Chapter 142: 159. The Genggold Haotian Hammer and Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Tower
"Congratulations on completing the Heart's Reflection Test here," Xue Di said with praise.
"Sister Xue, do we need to do anything next?" Luo Xingqi asked.
Xue Di first inquired, "What are your martial spirits? Show me."
Mu Yuanfang was the first to summon his martial spirit—a hoe, without innate spirit power.
Luo Xingqi activated her martial spirit; her martial spirit was a Cash Coin Cat, with a first-level innate spirit power, capable of becoming a Spirit Master.
Xue Di came to the platform, took down two syringes, and handed them to the two children.
"Martial spirits determine a person's fate. Your lives seem predestined, but they can change your destiny. Just insert the needle into your arm and inject the liquid inside." Xue Di explained.
"However, no one has used this so far. You will be the first. After the injection, you will endure immense pain. Only by enduring can you discover what you gain."
"Whether to use it or not depends on you."
Mu Yuanfang and Luo Xingqi looked at the syringes, exchanging glances. Mu Yuanfang remembered his family's tragic death beneath Tang Hao's Haotian Hammer, a flash of resoluteness in his heart. He immediately took a syringe, stabbed himself in the arm, and injected the liquid.
On the other side, Luo Xingqi also hesitated no longer and used her syringe.
Moments later, the two empty syringes dropped to the ground.
"Ahhh—"
Luo Xingqi and Mu Yuanfang felt pain from head to toe, from inside out; no part of their bodies was spared. It felt as if every muscle and tissue was being torn and reshaped. The pain was excruciating, yet they couldn't faint.
They collapsed on the ground, twisting and struggling, tears, mucus, saliva, sweat, and even urine uncontrollably flowing out.
Luo Xingqi looked to Xue Di for help. Xue Di watched them and said, "This part is unavoidable. You must endure it—that's the only way to have a future."
The tide of pain surged wave after wave through their nerves. Finally, the peak subsided, and their bodies gradually calmed down.
After the ordeal, they relaxed as if saved from disaster; after pain, a sense of lightness and comfort washed over them.
"Go wash up first," Xue Di led them into a room in the laboratory.
After washing, Xue Di asked, "Do you feel any change in your bodies?"
"Change?" Luo Xingqi sensed all over and said, "I feel much lighter."
"Me too," Mu Yuanfang said. Suddenly, he noticed that the abnormal features on Luo Xingqi's body, her cat ears and tail, were gone.
"Xingqi, your cat ears and tail are gone?" Mu Yuanfang asked.
Luo Xingqi quickly touched her long cat ears and tail, realizing something was wrong. She wanted to summon her martial spirit but found it missing.
Mu Yuanfang hurriedly summoned his martial spirit and also discovered his hoe was gone.
Both were puzzled and uncertain. Xue Di briefly performed a martial spirit awakening: "Enter the formation. I will awaken your martial spirits."
Reluctant and wary, the two entered Xue Di's martial spirit awakening formation. Xue Di activated the awakening array.
Inside, they felt something surge inside their bodies. Instinctively, they raised their hands. Mu Yuanfang's back appeared with the divine imprints of a golden hammer, while Luo Xingqi's back displayed a nine-layer jewel tower.
They opened their palms to summon their martial spirits: Mu Yuanfang's hand reflected a golden Haotian Hammer, and Luo Xingqi's hand floated a nine-layer glazed tower.
"Is this… the Haotian Hammer?"
"Is this the Seven Treasure Glazed Tower?"
Xue Di shook his head and smiled. "Yuanfang, your martial spirit should be called Gengjin Haotian Hammer, a higher-grade martial spirit of the Haotian Hammer, wielding extreme power attributes. Xingqi, notice the two extra layers on your treasure tower? It should be called the Nine Treasure Glazed Tower."
Because both martial spirits were super martial spirits, their awakening was fleeting.
Xue Di placed a crystal ball before them and said, "Test your innate spirit power."
First, Luo Xingqi tested, then Mu Yuanfang. Both awakened with full innate spirit power.
"What's going on? Where did our original martial spirits go?" Mu Yuanfang asked.
"Do you think powerful martial spirits would still care about your original spirits?" Xue Di teased.
"Haotian Hammer is strong, but it was the martial spirit passed down by my parents," Mu Yuanfang replied.
"They're gone, but not vanished," Xue Di explained. "Actually, most humans have twin martial spirits. The reason most only have one is that the dominant martial spirit suppresses the weaker one, which remains hidden."
He then took the two syringes from the ground and said to Mu Yuanfang, "This is called Haotian Factor Injection. It embeds into your genetic makeup, granting you the Gengjin Haotian Hammer martial spirit factor. That means you have three martial spirit factors inside, but only the strongest one can manifest. Whether it's your father's hoe or your mother's wind chime grass, none of them reach the level of the Gengjin Haotian Hammer, so your new awakening can only produce the Gengjin Haotian Hammer."
Xue Di then told Luo Xingqi, "And you receive the Glaze Factor Injection—it's the same principle." After saying that, Xue Di casually threw the two syringes into the trash.
The language used by Xue Di contained many technical terms they couldn't understand, but they caught the general idea.
Luo Xingqi and Mu Yuanfang bowed to Xue Di and the creator of the lab, then left.
As they departed, the soul tool elevator of the lab descended. Qian Renxue stepped out of it, her face showing undeniable shock.
"This is the miracle you mentioned," she said.
Huo Qiqiang replied, "As you see."
"Nie Fengzhi would go mad if he knew that the Nine Treasure Glazed Tower he spent his life pursuing could be realized with just one syringe here," she said, seeming to think of something. "This kind of injection must be limited to these two vials, right?"
Huo Qiqiang directly activated the storage cabinet, part of the wall opening to reveal a row of 100 vials labeled "Spirit Factor Injection Solution."
Qian Renxue was stunned, swallowing her saliva. "Are these… all Nine Treasure Glazed Tower Spirit Factors?"
"Yes," Huo Qiqiang said. "These are my creations over the years. They have now been mass-produced."
Qian Renxue: "…"
(END CHAPTER)
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