163: The flying boat is complete! The Cataclysmic Event has occurred!

Innate Sword Embryo!

Yin Spirit Body!

Chen Xu looked at the introduction on the System panel. Even though he was already a Void Refining Stage powerhouse, his heart couldn't help but twitch violently!

Two more Children of Destiny!

And they were Innate Awakenings, directly triggering the resonance of the town clan stele!

"Hahaha! Good! Very good!"

Chen Xu laughed up at the sky.

Double happiness!

This was truly a massive double happiness!

With these two children, the future of the Chen family would have two more pillars of heaven!

For a time, the entire Chen family was immersed in immense joy.

However, amidst this festive atmosphere, a disheveled figure rushed over from the direction of the east side of the city.

It was none other than the person in charge of the Refining Artifact Pavilion, Zhao De!

At this moment, he looked nothing like a Grandmaster Artifact Refiner; he was covered in black ash, his hair and beard looked as if they had been singed by fire, and his face was full of helplessness.

"Family Head! This old servant deserves death! The Flying Boat... something has gone wrong with the Flying Boat!"

As soon as he saw Chen Xu, he hurriedly prostrated himself on the ground and spoke.

The smile on Chen Xu's face faded, and his brows furrowed slightly.

"What happened? Tell me slowly."

Zhao De knelt on the ground, his voice filled with guilt: "Family Head! It's the Materials! The divine metals and immortal woods you bestowed upon us... their Rank is simply too high!"

"We have tried every method, and the Refining Artifact Pavilion's earth fire has been burning day and night for several days, but the melting efficiency of that Nine Heavens Star Iron... is just too low!"

"Let alone the Nine Heavens Star Iron, even for that tai yi refined gold, we have only barely managed to melt a fingernail-sized piece! The other divine Materials haven't budged at all!"

As Zhao De spoke, he almost burst into tears.

He had never felt so aggrieved in his entire life.

As a top-tier Artifact Refining Grandmaster, guarding a treasure mountain of divine Materials, yet unable to even take the first step of smelting!

This feeling was more uncomfortable than killing him!

"At this rate, let alone building the Flying Boat, even if we were to melt all the Materials, I fear... I fear it would take decades!"

"This old servant is incompetent! Please punish me, Family Head!"

Zhao De heavily knocked his head against the ground, not daring to lift it.

Behind him, the several Artifact Refiners of the Zhao family who had followed him also knelt in a row, each with a grim expression.

After listening, Chen Xu was stunned.

He hadn't expected the problem to lie here.

The Materials being too Advanced had actually become a problem?

With a movement of his Divine Thought, he instantly enveloped the Refining Artifact Pavilion in the east of the city.

He saw that in the newly built giant furnace, the earth fire was burning furiously, and its temperature was so high that it could instantly reduce an ordinary Soul Transformation Cultivator to ashes.

Yet, the head-sized piece of Nine Heavens Star Iron at the center of the furnace only had a slightly reddish surface, with no intention of melting at all.

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Regarding this, Chen Xu just smiled indifferently.

"It's fine, I'll do it."

The moment his voice fell, Chen Xu's figure had already vanished from the backyard out of thin air.

The next moment, he had already appeared in the heat-rolling Refining Artifact Pavilion, which was filled with the smell of scorched metal.

Then, he walked straight to the newly built giant furnace.

Inside the furnace, the Earth Fire Array personally inscribed by Zhao De was operating at full capacity, and the terrifying high temperature capable of melting mountains and rivers caused the surrounding space to twist in waves.

Soon, Zhao De and the others also rushed back.

Seeing this scene, their old faces turned beet red.

They wished they could find a crack in the ground to crawl into.

Chen Xu naturally wouldn't blame them for this; he just calmly opened his mouth towards the furnace.

Whoosh!

A cluster of purple-gold flames, only the size of a fist but appearing noble and eerie, drifted out from his mouth.

The moment this cluster of flames appeared, the violent earth fire heatwaves within the entire Refining Artifact Pavilion seemed to have met their king, and in an instant, they became incomparably docile!

Everyone felt that the surrounding temperature had not risen, but instead dropped sharply.

What kind of flame was that?

It lacked the violence of burning the heavens and boiling the seas, yet it carried such powerful might.

It was as if it were not fire, but the very source of the concept of "fire"!

