The underground nodes were destroyed, and the flames cooled down.
There was one last step in completing the Hongmeng Supreme Treasure, but the effort fell short.
Countless weaponsmiths felt terrible at the outcome.
"Sigh. I can't witness a Hongmeng Supreme Treasure being forged with my own eyes."
"Yeah. How unfortunate."
"Ou Chen is really a prick!"
"I'll beat him up if I see him!"
A heated discussion was sparked among the weaponsmiths.
The way Ou Chen destroyed the underground nodes of the city infuriated the weaponsmiths.
Ming Fei looked at Chu Kuangren. She thought he would be devastated when the efforts of forging a Hongmeng Supreme Treasure fell short.
However, Chu Kuangren remained calm.
He looked at the unfinished Hongmeng Supreme Treasure and pondered, which intrigued Ming Fei.
"What are you thinking?"
"I'm thinking of a way to salvage it," Chu Kuangren said.
Ming Fei was surprised. She shook her head and said, "You're not a weaponsmith. What could you come up with?"
"Forging… Hm…"
Chu Kuangren's eyes lit up when a sudden realization struck him.
He thought of the forbidden forging technique he had read earlier — the Heavenly Lightning Weapon Quenching Technique!
"The flames are gone, so something else must be used to substitute it for the quenching process, or the Hongmeng Supreme Treasure will be ruined. What else in Myriad Arms City is strong enough to substitute the flame of the Blazing Flame Volcano?"
The flame in the volcano was powerful because it absorbed the murderous qi from all across the domain through the underground nodes. It was probably the best quenching material in this universe.
Nothing else in the city could be used as a substitute, but Chu Kuangren had an idea.
"The heavenly lightning! I will use the heavenly lightning to quench this unfinished weapon!" Chu Kuangren said as he walked closer to the unfinished product.
Ming Fei was baffled by his words.
Where would he find the heavenly lightning?
Ou Yenuo was struck by realization as well. He knew what Chu Kuangren wanted to do, but he disagreed. "Brother Chu, it's just a theory…"
"A theory must be tested one way or another. Let me be the first," Chu Kuangren said as he held the unfinished Supreme Treasure.
"Where are you going to find the heavenly lightning?"
"It's here already."
"Kakroom!"
As soon as he said that, Chu Kuangren's silver hair reverted to its original color.
The Radiant energy was replaced by the energies of three thousand Daoist laws.
The energy circled him like planets circling the sun, fusing as they moved.
A powerful Primordial energy erupted and blanketed the field.
The spiritual qi in the area grew restless, and a terrifying energy gathered into dark clouds above Chu Kuangren's head.
The aura from the dark clouds crashed down like a waterfall, pressuring everyone.
"This is the Primordial Tribulation!"
"Whose Primordial Tribulation is it?"
"The Child of Light."
"Wait, isn't the Child of Light a Grand Dao Realm cultivator? Why would he still need the Primordial Tribulation? Isn't he a Primordial!?"
"Impossible. If he's not a Grand Dao cultivator, where did he get the power to kill so many Grand Dao enemies? It's impossible."
Everyone was shocked, including Ming Fei.
She looked at Chu Kuangren and muttered, "As the Goddess said, he really holds a lot of secrets."
"Kakroom!"
Dark clouds rumbled and formed a massive vortex.
Suddenly, in the center of the vortex, a stream of colorful energy could be seen.
As though a color dye was poured into water, the colorful energy changed the dark clouds' ominous presence into a mystical and colorful one.
At a closer look, there were a total of nine colors in the stream of energy.
"Is that the Nine Colors Primordial Tribulation?"
Ming Fei's eyes widened in shock.
Primordial Tribulations had different intensities. Most of the Primordial Tribulations were a common one, which consisted only of the dark clouds.
However, some unusual anomaly could summon a terrifying Primordial Tribulation.
Ming Fei was one of them.
When she ascended to the Primordial Realm many years ago, the Primordial Tribulation had three colors.
