Chapter 850: Chapter 330: The World Boils, Xi Rong Ascends to the Summit
The current development speed of the Immortal Artifact Domain is incredibly fast.
Xin Xichen still has to go out every day to get distracted by fighting, slowing down his research on the Immortal Spirit Root.
Meanwhile, traditional Divine Craftsmen like Xinyi Baisan and Thunder Hammer Duke only need to stay at home and madly focus on forging, without worrying about the chaos outside.
The Divine Craftsmen have taken it a step further and invented the Five Elements Immortal Weapon!
However, the Seven Colors has not yet been successfully developed.
The combination of Five Elements + Yin Yang is already a secondary cycle on top of the primary one, and there are various minor issues that haven’t been overcome.
Thus, when Xinyi Baisan heard the news, he was unbelievably shocked.
"Did they completely achieve independent production?"
Even hearing this news, Xinyi Baisan could hardly believe it.
Previously, the Seven-Colored Divine Weapon was a joint effort among a group of divine-level professionals, including Doukou Hong, Xinyi Baisan, and many others, each contributing significantly!
It was a collaborative effort.
Although Xirong boasted loudly about their achievements... in reality, everyone knew that in the collaboration, he was only responsible for the embers position related to the Seven-Colored Spiritual Root.
But now, they have actually created an independent industrial chain??
The difficulty of this is incomprehensible to outsiders.
It’s like producing a mobile phone on Earth, requiring the coordinated effort of major global companies—choosing which screen, which chip?
Otherwise, no single company could handle the production of every component, like the situation with Huawei phones facing a supply chain choke point.
But now...
The Sword Casting Manor has achieved this.
"Did they not invite you?" Xinyi Baisan looked towards Doukou Hong.
"No," Doukou Hong shook his head, "They didn’t invite any faction; they completed it independently."
Xinyi Baisan’s pupils shrank.
Divine Doctor, Shennong, Divine Craftsman, Divine Array—each project has reached an incredible peak, with profound depth.
"In just a few years? They’ve already become an unreachable, towering mountain."
Xinyi Baisan lowered his head, asking himself.
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Starting from the experts of each major sect and great sect, the news of Xirong independently forging the Seven-Colored Immortal Weapon spread like a vast wave sweeping across the entire Nine-State Four Seas.
This wave is no less significant than the previous Celestial Destiny advent—the battle led by the Night Emperor bringing calamity!
Everyone understands what this means.
It means an unrivaled overlord will entirely dominate their era.
Even the top experts from the Nine-State, such as the Cursed and Phoenix Yi, have to request weapons from the Sword Casting Manor, even bowing and scraping.
Because if others seek weapons and you don’t...
Your combat power weakens; does this era still have a place for you??
This is the terrifying effect of the monopoly on top Immortal Artifacts.
"What kind of monster is this? The Human Race Sun Moon forged by human powerhouses, and the Sea Race Hongmeng forged by sea powerhouses, but now, a single force is crafting Immortal Weapons?"
"How can they be this powerful?"
No one else could fathom it.
Even some visionary human cultivators felt tremendous sadness, foreseeing what was about to happen.
Someone voiced out:
"Historically, there has only ever been one era ruled by non-professionals: the Chaotic Body Era. A group of physicians overlooking the vast land for a million years, already an ancient myth!"
"According to the truth uncovered by tomb excavations, that group of physicians helped transform myth emperors of the era, and those emperors had to bow and scrape because if the physicians didn’t assist, they would be killed by others."
"Now, another Chaotic Body Era is born... Blacksmiths ruling the age."
"All these changes are brought by the Xirong lineage... Unfortunately, though the Chaotic Body persisted for a million years, it was eventually replaced as battle cultivators reclaimed dominance... Yet now, the era of Xirong Immortal Artifacts may still be fleeting!"
"Even so, it is enough! A group of frail scholars waving hammers, operating pill furnaces, and planting rice fields, ruling a lord’s era from the manor, overlooking the kings of all races, is already a miracle in the world."
"Immortal Weapon! Immortal Weapon!"
...
How terrifying and awe-inspiring this is.
Throughout the history of cultivators, the essence is an era where power equals authority.
All Divine Craftsmen and Divine Doctors historically lived under the shelter of dominating emperors.
But now, a group of non-combatant blacksmiths has risen above battle cultivators.
Some even organized and documented Xirong’s life history.
They discovered that Xirong has never competed; ever since emerging, they spent most of their time devoted to research, development, and continuing this cycle.
Remaining within Xirong Academy without expansion, they are a group of devout ascetics, pure pioneers charting a path for future generations!
For such non-competitive ascetics, no one can harbor enmity, nor can anyone despise them; they are profoundly respected.
They haven’t sought anything yet somehow reached the top, and such pure scholars must be revered and respected by any powerhouse.
Quickly, a statement from the Xirong Manor Master spread:
[To strive yet not strive, to not strive is to strive, for only by not striving, none under Heaven can compete.]
This statement shook the world.
Soon, Xirong Academy was a sea of people.
One scholar after another shouted passionately: "Battling cultivators are nothing! You climb the mountain step by step, enter the manor, then beg me, plead with me, and I shall forge you a supreme divine weapon!"
In taverns, a drunk alchemist vented all his inner depression, shouting: "I shall transcend the martial world! Every expert in the world can only go to Sword Casting Manor and ask me for a treasure sword!"
"This is the ultimate dream of our non-combat professions!" Some drunkenly exclaimed, "Now, all Demon Path, Righteous Path, Ghost Path, and all must abide by Sword Casting Manor’s will."
The voice of Xirong Academy was filled with such sentiments.
Some were water army.
Some had ulterior motives, deliberately pushing Xirong into the global spotlight because they no longer needed Doukou Hong or others; independently forging the Seven-Colored Immortal Weapon, no one could choke their throat anymore.
Yet no one can deny it.
For various living professional cultivators, what an honor this is?
This is simply witnessing history!
Countless gazes, from across continents and sea domains, converge on Xinyi Continent City, on Xirong City, on Xirong Academy.
The era of Seven-Colored Immortal Artifacts has arrived.
Major powers are thrown into chaos too, numerous Self-Transformation Realm experts shuddered in shock, replaced by... excitement!
Their combat power is average.
Even approaching the pinnacle battles was unattainable.
With a Seven-Colored Immortal Weapon now, overtaking through the bend is not impossible!
Furthermore, archaeologists, seeing deeper historical insights, voiced their findings:
"Human history is a cycle."
"Non-combatant cultivators only rise above combatants during transitional eruptions in civilization."
"In the Chaotic Body Era, why were physicians the overlords? Because during the Chaotic Body period, the Five-Body Cycle System hadn’t emerged and was still in a transitional phase requiring physicians skilled in bodily research, thus medical skill was dominant!"
"And now, it’s another transitional eruption period, Immortal Artifacts ruling the age... Sword Casting Manor becomes the uncrowned king!"
Countless people sigh with emotion.
Xirong, in the short term, might be the strongest neutral force in our world, transcending worldly affairs, with no one daring to provoke them.