In the shocked gazes of the Zhao family members, the purple-gold flame drifted slowly into the furnace and landed gently on the piece of Nine Heavens Star Iron.

There was no earth-shattering sound.

There was no dazzling phenomenon.

The cluster of purple-gold flame just burned quietly like that.

Immediately after, a scene that Zhao De would never forget in his life occurred.

That piece of Nine Heavens Star Iron, which had remained unmoved despite all their efforts and was so hard it made them despair, began to melt at a speed visible to the naked eye the moment it touched the purple-gold flame!

Wisps of black Impurities, visible to the naked eye, were forcibly expelled from the divine iron.

Then, the moment they touched the purple-gold flame, they were completely incinerated.

Not even a wisp of green smoke was left behind.

In just a short span of a dozen breaths.

That head-sized piece of Nine Heavens Star Iron had completely disappeared.

It had turned into a mass of pitch-black spiritual liquid suspended in the center of the furnace!

"Gulp."

A young Zhao family Artifact Refiner's throat involuntarily bobbed.

He stared at the spiritual liquid that seemed to contain a starry sky.

His eyes were wide open, and he muttered to himself.

"Is... is this Grandmist True Fire?"

The old man Zhao De, a Grandmaster who had been immersed in the path of Artifact Refining for a long time, now had eyes full of disbelief.

He watched it with fascination, wishing he could glue his eyes to it.

For an Artifact Refiner, what could be more exciting than witnessing a supreme divine fire capable of smelting all things in the world?

The next moment, with a movement of Chen Xu's Divine Thought, that mass of purple-gold Grandmist True Fire instantly transformed into thousands of tiny fire snakes, landing on the piles of tai yi refined gold, Floating Divine Sand, Chaos Origin Stones, and various other divine Materials nearby.

Sizzle! Sizzle!

For a time, in the entire Refining Artifact Pavilion, only the sound of divine metals and immortal woods being rapidly smelted remained.

Those legendary-grade Materials that were indestructible in the eyes of the Zhao family members were as fragile as ordinary iron before the Grandmist True Fire.

In less than half an hour.

The piles of Materials had all been smelted into the most perfect spiritual liquid form!

Masses of spiritual liquid of different colors, radiating different Dao rhymes, floated quietly in mid-air like docile stars, emitting a mesmerizing glow.

The entire Refining Artifact Pavilion...

At this moment, it seemed to have transformed into a brilliant galaxy composed of liquid divine metal!

Zhao De watched this scene.

The excitement in his heart was beyond measure.

"This old servant... this old servant has seen the divine fire today, and can die without regrets! Die without regrets!"

Chen Xu slowly turned around and smiled gently: "Old Zhao, the Materials are ready, the Flying Boat can start being built now."

He did not leave just yet.

Merely providing the fire was far from enough.

These divine Materials were of too high a Rank; even if they were smelted into spiritual liquid, with the cultivation of Zhao De and the others, they would be completely unable to shape them.

The next moment, Chen Xu sat cross-legged, his eyes slightly closed.

Boom!

A vast Void Refining Stage Divine Thought surged out.

It instantly enveloped all the hundreds of masses of divine material spiritual liquid in mid-air!

"Condense!"

Chen Xu gave a low shout in his heart!

He saw the thickest mass of spiritual liquid, the Zixiao Divine Thunder Bamboo, which was surrounded by purple lightning, transform into a streak of purple light under his Divine Thought control, rapidly elongating and deforming!

The keel prototype of a huge Flying Boat began to be rapidly constructed!

Immediately after, the spiritual liquid of stars smelted from the Nine Heavens Star Iron, like a rushing river, covered it, turning into the sturdy bottom deck of the Flying Boat!

The tai yi refined gold turned into the hull, and the Floating Divine Sand merged into it.

The Chaos Origin Stone was placed in the core power area of the Flying Boat...

Zhao De and the others were completely dumbfounded.

They had never seen such a miraculous Artifact Refining technique in their lives!

This was like painting with Divine Thought.

Using divine metal as ink to create a work of art out of thin air!

Chen Xu's movements were smooth and flowing, without the slightest stagnation.

His Divine Thought transformed into billions of invisible carving knives, crazily engraving complex array patterns on every component of the Flying Boat!

Those array patterns were no longer ordinary Spirit Gathering Arrays or defensive arrays.

