Once these Divine Soldiers are forged, they are to accompany Su Changqing for a lifetime; there must be no negligence.
...
As time passed slowly.
Only after a long while did Su Changqing suddenly open his eyes, within which a brilliant gleam of enlightenment shone.
"Suitable for oneself, sword... myriad Dao techniques..."
Su Changqing looked at the starkly contrasting ’Pure World Jade’ and ’Abyss Iron.’
The two utterly distinct divine metals appeared so harmonious in his eyes at that moment.
"Black and white, time and space, good and evil..."
"With the fusion of Yin and Yang, manifesting one’s myriad methods, one sword emerges, myriad Dao follows!"
"With my body, I create the heavens and earth, divide spirit, extinguish all beings, unify Yin and Yang, evolving into all the world’s Dao; this is my path!"
Su Changqing’s gaze was bright, with thoughts wildly surging within his heart.
He even entertained a bolder thought!
"Merge!"
Su Changqing, as if possessing the divine law from the heavens, uttered a word, and the Great Emperor’s divine metal before him began to melt swiftly.
Two pieces of Pure World Jade and two pieces of Abyss Iron transformed into four liquid masses of stark black and white, radiating dazzling light.
This scene caused the nearby Xian Xian, Jue Xian, and Sword Emperor to frown slightly.
"Four pieces of divine metal are too much."
"Indeed, for just one sword, one piece of divine metal would suffice; the forging of an emperor weapon is not about the quantity of divine metal."
"Not only that, the properties of Pure World and Abyss divine metals contradict each other, does he intend to merge them into one?"
The three communicated telepathically, without disturbing Su Changqing.
Yet all of them furrowed their brows tightly, unable to discern the direction Su Changqing intended for the forging.
However, before the emperor weapon comes into being, no one knows its merit.
This extremely personal matter could only be watched silently by them.
At this moment, Su Changqing had forgotten everything else, his focus solely on the four surging black and white liquid masses before him.
"The two Great Emperor divine metals, Pure World and Abyss, though their properties contradict, are two extremes."
"To merge these two divine metals..."
A slight brightness appeared in Su Changqing’s eyes, and as he lightly stepped down, a sky-covering celestial Dao diagram quietly emerged.
With his fingers forming incantations, profound and complex seals continually infused into the divine metal.
This method is the spacetime Dao of the Daoist Venerable!
Utilizing spacetime to evolve Yin and Yang, and the power of Yin and Yang, to drive the contradictory properties of Pure World and Abyss into unity!
At this moment, the four black and white liquid masses swiftly began to merge with the infusion of seals.
Initially, the fusion of the divine metals was not smooth.
The sacred light of Pure World and the profound darkness of Abyss continually clashed, erupting with terrifying energy fluctuations.
These are Great Emperor’s divine metals!
Should the energies of these four pieces of divine metal become unstable and explode, the entire imperial tomb would vanish into smoke and ashes.
However, as the black and white lights kept clashing and intertwining, they slowly fused into one.
The two liquid masses transformed into two Yin-Yang fish, connected head to tail, pursuing each other, each containing the other within.
"They actually... truly merged!"
Sword Emperor looked on incredulously at all this.
Originally, he sought out the two divine metals to provide more choices for future successors.
After all, the world’s powers are only twofold: good and evil, black and white.
No matter the path chosen by those who come later, these six divine metals could meet their needs.
Yet unexpectedly, Su Changqing actually fused two divine metals with completely opposing properties into one!
Even he could not achieve such a feat.
"Daoist Venerable’s method!"
Jue Xian stared unblinkingly, with a solemn expression.
Only at his level could one comprehend how terrifying the celestial Dao diagram beneath Su Changqing’s feet was.
"In this world, aside from the Daoist Venerable’s method, no one else could combine the Pure World and Abyss."
"However..."
Xian Xian’s eyes revealed a look of interest, "I’m more curious about what kind of emperor weapon he intends to forge."
"Actually needing the power of two distinct attributes."
Listening to Xian Xian and Jue Xian’s conversation, a look of shock appeared on Sword Emperor’s face.
The methods of the Daoist Venerable!
Su Changqing... actually possesses the Daoist Venerable’s inheritance?
