Inside the volcano.

The process of reforging a weapon was quite traditional. Because the True Qi Forge had just undergone a comprehensive overhaul and inspection, and still needed to accumulate volcanic leyline energy for the 'Earth Vein Flame Iron', it couldn't be used to process materials. However, the Grand Artisan was willing to personally forge a fine iron cross spear for Su Zhou once more.

"Spirit wood, acceptable. For you, spirit iron, better."

This meant that the spirit wood rod that Su Zhou had originally infused with the Wisdom Tree's aura was already quite good, but for him, it would be even better to forge it from spirit iron that was born alongside the Earth Vein Flame Iron.

"Why, a cross? An inverted divination shape, a crescent shape, are better."

Setting up the furnace, Su Zhou watched as the Grand Artisan directly used internal force to drive the fire. In this area around the volcano, fire-attributed spiritual energy was unbelievably abundant. Here, the Grand Artisan, with his extremely Yang internal force, was completely equivalent to being in the 'Celestial-Human Cycle' state. His internal force recovery speed was terrifyingly fast.

It could even be said that around the volcano, the Grand Artisan was equal to a Grandmaster's combat power!

Just now, he was asking Su Zhou why he didn't use an inverted divination shape or a crescent-shaped side blade on his spear-halberd. The cross spear had no other advantages and was troublesome to carry around and fight with. Of course, this was just an inquiry based on their personal relationship. The client, Su Zhou, had already placed the order, so he didn't care why.

"The cross shape itself is a sacred geometric shape, convenient for the operation of my cultivation method. Just think of it as me having a unique martial art, skilled in using this type of weapon." Su Zhou was also happy to chat with the Grand Artisan, and also asked about armor, but the answer didn't quite satisfy him.

Martial artists in this world emphasized lightness and evasion in combat. Internal energy defense made their bodies and leather clothing comparable to armor. If they were Grandmasters, their internal force could even deflect crossbow bolts. Slightly lighter weapons couldn't even be worn. Therefore, apart from large-scale battles, very few people fought in armor.

Moreover, in this northern snowfield, experts and Grandmasters who were immune to heat and cold were few. Metal armor was inconvenient and also affected combat in the snow, so there wasn't any.

"Leather armor, also exists, for you, useless."

Su Zhou thought that made sense. What use would ordinary leather armor be against attacks that could break through his flesh? Unless it was custom-made, it would only hinder his movements. So Su Zhou simply watched the Grand Artisan's every move, focusing on his extremely skilled fire starting, smelting the spirit iron, and then using internal force to restrain the molten iron in the air, pouring it into the mold.

--Amazing! This is just like magic or telekinesis in some novels!

This scene made Su Zhou open his eyes wide, temporarily strengthening his spirit vision to see clearly how the other party restrained matter with spiritual power!

"This is Air Control? No, it's just a rather complex spiritual power manipulation technique, but I think I can do the same thing with Air Control!"

While watching, he learned, and even began to imitate the Grand Artisan's movements, using his own spiritual power to control and shape it, and then grab the rocks on the ground.

At first, it was quite clumsy, but soon, Su Zhou was pleasantly surprised to find that the 'Air Control' that he thought could only form 'air-splitting palm force' and 'sword-qi blades' could actually form such a convenient and easy-to-use posture, easily controlling matter!

"But the more complex the shape, the heavier the things you pick up, the more spiritual power it consumes—if it's used for attack and defense, the air-splitting palm and spiritual energy blade are still the best, but if it's some delicate remote operations..."

"I have the Celestial-Human Cycle, and my spiritual power recovery speed is extremely fast, so I can squander it, while the Grand Artisan probably can only do this around the volcano... of course, the most important thing is discovering this special spiritual power utilization technique!"

And Yala, disguised as Su Zhou's hair, watched as the other party's skill in using spiritual energy improved at an incredible speed. It smiled, and then shrank back.

--This little guy, after eating the Wisdom Fruit, probably gained the most not in terms of normal human thinking ability, but in terms of his talent for the supernatural.

The Grand Artisan next to him had also noticed that Su Zhou was openly learning his techniques. He never minded others learning his techniques, anyway, it would be impossible to master them without spending more than ten years. But, just as he began to forge the spear shaft, the corner of his eye caught Su Zhou's movements, and his heart trembled!

Because at this time, Su Zhou was already using a lever structure condensed with spiritual power to make two stones play seesaw!

"Where did this monster come from?! Although it's a bit rough, there's no doubt that he has already grasped the essence of this 'Qi Condensation Object Control Technique'!" Because it was what he thought in his heart, the sentence was smooth. But after thinking that the other party had advanced to the Grandmaster realm at the age of seventeen, and was possibly a non-human genius from the Kunlun Mountain's Sacred Tree, while he was just a diligent human artisan, the Grand Artisan was too lazy to feel jealous. Instead, he focused on doing his own thing.

As long as he could eliminate the Demonic Dynasty and avenge the two hundred and seventy-one members of the Five Weapons Sect, the more of these geniuses, the better!

The righteous army members who wholeheartedly fought against the An Dynasty undoubtedly had deep hatred for the An Dynasty and had their own stories.

The forging process didn't take too long. By the time the Grand Artisan extinguished the fire and quenched the alloy spirit iron long rod with a secret refined oil, and then reignited the furnace, only a few hours had passed.

The reignited furnace was filled with a special kind of wood powder, which burned with a very low-temperature cyan flame. The Grand Artisan used Qi Condensation Object Control to separate the spearhead structure that Su Zhou had rudely melted together. Then, he added another kind of spirit wood, and finally baked the tail spike mandibles and spirit wood in the cyan flame for a long time, and then immersed them in the spiritual water transformed from the 'Obscure Leyline Crystal'.

