Chapter 484 - 482: Dao Artifact Forged

Chapter 484: Chapter 482: Dao Artifact Forged

"An oil lamp, a longspear."

’Actually, it’s not too bad.’

Su Qing chuckled to himself. At his current level, he couldn’t forge a more advanced Dao Artifact.

But a Tier Ten Dao Artifact? That was a piece of cake.

During this chaos with Taichu,

Su Qing had discovered a weakness of his own.

He had no means of attacking causality itself to ensure a true death.

Among the beings who had come to attack Taichu,

most had left a Fire Seed of their Life behind in the Clumsy Head Palace.

The ones Su Qing had killed were merely their avatars.

Their true lives had not yet been extinguished.

’I should get to work on synthesizing the Immortal-Suppressing Spell. It can’t remain just a spell. If I can turn it into a conventional attack, it would probably be much better.’

Su Qing mused. ’Sure enough, the truly powerful are difficult to kill.’

’I must be able to completely annihilate my enemies.’

He would definitely have to try synthesizing the Immortal-Suppressing Spell.

’I might as well just use the original Soul Curse to create a new Technique, then synthesize that with Standardization.’

Su Qing made a decision.

But first, he had to take care of the matter at hand.

Namely, the two Tier Thirteen Dao Artifacts.

Fortunately, when Su Qing had synthesized the Profound Immortal Sword, he hadn’t created something that surpassed a Tier Thirteen Dao Artifact.

Otherwise, it would have been truly difficult to explain. He never expected that both Taichu and Black Abyss would actually ask him for a Dao Artifact.

This just went to show that Dao Artifacts weren’t something one could obtain just by wanting one, nor could they be forged on a whim.

A Seed of the Taichu appeared in Su Qing’s hand.

His soul made contact with the Seed of the Taichu.

In an instant.

His soul felt as if it had been suddenly stuffed with a massive, jumbled pile of knowledge, causing Su Qing to feel an immense, bloating pain.

"Unity."

Su Qing entered the Unity State, alleviating the sensation of all that knowledge being crammed into him at once.

It was as unpleasant as having eaten a Standardization leaf that he couldn’t process.

He had no choice but to absorb all the knowledge from the Seed of the Taichu.

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「Several months later.」

Su Qing had finally, completely sorted out what exactly Taichu’s power was.

It was a powerful and stable force formed by mixing together the powers of nearly every Dao Path.

It contained the abilities of nearly every Dao Path.

That was why it was called Taichu.

’For such a disparate power to be so strong yet so stable... Taichu truly is a genius.’

’It seems a weapon that matches Taichu’s power will be very difficult to create.’

’How is this even possible?’

Su Qing didn’t have the ability to gather the powers of every Dao Path and forge a Tier Thirteen Dao Artifact tailored specifically to her.

This was simply an impossible task for Su Qing.

’This power is very similar to the Chaos Dao Path, but Taichu even managed to integrate the Chaos Dao Path into the whole.’

Su Qing was astounded.

Taichu’s innate talent was immense, her imagination was vast, and her ability to turn ideas into reality was incredible.

Just as he’d thought, no Cultivator who reached the Thirteenth Realm was mediocre.

’However, there’s still a mysterious quality to Taichu’s power. It seems she didn’t reveal its ultimate form to me at all.’

Su Qing thought to himself, but he didn’t dwell on it.

Only a fool would completely reveal the full extent of their power.

It wasn’t worth doing so for a mere Dao Artifact.

’A longspear, then. I’ll just make one with Spatial Power and be done with it.’

After some thought, Su Qing decided he could only make a Tier Thirteen Dao Artifact that was powerful, yet not *that* powerful.

It was impossible for Su Qing to craft a bespoke Dao Artifact based on the power of Taichu.

He couldn’t do it.

And he didn’t want to do it.

He wasn’t some soulless tool to be used.

He certainly wasn’t going to make something so troublesome.

He started crafting from scratch.

Having already collected the materials beforehand, Su Qing wasn’t concerned about consumption.

After all, he could just synthesize more from Low Tier materials.

He crafted for ten days.

A Tier Ten longspear was born.

Its tip radiated a powerful, destructive Spatial Power.

"If I gave this to Bai Di, he’d probably be ecstatic," Su Qing murmured to himself.

