No one paid any attention to Longya's shock; not even Yu Ruoyun realized what the light in Wang Lan's hand was. She simply saw the meteorite in Wang Lan's hand melting bit by bit, with droplets of liquid falling.

"Is this... the dissolved metal?" Princess Aier asked in confusion. "Why is it red?"

"This isn't metal, but the stone component of the ore, mixed with soluble metals. The truly hard metals actually remain intact under my Extreme Heat Light Beam. It's hard to imagine a metal in the world with such a high melting point."

Wang Lan's words directly confirmed Longya's guess: the light in Wang Lan's hand was indeed the Extreme Heat Light Beam.

Actually, apart from the Extreme Heat Light Beam, another method to decompose the meteorite was Universal Decomposition. Even if Gold-level Universal Decomposition couldn't manage it, it could be upgraded to Platinum-level. However, the characteristic of Universal Decomposition was to break matter down into its molecular structure; even at the Platinum level, it decomposed into an atomic structure.

Wang Lan needed to extract the metal to repair the Saint Cloth, not to analyze its composition. Once decomposed, it could never be reassembled.

The higher the melting point of this metal, the more satisfied Wang Lan felt. It didn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that this metal would be stronger than the metal of the previous Phoenix Saint Cloth. At least, the Phoenix Saint Cloth probably couldn't have withstood his Extreme Heat Light Beam without undergoing some change.

If the Saint Cloth were repaired with this metal, its defensive power would undoubtedly rise to another level.

About a minute later, the meteorite in his hand had shrunk to about one-tenth of its original size, leaving behind a silver-white metal block that resembled a severely weathered tree root, riddled with chilling hollows.

Wang Lan placed the metal piece onto the Heart Mirror. Indeed, the metal melted quickly and was gradually absorbed by the Heart Mirror. After absorption, it seemed as though an additional small ring of armor plates had grown on the edge of the Heart Mirror. It was just a very small ring, but it proved that repairing the Saint Cloth was feasible.

However, even with the Extreme Heat Light Beam, the speed of refining this metal was still far from ideal. The meteorite fragments before him already weighed about three tons, and a continuous stream of newly found meteorites was being transported over. After all, the asteroid Wang Lan had shot down earlier had a diameter of over thirty meters.

Looking at the seventy thousand skill points on his system panel, Wang Lan hesitated slightly.

Fuck, repairing the Saint Cloth is urgent. It doesn't matter; skill points are meant to be used, sooner or later. Fifty thousand skill points to upgrade the Extreme Heat Light Beam to thirty thousand degrees!

Wang Lan once again picked up a meteorite the size of a washbasin and held it in front of him. Star Power surged around his body, his hands overlapped, and instantly, a beam of light shone upon the meteorite.

The Extreme Heat Light Beam had been intensified by five thousand degrees, and the effect was immediately apparent. The stone began to melt at a noticeably faster rate; in just three seconds, the entire surface of the meteorite started to liquefy.

Golden-yellow magma sloughed off the meteorite, flowing away like streams and revealing a silver, bizarrely honeycomb-shaped piece of metal within. This metal was a beautiful silver-white but possessed a golden luster that silver lacked.

About ten minutes later, another metal block, weighing about two jin, was refined.

"Wang Lan, what Star Martial Skill is this?" Princess Aier finally reacted, realizing that the seemingly ordinary Star Martial Skill in Wang Lan's hands was likely extraordinary. A meteorite that a purple flame couldn't even scorch after half a day of burning was actually melting and being refined under Wang Lan's light beam.

"Extreme Heat Light Beam!" Longya, who had been watching silently, stated calmly. "Princess Aier, since you're an Ice Attribute Star Martial Warrior, you should know about Aurora, right?"

"Aurora? I know. It's a crucial sublimation for Ice Attribute Star Martial Warriors. Anyone who can comprehend Aurora is certain to become a Titled Strongman and secure a prominent place among them."

"That's right. But do you know the official name for Aurora? It's Extreme Cold Beam. What Wang Lan is using is the Extreme Heat Light Beam, a powerful skill that is poles apart from Aurora. However, unlike Aurora, for which Star Martial Warriors are common, no Star Martial Warrior capable of using the Extreme Heat Light Beam has appeared in hundreds of years."

"What?" Aiwei exclaimed in astonishment at this revelation. "Why? If the Extreme Cold Beam exists and is so powerful, why hasn't anyone researched its counterpart, the Extreme Heat Light Beam?"

"Do you really think no one has researched it? It's not that no one has tried; it's that they simply couldn't achieve results. Over the centuries, countless great figures have poured their hearts and souls into studying the Extreme Heat Light Beam, but all ultimately failed. The difficulty of mastering the Extreme Heat Light Beam hasn't just stumped one or two individuals, but entire generations of heroes."

