Ancient Strengthening Technique - Chapter 1141

Chapter 1141

AST 1141 – Nine Yang Golden Flame, Black Tortoise Golden Scaled Battle Armor, Battle Skirt

Tantai Xuan’s gorgeous and beautiful face turned completely red . Unfortunately, no one had been able to witness such a scene . It was only when Qing Shui’s side calmed down that her feelings gradually subsided . Furthermore, she was now able seal away her spiritual consciousness and sense .

She did not know what was going on . She was confused to the point where she even started blaming herself . She was afraid that it might have had something to do with herself and could not calm down . When a virgin saw such a scene, it felt just the same as her standing inside their room . The impact given to her was something that she would not be able to wash away for the rest of her life .

Qing Shui was unaware of all of this . If he had known, he would definitely guess that it had to do with the Portraits of Beauty somehow . Other than that, there was no other reasons to explain the situation . It was just that no one knew how he would feel if he had found out that someone else actually saw a live stream of “erotic pictures” of himself……

Yu Ruyan was already deep in her slumber . She was simply too tired . On her face, there was a content and happy smile . It felt good to be protected and spoiled by someone . No matter how strong she may have been, she was still a woman at the end of the day . Anyone would fear being alone .

Thinking of loneliness, Qing Shui remembered some of the things that had happened in his previous incarnation . An old man had been sick, and when he was hospitalized, he saw many family members of other patients visiting them . Even though the old man was rich, no one had bothered to visit him .

After recovering from his sickness, the old man had chosen instead to commit suicide by feeding on sleeping pills . Normally, when one managed to recover from a major sickness, they would bless the gods for being able to stay alive . This old man, on the other hand, had chosen to commit suicide the day before he could leave the hospital .

Only from his suicide note did people eventually discover why he had committed suicide . He was too lonely . Not only did he not have a son or daughter, his partner had also passed away . Being alone, his house lacked a kind of liveliness . There was no longer anything in the world which he had truly cared about .

The reason why he had brought Yu Ruyan along this time was precisely because he was afraid she would feel lonely . Not only did she leave Duanmu Clan, her daughter had established a family of her own as well . That was why Qing Shui decided to bring her along and further improved his relationship with her . He did it forcefully so that he would be able to establish a position in her heart and make her remember him . One would no longer feel lonely when they found someone which they cared about . Now, she would have someone to think about from time to time .

Qing Shui bent his body and kissed her forehead . After that, he quietly walked outside and immediately entered the Realm of the Violet Jade Immortal . He still had a bit of time left, and he wanted to investigate the Black Tortoise Shell .

It has been said that the Black Tortoise Shell was a shell on the back of a Black Tortoise . Black Tortoise was supposedly a kind of demonic beast that possessed the legendary black tortoise bloodline . Based on its bloodline, the Black Tortoise Shell was also divided into three qualities . Even though the one Tantai Xuan gave him was not that big, it was considered decent in terms of its qualities . The quality of the Black Tortoise Shell was not decided by its size .

Qing Shui saw both the Black Tortoise Shell and the Spirited Snake Turtle inside the pond at the same time . The latter was a Spiritual Type of Heaven and Earth, yet it was unlikely for the Spirited Snake Turtle to be as strong as the Black Tortoise .

Qing Shui prepared some armor while inside the Realm of the Violet Jade Immortal . Among them, there were battle armor and battle skirts . These armor were all forged with the best materials Qing Shui currently possessed . There were Seal Formation carved on all of them .

What Qing Shui intended to do now was to use the Black Tortoise Armor to refine these armor . As to how many of them he could refine with it, he himself was not clear about it . He was planning to test it first to see if it would really work .

Qing Shui had never been too satisfied with the armor . For someone at Qing Shui’s level, the potential of this armor was like icing on the cake .

First off, Qing Shui used the Heavenly Vision Technique to look at the properties of the Black Tortoise Shell .

The shell of a Black Tortoise Turtle possessed formidable physical and spiritual defensive capabilities . It could be used to forge materials, but it could not be used directly from its unrefined form . It had to be smelted and forged at the same time to be used .

