Chapter 0174: The New King Hammer

Chapter 0174: The New King Hammer

"What would happen if I let this inner energy spirit breathe?" As soon as Qin Yun had the thought, he immediately acted on it, wanting to see if this new inner energy could indeed breathe.

He circulated the Xuanyang Art, causing the black martial soul to breathe, expanding and contracting at high speed.

Soon, he felt the mysterious black inner energy in his dantian flowing smoothly through the spirit breath.

"It seems this mysterious inner energy is already under my control," Qin Yun thought to himself. Just as he was about to release the inner energy to its maximum energy, he suddenly felt the dormant fire martial soul in his left arm stir!

His heart skipped a beat, as the mysterious black martial soul exerted a mysterious attraction, pulling the black inner energy into his dantian.

The forced movement of the dormant soul in his left arm caused him pain.

This agony was the same as when Qiao Ruiwen had helped him move and shake the inner energy before!

He immediately relaxed his entire body, not resisting the movement of the inner energy, or else he would suffer even more.

After a brief moment, Qin Yun was panting heavily. Upon introspecting his dantian, he saw the surface of the black inner energy spewing fierce flames, radiating black auras, much like the sun emitting countless rays.

Except, these rays were black!

"Has my Purple Gold Fire Martial Soul awakened successfully?" Qin Yun was extremely astonished, continuing to observe the situation inside his dantian.

He could confirm that the black mysterious martial soul had fused with the dormant soul, and the two inner energies had merged into one, greatly increasing the strength of his inner power!

"A black martial soul! And it's like the sun, could it be the Black Sun Martial Soul?" Qin Yun boldly guessed. If that was the case, this was a heaven-sent martial soul!

And it was the highest grade black sun martial soul!

"The black sphere I saw with my consciousness before, was it the black sun? Truly mysterious!"

He opened his palm, releasing flames!

Jet-black flames that seemed to devour everything, with terrifying heat.

"It seems this is definitely the Black Sun Martial Soul! In the Spiral Star River, the black sphere I saw had a strong attraction, even light would sink into it and couldn't escape!"

"Now, with my dormant fire martial soul fusing, black flames have appeared!"

Relying on his experience, Qin Yun made inferences. He tested it again, circulating the Black Sun inner energy on the surface of his body. At this moment, he didn't need to deliberately absorb spiritual energy; it would rush into him naturally.

Combined with the Nine Suns Divine Soul, he could crazily absorb the Nine Suns spiritual energy!

"The speed of absorbing spiritual energy is half as fast as inside the Nine Suns Spirit Gathering Array! Although it's only half, it's still incredibly powerful because I can absorb the Nine Suns spiritual energy at this speed anytime, anywhere, much more convenient than setting up the array."

The Black Sun Martial Soul brought him great surprise!

"Let's try refining something!" Qin Yun took out the furnace, put the top-grade spiritual iron ore he had obtained before into the furnace, and then used the black flames to incinerate it.

The speed of refinement delighted him immensely!

If he had used his previous flames, it would have taken at least several days to refine the top-grade spiritual iron ore.

But now, in just half a day, he had refined 30,000 jin of top-grade spiritual iron ore into 300 jin of top-grade spiritual iron!

"I'm going to use the top-grade spiritual iron to forge a new Giant Spirit King Hammer!" Qin Yun felt he had met the conditions to forge a mid-grade spiritual weapon.

His spiritual power was strong enough, his flames were strong enough, the only thing that might be lacking was the inner energy intensity!

"I need a breakthrough!"

Qin Yun took a deep breath, sat cross-legged on the ground, looked at the sky, the nine suns shining directly overhead, it was noon now.

"Let's see if the black flames can strengthen my bones!" He planned to temper his bones into Diamond Bone here.

Now on a high peak, Qin Yun could rapidly absorb the Nine Suns spiritual energy, continuously providing energy to the Black Sun inner energy, releasing waves of Black Sun flames, channeling through the bone channels, into the bones, tempering them.

He had already tempered his bones quite a bit in the Bone Tempering Array before, getting very close to Diamond Bone.

Time flew by, and a month passed in the blink of an eye!

When Qin Yun opened his eyes, faint golden mist emanated from his body, the qi of Diamond Bone!

"I've finally stepped into the seventh level of the Martial Body stage, and my sixteenth birthday just passed." He felt deeply emotional. Almost a year ago, he was almost sent to join the army, and back then, he was only at the second level of the Martial Body stage.

Now, in less than a year, he had become a seventh-level Martial Body warrior!

"There are only about two months left until their engagement ceremony!" Qin Yun clenched his fist, feeling he had enough strength to attend the engagement ceremony of Xiao Yuelan and Qin Zhengfeng.

He took out the 300 jin of refined top-grade spiritual iron, and another 300 jin of ferocious beast bones, putting them into the furnace for refinement.

"Top-grade spiritual iron alone isn't enough; the best would be top-grade bone steel!" Having smoothly reached the seventh level of the Martial Body stage, he was ambitious and more confident in his strength.

The seventh level of the Martial Body stage, although just the initial formation of Diamond Bone, allowed his physical strength to more than double compared to before when his muscles and meridians circulated the Diamond inner energy or inner strength, making his power even more terrifying.

And Qin Yun's inner energy, refined from the highest grade black martial soul, was much stronger than ordinary people's, further enhanced by absorbing the Nine Suns spiritual energy.

