The smooth, spherical, liquid-like energy released an aura of ultimate sharpness and extreme solidity, a stark contrast to its appearance.
Even Quan Yi, observing the dark gold sphere through his Crimson Dragon Eyes, felt his eyes stung by the golden light.
A look of weariness on his face, Quan Yi finally smiled.
After half an hour of recuperation, Quan Yi's spiritual sea and soul power had completely stabilized.
Fortunately, the complete opening of the eight meridians within his body, connecting the bridge to heaven and earth, had accumulated a sufficiently vast reserve of soul power for Quan Yi.
Otherwise, the impact of the shattered martial soul might have directly caused Quan Yi's cultivation to drop to the sixty-first level.
At this moment, Quan Yi's cultivation had roughly fallen to around the sixty-seventh level, a loss that Quan Yi could quickly recover with his current training speed.
However, there was a problem here. Without a martial soul, even if Quan Yi's training speed became very fast, he would not be able to cross the bottleneck of the seventieth level.
Because without a martial soul, he could not absorb soul rings.
Therefore, Quan Yi had to recast his martial soul.
Ordinarily, it was almost impossible to restore a shattered martial soul to its original state.
The most fundamental reason was that a shattered martial soul would turn into Yuan Power and dissipate into the world.
However, in the high-pressure, high-temperature environment deep within the spring, the origin of Quan Yi's martial soul was completely preserved.
Although it had lost its form, the dark gold sphere before him was indeed Quan Yi's martial soul.
However, it had severed its connection with Quan Yi.
Therefore, the most urgent task at this stage was to re-establish contact with it.
The problem now was that without the Fiery Sun Gauntlets, Quan Yi not only lost his fire immunity but also his proud fire control abilities.
Losing fire immunity meant that Quan Yi could only rely on the dragonification of his external soul bone to resist the extremely hot Yuan Power, which was enough to melt metal and dissolve bones.
This was also an important reason why Quan Yi had specifically put on his helmet earlier.
Areas such as the eyes, nostrils, and ear canals had no protection.
Fortunately, the lower body's passage was protected by the external soul bone; otherwise, Quan Yi would have had to wear leg armor as well.
Moreover, more importantly, with the filtering effect of the external soul bone, Quan Yi could use it to filter the external extremely hot Yuan Power and convert it into fire elemental energy that he could now absorb.
Although this process was much more troublesome than direct absorption, Quan Yi had no choice but to do so after losing his fire immunity.
Solving the problem of fire immunity was not enough.
The external soul bone was Quan Yi's greatest reliance in choosing to self-detonate his martial soul.
The vermilion Crimson Dragon Horns erupted with a blazing white light.
Quan Yi activated 'Fire Prohibition', and the terrifying suction force was like a bottomless black hole, frantically devouring the surrounding fire energy.
Driven by the surging torrent of fire elements, Quan Yi's martial soul origin slowly approached Quan Yi.
The closer it got, the more Quan Yi could feel the sharp aura hidden within.
If this aura were to erupt completely, even the Crimson Dragon Sky-Burning Armor combined with the dragon scales would not be able to defend against it.
The sharpness of extreme gold could not be blocked by ordinary objects.
However, under the suppression of the extremely hot Yuan Power, even extreme gold could only maintain a liquid state.
Quan Yi hardened his heart and, through the Crimson Dragon Horns, absorbed this energy into the energy space within the dragon horns.
The space inside the Crimson Dragon Horns was a blazing white.
The already extremely hot fire elements, after being compressed by the Crimson Dragon Horns, reached an even more terrifying temperature.
Here, the aura of extreme gold was further reduced.
Quan Yi used his mental power to sense this familiar yet unfamiliar energy and revealed a sigh.
"I never thought I would get to know you again in this way, my martial soul."
As a part of Quan Yi, he should have been familiar with it, but on the other hand, Quan Yi felt that it was so mysterious and so unfamiliar.
What is a martial soul?
Even now, Quan Yi had not found the answer to this question.
Martial souls, which could exist across two forms, matter and energy.
Although Quan Yi could use the Crimson Dragon Eyes to see its structure clearly, he had not yet understood the true mysteries it contained.
Perhaps he could take this opportunity to get to know his martial soul well.
Quan Yi firmly locked the extreme gold in the energy space with the Crimson Dragon Horns.
Then, he quietly mobilized the Qi and blood, soul power, and mental power within his body. The three energies quietly fused within Quan Yi's body and gradually condensed under Quan Yi's control.
The soft, transparent energy gradually became hard and heavy.
Under Quan Yi's urging, this energy, like liquid metal, followed the meridians in his body and advanced towards the Crimson Dragon Horns.
This energy poured into the Crimson Dragon Horns' space. Because the external soul bone was integrated with Quan Yi, the heat did not affect Quan Yi's soul power, mental power, or Qi and blood.
After entering the space, Quan Yi's energy re-condensed, gradually solidifying. Finally, this energy turned into a vermilion hammer.
"Clang!"
The red hammer, a hammer condensed from the three energies within Quan Yi's body under his control, heavily hammered the surface of the extreme gold.
It was clearly a solid object hitting a liquid, but it made the sound of a solid object hitting a solid object.
The booming sound of the hammering passed through the dragon horns and was transmitted to every corner of Quan Yi's body.
Under this strike, the red hammer was bounced open by the recoil, but the smooth surface of the extreme gold also produced a wave that spread across the entire sphere due to the impact.
At that moment, Quan Yi felt this vibration with incomparable clarity through his wholehearted perception.
Before the vibration completely dissipated, Quan Yi once again controlled the red hammer to heavily strike the extreme gold.
This strike, the recoiling red hammer, drew a graceful arc, perfectly integrating the recoiling force into the next strike.
Quan Yi used his combo technique in it.
A huge booming sound erupted in Quan Yi's body. Under the effect of bone conduction, the vibration of the sound instantly spread throughout his body.
The originally calm bottom of the water also produced subtle ripples due to this vibration.
Under such intense vibration, Quan Yi's whole body was swept by a sense of numbness.
However, he could not care about the feeling of his body at the moment.
He was concentrating on the ball of extreme gold, and the third strike once again violently hammered the dark gold sphere.
Seeing this, one could actually see Quan Yi's plan.
That's right, he was treating the extreme gold as a piece of metal and using himself as a hammer to forge it.
At this time, Quan Yi's consciousness had completely merged into the hammer, and each vibration made Quan Yi feel the toughness of the extreme gold very truly.
Moreover, Quan Yi had been a blacksmith for many years and had never encountered such a pure and powerful 'iron block'.
With the purity of extreme gold, there was no need for any refining at all.
However, Quan Yi's purpose in hammering it was not to refine it, but to create a connection with the origin of the martial soul within it.
