Chapter 151 — The Weapon That Should Not Exist
The forge mountain was silent.
Not the silence of peace.
The silence of something holding its breath.
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Rowan's Truth
Rowan stood beside the central anvil where Lin had broken three Titan forging benchmarks in less than half a month.
He did not look at the anvil.
He looked at Lin.
"You've climbed farther than reason allows," Rowan said quietly. "But you will still lose tomorrow."
Lin did not react.
Rowan continued:
"Tian's will is old. Not in years—in compression. His hammer already has a dormant spirit. His soul has been hammered into a single purpose for decades."
Rowan finally turned.
"You can defeat his technique," he said. "You can overwhelm his strength."
Then his voice dropped.
"But you cannot match his weapon."
Lin's eyes narrowed.
Rowan leaned his palm onto the anvil.
"There is only one way to bridge that difference."
Lin waited.
Rowan spoke words that had destroyed entire forging lineages:
"You must forge what all masters dream of forging only once in their lives."
"A Divine Weapon."
"With a fully conscious spirit."
The forge did not react.
Reality did.
Lin felt his solar system flare infinitesimally.
Rowan's eyes hardened.
"Failure is expected," Rowan said. "Death is possible. Insanity is probable."
Then he bowed.
"But still—you must try."
Lin returned the bow slowly.
"I will."
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The Material List of the Impossible
Rowan handed him a jade plate.
Each line burned into Lin's soul as he read:
1. Abyss-Titan Heart Core
→ Extracted from a Sovereign-class abyssal behemoth
2. Heaven-Sundered Law Crystal
→ Born from direct Saint-realm tribulation fracture
3. Star-Ancestral Spirit Bone
→ A remnant of a conscious star-thing
4. Void-Thread Gold at Ascended Purity
→ Must be harvested alive from spatial predators
5. A Living Catalyst
→ Something capable of housing a Divine-level consciousness
Lin looked up.
Rowan said only one thing:
"The training grounds will kill you."
Lin bowed again.
Then entered the rift without hesitation.
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The Hunt
The abyssal training grounds responded as if awakened.
Lin did not wander.
He hunted.
He annihilated three Sovereign-class beasts in rotation — one by singularity crush, one by Jupiter Storm Smash, one by raw gravitational inversion.
He tore the Abyss-Titan Heart Core from a creature larger than a mountain.
He shattered a Saint-fractured rift and seized the resulting Heaven-Sundered Law Crystal.
He tracked a void predator across three spatial layers and peeled Voidthread Gold from living space itself.
And when he reached the last requirement—
The Star-Ancestral Spirit Bone—
He found not a battlefield.
But a corpse older than the abyss itself.
It spoke once.
Then willingly gave him what he needed.
Lin returned.
With double of every material.
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The Ancestor Learns How to Follow
As Lin crossed the rift, his energy resonance misaligned the spatial curtain.
Three separate abyssal scouts anchored onto the disturbance.
They recorded:
• Gravity Singularity Law
• Storm-Planetary Motion
• Proto-Divinity Compression
Three separate rift vectors were transmitted.
Far below, the Abyssal Ancestor tilted its consciousness.
"So… three shadows instead of one."
It smiled.
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Divine Forging — The Shared Trial
Rowan sealed the forge mountain personally.
No elders were allowed.
No disciples were permitted.
Only the two of them stood before the anvil of impossible destruction.
Rowan spoke each step as law:
Step One — Core Will Binding
The Abyss-Titan Heart was not melted.
It was forced to kneel through layered gravity recursion.
Lin applied compression.
Rowan corrected vector warrants.
Together they made the heart obey identity.
Step Two — Law Spine Formation
The Heaven-Sundered Crystal was not embedded.
It was woven into the core using Voidthread Gold as nervous tissue.
The weapon gained its law skeleton.
Step Three — Conscious Anchor Implantation
The Star-Ancestral Spirit Bone shattered into a living lattice.
It was fused — not with flame — but with memory imprint pressure.
The weapon took its first breath.
Step Four — Catalyst Ignition
Rowan placed his own blood onto the core.
Lin embedded his gravitational authority into the void.
Spirit met will.
Will met existence.
The forge screamed.
The chamber almost collapsed.
The weapon awakened.
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The Weapon Rowan Received
It was not shaped like a hammer.
And not like a spear.
It was a hybrid axis weapon.
Capable of rotation strike.
Singularity compression.
And planetary storm projection.
The spirit inside it opened luminous eyes.
Rowan swayed.
Barely stabilizing himself.
Lin caught him.
Rowan laughed weakly.
"…I didn't think I would live to see one again."
Lin placed the weapon in his hands.
"For everything you taught me."
Rowan's hands trembled as he accepted it.
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The True Divine Forge
That night.
Inside the inner world.
Lin upgraded the second set of materials.
The difference between Titanic and Divine widened into infinity.
The forge obeyed him as a sovereign, not a craftsman.
This time he forged alone.
Gravity did not scream.
It sang.
Aurora stabilized the void law.
Saint Shengyuan guarded the soul lattice.
Dragon Bai supplied life resonance.
The weapon that emerged did not roar.
It acknowledged Lin as its maker.
A fully conscious, sovereign-grade Divine Artifact was born.
Lin did not name it yet.
It named him.
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The Eve of War
Outside.
The sect slept.
Tian cultivated beneath crushing law pressure.
Rowan sat alone beside his divine weapon.
The abyss moved closer.
Three rifts trembled in distant space.
And Lin Xuan opened his eyes.
The duel was now one sunrise away.
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