The wind passed and the clouds settled. After a pleasant bath in the side hall's bathroom and getting dressed, Chu Chengzhou got down to business: "Xue'er, once you return to Spirit City, you'll find a different Bibi Dong."
"A different Bibi Dong? How different?"
Qian Renxue was puzzled.
"I'm not saying. You'll know when you go back."
Smiling, Chu Chengzhou spoke mysteriously.
"Say it or not?"
Chu Chengzhou shook his head. "All beautiful things should be discovered by oneself. If you hold on to a sense of anticipation, then when you witness it, it will feel even better than expected."
"So you won't say? Then don't blame me for being rude to you."
Qian Renxue, full but not "stuffed," crossed her arms and sneered.
Chu Chengzhou: "???"
"Xue'er, calm down. We may be young, but we should show restraint."
Seeing Qian Renxue pressing step by step, Chu Chengzhou had a bad premonition.
He had not "had fun" with Sister Yuehua for several nights, and he had planned to go to the Moon Pavilion tonight. Now it seemed that would not happen.
"No. You're the one who needs restraint. I don't."
With that, Qian Renxue, in the guise of a domineering queen, pressed forward anyway.
"Wait, let me catch my breath. I'll say it now!"
"Hmph, too late."
Chu Chengzhou: "."
Fine. Bring it on. Would I, Chu Chengzhou, be afraid of a woman?
Six days later, in the afternoon.
After digesting his insights, Chu Chengzhou looked at the skill list on his attribute panel, where [Battle Armor Manufacture (Red)] was displayed, and a smile tugged at the corner of his mouth.
As expected, the red-grade battle armor manufacture skill corresponded to the later era's soul-refined three-word battle armor.
At once, Chu Chengzhou took out two gorgeous sets of armor from his storage soul tool.
One was pure white like jade, the other was blue-gold.
The blue-gold armor was forged from soul-refined Blue Gold, while the pure white jade-like armor was forged from soul-refined Jade Silver.
Jade Silver was a rare alloy formula Chu Chengzhou had happened to work out recently, smelted from mithril and magic silver, and the metal's intrinsic property was amplification of the holy attribute.
Needless to say, the soul-refined Blue Gold armor was prepared for Tang Yuehua, and the soul-refined Jade Silver armor was for Qian Renxue. Before forging, both metals had been blood-bound to their respective owners.
The other components of these two suits of armor did not differ much from ordinary armor, aside from being more delicate and beautiful, but the helmets were replaced with headbands, and there were two pairs of wings on the back of the armor.
Perhaps because [Battle Armor Manufacture (Purple)] had been too low in grade, or because the initial reference version of thousand-refined battle armor was too rudimentary, the "deluxe" thousand-refined battle armor Chu Chengzhou had previously made did not look much different from a normal full-body suit.
But ten days ago, after the battle armor manufacture skill advanced to black grade, the changes were not only in the soul guidance arrays. The overall structure of the battle armor was further optimized to align with later generations: the head component was no longer a bulky helmet, but an exquisite headband, and wing components were added.
Of course, since spirit-refined battle armor only suits six-ring Soul Emperors, and both Tang Yuehua and Qian Renxue had soul power above level 70, and even Xiao Wu and the other three who were training on Seagod Island were definitely not below level 70 now, Chu Chengzhou had not made any spirit-refined battle armor.
As for the six-ring Soul Emperor wage earner Ma Jieke?
Kidding. He's the boss.
He might be somewhat unqualified, but he is still a capitalist, and besides, Ma Jieke is not a delicate beauty in black stockings serving as a cute secretary.
As for soul-refined battle armor, which is higher grade than spirit-refined, there were no new structural changes, but everything spirit-refined armor should have, soul-refined armor naturally had as well.
Qian Renxue, with her Six-Winged Angel martial soul, was already a flying-type soul master. As for Tang Yuehua, who did not have the ability to fly, once she wore the soul-refined battle armor with wing components, she would gain the ability to fly.
Power of chaos surged out, condensing into a soul power graver that emitted a pale cyan glow. Chu Chengzhou began engraving soul guidance arrays onto the rough bodies of the two suits of battle armor.
The technical task of engraving arrays did not stump him. With near-MAX control, two hours later two sets of soul-refined battle armor—one radiating a deep blue halo and the other a holy halo—were completed in succession.
After that, Chu Chengzhou put away the two suits of armor, then took out a longsword also forged from soul-refined Jade Silver, and a strange device forged from soul-refined Blue Gold.
Yes, the kind with six barrels.
After matters on the Heaven Dou side wrapped up, Qian Renxue would return to Spirit City to begin the Angel God trial, and for the trial, the stronger the better.
Battle armor could greatly enhance a soul master's strength, but external items that boost strength were not limited to armor. Powerful offensive soul tools could also help a lot.
The Six-Winged Angel's attributes were holy and flame, with holy primary and flame secondary. Since Qian Renxue used a sword, Chu Chengzhou planned to forge her a longsword that could amplify holy soul power.
If Qian Renxue had one, then Sister Tang Yuehua certainly could not be left without.
Moreover, since Tang Yuehua was a support-type soul master whose combat power relied entirely on soul bone skills, she needed an offensive soul tool even more than Qian Renxue.
But Tang Yuehua was not a battle-type soul master and had never used weapons like blades or swords. Relearning weapon arts now would be troublesome.
So Chu Chengzhou thought of hot weapons that could be picked up quickly.
Of course, what he wanted to build was not a small man-portable Vulcan cannon that required belts of physical ammunition, but a soul tool version of a handheld Vulcan cannon that required no physical rounds and only consumed soul power to deliver area fire.
Chu Chengzhou: Three thousand six hundred revolutions per breath, great compassion ferrying the world.
Qian Renxue's longsword was simple. He copied the armor and directly engraved soul guidance amplification arrays.
The manufacturing technique for Tang Yuehua's soul tool–version Vulcan cannon, however, was much more advanced. In Chu Chengzhou's design, in addition to suitable amplification arrays, it needed a set of arrays that could convert injected soul power into solidified rounds and fire them at extremely high speed.
In fact, two days earlier, after Chu Chengzhou proposed the concept and produced the rough body, the soul tool master Ma Jieke had solved that part. This handheld Vulcan cannon, already a semi-finished piece and even directly usable, only lacked Chu Chengzhou engraving the new amplification arrays.
A little over an hour later, Qian Renxue's holy sword and Tang Yuehua's Vulcan cannon were freshly completed.
"Tsk, this thing should count as a rank-nine soul tool, right?"
Looking at the freshly completed blue-gold Vulcan cannon, Chu Chengzhou thought to himself.