Swallowing the Stars: 100x Return for Teaching Apprentices

Chapter 212 Weapon Refining
Rumble~~~
The gates of the Pantheon opened, and almost all the cosmic lords stood up.

Each of the cosmic venerables chatted and laughed as they walked directly toward the golden gates of the Pantheon. As soon as they stepped through the gates, they were all teleported away.

The entire Supreme Conference lasted a very short time, but the two pieces of news announced by the Lord of Chaos City at the conference excited all the Universe Venerables!

The first thing is to activate the primordial star, which needs no further explanation.

10081 primordial stars nurtured countless treasures, with ordinary treasures being insignificant and supreme treasures frequently appearing!

It can be said that every time a primordial star opens, it is a grand event for billions of races in the universe, naturally attracting the attention of countless powerful beings!

The second thing, however, excited and delighted these cosmic venerables even more—

Our clan's extraordinary lord is actually a 'master craftsman' capable of forging high-grade treasures!
This master craftsman was not only willing to forge treasures for them free of charge during the opening of the Primordial Star, but he could also directly provide treasures for them to rent.

What a tremendous surprise this is for those cosmic venerables who aspire to venture into the primordial planet!
The primordial star harbors countless treasures, but also numerous dangers.

The universe is filled with countless races, including numerous cosmic venerables and cosmic masters who roam the Primordial Star, fighting and vying for treasures. Every opening of the Primordial Star is a terrifying massacre, and many cosmic masters perish within its confines!

In such a dangerous environment, every powerful individual who wants to enter the Primordial Star will naturally try every means to improve their strength, especially their ability to survive.

The first choice to bring about a huge improvement in a short period of time is naturally to obtain one or two powerful treasures that suit oneself!
However, supreme treasures are extremely rare and precious; the vast majority of primary and intermediate universe venerables do not possess any supreme treasures.

Even some cosmic overlords may not lack weapons and armor-type treasures, but not all of them can possess special types of treasures, such as soul-type, domain-type, and palace-type treasures!

Normally, it would be extremely difficult for these cosmic venerables to obtain such treasures!
Either you perform great deeds and might be rewarded by the tribe, or you accumulate merit over many years and exchange it for the tribe's contributions.

Regardless of the channel, it would take an unknown amount of time. The opening period of the Primal Star might have ended by then, and they might not even be able to gather enough contribution points to exchange for a supreme treasure.

Now, the race has actually provided them with such a fast way to obtain treasures. How could all the cosmic venerables not be excited about this!
They could choose to provide their own materials and have the Master of the Wonderful Realm forge a treasure for them for free, or they could choose to directly rent an existing treasure. This was a dream come true!
The main reason why treasures are so rare and precious in this world is naturally the scarcity of ways to obtain them.

Aside from the large number of treasures that appear every time the Primordial Star opens, the rest of the time they just ask the very few 'weapon crafting masters' who can craft treasures to help them.

The number of 'master craftsmen' who can forge supreme treasures is extremely small. Even though the human race is the top race in the universe, there are only a very few craftsmen of this level, and one of them is from the alien race of the Hongmeng Alliance.

These 'master craftsmen' hold a slightly higher status among humans than many cosmic overlords, making it extremely difficult to persuade them to take action.

Firstly, the other party also needs to cultivate and has limited time. Secondly, the cost of getting them to help is quite high.

For example, the materials needed to craft an ordinary treasure, plus the selling fee, might be worth as much as three sets of top-tier treasure sets.

Even for a cosmic sovereign, this price is quite high.

A single top-tier set of treasures is already close to or even comparable in value to a single ordinary treasure. Three such sets of treasures are worth far more than a single ordinary treasure.

Of course, although it may sound like a bad deal, there is a great advantage to having a master craftsman forge a treasure for you. He can design and create a treasure that is most suitable for your own use based on your own characteristics. This is much better than just exchanging for a barely usable treasure.

Moreover, even if you contribute treasures to your clan or faction and exchange them for supreme treasures, there will be a discount involved, so it may not be as cost-effective as having someone forge a supreme treasure.

Therefore, when they heard that the Master of the Wonderful Fate Pavilion was willing to refine a supreme treasure for them for free, all the cosmic venerables were overjoyed and excited.

If only the materials are provided and no additional fees are required, then the cost of crafting a supreme treasure can be reduced by at least one-third, or even more than one-half!

For some cosmic venerables who already had enough materials, this can save a lot of money, while for those whose wealth is slightly less than that of those who are able to refine a supreme treasure, this is now affordable. This is naturally great news!
Moreover, even if the accumulated resources are insufficient to refine a supreme treasure, one can choose to rent a supreme treasure from the Master of Wonderful Encounters.

Purchasing a treasure is prohibitively expensive, but renting one is much cheaper, and almost all cosmic beings can easily afford it.

In the past, when the Primordial Star opened, some cosmic venerables who did not have suitable treasures would swallow their pride and make a lot of promises to borrow treasures from friends who did not plan to enter the Primordial Star for the time being, and sometimes they were not even able to borrow them.

Renting from Qiyuan Louzhu would be much more convenient.

