novelraw Chapter 88: Alchemy Successful, Formless Flame Clone, Chen Bo's First Slice Born.
Chapter 88: Alchemy Successful, Formless Flame Clone, Chen Bo's First Slice Born.
Chapter 88: Alchemy Successful, Formless Flame Clone, Chen Bo's First Slice Born.
The solid chains formed from lightning, each as thick as a child's arm, intertwined and trapped the core of the Formless Flame in place.
"Hey——!"
The elemental life form let out a silent shriek, and powerful fire elemental energy spread out layer by layer, blasting all three of them away.
However, all three were protected by armor and were unharmed.
However, the core pierced by the lightning lock continued to pulsate, waves of scorching elemental energy crashing against the cage, attempting to break free.
If the Flame of No Form were still at its peak, it might not have been able to contain him.
However, the Flame of No Form had already been severely damaged by the three of them and was on the verge of death.
Under the dual suppression of the lightning net formed by ten floating cannons and the alchemy array, all its resistance was like a stone thrown into a lake, only able to stir up ripples, but unable to tear open the slightest crack.
Chen Bo landed steadily, and the armor emitted a slight sound of pressure release.
He walked to the central hub of the alchemy array, where a circular platform made of complex runes stood. The armor on his hands automatically disintegrated, revealing Chen Bo's hands.
Without the slightest hesitation, Chen Bo placed both hands directly on it, further activating the alchemy array.
"Buzz"
The light from the entire magic circle instantly intensified several times, and the golden patterns on the ground seemed to come alive, beginning to circulate like flowing magma.
The dragonfly wings on Chen Bo's back detached automatically and drifted slowly toward the imprisoned Formless Flame.
Using its own wings as another part of the alchemical material.
"Living metal".
He fused the "life characteristics" of the pure elemental life form, the Fire of the Impermanence, with his mechanical wings.
To create new wings with self-repairing, transformation, and living properties.
This was a wildly imaginative idea from a predecessor at the Order of the Instruction, and Chen Bo is now about to turn this idea into reality.
Farusan crossed her arms and squinted as she observed the entire process.
Is it really possible to do that?
Living metal, the formless fire of alchemy.
However, just as the tip of the mechanical wings touched the surface of the core of the Impermanent Flame, an unexpected event still occurred.
"Sizzle!"
Like a red-hot iron plunged into icy water, a piercing explosion echoed through the valley. The core of the Formless Flame displayed an unprecedented will to resist.
It would rather die than comply with Chen Bo's arrangements.
The crimson core changed color from red to blinding incandescence in a mere second.
Chen Bo immediately increased the output power of all the floating cannons, but it was to no avail.
The golden runes flowing on the ground of the alchemy array began to disintegrate.
The ten floating cannons surrounding the perimeter simultaneously issued overload alarms.
Red pop-up windows kept appearing in front of Chen Bo.
[The floating weapons are operating at overpowered limits and are nearing their design limits —]
[WARNING! Target energy reaction is increasing exponentially! Imminent self-destruction!]
[WARNING! High-risk energy leak detected! Immediate evacuation recommended!]
On Chen Bo's faceplate, red warning boxes projected by the Void Terminal were flashing wildly.
All our efforts were in vain!
The Flame of No Form refused to submit and chose self-destruction.
"Oh no!" Farusan shouted, "Get out of here! Get out of here! It's going to self-destruct!"
"Retreat immediately!"
Chen Bo let out a low roar and made a decisive move, relinquishing control of the magic array.
While controlling all the floating cannons to block in front of him, he was also quickly creating distance.
next second.
A massive, all-consuming white light erupted from the center of the alchemy array.
A terrifying shockwave, powerful enough to overturn the earth, shattered rocks several meters high into dust.
Under normal circumstances, the Flame of No Form would not self-destruct like this, because even if it is temporarily extinguished, it has the potential to reignite quickly.
After the explosion, the scene was a complete mess.
The alchemy array that Chen Bo had prepared had completely disappeared, replaced by a charred crater with a diameter of over a thousand meters, and wisps of smoke were still rising from the bottom of the crater.
The ten specially made floating cannons and dragonfly wings were all destroyed, turning into pieces of molten metal.
The skill "Heavenly Prison Thunder Tribulation - Ten Directions Binding God Chains" can only be fully refreshed when returning to Sumeru.
The three retreated quickly and were not injured.
