Ruri received from the whale the first-level mental cultivation technique to occupy her time. The technique called "Nine God-Slaying Lotus" had nine realms, and each realm had nine distinct levels. Only the first realm was described, and, unlike physical cultivation, understanding was the key to everything; the required Qi wasn’t as relevant.
Ruri didn’t disappoint and focused entirely on studying it, only stopping to eat and sleep. Before sleeping, she always visited the forge; there, she watched her master, who kept a cold expression, but Ruri always smiled when looking into his eyes, seeing an unusual excitement in him.
Inside the forge, all the dwarves, along with the whale, worked hard day and night to be able to use those bodies. Two of them belonged to entities at the peak of cultivation, and even dead, their hardness and power were at a despairing level. But none of them got discouraged; on the contrary, everyone was excited like never before in their lives, including Alm and Bruno.
That was a unique feeling for them, something that only someone who found a new toy and discovered new ways to use it every day felt. The wyvern bones were the simplest step and served as training for them.
That wyvern demonic beast was at the end of the Heaven Stage Realm, but due to its bloodline, its physical power was much superior to that. Still, it was an ant compared to the other two kings. Soon, its bones were used to create dozens of rudimentary impact and piercing weapons, and runic seals were placed on all of them.
Then, they focused on the demonic king. He wasn’t a physical cultivator, and his body wasn’t that powerful. Alm suggested reanimating that body with his Death Yin and using it as a puppet.
In terms of power, he wouldn’t even have 1% of the true one, and because he had learned laws from another universe, it could be even less. In the physical part, it was even worse; the king’s body was severely damaged in the fight they had. They killed him using dozens of demonic techniques, and there were various holes in him.
Despite all of this, this puppet could still fight against the most powerful cultivators in the mortal realms. So, it was decided to remove all of the demon’s blood and connect the body to the castle’s formation. Similar to that illusion they defeated in the castle, the formation could control this body and protect the entire city; it would be an invincible defense against enemies. The demon’s blood was saved by them, it should be useful in the future.
Alm didn’t even consider taking that body for him to use himself. It was useful, but it consumed a lot of Qi and effort to manipulate it. They had to focus entirely on using it, and with that, they wouldn’t be able to protect Ruri or the others. Not to mention that it would be an external power, and if they depended on it, they wouldn’t evolve their skills correctly.
After a dozen days, the most difficult moment arrived, which was using the beastly king. A demonic beast, regardless of the race, possesses extraordinary physical power. So they didn’t have the ability to even tear his flesh, taking the bones directly was impossible.
Fortunately, the body had several open wounds that could be exploited, and with an extraordinary effort, they managed to remove two bones from the inside that were broken by the Cerberus in the fight and were loose.
These two bones were as heavy as a mountain and almost impossible to mold. Alm and Bruno were already giving up when the dwarves, who were their helpers, had an idea. They asked for the collaboration of the whale using the laws of the earth, and all the dwarves ignited their bloodlines to the limit.
Alm and Bruno were amazed to see that being used for forging. The dwarves’ bloodline could make them connect to celestial laws, and mainly with the earth. It was a different principle from the behemoth’s bloodline. This divine beast was the king who dominated the laws, whereas the dwarves literally became one with it, generating different ways to use it.
Soon, with everyone working together, that lifeless bone seemed to have all its molecules fused by the power of the dwarves. And the whale managed to mold it slightly for a short period. After much effort, the two bones, leveraging their weight and hardness, turned into two giant and frightening Bone Clubs.
The whale held the club, feeling its colossal weight, amazed. It didn’t seem like bone; it was more like cold metal. It looked like it was covered in cracks, but in reality, they were runic lines emitting strange fluctuations.
’This bone is extremely powerful. It has natural beastly runes that can be used to activate even greater power. Furthermore, it also seems to be absorbing the laws of the earth around it as if it were alive.’ Alm analyzed coldly, hiding his excitement.
’One of them will be sold and cause a stir among the malignant cultivators.’ Bruno commented, laughing at the show that would happen. ’As for the other one, we’ll keep it; this weapon suits us.’
The ’sharpening’ seal didn’t suit this weapon. The ’thorns’ seal was something that could only be used once and would affect their bodies. So, they only put the ’storage’ seal, although it wasn’t very useful for them. Then, they deposited Qi into it; this would allow them to attack once without using their internal resources.
After that, they spent a long time trying to extract something from that body without success because they were too weak. There was no bloodline left in the blood since Ruri’s pet took it. So, Alm and Bruno just focused on using the tattoos, extracting all the Yin of death from him and the demon.
At that moment, they noticed a peculiarity of the race of this beastly king. All of his Yin was stored in his feathers. It didn’t take long to convert everything into Qi, and it was a frightening amount. But, to their dismay, they only managed to stabilize the realm and settled at the first level of the Core Formation Realm.
When everything was over, they had a different feeling after using the tattoos. They reached the second level, and at that moment, they realized through those feathers that it could be something excellent for them.
After a few attempts, inside the forge, all the dwarves were shocked when all the feathers of the giant demonic beast fell from its body. There were almost ten thousand feathers, and they naturally absorbed all the Qi around. It was an interesting racial talent of that king, but, thanks to the tattoos, Alm and Bruno managed to master all the feathers.
Bruno then sighed and commented, ’These feathers may not be as hard as the bone, but they are extremely sharp. This is a divine weapon in our hands!’
’Great, now we’ve really got a lot of good things. We can start the plan.’ Alm concluded with a malicious and villainous expression.
***
After a few days, the whale returned alone to Dark Night City and handed the elder an even larger batch of weapons. They had made hundreds during their free time, waiting for the Five-Ring Yang Pill to be completed. When the elder saw the dozens of bone weapons, she almost let her mask fall, shocked by the magnitude of the Yin power they possessed.
The whale looked at her reaction amusingly, then they handed her another ring seriously. Inside was a single weapon, the bone club. Just seeing it made the elder fall on her butt, startled. She didn’t even feel its weight or its Qi, but her eyes were wide open.
"Everything has that mysterious power; sell it for the highest price possible, and don’t worry about threats," the whale said, looking at the astonished elder.
They returned to the desert city. And from time to time, they escorted the dwarves to mine in the desert, making more and more weapons and taking them to the elder. After weeks passed, when they set out in the morning preparing to go to Dark Night City, Almin found himself a bit apprehensive. Yet, he was surprised to notice a sly smile on the whale.
The whale turned around, commenting, "Yes, today is day number 500. Old Dyen has finally been freed. Get ready; soon, you’ll have your revenge." Obviously, Alm was talking about Dyen, the one who caused Almin’s woman to be in that state.
On that day, only the whale returned to Dark Night City. But unlike before, he wasn’t being discreet. When he entered the city, everyone inside immediately felt his presence and turned in his direction.
Visit freewёbnoνel.com for the best novel reading experience.