While Gu Qing Shan was thinking, his Holo-Brain lit up.
"Your Highness Empress, what happened?" Gu Qing Shan asked.
"I'm only telling you about this right now, make sure you don't tell anyone else" Empress lowered her voice and said.
It was completely silent on the other side, only her voice could be heard.
Seems like she's avoiding everyone else to talk to Gu Qing Shan alone.
"Go ahead" Gu Qing Shan said.
"Iron Shroud shut off my authority" Empress's voice carried a hint of fear.
Iron Shroud is the Fuxi Empire's ultimate AI, but the Empire has never used it for civilian use.
Iron Shroud only has one purpose, to deploy the country's military.
The Empire's royal family uses Iron Shroud to command the three armies and deploy for war.
Once Iron Shroud is activated, all troops must unconditionally follow Iron Shroud's orders, otherwise they'll be charged with treason.
"Aside from you, what about everyone else's authority?" Gu Qing Shan immediately asked.
"Aside from him, everyone else's authority has been revoked, they can't be used" Empress answered.
He is the Fuxi Emperor.
Gu Qing Shan's heart sank.
Iron Shroud's highest authority belongs to the Fuxi Emperor, but he used it to revoke everyone else's authority.
Right now, he's the only one who can command the entire Fuxi Empire's military.
"Let's keep in touch, tell me immediately if anything happens" Gu Qing Shan said.
"I heard you're quite close to the President of the Federation?" Empress asked.
"Not bad"
"If anything happens, you have to help me" Empress said.
"I promise, don't worry" Gu Qing Shan said.
The call ended.
Even if Empress wasn't Anna's aunt, Gu Qing Shan would still do her best to help her.
The Emperor likes to fight, Empress is the one who maintains peace, she's an important force in stabilizing the Fuxi Empire.
The call ended.
Gu Qing Shan quickly left Ye Fei Li's room.
He came out of the mountaintop mansion and stood still in front of the mansion.
To forge or repair a weapon, you need a furnace, a bellows, a forging hammer, an anvil, pliers, and a grindstone.
After completing the Apocalypse storyline quest, he could now use Soul Points to quickly repair the Chao Yin Sword.
Right now, I need to take this time to see if I can repair the Chao Yin sword.
The Sword Control Art required at least two swords to be able to attack and defend as one.
Hell was approaching, Gu Qing Shan had to increase her strength as much as possible.
Holding the seven-colored fragrance bag, Gu Qing Shan sent her inner sight into it.
Inside Bai Hua sect's storage, the items were all over the place.
A considerable portion of the items had obvious personal traces.
Some of the furnaces and array discs were even engraved with the names of sects and people.
Seiji didn't know if Hundred Flowers Fairy had defeated her, or if she had 'taken' these items from her. In any case, these items were randomly piled up in a messy pile.
It would take a long time to find a single thing in here.
Gu Qing Shan always had a headache looking for things.
'When I have time in the future, I must tidy up this place,' he swore to himself.
After a while, he finally managed to gather a full set of smithing tools.
He had already comprehended the sword repair method before.
Now that everything was ready, the repair began.
Without waiting for Gu Qing Shan's order, the Chao Yin sword jumped out of the void of space by itself and excitedly laid down next to the furnace.
It was anxiously flipping around.
"Don't be impatient, stay calm" Gu Qing Shan told it.
The Chao Yin sword stopped.
But while it was lying still, a faint clanking sound came from the furnace.
Gu Qing Shan looked over.
Only to see the Chao Yin sword lying on top of the furnace, lightly trembling.
"Don't be nervous, it'll be fine" Gu Qing Shan helplessly said.
I didn't learn so many smithing techniques for nothing.
Gu Qing Shan formed a hand seal and infused the furnace with spirit energy. The furnace lit up.
Several dozen materials were released, floating in the air.
When the furnace's temperature reached the required level, Gu Qing Shan followed the repair order and put the 7 materials inside.
Now, he needed to patiently wait for these materials to liquefy.
A few lines of text appeared on the War God UI.
[The user can now use Soul Points to speed up the repair process]
[Detected that the user is currently smelting materials, would the user like to speed up the melting process?]
"Yes" Gu Qing Shan immediately answered.
[Spend 3 Soul Points to speed it up by 1 hour; spend 5 Soul Points to speed it up by 2 hours; spend 10 Soul Points to melt it down immediately]
"Melt it down immediately" Gu Qing Shan said.
Inside the furnace, the heat increased. The 7 materials melted together to form a 7-colored liquid.
Gu Qing Shan put the Chao Yin sword into the furnace.
He carefully released his inner sight to control the 7-colored liquid and smeared it all over the body of the Chao Yin sword.
A notification popped up on the War God UI again.
[It will take 3 days for the materials to completely melt into the sword, would the user like to speed up the process?]
"Yes" Gu Qing Shan answered.
[Spend 10 Soul Points to speed it up by 1 day; spend 20 Soul Points to speed it up by 2 days; spend 30 Soul Points to melt the materials down immediately]
Gu Qing Shan said: "Immediately"
[Soul Points spent] the System responded.
Inside the furnace, the 7-colored liquid was quickly absorbed into the Chao Yin sword.
Next up was the processing of the other materials.
[Would the user like to …]
"Wait a minute" Gu Qing Shan cut the System off.
"Can't you just take all the Soul Points at once? You're cutting my flesh piece by piece, it's affecting my mood, "he protested.
The System went silent for a second, then replied: [In consideration of the user's forthright attitude, taking 560 Soul Points at once will speed up the repair process]
"How do I speed it up?" Gu Qing Shan asked.
[Whenever you start a repair process, it will be completed immediately] the System answered.
Gu Qing Shan checked his Soul Points.
"Quite a lot of Soul Points left, it even gave me a round number" he commented.
[Would the user like to spend 560 Soul Points to speed up the repair process?]
"Yes"
…
Sure enough, after spending 560 Soul Points, the repair speed of the sword increased by leaps and bounds.
A few minutes later.
As the Chao Yin sword was only a few steps away from completion, Gu Qing Shan's phone vibrated.
Gu Qing Shan ignored it, wanting to finish repairing the Chao Yin sword in one go before anything else.
The phone rang 4-5 times, but he didn't pick it up.
Impartial Goddess' voice suddenly came.
[Sir, you must pick up this phone call]
"Why?" Gu Qing Shan was surprised.
[The world's situation has changed, this is Fuxi Empress's emergency phone call]
Gu Qing Shan had no choice but to stop what he was doing.
Inside the furnace, the Chao Yin sword let out a low moan of grievance.
Gu Qing Shan pretended not to hear it and took the call.
"You finally picked up!" Empress's voice came from the other side.
"Your Highness, what exactly is it?" Gu Qing Shan noticed something ominous from the other side's tone.
Empress answered: "The Empire's Mobile Mech squadron is currently moving towards the border, they will soon reach the border between the Empire and the Federation"
"Furthermore, the Empire's 7 great fleets have also begun to gather!"
"Why didn't you …" as Gu Qing Shan spoke, she suddenly realized.
Iron Shroud.
Only the Emperor can command Iron Shroud.
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