Hence, the Nine Colors Primordial Tribulation was a first, even to her.
"The Nine Colors Primordial Tribulation is a legendary heavenly tribulation. It's second only to that supreme Hongmeng Primordial Tribulation! Not even the Tempest King of the last era made such a commotion during her ascension," Ming Fei said as she tried to warn Chu Kuangren of the danger of that Primordial Tribulation.
Chu Kuangren, however, had expected it. "The stronger the better."
"Be careful," she said before she left with Ou Yenuo.
Outsiders could not intervene with one's ascension.
The Nine Colors Primordial Tribulation looked vast and powerful.
Not only did it shake the entire Myriad Arms City, but even some of the strongest beings in the Great Hongmeng Universe sensed it.
They all looked curiously in the same direction.
"The legend of the Nine Colors Primordial Tribulation is real!"
"It's my first time seeing this."
"Ascending to the Primordial Realm with three thousand Daos mastered… This would be a terrifying one, so it's not that surprising that his Primordial Tribulation would be nine colors."
"That's true…"
With many pairs of eyes watching, the first bolt of lightning from the Nine Colors Primordial Tribulation struck down.
It was a colorful bolt of lighting, as robust as a massive python. It contained a destructive aura, and one bolt was enough to instill fear in people's hearts.
However, Chu Kuangren faced it head-on. He concentrated on the bolt as he channeled the vitality qi in his body, taking the bolt of lightning with his body.
"Kakroom!"
The power from the bolt of lightning wrecked his bodily function, but he was not concerned at all. Instead, he diverted the energy into the Hongmeng Supreme Treasure in his hand.
With the heavenly lightning's power quenching it, the Supreme Treasure glowed brightly.
A powerful energy fluctuation came from the blade.
Ou Chen saw the scene further away, and his eyes widened in disbelief.
"Heavenly Lightning Weapon Quenching Technique!"
He and Ou Yenuo used to study under the same teacher, so he knew about that technique as well.
To him, it was nothing but a fool's talk because it was unrealistic.
Now, Chu Kuangren was doing it right before his eyes.
He was using the heavenly lightning to quench a Hongmeng Supreme Treasure!
"Madness! Madness! How dare he!"
Ou Chen trembled at the thought of it because of the danger in the process, but Chu Kuangren had the courage to do it.
The other weaponsmiths might not know about the forbidden technique, but they had a hunch about what Chu Kuangren was trying to do.
"He's mad!"
"Quenching the weapon with heavenly lightning? Is he crazy or a genius? Let's see if he makes it."
"How can he make it? He's going to die!"
"This is the Nine Colors Primordial Tribulation!"
Even Ming Fei could not help but frown. "He's facing the Nine Colors Primordial Tribulation, yet he still has the energy to spare to quench the weapon?"
Despite her grievance, she was rather worried about Chu Kuangren.
"Lil Ai, how's the quenching process?"
Chu Kuangren consumed a massive amount of recovery items to quickly recover his injuries from the bolt of lightning.
"The Hongmeng Supreme Treasure's completion is at ninety percent. With two more bolts of similarly powerful heavenly lightning, it will be completed," Lil Ai analyzed calmly.
"Great!" Chu Kuangren nodded.
"Kakroom!"
The Nine Color Primordial Tribulation struck another bolt of lightning at Chu Kuangren.
Chu Kuangren took the bolt of lightning head-on again and used his body to divert the energy into the weapon.
"Hongmeng Supreme Treasure completion, ninety-seven percent. One more, and it will be completed."
Chu Kuangren looked rather pale already.
The Nine Colors Primordial Tribulation was indeed outstanding.
Then, a large amount of lightning energy rumbled in the colorful clouds and formed a colorful spear that released a terrifying energy fluctuation.
Chu Kuangren concentrated his gaze.
That particular bolt of lightning scared him, and he felt an immense threat just by looking at it.
"This is just the third one. Do you really have to go that far?"
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