As a master craftsman, the Master of the Wonderful Fate Pavilion must possess a considerable number of supreme treasures. Moreover, judging from the information revealed by the Lord of Chaos City, the cost of renting supreme treasures does not seem to be too high. This naturally tempted some cosmic venerables who were short of money but wanted to enter the Primordial Star to take a gamble!
Their only worry now is whether the Lord of the Wonderful Realm has enough treasures. They don't want there to be not enough to go around because so many people want to rent them…

"My application to rent a common-level treasure has been approved, and I'm notified to go to Chaos City to pick it up? That's great! I can even successfully rent such a treasure! I'll head to Chaos City now!"

"I was still short of materials to forge a basic Supreme Treasure Armor, but according to the standards set by the Master of Fate, I have enough. I request, I request the Master of Fate's help to forge it immediately!"

"The cost of renting a treasure can be converted into materials like the flesh, scales, and hair of special life forms? Last time I ventured into the Meteorite Realm, I obtained quite a few special life form materials, including several complete corpses of special life forms. I wonder how much contribution points that would be worth."

One by one, the cosmic venerables who wanted to refine or rent supreme treasures acted quickly. They first submitted their applications in advance through the virtual universe system, and after their applications were approved, they immediately set off for Chaos City to wait for their collection.

Suddenly, Chaos City, which was usually extremely quiet, became unusually lively.

"What's going on? Why are there so many Universe Venerables coming to Chaos City lately? I've seen at least ten Universe Lords who have established their own Universe Kingdoms!"

"Island Lord Chi Yan! He hasn't shown himself for so many years, but he's appeared this time!" "It seems that all those Universe Venerables have gone to the Temple of Miraculous Fate!"

"The Wonderful Destiny Manor, where is the Wonderful Destiny Master? So many powerful figures gathered here, has something significant happened in the clan...?"

……

In the Qiyuan Mansion, which is under the watchful eyes of countless people, lies the quiet courtyard where Qi Yuan usually meditates.

At this moment, in a corner of the courtyard, there is an elegant pavilion that is entirely green and looks like it has been carved from jade.

The entire pavilion appears to be only about ten meters high from the outside, but once you step inside, you'll find yourself in a completely different world.

The space is incredibly vast, easily exceeding ten million kilometers.

"Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!"...

The rhythmic tapping sounds echoed continuously in the space.

Following the direction from which the sound came, one could see Qi Yuan standing in front of a black stone platform in the center of the space.

At this moment, Qi Yuan was using his divine power to simultaneously control eighteen enormous purple divine hammers to fall continuously.

As they fell, the space around each of the divine hammers began to rotate completely, even cracking open the space itself, making the hammers resemble drill bits.

"Pong!"

The hammer slammed into the black stone platform in front of him. A layer of constantly rising air currents swirled around the surface of the platform, and the blazing red flames were rapidly swirled by this air current.

On the surface of this stone platform, dozens of materials are scattered about. While being scorched by flames, these materials are also being constantly hammered by those purple divine hammers.

The speed at which those divine hammers fall is difficult to judge.

Sometimes, a single breath is but one hammer blow, but sometimes, a fleeting moment is like a thousand or ten thousand hammer blows.

At the same moment each hammer blow lands on the material, seven, eight, or occasionally nine whirlwinds fly out from that divine hammer.

Those whirlwinds swept up the materials, spinning them at high speed and emitting eerie howling sounds.

Qi Yuan swung his hammer, sometimes as swift as thunder, sometimes as graceful as a gentle breeze, and sometimes as soft as spring rain...

The whirlwinds, almost tearing through space, kept flying out, causing the airflow on the entire stone platform to constantly rise and evaporate.

In this almost monotonous hammering, materials gradually melted, and then more materials were added.

Through repeated melting, infusion, fusion, and forging, an ancient long spear, entirely black except for its silvery-white tip, gradually took shape.

"Hiss~~~"

Qi Yuan guided streams of molten metal into the spear, where they formed a complex network of secret runes at its core.

After a long time, when the complete secret rune circuit was imprinted, a ball of silvery-white liquid emitting an extremely cold aura appeared out of thin air and enveloped the entire spear.

"Hiss hiss hiss~~~"

The entire spear cooled down rapidly, its toughness increased quickly, and the engraved secret circuits within solidified rapidly.

A layer of dark, eerie light appeared faintly on the surface of the spear, then quickly disappeared.

"Constantly creating and combining various secret runes according to the requirements of those cosmic venerables has given me a lot of inspiration in this area, and I've made rapid progress..."

"The combination of material properties and solidified patterns is almost perfect, making the power of this treasure extremely close to that of a top-tier treasure."

Qi Yuan silently activated his senses for a moment, then threw the spear onto an extremely large weapon rack to the side.

The enormous weapon rack was entirely dark blue-black, with numerous empty spaces of varying sizes. Many of these spaces contained various treasures, such as weapons, armor, and small towers.

A vast number of treasures were on display; at a glance, the number was at least tens of thousands!

"Xiao Ai, tally up the total gains over this period," Qi Yuan commanded.

"Yes, Master."

(End of this chapter)