Inside the workshop.
A Tang Dao that was half the height of a human lay quietly on the workbench. The body of the Tang Dao was as black as ink, surrounded by a layer of faint scarlet light. The handle of the Tang Dao was as white as jade, and a faint green light could be seen flowing within the handle. At the end of the handle, there was a light green stone that looked like an eye.
Every time he saw this stone, Qi Yuan would feel his body itch, as if something was about to come out of his body.
This feeling was similar to that of the Devil Eye Stone in the prison.
"How long will it take to complete the activation?" Qi Yuan asked.
The scattered scarlet radiance condensed into the Blazing Angel's figure.
"This weapon is too powerful. It will take at least five more days." The Blazing Angel's voice was somewhat intermittent, seemingly strained.
This was a situation that didn't occur when she activated the other two energy weapons.
The Blazing Angel had already stepped into the fifth step. According to common sense, the activation of energy weapons should be easier, but the activation of this weapon was unexpectedly difficult.
"I want more Asterite, more Asterite energy!" The Blazing Angel said with some difficulty.
Qi Yuan stared for a moment, then directly stretched out his right hand. A strand of Asterite energy flowed out from his fingers, slowly entering the Blazing Angel's figure.
The Blazing Angel let out a cheerful laugh. This time, she didn't taste it carefully, but began to swallow it in large mouthfuls. Very quickly, the entire Asterite energy was swallowed into her stomach. Then, the scarlet radiance on the blade became denser at a speed visible to the naked eye.
This time, Qi Yuan wasn't stingy, directly feeding her an entire ton of Asterite energy.
Qi Yuan slowly withdrew his right hand. In order to activate this energy weapon, the Blazing Angel had already spent ten whole days inside the blade, consuming close to two tons of Asterite energy.
Even after the Blazing Angel had stepped into the fifth step, it was still so difficult for her to activate this blade. This could only mean one thing, and that was that this blade was extremely powerful, even more so than the previous two energy weapons.
Looking at the radiant blade, Qi Yuan suddenly felt somewhat expectant. He started to look forward to the might of this blade.
Suppressing the anticipation in his heart, Qi Yuan turned around and walked to another workbench. On it was the Sky Dome Defense System, the core component of the last Type 6 Energy Cannon.
Although the report that Qi Yuan had sent to the management office indicated that the repair progress of the Type 6 Energy Cannon had reached 70%, in truth, Qi Yuan had already completed the repairs.
Qi Yuan checked the functions of the core components. After confirming that they could be used, he walked to the last workbench.
On this workbench was the Golden Miracle that was pulled out from Le Zhangkun's body. This was a powerful Glory mechanical equipment. It was partially damaged in the battle, but it was not serious. The core energy matrix was still intact and could still be used after repair.
As for the Golden Miracle's Personal Gene Binding System, it wasn't a problem at all in front of the Spiritual Fortress. It could be easily broken.
With the convenience of repairing the Sky Dome Defense System, Qi Yuan had requested a lot of materials from the base. It was not too difficult to repair a Glory mechanical equipment like this.
Qi Yuan looked at the Golden Miracle and used the Spiritual Fortress to carefully inspect every corner of the mechanical equipment. He was not only looking for damage, but also to see if Le Zhangkun had left anything behind.
As a spy of the Mech Kingdom, it was not impossible for Le Zhangkun to leave some small traps in the Golden Miracle.
Although these small traps would not directly threaten his safety, they could easily expose his whereabouts and secrets.
Now that the Fang of Despair had successfully infiltrated the No.9 battle fort, it would not be worth it if they were exposed because of a slight mistake on the Golden Miracle.
Although the Fang of Despair had entered the Mech Kingdom, they did not directly establish an information fortress with Abel. That would expose them too easily.
In order to minimize the possibility of the Fang of Despair being exposed, Qi Yuan used the safest and most conservative method, which was to let the Fang of Despair send a message personally.
Qi Yuan calculated the time. By the time the weapon was fully activated, the Fang of Despair would have sent back a message.
5 days passed by quickly. When Qi Yuan finished repairing the Golden Miracle, the Blazing Angel finished activating the weapon on time.
After the Blazing Angel's activation, the radiance on the long blade that was originally flowing with light had instead become restrained and plain.
Blazing Angel, who was so tired that his figure was somewhat illusory, circled around the long blade, his eyes filled with curiosity.
