Chapter 279

Chapter 279: Bow and Arrow Form Luan Feather Fan!

The Heart-Guard Feather, the Dragon Sinew, and the Heart Core of Myriad-Change Wood were all in Shen Sang Ruo’s hands.

Before, she had not wanted to waste time in the Starfield Plain. Now she had to start the refit.

The Snake Maiden asked, “Modify an artifact? You can do that? But do we have enough time?”

Shen Sang Ruo used fire Spiritual Power and already had experience with refits, so doing it again was not the problem.

Time was.

They had a day and a half of life left. No, to be exact, they had only half a day before the growing soul drain would torture them and steal almost all their strength to move.

Artifact refitting took rock-solid focus. Under the formation’s pressure and while her soul was constantly being pulled, the difficulty would more than double.

It was very likely she would collapse before she finished.

Shen Sang Ruo answered with firm certainty, “Enough.”

Confidence filled her voice. She believed she could do it.

“Half a day is enough for me to make the bow and arrow.”

She turned her palm, and a flame bloomed in her hand.

It was clearly different from the flames she had cast before.

Recognizing it, the Snake Maiden breathed, “Is that Heavenly Flame?”

It was the Heavenly Flame Shen Sang Ruo had taken from Feng He Yun and Lu Shi Qing earlier.

She had planned to give this Heavenly Flame a better use after they got out, but right now, using it for Artifact Forging was the best choice.

With the powerful Heavenly Flame and the refit plan she had already designed, she could surely cut the time down to under half a day. That was why she was so confident.

Hope flared again in the Snake Maiden’s eyes. They really had found a way to break the trap.

Her voice shook with a bit of excitement, “Good. I will assist you with everything I have.”

Shen Sang Ruo took the needed materials from the Cosmos Pouch and began to remake the Luan Feather Fan.

She started with the Heart-Guard Feather, then the Heart Core of Myriad-Change Wood. The Snake Maiden could not hide her shock when she saw them.

These were treasures rare even in the Starfield Plain, especially that piece of Heart-Guard Feather.

Then Shen Sang Ruo took out the last item, and the Snake Maiden blinked in a daze.

Why did that “bowstring” feel familiar?

An instant later she remembered whose aura lingered on it.

It was from that hateful Flood Dragon.

So the Flood Dragon had not only died to Shen Sang Ruo’s hand, she had pulled its Dragon Sinew, too. [Good thing I am a snake, not a Flood Dragon.]

“Snake Maiden?” Shen Sang Ruo frowned when she noticed the other woman spacing out, and the Snake Maiden snapped back to herself.

“I am about to begin,” Shen Sang Ruo said. “I will not have attention to spare. Watch the Great Devil.”

The Great Devil might try to interfere.

“I understand. Focus on the work,” the Snake Maiden replied. She lifted a hand and quickly laid a formation around Shen Sang Ruo.

This formation could block attacks below Divine Transformation.

As a top Great Demon of the Starfield Plain, she was no pushover.

Shen Sang Ruo fixed her full attention on the Luan Feather Fan and the materials. With the Heavenly Flame and the Heart Core of Myriad-Change Wood, she fused them together.

The Luan Feather Fan had already been modified before to split apart, which saved her a great deal of work now.

She only needed to guide the sharpened plumes into the shape of a bow.

Then she connected the refined Dragon Sinew to it.

Last, through the Heart Core of Myriad-Change Wood, she bound Immortal Lord Chang Li’s Heart-Guard Feather to the bow and the string, making it into a deadly arrow.

The Snake Maiden’s formation only stopped the Great Devil’s hand. The soul-drawing formation still worked.

During the refit, the pull on Shen Sang Ruo’s soul grew even faster.

Her head was not only foggy now. Stabbing pain lanced through it, like hands tearing at her nerves.

Her face barely changed. She clenched her teeth and kept her hands moving with smooth, steady motions.

She was very thankful she had learned so much about Artifact Forging from Daoist Wu Wei.

Even the Snake Maiden could not hide her shock. It was hard to imagine how fierce Shen Sang Ruo’s will was, and how strong her soul was, to keep working through such pain on something this complex.

The Great Devil sensed the disturbance and grew wary.

When he saw what Shen Sang Ruo was doing, a flicker of surprise crossed his face.

At a time like this, she still had the mind to forge an artifact?

He knew she was doing it to deal with him, yet he did not feel nervous at all.

With so little time, he wanted to see what she could possibly make.

And the soul-drawing formation was still gnawing at her. It was just useless effort in his eyes. He only needed to wait.

There was another reason he did not act: he could not.

The cursed chains on him limited him too much. Right now he only had the strength of a Golden Core.

That was only because the formation had already taken the Divine Soul Power from two pieces of Spirit Jade Marrow for him.

Time flowed. The Heavenly Flame danced, orange red light shining on Shen Sang Ruo’s focused face.

By now, the Luan Feather Fan, the Dragon Sinew, and the Heart-Guard Feather had formed a single whole. Only the final step remained.

She held her breath and wrapped the remade bow and arrow in the Heavenly Flame, fire-tempering it to speed the fusion of the Heart Core of Myriad-Change Wood.

When the Heavenly Flame faded, the Dragon Sinew and the Heart-Guard Feather were no longer visible. Only a Luan Feather Fan hovered before her.

The refit had gone even faster than she expected, not even half a day.

She caught the floating Luan Feather Fan in her hand.

The Snake Maiden dropped her formation and, sounding weak as the formation’s pressure neared her limit, asked, “Is it done?”

Her gaze fell on the Luan Feather Fan. It did not look any different.

Pain spiked in Shen Sang Ruo’s head, but her voice was steady: “We can leave this place soon.”

Then the Luan Feather Fan floated between her hands and changed with her will.

The plumes spread into a bow, and her left hand gripped the bow in front of her.

Her right hand pulled where a string should be, and a Dragon Sinew string and a Fire Phoenix Heart-Guard Feather arrow appeared from thin air.

The string looked like a line of fire. The feathered arrow’s tail burned with fierce flames, like the tail feathers of a Fire Phoenix streaming in the wind. Its presence was razor sharp.

The green bow stood in bright contrast against it.

The Snake Maiden stared, stunned by the sight.

The moment Shen Sang Ruo held the bow and arrow, she knew how to use them.

Her steady eyes locked on the distant Great Devil. She took aim, poured a flood of Spiritual Power into the weapon, and the flames blazed hotter.

Shen Sang Ruo drew the bow to its full arc. The arrow was on the string.

Without a shred of hesitation, she loosed.

The arrow’s flames surged like a Fire Phoenix beating its wings, and the whistle of its flight rang like a phoenix’s cry.

Because the Luan Feather Fan’s attribute was wind, it gave the arrow even more speed. It shot through the air faster still.

It flew straight for the Great Devil’s vital point.