175: Chapter 174 Reflections on the [Flame Dragon Armor] Possessing Life

Chapter 174 Thoughts on [flame dragon armor] Gaining Life

After finishing reading the panel of the [flame dragon armor], Sun Po was speechless for a long time.

He now understood why the red dragon phantom representing the fire element in the [Five Elements Bloodline] had previously been suppressing and beating the moon-gazing rhinoceros phantom representing the Water Element.

With just the strength and performance of the [flame dragon armor], it was vastly superior to his own [Black Rhino Armor]. Added to the fact that it had self-awareness, it would be a wonder if it didn't suppress and beat the other side.

This was even after he had added numerous high-quality materials when crafting the [Black Rhino Armor], which had somewhat raised the upper limit of the [Black Rhino Armor].

Although materials like the navel stone fragments of Brahma and the dragon horns of the time whelp were the foundation for making the [Five Elements Bloodline] as a whole, orange materials such as the [Lich King's Armor] and the broken spear of the god of war were specifically targeted at the [Black Rhino Armor]. Later on, the [Cold Jade Black Ice Shield] and [Deadly Dark Whirlpool Pool] skills of the [Black Rhino Armor] reflected the traits of these two materials.

Even so, the [Black Rhino Armor] still fell far short of the current [flame dragon armor]. Although the two looked like one was 7-star orange and the other 9-star orange, the difference seemed small at a glance.

But only by comparing their panels would one know that the current [flame dragon armor] completely crushed the [Black Rhino Armor]. It could be said that apart from defense, the [Black Rhino Armor] no longer had any advantages in front of the [flame dragon armor].

Oh, that is not right; there was still one more advantage—that was the [calamity qi reactor] on the chest of the [Black Rhino Armor], which allowed Sun Po to no longer worry about the endurance of the [Black Rhino Armor].

Yet Sun Po could also load the [calamity qi reactor] for the [flame dragon armor], making the [flame dragon armor]'s already exaggerated endurance even more invincible.

Furthermore, even as a water-type armor occupying a home-field advantage in the water, the [Black Rhino Armor] could no longer gain much of an upper hand when facing the [flame dragon armor].

After all, dragons naturally lived in water; even Liu Jianren's previous [Red Flood Dragon] had the ability to soar through the water, let alone the further-evolved Red Dragon, and this bloodline was even inherited from the very first Red Dragon between heaven and earth.

The [dragon-type] trait of this [flame dragon armor] perfectly embodied this point. As a fire-type armor, it not only increased Sun Po's comprehension ability, power, and resistance regarding all secret arts and skills related to the five elements, but even allowed Sun Po to gain all-attribute boosts upon entering the water while in the [flame dragon armor] state.

This [dragon-type] trait was simply too powerful; it was already equivalent to a weakened version of the [Five Elements Body] trait, and it even provided power and resistance boosts for five-element secret arts and skills—something the [Five Elements Body] did not possess.

However, the [Five Elements Body] could improve as the [Five Elements Bloodline] was perfected, and this was something the [dragon-type] trait could not compare with.

The most outrageous thing was that this [flame dragon armor] was a fire-type armor, yet it received all-attribute boosts in the water. Was this right?

Sun Po felt something was wrong, but even more wrong things were coming up behind. Or rather, every trait and skill of the [flame dragon armor] felt a bit off—it was practically playing with open cheats.

[Time Traveler] and [Five Elements Body] went without saying, as these were the inherent traits of the [Five Elements Bloodline]. Coupled with the [Meditation Seal] skill, these seemed to be the shared traits and skills of these five sets of armor.

Apart from those, the [flame dragon armor]'s own traits and skills could be said to be more overpowered than the last.

First was the [Red Armor Absorbs Ten Thousand Fires] trait. Compared to the [Mystic Armor Suppresses the Rough Waves] trait of the [Black Rhino Armor], it had similar attribute bonuses but was more balanced, being simply a 'massive all-attribute bonus'.

On the other hand, the [Mystic Armor Suppresses the Rough Waves] trait was 'vast defense bonus', 'massive strength bonus', and 'certain other attribute bonuses', making it appear more targeted.

Through quantifiers like 'vast', 'massive', and 'certain', one could see the focus of the two sets of armor. 'Vast' was naturally greater than 'massive', while 'massive' was greater than 'certain'.

If the [Black Rhino Armor] was a pure tank with S-rank defense, A-rank strength, and B or even C-rank other attributes, then the [flame dragon armor] was an all-A warrior.

If dealing with certain extreme situations requiring desperate defense, the [Black Rhino Armor] was naturally stronger. Its vast defense bonus combined with the damage absorption of the [Power of the Abyss], plus an extra layer of the [Cold Jade Black Ice Shield], allowed the [Black Rhino Armor] to endure far more than the [flame dragon armor].

But if the two were pitted against each other in a duel, the winner would definitely be the [flame dragon armor], because the [flame dragon armor] had no real shortcomings and was hard to target.

Although each attribute of the [flame dragon armor] was not top-tier, they were all at the excellent level. The battlefield situations it could adapt to and the types of enemies it could deal with were definitely more than those for the [Black Rhino Armor].

