All Heavens: Dual Cultivation of Magic and Martial Arts Starting from the Republic of China

Chapter 63 Top-Grade Refining Materials (Second Update)

After Fu Ze finished speaking, Li Junfeng and Zhao Rui's gazes both fell on the dark red metal fragment.

During the battle just now, this thing was embedded in the deformed head of the Hedgehog God, emitting that strange sound that shook one's soul, and it could also protect the god's vitals.

If Fu Ze hadn't used Li Junfeng's life essence to revive him and then forcibly severed the connection between the Hedgehog Evil God with the lightning-struck jujube wood dagger, the outcome of this battle would have been very uncertain.

Zhao Rui swallowed hard.

"Brother Fu, will this thing still harm people now?"

Li Junfeng remained silent.

His face was pale and his breath was weak, but he still managed to look at Fu Ze.

Clearly, both of them were waiting for Fu Ze to make a decision.

After all, it was Fu Ze who ultimately killed the evil god. Fu Ze also learned about the origin and danger of this thing from the so-called "fragment of divine thought".

Fu Ze did not answer immediately. He took a few steps forward and got closer.

The dark red metal fragment lay quietly in the scorched soil, its surface no longer possessing the eerie, blood-red glow it had just displayed, looking like a lump of iron that had cooled down.

But Fu Ze still dared not be careless.

joke!

The Hedgehog Earth God, a righteous deity who had been guarding the land for centuries, was corrupted into an evil god by this thing.

Who knows if touching it might cause a problem?

Just as Fu Ze was hesitating, the Heavenly Decree in his chest began to heat up slightly.

A purple halo flashed before my eyes.

Several lines of ancient characters appeared.

Extraterrestrial iron detected.

This object was originally ordinary meteorite iron from outer space, but it came into contact with a drop of blood from an unknown deity in deep space, giving it an evil and unpredictable nature. After falling to this world, it corrupted the earth's veins and the incense offerings to the gods.

[Its madness and evil had been exhausted through years of pollution, erosion, and assimilation.]

[Current Status: Accessible.]

[Can be used as a top-grade refining material.]

[It can be decomposed or preserved.]

Fu Ze's eyelids twitched.

In deep space?

An unknown alien god?

A drop of blood?

A storm raged within him.

"Good heavens! Just a drop of blood on a piece of meteorite, and it's caused so much trouble after it fell?"

This is outrageous!

Hewan Village, Shuangjing Village, Huaishu Village, Liugou Village, Baitian Village, and Shiqiao Village—six villages—experienced a series of tragedies over several years, including infant sacrifices, the corruption of the local earth god, and the contamination of the land's veins.

The root cause was actually just a drop of blood from some unknown being in outer space.

How powerful must the true form of the alien god be?

Fu Ze only thought about it for a moment before feeling a chill run down his spine.

Fortunately, the [Decree of All Heavens] has clearly indicated that there is currently no problem with this extraterrestrial iron.

The madness and evil of that drop of blood should have been gradually consumed as the process of polluting the hedgehog-shaped earth god, creating filthy soil, and expanding the divine realm unfolded.

What remains is only a very special refining material.

Fu Ze took a deep breath and reached out to pick up the dark red metal.

It's quite heavy.

It's only half the size of a head, yet it's much heavier than an ordinary block of iron. Its density is probably more than ten times greater! The surface is cool, with a rough texture that's a mixture of stone and metal.

Zhao Rui immediately tensed up.

"Are you alright?"

Fu Ze shook his head.

"It should be alright now. That evil power inside has been exhausted."

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Zhao Rui was still a little worried.

Are you sure?

Fu Ze glanced at him.

"If I'm not sure, would I just touch it with my hand?"

Zhao Rui thought for a moment.

"That's true. Although you're reckless when you fight, I feel like you actually value your life a lot."

Fu Ze ignored him.

Li Junfeng looked at the dark red iron and said in a low voice.

"Since there are no problems, let's take it back first. Mr. Liao and Daoist Feng Xuan are still waiting for news."

Fu Ze nodded.

That was what he originally thought too.

As for who this thing belongs to, it's still hard to say right now.

Although he was the one who ultimately killed the evil god and discerned its origin, this battle was not solely his achievement. Li Junfeng burned his life essence, Zhao Rui desperately provided cover, Liao Xibai used his innate divine sense to locate the evil god, and Feng Xuan had also done much beforehand.

Fu Ze couldn't possibly accept it so easily at this point.

The three of them tidied up a bit.

Li Junfeng was the most seriously injured and could barely stand. Fu Ze and Zhao Rui supported him on either side as they headed back towards Shuangjing Village.

Along the way, even the wind in the mountains and forests seemed much gentler.

The cold, sticky, and unsettling feeling I had before is slowly dissipating.

The dark red soil on the ground no longer wriggled like a living thing; only traces of its corruption by evil energy remained.

As Zhao Rui walked, he suddenly turned around and glanced back.

"Brother Fu, are the villages around here really alright now?"

Fu Ze thought for a moment.

