Lu Xuan had made the entire secret realm his. Naturally, that meant that the guardian figure of the secret realm, that Geng Metal beast, had been tamed as well.
That Geng Metal beast laid prostrate before Lu Xuan obediently.
Everything that he knew about that Geng Metal beast came to his mind. Only then did he realize that the beast was more than meets the eye.
To be more precise, the Geng Metal beast was a surprisingly intricate piece of construct. It was entirely made from a whole chunk of Geng Metal of the West, which the owner of the secret realm gained and then made into one such beast.
That meant that the Medicine Man wasn’t the owner. Rather, it was the original owner that came before the Medicine Man.
All of that then fell into Lu Xuan’s hands.
“Boy, what a terrible waste indeed.”
Immediately upon seeing that information, Lu Xuan shook his head. That beast was already able to become as powerful as those within the seventh tier of the Divine Transformation Realm despite having only undergone rudimentary crafting processes. In reality, however, this Geng Metal beast served as a crude demonstration of how strong the metal was.
It’d be best if the metal could be made into a sword. It would truly be unstoppable by then. The best-case scenario was if the metal could be forged into a sword. Once that happened, he would’ve truly become unstoppable.
It was worth noting that even fighters who were above the Divine Transformation Realm would still kill for the Geng Metal of the West. Even the smallest pieces of such metals had the same worth as a city. with bits of such metals being worth cities. A hill-sized chunk of Geng Metal would’ve even been used to refine essences from within it.
Such essence was even harder to come by than the Geng Metal itself; even the largest chunk of Geng Metal would’ve only yielded enough essence to craft a sword and make it indestructible.
Furthermore, the essence of Geng Metal of the West would’ve been of extremely high quality. The metal could then be further heightened as one’s powers grew.
One could keep piling powerful formations, barriers, and runes amongst other things onto it. They could add enough to even meld one’s path within it.
Lu Xuan got to work right away. He extended his hand and levitated that Geng Metal beast. The beast did not resist; Lu Xuan was the master of the entire secret realm, after all.
The Geng Metal beast lacked true sapience and was never a true living thing, to begin with. That was why it wouldn’t resist.
As he then performed a seal, a flame burst from his fingertips right away, which he put beneath the Geng Metal beast and began forging it.
The Spiritual Aether in his body began to burn at an exponential rate, as it was converted into fire.
These were the True Flames of Samadhi.
It took him a whole day to finally melt the Geng Metal beast into a liquefied form.
Naturally, the first thing he did after he became the master of the secret realm was to completely shut the secret realm away. Currently, he is the only person who could’ve been granted free access to the secret realm.
After closing the gates of the secret realm, he gained more than enough time to forge a sword with the Geng Metal.
After first melting down the Geng Metal beast into liquid Geng Metal, he continued siphoning more Spiritual Aether from his body to create the True Flames of Samadhi.
The True Flames of Samadhi was a fire spell that was well-known throughout all the realms out there and employed by many. It was a ubiquitous flame that served well in practicing alchemy or crafting items.
Among the fire type spells of the highest quality that he was capable of using, that was the most powerful one that he could currently use.
He sensed his Spiritual Aether diminishing at a frightening rate almost the whole time while simultaneously absorbing the ambient spirit qi all around him.
He could tell that his rate of absorption of spirit qi within that secret realm was three times higher than when he absorbed it that outside.
Since he had never been the master of the secret realm before this, he had no real control of the secret realm. He found that after going about absorbing ambient spirit qi around him, the rate was indeed far higher in the secret realm than doing it outside.
“Has the laws of the secret realm been modified at all?” Lu Xuan immediately realized that something was off. His vista and breadth of knowledge enabled him to say why the secret realm was different.
The effect actually came from modification of the laws within, making it apparent that the owner of the secret realm of ages past was more than just an expert above the Divine Transformation Realm; that being was entirely something else together.
He had no idea why the owner had fallen so far in the end, causing the secret realm to finally fall into the Medicine Man’s hands before later passing it down to Lu Xuan.
The Medicine Man could only let out a gasp and marvel at how different that secret realm was when compared to the others. Even so, Lu Xuan could see why that was the case.
Then again, he couldn’t do anything like that right now. That endeavor involved something of a whole different level altogether. While he knew of the workings behind it, he utterly lacked the power to change the way the laws worked.
Lu Xuan then entered his isolated training state and completely shut himself away from the outside world. Three days passed and that puddle of liquefied Geng Metal of the West, which had been the size of a hill originally, became something that was only several cubic meters. The difference between before and after was truly as massive as the distance between Heaven and Earth.
After roasting the metal for three consecutive days and nights, that puddle of Geng Metal of the West, which had been of the size of a hill, was completely reduced to liquefied essence of the Geng Metal of the West.
He knew right away that this was the best possible time. He manipulated the puddle of Geng Metal essence to slowly mold itself into a silver longsword.
The sword formed itself in the blink of an eye, with a sword aura faintly pulsing from within. The blade dazzled so brightly that it would have blinded anyone looking at it. He felt like just looking at it would’ve given him an intense headache; it would’ve been as if the sword was about to slice through the air and cut his head open.
The sword was radiating such power that even someone with a high level of physical resilience like Lu Xuan would’ve ended up getting sliced open by a swing of that sword.
The reason for this was simple: the sharpness of the sword itself was completely extraordinary.
Lu Xuan’s combat prowess would’ve seen a considerable boost when he wielded that Geng Metal Sword.
Putting it simply, arming himself with the sword would’ve raised his powers one tier higher than his initial base level. If Zhou Sulong, whom Lu Xuan fought before, was not armed with some kind of defensive power item of similar levels, he would not have been able to even withstand several blows from him.
He then infused a sliver of his spirit onto the Geng Metal Sword, which marked the conclusion of the forging process of the sword.
Swoop!
He held onto the Geng Metal Sword and sliced outward with it, instantly generating a sword aura that was well over 30 meters in length. Something magnificent then happened; the air was sliced in half before him. It was as if seawater had been parted to the sides, leaving an empty space in the middle of the path.
The outcome was utterly terrifying.
The Geng Metal Sword’s basic attack was already terrifying enough even without any formations, barriers, or runes infused onto it.
It proved to be far better than the Dragonslayer that he previously owned.
“Several days have passed by now. I wonder what’s been going on out there.”
He used his will and appeared at the external fringes of the secret realm right away. On his hip was a small jade sword, which looked intricate and quaint. Nobody would have known that the jade sword was actually the key to enter the secret realm.
With the Geng Metal sword in his hand, he looked around.