Every time an array pattern fell, the surrounding space would ripple slightly.

When all the array patterns were connected together.

The entire Flying Boat seemed to come alive, producing some kind of profound resonance with this world!

Zhao De and the Zhao family Artifact Refiners behind him.

Had long forgotten how to breathe.

They were like devout apprentices, staring blankly with their heads raised, eyes unblinking, watching this miracle-like creation process, trying to deeply imprint every detail into their own Divine Soul.

And as time passed, in the blink of an eye, a dozen days flickered by.

These dozen days were worth more than thousands of years of bitter cultivation to them!

They felt as if they had seen a door leading to the supreme hall of the path of Artifact Refining.

It was slowly opening to them!

Under Chen Xu's unscrupulous consumption of Divine Thought control and the continuous calcination of the Grandmist True Fire.

When the last array pattern containing the Dao rhyme of space was branded onto the bow of the Flying Boat.

Hum—!

A massive main frame of a Flying Boat, with smooth lines and a length of a thousand zhang, resembling a giant beast dormant in the starry sky, suddenly took shape!

It floated quietly in the mid-air of the Refining Artifact Pavilion, the hull presenting a deep dark gold color.

There were specks of starlight flowing and flickering on the surface.

It was as if a real starry sky had been integrated into it.

The indestructible sharp edge and the majestic Aura as heavy as a mountain.

Were perfectly combined together.

Just looking at it gave one the urge to prostrate and worship!

"It... it's done..."

The old man Zhao De looked at this supreme masterpiece of his life, which had been created by his own hand with the assistance of others, trembling with excitement, and two lines of hot tears fell from his wrinkled face once again.

This ship had already exceeded the limits of his cognition.

It was not just a Magic Treasure.

It was a living being!

A supreme divine object destined to shake the Spirit Realm!

...

Having solved the biggest problem of the Refining Artifact Pavilion, the subsequent forging work of the Flying Boat was handed over to Zhao De and the others.

Chen Xu was happy to be idle, returning to the backyard of the City Lord's Mansion to continue enjoying this rare tender time.

The night was like water.

Chen Xu took Qin Rouer and Sun Xiaoyue into his arms.

The vast and gentle Grandmist magic power transformed into two gentle warm currents, cautiously probing into their lower abdomens, nourishing the two little lives that were gestating.

He could clearly "see" them.

Inside Sun Xiaoyue's womb, a tiny life curled up, radiating a cool, cold moonlight throughout its body.

It was like a jade doll carved from ten-thousand-year-old ice.

It was born with an immense affinity for the Law of Taiyin.

But inside Qin Rouer's womb, the situation was completely different.

That little one...

Had actually transformed into a mini sword the size of a thumb!

Flowing across the blade was an incomparably sharp Innate Sword Qi.

It seemed capable of breaking out of the body and cleaving the firmament at any moment!

Truly worthy of being an Innate Sword Embryo!

Chen Xu marveled in his heart and was just about to separate a strand of his own mana, which contained the Dao rhyme of Grandmist, and infuse it into the little sword to add a bit more foundation for his unborn child.

But just then!

A sudden change occurred!

That Innate Sword Embryo little sword in his womb.

As if it were a cat that had smelled something fishy, it suddenly gave a violent jolt!

Hum!

It actively emitted a suction force.

It actually swallowed that strand of Grandmist mana that Chen Xu had probed with in one gulp!

After swallowing it, it seemed to feel unsatisfied, so it shook its blade and gave a fierce "kick" at the source of Chen Xu's mana—that is, Chen Xu himself!

The force wasn't great, but it carried an extremely domineering Sword Intent, as if it were saying: "Not enough! I want more!"

Chen Xu was momentarily stunned.

Then, he couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Good fellow!

It hasn't even been born yet, and it's already starting to snatch things from its father?

Just then, the System's notification sound.

Boomed in his mind!

【 Ding! Detected that the host's offspring has absorbed Primordial Violet Qi, causing a transformation in Bloodline Aptitude! 】

【 Congratulations to the host, the offspring's Innate Sword Embryo potential has been upgraded to 【 Divine Rank 】! 】

【 Divine Rank potential: Born with the Luck of the Divine Dao, one in ten thousand years! Future achievements have the hope of surpassing the Heavenly Dao and attaining immortality! 】

Divine Rank!

