Compared to the full sets of One-Word Battle Armor from later generations, the initial version of thousand-refined battle armor Ma Jake created was quite rudimentary—only having nine components: helmet, waist belt, chest armor, left and right arm guards, left and right leg guards, and left and right battle boots.
Moreover, perhaps due to Ma Jake's questionable sense of aesthetics, this thousand-refined battle armor made from Blue Coppertite had no beauty to speak of—it was filled with a strong sense of cheapness.
However, Chu Chengzhou didn't mind this point. After all, it was just an experimental version of battle armor—there was no need for flashy appearances, and besides, he wasn't the one who would wear it.
Soon, Ma Jake put on the thousand-refined battle armor completely. His soul power connected the soul guidance enhancement arrays on all parts of the armor. As a faint blue aura spread out, Ma Jake—who was a Level 68 Soul Emperor—suddenly emanated an aura no weaker than that of a low-level seventh-ring Soul Saint.
Seeing this, Chu Chengzhou raised his eyebrows—this was indeed a low-quality version of battle armor.
One must understand, mature full sets of thousand-refined One-Word Battle Armor from later generations could allow a fifth-ring Soul King to rival a seventh-ring Soul Saint—a true jump of two major levels.
While Ma Jake's initial version of thousand-refined battle armor could only allow a high-level Soul Emperor to rival a newly seventh-ring Soul Saint.
Fortunately, although the enhancement to soul master strength was far less than mature One-Word Battle Armor from later generations, there was no doubt—this was true battle armor, not the pure metal armor Chu Chengzhou had created before.
"Old Ma, quick—teach me!"
After carefully examining Ma Jake's thousand-refined battle armor, a flicker of fervor appeared in Chu Chengzhou's eyes as he said impatiently.
To be honest, even the Four-Word heavenly-refined battle armor from later generations might not necessarily enhance his current strength, but Chu Chengzhou wouldn't ignore battle armor because of this.
On one hand, as far as he knew, the highest grade of battle armor in later generations wasn't limited to Four-Word heavenly-refined battle armor—there were also Five-Word and even Six-Word battle armors. However, Five-Word and Six-Word battle armors couldn't be directly forged—they could only be improved from Four-Word battle armor through divine consciousness combined with divine power nurturing.
But he was different. The Gold-Tier Creation Hammer could forge heavenly-refined metal—so what about the Rainbow-Tier Creation Hammer? Could it directly forge Super God-level metal beyond heavenly-refined grade?
With Super God-level metal combined with Super God-level soul guidance arrays, wouldn't Five-Word and Six-Word battle armor be achievable?
On the other hand, the one who couldn't use Four-Word battle armor was only himself. His several sisters could definitely use them.
Xiao Wu's Sea God divine trials, Qian Renxue's subsequent Angel God trials, and even other sisters who might open divine trials later—all required powerful strength as a basis for passing the assessments. Thus, battle armor became very necessary.
Of course, the grade classification of battle armor didn't necessarily have to follow the one, two, three, four, five, six-word system from later generations. As the pioneer, the naming rights for battle armor grade classification were in his hands.
Naming a thousand-refined Deep Silver battle armor with six characters—nobody could stop him from doing that.
Chu Chengzhou: Young man, do you want Six-Word battle armor? Made from thousand-refined Deep Silver~! Hmm? You want One-Word Battle Armor? That's not cheap—One-Word Battle Armor is made from nine-element heavenly-refined metal.
"No problem!"
Nodding, Ma Jake immediately agreed, then asked: "But I've used up all the thousand-refined Blue Coppertite. Should we melt down my previous failed attempts, or would you forge some more?"
"I'll make some more—small issue~"
Waving his hand, Chu Chengzhou turned to look at the rare metals warehouse with its doors wide open beside them.
With a flick of his finger, dozens of Blue Coppertite ingots flew out from the warehouse, suspending in mid-air before him. Then a large hammer in four colors—yellow, blue, red, green—materialized. With a series of "clang clang clang" strikes, spiritual light bloomed as the dozens of Blue Coppertite ingots all became thousand-refined Blue Coppertite.
Seeing this, Ma Jake took out a crimson object the size of a water bucket from his storage soul tool.
"Eh, Old Ma, what is this?"
Glancing at the crimson object Ma Jake took out, Chu Chengzhou asked with slight surprise.
"Young Master Chu, this item is called Red Demon Furnace—a seventh-grade soul guidance device. It's my proudest creation and also my best partner!"
"This Red Demon Furnace is completely made of Red Demon Essence Gold. It can quickly melt and heat metals—just inject soul power to use it."
Ma Jake said with some pride.
However, immediately after, Ma Jake's tone changed as he continued: "Unfortunately, my Red Demon Furnace cannot perform fine operations—it can't directly shape items inside the furnace. Otherwise, the semi-finished products that came out would only need soul guidance arrays engraved on them to become true soul guidance devices."
Chu Chengzhou: "..."
After a moment of silence, Chu Chengzhou raised his finger. Crimson soul power surged from his fingertip as several thousand-refined Blue Coppertite pieces suspended before him quickly melted into a large mass of scorching hot copper liquid.
Then, as the crimson soul power from his fingertip transformed into blue soul power, with a change of thought and precise control through his powerful spiritual power, the slightly cooled copper liquid rapidly shaped itself into armor form.
In the blink of an eye, the high temperature faded, and a set of pure metal, detachable thousand-refined armor was born. The entire process had taken merely half a minute.
Chu Chengzhou's display of prowess left Ma Jake staring dumbfounded beside him.
Ma Jake: WTF, can strength really let you do whatever you want?
After staring at the "freshly made" Blue Coppertite armor for a moment, Ma Jake silently put away his Red Demon Furnace in front of him, continuously chanting in his heart: "Young Master Chu is no ordinary person, capable of what ordinary people cannot; Young Master Chu is no ordinary person, skilled in what ordinary people cannot."
In short—Chu Chengzhou wasn't human!
"Haha, Old Ma, don't be discouraged. Your Red Demon Furnace is still quite good. There are probably only one or two people on the continent who can shape armor barehanded like I can."
Chu Chengzhou laughed, patting Ma Jake's shoulder to comfort him.
Somewhat unexpectedly—perhaps due to his overpowered cheat ability—after Ma Jake thoroughly explained the key points of engraving soul guidance arrays on thousand-refined armor to Chu Chengzhou, even before Chu Chengzhou had tried his hand at it, he discovered that the skills section of his attribute panel now displayed the text [Battle Armor Manufacturing (Faded Purple)].
Thus, under Ma Jake's puzzled gaze, Chu Chengzhou waved his hand and directly stated he wouldn't learn anymore.
The rice seeds that could automatically grow and be harvested without any management had already been planted—so why should he, Chu Chengzhou, need to learn how to be a farmer? He could simply wait for the skill to be completed and upgraded.
Although like the original "Element Fusion" secret technique, besides the difference in grade levels, the Battle Armor Manufacturing skill also appeared in a dim color and needed completion.
But this wasn't a problem. The time needed to complete a purple skill was the same as upgrading a Yellow-Tier skill to Purple-Tier— with his current cheat's AFKing upgrade efficiency, it would only take one day.
That is to say—one day later, Chu Chengzhou would master true thousand-refined battle armor manufacturing!
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