Chapter 227: The Soon-to-Be-Born New-Style Magical Artifacts (2/3)

"This slowness... how deeply bizarre?!" At that very moment, Nalan Hongwu knitted his brows tightly.

"Bizarre in what way?" Jun Yangzi and the others were the ones who cared most about this equipment.

"This energy feels as though it has always existed within my body, as if scattered throughout my entire being, yet this old master cannot find it no matter how I search! Let alone dispel it!" Nalan Hongwu said, "Not until it dissipated on its own."

"Unable to dispel it?" Lan Mo said incredulously, "You martial artists certainly have few methods. Let me try!"

This time he did not scratch himself either, simply striking his own arm with the back of the halberd.

He discovered that the slow effect was likely meant to act upon the head of the halberd; once this weapon was activated, as long as the tip touched a person, whether they were scratched or not, this energy would seep into them.

An extremely peculiar force flowed into his body!

It was like some kind of ancient... curse.

Immediately after, he moved his body a bit, instantly feeling that his frame had also become much more rigid and stagnant.

"How does it feel?"

"A... deeply... bi... zarre... feel... ing..." Lan Mo spoke, his voice somewhat muffled, feeling the spiritual qi within his body and this energy existing like two parallel lines, completely unreachable no matter what he tried!

Even though he could sense that this force was not particularly strong.

In an instant, an incomparably powerful spiritual qi erupted from within him! The spiritual qi surged violently through his body, likewise causing his own speed to become extremely fast!

"Clear Void Seal! Release!" Lan Mo’s hair and beard flared up, a brilliant light bursting from his eyes as he bellowed!

"How is it?" Nalan Hongwu asked once more.

Lan Mo exhaled a breath of turbid air: "There is no proper method for it. It can only be broken by brute force, which is highly exhausting!"

Nalan Hongwu laughed heartily: "Do you know why this old master brought this thing out?"

He pointed at the dark-gold trident in Lan Mo’s hand and said: "Be it a demon god or an ordinary monster, as long as you stab them once, they will succumb to it! In the words of that place, it is of the Legendary grade!"

Bu Che had chosen a gold-quality White Wolf Head helm that increased Druid skills, possessed self-repair, and held charged skills.

The charged skill was Firestorm, a low-level Druid skill.

This was also the most valuable gold equipment he could find at the moment.

Over on this side, Wang Tai had also picked up his own staff, a short wand made of a wooden material of unknown origin.

Almost the moment he held the staff, Wang Tai immediately ran out the door in high spirits, chanting in a low murmur, and soon one could see the earth being drawn out from beneath the paved stone ground, instantly condensing in front of him into a monster over two meters tall, made of neither stone nor soil!

"Clay Golem?!" Everyone stared dumbfounded at this golem outside the shop door, "Holy crap!"

Suddenly, Bu Che rushed out of the shop door: "Watch my Firestorm!"

With that, he raised his hand, and several serpents of fire wound their way out along the ground from beneath his feet! Soon, a large expanse of fiery light blazed before him!

"All too weak, all too weak!" Song Qingfeng charged directly in front of the Clay Golem, "Watch this young master's Holy Spirit Sword Technique! Sword One! Sword Two! Sword Three..."

As he executed his sword technique, highly condensed sword qi immediately sliced deep gashes all around the golem's body!

"How do you know the Holy Spirit Sword Technique?!" Quite a few cultivators were utterly bewildered.

"In the recent episodes of Wind and Cloud, Bu Jingyun obtained the manual for the Holy Spirit Sword Technique!" Song Qingfeng continued to display the exquisite sword technique in his hands.

"Watch mine, watch mine!" Seeing a spectacle to join, Jiang Xiaoyuan immediately squeezed her way out from inside the shop, a wooden sword pinched in her hand as she gave a tender shout, "Sword Controlling Technique!"

The wooden sword instantly transformed into a shadow of a blade, slashing down upon the golem's head!

Crack! Crack!

Amidst the flames, the thoroughly battered golem collapsed to the ground on the spot!

Wang Tai looked at the golem that had been summoned for barely over ten seconds: "..."

"None of them can compare to this old master's dark-gold trident!" With a casual shake of his wrist, Nalan Hongwu set a heavy trident dancing with formidable power in his hands!

"That is enough from you all!" Fang Qi looked with a darkened face at the potholed street, "In a moment, the entire street is going to be collapsed by you guys!"

"Hurry up! Let this old master study it thoroughly!" The weapon-refining masters like Jun Yangzi, Tian Fengzi, and Duan Buyi instantly looked on with burning eyes. Although these... things that could probably be called spiritual artifacts... were not more powerful than the artifacts they refined themselves, and even Nalan Hongwu's dark-gold halberd could only be considered a top-tier item usable by cultivators of modest cultivation, completely lacking in power for great cultivators like them, some of the attributes within were incredibly formidable!

For instance, slowness, reducing target defense, self-repair, and so on.

And some attributes, while not particularly grand, excelled in their uniqueness! They could fill certain vacancies in the field of artifact refining.

"However..." Nalan Hongwu knitted his brows tightly, pulling Jun Yangzi over and lowering his voice, "If these things are truly as easy to replicate as you say... would it not be somewhat unsafe...?"

Looking at these items, as the head of a great aristocratic family, the things he considered were naturally more extensive—for example... what if their enemy factions replicated them?

This was absolutely intolerable!

"Do not look down too much on us old fellows." Jun Yangzi pointed at this Razor's Fork and sneered, "This old master has already studied it. On these things, even some of the profound runes do not have many protective measures applied..."

"Come to think of it, for a world on the brink of destruction, why would they bother spending that kind of effort?" Jun Yangzi said, "Of course, the material selection, texture, the order of suffixes, and various other parts are enough for most cultivators to study for a long time; they might not even find the entry point in a lifetime!"

"Then how can you still say you can achieve results?!" Nalan Hongwu's face darkened.

Jun Yangzi lost his composure and laughed: "What do you think that brat Haoran has been doing spending so much time in Diablo?"

"Doing what?"

"Asking them for guidance on the basic methods of forging and enchanting!" Jun Yangzi said, "The craftsmen and mages earlier on were a bit tight-lipped, but fighting further in... one can still fish out some information."

"Only by entering the gate can one truly understand these things! Otherwise, no matter how clever you are, you will never find your way in!"

Entering the gate! Yes! Playing games was one thing, but who ruled that one couldn't learn a few other things inside!

Nalan Hongwu: "..."

"Afterward, our Wuwei Dao Alliance will also engrave specialized formations to prevent other factions from analyzing and replicating these things. The artifact refiners participating in this are not only the core of each sect, but they have also signed extremely high-level contracts. This old master has been in this business for hundreds of years, how could I leave such a loophole?" Jun Yangzi stroked his beard, speaking with a somewhat profound air, "This old master dares to leave these words right here: as long as the owner himself does not personally intervene, no one will ever dream of replicating them!"

The two men laughed in mutual understanding.

Jun Yangzi nodded, then spoke to Lan Mo beside him: "Senior brother, you may summon the various weapon-refining masters!"

"Combining mechanisms, runes, and the path of formation artifacts inherent to you cultivators, just how powerful the newly refined spiritual artifacts will be, this old master shall wait and see!" Nalan Hongwu laughed, his face glowing with vitality.

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