Gazing at the solemn youth, Sword Emperor murmured in astonishment,
"Could he... be the ’Ancient’ of this generation?"
...
Whatever Xianxian and the others were thinking, Su Changqing had no knowledge.
Now he was fully immersed in the forging of the imperial weapon.
As the purification stone and the ruin iron merged, a special liquid emerged that surpassed the original energy of both materials!
And this was only the beginning!
"Since the attributes are contradictory, why not make it more thorough!"
Su Changqing’s eyes shone brightly, and as he formed hand seals with his fingertips, his unique creation force merged into the divine metal liquid before him.
In the yin-yang fish, the bright light of the yang fish suddenly surged, momentarily suppressing the neighboring dark yin fish.
But suddenly, with a change of hand seal at his fingertips, deep dark patterns were injected once again by Su Changqing.
As the destructive seals of entropy merged, the suppressed yin fish burst forth with a brilliance that rivaled the yang fish.
Creation and destruction, these two distinctly yet unified forces, were deeply imprinted in the essence of divine metal.
And this essence, which originally had no connection with Su Changqing, now had an inseparable link and sense of kinship with him.
Yet Su Changqing failed to notice that at the moment he released the destruction patterns, the immeasurable cold light erupted from the eyes of Xianxian and Juexian beside him.
"The power of cataclysm?"
Xianxian’s face clearly displayed gravitas, his eyes full of bewilderment and uncertainty.
He had just... sensed a terrifying force within that dark pattern.
It was the cataclysmic power that even ’ancient’ feared!
"It seems similar, but it’s a bit too weak."
Juexian looked at Su Changqing, frowning hesitantly, "Is it possible for us to have been mistaken due to the high level of dark energy?"
"Being valued by the Martial Ancestor and the Daoist Venerable while walking the path of creation, it should be impossible for one to simultaneously possess the power of cataclysm."
"Creation and destruction... these two forces would never coexist in the same person."
After a brief contemplation, Juexian’s expression slightly eased,
"It should be the high level of dark energy clashing with the path of creation, producing a faint ’calamity’ power."
"This young man... even possesses a dark heritage?"
Initially, Juexian had no interest in Su Changqing.
After all, both he and Luxian were advocates of darkness.
No matter how strong Su Changqing was, he belonged to the ’Heavenly Dao’ side, which left him with no thoughts.
But now, that dark source power, comparable to the forces of wickedness, made him look at Su Changqing differently.
Su Changqing, being part of the darkness, made him one of them!
Seeing this, Xianxian naturally knew what Juexian was thinking.
He frowned at Su Changqing, murmuring to himself,
"Such a monstrosity should never be persuaded by Juexian..."
...
At this moment, Su Changqing was not aware that the two Sword Immortals had already set their eyes on him.
But even if he knew, he would probably be pleased.
After all, he too had set his sights on the two Sword Immortals!
At this time, the divine metal in front of him had been thoroughly refined, also marked with Su Changqing’s unique imprint.
Next, it was time for shaping!
"Law, fuse!"
With a wave of his wide sleeve, Su Changqing melded a nearby complete Law Sword into an illusory chain, merging it into the Great Emperor’s divine metal.
Boom!
In an instant, the entire imperial mausoleum was engulfed in a sky-filling sword intent.
The black and white divine metal intertwined with the rules in a weave from the void.
The silhouette of a giant sword quickly surfaced from the endless brilliance.
This sword was much larger than ordinary swords, from the tip down to the handle, it was distinctly black and white, emitting an odd glow.
The only unique feature was the center of the handle, where the black and white met, a revolving yin-yang fish swirled without pause.
With each revolution of the fish, the black and white on the blade would alternate, making it extraordinarily mystical!
"Swallow!"
Once the law was infused, the rest became simple.
Su Changqing made seals with his fingertips, and countless sword intents within the imperial mausoleum rose like swallows returning home.
At this moment, the entire world constructed of sword intent began to collapse quickly.
The sword intent river that spanned the earth, the towering mountains, and the forests, lakes, and seas all condensed by sword intent...
Everything transformed into torrents of sword intent soaring toward the sky, devoured wholly by the central black and white greatsword.
When the imperial mausoleum completely collapsed.
A loud sword cry, echoing across the five regions and ten countries, causing the entire continent to tremble, exploded brilliantly!