While he was forging the longspear, he felt as though he could probably forge a Tier Eleven Dao Artifact.

It was just too much trouble, so he didn’t feel like it.

Next came the repetitive forging.

The more powerful the Dao Artifact, the more difficult it was to create, both in terms of materials and the forging process itself.

Forging the remaining longspears took Su Qing several months.

’Thirty-three longspears. That should do it.’

’Four Immortal Transformations should definitely be enough to upgrade a Tier Ten Dao Artifact to Tier Thirteen.’

’If that’s not enough, I’ll just forge another eight.’

Su Qing put the longspears away.

He did this inside his Immortal Domain Dao Foundation.

This was to prevent Taichu from noticing.

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[Synthesis Successful: Immortal Transformation Triggered]

[Su Kong: Tier Thirteen Upper Grade Immortal Artifact. Possesses incomparably strong Spatial Power, can bind to a master, is difficult to damage, and contains a spirit... ]

’This will do. I didn’t expect the longspear to be this powerful even without Standardization.’

However, wielding this Immortal Artifact required immense power.

’It’s fine that it’s not a Dao Artifact. As long as it works, that’s good enough.’

’I don’t really owe Taichu anything, anyway.’

Su Qing didn’t reveal the longspear yet.

There was still plenty of time.

He still had another Dao Artifact to forge.

’The design of the oil lamp...’

’It’s probably meant to house a flame, so it doesn’t need to look like a traditional oil lamp.’

Su Qing chose an attractive design and began to craft it.

The design of this oil lamp was actually very purposeful.

It was meant to nurture a flame.

Su Qing figured that out at a glance.

A flame nurtured by a Tier Thirteen Dao Artifact.

After some thought, Su Qing incorporated the ultimate power of the Fire Dao Path into it.

He also added a measure of the Power of Creation.

As for the lamp’s appearance, Su Qing simply carved a ring of crimson petals around it, which fit Black Abyss’s image quite well.

But then he had another thought.

He decided to be mischievous and changed the crimson petals into the form of verdant green leaves.

The thought of Black Abyss using a lamp like this made Su Qing want to laugh.

’Yes, just like this.’

Following this design, he created 41 Tier Ten Dao Artifacts.

Then, he synthesized them.

[Synthesis Successful: Standardization Triggered]

[Heaven-Pointing Flame: Tier Thirteen peak Dao Artifact. Contains an incredibly dense Fire Dao Essence and the Power of Creation. Can nurture a Fire Seed... (Nurtures flames)]

’I’ll throw in a Standardization for you.’

’Consider it my thanks.’

A peak Dao Artifact plus a decent Standardization was quite a good deal.

Su Qing was never stingy with those who treated him well.

Even though this was just part of their deal,

Su Qing was happy to do it.

Only a year had passed.

There was still a long time to go.

Time to cultivate.

He was still short the last 20,000 Skill Level points.

The task of forging the Dao Artifacts was complete. The main thing Su Qing lacked now was a method to attack causality, but there was no rush.

That could wait until he reached the Perfection Realm of the Eleventh Realm.

’Cultivate, cultivate.’

’I really want to break through to the Thirteenth Realm all at once. I wonder what I’ll be like at that Realm.’

Su Qing couldn’t help but marvel at the thought.

Another leaf that provided an absurd boost to his Comprehension appeared in his hand.

He continued to eat them.

And continued to cultivate.

Gradually, time passed.

Two years went by in a flash.

Then, Su Qing felt Taichu’s presence.

He didn’t even need to open his eyes to know that Taichu’s will had descended upon the area.

Then, Su Qing took out Su Kong.

"Lord Taichu, this was the best I could do. A Dao Artifact that truly matches your power is too difficult to forge."

Su Qing opened his eyes. Taichu was really there in front of him.

As usual, however, her form was indistinct.

"A Tier Thirteen weapon... it doesn’t seem to be a Dao Artifact, yet it’s similar to one."

"It is a fine weapon."

Taichu accepted the Su Kong that Su Qing had synthesized.

It was, at the very least, a Tier Thirteen Immortal Artifact, and a very powerful one at that. If used properly, its Spatial Power was in no way inferior to that of a Thirteenth Realm entity.

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