That is to say, the Dragon God currently had no physical body.
Otherwise, a chill would surely be rising within him.
Deep within the Dragon Tomb, on the dragon soul left behind by the Dragon God, an icy-blue light blazed brilliantly.
"Asura, how much has he investigated? Tang San became a god at least ten thousand years ago. How long has Asura been transcendent?"
Countless thoughts churned through the Dragon God's mind at this moment.
He wasn't worried about his realm being understood.
He wasn't worried about the news of his survival being known.
He also wasn't worried about the God Realm being destroyed or the divine seat of the God of Time, which he had taken from the first Phoenix God, being destroyed.
But he was worried about someone peering into his foundation.
"Right, Xiao Wu, that hundred-thousand-year rabbit!"
The Dragon God's voice suddenly rose several octaves.
The entire small world of Dragon Valley shook. The great power of this extremely low-status small world, at this moment, caused the Douluo plane it was attached to to tremble as well.
Su Ming, as Lord of the Plane, was focused on his forging and did sense it. But he was completely encrossed in the forging and had no spare energy to address this change.
Of course, he had no energy, but his Douluo 1 and Douluo 3 main bodies did. However, they could only think about it and had no way to mobilize the Douluo 2 Su Ming's power to sense the source of this fluctuation.
Because every shred of the Douluo 2 Su Ming's power had to be used for the forging.
The Dragon God was still in a rage.
He didn't even want to bother with the so-called exposure of his survival.
"The rabbit! That damn rabbit!"
The Dragon God intensified his search. He uncovered different versions of history.
From one version, he saw the records of the great battle when Tang San became a god, the battle of dual gods against dual gods.
"Asura, how dare you!"
The Dragon God was so angry he became incoherent.
This was a blatant provocation against him.
He, who had only speculated before, now grew increasingly convinced of his guess.
The Asura God's divine seat was not perfectly inherited by Tang San. Instead, it was passed down through Xiao Wu!
"That rabbit! Why her? Of all things, a Spirit Beast!"
The Asura God had allowed a Spirit Beast to rightfully become a god!
"Good, good, good. What a fine Asura God. Prying into my path, you have sought death!"
Su Ming dismissed distracting thoughts.
Now, the Universe's Will descended.
The God of Destruction was visibly retreating.
Tang San was also somewhat wary and did not continue to act.
The two deities were now both staying on the sidelines, diminishing their presence to avoid being noticed by the Universe's Will.
Neither was a fool. They could see that they hadn't just failed to stop Su Ming's forging; they had actually aided its success.
Therefore, Su Ming had calculated this from the very beginning.
If they continued to act, Su Ming might very well have the ability to drag them down with him.
They didn't want to be targeted by the Universe's Will.
Moreover, from another perspective, Su Ming's forging wouldn't actually anger the Universe's Will.
The God of Destruction comforted himself with this thought.
The Universe's Will had descended to baptism and recognition of the metal, not to punish anything.
He had acted only because he didn't want Su Ming to have too much contact with the Universe's Will, leading to an inability to gather a divine seat and become a deity later.
Thinking this, the God of Destruction's heart gradually relaxed.
He was very helpless.
He shouldn't have acted rashly.
If he hadn't acted, perhaps Su Ming wouldn't have been able to push the Half-Step Transcendent metal to the transcendence standard either?
Just like breakthrough to God King required an immense amount of energy.
Although Su Ming had supplemented with the power of Life and the elements, these were clearly the two major shortcomings of this metal. They hadn't reached the God King level of power at all and were useless for the metal's qualitative change. They just didn't hold it back.
Just as the God of Destruction was thinking this, Electrolux was also reaching a similar conclusion.
He was somewhat puzzled.
Since Su Ming had warned him in advance, the God of Destruction would surely stop him at any cost.
Had the most dangerous moment not arrived yet?
What exactly was he trying to do?
Angering the Universe's Will – didn't he want Super Refinement to succeed?
If Super Refinement didn't succeed, what about his path?
Both his forging path and his pioneering path would be affected, wouldn't they?
Electrolux remembered Su Ming saying that this matter was related to his path.
Therefore, he naturally assumed that the realm of Super Refinement would help Su Ming sublimate his forging faith and might also be beneficial for upgrading his pioneering faith.
What good was angering the Universe's Will at this moment?
The doubt appeared and quickly dissipated.
First, because he himself found the answer.
Second, because Su Ming provided him with the answer at that moment.
Beneath Su Ming's feet, rings of Spirit Rings appeared.
Red, Red, Red, Red, Red, Rose Gold, Black-Gold!
The original seven rings of black, red, black, black, red, rose gold, and black-gold were now five red, rose gold, and black-gold.
Gold Force could increase Spirit Ring life. After cultivating Gold Force, Su Ming had also replenished the shortcomings of his three ten-thousand-year Spirit Rings.
Below, the Spirit Masters were also dumbfounded.
Not long ago, Su Ming had transformed his second Spirit Ring into a hundred-thousand-year ring right before their eyes.
And now, in just a short time, he had transformed three more.
They didn't know how much the years of his other Spirit Rings had increased either.
Hiss~
What shocked the Spirit Masters the most was the eighth Spirit Ring slowly gathering beneath Su Ming's feet.
Even the most inexperienced Spirit Master now widened their eyes, watching this profoundly familiar scene.
"He's condensing his own Spirit Ring!"
This was the scene of a Spirit Beast condensing a Spirit Ring after death!
Spirit Power permeated the world, then condensed the outline of a Spirit Ring.
There was no mistake.
The Spirit Masters present had witnessed this scene.
Incredible!
The Spirit Ring Su Ming was condensing was very peculiar. It had no color, just a halo slowly condensing.
And as the halo took shape, Su Ming put away the forging hammer in his left hand. With his now-free hand, he reached out and grabbed the invisible Universe's Will across the void.
That which had only been an intangible feeling materialized, becoming a tangible object, grasped in Su Ming's hand.
He treated it as forging material, throwing it onto the forging platform. With his right hand, he hammered it into the metal before him, blow after blow.
As he hammered, he extended his left hand again, pulling out more of the Universe's Will.
This time, he fused this portion of the Universe's Will into his eighth Spirit Ring.
Electrolux watched this scene, murmuring to himself.
"Plundering the universe's power."
His thoughts returned to a few days earlier.
He had been explaining to Su Ming about the boundaries of different worlds and the differences in crossing those boundaries.
Now, Su Ming was putting it into practice.
Merging with the world, competing with the world.
This was a cultivator.
For metal, to achieve Super Refinement, besides receiving the recognition of the Universe's Will, one could also plunder it...
"Yes, perhaps this is the true Super Refinement."
Electrolux sighed emotionally.
"If it truly receives the Universe's Will's recognition, this Super Refinement metal might, in the end, become part of the universe and return to it."
As Su Ming repeatedly extracted the Universe's Will, merging it into the metal and his own eighth Spirit Ring, the entire world fell silent.
The projection of the God of Destruction instantly dissipated.
Tang San's projection disappeared just as quickly.
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