Chapter 311: Heavenly Cycle Flame Armor, Burning Mountains And Boiling Seas! Incarnation Of Disaster Huo Jin’s Blood? No Joke, It Can Actually Be Obtained
Half a minute later, a delicate and vibrant crimson bead fell into Shangshan Che’s hand.
【Heavenly Cycle Flame Armor】
【Quality: Super Epic】
【Effect: Inject spiritual power to immediately learn the Onmyōdō “Heavenly Cycle Flame Armor”.】
【—An Onmyōdō “Heavenly Cycle Flame Armor” sealed within by a Great Onmyoji using unknown means.】
The warm, jade-like bead lay in Shangshan Che’s palm, but no matter how many hundreds of times he used Spirit Control Technique to roll it back and forth, he couldn’t discover its mystery.
If it weren’t for the panel and knowing that it contained “Heavenly Cycle Flame Armor”, Shangshan Che might really have thought this was just an ordinary Glass Bead.
The Exchange Office person in charge saw his expression and thought Shangshan Che was very satisfied, so he spoke up,
“If Shangshan Jun has decided to redeem it, you can go to the quiet room prepared specifically on the side to use it.”
Unexpectedly, the preparations were quite complete.
Shangshan Che nodded to indicate he understood, then curiously asked the person in charge: “Is this kind of bead that lets you directly learn Onmyōdō by injecting spiritual power standard issue?”
The person in charge was slightly stunned, and then his gaze toward Shangshan Che became serious.
The person in charge shook his head: “No, it’s just that every high-level Onmyōdō has several copies in stock, both to conveniently give them out as rewards at this moment and to guard against unexpected events.”
“Got it, thanks.”
With a flip of his hand, he put the bead in his pocket, and Shangshan Che looked up to see that every competitor who came here was holding a tablet.
Tablets used to browse redeemable rewards.
—That’s right, now they no longer play the Scripture Depository first floor, second floor, third floor routine where you slowly search inside, searching all day only to be directed by the Scripture Depository old man.
What era is this? Tablets are so efficient, cyber search is super fast!
Of course, the tablets here are all specially made by the Special Affairs Office, cannot be taken out of the exchange room, and each competitor has a dedicated person guarding them.
Plus this Ghost God level person in charge… yeah, security is pretty solid.
Shangshan Che didn’t dawdle and immediately strode into the nearby quiet room, locked the room door behind him, sat down, and injected spiritual power into the bead in his hand.
【You used the item “Heavenly Cycle Flame Armor”, you are learning Onmyōdō·Heavenly Cycle Flame Armor…】
In an instant, the world spun.
Shangshan Che did not resist this flood of spiritual power, letting it carry his thoughts to a special place.
When he opened his eyes again, a “blurry” world unfolded in Shangshan Che’s vision.
If the real world in Shangshan Che’s eyes now was 8K resolution, then this special environment was at most 720P.
The drop was indeed quite big, but it wasn’t unviewable.
For example, Shangshan Che immediately recognized the face of the man in a black robe hovering in mid-air.
—No doubt, it was the Nameless Onmyoji who once lost to him in the Hanafuda Market.
Before Shangshan Che could think much, his thoughts were interrupted by the Nameless Onmyoji’s faint and majestic voice.
“Heavenly Cycle Flame Armor is the technique to burn mountains and boil seas.”
As the words fell, hundreds of pure black Flame Seeds burst out from his body, connecting with each other, then expanding at a terrifying speed.
In just an instant, Shangshan Che saw the mountains that were originally in the background, sitting hundreds of meters below the Nameless Onmyoji, as well as all the surrounding greenery and earth…
Gone.
In a flash, all vaporized into nothingness.
The Nameless Onmyoji then clenched his five fingers, drawing the sky-obscuring black back to his fingertips, then toward another background in Shangshan Che’s line of sight—the endless lake.
Gently, he flicked his finger.
Shangshan Che’s gaze followed.
Then he witnessed that vast lake being erased from the world like someone had used an eraser on it, not a trace left.
Shangshan Che couldn’t help but lean back slightly.
—You call this burning mountains and boiling seas?
Where’s the burning, and where’s the boiling?
These two words were too belittling for this Heavenly Cycle Flame Armor that was no different from an “eraser”!
Under Shangshan Che’s gaze, the Nameless Onmyoji just hovered in the sky, silent.
At first he wondered why.
But soon, Shangshan Che noticed the clue—the empty ground where the lake had been evaporated by the released Heavenly Cycle Flame Armor surprisingly hadn’t had any water replenish it even after so long.
The Nameless Onmyoji turned back, quietly looking at Shangshan Che.
This meant…
The entire lake had not a drop of water left.
