Super Gene Ⅱ: Evolution

This Celestial was unlike the Celestials in Lin Shen's impression, who thought of Celestials as synonyms for the grace and elegance of someone like Tian Xun.

At worst, they were the refined but decadent type like Tian Xin, good-looking regardless of their character, with hardly any robust and bulky specimens among them.

Yet, this Celestial seemed to have deliberately taken the opposite path, with bulging muscles and reddish skin, his facial features harsh, his square face exuding dominance, but totally devoid of classical handsomeness or elegance.

His white hair was carelessly tied on top of his head, giving him an extravagantly wild look.

At this moment, he was holding the handle with one hand and the blade with the other, forcefully snapping the red sword in half and tossing it into the melting furnace as if throwing kindling into a fire.

All around him on the floor and walls were various swords, each differing in style, but all bearing red blades.

Upon closer inspection, it became evident that the swords' color wasn't purely red; instead, they had red patterns.

On some swords, the red patterns were sparse, making the blades appear less red.

Others were dense with red patterns, looking very red as if the entire blade was drenched in crimson.

The white-haired, brawny Angel randomly picked up another sword, broke it, and tossed it into the furnace.

In short order, he had snapped several swords and flung them into the forge as if they were mere firewood.

Full of confusion, Lin Shen wondered how a Celestial could be forging swords in the lair of Vajra Bulls. How was he even surviving here?

While pondering, he suddenly heard the sound of a cart being dragged below. Soon after, a cart filled with materials that had been processed by the red Vajra Bulls entered the cave through the passage below and stopped in front of the Celestial.

The white-haired Celestial casually took the materials from the cart and tossed them into a corner, where a pile of metal supplies, seemingly worked on by the red Vajra Bulls, had already accumulated.

"My God, those Vajra Bulls are actually working for him! Who exactly is this guy?" Lin Shen's forehead was plastered with question marks.

After the materials were taken, the Golden Bull pulling the cart departed from the cave. The white-haired Celestial grabbed a pair of large tongs and pulled out a glowing golden-red metal block from the furnace, placing it on the anvil before taking a hammer and starting to pound the metal forcefully.

Before long, the metal block took on the shape of a sword blank under his hammering.

The white-haired Celestial tossed the sword blank into a nearby pool, causing a burst of white steam that instantly filled the cave.

"Trash... all trash..." As the steam cleared, Lin Shen saw the white-haired Celestial examining the sword blank. Seemingly infuriated for some reason, he cursed aloud, then broke the blank in half and tossed it back into the furnace.

"Why is this happening... The method for refining Blood Patterned Gold Essence is correct... The folding technique used in forging is also flawless... The quenching followed the ancient method... Why can't I forge a true Ten Directions Ghost God Slaying Blade...

Where did I go wrong..." The white-haired Celestial sat dejectedly on a metal block, clutching his hair and muttering to himself like a madman.

Talking to himself until he approached madness, the white-haired Celestial casually grabbed a knife next to him and wildly chopped at the metal materials nearby, venting the frustration in his heart.

Lin Shen didn't know how hard those materials forged by the red Vajra Bull were, but he had a few pieces of unforged metal shards on him. The hardness of those metal shards was such that even the Light Sword form combined with the Inheritance Fan could only leave marks on them, and it would take a great deal of effort to cut through them.

The strength of these materials, having been forged by the red Vajra Bull, must have been significantly increased, but it was unknown just how tenacious they were.

Yet under the swings of the red knife in the white-haired Celestial's hand, those metal materials were like tofu, being directly sliced into pieces with smooth, even cuts.

"What an amazing knife!" Lin Shen watched open-mouthed, the destructive power of that knife probably meant that even the Tenth Turn Life Base would have a hard time contending with it, it might even be easily sliced through.

Such an amazing knife, however, seemed like worthless trash in the eyes of the white-haired Celestial. After chopping a few times and venting most of his frustration, he snapped the knife in his hand and threw it into the furnace.

Lin Shen watched with some heartache, such a good knife just destroyed like that. If it were sold, it would definitely fetch a sky-high price, probably not far off from the value of the Archangel's Sword.

The Archangel's Sword, although powerful, was unlikely to cut through a Tenth Turn Life Base easily.

"All those knives in the stone cave, they can't all be like this, right? If they're all like this, how much would these knives be worth? If I could take these knives and sell them, the money the Celestial Master Institute owes should be able to be paid off, right?" Lin Shen estimated the value of those knives in his mind.

Of course, that was just a thought. Not to say that the knives weren't his to take, it was impossible for him to even think of taking them away.

Even if these knives were his, he would not use his personal wealth to cover the deficit at the Celestial Master Institute, unless he had gone mad.

With such a vast fortune, what need was there to be the Dean of the Celestial Master Institute? Just selling the knives for resources would probably be more than enough to reach the pinnacle of Nirvana, maybe even challenging higher levels.

"Listening to the white-haired Celestial, these knives should all be rejects. If the rejects are already this powerful, how amazing would the real thing be if he really succeeded in forging one? Right... what did he say the name of the knife he was trying to forge was?"

"I remember now, it seemed to be called something like Ten Directions Ghost God Slaying Blade. With such a strange name, what kind of knife could it be? And I don't even know how you would tell if it's successfully forged..." Lin Shen pondered to himself.

The white-haired Celestial opened a lid at the bottom of the furnace, and the metal that had been melted into liquid flowed out of a square hole and into a stone trough beneath it, gradually cooling into a flat, rectangular metal block.

Repeating the same process, the Celestial soon filled more than a dozen stone troughs with metal liquid, and the blocks of metal took shape as they cooled down.

After removing the metal blocks, he surprisingly selected ten of them, stacked and pressed them together, and put them into the heating port of the furnace for forging.

The metal was forged to a golden-red color, then taken out to be hammered on the workbench. He hammered the ten blocks into a long rectangle, cut them into ten pieces again, stacked and pressed them together once more, heated them up in the heating port, and then took them out for more hammering.

Lin Shen watched as the blood patterns on the metal became heavier and denser until almost the entire block of metal turned a blood-red color.

Only then did the white-haired Celestial reheat it and start forging it into a knife billet.