Starlit Path of the Mystic Forge

The overcast clouds dispersed; the enveloping darkness melted like ice and snow.

Brilliant beams pierced the parting clouds.

Enveloping Nie Changqing; a warm, soothing sensation.

His charred, thunder-bombarded, wound-riddled body healed drop by drop.

Nie sensed the light's extraordinariness; sat cross-legged; mobilized attribute power; faint gold glints; like a golden statue.

"This must be Young Master's post-tribulation feedback."

Nie condensed inwardly.

Under the beams; wounds recovered; attribute comprehension soared.

As Nie healed; surroundings boiled.

Passed... really passed?!

That terrifying Heaven Lock tribulation—Nie crossed it!

Besides Young Master Lu; world's first Heaven Lock... born!

Seated cultivators frenzied; massive impact.

Witness great cultivator birth; how not joyous, excited?

Lü Mudui wood staff; even steady him couldn't hold.

Sudden face change.

Lü Dongxuan from West Mountain; robes lifted; sped.

Lü beard quirk; bamboo staff; turn run.

Pig blood unprepared.

Late; Old Lü cough blood announce...

Too hard.

But Lü sharp; gold chain shake; knew Lü flee; blocked path.

Lü lifeless dragged back.

Nie Heaven Lock; Baiyujing huge joy.

Lü yellow paper; Lü cough blood; pen write.

Nie Heaven Lock; world first; announce.

Overlord rub chest stand; complex; unwilling lost.

Wanted tower continue.

But Nie Heaven Lock; far behind; listless.

No cultivate desire.

Turn leave West Mountain; horse out Beiluo.

Nie break far West Mountain; few knew.

But great cultivators sensed.

Broken snow village.

Kong Nanfei shabby Confucian; Meng Haoran follow; snow steps.

Sudden Kong head back.

Heart lost: "Someone passed Heaven Lock..."

"Who?"

"Nie? Overlord? Ning?"

Kong murmur.

Smile shake: "Whatever; irrelevant... I Heaven Lock; will."

Kong laugh; Meng; snow steps; famous mountains rivers.

...

Beijun.

Buzhou peak base.

Li Sansi blue ox back; slow open.

Bitter extreme.

First Body Storage; now far甩; first Heaven Lock not him.

Sigh unwilling; close continue.

Snow cover; snowman.

Buzhou top.

Girl hug legs blue stone; peak four seasons spring; flowers vivid; grass crisp.

Zhu Long closed eyes tremor; lashes flutter.

Someone Heaven Lock?

World big change soon...

Zhu Long faint expect.

...

South.

Secluded Tang Yimo slow exhale.

"Still slow... Eight Meridians Dun Jia; third meridian no open... where wrong?"

Tang face tangled.

Tiandang Dao Pavilion challenges many.

Li Sansui full Dao array beat repeated.

Tang thought breakthrough edge; still far.

Really Beiluo for way?

Tang tangled.

No Beiluo; went once; too terror; Young Master Lu... horrible!

South secluded hard.

Heaven Lock birth; many strong feel shackles break; odd feel world big change.

...

Lü paper sky-machine order; pigeons; announce.

Nie Heaven Lock; world first.

Baiyujing jianghu boil; families pot.

Jianghu families cultivate cultivators; like past martial; power.

Pursue strength extreme.

Heaven Lock like thousand-li horse.

Nie break direction; possible!

Kong fail unknown.

Nie success world know.

Cruel; path remember success.

No fail memory.

Just Beiluo Sword Saint Hua Dongliu witnessed tribulation grand.

Sigh thousand.

Cultivators defy heaven; reverse; this path?

Hua worldview shock.

Beiluo West Mountain joy ocean.

Joy worry.

Nie break; happy disappointed.

Lu lean Thousand Blade; Nie light bath; plane origin beams; origin breath; attribute help.

Nie seize; attribute big rise.

Heaven Lock strong.

Vs soul qi Jindan; comprehensive.

Body strong; strong sense.

But harder break cultivate.

