Journey of the Fate Destroying Emperor novel Chapter 1376

Du Cong led the team, followed by Wang Wei next to him and Jia Ping behind. They stood before a black energy shield that seemed to hide what was inside.

"I didn’t know you had a flair for the dramatic, Du Cong," Wang Wei responded.

"This is such a monumental creation so I couldn’t help myself," Du Cong chuckled. "Lord, you didn’t peek inside, did you?"

"Get to the point, Du Cong, I’m in a hurry, and no, I didn’t peek," Wang Wei said.

"Alright," Du Cong said as he motioned for someone to reveal what was inside. The black energy shield dissipated, and Wang Wei saw a black armor shining with magic lights. He could tell this was not ordinary armor but one similar to exoskeleton suits with its own power source.

"A power armor?" Wang Wei asked.

"Power Armor? That’s an interesting way to call it," Du Cong commented. "We call it the Rune Mechanical Armor, but that is not why we call you here. Lord, haven’t you detected the level of this armor?"

"Hmm? A Tier 5 armor?" Wang Wei asked with shining light. "You’ve broken the restrictions on your civilization?"

"That’s right," Du Cong nodded. "About 50 years ago, someone accidentally built a Tier 5 Power Source that broke the limit of our records. After contacting Lord Jia Ping, we deduced that there might be hope for us to break our limit and tried — this is the result."

"Good, good," Wang Wei repeated. "Have you tested it out in battle?"

"Of course." Du Cong ordered his people, and a well-built woman walked to the armor and put it on. Then, Jia Ping waved his hand to summon a prisoner with cultivation on par with the Divine Body Realm. The prisoner was promised freedom if he won this battle, so the latter fought for his life. The final result was a tie, which was understandable, given that this armor was the first generation.

"Not bad, not bad," Wang Wei once again praised. "Can you manufacture these armors in large quantities?"

"We are currently in the process of reducing the difficulty of the manufacturing process," Du Cong said. Another advantage the upper-dimension mortals have over their counterparts is their vast number. As such, even if only a small number of their population can condense their spiritual power and use the power of runes, there are still a large number of them. Due to this large population, Du Cong was confident of increasing the refining speed of these armors.

"However, we can only build a large number of them with the help of cultivators."

"Du Cong suggested that we capture more cultivators and control them before forcing them into factories to build these weapons," Jia Ping added.

"That’s not a bad suggestion, but there are some risks."

"We can be extra careful on how to select these prisoners," Du Cong added, trying to persuade him.

"I have a better way," Wang Wei said. "You can refine these cultivators’ souls into a Spiritual Power Energy Source. Your civilization should accelerate its speed of improvement with an endless source of spiritual power."

Du Cong’s eyes lit up. Spiritual Power was the key to their civilization. It’s why mortals can use runes and control the energies in ores, the environment, and other things. So, it’s obvious how such an artifact would drastically benefit them.

"Your idea is excellent, lord, but I don’t think we have the technology to refine something like that."

"I’ll have my people refine it for you, and you can study it and try to reverse engineer it," Wang Wei explained. The spiritual powers of mortals and cultivators differ, so this artifact will require specialized attunement to ensure they can use it.

"Thank you, Lord, your glory has blessed us again."

Wang Wei did not pay attention to this level of flattery: "Have you already started thinking about Tier 6 Armor? Maybe even Tier 7?"

"I have already shared the design with the other leaders and bases," Du Cong said. Wang Wei did not want these leaders and different mortal civilization bases to be isolated, so he encouraged them to use the Void Illusion Realm to share knowledge and advances.

"After discussing with the others, we already have a prototype blueprint of a Tier 6 armor, but we are clueless about the next tier," Du Cong replied.

"You’re stuck at the power of law, right?"

"That’s right. I don’t think this is a power that mortals can control."

Wang Wei did not believe these words. He knew that even technology civilizations could evolve to the point of controlling the [Power of Law]. The Rune Civilization is a combination of technology and cultivation, and the fact that they can build a Tier 5 armor proves that someone was blocking their path upward, but now, this limitation has been removed.