The moment he tapped the black token on a seal on the door, the room automatically opened. A wave of nourishing spirit energy entered his body, revitalizing him. After exploring the room, he realized that there were spirit stone formations to circulate energy throughout the room. The forging implements were top-grade as well. This was a refiner’s utopia!

There were a few spatial rings chock-full with the materials necessary for forging the equipment specified in the duties. Heifeng Jiansui took out a few top-grade materials from the rings, and walked up to the forge.

For a while, only the pounding of a hammer could be heard from the forging room. Top-grade materials that should have been used for forging swords were smelted together to refine a thick pillar! The pillar was red and around 7 foot tall. After this, Heifeng Jiansui etched the carving of a black phoenix on it. Finally, he swept the pillar with his divine sense and searching for imperfections, Heifeng Jiansui put away the pillar to cool down.

Like this, Heifeng Jiansui forged 8 more pillars or different colors, adorned with carving of various rare divine beasts. The metals used while refining them were all top-rank and the pillars were of the same size. The nine pillars formed a resonance with each other, sucking the energy from the surrounding world!

“Ah, it seems that this ‘Black Phoenix Allbeast Rule Formation’ works, now let’s find a place to set it…” Putting away the pillars in his spatial ring, he also took a sturdy-looking table with him. Leaving the forging room, he fully explored the refining room, searching for the core of the formations.

Finally, in a comparatively small room, he found a large white crystal glimmering with multicolored sparks. This was the core to the formations laid down in the room. After redirecting the spirit energy formations to circulate energy into the room he was in, he shut down most of the formations to avoid using up energy. Other than a few guarding formations, he shut down everything.

In a short time, Heifeng Jiansui felt energy build up in the room. He cleared out everything in the room to increase space and decrease obstructions for the formation. After changing the arrangements of a few formations on the while crystal, he felt the build up of spirit energy multiply. After closing the door, Heifeng Jiansui stood in the exact centre of the room, a few meters away from the white crystal.

He finally took out the 9 pillars and set them in a circular formation surrounding him. After drawing nine drops of blood from his finger, he used his battle spirit to sprinkle all the drops on the pillars at the same time. The pillars shone with bright light and shadows of divine beasts seemed to form upon every single pillar. The mightiest of them was the black phoenix, who commanded them all!

All the beasts flew towards Heifeng Jiansui, entering his right arm. A black phoenix seal formed on his right arm, the Allbeast Mark. Heifeng Jiansui felt unprecedented control over the nine pillars and the ability to easily control the spirit energy surrounding him!

With a single wave of a hand, the nine pillars shortened to the thickness of a cicada’s wing! After that, they flew 25 meters away from him. This was the maximum distance that the pillars could keep away from him while still drawing the maximum amount of energy!

Now, all the preparations were complete! Heifeng Jiansui immediately thrust out his palm, forming a red-hot circle between it!

“Redfire Palm!” This divine ability attacked with a fiery palm. A single strike could burn even iron to liquid!

“The power of the blow is not good enough, also the power should be spread out rather than condensed… Let’s try again!”

Another Redfire Palm struck the air. This time, the entire palm seemed to be burning with reddish fire.

“Better! Now let’s practice it until this attack turns into muscle memory!”

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Under the influence of the nine pillar formation, all the energy lost by Heifeng Jiansui, be it battle spirit, bloodline energy or qi, was instantly replenished. The room was quite hardy, being the area where the formation core was stored. So he allowed himself to wildly attack with various divine abilities, battle spirit skills and combat techniques, freely using energy like water.

The nine pillar formation greatly improved mental stability and concentration and made sleep unnecessary. For an entire week, he tried out the techniques that he found in the library, retrofitting them for himself and perfecting them until he had a good set of battle techniques. Finally, he reached perfection in all the techniques that he found worthy and reached increased his comprehensive battling ability!

“Phoenix Dancing, Crimson Frozen Skies!” Heifeng Jiansui’s body seemed to turn into a wisp of icy fire, flickering through the air like a firefly!

“Whiteice Palm, Redfire Palm!” His two palms turned red and white, his fists burning and freezing the air in succession…

“Fiery Fleet Foot!” A fiery yet icy energy built up in his foot, and the air seemed to explode with a single kick!

“Ice-Fire Whip!” Twin whips of ice and fire appeared in his hands, shooting out like snakes!

“Twin Elemental Swords!” The whips transformed into sharp swords, slashing through all without holding back!

“Frostflame Bullets!” A hail of fire and ice bullets shot out!

In accordance to the innate affinities of the Dark Phoenix, he had chosen to train in ice and fire based divine abilities. His bloodline power would be multiplied by these types of elemental affinities!

After consecutively using various bloodline divine abilities, exhaustion filled Heifeng Jiansui, which was quickly repelled by the nine pillar formation. During a week, he had mastered these divine abilities to the point of perfection! The excessive consumption and replenishment of his bloodline power also increased his bloodline power. As for his understanding of combining ice and fire effectively, it had risen as well!

“Now that I have reached this level in ice and fire, it looks like I can finally train in the Ice-Fire Divine Forging Arts!” Unexpectedly, the reason for cultivating his divine abilities was to train in this mysterious forging art!