Chapter 147: The Mineral Essence Takes Shape

  Du Fei's arms had fully transformed into diamond at this time, and he mobilized all his yuanqi to deliver a fierce blow to the ore. However, the recoil force he faced was also unprecedentedly enormous. For the sake of the mineral essence, Du Fei went all out.

  "Ah!" A loud shout, Du Fei leapt into the air, and a wave of energy rippled out around him. Du Fei swung the Heaven-Defying Hammer down with all his might. "Boom..." Just as the hammer struck the ore, a deafening crash echoed through the Tian Zhu Xi, but this time Du Fei wasn't sent flying back like before. Instead, the entire Tian Zhu Xi seemed to freeze in place, even the floating debris in the air remained motionless. Du Fei noticed this strange phenomenon and stood there, hammer still raised, his eyes darting back and forth rapidly as he sensed the bizarre changes around him. Just then, he felt the air begin to move again, returning to normal. Du Fei let out a fierce cry, but his heart suddenly tightened as he felt an enormous counterforce erupt from the ore, sending him flying tens of meters away. He crashed into the stone wall of Tian Zhu Xi with incredible force, but it wasn't enough to knock him unconscious. Instead, he clutched at his head, reeling in agony.

  At this moment, the casting platform began to undergo a strange change. Two loud "cracks" sounded like eggshells breaking, followed by a "whooshing" sound. A small whirlpool suddenly formed around the casting platform, and all the yuanqi inside Tianzhu Canyon rushed towards it with a momentum as fierce as raging waves crashing against the shore. However, this only lasted for a few seconds before calming down. Du Fei also noticed this strange phenomenon and, gritting his teeth in pain, hobbled over to the casting platform to take a look. He glanced at the ore on the platform - a silver-white mineral block about the size of Mo Yao's head was lying there. Just as Du Fei was about to reach out and grab it, the mineral block suddenly shook violently several times, causing Du Fei to jump back and retract his hand. Du Fei swallowed hard and pulled out the Wuzi Tian Shu, stretching it out towards the platform.

  Suddenly, the ore block burst into a pale blue glow, and Du Fei sensed the light, retreating several meters in an instant. Just as Du Fei retreated, the ore block released a massive amount of yuanqi that spread throughout the surroundings of Tian Zhu Brook. Du Fei also clearly felt the concentration of yuanqi in Tian Zhu Brook increase by several times, becoming even more dense than before it was absorbed by the ore block. The interior of Tian Zhu Brook was also illuminated by the blue light emitted by the ore block, making it so bright that Du Fei didn't dare to look directly at it. After a few seconds, Tian Zhu Brook finally returned to its usual calm state.

  "Hey, is it safe to return? This fast mine stone is so strange." Du Fei asked softly towards the Wordless Heavenly Book.

  "You've finally succeeded, you little scamp! You've successfully refined the mineral essence." The Wordless Heavenly Book wrote.

  "What did you say? I've refined the mineral, is it true?" Du Fei stood up excitedly and looked at the casting platform.

  "Really, go and take a look at what this mineral essence is like." The Wordless Heavenly Book wrote.

  "This time there won't be any danger, right? If anything happens, I'll have to take you down." Du Fei glared at Wu Zi Tian Shu.

  "Go ahead, there won't be any backlash." The Wordless Heavenly Book wrote.

  "Alright, I'll trust you one more time." Du Fei said as he hastily ran towards the casting platform.

  Du Fei saw a round ball the size of a human head appear on the casting platform, with a clean and white surface, without any impurities. Du Fei couldn't help but smile at the sight. He quickly stretched out his hand to grab the snowball, but just as he did, the snowball suddenly flashed to one side, dodging Du Fei's grasp. Du Fei was taken aback: "Huh? Can it move on its own?" After saying this, Du Fei reached out again to try and catch it. However, he ended up empty-handed once more, and no matter how many times he tried to grab it, he couldn't catch the snowball. Just as Du Fei was getting frustrated, the snowball suddenly shot up into the air. Du Fei stood up straight, looking at the snowball with a shocked expression: "It can even fly..." As soon as Du Fei finished speaking, the snowball shot towards his face with lightning speed.

  "Ah." Du Fei let out a miserable cry and stumbled backward several steps before regaining his balance. He straightened his head, one hand covering his mouth and nose, glaring fiercely at the snowball floating in mid-air. The snowball also shook left and right, as if it had consciousness. Seeing Du Fei's furious face, he was already angry enough, having been "ambushed" by this mineral several times today. Now, the snowball seemed to be shaking with a smug expression, looking down on him. Du Fei felt like he had been ambushed by this little thing, and after hitting him, it still looked pleased with itself. Du Fei put down his hand covering his face and cursed, "You little scoundrel, see how I'll deal with you today." As soon as he finished speaking, two streams of blood flowed out from Du Fei's nostrils, and his mouth was like two swollen sausages hanging from his lips, looking utterly comical, completely like a clown.

