Reborn as Huo Yuhao, but also in Battle Through the Heavens

Chapter 94 What can this bone stick do?

Chapter 95 What can this bone stick do?

"Can I borrow it to take a look?"

Before the student could finish speaking, Bai Cheng reached out and snatched the Canaan Times. He quickly flipped through a few pages, then pushed open the door and left.

"Hey, you still haven't paid me back—"

The noise from Class 3 of the Xuanjie Rank classroom still seemed to echo in his ears as Bai Cheng returned to his dormitory with a gloomy face. He clutched the Canaan Times in his hand, his knuckles turning slightly white from the force.

Lin Xiuya, Yan Hao, and Han Yue—their silhouettes were somewhat blurry in the newspaper, but Bai Cheng recognized them.

"Boss, what are you spacing out for?" one of the henchmen asked, coming over.

Bai Cheng ignored him, his thoughts still focused on the words "frequent visits to the library," especially the possible rewards they might receive. He slammed the newspaper on the table, his voice filled with suppressed frustration: "Lin Xiuyai and his gang—they got incredibly lucky and won the academy's rewards! I'm afraid I won't even make the top five in this inner court assessment!"

The follower was startled by Bai Cheng's sudden outburst: "Then—what do we do?"

"What to do?" A ruthless glint flashed in Bai Cheng's eyes. He strode to his desk and pulled out a blank scroll. "The Inner Court Examination forbids the use of elixirs. The only way to beat them is through secret techniques!"

He picked up his pen and scribbled furiously on the scroll, his words rapid and urgent: "Send a message home, tell them to spare no expense in finding me a secret technique that can greatly enhance my combat power! The sooner the better!"

"Boss, I have an idea!" The henchman's eyes lit up, and he pointed to the magazine featuring Huo Yuhao and his friends: "Boss, you can ask some people to spread rumors among the classmates that these guys got the rewards by using connections, which will stir up resentment among the other students."

"What's the use of this?" Bai Cheng didn't even look up, still writing furiously.

"There's no guarantee that some hotheads won't cause them trouble." The henchman leaned close to Bai Cheng's desk. "If things go well, we could even isolate them from the entire academy!"

"Boss, think about it. With all this commotion, how will they have time to cultivate seriously? Even if they have Earth-rank cultivation techniques and fighting skills, they probably won't achieve anything significant!"

"Hmm—" Bai Cheng stopped writing and placed the pen steadily on the table: "Okay, I'll leave this to you."

"Huh! Me?" The henchman stared blankly, his mouth agape, pointing his index finger at his own nose.

In a secluded clearing on the back hill, sunlight filters through the leaves, casting dappled patterns of light.

Huo Yuhao sat cross-legged, surrounded by several thick animal bones with primitive patterns, and a piece of ore that emitted a faint earthy yellow glow and felt warm to the touch. Yan Hao, Han Yue, and Little Fairy Doctor stood around him, watching curiously.

Yan Hao squatted down and poked a piece of animal bone about the thickness of a thigh bone with his finger, producing a dull thud. He grinned and said, "Old Huo, you really know how to forge weapons? You're not kidding us, are you? What can you do with this bone stick?"

Han Yue frowned slightly, her cool eyes filled with confusion: "Yuhao, the weapon forging I know mostly involves hammering and refining fine steel a thousand times, then embedding a suitable magic core. Yours—seems a little different?"

Looking at the rough bones and ore, she simply couldn't associate them with "weapons".

"Indeed different." Huo Yuhao picked up a leg bone shaped like a hammer handle, a faint icy blue light emanating from his fingertips, and began carefully polishing the edges and burrs at the joints. "What I'm forging is a spiritual weapon. Like elixirs, it's classified from first to ninth grade. Its core power isn't a magic core, but rather the spiritual energy inherent in the material itself, and the spiritual runes inscribed upon it."

As he spoke, Huo Yuhao's mind stirred, and he took out two spiritual weapons from his storage ring: a longsword about three feet long with a blade that shimmered like water; and a short-handled, earth-yellow warhammer with an ancient design and mysterious patterns engraved on its head. These were the two third-grade spiritual weapons he had previously crafted.

"Give it a try." Huo Yuhao handed the longsword and warhammer to Han Yue and Yan Hao respectively.

Han Yue took the longsword; it felt incredibly light and smooth to the touch. She tried to infuse it with a wisp of battle qi, and the sword hummed and trembled slightly. The surrounding air seemed to instantly become more humid, as water-attribute energy spontaneously gathered, condensing into tiny droplets of dew on the sword.

A hint of surprise flashed in Han Yue's beautiful eyes: "Completely different from a demon core! It can actually draw upon the energy of heaven and earth?"

Yan Hao was even more direct. He gripped his warhammer, let out a low shout, and smashed it violently against a rock about half a person's height! He didn't use any fighting techniques, but simply poured in his fighting spirit, combined with his physical energy.

The moment the hammerhead struck the rock, the patterns on the hammer suddenly lit up with an earthy yellow light!

boom!

With a muffled thud, the rock didn't shatter. Instead, it was as if crushed by an invisible weight, its surface instantly covered with spiderweb-like cracks. Then, the entire rock was flattened by half a foot! Shards of rock tumbled down. Yan Hao felt an energy flow into his arm from the hammer as he swung it, amplifying his power.

"Holy crap!" Yan Hao's eyes widened in disbelief as he stared at the hammer in his hand, then at the rock embedded in the ground. "This—this is awesome! The power has increased by at least 60%!"

Little Fairy Doctor wasn't surprised by their reactions. She casually asked, "By the way, why isn't the class monitor here?"

"It's a pity it's a bit short!" Yan Hao carefully placed the hammer on the ground, afraid of bumping into it. "Old Lin is fulfilling his duties as class monitor, supervising our class's practical training session. He should be done soon and will be here in a bit."

Under Huo Yuhao's intervention, the monster's leg bone was transformed into a straight bone rod; the yellowish-brown ore also revealed its original form, a crystal containing a small amount of earth power.

He picked up the polished leg bone and crystal. Huo Yuhao's expression was focused as he covered them with both hands.

"Animal bones and crystals possess inherent spirituality, so there's no need to worry about imbuing them with spirit. However, unlike metal materials, the difficulty lies in shaping and connecting them." Huo Yuhao began his mini-lesson again.

As soon as he finished speaking, Huo Yuhao took a deep breath and joined the two materials together, forming a hammer shape. Then, he simultaneously channeled his battle qi into the hammer. Under Huo Yuhao's control, the spirituality and energy contained in the animal bone and ore were guided by his battle qi, intertwining and fusing at the junction of the two materials.

At the same time, the Nine-Fold Ice Flame emerged from Huo Yuhao's body, emitting a clear phoenix cry. It spat out a ball of flame, evenly enveloping the junction of the two materials.

"You're planning to melt them down before connecting them?" Yan Hao felt he had discovered a problem. "Will that be sturdy? Is it reliable?"

"That's not the case." Huo Yuhao smiled slightly, handling the matter with ease, and even had time to explain to Yan Hao and the others: "I thought about it for a long time yesterday. It can't be welded like metal, or made into an alloy."

So how exactly do you connect different materials?