Both armor's attribute bonuses had higher upper limits. Among them, the upper limit increase of the attribute bonuses for the [Mystic Armor Suppresses the Rough Waves] trait rose along with the concentration of the surrounding Water Element.

The upper limit increase of the attribute bonuses for the [Red Armor Absorbs Ten Thousand Fires] trait was related to the armor itself, continuously rising as the flame energy within the [flame dragon armor] grew stronger.

If the previous two points of the [Red Armor Absorbs Ten Thousand Fires] trait were on par with the [Mystic Armor Suppresses the Rough Waves] trait, then the next two points were pure cheating.

It also allowed the [flame dragon armor] to absorb different flames and merge them into the bloodline, thereby continuously growing stronger. Simply absorbing flames for infinite growth was already terrifying, and furthermore, the stronger its flame energy, the lower the spiritual consumption for Sun Po. In the end, it would develop into a [flame dragon armor] that had high damage yet low consumption.

Theoretically, as long as the flame energy inside the [flame dragon armor] was strong enough, there was even the possibility of zero consumption. In the original work, the balance, infinite potential, and low consumption of the [flame dragon armor] were vividly embodied in the [Red Armor Absorbs Ten Thousand Fires] trait.

One could only say that as expected of a captain unit, it was completely a model of both numerical stats and mechanics coexisting.

The [Hundred Flames - Chaos Flame] trait embodied the heritage of the [chaos fire seed]. Although Sun Po didn't know what strength this so-called [Chaos Flame] was, he figured it wouldn't be lower than things like divine power.

After all, this was a wisp of flame born only after fusing over a hundred kinds of flames; its power must be extraordinary. Moreover, even excluding this [Chaos Flame], just talking about those over a hundred kinds of flames, they were the painstaking effort of a Titled Card Maker's entire life. Among them were existences like the Southern Ming Separation Fire and the Golden Crow Solar Flame, so how could their power possibly be weak?

These over a hundred kinds of flames could completely be said to have given the [flame dragon armor] a beginner's gift package, saving Sun Po the trouble of searching everywhere for various flames in the future and granting the [flame dragon armor] immense strength.

But Sun Po estimated that his current self putting on the [flame dragon armor] shouldn't be enough to use the power of these over a hundred kinds of flames; otherwise, wouldn't the Titled Card Maker Zhu Que working hard to fuse them for a lifetime become a joke?

However, even if he couldn't unleash the full effect of these over a hundred kinds of flames, he believed this trait could still have very high strength.

Next was the [dragon-type] trait. Regarding this trait, no more words were needed.

The [Five Elements Body] trait—commonly known as the youth version of the [dragon-type] trait.

As for the [Explosive Flame Dragon King Form] trait, Sun Po knew this must be the existence of something like an ultimate move.

After all, looking at the Yin God Form and Starry Sky Form of Zhong Kui and Huang Chao, he knew that the power of transforming into a dragon shape would definitely not disappoint Sun Po.

In fact, up to this point, the [flame dragon armor] was already the ultimate among overpowered things, worthy of being called a top-grade custom MOD where mechanics and stats coexisted. However, the next trait was the real heavy hitter, and this trait also determined that the [flame dragon armor] was the most special one among all the custom MODs Sun Po had made so far.

The [Bloodline Manifestation] trait allowed the [flame dragon armor] within Sun Po's body to manifest away from Sun Po and fight independently.

He had made a MOD, and this MOD was a part of his bloodline, yet this bloodline had actually come alive and could fight independently away from him. But because it was his own bloodline, it was also absolutely loyal to him. Just listen to how insidious that sounded.

Before crafting it, Sun Po had thought that this thing—which served as both material and contained life—might be a bit special and could produce some variables, but that was also a very low probability event.

Sun Po had thought it might cause some mutations in the flames of the [flame dragon armor], perhaps existing in the future as an 'armor intelligent butler' similar to Iron Man's 'Jarvis', but he truly didn't expect it to hatch directly and even become the [flame dragon armor] itself.

In this way, Sun Po could wear the [Black Rhino Armor] in the future and fight side by side with his own [flame dragon armor]. It could be said that this was equivalent to Sun Po acquiring a brand new [9-star orange] card.

Furthermore, this card's protection for Sun Po far surpassed ordinary cards, greatly enhancing Sun Po's own potential. Moreover, its spiritual consumption was extremely low, and it could even fight without consuming Sun Po's spirit. It completely did not occupy Sun Po's card slots, and it possessed almost limitless growth potential.

It could even merge with Sun Po, directly transforming into Sun Po's own power, or rather, as a part of Sun Po's [Five Elements Bloodline], it was inherently Sun Po's own power.

Moreover, its trait of nearly limitless potential fed back into Sun Po's body, causing Sun Po to continuously grow stronger in sync. This was truly a bit too much of a cheat.

More importantly, the bizarre changes in the [flame dragon armor] also provided Sun Po with an idea: could he also try doing this with the other three remaining sets of armor?

