Hot white fumes swirling around the sky forming imaginative shapes, red magma meandering underground leaping up as if in joy upon occasionally coming across some open cracks and crevices, and the dry air which seems to such the soul out of a person….

This place just keeps getting better.

To top it all off, the monkey head who led him here keeps throwing the seeds of the fire lychees on his head.

He was sure that this monkey was doing it on purpose.

If it were not for the fact that he came here to ask for a favor, he would first kill this flame monkey and then beaten this the arrogant suanni who followed behind him to see his joke into a docile kitten and made him his mount.

Bam!

Yet another seed hit his head.

He recited the ‘Tranquil Sutra of lotus lake’ to calm his mind. This sutra inherited from his mother has calmed him down several times – even if it seems pirated on occasions.

Keep going, he encouraged himself.

After a while, he reached the core part of these terrifyingly high volcanic region. These volcanoes are a part of the primeval beast empire. He was sent here by the country to get a blade experience endless nirvana with some phoenixes.

The blade needs to have a meaning of creation in destruction after it has evolved its weapon intent.

He spent the resources and tireless efforts of the entire Hua Shan to accomplish a part. His own sword insights and other master’s sword are blended into it. There are even some intents of spear, bow and blade.

The combined blend and insights have evolved into a hint of destructive meaning.

It’s been a month and he is close to getting this job done to claim the credit and the reward.

It would been even better if it were someone else coming to that grouchy miser’s territory for the last step.

Regardless of what he thought, when he arrived at the core volcano – he still bent his knees and shouted, “Father-in-law, your son-in-law Wei Kun seeks your audience.”

What answered him, after a wait of a few hours and repeated requests was not a voice to ask him in, but a binding rope and a Nanming Li Fire fan.

Only after roasting him completely did this stop. Wei Kun also never made a sound, for the fear of giving this miser a sense of satisfaction or an excuse for rebuking.

Anyway, he has already done his daughter and can still handle this incompetent rage.

“Father, stop. it’s enough. It’s been ages and we’ve been married for years now; can’t you calm down?”

Far away from this place, in the sacred grove of ecotopia, sitting by the mother tree of life – the elf empress had already agreed to the envoy of the ancient Donghuang country.

The envoy was overjoyed at this. He did not have any confidence in commissioning the elves to do the work. Thank fully, the renumeration had the elf empress blow her head over.

All he had to do now is to take the elves party across the endless plains between the two nations and meet midway at the scarlet hills to complete a perfect blend of various forces of natural weather – thunder, lighting, rain, snow, hail, heat, wind etc. together with time and space into the axe head.

Elf empress Elowen called the pure maiden of the forest, Sylvaria and assigned her to accomplish this task.

The party then set off.

Similar scenes were playing out at many places.

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The ones coordinating all this through various tools – void rings, elf sprite’s wooden talisman or just handwritten letter and messages via blue birds, were two capable people in the capital.

The head of the blacksmithing association, Cui Xie, a rare female in the blacksmithing profession.

The head of the formation master association, Li Han, an obstinate fellow who was very uncomfortable at the prospect of blending formations as work of an assistance to weapon refining.

Cui Xie was a little worried about the final progress and asked the only senior she could ask for advice, “Senior Han, do you think the cold-face gentleman and Donghuang emperor’s envoy can complete the tasks?”

Li Han had just finished perfecting the formation he needs to carve on the entire axe. It is the most difficult formation he had created ever – that he had to mobilize the help of his peers to get this done hit him hard.

His illusion that his formation arts had peeked shattered during the course of the previous month.

Get this – a five-element gathering and transformative formation which has the ability to switch to four elephants of wind, water, earth and fire on the handle.

This formation should be linked to the three elements of time, space and weather on the head.

Finally, come back to the handle after joining them and give it the ability to turn it all into a yin-yang Taichi formation.

As if joining two separate formations and transformation were not enough, they have all to blend into one when these forces come to the axe blade all the while blending but not forgetting the original constituents.

Oh, and it should also have a concentrated creation (yang) in destruction (yin) one qi. What is this having one and two together but it should be one?

Don’t fool him. He went to school.

In short – the axe wants to have all things that a person should manually do. Why not get the axe to do the job of cutting whatever you want to do, do without a person?

Is the axe going to heaven!

When Cui Xie asked the question, he was still irritated and poured his thoughts like a broken faucet pours water.

“Can they? Well, let me see.

The cold-faced gentleman who is a pretender who is neither cold-faced nor a gentleman will definitely get whipped by his old father-in-law for deceiving his daughter into marrying the philandering and slithery sleaze bag he is.

Unless by change his sword which he has honed quite well, completely unlike his character, is unsheathed and he starts a war; his wife should help him speak out and get that blade roasted in endless Nanming Li and nirvana fire to get the job done.

For the envoys, it couldn’t be easier – the elves look like they are all high and noble but they are just as greedy for beautiful and shiny things like those western dragons. The commission given should satiate that greed.

Even if that doesn’t work, the latest currency of the country should lure them in.”

Cui Xie was dumbfounded for a minute and did not know how to react to this.

She did not expect to hear such naked truths. She just wanted psychological comfort.

But she could feel that Senior Han was frustrated at the formation, so she thought hard to comfort and could only squeeze, “At least we get paid a lot of the new currency, don’t we?”

Li Han shrugged. He felt he should after he did this work.

Seeing that it did not work, she could only absent-mindedly mumble, “at least, it is my deputy working with the devil, not I.”

This time, Li Han nodded with sympathy and relief.

In the endless fire domain inside the volcano, Wei Kun rubbed his cheek as he saw the blade undergoing nirvana with these old phoenix shrews.

At the scarlet mountains, the envoy arrived with the elven maiden Sylvaria and the team started working.

The official from the homeland ruins strategic investigation and management took out the king-level beast master space relic, while his colleagues took out some fragments containing time law rhymes.

An expert invited from the Lin family, Lin Meng unleashed his beast – a taotie who used the devouring law to extract space laws, time laws and respective weather laws from the relic, fragment and the unconscious nature elf embryos, and origin crystals and cores of wind, thunder, water, pressure etc.

Together with Ling Meng’s extraction and Sylvaria’s balancing and blending – all these laws and the resources were refined into an axe handle by the blacksmiths using mixed origin void gold.

The whole process took extreme concentration of the group, so much so, that they did not realize that dangerous beasts had started fighting near them.

Thankfully, the guards escorting the envoys, blacksmiths, Lin Family secret guards guarding Lin Meng and the elven royal guards did their duty to keep their protection targets unharmed and undisturbed.

With only 10 days to spare, all parts of the axe were delivered to the capital where old man Li started engraving formations with the help of formation masters and mage enchanters.

These enchanters are more capable of scribbling on the weapons than they are as formation masters – another thing Li Hai had never thought about.

He had always considered these enchanting jobs a heresy and way to reduce focus on one’s own cultivation and relying on tools extensively.

Formation masters use formations to understand the world, enchanters enchant to solve problems, or so he thought.

It seems rune engraving and formations can produce such fabulous work if used together. If it were not for rune enchantment, this pseudo formation would never work.

With the formation done, Cui Xie very delicately refined the three different pieces into one whole axe.

When the axe was completed, everyone felt a stone fell off their chest.

The axe of creation was complete.