Just when she was about to touch the light green rock on the hilt, a crack suddenly appeared in the middle of the rock. It was like an open eye, and a dark light was slowly spinning in the depths of the eye.
The eye behind the crack looked at the Blazing Angel. She paused, and a dash of Asterite energy leaked out of her body and flew towards the whirlpool.
The Blazing Angel quickly escaped the eye's lock. She was shocked.
In that instant, she felt as if that eye was about to swallow her whole.
Even though she had managed to break free from that pair of eyes, the loss of a strand of star energy from the star energy stone still made her heart ache.
"This sword is a bit dangerous. It's best to throw it away!" The Blazing Angel said with a serious expression.
In the eyes of the Blazing Angel, anyone who dared to fight her with Asterite energy was her enemy, even if the enemy was just a sword.
Qi Yuan's eyes narrowed. Now he could finally confirm that the green rock on the hilt was the Stone of Eye Devil from the prison.
After suffering a great loss from the Stone of Eye Devil in the prison, Qi Yuan also tried to find some information about the Stone of Eye Devil, but he didn't find much. In the end, he still heard some information from Mo Sheng. This Stone of Eye Devil came from the black area. There was once a sixth step ability user in the Wilderness Exploration Department who accidentally fell into its trap. Eyes grew all over his body, and he died at the hands of this Stone of Eye Devil.
Qi Yuan glanced at the eye that was slowly spinning like a whirlpool. He felt the feeling of his body being mutated again. Fortunately, he had already stepped into the fourth step. His Body of Steel had enough resistance to resist all kinds of strange attacks, so the strange thing of having eyes all over his body didn't happen again.
No matter how strange this eye was, since the Butcher embedded it in the hilt, there must be a reason for it. A longsword like this that could steal Asterite energy from the Blazing Angel's mouth must have its uniqueness.
Qi Yuan stretched out his right hand and grasped the hilt. A powerful aura instantly rose. Qi Yuan only felt his vision blur, and he seemed to have entered a strange world.
This world was dark red. At the edge of the world, a group of powerful insectoids were entrenched, and they were killing each other.
When he entered this world, the group of insectoids locked on to him at the same time, and then madly rushed towards him.
Illusion?
Qi Yuan's eyes narrowed. With the existence of the Spirit Fortress, even a sixth step powerhouse of the Mysterious Realm might not be able to forcefully drag him into an illusion. This sword actually did it so easily.
A sword!
Qi Yuan looked at his right hand.
He held a pitch-black saber in his hand. The saber exuded a thick bloody and murderous aura. It was a murderous aura that was produced after the blood of countless insects and beasts had fused together.
Qi Yuan was shocked. In the process of forging this sword, how many prisoners did the Butcher kill?
Qi Yuan raised his head and looked at the insectoids that were filled with murderous intent. He vaguely felt that these insectoids were somewhat familiar, as if he had seen them somewhere before.
At the back of the wave of insectoids, a figure that looked like a mountain was hidden in the darkness. On the mountain peak, eyes suddenly opened and locked on to him. A terrifying aura that made one's heart palpitate rushed towards him.
This is … an Eye Demon?
Qi Yuan's heart trembled. He finally remembered where he had seen these insectoids before.
On the ninth floor of the prison!
When he went to the Tree of Oblivion to sign in, he had seen these insectoids before!
An Eye Demon appeared here, and so many insectoids appeared. They were all prisoners of the prison!
Could it be that they were all lives that the Butcher killed in the process of forging this weapon?
If that was the case, the Butcher would have killed at least half of the prisoners on the ninth floor in order to forge this sword.
Who was the Butcher?
Why would the Sanctuary allow him to kill these prisoners?
Seeing that the insectoids were getting closer and closer, Qi Yuan suppressed the shock in his heart. He raised the long sword in his hand and charged towards the insectoids.
Mutated energy weapons, to a certain extent, had their own independent consciousness. Therefore, they would be soul-bound to the first holder. Unless the holder died, others would not be able to use the weapon even if they obtained it.
However, even for the first holder, it was not easy to gain the approval of a fully activated mutated energy weapon.
If he could not kill all of these insectoids today, it would mean that he had failed to gain control of the weapon and would completely lose it!
Qi Yuan growled. Following the guidance of his body, he suddenly slashed towards the wave of insectoids. Wherever the blade passed, a small scarlet line of blood was left in the void and quickly spread forward.
