Ou Yangming smiled and asked, "Little fella, you're interested in this?"

The young fellow had to use his Military Fire when he smithed earlier, but he did not expect that he would draw the little bird's attention once he was done. 'Can the little fella understand smithing art?' Ou Yangming pondered again and was relieved.

Given the little bird's red light, which was released when it self-ignited, could trigger the Military Fire, it meant that the bird's power and the fire could echo each other at a distance. If that was the case, it would not be difficult for it to respond to the smithing of equipment too.

Ou Yangming moved his wrist again to release a red light. As the Military Fire flickered, he continued to melt another bizarre stone.

Nonetheless, it was then when the little bird flapped its wings and flew to the front of Ou Yangming, then it entered the red Military Fire recklessly.

The young fellow's face changed. He was well aware of the Military Fire's power, which could easily melt peculiar stones, let alone one's body. In actuality, if it was not because Multi-armed King Kong was too humongous, he was confident that he could defeat it with his Military Fire.

Seeing as the little bird entered the Military Fire without warning, his heart was almost at his throat.

Although he knew the little bird's power and his Military Fire could echo each other from afar, it did not mean that the bird could resist the fire with its body.

With a flash of thought, Ou Yangming curbed his Military Fire without any hesitation, but he was ready to save the little bird at any time.

Who knew, he soon realized that he was worried for nothing.

The little bird was standing on his wrist and was unharmed. In fact, the parts of his body that were burned by the Military Fire just now were not burnt at all. It seemed like that fire, which could melt the peculiar stones, could not hurt it at all.

Afterward, the little bird turned to look at Ou Yangming in confusion as if it was asked him why he suddenly stopped.

Ou Yangming was stunned for a while. He could not help but shake his head with a bitter smile.

'I was blindly worrying indeed. Since this little fella can self-ignite through a method similar to the Military Fire, it won't be afraid of the fire at all.'

Just as he shook his head and wanted to release his Military Fire again, the little bird flapped its wings out of the blue. Following that, a red light emerged from its body and quickly spread out to envelope the rare stone.

Ou Yangming's eyelids twitched, and he felt some heat on his hand. Even so, the heat did not hurt him at all, and it felt rather comfortable instead.

This was just his feeling but what shocked him most was the queer stone that was being wrapped up by the red light.

The stone was being softened at the speed of light, but it did not melt. It was being kneaded like plasticine into an arm guard.

Ou Yangming's eyelids twitched violently this time. He was not the one controlling the light, but he could sense the changes in it. Furthermore, the arm guard was being formed faster than the one he smithed.

It was worth noting that he smithed using a bizarre stone, which was a treasure that could be used to smith magic tools.

Even though the Military Fire could restrain the stone by easily melting it, the process required a certain time and energy.

Nevertheless, Ou Yangming felt like he would willingly admit his defeat after he witnessed the little bird release its red light. The little bird carried out the process effortlessly as if it was eating or drinking like a normal person.

The effect was simply dumbfounding and unbelievable.

Ou Yangming did not know he was looking at the little bird as how other people looked at him when he smithed magic tools.

"Y-you can smith pieces of equipment too?" He looked oddly at the little bird and mumbled, "That's strange. Were you transformed from a human?"

In his mind, only humans knew smithing art. After all, even the formidable Multi-armed King Kong and the goshawk knew nothing about the technique. Needless to say, their remarkable abilities were enough to make up for the gap of having pieces of equipment. Even if Wu Yuanwei was fully armed, Ou Yangming did not think the goshawk and the king kong would be at a disadvantage.

The fact that the little bird grasped the smithing technique almost overturned Ou Yangming's perception.

On the other hand, the little bird was slightly startled, and it glared at the young fellow furiously.

Ou Yangming blinked and wondered, then he slapped his thigh and said, "I know—your master must've taught you!"

The little bird was infuriated this time. It slapped its wings and flew up, then it landed nimbly on Ou Yangming's head. The bird held back its anger as it twitched its beak, but it kept flapping its wings and hopping continuously.

Ou Yangming reached out his hand helplessly and placed it on his head as he attempted to grab the troublemaker. Despite that, the little bird was nimble, and the young fellow did not intend to hurt it, hence he failed to catch it.

The little bird seemed to have cooled down after moving around for some time, thus it flew back into the birdcage.

Ou Yangming smiled bitterly and let go of the matter. He did not want to look into it anymore.

