Chapter 526 - 525: Lightning of Forging

Chapter 526: Chapter 525: Lightning of Forging

When Jiang Zuo arrived at the Forging Platform, the surrounding Array immediately activated.

After the Array activated, it drew out countless streams of Earth Fire.

Jiang Zuo wouldn’t simply use the Earth Core Fire.

Without the Earth Core Fire, he would have used other Arrays.

He would add Arrays based on the location and use different Forging Techniques.

At that moment, eight pillars of fire condensed at the eight corners of the Array, radiating an extremely high temperature.

The heat forced Ximen Chuihuo and the others to retreat.

They were actually quite shocked; they had no idea what Po Xiao was trying to do.

The appearance of the fire pillars naturally attracted some attention, but when people saw the Sect Leader’s Wife was present, no one said a word.

Instead, they just kept watching.

The members of the Spiritual Control Sect rarely used this Forging Platform.

After all, their focus was on raising Spirit Beasts.

The person who used it most frequently was, without a doubt, Ximen Chuihuo.

He would come here to roast any meat that was too tough to cook otherwise.

He’d been caught doing it many times.

Just then, they saw another strange development on the Forging Platform.

In the center of the Forging Platform, Jiang Zuo had taken out the Stone of Seven Emotions and Six Desires.

The Earth Fire had already been drawn forth, but this type of fire couldn’t possibly do any damage to the Stone of Seven Emotions and Six Desires.

Nor did Jiang Zuo intend to change the stone’s appearance.

Lady Ximen stared at Jiang Zuo’s stone. She had a bad feeling about it; she sensed the stone was extremely dangerous.

She instinctively grabbed Ximen Chuihuo and pulled him back a good distance.

The onlookers, seeing the Sect Leader’s Wife retreat, naturally followed suit.

Jiang Zuo paid them no mind whatsoever. His entire focus was on the Stone of Seven Emotions and Six Desires.

Jiang Zuo wasn’t heating the Stone of Seven Emotions and Six Desires to forge it (he couldn’t do that yet, anyway), but to get a clearer look at something inside.

After heating it for a long time, something suddenly flashed within the Stone of Seven Emotions and Six Desires. At that, Jiang Zuo activated the Array, causing the eight pillars of fire to gather high in the sky. They then split into thirteen streams of flame that surged into the stone.

Simultaneously, Jiang Zuo inscribed thirteen Runes in the air. Each Rune followed one of the thirteen flames into the Stone of Seven Emotions and Six Desires.

After the Runes entered, the point of light Jiang Zuo had seen earlier grew steadily clearer.

The light, which had been flickering, rapidly stabilized.

Once it was shining with a steady light, Jiang Zuo picked up the Forging Hammer from the Forging Platform.

He then began to swing the Forging Hammer.

As Jiang Zuo raised the Forging Hammer, the entire Array stirred, seemingly channeling its power into the hammer.

Moreover, thirteen streams of aura emerged from the Stone of Seven Emotions and Six Desires, gathering into a tangible gas.

The gas seemed to be trying to pump into the Stone of Seven Emotions and Six Desires, but lacked the strength to force its way in.

At that very moment, Jiang Zuo brought down the Forging Hammer—now imbued with the power of the entire Array—and struck the gas with immense force.

Struck by this immense force, the gas instantly surged into the Stone of Seven Emotions and Six Desires.

As the gas flooded into the Stone of Seven Emotions and Six Desires, a feeling of immense, pent-up pressure built up, and then it felt as if something had broken through.

With a POP, a Xiaoxiao glowing stone shot out of the Stone of Seven Emotions and Six Desires.

The moment the small glowing stone appeared, Jiang Zuo immediately enveloped it with all the flames.

As for the original Stone of Seven Emotions and Six Desires, Jiang Zuo completely ignored it.

That was right—this was the true Stone of Seven Emotions and Six Desires. The large stone on the outside was merely dross accumulated over a long period.

