Chapter 310: The Only Fifth-Tier Array Master in Gamma!
If Jiang Lin wanted to continue cultivating the Refining Fire Sutra, he would definitely have to keep improving his Crystal Core level.
A sixth-tier Crystal Core could allow Jiang Lin to cultivate until he reached the peak of the Dou Huang stage, but after that, he wouldn't dare to break through. Although he didn't know what would happen when he attempted to break through, the sixth-tier Crystal Core forged from a sixth-tier magic core probably wouldn't withstand the terrifying pressure of the seventh-tier Refining Fire Sutra at the Dou Zong stage.
To safely break through to the Dou Zong stage, Jiang Lin would have to prepare various seventh-tier Crystal Cores while at the peak of Dou Huang. However, obtaining seventh-tier Crystal Cores meant seeking out seventh-tier magic cores. With the unspoken agreement between the various races on Dou Qi Continent, even sixth-tier magic cores were hard to come by, let alone seventh-tier ones. And Jiang Lin would need nearly ten different types of seventh-tier magic cores, each with different attributes.
If he were to hunt magical beasts, this would mean Jiang Lin would have to kill all the seventh-tier magical beasts in the surrounding empires, but he still might not be able to collect all the attributes.
And these were just seventh-tier magical beasts. What about eighth-tier ones? Would Jiang Lin have to kill seven or eight eighth-tier magical beasts from the Beastmen race?
Then, what about the ninth-tier ones?
Five Elements, Ice, Thunder, Wind, Light, and Darkness—ten of them!
Ten Dou Sheng-level beings!
With the Beastmen's strength, they could certainly gather these ten Dou Sheng-level beast heads. But wouldn't that be a terrifying scene of a great demon lord? How could he keep hunting a single sheep? What if Jiang Lin encounters a human Dou Sheng with an attribute that perfectly matches his own? It would be a waste not to take advantage of that.
Humans and Beastmen should stand together in times of need, treated equally by Jiang Lin.
"But it's still early. I don't have any issues even getting to Dou Huang right now. I basically don't have any bottlenecks. As long as the quality of my Dou Qi is enough, I can directly break through," Jiang Lin said with a slight smile. The Refining Fire Sutra had kept Jiang Lin's cultivation at a stage where his physical body was racing ahead, and his Dou Qi was chasing behind. All the difficulties on the cultivation path were cleared away by his brave and powerful body. As long as he kept his Dou Qi from lagging too far behind, he would be fine.
"Hey, this cultivation technique of yours..." Hearing Jiang Lin's words, Yao Chen's lips twitched slightly, his mood becoming silent.
Cultivation was the process of constantly enhancing one's inner energy. Many people encountered bottlenecks because their external energy and internal energy reached a balance, causing as much energy to be lost as gained, resulting in no progress. But Jiang Lin's path was different: "I've already broken through to Dou Zong with my body. Do you still dare to block my Dou Qi?"
Using a Dou Zong body to force Dou Huang Dou Qi to break through to Dou Zong... it couldn't be said to be easy, but it certainly wasn't difficult.
"Alright, I have to go out, I still need to pay some money," Jiang Lin interrupted Yao Chen's musings. He first took out a set of clothes from his storage ring, changed into them, and then dispelled his energy robe. He walked out of the refining room, carrying the Strange Fire Xuan Heavy Ruler.
Crack.
As soon as the metal door to the refining room opened, Jiang Lin felt more than a dozen pairs of eyes locking onto him. Jiang Lin looked up and saw that it was quite lively outside.
The President of the Alchemist Guild, Fama, and the elder in a rough robe from the Gamma Royal Family, along with many weapon refiners that Jiang Lin was familiar with, though some were strangers.
"Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening, everyone!" Jiang Lin adjusted his clothes and his somewhat messy hair, giving a bright and cheerful smile to the people outside. Thanks to his previous 'self-immolation' experiences, Jiang Lin had already learned how to use Dou Qi to protect his hair. If it weren't for the intense flames and the protection from the Fire Spirit Color Lotus, Jiang Lin could have kept his clothes intact as well.
