Chapter 3708: Testing The Twin Void Pillars
Chapter 3708: Testing The Twin Void Pillars
The elders remained silent after Lin Mu finished speaking, but they understood his reasoning.
But to Lin Mu, the names were not just reflections of Xukong. They were reflections of the future.
After a few moments, the Fireforge elder clapped his hands together.
"Well then," he said with a grin, "now that they have names, there is only one thing left to do."
Lin Mu raised a brow slightly.
"What is that?" he asked.
The elder’s grin widened.
"Test them, of course."
Several of the dwarves nodded eagerly, their earlier solemnity giving way to excitement. After all their work, after everything they had endured, it would be unthinkable to leave without seeing what these spears could truly do.
Lin Mu considered it for a moment before nodding.
"Yes," he said. "But not here."
He glanced around the Dao Forge.
"I have a feeling that if I use them here, I might damage this place. Perhaps even destroy it."
The elders immediately agreed.
"Of course," the Rune Dwarf elder said. "This realm might be strong but it was not made to endure something like that."
The Fireforge elder laughed. "We do have a perfect space to test it."
Lin Mu looked at him.
"The outer space," the elder said.
A few of the others chuckled at the remark, though the joke was simple. Even so, the idea itself was sound. There was no better place to test such weapons than the vast emptiness beyond the world.
Lin Mu then recalled the long journey they had taken to reach Mantleheim.
"That will take time," he said. "Is there a faster way?"
The elders exchanged amused glances.
"That," one of them said, "is what the teleportation talismans are for."
They left the Dao Forge together, stepping out of the spatial realm and returning to Mantleheim. The transition felt almost abrupt after spending so long within the forge, yet none of them lingered.
The elders quickly prepared several talismans, each one inscribed with complex runes that shimmered faintly with spatial qi.
"Stay close," one of them instructed.
Lin Mu nodded, holding both spears firmly.
The talismans activated as the space twisted. In the next instant, the world shifted around them.
When the distortion faded, they stood upon the surface of the world fragment that housed Mantleheim. The jagged terrain stretched outward beneath them, while above them lay the vast expanse of space, dark and endless.
Lin Mu looked up and felt the familiar gravity of the star.
The shattered remains of the Runweld Barren World drifted silently through the vast darkness of space as Lin Mu and the dwarven elders appeared atop one of the larger fragments.
Around them floated countless broken masses of stone and metal, some no larger than pebbles while others rivaled mountains.
The sight was grand and desolate at the same time.
Lin Mu looked around slowly, his robes fluttering lightly from the turbulent energies that drifted through the region. This place truly felt perfect for testing the spears. There were no cities nearby, no formations to protect, and no risk of accidental destruction.
Even if he shattered several fragments apart, it would mean little in a place already broken beyond repair.
The Mountain Dwarf elder crossed his thick arms and laughed heartily.
"Go wild!" he declared loudly. "There are enough asteroids here for you to break for the next ten thousand years."
Several of the other elders chuckled in agreement.
Lin Mu nodded before his gaze fell upon the two spears floating beside him.
Stasis.
Collapse.
Even simply looking at them now felt different compared to before. Back within the Dao Forge they had seemed restrained somehow, their true presence muted beneath the heavy Dao Traces saturating the realm. Here in open space, their aura felt clearer and far more dangerous.
Lin Mu reached out and wrapped his hand around Collapse.
The moment his fingers closed around the spear shaft, his expression shifted slightly.
He could feel it.
The dense compressed Spatial Energy within the weapon pulsed like the heartbeat of some ancient beast. It was stable and refined, vastly different from the chaotic energy that had once surrounded the husk. This energy was obedient, condensed to an absurd degree, and waiting for a command.
Lin Mu’s grip tightened unconsciously.
The spear trembled faintly as if responding to him.
He then released his immortal sense and branded his will upon the weapon properly. Immortal sense flowed into the spear like an invisible tide, spreading through every layer of its structure.
A connection formed instantly.
Lin Mu’s eyes widened slightly.
The spear no longer felt like an external object.
Instead, it felt almost like an extension of his own body.
He could sense every inch of its structure, every current of Spatial Energy flowing through it, every minute fluctuation hidden beneath its surface.
Then he moved.
Lin Mu began with a basic spear routine.
Nothing flashy or overly profound.
Simple thrusts, jabs, sweeps, and rotations.
Yet the effect was terrifying.
The instant the spear cut through the air, razor thin waves of Spatial Qi burst outward. The surrounding space distorted violently wherever the spear passed. Long black tears appeared in the void before rapidly healing again under the natural laws of space.
The elders who had initially been smiling slowly turned serious.
Each swing of Collapse felt less like a weapon attack and more like space itself being sliced apart.
Lin Mu thrust the spear forward again.
RIIIIIP!
A dark crack several dozen meters long appeared ahead of him before vanishing moments later.
The Rune Dwarf elder inhaled sharply.
"That spear..." he muttered. "If it struck a body directly..."
He did not finish the sentence.
He did not need to.
All of them understood.
Spatial attacks were notoriously difficult to defend against. Worse still, injuries caused by Spatial Qi were extremely troublesome to heal. Even immortals feared them because wounds affected by spatial distortions often resisted regeneration entirely.
Lin Mu himself was astonished.
He had expected the spear to be powerful.
He had not expected even casual movements to produce such effects.