The main function about this armor was to help increase one’s physical defense . It only provided a minor boost in spiritual defense . Despite so, Qing Shui felt that this armor suited him really well, the reason being that he himself had the Arhat Rosary Beads and Spirited Snake Turtle . All of the spirit energy which attacked him would be weakened by seventy percent . In other words, he would be able to withstand spirit energy attacks used by a low grade State Master .

As Qing Shui thought up to this point, he became unusually excited . This time, he wanted to forge a powerful battle armor for himself and use it alongside with the Nine Continents Mountain . With his own strength, he would definitely be able to use it extraordinarily well . That being said, he would finally be able to battle against a lot of the warriors who were only slightly above him . After all, he was still quite confident with his own battle techniques .

Qing Shui picked out a few of his armor and started forging them . The three armor which Qing Shui picked were all slightly harder than average . They belonged to the kind of armor with soft scales . When mixed together, such a type of armor was said to have the best quality .

It was made of Golden Scaled Beast Leather, one of the best beast leather found in the Interspatial Silk Sachets that he had collected thus far . He left one behind for each of the girls in the five continents . Yu Ruyan also had one . This time, however, Qing Shui was attempting to add in some Black Tortoise Shell to see what would happen .

Once the armor started taking shape, Qing Shui mixed the Black Tortoise Shell into it . This process would still require one’s abilities to a certain extent . For example, it would not be easy to smelt the Black Tortoise Shell, as it possessed spiritual nature . It had the ability to neutralize spirit energy attacks .

This explained the reason why many blacksmiths were unable to forge Black Tortoise Armor . Across the continents, powerful blacksmiths have all been powerful warriors, just like how powerful alchemists were powerful warriors . This was because they needed their own Original Flame of Life .

Qing Shui’s Original Flame of Life was originally the Primordial Flame . It was only until his Nine Yang Golden Body reached small success stage that he had realized some of the changes . The Primordial Flame transformed into the heart of the fire whereas the flame surrounding it turned into Nine Yang Golden Flame .

Golden Flame was an incomparably powerful flame, it was especially strong when it was part of the Nine Yang Golden Flame . This actually caused the strength of the Primordial Flame to, once again, take another leap ahead . It was a kind of fusion, the result of two energies combining together . After all, the center of the fire was the Primordial Flame, a flame that could harmonize with all living things . Living things were originally formed by primal chaos to begin with .

As time passed by, Qing Shui smiled . He could begin to see the Black Tortoise Shell slowly becoming loose . As long as it was able to get loose, there would be hope . The Yin-yang Image within his sea of consciousness was spinning rapidly to increase the power of the Primordial Flame .

At the blink of an eye, a week had passed . The Black Tortoise Shell had melted into a layer of dull moisture, slowly flowing into the armor . It was a really incredible and unimaginable sight .

Qing Shui was a bit panicked at first, but he very quickly realized that he needed to use spirit energy to control the moisture and blend it into his armor . The process had a high spirit energy consumption .

Qing Shui’s eyes were really bright . This was a brand new way of smelting, one that involved the Black Tortoise Shell . Even though it was Qing Shui’s first time trying this, he seemed like he was already used to it . He was able to control them as he wished, even though it consumed a lot of spirit energy . For Qing Shui, he was able deal with the energy consumption . After all, he had the Arhat Rosary Beads . Thanks to that, he managed to reduce the consumption of energy .

Ding!

It was a delicate ringing noise, followed by a magnificent multi-colored light that shone out of the bright, gold armor . The duration in which the light lasted was very short, so much so that Qing Shui was unable to accurately tell how many colors there were .

He enthusiastically moved his sight towards the armor that had just been forged .

Black Tortoise Golden Scaled Battle Armor, increases one’s physical defense by a fold and 20% of spirit energy defense . Additional battle technique, Black Tortoise Armor .

Black Tortoise Armor, activated with spirit energy . Energy consumption would increase by one fold . Simultaneously, the wearer would be able to experience a boost in their basic defense by one fold as well as a 20% boost in their defense against spirit energy .

Qing Shui was really satisfied with it . As of now, he was able to comprehend some of the things up to a certain extent . For someone of his level, the weapons and armor were both very rare material, particularly those that helped boost the user’s strength by one fold . These items were definitely regarded as an extremely powerful existence . Back then, when his strength was still quite low, some of his armor could provide boost in defense up to several folds . But now, if he were to wear them again, it would immediately lose its effect . There was no denying that there were still items which could help increase the user’s defense by a number of folds for someone at his level . But those were just too precious, so precious that they were considered to be at the legendary artifact grade, or perhaps even more divine artifact grades .

