"Little Gold, step aside first. I'm going to forge."
As Su Ming spoke, he waved his hand, collecting all the surrounding metal into a storage Spirit Tool.
Little Gold let out a roar, transforming into a stream of black-gold light that fused into Su Ming's body.
Arriving at Little Gold's forging platform, Su Ming had to look up at it.
The platform was huge, built to Little Gold's proportions.
He smiled helplessly and moved the platform aside.
Setting up his own forging platform, Su Ming began preparing the rare metals.
God Realm.
Su Ming's sudden action alarmed the God of Destruction.
"Why is he forging again?"
The God of Destruction's expression was grim.
"Don't go down the wrong path. Frequently attracting the attention of the Universe's Will is not a good thing!"
Gods were not omnipotent.
Therefore, they should not be immortal either.
Normal divine-level powerhouses in the universe could hardly even live for a thousand years.
Super divine-level or even Chief God-level powerhouses couldn't survive ten thousand years.
Apart from special forms of life like the Abyssal Sage King, powerhouses who truly followed the path of cultivation all had limited lifespans.
Strictly speaking, deities were illegal.
The creation of the God Realm was a huge cheating system. The deities within it were sheltered criminals.
The frequent descent of the Universe's Will upon such a criminal syndicate was akin to a hotel getting raided for vice every day.
Su Ming's two previous Half-Step Transcendent Heaven Refinements were still fresh in the God of Destruction's memory.
He would rather let Douluo Star advance to a divine-level planet than have Su Ming continue this kind of forging.
Yet, he simply couldn't stop it.
Douluo Star was now controlled by Su Ming.
The power of the God Realm could penetrate in, but only to a limited extent.
Su Ming swung his forging hammer.
Boom!
The hammer fell, and even the God Realm was shaken by the strike, causing unrest among its denizens.
Su Ming naturally wouldn't abandon his cultivation just because of the gods in the God Realm.
The God Realm had sheltered him, and he would certainly shelter the God Realm in the future.
Deities like the God of Destruction had helped him withstand the pressure from the Asura God, and he would repay them later.
But that was not a reason for him to completely become a puppet of deities like the God of Destruction.
He couldn't refrain from cultivating just because these deities were worried.
Only he himself understood that this history was illusory, fake.
There was no real Universe's Will.
Everything was merely a predetermined program.
Take the current Abyssal Sage King, for example.
Even with the God Realm present, the Abyssal Sage King here and the Abyssal Sage King of Douluo 2 completely adopted different strategies and mindsets. Without needing pressure from the Crimson Mother behind him, he had the confidence to oppose Douluo Star and even ignored the God Realm factor.
Was it not there?
No, it was simply because these were all replicated from a normal template.
In the illusory history, the Abyssal Sage King still had an origin, it's just that this history hadn't yet brought in the corresponding copy.
And before that copy was brought in, from the introduction of the Abyss a century ago to the present, the Abyssal Sage King had had no contact with the outside world whatsoever.
Because there was no so-called outside world.
This was the illusory history.
Boom!
The hammer's sound shook the heavens.
With each precision fall of the hammer, the rare metal beneath precipitated large amounts of impurities.
The spirituality blossomed within thus a special radiance.
After nine hammer strikes, the metal already possessed the vitality of life.
Spirit Refinement.
Soul Refinement.
Heaven Refinement.
Everything fell into place naturally.
Su Ming's forging skills hadn't regressed due to the long period without forging; instead, it had advanced even further.
The hearts of the gods in the God Realm sank bit by bit.
They watched as Su Ming introduced the threefold laws, watched as he swung his forging hammer with sweat flying, even appearing to be on the verge of exhaustion.
"He's not thinking of going a step further, is he?" The God of Destruction's expression had already turned very ugly.
He took action directly.
The Asura God was imprisoned. Finally, another God King had come to stand against Su Ming.
Thunder crashed.
Purple-black thunder rumbled over the ruins of Slaughter City.
Rolling thunderclouds covered three surrounding cities.
Countless people saw these thunderclouds stretching for tens of thousands of miles.
Clouds churned. Purple-black serpents and pythons wandered among them.
Su Ming frowned and looked up.
This was not the Heaven Refinement lightning tribulation.
This was the God of Destruction's divine thunder.
He revealed a helpless expression.
"Don't stop me. Of course, I'll control the degree."
Everything in the illusory history was being reshaped and evolved.
The so-called Universe's Will didn't actually exist either.
The scenes of the Universe's Will descending and recognizing Half-Step Transcendent metal were also just a program.
It was the River of Time, based on information obtained from downstream, knowing what reaction such forging should produce, and simulating this scene in the illusory history.
Everything was real.
But there was no real Universe's Will.
It was all program.
Simply put, apart from the Douluo 2 era, any upstream time node represented events that had already happened in the past, and any downstream node represented futures deduced by the River of Time.
On this basis, the fictitious history that appeared upstream due to Su Ming was fake. It was also built on the River's deducing ability, and the foundation for that deduction was naturally the information recorded throughout the entire River.
Since no real Universe's Will existed, the Douluo 1 Su Ming had no psychological burden in performing Super Refinement.
Even if the God of Destruction tried to stop him, he wouldn't back down.
It wasn't that dangerous.
Boom!
The thunderclouds seemed to grow angry.
With a roar, a thick pillar of thunder poured down.
Like a thunderous waterfall, it flooded the ruins of Slaughter City where Su Ming stood.
Bathed in the divine thunder, Su Ming's expression remained indifferent.
He didn't dodge. He simply activated his Martial Soul, entering the Martial Soul True Body state.
Gold-level Second Awakening.
Relying entirely on his physical body, he withstood the God of Destruction's divine thunder.
At the same time, the threefold Heaven Refinement lightning tribulation descended.
Su Ming still showed no fear.
He invoked the power of the plane. His forging hammer also exerted force, drawing in this Nirvana divine thunder and directly hammering it into the Spirit Alloy before him.
With the power of this Nirvana divine thunder, the Spirit Alloy rapidly transformed.
The threefold imprints gradually condensed into form.
With the help of the law imprints of the three planes, this Heaven Refined metal absorbed the vast divine thunder power provided by the God of Destruction and leaped across a certain boundary in one go.
"Transcendence!"
The Universe's Will descended.
Although this was a simulated Universe's Will, it was still a real Universe's Will.
There was no real Universe's Will, but there was a real Universe's Will.
The essence of this Universe's Will was no problem.
Its appearance was merely the answer given by the River of Time based on downstream information.
The Universe's Will attracted by Super Refinement was completely incomparable to that of Half-Step Transcendent Heaven Refinement.
However, the scene of the Universe's Will descending was imitated from downstream.
But the downstream Su Ming hadn't performed Super Refinement either.
So the River of Time didn't know what to do.
This was just fantasy history, not reality. It had a foundation and could be directly deduced.
This unreal history was so unreal that it didn't even have a universe. How could it evolve the Universe's Will's reaction?
Therefore, the River of Time simply heightened the vision of the Universe's Will's baptism and recognition, and drew in even more universal energy, forming a universal lightning tribulation guided by universal laws.
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