Sun Po began reviewing the crafting process of the [flame dragon armor] MOD, trying to find the key to producing this change.

Without a doubt, the most crucial factor enabling the [flame dragon armor] to come alive was the [chaos fire seed] bestowed by Jiang Yan (Zhu Que). This thing counted as both material and contained life.

According to the system's analysis, it was merely an embryo of an unknown fire element, belonging to the condition of having the potential to nurture life, but not yet having become life.

Although such a thing was considered special, it was definitely not particularly rare, especially since it was said that in the outer realms, things like this were not uncommon.

Take the [wind seed] lying in his material pouch for example; it was also in such a situation.

Then if he stuffed it in when making the Wind Eagle Armor MOD in the future, would the Wind Eagle Armor also come alive and fight independently?

Sun Po felt it probably wasn't that simple.

There were two other key points in this crafting of the [flame dragon armor]. First was the dragon-patterned crystal bestowed by Liu Bang, Son of the Red Emperor. This crystal was also extremely complex; not only did it contain the primordial blood essence of the first Red Dragon between heaven and earth, but it was also the manifestation of the 'dragon' part in Liu Jianren's exclusive talent [Mandate Dragon and Snake]. It contained the power of 'strong luck' that Sun Po had originally coveted immensely—that was, the power to turn an unlucky person into a lucky one.

But at the same time, there seemed to be some tricks left behind by the Red Emperor within it.

However, during the crafting process, only the Red Dragon blood essence and the methods left by the Red Emperor had a sense of presence. Under the influence of the Red Dragon blood essence, in Sun Po's consciousness, the hatched form of the [chaos fire seed] was a juvenile Red Dragon that had not yet fully developed, while the Red Emperor's methods had attracted the attention of the [mod loading system] and were pressed to death with a single finger by that multicolored giant hand.

Only the power of 'strong luck' had completely no sense of presence at all, seeming to have evaporated into thin air just like that.

Just as Sun Po was thinking, an electronic voice from the system suddenly came from his ear: "[Detected that the host possesses the system MOD [Dragon of Mandate], new modules can be loaded for the system]"

After a while, the system's electronic voice sounded again: "[System level is insufficient; the system MOD loading function is not yet enabled]"

Sun Po could no longer guess what the [mod loading system] would develop into in the future.

System MOD??

System, do you even hear what you're saying?

You can add MODs to cards, you can add MODs to the host—those can pass, but you damn well can add MODs to yourself?

What was this about? The system itself could upgrade, and after upgrading, it could add new functions, but the system still thought it was too slow, so after reaching an unknown level, the system chose to be able to directly add MODs to itself?

Sun Po no longer knew how to describe it. He could only say that when he previously lamented how outrageous Zhuang Zhou's exclusive talent was, looking at it now, it was somewhat disrespectful to his own [mod loading system].

However, this system prompt also allowed Sun Po to rule out another influencing factor once more. It seemed it really had little to do with the dragon-patterned crystal.

That being said, it was caused by this special [chaos fire seed]. Wait, chaos?

Sun Po seemed to understand. The [lotus root of the chaos green lotus] helped [Demon Pill Nezha] manifest, requiring the power of chaos, and within this [chaos fire seed], over a hundred kinds of flames were fused, and the [Chaos Flame] was also born.

Therefore, the power of chaos could nurture life, and this power of chaos was the key to the [flame dragon armor] coming alive?

But the [chaos fire seed] had already nurtured that wisp of [Chaos Flame] before it was bestowed upon him; why hadn't it hatched before loading?

Suddenly, that multicolored jelly-like substance from the custom MOD interface appeared in Sun Po's mind. "That's right, previously that multicolored jelly-like substance always served as the base of the MOD, but this time, the [chaos fire seed] burrowed into that multicolored jelly-like substance. Embryo, chaos power, multicolored jelly-like substance—"

Looking at it now, it was somewhat disrespectful to his own [mod loading system].

However, this system prompt also allowed Sun Po to rule out another influencing factor once more. It seemed it really had little to do with the dragon-patterned crystal.

That being said, it was caused by this special [chaos fire seed]. Wait, chaos?

Sun Po seemed to understand. The [lotus root of the chaos green lotus] helped [Demon Pill Nezha] manifest, requiring the power of chaos, and within this [chaos fire seed], over a hundred kinds of flames were fused, and the [Chaos Flame] was also born.

Therefore, the power of chaos could nurture life, and this power of chaos was the key to the [flame dragon armor] coming alive?

But the [chaos fire seed] had already nurtured that wisp of [Chaos Flame] before it was bestowed upon him; why hadn't it hatched before loading?

Suddenly, that multicolored jelly-like substance from the custom MOD interface appeared in Sun Po's mind. "That's right, previously that multicolored jelly-like substance always served as the base of the MOD, but this time, the [chaos fire seed] burrowed into that multicolored jelly-like substance. Embryo, chaos power, multicolored jelly-like substance—"

It was as if a thunderclap flashed across a dim sky in Sun Po's mind, and his train of thought suddenly became crystal clear.