Chapter 320: The Bottomless Red Moon Town
“Let me make this thing?” Luo Qi was stunned at first, then gave a wry smile. “I’d like to, but all the materials listed above are C-grade or higher alloys. Alloys like that don’t exist anywhere in the world.”
As a mechanic, she was indeed very tempted by the fourth-tier Guardian Heavy Armor, not only because of the black technology inside it, but also because its various processing techniques were unbelievable. If she could really build a set of Guardian Heavy Armor, it would absolutely give her a huge improvement.
But the best material obtainable in the Four Regions was only C6-grade alloy. There was no way to make even a fraction of it. Even if she tried to imitate it with C6-grade alloy, the material issues would cause the mechanical structure to be unable to bear the load. The baseline for metal strength and toughness could not be met. It could only be a showpiece, not something that could be truly used.
“What if I can get alloys above C-grade?” Lin Qi asked.
He had already read everything about the fourth-tier Guardian Heavy Armor, including the various analyses and substitutes for materials within it.
The best alloy currently available in the Four Regions was indeed only C6-grade, but in the introduction of the fourth-tier Guardian Heavy Armor, and in the introduction of the Star Energy Civilization, there were many alloys that exceeded, even far exceeded, C6-grade. There were even some detailed explanations of their smelting techniques.
This was also why he marveled at how Kui Lang had gotten this. Rather than calling it the design blueprint for the fourth-tier Guardian Heavy Armor, it would be better to call it a complete mechanical technology compendium of the Star Energy Civilization.
Although it only went up to fourth-tier technology, its value was so high that even several Limit Breaking Level Martial Skills could not compare. If Kui Lang handed these technologies to the Red Moon Merchant Guild, it would not be impossible for the Red Moon Merchant Guild to spare no effort in helping Kui Lang advance to the Heavenly Human Realm.
However, Kui Lang’s actions were not impossible to understand.
With the technologies recorded in the fourth-tier Guardian Heavy Armor, as long as the material problem could be solved, it would not be difficult in the future to establish a faction even stronger than the Red Moon Merchant Guild.
It was just that Kui Lang clearly had never found the relevant materials, which was why it had fallen cheaply into his hands.
And through the material introductions of the Star Energy Civilization, he had discovered a very important material.
Molten Crystal.
Although this ore was only average in strength, it was the main material for smelting alloys above C-grade. As long as C-grade Primordial Metal was combined with Molten Crystal, D-grade alloy could be smelted.
With the metal strength and toughness of D-grade alloy, it should barely reach the minimum requirements for Guardian Heavy Armor. The resulting Guardian Heavy Armor might not reach true fourth-tier level, but it would definitely be far stronger than the existing Tier 2 Battle Armor.
If it could be mass-produced, whether used to arm players or the Martial Arts Hall’s garrison, combat power would absolutely rise by a full level.
Lin Qi’s question made Luo Qi fall into deep thought for quite a while.
“It should be possible,” Luo Qi confirmed. “It involves a lot of techniques, but if I have those Large Sausages you gave me before, I’m confident I can master them quickly.”
“Those Large Sausages are not a problem,” Lin Qi said with a smile. “If you can make it this time, I have a way to let your severed limb regenerate.”
Previously, through drawing from the advanced Roulette Wheel, he had obtained a large number of Large Sausages and Big Bananas. In this period, due to external sales of the Superconducting Electromagnetic Gun, the number of people joining the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had increased a lot. The total had now exceeded one and a half million. If that was not enough, he could draw more.
“Regrow a severed limb? You can even do that?” Luo Qi looked at Lin Qi in astonishment.
When Lin Qi said he could find alloys above C-grade, she had not doubted much. After all, the Four Regions were vast, and their technology had been breaking through for years. It was not impossible for some faction to have smelted alloys above C-grade.
But limb regeneration was another matter. Even the most advanced type-4 Healing Potion could not achieve that. Moreover, if such a thing could be done, it would shake the entire Four Regions. It would be extremely hard to conceal.
“It’s possible. It’s just not easy to accomplish,” Lin Qi nodded, full of confidence.
Originally, after obtaining the Fruit of Life, he had wanted to let Luo Qi take it immediately. But considering that the heaven-defying effects of the Fruit of Life would attract all kinds of trouble, he needed time to build up power, so he had not given it to Luo Qi right away.
