal.
If it doesn’t upgrade before his ascendance, it might tarnish his reputation as the top artifact refiner in East Continent.
However, it seems the opportunity has come.
The Kui Beast, the Thunder Lord among the nine True Spirits, recklessly came to East Continent to meet its death, having achieved its Dao, drawing the descent of the Nine Heavens Thunder Tribulation. This provided the energy for the Purple Electric Sword’s advancement.
The Kui Beast, relying on its Armor Great Dao, ignored sword intent and sword sha, charging directly into the Heaven Cutting Sword Domain, losing twenty percent of its Great Dao power, which was refined and sublimated by the Thousand Swords Dharma Body. This was the will needed for the Purple Electric Sword’s advancement.
Along with the Nine Heavens Mysterious Thunder Metal already refined as the artifact.
With these three combined, the Purple Electric Sword could finally take the difficult step towards advancement.
With a thought from Chen Mobai’s Divine Sense, the Sixth Rank Purple Brilliance Sword Intent, like a purple star, burst forth as a dazzling thunder ball, soaring into the sky.
At the same time, the Purple Electric Sword, having absorbed enough tribulation essence, transformed into a brilliant light, descending from the heavens.
Sword intent and sword artifact, high above the Thousand Swords Dharma Body, thousands of meters in the air, collided and fused perfectly.
Explosive roars reverberated endlessly!
Originally controlled entirely by the Kui Beast, the surrounding Heavenly Tribulation thunders began to partially flow towards the Purple Electric Sword, continuously absorbed and refined by its sword artifact, propelling it towards the Sixth Rank.
[Condensing a sword artifact at such a critical moment!]
[As expected of Yi Yuan True Monarch’s legacy, the top artifact refiner in East Continent!]
[That Immortal in Flames claims to be the top artifact refiner in the Tianhe Realm; I think he’s far inferior to this Eastern Wilderness Qing Emperor.]
Above Tian Gang, the Divinity Transformation cultivators from the Five Continents and Four Seas began discussing fervently upon seeing this scene.
Among them were a few Fifth Rank artifact refiners, though some had only successfully refined one or two artifacts, or even borrowed them, their discernment was exceptional. Seeing the Purple Electric Sword’s spectacle, they knew it was advancing towards the Sixth Rank.
Currently, no force among the Five Continents and Four Seas possessed a Sixth Rank artifact refiner.
If Chen Mobai could successfully upgrade the Purple Electric Sword in their presence, even if it were luck, he could be acclaimed as the "foremost in artifact refining."
[Senior Brother, do you think it’ll succeed?] Beside him, the Taixu Immortal pointed at the Purple Electric Sword below, emanating ten thousand zhang of thunderous brilliance after absorbing the Sixth Rank Purple Brilliance Sword Intent, asking.
The Vast Energy Immortal was also a Fifth Rank artifact refiner, on par with the Immortal in Flames.
Usually fond of talking and judging, the Vast Energy Immortal was uncharacteristically silent at this moment.
The other Divinity Transformation cultivators nearby thought this meant doubt, but Taixu Immortal knew, quite the opposite in fact.
Because of the relation to the Yi Yuan True Monarch, Qianqiu Pen and Ink Forest had always been at odds with anything related to it, and the Vast Energy Immortal had just been openly dismissive. If the Purple Electric Sword seemed destined for failure, with his temperament, he’d already be ridiculing it.
The current silence indicated a high possibility of success, leaving the Vast Energy Immortal hesitant to speak further, fearing embarrassment should the Purple Electric Sword succeed in advancing.
[Is the Kui Beast just going to watch the Eastern Wilderness Qing Emperor refining the sword?] At this point, a Soul Dharma Aspect from a Five-Colored Mountain raised this question.
Though Taixu Immortal was seeing him for the first time, he immediately recognized him as the Five Mysterious Hermit from Central State Xuanwu Peak.
A contender listed by Impermanence Pavilion as one of the new Six Wonders of the world, to succeed the Demon Venerable.
Judging by his tone, he seemed eager for the Eastern Wilderness Qing Emperor’s refining to fail.
As his words fell, sure enough, the Kui Beast above the Mysterious Sea was stirred. With a resounding sonic boom, the Kui Beast, like a green thunderball, soared into the sky, confronting the Purple Electric Sword absorbing countless tribulation thunders.
It roared in fury, its horns atop its head, gathering vast and boundless power, smashed heavily towards the blade of the Purple Electric Sword.
"Well met!"
Facing this strike, Chen Mobai’s face broke into a smile.
Only to see him perform a sword technique from a distance, controlling the Purple Electric Sword to spin in mid-air, directly using the straight sword spine of its eight-sided blade to withstand the Ox Horn.
Under the immense force, the thick and upright sword blade bent into an arc from the push of the Ox Horn, bursting with flashes of thunder and lightning, blasting towards the Kui Beast.
But the Kui Beast was the Thunder Lord, mastering thunder for it was as simple as breathing.
With each exhalation and inhalation, the thunder and lightning bursting from the blade of the Purple Electric Sword penetrated its entire body, instead restoring its essence and spirit.
Just as the Kui Beast was slightly smug, it noticed something was wrong.
Because the Purple Electric Sword, bent by its Ox Horn, suddenly began to recoil with increasing ferocity.
