Immortal Path to Heaven
chapter-565

Chapter 565: A Disparity Between Attributes

Every blacksmith possessed different spiritual fires, but as long as one did not conceal one’s smithing process on purpose, the rough situation inside one’s fire could still be seen.

As when Ou Yangming was smithing a piece of equipment at the moment, he did not cover up his Military Fire at all, hence Lin Feifeng could roughly see when the peculiar stones inside began to melt and soften.

Nonetheless, it was the exact reason Lin Feifeng was shocked and was in disbelief.

The 2 ores picked by Ou Yangming were definitely considered treasured in the lower realm, but they were extremely ordinary in the Spiritual Realm.

Although they could not be found everywhere, any blacksmith could find lots of them as long as one put in a little effort.

It was true that they were abundant, but the fact that they were valued by blacksmiths and were carefully kept by Tiger Ji proved that they were unique in their ways; one of them was a tougher ore while the other had a higher melting point.

In a way, their combination was indeed great for smithing armors.

Even so, the 2 peculiar stones had dissimilar melting points. In particular, a lot of effort would be needed to successfully melt the latter so that it could be joined with other minerals. This was why blacksmiths that were lacking in cultivation base dared not touch the ore at all.

However, the 2 different ores had somehow melted almost at the same time inside Ou Yangming’s Military Fire.

What did that mean? It meant that Ou Yangming’s fire carried an incredibly unique power. At the very least, it had a huge advantage against ores with high melting points.

Lin Feifeng glanced at Ou Yangming strangely. He remembered the young fellow’s face well as though it was his first time knowing him.

Given that Ou Yangming was a blacksmith that possessed such a peculiar fire, even if he was not a prominent figure yet, he would one day stand above others for sure.

At this moment, Lin Feifeng envied Ou Yangming very much from the bottom of his heart.

‘Woosh, woosh, woosh…”

As roaring blazes were heard from the Military Fire, it was dead silent on and below the platform as the others were afraid of distracting Ou Yangming during his attempt.

Nevertheless, after a brief moment, not to mention Lin Feifeng, even the other spirit beasts realized that something was off.

Ou Yangming’s Military Fire kept burning, but he did not seem to be smithing a piece of equipment. Instead, he was continuously kneading the 2 minerals so that they would melt and combine, then he melted them again and analyzed them.

Many spirit beasts looked at each other and cursed internally, ‘Is this little fella fooling around?’

Even though Ou Yangming’s fire was enough to prove his identity, which was a legitimate blacksmith, every blacksmith’s ability was different. If they really met an impressive-looking but useless blacksmith, it would be similar to falling into a giant hole.

On the other hand, Fat Antelope and Big Yellow were not bothered at all because they had witnessed similar situations. Since this was a common sight, they did not find it strange at all.

Ou Yangming curbed his fire after 15 minutes, and he beamed as he was pleased.

By continuously analyzing with his Military Fire, he gained an immense understanding of the ores’ properties. While he derived everything himself, they must be real because he had certification from his fire.

The young fellow looked at Tiger Ji to estimate the armor’s size, weight, as well as the materials needed.

Following that, he reached out his arm and waved, causing more ores and the Wish-fulfilling Clay to fly onto his palm.

With that, the Military Fire burned intensely. This time, instead of probing the ores’ properties, he melted every material according to his idea.

It was not easy to melt distinctive ores together to smith a piece of equipment that matched one’s idea the most. Even Lin Feifeng, who cultivated in the Spiritual Realm, needed to spend plenty of time and energy to achieve this.

Despite that, as the materials and the Wish-fulfilling Clay were being burned by the Military Fire that carried the Phoenixes’ power, they quickly merged. After only about 8 minutes, the armor was formed.

With a flash of thought, the armor’s attributes appeared in Ou Yangming’s sea of consciousness.

[Item: Walking beast’s battle armor]

[Equivalent Rank: Magic Tool, Common Grade, Rank One]

[Attributes: Toughness +21, Durability 21]

[Wish-fulfilling Degree: 5]

Apart from the Wish-fulfilling Degree, which was evidently higher than that of the armor smithed by Lin Feifeng, the armor was inferior in the other aspects.

The Wish-fulfilling Degree was probably a unique effect from using the Wish-fulfilling Clay. It was a limit for a piece of equipment to automatically expand and contract.

A Wish-fulfilling Degree of 3 represented a triple expansion-and-contraction limit, whereas a degree of 5 represented a 5-times scale.

Needless to say, whether the degree was 3 or 5, they indicated the scale limit. Once half of the Wish-fulfilling Degree’s scale was exceeded, the equipment’s attributes would begin to decline.

Ou Yangming would surely be satisfied if he smithed this equipment in the lower realm, but the magic tool of Common Grade Rank Three stirred emulation from him. He did not want to be defeated by anyone on the smithing part, by which he did not want to be inferior to anyone whether it was Wu Haohan and Jin Shengjie from the lower realm, or blacksmiths in the Spiritual Realm.

