Chapter 31: Five-Word Battle Armor and True God-Level Mecha

"Let's see what new tricks you two can come up with."

Di Tian narrowed his golden eyes slightly, using his fingers as a pen and water as ink.

[Approved]

With a flick of his fingers, he withdrew the ink and then handed the scroll back, letting Xueling and Ziji—who were both extremely curious—browse through the four design blueprints before finally returning it to Xie Yingling.

Then, he casually tossed out a piece of Living Gold, its overflowing life energy shaking Xie Yingling's heart and soul. Although he didn't recognize the name of this metal, he could deduce its immense value.

Remembering the warnings from Master Craftsman Zhenhua, he forcibly composed himself, bowed, and exited the room.

In the following days, Di Tian requested several rooms from Zhenhua and stayed in the Blacksmith Association's headquarters.

Ziji remained for a few days to finalize the next meeting time before planning to leave.

After all, she still needed to gain merit under the Lord's command—she couldn't just do nothing.

Before departing, she even personally removed a piece of her True Dragon Reverse Scale and forcefully shoved it into Di Tian's hand, giving him an irrefutable reason: "If there's any change in the plan, you can contact me through this Reverse Scale at any time."

Xueling, on the other hand, was driven by curiosity and went sightseeing around the Blacksmith Association and the entire Heaven Dou City. Her Title Douluo-level strength, combined with the aura-concealing ability of Di Tian's Reverse Scale, ensured that she didn't run into any unnecessary drama.

However, after just a few days of casual exploration, she quickly lost interest and returned to Di Tian's side.

"I want to learn mecha maintenance."

Although maintenance might not be crucial during the initial forging of battle armor and mechas, it played a significant role in their long-term upkeep, repair, and optimization.

And since these were soul beast battle armor and mechas, relying entirely on human assistance for repairs wasn't ideal—some things needed to be handled internally.

Since Xueling was determined to contribute to the soul beast race, how could Di Tian refuse? Naturally, he gladly supported her decision.

The Blacksmith Association's headquarters had Master Craftsman Zhenhua, advanced mecha designers and manufacturers like Muye, and plenty of high-level mecha maintenance specialists. Finding an instructor for Xueling was ridiculously easy.

What About Di Tian?

Well…he was reading books.

Of course, he wasn't reading for leisure.

The books he read were the Blacksmith Association's treasured archives—primarily high-level blacksmithing journals, theoretical advancements in four-word battle armor, and the crafting of true god-level metals beyond the limits of divine forging.

Even the highest-quality four-word battle armor and god-level mechas provided only marginal enhancements for a million-year soul beast like him.

In fact, even Extreme Douluo—those at the quasi-god level—gained limited boosts from such equipment, primarily benefiting in terms of survivability.

However, unlike the speculative records in these books, Di Tian knew for certain that battle armor and mechas could advance even further—into five-word battle armor and true god-level mechas!

These two were genuine divine artifacts, nearly indistinguishable from authentic god-tier equipment.

Even for a million-year soul beast like him, they would have significant utility.

But five-word battle armor and true god-level mechas weren't something humans could forge. They required prolonged nurturing by divine power and divine consciousness to reach completion.

Right now, Di Tian had divine consciousness but lacked divine power. His immense soul power might be vast in quantity, but its quality was still lacking.

Thus, he wanted to leverage the Blacksmith Association's archives, studying contemporary high-level theories on battle armor and mechas, in the hopes of discovering an alternative path to create five-word battle armor and true god-level mechas.

Unfortunately, even in the journals of master blacksmiths, the only references to god-tier metal forging were speculative theories, and discussions on advancing four-word battle armor ended abruptly—there were no concrete solutions.

When Di Tian searched for methods related to nurturing battle armor and mechas with one's own power to enhance their quality, he found that only the transition from three-word battle armor to four-word battle armor had recorded instances of this technique.

For example, Enci , Ha Lousa the Evil Soul Master, and several historical Extreme Douluo had all forcibly evolved three-word battle armor into four-word battle armor by nurturing them with spiritual consciousness, powerful soul energy, and high-level bloodline strength.

During times when god craftsmen were unavailable, this was how they had achieved four-word battle armor mastery.

This insight gave Di Tian inspiration.

These individuals had personally nurtured their battle armor, forcefully elevating it to the next tier.

If four-word battle armor could be nurtured into five-word battle armor, and god-level mechas into true god-level mechas, then theoretically, the same principle could apply.

Di Tian didn't have divine power, true.

But his current strength already surpassed that of newly ascended gods.

More importantly, he possessed the Dragon God Bloodline, which held an innate, overwhelming advantage over human bloodlines.

In fact, soul beasts as a whole generally had far superior bloodline advantages compared to humans.

Although no human had ever successfully nurtured battle armor to the five-word level, that didn't mean Di Tian couldn't.

Even the strongest human experts could only match him in terms of spiritual consciousness—none could compare to him otherwise.

If he used the Dragon God Bloodline as the foundation and supplemented it with his near-divine power and divine consciousness, then the chances of success were certainly not zero.

After all, when the Dragon God existed, any part of its body that fell off became a divine artifact.

The Dragon God's Heart became the super divine artifact Dragon God Core.

The Dragon God's Horn transformed into the divine weapon Dragon Slayer Blade.

And even the 49th rib of the Golden Dragon King eventually became the divine weapon Golden Dragon Spear…

Advantage Confirmed!

"I have the Dragon God Bloodline—this is my edge!"

With no better alternative paths, Di Tian immediately set to work, continuously refining his Dragon God Bloodline.

In other words, he used the Dragon God Core and Dragon God Claw to stimulate the latent Dragon God genes within his bloodline, repeatedly enhancing their expression.

After each session, he would rest for a period before undergoing another round of bloodline stimulation—again and again.

His goal was that, by the time the four-word battle armor and god-level mecha were completed, his Dragon God Bloodline would be strong enough to facilitate their evolution into five-word battle armor and true god-level mechas.

This process alone took half a year.

During these six months, both Zhenhua and Muye remained entirely focused within the Blacksmith Association headquarters.

They didn't step outside even once, handling all food, rest, and other necessities internally.

All external communications were handled by intermediaries, and many high-profile forging requests had to be turned down—provoking dissatisfaction from numerous individuals and factions.

But finally, by the end of this painstaking half-year effort, they had succeeded.

For the first time in history, they had successfully crafted battle armor and a mecha designed exclusively for soul beasts.

Moreover, the materials used surpassed anything ever seen in the world—these were the greatest pieces of battle armor and mecha ever created.

And yet, despite having poured their souls into these masterpieces…

The two master craftsmen, Zhenhua and Muye, gazed at their creations with dark, stormy expressions.

(End of Chapter)