Qing Shui’s Big Dipper Sword was not just any kind of ordinary object . As of now, the Violet Star Thunder God was already considered to be used officially as a forging hammer . In addition to that, it was also used as a weapon by Qing Shui to cultivate the Thousand Hammer Technique .

Now, he felt really satisfied . The only thing was that he did not have a clear idea of whether a warrior with the strength of a State Master would still be able to boost their strength by one fold if they put on the Black Tortoise Armor . Armor and types of weapons all had their limits . For example, a person with formidable strength would be able to destroy his target’s battle armor .

Forget it, let’s test it out first!

Qing Shui put the armor on . The armor itself wasn’t that heavy . Additionally, he was able to feel an abundance of energy rushing into his body . Even though he did not experience any significant boost in terms of his strength, it felt really similar to when he was holding his own breath . Under that situation, his body’s ability to resist attacks would increase by a tremendous amount . Other than that, his mind seemed to feel slightly more refreshing than before .

“Splendid!” Qing Shui didn’t hold back with his compliments .

Seeing that he still had a bit of time left as well as plentiful amounts of Black Tortoise Shells, it would not be a problem for him to forge out another two armors . He immediately set off with his task and forged out another two Black Tortoise Golden Scaled Battle Skirts .

The battle skirts had exactly the same ability as the Black Tortoise Golden Scaled Battle Armor, except they looked more beautiful than the battle armor . Previously, both the Golden Scaled Battle Armor and skirts looked really glamorous and unusually gorgeous . But once the Black Tortoise Shell had been blended into it, the armor became different . Not only had its abilities changed, even the outer appearance looked a bit different . To put it in another way, it looked a little less gorgeous but, instead, had a more noble look to it .

This made Qing Shui unusually satisfied .

It was almost time for him to exit the realm . The sky was already bright and it was past the time when he usually did his morning exercise . After washing himself, he immediately exited the realm only to find that the sun was already in the sky . The time for his morning exercise was nearly over .

There was no one inside the room, as both Yu Ruyan and Tantai Xuan were doing their morning exercises . Qing Shui was able to tell with his spiritual sense . He went out and coincidentally ran into the two girls returning to the house .

Yu Ruyan looked radiant and graceful . She tried to avoid direct contact with Qing Shui’s eyes, the reason being it would remind her of all the things which had happened yesterday . At the same time, Qing Shui unintentionally spotted Tantai Xuan who was standing by a corner . She had an extremely complicated expression while looking at him .

If he ever managed to find out that she had seen live erotic scenes of him, he would most likely be able to figure out why she looked so complicated . Qing Shui could also sense that her eyes looked a bit tired .

“Go wash your face and rinse first . I’ll get you guys something to eat . ” Qing Shui smiled and said to the girls .

For some reason, Qing Shui felt really weird seeing Tantai Xuan’s complicated look . It has always been said that what a man was thinking could straightaway be told from their facial expression when they looked at a woman . Similarly, the same thing might also happen when a woman looked at a man . It was just that it would feel a bit different . It would not be as obvious as when a man did so . Despite looking a bit weird, one would still be able to feel it just like how Qing Shui was feeling now .

“This is just weird . ” Qing Shui muttered while eating .

It was quite late by the time they had finished dinner . Qing Shui took out a set of Black Tortoise Golden Scaled Battle Skirt and passed it to Yu Ruyan: “I’m giving this to you . I’ll be leaving in a while . ”

Yu Ruyan smiled as soon as she saw it was a skirt . She received it and asked, “Is Sister Xuan getting one too? It wouldn’t look nice if I’m the only one wearing it . ”

“Yes, gift this to her then . She will definitely reject it if it comes from my hand . ” Qing Shui passed Yu Ruyan another set of armor .

Yu Ruyan received the armor and immediately squeezed it into Tantai Xuan’s hand . She held her hand, “Let’s go and get changed . ”

Tantai Xuan followed Yu Ruyan and went on to get changed . Qing Shui felt a bit upset . He thought that Tantai Xuan’s change happened a bit too quickly given that they had not seen each other for only a night . He just could not figure out the reason for the change…