After all, as the chief mechanic of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, Luo Qi had too many eyes on her. If her prosthetic arm suddenly became a real arm, it would be impossible not to attract attention. At that time, across the entire Wushan Region, except for Mist Mountain Domain City, the major factions would all go mad.
Though its value to the Domain City would also be quite high, it would not drive them as crazy as the other factions.
Once a martial artist reached the Heavenly Human Realm Grandmaster level, their brain’s control reached 100%, allowing them to regenerate severed limbs on their own. Usually, they would not care much about crippled Blood Condensation Realm masters. Only Heavenly Human Realm Grandmasters would take such things seriously.
But they should care about some Heavenly Human Realm seeds. Using the Fruit of Life on those seeds would guarantee that such future Heavenly Human Realm candidates would not be unable to advance due to crippling injuries. They would not be like other factions whose main combat power lay in the Blood Condensation Realm, where crippling one would cause huge impact, while restoring one would bring a significant increase in strength.
Azure Wing City, after obtaining the Fruit of Life, had also considered this point. Even after getting the Fruit of Life, they did not immediately use it to heal their own people. They continued to conceal the existence of the Fruit of Life.
It was as if they were waiting for him to announce the Fruit of Life to the world. Otherwise, both he and Azure Wing City would become targets of all major factions outside of the Domain Cities.
However, he did not plan to hide it for too long. Now, the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall was already very strong. Under the rules of the Wushan Region, aside from Mist Mountain Domain City, no faction could do anything to him.
Now he had also obtained the Inheritance Metal Plate of the Body Strengthening Secret Technique. Once a large number of players learned the third level of the Body Strengthening Secret Technique and could unleash a supernatural body, he would no longer need to conceal the Fruit of Life. By then, aside from the Domain Cities of the Four Regions, there would probably be no faction within the Four Regions that could pose much threat to him.
“So when will you give me the materials?” Luo Qi’s eyes lit up.
Although, with her current resources, she could still advance to martial artist even after losing an arm, in this life she would only be able to reach the level of an Organ Refining Realm Martial Artist.
To break through and achieve Bone Forging Realm, without mastering martial skills to a certain degree to further improve her qi and blood and physical fitness, it would be very hard to support a breakthrough into Bone Forging Realm. This was also why so many crippled martial artists chose to give up.
As long as her broken arm was regenerated, she could start learning martial skills and have a chance to charge toward higher realms in the future.
“First, memorize all this information and fully master it. I’ll get the materials to you as soon as I can.”
Lin Qi took out five Large Sausages and handed them to Luo Qi, without giving an immediate answer. He simply copied a set of alloy smelting data from his Smart Watch, then walked out of the Beginner Meditation Room to let Luo Qi study on her own.
Lin Qi then returned to the Training Room on the third floor of the Cultivation Tower. Before Bone Quenching, he used the System Panel to send a notice to all players.
Epic Quest: Alloy Refining.
Quest details: The Martial Arts Hall urgently needs a batch of alloys above C-grade. All players can accept the quest in Chiyue Town via their Smart Watches and obtain the refining method for alloys above C-grade. The first player to submit one ton of alloy above C-grade to the Hall Master will be rewarded with a blue-quality cudgel.
“This should be enough,” Lin Qi looked at the notice he had written, very satisfied.
The experiments needed to refine alloys above C-grade were numerous. While he could entrust this to Luo Qi, it would cost him a huge amount of C-grade Primordial Ore, which was uneconomical. Molten Crystal was also a huge issue. If Luo Qi were to refine alloys above C-grade, she would definitely need many assistants, which would expose the Molten Crystal. Not to mention, it would also leak the Star Energy Civilization’s refining techniques.
So alloy refining had to be done by the players. All he needed to do was translate a set of information. In addition, he could save a large amount of C-grade Primordial Ore by letting players find it themselves.
When the players succeeded, he only needed to pay out a cudgel he did not need, and both sides would be satisfied.
After Lin Qi sent out the quest notice and started his day of cultivation, all online players boiled over.
“What is this? An Epic Quest?”
“Refining technology for alloys above C-grade! The dev finally plans to buff us life players so we don’t have to keep killing to earn Points and Contribution?”
“Damn! A blue-quality weapon! I remember those dropped Tier 3 Weapons are only single-attribute green level. This Epic Quest is that generous?”