However, that dross was also an extremely special substance.

Ordinary materials truly couldn’t compare to it.

The instant the Xiaoxiao Stone of Seven Emotions and Six Desires appeared, despite being enveloped in flames, its emotion-stirring power instantly began to radiate outwards.

Lady Ximen, who was at the very front, felt her pupils contract. She immediately led everyone away from the mountain peak, not even daring to get close to it.

Ximen Chuihuo’s face was covered in a cold sweat. He had just realized that his own consciousness had become unstable.

It was as if he was about to be dominated by his desires.

The others hadn’t even snapped out of it yet.

Ximen Chuihuo asked, his heart still pounding with fear, "Mom, what was that thing?"

"Yes, Sect Leader’s Wife, what was that? I could barely control myself," a disciple behind them asked.

Everyone has desires. If they can’t be controlled, the consequences are simply terrifying.

If a person is dominated by their desires, they can hardly be called human anymore.

That’s why everyone was so shaken.

Lady Ximen felt a bit helpless. ’These people should be calling me Martial Aunt, or at the very least, Elder.’

’But every single one of them calls me the Sect Leader’s Wife.’

’Still, after so many years, she was used to it.’

She then rapped Ximen Chuihuo. "Call me Mother."

Then, frowning as she gazed at the mountain where the forging was taking place, she said, "If I’m not mistaken, that should be the Stone of Seven Emotions and Six Desires. It’s just..."

’It’s just that almost no one can control the Stone of Seven Emotions and Six Desires. Simply getting close to it should be impossible.’

’Approaching it requires extensive preparation. For someone like Po Xiao to just take it out and start forging it... that should be utterly impossible.’

’Especially since he didn’t even try to Seal the Stone of Seven Emotions and Six Desires.’

’To be completely unaffected under these circumstances... that wasn’t normal at all.’

Ximen Chuihuo said, "I heard from Linglong that Po Xiao was looking for the Stone of Seven Emotions and Six Desires. Apparently, he cultivates the Seven Emotions and Six Desires Technique."

"The Seven Emotions and Six Desires Technique?" Lady Ximen was taken aback.

To put it nicely, the Seven Emotions and Six Desires Technique was a path to Supreme Forgetting Emotions. To put it bluntly, it was one of Breaking Love and Betrayal, of Extinct Humanity.

’This Po Xiao is very dangerous.’

’But if he really was cultivating the Seven Emotions and Six Desires Technique, then it would make sense.’

’Combined with Po Xiao’s cold indifference, it was highly likely he was indeed cultivating the Seven Emotions and Six Desires Technique.’

While they were discussing this, Jiang Zuo began to swing the Forging Hammer again. This time, he was striking for real.

The Grand Array spun wildly as streams of Runes condensed in the sky. All of them were Runes destined for the hammer.

What Jiang Zuo was swinging wasn’t a Forging Hammer at all, but a Rune Hammer.

The countless Runes stirred the very air around them, and then the hammer fell.

BOOM!!

An explosive sound rang out, shaking the entire mountain peak.

After the explosion, the Array’s range of influence began to expand.

It seemed to be spreading.

While everyone was still reeling from the shock, a series of explosions rang out.

The explosions grew more and more frequent.

The massive, strange phenomena even obscured their view of the Forging Platform on the peak.

The only thing they could see were the Runes that swarmed madly across the entire peak.

And they could hear the raging explosions.

The pace grew faster and faster, seemingly more and more frenzied.

BOOM, BOOM, BOOM

The rhythm accelerated, faster and faster, pushing toward its absolute limit.

It felt as if the entire thing would completely detonate in the next moment.

KABOOM!

Just as the explosions within reached their peak intensity, a bolt of lightning suddenly descended from the sky.

The lightning bolt struck the Forging Platform directly.

Just when everyone thought the person up there was done for, they discovered that the lightning had actually been drawn in by the Array and the Forging Hammer, and was even beginning to empower the hammer.