Calamity of Tomorrow-Chapter 543 - 542

As Zhou Bai chanted one spell after another, the flames of the furnace flared up at his command, and the greedy steel before him was enveloped in a dense mass of runes.

Four hours later, the greedy steel in front of him had shrunk to around 0.1 cubic meters in size. With each rotation, one could see the dense runes moving within, occasionally surfacing then quickly vanishing.

"To fuse from level one to level three greedy steel, the consumption is truly a hundredfold," Zhou Bai sighed, "But it's still much easier than a normal cultivator refining Blood Talisman Immortal Steel."

"Normal Blood Talisman Immortal Steel is made by grinding the bones and skeletons of exotic beasts into powder, then combining it with Taibai Essence Gold, extracting the Exotic Beast Essence Blood, and inscribing invisible runes inside with the essence blood, which takes over a hundred times the effort and time than what I used."

"The Nine Calamities of the Celestials are indeed formidable."

After resting for an hour, Zhou Bai officially started the refining of the Apocalypse Heavenly Skeleton Armor.

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Three days later, inside the Artifact Refining Room.

Zhou Bai looked pale, slightly listless in spirit, and his Primordial Spirit also felt drained of strength.

However, as his Laziness Points were consumed, his condition quickly improved, and in the blink of an eye, he had once again reached his peak state.

At this moment, Zhou Bai looked at the armor before him with excitement. Elsa and Christina had also gathered around, circling the newly refined Apocalypse Heavenly Skeleton Armor, looking at it incessantly with curiosity.

Before Zhou Bai now floated a suit of dark golden armor, with faint golden starlight twinkling at the position of its limbs, appearing from time to time as if stars were flickering in the night sky.

There were a few fierce-looking horns on the shoulder and leg guards, resembling cliffs thrusting directly into the sky.

The face mask was shrouded in dark golden flowing flames, constantly moving and burning, emanating a faint aura of destruction.

If one were to listen closely, they might even hear an indistinct murmur.

In the shadows of the armor, from time to time, a ghastly face would drift by, as though the gates of hell had been opened. That was the effect of the Mutated Essence Blood. novelbuddy.cσ๓

Zhou Bai slapped his forehead, and his Primordial Spirit shot directly out of his sea of consciousness. Then, with a gesture of his hand, the armor turned into a mass of dark golden fluid, which directly clung to Zhou Bai's original body.

Following that, as the viscous fluid expanded and morphed, it once again took the shape of a suit of armor, wrapping around Zhou Bai's original body.

As Zhou Bai continued to pour his Primordial Spirit power into the armor, layers of Arrays and runes started to shine from within the armor. The dark golden flames at the head grew even more vigorous, and one could occasionally see golden sparks scattering into the air.

"Refine!"

With the completion of the refining, Zhou Bai felt the tremendous power constantly flowing from the Apocalypse Heavenly Skeleton Armor. His Primordial Spirit suddenly contracted, became smaller, and turned into a thumb-sized little man.

The Apocalypse Heavenly Skeleton Armor shrank as well, transforming into a thumb-sized piece of armor.

Immediately afterward, Zhou Bai's Primordial Spirit employed the Primordial Spirit Transformation Technique, expanding and shrinking in turn, then transforming into mist, flames, lightning, becoming visible, invisible... The Apocalypse Heavenly Skeleton Armor followed suit, always clinging tightly around Zhou Bai's Primordial Spirit, forming the strongest protection, guarding his Primordial Spirit.

"As expected of a Primordial Spirit armor, it can change along with the Primordial Spirit, providing protection and power augmentation."

Zhou Bai felt the power transmitted from inside the armor. Different from the Red Heavenly Armor and Nether Dragon Armor, which were intended for the physical body, the Apocalypse Heavenly Skeleton Armor did not enhance the body; instead, it bolstered the power of the Primordial Spirit.

"With a total of 500 Arrays bolstering the power of the Primordial Spirit, my Primordial Spirit's power can almost compare with that of a Ninth Realm powerhouse."