Chen Bo patted the still-burning sparks on the armor and walked to the bottom of the pit.
The bottom of the pit was covered with translucent, warm red crystals, some as big as a fist and some as small as a fingernail.
That was the "corpse" of the Formless Fire after it shattered—"Burning Wish Agate".
"It failed—"
Chen Bo picked up the largest piece of agate, feeling the pure fire element energy contained within it, and sighed.
It seems that a purely forced integration is not feasible.
The will of elemental life will not allow itself to be refined and devoured.
Perhaps, it's just that I'm not strong enough to suppress this will.
"It's okay to fail, don't be discouraged." Farusan patted Chen Bo on the shoulder and comforted him, "We can try new directions."
Cole comforted her, saying, "Anil—well, it's normal for experiments to fail. Master Tinari often failed when developing new drugs too."
"I'm fine." Chen Bo shrugged and tossed the agate in his hand. "As a scholar, if you can't even accept failure, you're too fragile."
"Speaking of which, we still don't know what the effects of fusing the Flame of No Form with alchemy will be. This time, the experiment ended before the fusion even began."
As a scholar, he could certainly accept failure. But watching helplessly as the alchemical materials he had spent money to buy and his own floating cannons were rendered useless was unbearable.
I still feel sorry for her.
Although the capture plan failed and the desired living metal was not obtained.
But the materials scattered all over the ground are worth a lot of Mora.
"Since this attempt failed, I can only settle for second best and use the Burning Wish Agate for fusion alchemy."
"I hope to upgrade my armor's heat resistance and fire resistance to another level."
Since we're already here, let's take advantage of this special environment to further refine our gold.
"Senior, Cora, do me a favor, we need to recreate an alchemy array!"
Although somewhat puzzled, seeing Chen Bo's renewed fighting spirit, the two immediately took action.
Fortunately, Chen Bo had made a backup of the materials he bought, so remaking the alchemy array shouldn't be a problem.
Let's use the Burning Wish Agate Refined Gold.
However, it's still necessary to purify it before alchemy.
Chen Bo reached out and pressed his hand on the breastplate.
"Click".
The outer armor fell off, revealing the earth vein centrifuge on the chest.
Chen Bo removed the grass and lightning element crystals that served as energy sources, and then placed the newly discovered Burning Wish Agate and the Burning Wish Agate he had purchased from Dolly on top of them.
Begin concentration and purification.
"Buzz"
The power of the burning agate is constantly being drained away.
Visibly, the hard red crystal was gradually pulverized and decomposed into primordial fire element particles under the combined effects of ultra-high-speed rotation and elemental force. These particles were bound to the center of the small instrument by immense pressure, unable to escape, and forced to continuously compress and recombine—
Impurities are separated, and core strength is compressed.
As time went on, the red light at the center of the instrument grew brighter and purer.
Suddenly, at the center of that high-pressure elemental dust, a tiny, almost invisible flame quietly ignited.
The flame of non-form reignited in Chen Bo's chest.
It's like a newborn baby, innocent, fragile, and sparkling with curiosity.
It greedily absorbed the shattered fire elemental energy around it, growing rapidly at a visible speed.
One second, two seconds —
In just a few breaths, a miniature formless flame, only the size of a fist, entirely crimson, yet with a core as pure as crystal, quietly floated in front of Chen Bo's chest.
"The Rebirth of the Formless—" Farusan was completely stunned. This knowledgeable senior scholar was also shocked: "This is the newborn Flame of the Formless. You have reversed the creation of the Elements of the Formless."
This newly formed flame of the formless has not yet given birth to a new will.
Chen Bo was overjoyed when he realized this.
The previous failure was precisely because the will of the adult formless fire was too strong, and it would rather die than submit.
He acted decisively and carefully transferred the newly formed Formless Flame to the center of the alchemy array.
Without hesitation, he cut open his wrist and dripped his bright red blood into the runes at the core of the magic circle.
"With my blood as the medium, with my will as the guide, all things can be forged!"
As the incantation was recited, the entire alchemy array shone brightly.
Chen Bo felt a powerful suction force coming from the magic array, drawing his spiritual power and blood out of his body and merging them into the light of the magic array.
A brief wave of dizziness washed over him, but Chen Bo forced himself to stay calm.
He then controlled his spare "Wandering Gathering" wings and entered the center of the magic circle.
