Swallowing the Stars: Starting with a Meteor Tear

Chapter 187 The Primal Star Begins

"Hiss hiss hiss~~~"

On the rocky cliffs of the East Sea, blazing purplish-red flames burned wildly.

At the very center of the flames, an octagonal dark gold scale, hundreds of meters in diameter, was gradually taking shape.

Zhou Yang raised his hand and waved it, and the purple-red flames in the sky instantly dissipated, leaving only the huge dark golden scales floating in the air.

"Before it takes shape, it needs to be imprinted with one of the eight fundamental laws using eight different elemental liquids, and then connected to the main chaotic runes of the Reincarnation Armor."

With a thought, eight streams of spiritual liquid of different colors—gold, green, blue, and red—rose from the lakes on the island.

With his precise control over the power of the new universe's spacetime, Zhou Yang began to control the several streams of spiritual liquid to 'draw' on the dark golden scales.

"Hiss hiss hiss~~~"

As soon as the streams of spiritual liquid containing different attributes came into contact with the still-cooled dark gold scales, they immediately stirred up a blazing mist.

As the spiritual liquid was being consumed in large quantities, Zhou Yang controlled lakes of spiritual liquid to continuously replenish it, ensuring that the 'drawing' could continue.

Starting from the very center of the dark gold scale, twisted, secret-patterned threads of different colors began to coil and spread outwards towards the outer edge of the scale.

With the aid of the new spacetime power, Zhou Yang achieved an extremely precise control over each stream of spiritual liquid, and no mistakes occurred during the process.

As he continued to draw, the entire dark gold scale was soon covered with dense, intricate patterns.

Eight secret patterns of silk threads continued to extend, spreading towards the eight vertices of the dark gold scales.

"Buzz~"

The moment this step was completed, the dark gold scales shone brightly, and the threads of secret patterns flickered and lit up, then quickly disappeared, eventually merging completely into the interior of the dark gold scales.

At the same time, a hazy force of attraction was born between the dark gold scales and the Samsara Armor, as if they couldn't wait to merge into one.

"It's a success!"

A smile appeared on Zhou Yang's lips.

With a thought, the fully formed dark gold scales in the air quickly drifted down.

During this process, the scales, which were hundreds of meters in diameter, shrank continuously until they were the size of an ordinary leaf, landing on the shoulder area of ​​his Samsara Armor.

At the point where the dark gold scales meet the Reincarnation Armor, dazzling secret patterns spread and intertwine, ultimately connecting the two closely.

Zhou Yang slightly activated it, and countless secret patterns immediately lit up on the Samsara Divine Armor.

"The power transmission is stronger, and the basic amplitude of the Chaos Runes is also increasing the power of the entire Reincarnation Armor by about one-thousandth?"

Zhou Yang silently sensed it and soon understood.

"If a single scale increases the power by one-thousandth, and ten thousand scales are collected, could the power of the Reincarnation Armor be increased tenfold again? The Reincarnation Armor is already considered a top-grade supreme treasure; if it's increased tenfold again, it would probably rank among the very best of all supreme treasures!"

"Unfortunately, I've almost used up all the materials I have."

A moment later, he put away the Reincarnation Armor and stood up to look at the island below.

At this point, the various refining materials that had once filled almost the entire island had been almost completely used up, leaving only a few small piles of ore materials scattered around.

"Unbeknownst to me, I have been studying weapon crafting here for over 90,000 years."

Zhou Yang couldn't help but sigh.

Ninety thousand years—that's the time in the original universe. If we take into account the time acceleration in the new universe, with the growth of the new universe, the limit he can now control time acceleration is close to five thousand times. Even if we calculate it at an average of three thousand or four thousand times, he has been in this new universe for at least 3 million years!

Time really flies when you're truly immersed in something!

As such a long period of time passed, through repeated trials and forgings, and with repeated practice, Zhou Yang's weapon-forging skills naturally improved by leaps and bounds!

At first, he could only imitate some Immortal-level and Venerable-level equipment. After he became proficient in imitation, he began to create new weapons and equipment himself. As his weapon-refining skills gradually improved, he even began to try refining precious treasures.

At a little over 120 million years ago, he successfully forged his first piece of equipment of the level of a great treasure, a divine sword!

It must be said that with the assistance of the new universe's spacetime power and his mastery of various laws and mysteries, he has an unparalleled advantage in weapon crafting, ensuring both the success rate and the quality of his crafted items.

He then set his sights on mastering the crafting of high-grade equipment.

However, since the materials needed to forge powerful artifacts are scarce, he cannot mass-produce them like he would for ordinary equipment. He can only ponder and conceive the design in silence, and only begin to forge them when he has a greater degree of confidence.

Basically, it guarantees the ability to forge two or three powerful artifacts every ten thousand years.

He would then offer these successfully crafted treasures to his clan in exchange for enough contribution points, after which he would draw more crafting materials from the clan's treasury.

At first, his success rate in refining powerful artifacts was low, and many materials were wasted, which led to him being unable to make ends meet. He even had to use several powerful artifacts he had obtained from the extraterritorial battlefield to make up for the shortfall.

However, as his skills improved, his success rate in refining weapons gradually increased, and he was able to maintain a balance, even making a slight profit later on.

By ten thousand years ago, he had crafted at least thirty to forty thousand pieces of equipment of the highest quality!

Thirty to forty thousand treasures! Even if they are all the lowest-level treasures, they are worth at least tens of thousands of treasure points, which is enough to be compared with a dozen or so of the most common supreme treasures!

Moreover, as Zhou Yang's weapon-refining skills improved, he later refined many high-quality treasures.

Over the course of tens of thousands of years, tens of thousands of pieces of equipment of the level of heavy treasures have been poured into the exchange vault of Chaos City, even causing the exchange ratio of heavy treasure points to supreme treasure points to drop slightly!

With plenty of materials to practice on, his weapon-refining skills naturally improved rapidly!

Ten thousand years ago, he even successfully crafted the first piece of equipment of supreme treasure quality!

Having reached this point, he was qualified to be called a "master craftsman" in the entire primordial universe!

However, materials of the supreme treasure level are even rarer, and even the treasure trove of the Virtual Universe Company has very few of them circulating.

Over the next ten thousand years, Zhou Yang pieced together and managed to refine only three ordinary treasures, including a 'scale' component needed to perfect the Reincarnation Divine Armor.

The reason why there are so few "master crafters" in the universe who can forge supreme treasures is largely because supreme treasure-level materials are rare and precious. Ordinary crafters rarely have the opportunity to practice, so their skill level naturally improves slowly.

"It's probably difficult to gain more experience through extensive experimentation, so the improvement in weapon crafting skills will likely slow down."

Zhou Yang sighed helplessly, feeling somewhat disappointed.

Over the years, not only has his weapon-refining skills made great progress, but through continuous experimentation and refining, he has also gained a deeper understanding of the combination and application of various law runes, and his comprehension of law fusion has been somewhat faster.

This also confirmed his guess that the laws of fusion and the art of weapon crafting can indeed reinforce and enhance each other.

Unfortunately, the level of the secret runes used to refine high-grade treasures was relatively low, so they didn't offer much benefit to him anymore, while the materials for refining supreme treasures were limited.

Just as he was feeling lost, his clone in the primordial universe received an email notification from the Lord of Chaos City.

"Supreme Council. Primal Star?"

His eyes lit up when he saw the contents of the email.

(End of this chapter)