That said, just as he picked up the arm guard to inspect it seriously, the little bird jumped onto his hand again and stared at him with its small round eyes.

"You don't want me to touch the equipment you smithed?" Ou Yangming furrowed his eyebrows as he was struck dumb.

The little bird instantly shook its head and continued to stare eagerly at him.

Ou Yangming racked his brain and asked again, "You want to look at the Thunderbolt-resistant Rune?"

The little bird's eyes lit up. It knew what he meant as soon as it heard the word "Thunderbolt-resistant", so it jumped cheerfully and chirped.

Ou Yangming was hesitant for a while. He knew the Thunderbolt-resistant Rune was not trivial and seemed to be different from the Thunderbolt-resistant Secret Technique from the upper realm. Moreover, he had unexpectedly gained the rune when he forced one of the parasites. According to Multi-armed King Kong and the goshawk, it was simply priceless.

How could he casually show such a rune to someone else?

Just as Ou Yangming wanted to reject the little bird, he happened to look into its eyes.

The bird's eyes were clear and filled with desire.

It stood on Ou Yangming's wrist at the moment. While it did not release its red light, there was still a feeling that it was closely related to the Military FIre.

Ou Yangming sighed and became soft-hearted. It was true that the Thunderbolt-resistant Technique was precious but since the little bird was related to his Military Fire, he figured that it was also closely connected to the hidden powerhouse that had been helping him.

The Thunderbolt-resistant Secret Technique was mighty but it did not seem as important as the help he received from that powerhouse.

He nodded and said, "Little fella, watch me closely."

The little bird stopped moving and lay quietly on Ou Yangming's wrist. Its quietness was entirely different from how it acted earlier.

Ou Yangming grinned. Before long, the Thunderbolt-resistant Rune floated in his sea of consciousness, and the rune paths drifted out as if they were being guided.

His notable mental power boiled and surged, then it transformed into the Military Fire and gushed out.

When the Military Fire burned, the little bird was wrapped up right away. Even so, the violent fire did not hurt the little bird at all.

It looked unusually solemn as though it understood the Thunderbolt-resistant Rune was unordinary, which was why it became surprisingly quiet.

In actual fact, the little bird did not think so much when it was pursued by the thunderbolt to a dead-end and subconsciously approached Ou Yangming. It only paid a lot of attention to him after it awoke because it could not figure out how he managed to endure the forceful thunderbolt power.

Since the secret was going to be revealed to it, it was obviously paying more attention.

Ou Yangming did not hide his secret at all. He released the Thunderbolt-resistant Rune bit by bit and carved it on the arm guard.

An exceptionally mysterious power was contained in the rune. It came from the omnipresent space and was an origin power. Nobody had used the power before this.

The little bird immediately sensed that that power was extraordinary. Though it was not its Military Fire that was burning, it could easily sense through its bloodline inheritance the fire's power and its origin.

To the members of its race, even the greatest power could not attract their attention at all. However, they yearned for anything related to an origin. Besides, given that the origin had something to do with thunderbolt powers this time, the little bird became more alert and serious.

Under the little bird's watch, every change of the Thunderbolt-resistant Rune was delivered through the Military Fire. The bird closed its eyes and carefully sensed the content inside, as well as the hidden energy change.

It might seem quite childish, but Ou Yangming was far from it in certain aspects.

In particular, Ou Yangming was unquestionably light years away from the little bird in terms of knowledge from a bloodline inheritance.

Ou Yangming knew the hows but not the whys about the Thunderbolt-resistant Rune, whereas the little bird came to a sudden realization and was horrified after it studied the rune carefully. The latter thought, 'It turns out that there's such an unbelievable resistance method against the thunderbolts!

'As compared using strength against strength in the upper realm, this unloading method seems to be superior.'

The little bird opened its eyes after a long time and stared strangely at Ou Yangming as if it was wondering where exactly the young fellow learned the method from.

It hesitated for a while before it shrieked, causing an intense red light to surface from its body.

Ou Yangming's eyebrows twitched, but he sat quietly on the ground and ignored the red light, which was spreading quickly.

His eyes glowed when the red light fully enveloped him, and he almost could not believe his eyes when he looked around him in shock.

It was a spiritual world. He had somehow entered a wonderful spiritual world through an unexplainable method.

Instead of the little bird, a big multicolored bird stood in front of him.