After this spiritual water was completely absorbed by the spearhead, the wood-based spiritual material, which originally had a hint of dark green, completely transformed into a crystal-like, dark-colored cross spearhead, like metal. The spiral tip, formed by entangled poisonous thorns, exuded a gloomy and sharp aura, with a inexplicably terrifying sense of danger.

"Wood spirit, take root. Yin attribute, water condense."

Su Zhou understood. This meant that the material of the wood centipede was a wood-attributed spiritual material. Although it had some supernatural characteristics, it was better to invigorate its wood nature and let them take root and entangle each other to make it stable, rather than melting it together with raging flames. And because the obscure spiritual energy crystal was a Yin attribute, it was better to use it for casting and forging with water condensation method.

As for why he could understand so much, it could only be said that he didn't eat the Wisdom Fruit for nothing.

"Take it."

"Thank you, Grand Artisan!"

Under the effect of the Qi Control technique, the spear flew into the air, rotating to show every detail to Su Zhou for observation.

--The spear shaft is seven chi and two cun long, weighs about ninety-six jin and forty-eight kilograms, and is forged from earth vein spirit iron mixed with tungsten steel. The spearhead is a spiritual Yin wood material, which can break armor, curse enemies, is good at injuring spirit bodies. After hitting, it can extinguish people's Yang energy, making them weak and powerless, dizzy, and even suffer a great mental shock. And if it hits a ghost, it will reverse plunder the other party's spiritual energy, causing incurable damage!

Because a new spirit wood was added as the main structure, the spearhead of this cross spear was larger. The main structure was more like a hammer with three protruding spearheads derived from it. Su Zhou looked at the dark, gloomy luster on it, and under the illumination of the molten lava fire, it slightly bloomed with a dark green, dangerous cold light, and couldn't help but be extremely satisfied.

"Later, when I go back and inscribe runes, my strength will be even higher—this spirit wood world is really my blessed land. In just a few days, my strength has greatly improved!"

Impressed by the great opportunities and help brought by transmigrating to another world, Su Zhou looked at the spear and thought of his enemies on Earth, and his heart couldn't help but feel hot.

The newly forged spear shaft actually needed to be left for a period of time to cool down and release stress. But how convenient was extraordinary power like spiritual power? Su Zhou casually took it, and his spiritual power, which already had the power to strengthen and change, ran through every tiny corner of the long rod, and all the stress was offset by the spiritual power.

"Good spear!"

Speaking of which, this is also a convenience of extraordinary power. If there are powerful transcendents, not to mention anything else, just releasing stress for the huge parts of large industrial facilities would be a great, easy, profitable, and reputation-building business.

As for the high temperature, he wasn't afraid.

"Deserved, return quickly."

Looking at Su Zhou's happy expression, the Grand Artisan also smiled and shook his head. He didn't say much, turned around, and headed towards the interior of the volcano—there were still many things waiting for him to do.

The Grand Artisan specifically took the time to reforge Su Zhou's weapon because he was worried—spies had already infiltrated this place, and were even preparing to launch an attack, wouldn't that mean the An Dynasty's demonic soldiers would be attacking soon? If so, being able to increase their combat power by even half a point would be good.

He also remembered the three demonic soldier heads that Su Zhou threw out when he arrived, and sighed even more in his heart: "Those were scouts... it seems that a demonic soldier force has already gathered at the foot of the Taibai Mountains."

And carrying his newly acquired weapon, Su Zhou was planning to hum a little tune and return to his tent to continue cultivating.

But just as he walked out of the forging camp, he saw Li Daoran and Zhou Buyi in white standing at the entrance of the camp, obviously waiting for him.

The reason why the two were waiting for Su Zhou was also very simple. In short, it was to have a heart-to-heart talk before the battle.

"Yesterday, after interrogating many suspicious people, we finally managed to forcibly save the life of an insider under Grandmaster Han's medical skills—from his mouth, we pried out some information, and also contacted righteous soldiers from all walks of life through carrier pigeons."

Although the two hadn't slept all night, they were both Houtian experts after all, so they weren't exhausted. Li Daoran didn't have any taboos and told Su Zhou about the information: "Because of the traitors, the teams escorting the divine weapon materials have encountered several interceptions, and even three teams have been wiped out midway."

"Fortunately, we knew from the beginning that the demonic soldiers were swift and mobile, so we prepared for the interceptions. And of the three teams that were transporting, two of them were transporting duplicate materials, so it wouldn't slow down the pace of forging the divine weapon."

"But the bad news is that the divine weapon is still missing the last main material, 'Western Regions Astral Sand'—that main material is already scarce and needs to be picked up little by little from the Western Regions sand sea. From the moment we decided to forge the Extinction Blade, our companions in the Western Regions began to collect it with all their strength, but until today, there are only three copies. The escorting team was also intercepted, and now there is only one team left that can arrive in the Taibai Mountain area according to the agreed time."

When Li Daoran said this, it was obvious that he had expected the current situation. Although the situation was critical, it wasn't very urgent.

He took Zhou Buyi and walked with Su Zhou on the mountain road leading to the top of the Taibai Mountain. His tone was calm and powerful: "Our best Qinggong expert, Grandmaster Weilie, has already led people to meet them overnight. When they return, the forging of the divine weapon can also begin—now everything is ready, and with the True Qi Forge, a strange creation far surpassing ancient times, to assist us, it won't take a few days to forge the divine weapon as long as we prepare the materials. But what worries us is another piece of news."

"A demonic soldier force is following closely behind the escort team and is about to attack."