"The source is dead. The corrupted earth has lost its source and will certainly not continue to expand. But it will probably take some time for the already polluted ley lines to recover to their original state."

Zhao Rui nodded.

"That's good."

Li Junfeng coughed.

"Let's go back first."

Fu Ze glanced at him and couldn't help but say something.

"Brother Li, you'd better keep quiet right now."

Li Junfeng said calmly.

"I'm not so weak that I can't even speak."

Zhao Rui muttered to himself from the side.

"Your face is as white as a paper doll, and you're still being stubborn. Brother Fu, do you Southern Maoshan practitioners make paper dolls?"

Let's make one that looks just like Brother Li. Haha!

Li Junfeng glared at him.

Zhao Rui immediately shut up.

When the three returned to the village chief's house in Shuangjing Village, Liao Xibai and Feng Xuan were delighted to see them coming back from afar.

But when they saw what the three people looked like, their expressions changed all at once.

Fu Ze was covered in blood, his clothes were tattered, and his face was pale.

Zhao Rui was covered in mud, and his arms, cheeks, and shoulders were covered in small cuts.

The scariest one is Li Junfeng.

He was practically carried back by Fu Ze and Zhao Rui, his mouth and nose still stained with blood, and his breath was incredibly weak.

Liao Xibai quickly came to greet him.

"Supreme Peak!"

His voice was unusually hurried.

Feng Xuan's expression changed drastically. He quickly reached out and pressed on Li Junfeng's pulse point, then looked at Fu Ze.

"Young friend Fu, how did you get injured like this?"

Fu Ze gave a wry smile.

"That thing is harder to kill than we thought."

Liao Xibai helped Li Junfeng up, his brows furrowed.

"Go inside."

Li Junfeng, however, forced himself to continue.

"Sir, the evil god is dead."

Just five words.

The courtyard fell silent for a moment.

Then, the village chiefs of Hewan Village and Shuangjing Village stared wide-eyed, as if they couldn't believe it.

"Dead?"

"Land—no, is that evil god really dead?"

Fu Ze nodded.

"He's dead."

He took out the dark red iron and placed it on the table.

"This thing is the root of everything."

Everyone's gaze immediately fell on the dark red metal fragment.

Feng Xuan glanced at it once, and his expression changed slightly.

"Such a strong, strange aura! But—it seems to have lost its vitality. It's clearly metal, but it feels like it was once alive, and now it's dead."

Fu Ze nodded.

"Yes. The evil power inside that could truly corrupt people has been exhausted."

Then, he began to briefly recount the battle that had just taken place.

From the moment the three of them arrived at the back mountain of the Earth God Temple in Hewan Village, between two crooked trees, they used the Earth-Shaking and Vein-Startling Incantation to disturb the evil god beneath the earth. The evil god's avatar burst forth from the ground, and then the three of them joined forces to shatter the avatar, forcing out its true form—the hedgehog.

Finally, the Hedgehog God, with its spikes, blood-red light, tentacles, and the strange noises of the dark red iron, cornered them.

Li Junfeng proposed the technique of using blood to ignite life.

Fu Ze used the Southern Transmission Maoshan Method to draw upon the life force of its essence and blood, combined with a lightning-struck jujube wood dagger, talisman fire, and blood energy, finally severing the connection between the dark red strange iron and the hedgehog evil god, and killing it.

He didn't go into too much detail about all the memories he had, only saying that he roughly knew the whole story from the remnants of the Hedgehog God's consciousness.

The crowd gasped in surprise.

The two village chiefs, along with the elders and young adults, were particularly affected, their faces alternating between pale and flushed.

White represents lingering fear, while red represents excitement!

It turns out that the one who has killed so many babies and caused so much fear in several villages over the past few years is actually a fallen evil god!

And now, the evil god is finally dead.

Fu Ze concluded.

"The source has been eliminated. From now on, there will be no more so-called land gods asking for babies in dreams, nor will there be any more deliberately created disasters."

Upon hearing this, the village chief of Hewan Village seemed to have all his strength drained away, and he knelt down on the ground with a thud.

Tears streamed down his face.

"Thank you so much, gentlemen, for saving my life!"

The village chief of Shuangjing Village also knelt down.

Upon hearing the news, the other villagers who rushed to the scene also wanted to kneel down.

Liao Xibai quickly had someone help them up, his voice gentle yet firm.

"There's no need for that, everyone. The evil spirits have been exorcised, and there's still much to be done."

As he spoke, he looked at the two village chiefs.

"If any of you still have doubts, you can take a few brave young men to the back mountain of the land temple in Hewan Village. There are traces of the great battle there, as well as the remains of that evil god."

"After you've all seen it with your own eyes, you'll feel more at ease."

The two village chiefs exchanged a glance and nodded quickly.

Liao Xibai continued.

"However, we need to keep quiet here. Junfeng is badly injured, and Brother Fu and Arui also need to rest. You guys leave a few trustworthy young men to help guard outside the courtyard gate and prevent the villagers from flooding in."

That's a polite way of putting it, but the meaning is very clear.

The village chiefs weren't ignorant people; they quickly led their men away, leaving only a few able-bodied men to guard the outside.

