Chapter 1642: Chapter 812: Purple Lightning Level Up
As the great benefactor behind Chen Mobai’s accomplishments in tempering the Stat Fire, the Purple Thunder Green Frost Sword has been enjoying years of refinement under the Immortal Fire. While its spiritual essence has grown, the sword’s materials have also been continuously tempered and enhanced.
However, compared to the Purple Lightning Sword, the Qing Shuang Sword has spent far less time with Chen Mobai and hasn’t absorbed enough Spirit Stones and Spiritual Qi. Consequently, its refinement progress lags behind its counterpart.
Under the current Heavenly Tribulation, the Purple Lightning Sword is forging its blade, absorbing the essence of thunder, and showing signs of transcending its limitations.
Meanwhile, the Qing Shuang Sword, youthful in spirit, refused to back down upon witnessing this scene.
“For now, the Tribulation Thunder is most suitable for Purple Lightning. Soon, when frost winds and icy tides arrive, that will be your moment to shine,” said Chen Mobai.
Though the Qing Shuang Sword yearned to take the stage, Chen Mobai, as its current guardian, was careful not to let it recklessly challenge the tribulation.
The Purple Lightning Sword, with its lightning attribute, was naturally attuned to absorb the Tribulation Thunder’s power. If the Qing Shuang Sword were to step forward prematurely, it would backfire and amplify the destructive force of this initial surge of heavenly wrath.
However, since Chen Mobai had cultivated a Nascent Soul Formation using the Pure Yang Scroll, his energy harmonized with the heavens and earth. Soon, the Heavenly Tribulation would likely transform into natural calamities opposite to his elemental affinity, providing Qing Shuang Sword with an opportunity to shine.
Upon hearing this, the Qing Shuang Sword reluctantly suppressed its eagerness.
At this time, Chen Mobai activated “The Union of Differences,” assisting the Purple Lightning Sword in refining and absorbing the power of the Tribulation Thunder.
This immortal sect’s Divine Transformation Technique, under his guidance, had become fully dedicated to artifact refinement.
In the Dance Tool Dao Academy, others worried that extended co-participation with magic artifacts might alter their essence, Qi, and spirit. While greater compatibility was achievable, such profound synchronization could potentially become a shackle.
But Chen Mobai had no such concerns.
He had never intended to alter himself for any magic artifact. Whenever he sensed signs of attachment forming, he simply swapped out his co-participation artifact.
As long as he rotated them frequently enough, external influences couldn’t affect him, allowing him to forever maintain his authentic self.
Up until now, not a single magic artifact had enraptured him to the point of unwavering devotion.
Such was the case when he switched his co-participation artifact from the Heavenly Bead to the Purple Lightning Sword, with the Qing Shuang Sword patiently awaiting its turn.
[Thank you, Master![
Upon becoming Chen Mobai’s co-participation artifact, the Purple Lightning Sword brimmed with exhilaration and determination. Its already dazzling purple sword radiance now shone even brighter, resembling a brilliant purple sun plunging into the heart of the Heavenly Tribulation.
With a deafening roar, the endless Tribulation Thunder in the sky was entirely devoured by the sword within the purple sun’s core in a single instant!
The center of the dark clouds stretching over half of Northern Abyss City suddenly burst open, welcoming radiant light!
At this moment, Chen Mobai’s Divine Sense fully merged with the Purple Lightning Sword, achieving an unparalleled realm known as the Unity of Man and Sword.
Although Chen Mobai had not studied the Zi Hua Sword Manual, under the effects of “The Union of Differences,” his understanding was no less profound than that of Master Qingshi reborn, merging flawlessly with the Purple Lightning Sword and experiencing its transformation from the inside out.
Concurrently, he summoned the complete Stat Fire and allowed it to engulf the Purple Lightning Sword, helping it surpass its final bottleneck.
The leap from Rank-4 to Rank-5 for a magic artifact represents the moment its spiritual essence achieves full integrity.
To use human terms, it’s akin to transitioning from a toddler to a child of about ten years old.
The Purple Lightning Sword, with years of accumulation, the nourishment provided by Chen Mobai’s Spirit Stones, and the tempering from the Stat Fire, had now reached the equivalent of a nine-year-old child.
It only lacked this final step to cross the threshold and become a ten-year-old.
Under the refined influence of Chen Mobai’s Stat Fire, the Purple Lightning Sword emitted radiant bursts of light. These represented residual low-grade materials within the blade, which had now become shackles during its ascension and needed to be purged.
With the final burst of brilliance, the Purple Lightning Sword slightly shrank in size. Yet, its form retained the majestic dignity of its original design while taking on smoother, sleeker contours. Lightning arcs danced along its blade, resembling a spirit snake in motion.
Just then, the dark clouds that had been pierced by the Purple Lightning Sword began to reassemble under the infinite replenishment of nature’s spiritual energy.
Thin streams of bone-chilling cold spread outward, causing temperatures across Northern Abyss City to plunge dramatically. Foundation Establishment Practitioners with lower cultivation levels felt their exposed skin turn pale, nearly losing sensation.
With Zhou Shengqing’s signal, the Mount Meru Nine Palaces Formation was activated. Yi Shaoqing and six other Foundation Establishment Practitioners each gripped an Array Plate and placed a top-grade Spirit Stone upon it.
Soon, the next wave of even colder icy tides was blocked outside Northern Abyss City by the large formation.
Snowflakes as large as goose feathers coalesced in the sky but were absorbed by Chen Mobai’s radiant, water-like sword artifact before they could descend. In an instant, the core of the dark clouds condensed into an enormous ice sphere.
Yet, the ice sphere remained suspended in mid-air, refusing to fall.
“Is Junior Brother Chen using the Heavenly Tribulation to refine artifacts?”
On the Northern Abyss Mountain Peak, Golden Core cultivators from the Five Elements Sect, witnessing this astonishing scene, couldn’t help but voice their puzzled speculations, turning their eyes collectively toward Sheng Zhaoxi.
As the Five Elements Sect’s leading Artifact Refiner, she was considered the local expert.
“This… my realm is humble, and I dare not presume to understand Junior Brother Sect Leader’s artifact refining techniques,” Sheng Zhaoxi replied.
All her years of cultivation had never revealed accounts of a cultivator utilizing the Heavenly Tribulation’s power to refine artifacts mid-ascension.