The newly born formless fire (element), mechanical wings (matter), Chen Bo's blood and spirit (will).
The trinity, the fusion begins!
In that white light, the hard mechanical wings did not melt into molten iron as expected, but instead strangely transformed into...
Like mercury, it has a semi-solid, semi-liquid fluid texture.
The newly born Aspect of Fire seemed to have found its home, and joyfully rushed towards it, completely merging into the liquid metal.
The crimson lines, like the blood vessels of a living creature, quickly spread across the silvery-white metal surface, giving the wings true "life"!
As the light faded, a pair of metallic wings, flowing with crimson patterns resembling magma, floated silently in mid-air.
It was no longer a mechanical creation; the metal on the wing surface seemed to undulate slightly, as if it were breathing.
Farusian was speechless.
Anil succeeded.
My student succeeded.
By refining living flames of the formless into living metals.
Chen Bo slowly walked forward.
As if sensing its master's call, the pair of crimson wings emitted a light hum and instantly adhered to the back of his mecha.
When the alchemy ended, Chen Bo felt that the wings were like his own limbs, moving as easily as his own arms and legs.
"Buzz!"
With a thought, he gently flapped his wings, and without igniting the thrusters on his back, he floated lightly into the air.
Chen Bo circled wildly in the air, performing one incredible maneuver after another.
This feeling is like a fish returning to the water, a bird possessing the sky—a freedom and joy that originates from instinct.
However, Chen Bo did not test the speed limit because the sonic boom that breaks the sound barrier is too loud and travels too far.
This is Inazuma, after all, not the rainforest of Mount Sumeru.
After completing the flight test, Chen Bo returned to the ground and began to ponder the idea again.
The crimson wings on his back instantly liquefied, covering his entire body like a tidal wave, forming an additional streamlined crimson outer armor over his main armor. A scorching and powerful aura enveloped him.
The armor's affinity and resistance to fire have been significantly improved.
Then, something even more astonishing happened.
The liquid metal armor flowed down his body, pooling on the ground, then slowly wriggled and deformed.
They stood up—and eventually, they coalesced into a "person" exactly like Chen Bo.
A clone of Chen Bo made of flowing crimson metal.
The newly formed Formless Flame had not yet developed its own will, but Chen Bo's will replaced the will of the Formless Flame. Chen Bo's consciousness was the consciousness of this Formless Flame.
This mass of metal is Chen Bo's clone, or rather, a slice of Chen Bo.
Although it merged with metal, the formless form gained shape.
But it also becomes more resilient and has higher physical resistance.
"What, what is this—" Farusan stared blankly at the two "Anil" in front of her, and for a moment she didn't know which word to use to describe them.
The metallic Chen Bo touched his head and spoke: "Senior, my consciousness has become the consciousness of this metal, so this alchemical artifact can be regarded as my clone."
"It's really not something I'm used to doing two things at once."
On Chen Bo's panel, Nasita's image popped up: "Congratulations, Chen Bo. You have touched the essence of life. You are now human, and also the Formless Flame."
"You succeeded; you accomplished a feat that no one before you could."
As the goddess of wisdom, Nasita's wisdom also has boundaries, which are the knowledge that the void has already mastered. Chen Bo can be said to have done something beyond the boundaries of her wisdom.
A guess has become a reality.
Although the Void Terminal cannot be connected to Inazuma, the Moon One doll left in Sumeru has a long-range communication module, and Chen Bo's armor also has a long-range communication module.
Therefore, Nasita never went offline and was able to obtain information synchronously through Chen Bo's armor.
Chen Bo waved to his metal clone, and the clone waved back, finding it novel and interesting.
However, this newly formed Aspect of Flame is somewhat weak, and its movement also requires energy.
Leaving this ley line rich in fire element means your power will diminish with every use.
This is why most formless elements stay in one place and don't move.
Chen Bo controlled the metal clone to transform back into the form of Crimson Flame Wings, and then made it turn into a metal "cocoon" and leave it at the refresh point of the Formless Flame.
The geological environment here is unique; as long as this clone stays here, its power will continue to increase.
Chen Bo turned to Farusan and Cole with satisfaction and said, "Business is done, and the divine gear is in hand. Now it's pure enjoyment time! Target: Inazuma Festival!"
"As for this clone, it's fine to leave it here. The newly formed Formless Flame is still too weak. The earth vein environment here is special. Here, my clone will become stronger and stronger."