Soon, only Liao Xibai, Feng Xuan, Fu Ze, Li Junfeng, and Zhao Rui remained in the room.

The door closed.

Liao Xibai's calm demeanor finally crumbled.

He looked at Fu Ze and Feng Xuan.

"Will Junfeng's injuries heal? Will they affect his future martial arts training?"

The room fell silent for a moment.

Fu Ze looked at Li Junfeng, feeling somewhat ashamed.

If he hadn't used the Blood-Borrowing Life-Burning Technique, Li Junfeng wouldn't be so badly injured. But if he hadn't used it, they might all have died there!

Fu Ze said in a deep voice.

"Based on my understanding of the blood-borrowing life-saving technique, Brother Li's injuries should be able to recover slowly. However, the fact that too much of his essence and life force has been drained may damage his foundation."

"As for whether there is any way to make amends, I can't think of anything for the time being."

At this point, he looked at Li Junfeng.

"Brother Li, it's my turn this time—"

Li Junfeng interrupted him directly.

"Come on."

He leaned back in his chair, his face pale, but his tone remained cold and hard.

"I let you use it myself. Without your blow, we would all be dead."

Fu Ze remained silent.

Li Junfeng continued.

"Besides, I was originally at the late stage of the Transformation Realm. Even without this injury, the highest I could reach was the Perfection of the Transformation Realm. I never even dared to dream of the Core Formation Realm."

Zhao Rui couldn't help but ask.

"Dan Jin? What level is that?"

Li Junfeng said.

"In Chinese martial arts, there are three levels of strength: Ming Jin (manifest strength), An Jin (hidden strength), and Hua Jin (transformative strength). After Hua Jin Grandmaster comes Dan Jin (elixir strength). Holding the Dan (elixir) and sitting on the hips, the Qi and blood are mixed, and the fist intent is concentrated into one, just like the 'Golden Elixir' mentioned by Taoist sorcerers, one can be called a Grandmaster."

"Looking around the world, there aren't many like that."

He paused.

"My uncle, the person in charge of the Li family, is at this level."

Li Junfeng's uncle is the "Grandmaster Li" that Zhou Xie mentioned before, a man of great prestige.

Zhao Rui clicked his tongue in amazement.

"Is your uncle that amazing?"

Li Junfeng said calmly.

"That's when I realized how far I am from it."

Liao Xibai then looked at Feng Xuan.

"What do you think, Taoist priest?"

Feng Xuan sighed.

"In my humble opinion, Mr. Li's life is not in danger, and his injuries can be healed. However, since he used this method of burning blood to borrow life, his fundamental nature is most likely still damaged."

Whether it can be fully made up for in the future depends on the circumstances.

Li Junfeng remained calm.

"It's worth it to be able to cooperate with Brother Fu to kill an evil god."

Liao Xibai looked at him and sighed softly.

"Focus on healing first. We'll figure something out later."

After this was said, the atmosphere in the room eased a little.

Liao Xibai then looked at the dark red iron on the table.

"As for this item, it belongs to Brother Fu."

Fu Ze was taken aback.

"Mr. Liao, isn't this inappropriate? Everyone contributed to this battle."

Liao Xibai shook his head.

"You were the one who finally killed the evil god. You were also the one who judged the danger of this thing. Moreover, since it no longer possesses any evil nature and is a material for refining weapons, among us, only you can use it."

Li Junfeng also said.

"for you."

Zhao Rui nodded immediately.

"Yeah, it's useless to me. What am I supposed to do with it, grind bullets?"

Fu Ze was still somewhat hesitant.

Li Junfeng glanced at him.

"I'll get angry if you don't take it."

Zhao Rui echoed.

"I'm angry too."

Fu Ze looked at the two of them, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.

Liao Xibai smiled.

"Take it. If you can really refine it into a powerful magic weapon in the future, then this thing won't have been wasted."

Fu Ze then nodded.

"Then I'll shamelessly accept it."

The matter has finally come to a temporary end.

Liao Xibai decided that everyone should rest in Shuangjing Village for two days first.

The consumption of energy these past few days has been too great.

Fu Ze was the main force in the battle, but he was exhausted of spiritual energy and covered in injuries.

Feng Xuan had previously performed a ritual to forcibly communicate with the Yellow Thorn Earth God, which had taken a considerable toll on his energy.

Liao Xibai used his innate divine sense to enter He Fengzi's consciousness and then reversed his location to locate the Hedgehog Evil God. His body was already weak, so he could not continue to exert himself.

Needless to say, Li Junfeng needed to rest and recuperate.

Although Zhao Rui still seemed able to crack jokes, he had quite a few minor injuries, and his spirit had been shaken quite a bit by the strange sound of the strange iron.

Everyone needs rest.

When the village chiefs and their men returned from the back mountain of Hewan Village, the entire Shuangjing Village was in an uproar!

They saw the devastation everywhere, the shattered rocks, the towering trees, and the scorched earth. They also saw the remains and spikes left behind by the collapsed Hedgehog God!

The news quickly spread to the surrounding villages.