  "And you, you bastard, today I was beaten three times because of you, you can't escape the responsibility." Du Fei picked up the wordless heavenly book and scolded loudly.

  "How unreasonable you are, mind your own business and don't interfere with mine." The Wordless Heavenly Book wrote.

  "Mind your own business, I just asked you if there would be any danger and you said no. Now I've been ambushed, and you say mind your own business." Du Fei stared at the blank book in shock.

  "I didn't know the snowball would take action on its own to hit you, besides I only said that this ore wouldn't have any rebound force left, I had no idea it would proactively hit you." The Wordless Heavenly Book wrote.

  "Never mind, I won't bother you about it now. Just think of a way to help me catch that snowball." Du Fei said as he looked at the snowball not far away and was also thinking of how to catch it.

  "It seems that you kid's luck is really good, I see that the spiritual energy of this piece of ore is quite high. Just now when you wanted to catch it, it even knew how to resist and launched a counterattack on you." The Wordless Heavenly Book wrote.

  "Oh, what's going on? I got beaten up today and still have good luck. Speak clearly." Du Fei said.

  "Of course, getting beaten up is a small matter. As long as you use the mineral essence in front of you to forge equipment, its quality will be extraordinary." The Wordless Heavenly Book wrote.

  "Really, okay then, I'm coming." Du Fei smiled wryly as he gazed at the snowball not far away. At this moment, the snowball seemed to have sensed Du Fei's intentions and began to fly quickly away from him. When Du Fei saw the snowball trying to escape, he immediately reacted and took off after it with a loud whoosh. However, the snowball's speed was no ordinary fast, and Du Fei chased after it for hundreds of meters but couldn't get within three feet of it. Infuriated, Du Fei stopped in his tracks, standing still as he glared at the snowball, panting heavily.

  "Your grandfather's mixed ball, watch how I'll deal with you today." After finishing speaking, Du Fei stuck the Wordless Heavenly Book on his left hand. With the help of the Wordless Heavenly Book, Du Fei was able to fly and quickly rushed towards Snowball. Snowball saw Du Fei flying towards him and also reacted quickly, dodging away in an instant to avoid being caught by Du Fei. Du Fei saw that Snowball had dodged away and immediately turned around to continue chasing after Snowball. One person and one ball were thus pursuing each other in mid-air.

  Although the Wordless Heavenly Book's speed was relatively fast, Snowball was not much different from it. Moreover, within the limited space of Tian Zhu Xi, the Wordless Heavenly Book's flying speed was completely restricted, which instead gave Snowball an excellent environment, no matter how Du Fei chased after her, she couldn't catch up to Snowball.

  "No, it's too narrow here. Let's use this method to chase and capture him. There's another way that will work." Du Fei said.

  "What can I do? I don't have hands or feet and cannot act on my own. What should I do?" the wordless heavenly book wrote.

  "Wait a minute." Du Fei said and walked to the casting platform, picked up several ore stones and grasped them in his hand.

  "What is this?" the Wordless Heavenly Book wrote.

  "I'm going to beat it to death." Du Fei said, clenching his fists and rubbing his palms together.

  "It's fortunate you can say that." Wrote the Wordless Heavenly Book.

  "Old man sees how you run now." After finishing speaking, Du Fei threw a pebble into the air towards the snowball.

  A loud "ding" sound came, and the stone hit the snowball accurately. Du Fei heard the sound and was also excited. But before Du Fei could get too excited, an accident happened. Although the stone hit the snowball, it bounced back and hit Du Fei accurately because of its high speed. Du Fei didn't have time to dodge and was hit on the forehead by the rebounding stone. Instantly, a big red lump appeared on Du Fei's forehead. The pain made Du Fei squat down and cover his head, crying out in agony.

  "You little scoundrel, I'm going to kill you today!" Du Fei suddenly stood up and pointed at Xue Qiu, cursing. But Xue Qiu just swayed back and forth a few times, as if looking down on Du Fei. Du Fei threw several stones at Xue Qiu, but Xue Qiu dodged to the right and avoided Du Fei's stone projectiles. A few of them even bounced back and hit Du Fei, causing him great pain. However, Du Fei was getting more and more furious, and continued to throw stones at Xue Qiu. Seeing that the stones had no effect on Xue Qiu, Du Fei became anxious. He picked up the Wordless Heavenly Book from his left hand and threw it at Xue Qiu. The Wordless Heavenly Book hit Xue Qiu with unerring accuracy.

  At this time, only the snowball and the wordless heavenly book suddenly fell to the ground. The snowball lying on the ground shook a few times, but because of the wordless heavenly book pressing on its body, the snowball had no chance of escaping. Du Fei saw the scene at this time, his swollen face like a pig's head immediately showed a smile, and he slowly walked towards the snowball pressed to the ground by the wordless heavenly book, rubbing his fists and palms excitedly: "Haha, you're dead for sure this time."