It was as if this horn had pierced through the bottleneck of the Purple Electric Sword, causing the originally sluggish advancement energy to surge abruptly.
With a thunderous crash!
The Purple Electric Sword officially crossed the bottleneck that had trapped it for decades, becoming a Sixth Rank Sword.
This was Chen Mobai using the power of the Kui Beast to shock open the origin of the Nine Heavens Mysterious Thunder Metal within the Purple Electric Sword, allowing this naturally formed Sixth Rank Immortal Gold to fully merge into the blade.
Previously, the Purple Electric Sword had been unable to ascend not only because of its shallow foundation and insufficient sword intent but also because the Nine Heavens Mysterious Thunder Metal had not been fully refined. Chen Mobai lacked a Sixth Rank Furnace and True Fire, so he could only slowly assist its advancement with "The Union of Differences." However, because he spent most of his time comprehending the Great Dao, he mostly let the Purple Electric Sword strive on its own.
Yet the combined force of the Kui Beast’s Great Dao of Power and Great Dao of Thunder just happened to provide the greatest assistance, allowing the Purple Electric Sword to cross the final hurdle of its advancement thanks to its horn.
After successfully advancing, the Purple Electric Sword felt its thunder origin power more than ten times stronger than before, swelling to the extreme. It began to discharge wildly, erupting with Sixth Rank Sword Intent, wanting to straighten the bent blade and fling off the bothersome Kui Beast.
Facing this scene, the Kui Beast instead roared angrily, using all three of its mastered Great Dao powers: the Great Dao of Thunder to suppress the blade’s purple electricity, the Great Dao of Armor to resist the sword’s lethal edge, and the Great Dao of Power to butt against the sword spine’s center, determined to break this newly born Sixth Rank Sword with overwhelming strength.
Faced with any other opponent, even the master of the Central Demonic Path, against a Sixth Rank Purple Electric Sword, would have to stay far away.
But for the Kui Beast, there was no fear at all.
Because the origin of the Purple Electric Sword was thunder, and thunder absolutely could not harm the Kui Beast; in fact, it could be subjugated in reverse. Aside from thunder, the sword had sharpness, but the Kui Beast also had Qi Armor. Even if it couldn’t completely block it, it didn’t need to worry about being slain by the sword.
The sword spirit of the newly advanced Purple Electric Sword had only enjoyed a few seconds of triumph before being utterly suppressed by the Kui Beast, bending the blade even further than before.
Chen Mobai, having orchestrated the entire advancement process of the Purple Electric Sword through "The Union of Differences," naturally sensed this scene.
[Master, save me, this brute strength is too much!] The sword spirit of the Purple Electric Sword directly called out for rescue.
The Thousand Swords Dharma Body quickly threw the Primordial Clock it held, crashing with a bang into the wild-eyed Kui Beast’s waist and abdomen, smashing it up to the Ninth Level of Heaven.
The Taixu Immortal and other Divinity Transformation experts watching the battle in the sky instantly scattered to make way.
After being smashed upward, the Kui Beast also noticed these Primordial Spirit Dharma Aspects of the Tianhe Realm but pretended not to know, roaring indignantly as it shed the Primordial Clock’s force, transforming again into a blue Thunder Ball, wielding the boundless Thunder Sea, and charging towards the Mysterious Sea.
Chen Mobai drove the Purple Electric Sword with the Thousand Swords Dharma Body, fully unleashing its power after advancement, complementing offensively and defensively with the Primordial Clock.
However, the Purple Electric Sword was too restrained by the Kui Beast, barely managing to retain its thunder origin power under the Heaven Cutting Sword Domain’s support, even able to pierce through the Great Dao of Armor with its blade, but unable to inflict fatal damage.
[I need to empower the Purple Electric Sword with new strength, capable of penetrating the Kui Beast’s Qi Armor and breaking the Thunder Great Dao’s constraint.] After several attempts, Chen Mobai had already mastered the newly advanced Purple Electric Sword through the Thousand Swords Dharma Body, then a key to resolving the Kui Beast appeared in his mind.
For others, accomplishing this would require at least a hundred years of thought and experimentation.
But Chen Mobai had long prepared for this.
Thunder is the Acquired Great Dao. Elevating it to Innate is precisely "Destruction"!
In the past, Chen Mobai wielded the Purple Electric Sword to execute a "Dao Annihilation" strike, which contained the meaning of destruction.
Moreover, during his casting of the Chaos Primal Energy Cannon destroying the Ming Wang Star, he personally experienced and felt the true meaning of destruction, even comprehending the Great Dao of Destruction at the Dao Platform outside the Purple Cloud Palace upon the arrival at the Three-Eyed Tribe’s planet.
Previously, Chen Mobai had thought that this Innate Great Dao was of no use to him.
After all, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t catch up to Bai Guang in this aspect.
Furthermore, his path of Pure Yang was already set as Saintly Virtue and End of Destiny.
If he forcibly cultivated destruction, he might achieve nothing due to divided focus.
However, if this Great Dao was sacramentally refined into a sword, there would be no problem.
After all, the Purple Electric Sword had been striving on its own until now. Chen Mobai just needed to refine the Great Dao of Destruction into it, and the rest depended on its own creation.
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