As this thought popped up in Shangshan Che’s mind, the Nameless Onmyoji’s cheerful voice rang out,
“From now on, let’s learn the basics of Heavenly Cycle Flame Armor…”
Shangshan Che immediately focused, pulling his thoughts back from those two moves with power comparable to medium-yield mushroom clouds, pollution-free one-click screen clears.
But immediately after, the Nameless Onmyoji was stunned.
His words stopped.
Like a special program in the settings was triggered, the Nameless Onmyoji’s words suddenly changed,
“So there’s still a little fellow cultivating Flame Armor this old antique, hehe, who knows what era it is now.”
“The five Flame Seeds of Flame Armor are nice, but they are merely the basics below Ghost God level.”
“Then, we’ll start teaching from the foundation of Flame Armor…”
While marveling at the bead’s intelligence, Shangshan Che didn’t miss a single word the Nameless Onmyoji said.
“So-called Flame Armor is actually a semi-automatic spiritual power structure constructed from spiritual power, and Heavenly Cycle Flame Armor builds on this foundation to make it both automatic and manual.
As desired, adaptable to the situation, most importantly…”
“Small Heavenly Cycle Flame Armor, Great Heavenly Cycle Flame Armor, interweaving the small and great Heavenly Cycles in a loop, only then can it become the complete and perfect Heavenly Cycle Flame Armor.”
“Speaking of which, this inspiration came from the Breathing Technique practiced by samurai…”
The Nameless Onmyoji explained clearly and accessibly, as if he had taught it dozens or hundreds of times already.
And since Shangshan Che was also cultivating Flame Armor, Spirit Control Technique, and profound Breathing Technique, understanding Heavenly Cycle Flame Armor was almost not difficult for him at all.
In just one go, Shangshan Che memorized all the key points and critical technical steps, fully grasping the error-prone parts.
He opened his eyes again, and the familiar Nameless Onmyoji was no longer in front of him.
【You have learned Onmyōdō·Heavenly Cycle Flame Armor!】
【Since your Onmyōdō·Flame Armor has reached “Perfection” realm, your Onmyōdō·Heavenly Cycle Flame Armor has been elevated to “Beginner” realm!】
【Heavenly Cycle Flame Armor（Beginner）】
【Effect: Just an enhanced version of Flame Armor… I’ve said it a hundred and eighty times to build a good foundation, what more do you want, ox cart carriage!】
【—An Onmyōdō from the Edo Period, based on the ancient method “Flame Armor”, created by the Nameless Onmyoji into a complete and powerful technique; if built upon this foundation, achieving Ghost God level is easy, and becoming a greater existence is not impossible.】
It’s just… cultivating it might be a bit slow.】
Shangshan Che’s gaze fell on the last line of the prompt.
Slow… huh.
Hehe.
Shangshan Che couldn’t hold back and laughed outright.
—Seventy-two automatic Flame Seeds forming the Small Heavenly Cycle, three hundred and sixty semi-automatic integrated, high-purity Flame Seeds constructing the Great Heavenly Cycle, then deeply and tightly linking the two.
Heaven knows how many lifetimes it would take an ordinary Onmyoji to figure out such a Heavenly Cycle Flame Armor setup?
No wonder the bead starts with a big scene of burning mountains and boiling seas… to lure people in and kill them, right.
But in contrast, five Flame Seeds can already turn into a turtle shell, let alone seventy-two, three hundred and sixty, built with a spell system far surpassing “Flame Armor”‘s “Heavenly Cycle Flame Armor”.
In terms of power and practicality, Heavenly Cycle Flame Armor is absolutely reliable.
But if he really started cultivating Heavenly Cycle Flame Armor, plus Life River Breathing Technique’s one hundred and eight Great Acupoints, and later the Sea of Qi and Four Great Ultimate Forms…
These are all powerful skills that require massive time to grind proficiency.
Though one part effort one part harvest is good.
But if he really cultivated them honestly, step by step, breakthrough by breakthrough, wouldn’t that be slow beyond measure?
Water grinding for ten thousand years wouldn’t finish it!
Going on like this, would he still practice sword or go out?!
Shangshan Che tapped his forehead with his finger, thoughts racing.
No.
In this current world, there was no time to steadily wait for him to cultivate honestly.
—He had to find some evil path method, demonic great technique!
Thinking of it, he did it.
Shangshan Che immediately opened the quiet room’s door, startling the Exchange Office person in charge who was slacking on the chair into standing up.
Standing ramrod straight!
The person in charge’s eyes were filled with shock and doubt—could it be that the inheritance treasure bead had gathered dust too long and something went wrong?