Fama glanced up at the starlight streaming in from the corridor, then turned his gaze to the smiling boy standing at the door of the refining room. After a slight pause, he finally sighed and said, "Well, it seems like I should let you off easy, huh?"
Jiang Lin just grinned, giving a slight nod to Fama and the elder, Jia Xing Tian, before exchanging a look with Yuan Bao and the others nearby. Yuan Bao immediately understood, then beckoned everyone to move to a more suitable place to talk.
"Big Brother, help clean up the refining room. Hmm, the damages, let's say they're on me," Jiang Lin nearly said "on Hulei," but he caught himself. Ugh, he must've learned this bad habit from Yuan Bao. Yuan Bao always joked about doing bad things and then saying, "It's on Hulei," whenever something went wrong.
After speaking, Jiang Lin, carrying the massive Strange Fire Xuan Heavy Ruler, left with Han Yu and the others, heading to a more suitable place to talk. Throughout this time, everyone's gaze was focused on the heavy weapon strapped to Jiang Lin's back. Although it was simply wrapped with a bit of bandage by Jiang Lin, it still gave off a sense of heaviness.
Yuan Bao continued to watch Jiang Lin leave, then slowly shifted his gaze away from the Strange Fire Xuan Heavy Ruler to the door of the refining room. He first looked inside, surprised to see the floor almost completely melted. He quickly turned to the other refiners and said, "Come on! Close the door, this is a sacred ground, we can't let it get damaged!"
Upon hearing this, the others smiled, and with a loud bang, the metal door was shut. One of the refiners, who had recently returned to the guild, took out several special stones from his storage ring, quickly adjusted them, and fitted them into the grooves on the metal door. A layer of Dou Qi energy then sealed the entire wall together.
If Jiang Lin had been there, he would've been surprised because the refiner was actually setting up a formation.
"Brother Ye, you've made a lot of progress these years," Yuan Bao smiled at the array master.
"Eh, there's work everywhere. You all need to learn more. Otherwise, I have to do everything, it's really annoying. But my luck's been good this time. I actually ran into someone using strange fire to refine a Dou Weapon beyond its limits," Ye Yu, the fifth-tier array master from the Gamma Weapon Refining Guild, said with a helpless smile.
As the only fifth-tier array master in the Gamma Empire, Ye Yu had a lot of work, almost always on business trips. He used to be the vice president of the refining guild, but he found life too depressing, so he didn't want to handle too many things. That's why Han Yu became the vice president. Over the years, Ye Yu had either been on business trips or on his way to them, even outside the Gamma Empire.
"Hehe. The correct use of strange fire should indeed be like this. Weapon refiners need to have their own spiritual forging touch, so they can't directly absorb strange fire. But they can use the fire to accomplish things they might not be able to do alone."
"When he was collecting high-tier materials, I was wondering if he had something in mind. I didn't expect he would try and possibly succeed," Yuan Bao smiled as he leaned towards Ye Yu.
"The material strength is enough, it just depends on how he understands Xuan Qi," Ye Yu smiled as well.
"Let's go, let's see if he's refining iron lumps or real Xuan Qi. If it's real, this could be interesting. I can't even imagine the look on President Hulei's face when he comes back."
Xuan Qi is not just about fusing a bunch of ores into a solid block of iron. If that were the case, then there would be an overwhelming number of ninth-tier refiners in this world, all saying they are ninth-tier refiners because they can handle Dou Zun or Dou Sheng-level materials.
The core technology of Xuan Qi is whether the internal energy circuits can reach the material's limit. If they can't, it's wasting materials and shouldn't be called Xuan Qi refining.
This is also why Yuan Bao and others can use various methods to melt high-tier materials, but Yuan Bao still remains a fourth-tier Xuan Qi master—because he can't refine energy circuits on fifth-tier materials that can handle the energy intensity of a Dou Wang.
The same applies to Ye Yu, even though he can create formations with the ability to match Dou Huang-level strength, he still calls himself a fifth-tier array master.
One must know their limits.
This is a critical point especially valued by the group of weapon refiners who don't want to call themselves seventh-tier refiners.
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