The ferocious beast bones and top-grade spiritual iron were soon glowing red under the Black Sun flames.

Qin Yun opened the furnace, using the Flaming Fist technique to grab the contents inside!

The spiritual iron and beast bones were extremely hot, but Qin Yun easily grabbed them bare-handed from the furnace, then used his hands to meld them together, placing them on the forging platform.

Habitually, he used his left hand to hold the hammer, but for some reason, he suddenly felt this Heavenly Lion arm felt somewhat empty, not as powerful as before!

"My Heavenly Lion arm needs a powerful martial soul!" Qin Yun, who had mastered the art of soul refining, found it not difficult to infuse a martial soul into his arm. The challenge was finding a good martial soul.

Bang!

The Giant Spirit King Hammer struck down, creating a large spray of sparks...

After ten sets of the Forging Dragon Six Forms, he turned a hundred jin of spirit iron and a hundred jin of evil dragon bone into top-grade bone steel. He then continued to forge the remaining spirit iron and beast bones.

In just half an hour, he had forged enough top-grade bone steel!

Three hundred jin of top-grade spirit iron and three hundred jin of evil dragon bone, after his forging, still weighed three hundred jin, but the strength had greatly increased. Moreover, during the forging process, he had also integrated heavy spirit jade.

"With my current flame, I can make the heavy spirit jade even heavier!" Qin Yun looked at the black top-grade bone steel and smiled in satisfaction.

For the next ten some days, he hammered that piece of top-grade bone steel into the exquisite shape of the Giant Spirit King Hammer, and now only the final step was left.

"A mid-grade spiritual weapon requires engraving three or four types of rune patterns," Qin Yun said seriously as he took out the engraving knife and began to carve the patterns.

Although three types of rune patterns would suffice for a mid-grade spiritual weapon, he felt that at least four types were needed to make the hammer made of top-grade bone steel more powerful.

Engraving four types of rune patterns was more complicated, and some of these patterns needed to be engraved in two or three sets.

For example, the Solidification Rune needed to be engraved twice on the hammer body and once on the handle. Each hammer face required a set of Alchemy Runes.

Then there was the Giant Spirit Rune, the essence rune of the Giant Spirit King Hammer and the most important existence on the blueprint.

Previously, due to his limited strength, Qin Yun had not engraved this rune because the Giant Spirit Rune needed to be carved inside the hammer body, requiring strong mental strength, Diamond Inner Energy, and blood qi to condense the Blood Soul Power, then using mental strength to carve inside the hammer body.

Now, with the help of the Spirit Jade, he could release Mental Energy, which was much stronger than his mental strength, so engraving the Giant Spirit Rune was no longer that difficult.

The rune patterns he engraved were all top-grade, very complex, and thus required a lot of time. It took him over twenty days to carve three sets of Solidification Runes, two sets of Alchemy Runes, and one Giant Spirit Rune.

This new Giant Spirit King Hammer could be considered a mid-grade spiritual weapon, but he still planned to engrave a Rampage Rune inside the hammer body.

The Rampage Rune could make the power extremely fierce, instantly multiplying its strength several times, but it consumed a lot of inner energy and was only suitable for occasional use.

Engraving the Rampage Rune also required carving it inside the hammer body. Since the Giant Spirit Rune was already inside the hammer body, engraving a second rune was even more difficult.

Fortunately, he had the blueprint, which provided detailed instructions on how to avoid interfering with the Giant Spirit Rune.

Following the blueprint carefully, it took him over ten days to complete the engraving.

"Very smooth!" Qin Yun looked at the hammer he had worked on for over a month and sighed with emotion.

What he didn’t know was that this Giant Spirit King Hammer could already be considered a top-grade spiritual weapon because its rune patterns were very complex, and with the top-grade bone steel, this hammer was no weaker than a top-grade spiritual weapon.

He had spent a month, which seemed long, but ordinary Runes Masters could take anywhere from three to six months to forge a mid-grade spiritual weapon, and in some cases, even a year or more.

If he had only engraved low-grade rune patterns, he could have forged the weapon much faster.

After successfully forging the mid-grade Giant Spirit King Hammer, Qin Yun hurriedly left Yinhun Star Peak. He needed to leave quickly to learn about the situation outside, and more importantly, he was very worried about Xiao Yuemei.

As he dashed through the Cloud Dragon Mountain Range, avoiding various beasts, he discovered another wonderful use for his Black Sun Martial Soul. At night, the black inner energy he released could blend him into the darkness, emitting no presence at all.

Just like the huge black ball he had seen in the Spiral Starry River, if not for the black ball devouring a large amount of energy, he would never have known a black ball was there.

With the inner strength of the seventh level of the Martial Body, his speed when using the Fire Cloud Steps could be even faster.

Being able to blend into the darkness at night allowed him to fly through the air at night, greatly shortening the time of his return journey.

Qin Yun went to the cave where Qiao Ruiwen was healing. When he arrived, he saw that the blocked cave had been blasted open, and strong inner energy fluctuations still lingered.

"Grandma Qiao's injuries have almost healed, and her inner energy is so strong!" Qin Yun felt relieved, then looked deep into the Cloud Dragon Mountain Range and silently wished in his heart that Qiao Ruiwen could safely pass through the Cloud Dragon Mountain Range and reach Wuhuang.