Deep within the northern peak of the Crafting School. The stone doors to the belly of the mountain swung open wide to reveal Bai Yunfei striding in.
A figure materialized from the flames when Bai Yunfei appeared and quickly took on the form of Heavenfire.
âWhat is it, Yunfei?â
âEverythingâs going well so far. AhâRui is fine, Dongfang Ming is dead, and his core is destroyed.â
âVery well then.â Heavenfire sniffed, âNot even death is good enough for the likes of him! And so goes for the demonic core. Such a thing is not meant to exist.â
âSenior Heavenfire,â Bai Yunfei spoke up, not willing to spend any more time on the superfluous details, âLetâs get started crafting. Master is slowly getting weaker, itâd unwise to stall any longer.â
âIndeed. Let us begin at once!â
Nodding, Bai Yunfei sat down on the ground and waved his hand. With a âbangâ, the Dualflame Cauldron slammed down onto the ground in front of him. A stream of materials appeared out of thin air to float around the cauldron, among those materials were the Heavenâs Bloodtears and the dagger demon armament.
He was planning to âreforgeâ the soul armament!
The cause of Zi Jinâs current plight was because of this dagger. To eliminate the dagger would be to eliminate the problem, but there wasnât really an easy way to go about it. Upgrading it to +11 wouldnât necessarily mean itâd become his soulbound armament, and upgrading it to +12 was a risky venture. Considering the odds, Bai Yunfei decided it was better to reforge the soul armament and then upgrade it after.
Bai Yunfei didnât know what the Heavenâs Bloodtears was capable of, but Heavenfire was fortunately knowledgeable about its properties. The two conferred quickly about what materials would be best for the task, and the Heavenâs Bloodtears was chosen to be used as the primary material to reforge the dagger demon armament to increase its power.
That being said, increasing the power of this dagger wasnât the primary goal of Bai Yunfei. His goal first and foremost was to elevate his compatibility with it. With Heavenfireâs help, Bai Yunfei was confident his compatibility with the dagger would be quite high. He was ninety percent confident that his compatibility would be high enough to reach the soulbound armament level after upgrading it as well.
So he came to Heavenfire the moment the matter with Huangfu Rui was dealt with. The Core Stone was temporarily given to Tang Xinyun for safekeeping on the main peak so Huangfu Rui and the red magiboar could focus on their breakthrough. But since the elemental energy within the Core World wasnât enough, the Core Stone had to supplement it by drawing in the energy from the real world. As a result, the skies above Mt. Crimson was a chaotic influx of fire.
Done with the prep work, Bai Yunfei gave a nod to Heavenfire and slammed a palm to his chest. In response, his fireseed popped out from him and flew into the Dualflame Cauldron.
âBang!!â The cauldron roared to life at once with a heat hot enough to immediately raise the temperature of the room.
At the same time, Heavenfire burst apart into a wisp of fire to flow into the cauldron. It trembled once when Heavenfire entered it and began to expel flames twice as strong.
Exhaling softly, Bai Yunfei waved his hand. The dagger and the Heavenâs Bloodtears floated into the cauldron and was soon followed by the other materialsâŠ
The passage of time flowed as it always did. Slowly, but surely, twenty hours had passed beforeâŠ
An ear-deafening explosion cracked apart the silence in the room as a pillar of flames jettisoned out from the cauldron. Slamming into the roof of the cave, the flames billowed out throughout the room, dying the air with a blood-red color. It seemed as though the flames themselves were dyed the color of blood as it danced, but it soon dissipated as the cauldron extinguished itself and sent its fireseed back into Bai Yunfei.
Fatigued, but otherwise excited, Bai Yunfei took the newly reforged dagger into his hand.
It was the same demon armament, but its outer shape had changed just a bit. Standing at two finger-widths wide and two-thirds of a meter tall, the demon armament was scarlet in color. Elemental fire rose from the blade, but there was also a paradoxically cold feeling stemming from it. But the most particular detail about the demon armament were the small blood-red markings on the surface of the blade. They looked like blood drops in a way not too different from the drops in the Heavenâs Bloodtears.
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Grabbing hold of the shortsword, Bai Yunfei smiled. âFrom today onward, youâll be known as the Heavenâs Bloodtear Sword!
Bai Yunfei exitted from the cave to return to where Zi Jin was. Striding into the room, he saw Shen Pojun beside the unconscious elder, transferring soulforce into the man to aid him. But Zi Jinâs aura was already substantially weaker than before, and the negative energy was now leaking from his body in a more noticeable state.
Only Shen Pojun and Zi Jin were in the room, so Shen Pojun was quick to see Bai Yunfeiâs arrival. âYunfei!â He announced, âHow did it go?â
The Heavenâs Bloodtear Sword appeared in Bai Yunfeiâs left hand in response. âIâve managed to turn it into my soulbound armament. There shouldnât be any problems if I test it out now.â
Shen Pojun stood up to let Bai Yunfei come close. His left hand detached from Zi Jinâs shoulder, causing the soulforce of the latter to start to tremble violently. Narrowing his eyes, Bai Yunfei latched onto Zi Jinâs right wrist with his hand at once.
The Heavenâs Bloodtear Sword in his left hand began to hum. Focused, Bai Yunfei waited as the negative energy within Zi Jinâs body suddenly flowed into Zi Jinâs right wrist and slowly began to be drained out into the sword.
Excited, Bai Yunfei kept watch as the negative energy continued to flow to the sword. The flow was very calm and obedient, and it seemed like it wouldnât take much longer for the entirety of the energy to be drained away.
Finally, when the last of the negative energy was drained, Bai Yunfei could sense Zi Jinâs lifeforce reach a stasis. It was no longer in a state of constant decreaseâŠ
Relieved, Bai Yunfei suddenly felt everything go dark before he slumped to the ground. Though exhausted of energy, Bai Yunfei could feel a smile creep onto his face.
His master would finally be savedâŠ