“Blue dual attributes. This is probably the first Divine Weapon since the game launched. Whoever gets it will likely be number one.”
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The players stared at the system quest notice, their eyes going wide. Especially those fighting monsters in the Wilderness were practically drooling.
Single-attribute weapons were already powerful in the current game, such as Tier 3 Weapons and the Superconducting Electromagnetic Gun, which could greatly boost combat power and even allow fighting above one’s level. Especially Tier 3 Weapons dropped by bosses could injure even Catastrophe Level Monsters.
Now the quest reward was a dual-attribute weapon. It was foreseeable that it would definitely be a pioneering Divine Weapon.
“Blue quality! I remember the Hall Master’s club that I peeked at was also blue quality. This cudgel is perfect for me!” Yi Ye Fu Yun laughed to himself as he looked at the quest.
He was an expert in Forging. Refining metal was part of Forging. For him, this was a piece of cake.
Meanwhile, at the Mythical Paradise base in Chiyue Town.
Lin Xinyao looked at the just-accepted Epic Quest and could not help asking Lu Fanchen in a low voice, “Vice President, the refining actually requires quite a lot of Molten Crystal. Could this Epic Quest be related to that Underground space beneath the Martial Arts Hall? And I see that to refine alloys above C-grade, the higher the grade of Primordial Ore, the better. We couldn’t beat that Robot before, so we couldn’t keep Exploring, but the metal in that space was unusually tough. Could it be that deeper down there are very high-grade C-grade Primordial Ore deposits?”
“That’s possible.” Lu Fanchen studied the refining information and could not help recalling that space beneath the Hall. He felt that what Lin Xinyao said made a lot of sense.
After they became martial artists, they had challenged that Robot multiple times, but its strength was far beyond what they could handle. Back when they were Apprentices, it had not even used Martial Skills. Yet when they challenged it as martial artists, the Martial Skills it used were all extraordinary, at least Super-tier Martial Skills, and it was using them as basic attacks. They were absolutely no match.
On the other side of that space, there was another door, showing that there was more path ahead. Now that the game had released an Epic Quest, asking them to refine higher-grade alloys, and the key material was Molten Crystal, only produced in that space, it was hard not to suspect this Epic Quest was related to that place.
“Why don’t we go Explore it again? We can also collect some Molten Crystal,” Li Tianxing suggested. “The cudgel from this quest might not suit us, but it’s blue quality. If you use it, Vice President, your strength might directly surpass that of Luo Wu Shang.”
As the gun saint in Pilgrimage, Lu Fanchen’s Gun Technique needed no explanation. A cudgel was similar to a spear, and he could use it as a spear.
“Alright. Have the brothers get ready. We’re going to the City of Light Chasing,” Lu Fanchen nodded, a bit impatient.
Now his Level was equal to Luo Wu Shang’s. The real gap lay only in the grade of Martial Skills they had mastered.
His Star Burst was currently only an Extreme Super-Class Martial Skill, while Luo Wu Shang’s One Sword Splits the Heavens was a Limit Breaking Level Martial Skill learned from a Heavenly Human Realm NPC.
If he could get a blue-quality weapon, their strength should immediately be on par. Compared with the extremely consuming Limit Breaking Level Martial Skills, he could use his Extreme Super-Class Martial Skill many more times.
For a time, large numbers of players drove Flying Transport Vehicles madly toward the Martial Arts Hall in the City of Light Chasing, preparing to attempt a Strategy Guide of that space.
Chiyue Town, under the blazing midday sun.
A Flying Car made entirely of C6-grade alloy slowly parked at the Crimson Moon Tower halfway up the mountain, immediately drawing the attention of many onlookers.
Normally, C-grade alloy Flying Cars were made from C2-grade alloy. Such a Flying Car was enough to make many Bone Forging Realm martial artists’ hearts bleed. Flying Cars made of C4-grade alloy were driven only by big shots in a city. A C6-grade alloy Flying Car was one of only a few even in an entire City.
Two people stepped out of the C6-grade alloy Flying Car, a man and a woman, both of the Human Race. The man looked about twenty-five, the woman about twenty-six or twenty-seven. Both were very young. As they got out, everyone present, including Bone Forging Realm Martial Artists, almost fell to their knees.