And the user was the Seed Battle Champion, oh man, he’d have to take the blame now…
The person in charge inwardly groaned, while Shangshan Che strode past him.
Without glancing sideways, he picked up a special tablet.
Huh?
The person in charge turned his head in astonishment, looking at Shangshan Che who was already seriously flipping pages, first relieved he wouldn’t take the blame, then slowly shifting from doubt to shock.
It seemed this Shangshan Champion had already finished learning that stinky long thing “Heavenly Cycle Flame Armor”, so he came to scout new Onmyōdō?
The person in charge glanced at his watch, face twitching slightly.
Normally others learning this thing would take at least ten or twenty, dozens of hours.
Now, it had only been a dozen minutes.
No wonder he was the champion…
Convinced, the person in charge was truly convinced.
After muttering “impressive” inwardly, the person in charge sat back down, pulled out his mobile phone to browse videos and forums, and unsurprisingly saw Shangshan Che’s big face dozens of times again.
Shangshan Che didn’t have much mind to care about things beside him.
When he went out, he saw Lili Zi happily chatting with a few other sword practice folks holding tablets, so he didn’t disturb her.
Search search search…
Flip flip flip…
After searching for nearly an hour in the dazzling list, Shangshan Che stopped his fingers blurring into afterimages, eyes narrowing slightly.
He clicked on the detailed description section.
【—Can greatly shorten the cultivation speed of any Onmyōdō, and can use any spiritual power, any Onmyōdō in an extremely efficient manner.】
Shangshan Che tapped, and the Onmyōdō label took up half the tablet’s screen.
—【Great Onmyōdō·Myriad Spirit Cauldron】!（Requires consuming Wild God level Onmyōdō redemption count ×1）
At this time, the person in charge who had been watching for a while spoke up: “If the human body is a steam engine, then this thing is equivalent to a nuclear reactor.”
Pausing, he gave a more accurate term,
“Or rather—spiritual energy reactor.”
Holy crap, that powerful?
More importantly, it perfectly matched his needs.
Shangshan Che happily went to click redeem right away, but just as his finger was about to press down, he paused.
Wait.
He turned his head, looking at the trace of expectation in the person in charge’s eyes that he was trying hard to suppress but still showed.
How could Shangshan Che not understand.
This was clearly an expression of wanting to “clear inventory”!
There was definitely a pit in it, 100%.
He smiled at the disappointed person in charge, then used the Special Affairs Office’s special mobile phone to call Nanjo Emi.
When in doubt, ask Sister Nanjo, always right.
After two rings, the call connected.
Shangshan Che didn’t chat much, just asked if Myriad Spirit Cauldron could be selected.
Nanjo Emi let out a long breath: “Good thing you asked… tsk tsk tsk, this thing is a pure money pit, it can explode at any time.”
“Just a little instability, or a slight mistake by the Onmyoji, and the Myriad Spirit Cauldron implanted in the Onmyoji’s body can lose control, blowing the whole person to not even ash left.
—This thing is like a glass cannon, power is indeed huge and fierce, but as long as there’s a slight mistake in releasing Onmyōdō, Myriad Spirit Cauldron will lose control.
—Once Myriad Spirit Cauldron loses control, it brings immense pain, and the Onmyoji’s frail body can’t withstand it.
Thus immediately vicious cycle, instantly turning ordinary loss of control into explosion.”
Shangshan Che listened in astonishment, dispelling the idea of redeeming this thing.
Myriad Spirit Cauldron was good, but no one wanted to stuff a timed bomb that could blow themselves to the sky into their body.
“Wait, Shangshan Jun.” Nanjo Emi seemed to remember something and asked, “Did you redeem Heavenly Cycle Flame Armor?”
Shangshan Che replied: “Yeah.”
On the other end, Nanjo Emi, who had just used the call opportunity to escape the tide of crazy congratulations from colleagues, superiors, and gift-givers, turned around.
Then, she revealed a subtle smile.
—Myriad Spirit Cauldron can quickly produce Heavenly Cycle Flame Armor, and conversely, shrunken Heavenly Cycle Flame Armor can also constrain Myriad Spirit Cauldron.
Besides, Shangshan Che’s high-level Spirit Control Technique could also control and stabilize this “reactor bomb”.
Moreover, Shangshan Che’s body strength and willpower were extremely high, able to endure the production, unlike ordinary Onmyoji who would be drained of energy by Myriad Spirit Cauldron in one go and tormented to death.
This was equivalent to triple insurance.
It could also save the long time to cultivate Heavenly Cycle Flame Armor and many other Onmyōdō… simply a perfect match.
“Shangshan Jun.”
Nanjo Emi said with emotion, her tone tempting,
“I see this Myriad Spirit Cauldron is truly a Great Onmyōdō completely prepared for you.”
