"Since that makes sense, then hurry up and design it."
"Design? Design what?"
"Armor and weapons, oh right, not just them, design a set for me too."
"Why me?"
“Because you are the Mirror God,” Xiao Wenbing said naturally.
The Mirror God stared at him blankly for a long time before finally sighing, "Alright, I'll help you this time."
Xiao Wenbing was quite confident in the Mirror God's abilities. In terms of raw power, the Mirror God was indeed inferior to the Treasure God, but in terms of vast knowledge, at least in this realm, no one could surpass it. Although Xiao Wenbing very much wanted to try everything himself, given the current situation, it was indeed impossible. As the saying goes, expediency is the best policy, so he had no choice but to entrust the task to the Mirror God.
The Mirror God's abilities were indeed outstanding; he had finished everything in the time it takes to eat a meal.
The speed of the process prompted Xiao Wenbing to offer a few words of praise, and even brought a blush of pride to the almost translucent face of the Mirror God.
“Look, this is a combination armor set, which can be worn by the five little guys or by you.”
"Combination...armor!"
"That's right. This is what I made based on the original shape of the Qiankun Ring. The whole set of armor is divided into five smaller sets, which can be combined and disassembled at will. Let's use the power of the five elements to refine these five smaller sets of armor."
"The power of the five elements, one piece per set?"
“Not bad.” The Mirror God said, then shrank into a formless shape, wriggled for a moment, and transformed into a suit of armor radiating a chilling, menacing light. A strange voice came from within the armor: “This is the gold-type armor among them…”
Subsequently, under the deliberate manipulation of the Mirror God, it transformed into the other four types of armor. In the end, all the light orbs merged into one, becoming a high-level armor wrapped in five-colored light.
“When the five pieces of armor are combined into one, they can form the power of the five elements in a cycle. What do you think? My idea is pretty good, isn’t it?” Mirror God said with no small amount of pride.
"Indeed excellent," Xiao Wenbing exclaimed with a sigh.
“However…” Mirror God’s expression suddenly darkened.
"What's wrong!"
"It's a pity there's no time," Mirror God sighed, shaking his head. "To forge these armors, it's not something that can be done in just a few days. It would take over a hundred years of effort, and even the materials wouldn't be enough to collect them. Besides, even if the materials were all gathered, starting the furnace and forging them wouldn't be a quick process."
"Materials?" Xiao Wenbing sneered disdainfully, "With me here, do we need materials? Do we need to start a furnace to refine them?"
“Hmm!” Jing Daqi asked, “Without materials, without opening the furnace to refine, you…” Its voice suddenly stopped, and it looked at Xiao Wenbing with a knowing look.
Xiao Wenbing nodded at the words and said with a smile, "That's right, I want to create them out of thin air."
Volume 4, The Artifacts Chapter 266: Five-Element Armor (Part 2)
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The Mirror God frowned deeply. After listening to Xiao Wenbing's words, it hesitated for a moment before saying, "I'm afraid that's not appropriate."
"Don't you have confidence in me?" Xiao Wenbing chuckled.
“Exactly.” The Mirror God nodded, and said solemnly, “The energy required to create these treasures is enormous, definitely beyond your capacity to withstand.” After a moment of contemplation, it said again with certainty, “Absolutely not.”
Xiao Wenbing was immediately speechless with anger. He never expected that the Mirror God would distrust him so much. He shook his head slightly and said helplessly, "Of course I can't, but there is someone who can."
"Who?" Mirror God was greatly surprised. Could it be that there was a second master in this world who had mastered the power of the creator god?
Xiao Wenbing smiled slightly and said, "My precious god."
"What? The Treasure God?" The Mirror God roared, as if he had heard the funniest thing in the world, and burst into laughter: "You want the Treasure God to create things out of thin air? Haha... I'm dying of laughter." After a long while, the old artifact finally caught its breath and said, "Give up, it's absolutely possible. The Treasure God's divine power might be enough, but his divine power level is too low, too... low...!"
The Mirror God's voice grew softer and softer, for when it looked up it saw Xiao Wenbing's calm, smiling face, a smile that carried an undeniable firmness. Clearly, his resolve had not wavered because of the Mirror God's denial.
A sudden thought struck him, and the Mirror God exclaimed, "I understand! You wouldn't be thinking of borrowing his divine power, would you?"
“Not bad.” A smile finally appeared on Xiao Wenbing’s lips. This Mirror God had finally figured it out; he wasn’t completely stupid after all: “The master-servant contract between me and the Treasure God wasn’t signed for nothing…”
A strange and peculiar expression crossed the Mirror God's face. Since ancient times, the so-called master-servant contract has always been that the master orders the servant to do this or that, and if the master is happy, he will give the servant a little treat; if he is unhappy, he will make the servant disappear forever.
It could be said that the servant's life was completely in the master's hands, just like the relationship between Butterfly Fairy and Xiao Wenbing. That was the proper master-servant relationship.
But the relationship between Baby God and Xiao Wenbing is definitely a special case.
Since the contract was signed, all that's been seen is Xiao Wenbing constantly extorting money from it, and borrowing divine power is commonplace for him. Such a master and servant pair is truly unbelievable...
“But…” Mirror God frowned again and asked, “Can the borrowed divine power be transformed into your false god?”
“Yes.” Xiao Wenbing said decisively, “I tried it on Zhenmo Star. Within my body, this ability has the special function of fusing everything and converting divine power. However, this conversion is different from that of the Spirit Gathering Platform. It seems to be able to only be carried out between divine powers.”
"Oh, so you're converting one kind of divine power into another?"
"That's right, that's why I was lucky enough to survive the battle on Zhenmo Star."
"Good. Since we can freely transform, what can't we do?" The Mirror God's eyes also shone brightly. Just thinking about being able to create things at will in the future made it extremely happy.