“This… Blood Condensation Realm!”
“Are both of them Blood Condensation Realm?”
The crowd on the Rooftop felt the mountain-like pressure of their qi and blood and began to doubt life.
In the talent training camps of major Cities, it was already impressive for a genius to reach Bone Forging Realm before the age of twenty-five. Reaching Intermediate Level Bone Forging Realm at twenty-five meant being one of the Top Ten Graduates of the talent training camp, with a future as a Leader of the City Guard, and reaching Advanced Level Bone Forging Realm at thirty meant a top genius who could lead a clan’s rise or fall, with some chance to reach Blood Condensation Realm and become a City Lord.
But now this young man and woman who stepped out were not only young, but martial artists at a realm most people did not even dare to imagine: Blood Condensation Realm Martial Artists. It was impossible not to question reality.
“Senior Sister Ling Ye, Chiyue Town is pretty decent. It’s clearly just a small town, yet there are so many Bone Forging Realm martial artists coming and going. It seems this Obsidian Martial Arts Hall does have some strength,” the young man said, sweeping his gaze across the crowd in praise.
“Junior Brother Yi Feng, they are only Bone Forging Realm martial artists. That does not say much,” Ling Ye said indifferently. “Our main purpose this time is to investigate the true value of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, especially that thing Rake wants. Nothing else matters.”
“I understand, Senior Sister Ling Ye.” The young man nodded, then asked curiously, “So where do we start investigating, Senior Sister Ling Ye?”
“Let’s go to the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall,” Ling Ye said directly. “That’s where the members of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall gather. We should be able to pick up a lot of information there. But when we go, don’t forget to conceal your aura.”
With that, Ling Ye concealed her qi and blood, and the young man named Yi Feng suppressed his own aura as well, following close behind her.
When Ling Ye and Yi Feng arrived at the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, the two of them strolled through Chiyue Town like tourists, especially noticing the people on the Street wearing the grey Obsidian Martial Arts Hall Disciple Outfit. The sight, which they had initially dismissed, now left them slightly stunned.
“Do all these disciples of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall have such high talent?” Ling Ye could hardly believe what she was seeing as she looked at the grey-robed disciples on the Street.
One might be a coincidence, but along the way she encountered more than twenty grey-robed disciples, all very young, mostly under twenty-five, and every one of them vaguely gave her a sense of Danger.
Her sixth sense had saved her life many times in the Forbidden Zone, so she trusted it very much.
Yet these grey-robed disciples were only Bone Forging Realm at best, with the strongest at Intermediate Level Bone Forging Realm. It was unbelievable.
Did they know who she was?
She was a Peerless Genius of Tianhe Domain City, a once-in-a-decade prodigy. Of her Sequence Transcendent Martial Skills, two had reached the Second Level Perfection Realm. She had few rivals at the same Level.
But as soon as Ling Ye and Yi Feng stepped inside the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, both of them were stunned.
“This is impossible!”
One… two… three…
Within her perception range, there were dozens of grey-robed disciples who gave her that same sense of Danger, and among them were several whose presence gave her a feeling of Death.
Yi Feng suddenly pointed at a woman inside the Hall and exclaimed, “Senior Sister Ling Ye, that person looks like Xie Feina, who was once said to be no less gifted than Senior Brother Ying Hu!”
Ling Ye looked over and saw that the woman was indeed Xie Feina. Those three pairs of golden wings made her impossible to miss.
“What is she doing here?” Ling Ye was full of doubt.
As a Peerless Genius of Mist Mountain Domain City, Xie Feina was its treasured jewel. If she had not been dissatisfied with ordinary advancement to Blood Condensation Realm, her current strength would at least be Blood Condensation Realm Intermediate Level.
For such a Peerless Genius to come to a small place like the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall was truly baffling.
But soon Ling Ye discovered something even more shocking.
She saw Xie Feina walk up to a human woman wearing silver-grey clothing. This woman was clearly under twenty-five, and from Ling Ye’s sense of qi and blood, was only at Intermediate Level Bone Forging Realm. Yet Xie Feina treated her with extreme respect.
“Instructor, do you have time now? I’d like to ask you some questions about Martial Skills.”
Xie Feina’s voice was not loud, but it was full of sincerity and reverence. For Ling Ye and Yi Feng, who were within a hundred meters, every word was crystal clear.