By thinking through his mind, his Military Fire did not disappear and kept scorching.

He began to assemble the various attributes stored in his sea of consciousness.

It was worth noting that his Military Fire had a special ability, which allowed him to draw and upgrade attributes. As such, attributes from different pieces of equipment could be used to upgrade another piece of equipment.

This was the most law-defying ability. Without being restrained by the world’s barrier, he could even smith a super-divine tool that would really precede everything.

Having said that, when Ou Yangming started to gather the Toughness attributes enveloped by purple lights this time, he came to a sudden realization that they could not upgrade the walking beast’s battle armor.

Ou Yangming was surprised because it was his first time encountering this problem. What frightened him more was if his Military Fire lost the ability, it would be an unimaginably tremendous loss for him.

The young fellow’s face changed. He believed that he had a rather ghastly look on his face at the moment.

However, he immediately calmed down and kept finding the reason.

Ever since he came to the Spiritual Realm, he realized that he no longer sensed obstacles from the world’s barrier when he smithed pieces of equipment.

Theoretically, he could upgrade an item’s attributes if he was willing to. That said, in reality, the purple-lights-bounded attributes were gathered on the armor but only lingered on it without penetrating it.

Ou Yangming had tried to control himself, but he was still upset and confused.

‘No, I must find the reason or it’ll mean that I lost my greatest reliance.’

His eyes suddenly lit up as he stared at the armor. ‘Since I can’t upgrade it, can I draw the attributes?’

Sometimes, thinking in a different path would make one feel like there was another way out.

[Drawable composition found, draw?]

‘Draw!’

Following Ou Yangming’s order, the Military Fire instantly became brighter, then the attributes were enveloped by purple lights one by one and were drawn from the equipment.

Ou Yangming quietly watched the process. He was moved as his mental conception focused on the purple lights, and he sensed something unordinary.

The attributes that were being wrapped by the purple lights were the same, but there was an exceptionally subtle difference between them.

Among the 21 Toughness attributes, 20 of them were the same as ordinary Toughness attributes, but one of the purple lights carried a mysterious ring of luster, which could not be noticed at all if one did not look carefully. Once one tried to distinguish the attributes closely, that attribute’s difference was revealed.

Ou Yangming was struck with a thought as he thought about a possibility.

He took a deep breath and merged the 21 purple lights, which were surrounding Toughness attributes in his sea of consciousness, at once.

The Layering Art.

Ou Yangming actually used the purple lights’ attributes to practice the Layering Art in his sea of consciousness.

Sure enough, as soon as he consciously carried out the process, the purple lights fused. Not only that, but the attributes inside them combined as well.

From +1 to +2, the points increased one by one until there were 21 points.

The moment the 21 points of ordinary Toughness attributes got together, the combined purple light emitted the same mysterious luster.

Ou Yangming was overwhelmed with indescribable joy. He knew that by working tirelessly, he finally found the way to break through his limit.

Magic tools were rare and could not be refined by anyone else in the lower realm due to the obstacle from the world’s power. Unless one broke through the power’s shackles, one would not be able to smith magic tools at all.

On the contrary, in the Spiritual Realm, due to the greatness of the world, one did not need to break through the world’s barrier anymore when one smithed magic tools.

Nonetheless, there was a considerable disparity between the powers of 20 points that represented ordinary tools and 21 points that symbolized magic tools. In order to upgrade a magic tool’s equivalent rank, instead of 1 point from an ordinary tool, 21 points of the same attribute from an ordinary tool were needed.

Ou Yangming exhaled deeply and was glad.

‘Luckily, I was well-prepared before I entered the Spiritual Realm. Apart from loads of ores, I also compacted many purple lights in the sea of consciousness in advance.

In total, there were at least 100 Toughness attributes.

With a flash of thought, Ou Yangming ordered a backflow of attributes. The armor regained its gloss right away, and it became more striking as the Military Fire burned.

After the 21 points of Toughness attributes returned to the armor, he carefully sent the agglomerated purple light into the equipment.

As expected, the armor accepted the purple light without repelling it this time. Almost at the same time, it had 22 points of Toughness attribute altogether.

Ou Yangming curled his lips proudly. Subsequently, another 21 purple-lights-bounded Toughness attributes in his sea of consciousness were condensed again…

At last, when the Military Fire was curbed, a brand new armor appeared in Ou Yangming’s hands.

[Item: Walking beast’s battle armor]

[Equivalent Rank: Magic Tool, Common Grade, Rank Three]

[Attributes: Toughness +23, Durability 23]

[Wish-fulfilling Degree: 5]

A Common Grade Rank Three—this was the first magic tool of Common Grade Rank Three produced by Ou Yangming.