Chen Xu looked at the description on the System panel.

His heart couldn't help but thump violently!

He had originally thought that the potential of a Son of Destiny was already the Peak.

He didn't expect that after absorbing a strand of his Primordial Violet Qi, it could actually break through its limits again and reach a 【 Divine Rank 】 that he had never even heard of!

"Hahaha! Good! Truly worthy of being my seed!"

Chen Xu's heart swelled with immense pride and joy!

He looked at his two beautiful wives beside him and thought of his clansmen far away in the Lower Realm.

His gaze became even firmer.

To protect this tranquility and beauty.

To allow his children to grow up carefree.

He must become stronger!

Strong enough to completely trample this cruel Spirit Realm under his feet!

...

Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, another month passed.

During this month, the entire Tianxuan City was immersed in a fervent atmosphere of Cultivation.

The blessing of the town clan stele allowed everyone's Cultivation speed to improve by leaps and bounds.

The Refining Artifact Pavilion led by Zhao De...

Was also working day and night on the final finishing touches and adjustments for that divine boat.

Everything appeared so prosperous.

However, on the afternoon of this day.

Rumble—!!!

An earth-shattering peal of thunder.

Suddenly exploded without warning from the direction of the Refining Artifact Pavilion in the east of the city!

Immediately after, a thick, dark golden beam of light, carrying an unstoppable, terrifying sharpness, shot up from the roof of the Refining Artifact Pavilion, piercing directly through the gray sky of the Beiming Wilderness!

The entire Tianxuan City trembled violently at this moment!

All the Cultivators in the city, regardless of what they were doing, were startled by this sudden loud noise and phenomenon, and they looked toward the east of the city in horror.

The next moment, the old man Zhao De's roar, mixed with wild joy and excitement, resounded throughout the city!

"It's done! It's done! Family Head! The divine boat is done!"

"It... It has triggered an Artifact Tribulation!!!"

Artifact Tribulation!

Hearing these two words, everyone suddenly looked up at the sky!

They saw that the originally gray sky, not knowing when.

Had turned completely dark.

Large patches of dark clouds were frantically gathering from all directions.

It was pitch black, as if the sky were about to collapse!

The dark clouds were as black as ink.

Within them rolled hideous and terrifying blood-colored lightning!

A destructive Heavenly Might pressed down from the clouds.

Enveloping the entire Tianxuan City!

Everyone understood that the quality of this Flying Boat had reached a Heaven-Defying level that even the Heavens and Earth were jealous of.

To the point where it could not be tolerated by the world!

The Heavens wanted to destroy it with their own hands!

The terrifying Lightning Tribulation was brewing rapidly!

And as time passed!

Above the sky, the tribulation clouds had condensed into a pitch-black sea of ink.

Blood-colored lightning rolled and roared within it, like hideous blood Dragons, each flash carrying the terrifying pressure to destroy the world.

"An Artifact Tribulation! It's actually an Artifact Tribulation! And it's a Blood Lightning Tribulation!"

"It's over! With such terrifying Heavenly Might, I'm afraid that Flying Boat will be struck into ashes on the spot!"

"The hard work of the Family Head and the Zhao family..."

Panic spread among the crowd.

In the face of this powerful might, even a Cultivator at the Soul Transformation Stage felt like an ant.

Their Divine Soul could not stop trembling.

Just when everyone was on the verge of mental collapse.

A figure appeared silently in mid-air.

Chen Xu stood with his hands behind his back, his green robes rustling in the strong wind. Facing that world-destroying Heavenly Might, there was not a trace of fear on his handsome face.

Instead, he revealed a faint smile.

"No need to panic."

"A mere Lightning Tribulation is nothing to worry about."

Chen Xu's gaze fell upon the newly formed divine boat at the Refining Artifact Pavilion, his eyes carrying a hint of appreciation.

"This boat uses Zixiao Divine Thunder Bamboo as its keel and is born a darling of thunder. To it, this Lightning Tribulation is not a disaster, but rather... a feast of great nourishment."

As soon as he finished speaking!

Boom!

A bolt of wild blood-colored lightning tore through the firmament and smashed down fiercely toward the Refining Artifact Pavilion below!

"Ah!"

Countless people instinctively let out a cry of alarm and closed their eyes.

They could not bear to see the scene of the divine boat, which had condensed countless efforts, being destroyed in an instant.