Lu now; not Nie.

Panel words; Lu slow exhale...

"Finally... waited."

Lu mixed.

Low to mid; requirement.

Nie Heaven Lock; Wuhuang level up; upgrade qualify.

Lu感慨.

No immediate; world upgrade unknown accidents.

Least not here.

Upgrade not simple.

"System; low to mid... changes?"

Lu ask.

No response.

Lu furrow.

Before barrier break; qi tide.

This upgrade qi energy no less.

Lu hesitate; fingers tap.

Distant.

Beams fade.

Nie slow open; refreshed; mind baptism.

Felt gold consciousness; sense.

Sense move; farther clearer.

Saw Nie Shuang; sense wrap; pores excited.

Ni Yu; mouth qi pill.

Too clear; perception sharper.

Heaven Lock... new realm!

Vs Body; too strong.

Nie sense to Lu.

Ponder Lu glance sense.

Nie feel Lu blazing sun; sense rapid retract.

"Sense use mystic; Jindan Heaven Lock mark..."

Lu.

"Passed; promised knife; forge now."

Chair.

Lu hand.

Runes palm surge.

Distant Gongshu Yu shock; Young Master forge spirit tool!

Eyes wide; hungry stare.

Lu hand spirit stones; compressed liquid; hot white flame; air twist.

Flame; Gongshu incredulous.

Forger; good flame level up.

Legend god fire.

Worthy Young Master; master such!

Stones melt; pig knife remnants melt twist.

Lu sense control embryo; knife shape.

Runes into body.

No think; pig knife shape.

Flame gone.

Lu beckon.

Knife air spin; snow sizzle.

Lu void grab.

Liquid rain red knife; cool; terror wave; qi fluctuation; cultivators greedy envy!

"Name; you decide."

Lu wave.

Knife to Nie.

Nie bright; grip.

7-8 like old; blade deeper black.

Mystic patterns flow.

Hold; warm palm whole.

Nie bright; knife power; strength +30%!

Control 70-80%.

Treasure!

No weak; stronger Jing Tian sword.

"Thank Young Master!"

Nie joy; kneel.

Heaven Lock; no Lu match.

Pressure same; sense sun; horrified.

"Heaven Lock start; path long; no pride impatience..."

Lu.

Nie stroke; blade ink black; sun no reflect.

Faint terror wave; heart surge.

"Old pig knife... reforged; no more..."

Nie soft stroke.

Mouth quirk; gaze condense: "Then... 'Dragon Slayer'."

Lu hear; no say.

Name Nie freedom.

Shoulder Little Yinglong不满; water at Nie.

Like...

Come! Slay me!

Lu smile; turn; vanish West Mountain snow.

Lu gone.

Gongshu speed to Nie; mad stare knife.

"Let old see 'Dragon Slayer'?"

Nie no refuse; hand.

Gongshu stroke; callused tremble; life forge; hidden weapons; storm pear.

Now know forge deep.

"Worthy Young Master... stones base; spirit fire; liquid cool... rare!"

"Near mystic tier treasure knife!"

Gongshu lips quiver.

Eyes crystal.

Distant.

Jing Yue sour; Jing Tian strong.

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Lu back Lake Heart.

Head out Ximen sense.

Lu leave; world abandon; return; comfort.

If knew Hua arrived; tower watched; despair.

Lu sit Baiyujing second.

Breeze; hair sway.

Lu eye choice.

Upgrade world?

Low to mid... unexpected?

Long; Baiyujing Lu sudden laugh.

Obsessed.

Purpose world evolve?

Now time... hesitant?

"What fear?"

Lu squint.

Mind.

"Upgrade?"

"Yes."

Words.

Instant; heaven earth quiet.

Silence.

Lu sense.

Sudden head.

Pierce clouds; plane origin.

Origin vast energy surge; inflate...

Bigger!

Low to mid... origin explode!

Just start!

Lu eyes lines dance.

Brows pick.

Whole land quake; quake...

Ground expand; majestic mountains; towering; rise from nothing!