Shangshan Che on the other end of the phone was baffled.
How was it not okay just now, and now it’s prepared for me?
Nanjo Emi explained a whole bunch more, giving Shangshan Che a thorough understanding of Myriad Spirit Cauldron.
“It’s just…”
“Just what?”
Shangshan Che asked back, knowing the main topic after the buildup was coming.
“—The material cost to forge Myriad Spirit Cauldron is a tiny bit expensive.”
“Expensive?”
Shangshan Che laughed.
Telling him it’s expensive now?
“Then, the remaining Completion Opportunity for completing Heavenly Cycle Flame Armor, plus one complete Completion Opportunity, is that enough for the material cost?”
Nanjo Emi paused: “You don’t want the remaining opportunity?”
Shangshan Che replied without thinking: “Right, use it all to redeem materials for forging Myriad Spirit Cauldron.”
“That should be enough for a basic version, but you better think it over, no regrets once the materials are transferred.”
Nanjo Emi confirmed again.
“Thought it over.”
Shangshan Che was very clear on what he needed most now.
—Right now, he had Life River Breathing Technique, Spirit Control Technique, Five Thunder Technique, Natural Reason School, four main combat skills all hungry for attention, and still had to figure out Rin Character Technique, Sword Principle, Sword Skill.
Not to mention the Karuta Factory still had a loose end, now with enough strength he could wander more in the Eternal World to explore, and he still had to return to the Sengoku Period.
Too many things, needing him to spend 【time】 doing.
For Heavenly Cycle Flame Armor, Shangshan Che really couldn’t spare much time.
Foundation or not, it didn’t matter too much… as long as it could shorten the cultivation time for Heavenly Cycle Flame Armor, and later Five Thunder Technique, Spirit Control Technique.
On the other end of the phone, Nanjo Emi held her mobile phone and walked into a spacious room full of Ghost Gods, turned on speakerphone,
“Shangshan Jun, please repeat what you just said.”
The entire room went quiet, all eyes turning to Nanjo Emi, then hearing Shangshan Che’s words.
“—Use the remaining Completion Opportunity entirely to redeem materials for forging Myriad Spirit Cauldron.”
“Good, got it.”
Nanjo Emi smiled and replied, then hung up.
She placed her mobile phone face down on the table, scanning everyone present with a pleasant smile: “So, everyone.”
“—Let’s talk about angel investment.”
…
Just half an hour later, Shangshan Che received the “Myriad Spirit Cauldron material list” from Nanjo Emi.
It said that in the next couple of days, a specialist would deliver the materials right to the door, and she’d come personally to implant the Myriad Spirit Cauldron for him.
After sending a string of thank-you emojis, Shangshan Che opened the long list wrapping over a hundred kinds of materials.
【Mermaid Kingdom Ruler’s Tear】, 【Heavenly Rock Door Ash】, 【Yamata no Orochi’s reverse scale】, 【Yomi Hair】, 【Medicine Pot Shard】…
?
This is the basic version?
Just the first few materials shook him numb.
Heaven knows whose hair “Yomi Hair” was, or whose shard “Medicine Pot Shard” was…
Shangshan Che decided as long as Nanjo Emi didn’t bring it up, he wouldn’t think too deeply.
But among the many materials that made one’s mouth water just looking at them, one stood out awkwardly.
【Curse Ghost God Blood】
The material controlling Curse, killing… or rather “one of Myriad Spirit Cauldron’s output limits”, surprisingly only from an ordinary Nameless Ghost God.
This thing wasn’t cheap.
On the contrary, Ghost God Blood was already high-end.
It just seemed incredibly shabby compared to the materials from legendary existences up front.
Puzzled, Shangshan Che took a screenshot and sent it over.
Nanjo Emi replied immediately,
“Demons and Supernatural Phenomena related to curses are very hard to find, and once found they’re prone to widespread outbreaks, so they’re basically cleared and purified on the spot.”
I see.
Shangshan Che then asked: “What about higher-level materials?”
“The best, of course, is Huo Jin Ri Shen’s Divine Blood, after all that one is the incarnation of calamity and curse in myths and legends.”
Nanjo Emi replied without holding back, even adding a goofy emoji at the end.
But she didn’t expect that upon seeing those three words, Shangshan Che froze, and really started thinking related thoughts.
【No way, I was just joking, and you’re really setting your sights on that??】
Amid the question marks from Nanjo Emi, Shangshan Che stared at the Assembly Token in his Storage Bag.
Magatsu-kami Blood?
Shangshan Che remembered that white-haired girl sitting alone in the Walking Assembly.
This thing, for him…
Maybe, wasn’t that hard to obtain?