Unbelievable! Unbelievable… After the master-servant duo, Baby God and Xiao Wenbing, joined forces, they actually became equivalent to a creator god. Well, no, even if they joined forces, they were still nothing before the great creator god, not even as good as a mere avatar of the creator god.
Xiao Wenbing, of course, had no idea what it was thinking. But seeing the light in its eyes, he immediately understood that it was already tempted. So he smiled and said, "Hurry up and conjure it up. After I scan it, I'll borrow its divine power from the Treasure God."
The Mirror God responded, its body wriggling, and the golden armor emerged first.
Xiao Wenbing sat cross-legged, channeled his spiritual energy, and carefully scanned...
After a moment, his brows furrowed slightly, and finally, Xiao Wenbing finished his practice and stood up.
"Is it ready? Hurry up and find the treasure god." The Mirror God said impatiently.
"No," Xiao Wenbing said expressionlessly.
"No, if there's nothing there, why are you up?"
"I can't scan it."
"What?"
Xiao Wenbing looked at it calmly and said indifferently, "I cannot scan the armor you simulated."
Why?
What materials did you use for the land?
“Hmm, this…” Mirror God suddenly realized where the mistake lay.
Although Xiao Wenbing's supernatural abilities are infinitely mysterious, he cannot replicate things that transcend this realm. If an item contains the power of immortals or gods, then Xiao Wenbing is powerless to change it.
"Sigh... You can even convert divine power, so why is the scan still not working?"
"As for that question, perhaps one person can answer it for you."
"who?"
"Your previous owner."
The Mirror God was taken aback and glared at him fiercely. If it could see its former master now, would it still need to wander in this realm?
"What kind of material did you use? From the celestial realm?"
"The Immortal Realm, we should be able to find some information there," the Mirror God said uncertainly.
Xiao Wenbing immediately understood that the Mirror God had fallen back into its old habit. Its standards were simply too high, so it had to strive for perfection in everything it did.
The materials used to craft the five armors it mentioned are probably absolutely unavailable in the cultivation world. Even in the immortal realm, it's likely that only a blind cat dragging a dead mouse, or a stroke of pure luck, could find one or two of them.
To bring something like this to Xiao Wenbing for scanning... isn't this just deliberately making him look bad?
Or rather, even if Xiao Wenbing could replicate it, it's unknown whether that precious god, who hasn't yet been to the God Realm and whose divine power hasn't reached the Great Perfection stage, would have enough energy for him to squander.
"Alright." Xiao Wenbing smiled at the somewhat dejected Mirror God. "Then I'll trouble you to design another one. However, this time, please make sure it's... realistic..."
The Mirror God nodded helplessly and had no choice but to lower his head again to consider it carefully.
It was utterly impossible to achieve the perfect armor effect he envisioned using materials from the cultivation world. Therefore, it had no choice but to settle for second best and design a substitute for Xiao Wenbing that was vastly inferior in both quality and power.
However, this substitute was nothing in the eyes of the Mirror God, but in Xiao Wenbing's eyes, it was a priceless treasure.
The exquisite and reasonable design, the ingenious function, and the powerful effect all made Xiao Wenbing extremely satisfied.
After scanning five suits of armor in succession, Xiao Wenbing's consciousness entered the Heavenly Void Ring.
As his thoughts passed, the clouds in the sky descended one after another. These magical treasures, whose original form was condensed water from the immortal realm, continuously merged before him. As his thoughts turned, a pale white golden armor gradually formed in the air.
“No, here, here, here, and here…” Mirror God followed up and pointed out several flaws in the simulated product.
Xiao Wenbing calmly and humbly accepted the Mirror God's criticism.
Although the Mirror God can simulate some raw materials using the energy in the mirror, it is somewhat difficult to expect the Mirror God to perfectly simulate the five-element armor. After all, the Mirror God is not the creator god, so being able to simulate a rough prototype is already its maximum limit.
After scanning the rough draft, Xiao Wenbing went to the Heavenly Void Ring to collect the white celestial condensed water and began further refinement work.
The actual operation was obviously not an easy task, so by the time Xiao Wenbing had fully mastered the changes in these five pieces of armor, a whole day had passed.
The first thing Xiao Wenbing did after emerging from the Heavenly Void Ring was to summon the Treasure God.
The precious god naturally knew that Xiao Wenbing's visit was definitely not for anything good, but ignoring it was absolutely impossible. In order to be able to go to the God Realm in the future, it had even given up its divine dignity.
Besides, hadn't we already given enough before? So, after learning the reason for the matter, Baby God agreed without hesitation.
However, none of them expected that in order to create these five armors designed by the Mirror God, the Baby God really did expend nearly 30% of his divine power.
Therefore, while Xiao Wenbing was looking at the five small sets of five-elemental armor in his hand with a happy expression, Baby God had already sprawled on the ground without any regard for his image.
No matter how powerful it is, it would feel extremely painful if 30% of its power were taken away at once.
Upon learning that Xiao Wenbing had successfully completed his mission, the precious god immediately made a hasty retreat and fled.
It should be noted that these were only five pieces of armor, yet they had already consumed thirty percent of its divine power. If Xiao Wenbing were to suddenly have another whim and start forging weapons or magical artifacts, then its old life would truly be over.
Watching the precious god depart, Xiao Wenbing shook his head inwardly. Compared to the precise control of a god, which was like that of a supercomputer, he was far inferior.
During the manufacturing process, he wasted at least half of the energy.
Of course, he didn't do it on purpose; it's just that no matter how careful he was, he still couldn't control the energy in his hands at will.
Without the comparison of divine status, he might not have noticed, but after possessing divine status, the difference between the two became obvious.