Although the scarlet line of blood was extremely small, wherever it passed, the insectoids were instantly cut in half. Whether it was their flesh or their bones, they were all cut in half by this scarlet line of blood. Before the insectoids' corpses fell to the ground, they turned into a scarlet stream of light and merged with the blade.
"Good sword!"
Qi Yuan could clearly feel the power of the long sword in his hand. However, as he slashed with the sword, Qi Yuan vaguely felt that he had lost something.
Qi Yuan did not have time to think. More insectoids were swarming towards him. Qi Yuan could only continue to slash with his sword.
The insectoids drowned Qi Yuan like a tide, but Qi Yuan was like a rock that did not budge. No matter how many insectoids came at him, he simply slashed with his sword. After a single slash, the insectoids' corpses would be severed and merged with the sword.
Whether it was a Class 4, Class 5, or Class 6 insectoid, none of them could withstand a single slash from the long sword.
A Class 6 giant python took advantage of the time when Qi Yuan was slashing to pounce and bite out, swallowing Qi Yuan into its stomach. However, in the next second, its body stiffened. A scarlet line of blood appeared from its abdomen and directly cut it in half from the inside.
Just as the giant python was absorbed by the long blade, another black ray of light flashed across Qi Yuan's back like lightning, leaving behind a deep wound. Even his steel defense was unable to block this black ray of light.
There was no blood flowing out from the wound on his back. Only an invisible soul power was being emitted.
As the soul power dissipated, Qi Yuan vaguely felt the loss of his strength. The long sword in his hand seemed to have become heavier.
Would injuries make him weak?!
Qi Yuan's eyes narrowed. Although this sword was killing insectoids like cutting vegetables, these insectoids could still hurt him.
If he kept getting injured and became so weak that he could no longer wield the long sword, what would happen?
Would his control fail?
Or would his soul perish?
With a thought, Qi Yuan attempted to activate the recovery ability of the Body of Steel to heal the wound on his back. However, no matter how hard he tried, the wound on his back showed no signs of healing.
While Qi Yuan was still in shock, another insectoid suddenly bit at him. Qi Yuan slashed horizontally, beheading the insectoid. At the same time, another insectoid hiding behind suddenly shot out a bone spike, directly piercing through his chest.
The bone spike pierced through his chest, but there was no pain. Qi Yuan could even see the scene behind him through the hole left behind by the bone spike. However, he did not feel any sense of death.
Only the long sword in his hand had become heavier!
Qi Yuan had a slight understanding of this.
This battle was not a competition of combat strength, but a battle of wills on the spiritual level!
After thinking about the pass button, Qi Yuan let out a long roar. The long sword in his hand was like a dragon, slashing out again and again like a sky full of flying feathers. For a moment, the surrounding void was filled with the scarlet blood lines that Qi Yuan slashed out.
Countless insectoids were torn apart and absorbed by the long sword. Although they did their best to leave wounds on Qi Yuan's body, causing Qi Yuan's body to become illusory, Qi Yuan was still standing like a mountain. He did not retreat, nor did he fall.
In the workshop, Blazing Angel watched as Qi Yuan gripped the hilt of his sword, then his entire body became stiff and motionless. Then, the Asterite energy in Qi Yuan's body surged into the long sword in his hand like a broken dam.
This caused Blazing Angel's eyes to turn red. She stared at the long sword as if she saw her greatest enemy!
In the illusion, Qi Yuan's body became incomparably illusory. There were broken holes on his body like a ghost, but he still did not fall.
All of the insectoids had disappeared, leaving only one enemy — Eye Devil.
Its mountain-like body was still hidden in the darkness far away. Its pitch-black eyes were like black whirlpools, staring at Qi Yuan as if it wanted to suck Qi Yuan into the whirlpool.
Qi Yuan was panting. Although it did not have a physical body, it still felt a bone-deep exhaustion, as if it could fall asleep at any time.
The long sword in his hand became extremely heavy. Qi Yuan could not even lift it up with one hand. It could only hang on the ground powerlessly.
Qi Yuan held the long sword in one hand and approached the mountain-like Eye Devil step by step.
The long sword left a straight mark on the ground, pointing at Eye Devil in the distance.
As Qi Yuan approached, a majestic voice suddenly appeared in Qi Yuan's mind like a god.
"Young man, put down that sword. I can give you more power!
Enough power to fight against a high-level powerhouse! "