Zhao De's legs went weak, and he almost collapsed onto the ground.

However, the terrifying earth-shattering explosion did not come.

Instead, it turned into a hum!

Hum—!

The roof of the Refining Artifact Pavilion exploded, and a dark golden stream of light surged upward, actively meeting that world-destroying blood-colored lightning!

It was that thousand-foot divine boat!

"It... It flew up!"

"It's going to clash head-on with the heavenly thunder!"

In the shocked gazes of everyone, the divine boat hovered in the air. On its dark golden hull, mysterious patterns formed from Zixiao Divine Thunder Bamboo.

Lit up all at once at this moment, blooming with dazzling purple divine light!

The blood lightning descended!

There was no collision or destruction as imagined.

That terrifying heavenly thunder, capable of destroying mountains and toppling Peaks, seemed like a river entering the sea the moment it touched the divine boat.

It was swallowed in one gulp by the purple patterns that had lit up on the hull!

The divine boat jolted violently, and not only was it undamaged.

The Aura it emitted instead climbed steadily at an incredible speed!

The starlight flowing across the hull became even more brilliant, and fine arcs of lightning danced happily across the surface of the boat.

As if it were enjoying this supreme delicacy.

"This... How is this possible?!"

"It ate the heavenly thunder?!"

Everyone was dumbfounded, their mouths agape, their eyeballs almost popping out of their sockets.

And Zhao De was staring fixedly at the divine boat in mid-air that was devouring the lightning.

His eyes were filled with fanatical color.

"A divine object! A true divine object!"

Above the firmament, the tribulation clouds seemed to be completely enraged by this provocation from an ant.

Rumble!

Even more violent thunder resounded through the world, and the entire sea of ink was boiling!

The next moment, three! Five! Ten!

Dozens of blood-colored heavenly thunders, thicker and more violent than before, like wild pythons leaving their den.

Poured down from the tribulation clouds, covering the sky and earth.

Wanting to completely obliterate this Heaven-Defying creation that dared to provoke Heavenly Might!

However, facing this doomsday scene, the divine boat did not refuse any of it!

It hovered in the air, like a waking star beast, opening its greedy mouth.

The purple lightning patterns on the hull shone brightly, forming a huge purple vortex.

It actually swallowed all the blood lightning that filled the sky!

The next moment, the Flying Boat's Aura skyrocketed again.

Those fine arcs of lightning on the surface of the hull had gathered into dancing lightning snakes, and the entire boat emitted a terrifying sharpness that was indestructible and could shatter all Laws!

The tribulation clouds in the sky seemed to pause for a moment at this instant.

It seemed that even it was confused; its must-kill strike that it had been brewing for so long.

How did it become the other party's after-dinner dessert?

After a brief silence, the tribulation clouds rolled even more violently.

As if it were gathering its final, and most terrifying, strike.

But just then, that divine boat seemed to have grown impatient from waiting.

It let out a provocative hum, its bow turned sharply, and it actually transformed into a dark golden bolt of lightning.

Actively charging into that pitch-black sea of thunder!

This scene directly shattered the psychological defenses of everyone in Tianxuan City.

They could no longer use words to describe their feelings at this moment.

They had seen Undergoing Tribulation, but they had never seen anyone Undergoing Tribulation so arrogantly!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Muffled thunder continued to come from the depths of the tribulation clouds.

The entire sky was trembling violently.

Everyone could not see what was happening inside; they could only feel waves of destructive lightning storms raging within.

It is unknown how much time passed, when the deafening thunder gradually subsided.

The tribulation clouds in the sky began to dissipate at a speed visible to the naked eye.

When everyone's line of sight focused on mid-air again.

Everyone gasped.

They saw a Flying Boat, a thousand feet long, with a deep purple-black color throughout its entire body.

A terrifying Flying Boat with a smooth shape, like a huge shuttle.

Was floating there quietly.

On its hull, it seemed as if hundreds of millions of stars were embedded, flashing with points of cold light.

Thick arcs of dark golden lightning, like spirit snakes, roamed uncertainly on the surface of the hull, making a "sizzling" sound and emitting a heart-palpitating Aura of destruction.

Just by looking at it, one knew that this was definitely not an ordinary object.

It was even beyond the category of a Fifth-Rank Spirit Treasure.