Zhou Bai smiled contentedly, "This is just the most basic function." His Primordial Spirit shot back into the sea of consciousness, and then, with a flash of Guang Ying, the Apocalypse Heavenly Skeleton Armor had already enveloped his physical body.

"The Apocalypse Heavenly Skeleton Armor can be both ethereal and solid, protecting the Primordial Spirit when it changes and penetrating the sea of consciousness with strength to become a physical entity that protects the physical body."

"The entire armor has been transformed into a special fluid structure that deforms to defend against impacts instantaneously. The stronger the attack it faces, the more the defensive power surges."

"The armor itself also has force field protection and can share ten percent of my damage reduction. Its defensive power has completely surpassed the Ming Dragon Armor."

"I wonder how it compares to the Dragon Elephant Kasaya? It should exceed it, right?"

Besides the most basic strength enhancement and defensive power, the Apocalypse Heavenly Skeleton Armor also increased Zhou Bai's celestial disaster strength.

Looking within the Primordial Spirit, the power of the Apocalypse Heavenly Skeleton Armor formed into black lines that threaded through Zhou Bai's Primordial Spirit like black blood vessels, connecting directly to the Taiyin Roulette in the abdomen of the Primordial Spirit.

With the power of the Apocalypse Heavenly Skeleton Armor infusing him, Zhou Bai could feel that the many specks of strength he had cultivated through his celestial disaster practice were enhanced by about ten percent.

Beyond that...

Zhou Bai looked at his shadow, and as he thought, faces emerged within the shadow. This was a new ability conferred by the Apocalypse Heavenly Skeleton Armor, a feature that could only be crafted with a rise of Mutated Essence Blood.

"This thing is called the Twisted Shadow Pool. First, it can store Guihai Black Evil, and second, the most important function is that if you infuse it with 100 points of contamination, one day later, with the combination of the contamination and the Guihai Black Evil within it, a Twisted Shadow can be born."

"The Twisted Shadow has a full fifty percent of my strength and masters all of my abilities, Daoist techniques, and martial skills, able to be controlled by my command anywhere within a thousand miles."

"This is also thanks to the great elder's Mutated Essence Blood being strong enough. If it were only the seventh realm Mutated Essence Blood crafting the armor, the created Twisted Shadow might only have thirty to forty percent of my power."

"It's a good item, a pity only one can be crafted at a time."

So Zhou Bai immediately infused Guihai Black Evil into the Twisted Shadow Pool and then injected 50 points of contamination. After a few hours, when the contamination would replenish, he would inject another 50 points, allowing Guihai Black Evil to slowly combine with his contamination, eventually forming a Twisted Shadow.

"Now, the uncompleted Apocalypse Heavenly Skeleton Armor is already so powerful. I really don't know to what extent the armor could be enhanced after collecting 108 True Dragon Scales, a Kunpeng Soul, and nine ninth realm inner cores."

"And if I continue to collect ten times the amount of Taibai Essence Gold and enhance it to the fourth level, comparable to Immortal Artifact materials like Immortal Pattern Sky Gold, it will certainly gain another level of strength."

After thoroughly testing the power of the Apocalypse Heavenly Skeleton Armor, Zhou Bai retracted the armor back to the Primordial Spirit in the sea of consciousness. With a thought, the mark on his brow suddenly transformed into a flame that completely enveloped his body and finally formed the Red Heavenly Armor covering him.

"The outermost layer is the Red Heavenly Armor's defense, followed by the physical body's defense and the damage reduction abilities of lying like a mountain and the Polluted Body, with the Primordial Spirit and Apocalypse Heavenly Skeleton Armor's defense inside."

Zhou Bai himself didn't even know how strong his defensive power had become; anyway, he was now unable to break through his own defense.

Zhou Bai exclaimed, "I don't know how I could possibly lose in the Daluo Heaven debate this time."

Next to him, Christina squinted her eyes, "If I could open Zhou Bai now, that would mean two layers of armor, in addition to the physical body and Primordial Spirit—four layers of protection in total. It would definitely be very safe to operate."

Elsa: "I'm so hungry... Does nobody eat while artifact refining?"

Zhou Bai coveted progress (9/9).

There are still three days left until the Daluo Heaven discussion.

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