"Who would have thought, Wang Lan, that you silently comprehended the Extreme Heat Light Beam? Wang Lan, wait a moment, I have something to say!"

Wang Lan continued to direct the Extreme Heat Light Beam at a pile of meteorites. "Director Long, I know what you're going to ask. You want to know when I developed it, right?"

"Correct. If you had mastered the Extreme Heat Light Beam, how could Sang Guo have suppressed you so miserably, to the point where you needed to fuse with Yu Ruoyun to counter him?"

"I hadn't developed the Extreme Heat Light Beam back then. After the battle ended, I reflected deeply on myself. I realized it wasn't that I had too few techniques or that there was an issue with my strength, but that my damage output was simply too poor.

"My attacks did nothing to him, while his attacks could take me down. After some introspection, I focused on increasing my damage output.

"It just so happened that I learned a Flame Sword technique, with purple flames already at the peak of fire. But didn't I also obtain an ultra S-class Star Martial Skill, the Infinite Fire Skill, from the Nine-layer Pagoda? By referencing the Infinite Fire Skill, I finally spent a few days and figured out the Extreme Heat Light Beam."

When Wang Lan said this, he tried to make his tone deep, aiming to make his audience understand that creating the Extreme Heat Light Beam hadn't been easy. You see, it took me many days, and I don't know how much hair I pulled out to research it.

If it weren't for Longya's earlier explanation of its difficulty, this claim might have seemed plausible. But with Longya having just detailed how incredibly hard it was to develop, Wang Lan's words were now sorely testing everyone's patience. At this moment, the three young women around him felt their hands itch; an itch that burrowed deep into their hearts, a desperate urge to throttle Wang Lan.

Oh, so arduous! So terribly difficult! Couldn't you try to make it sound even *more* challenging?

But I *did* work hard! Wang Lan thought. It took so many skill points to upgrade this skill. Earning skill points is incredibly hard, isn't it? So arduous!

"Ruoyun, do you have any Soul Beads? I'm running low on Star Power."

"Soul Beads? Yes, I have plenty after closing two Different Dimensional Spaces," Princess Aier hurriedly said, pulling out a stack of Soul Beads from her foldable backpack.

With the Soul Beads, Wang Lan increased his Star Power output again. About half an hour later, the large pile of meteorites that had been transported back was melted down by Wang Lan, piece by piece, leaving behind about thirty kilograms of the mysterious silver-white metal.

He stacked the metal pieces together and then placed the Heart Mirror into the pile. Very quickly, as if a chemical reaction were occurring, the stack of metal rapidly dissolved and melted. Correspondingly, within the metal pile, a phoenix statue with spread wings began to form rapidly, like a plant growing quickly.

After all the metal had been consumed, a silver-white phoenix statue, just thirty centimeters tall, appeared before them.

"Huh?" Yu Ruoyun exclaimed in surprise. She flashed to Wang Lan's side, inspecting the statue closely.

"This looks different from the phoenix statue formed by your previous Saint Cloth. Your old Phoenix Saint Cloth statue looked like a lone golden phoenix, wings spread as if about to take flight. But this one has a more graceful posture, like it's dancing, and the details are more precise and splendid."

"Well, the Saint Cloth was repaired with such excellent metal, so a little upgrade is normal. We're out of meteorites, Aier. Can you check if any more have been found? If so, have them sent over quickly."

Just then, a truck rumbled up and stopped in front of Wang Lan. The tarp covering its bed was lifted, revealing a gigantic meteorite inside, over two meters tall. Besides this massive meteorite—larger than all the ones Wang Lan had previously melted combined—there was also a pile of smaller ones.

"Hurry and unload it!" Wang Lan called out impatiently.

Once the load of meteorites was unloaded, Wang Lan eagerly applied the Extreme Heat Light Beam to them. After about an hour, over ten tons of meteorites had been dissolved, yielding one to two hundred jin of the special metal.

He placed the Phoenix Saint Cloth into the metal. The metal visibly melted, and the Saint Cloth visibly grew. As the Saint Cloth expanded, its design became more exquisite. Cracks began to appear on the originally connected pieces, which gradually transformed into individual, wearable armor plates.

The reborn Saint Cloth was indeed different from before. Not only was the way it assembled into a phoenix different, but the shape of each armor piece had also changed. Previously, part of the phoenix's tail formed the helmet; now it had become part of the chest piece. The positions of the shoulder and knee guards had also shifted.

From the original animations, it's known that Saint Cloths can evolve. The Saint Cloths of the Five Little Powerhouses were shattered more than once. After being repaired by Aries Mu, their shapes changed. However, even with these changes in form, a Bronze Saint Cloth remained a Bronze Saint Cloth; no true evolution occurred.

Their final evolution happened when they received the Goddess's Blood, transforming them into Holy Cloths. The Phoenix Saint Cloth before them had clearly increased in size after its rebirth and was now covered with exquisite patterns, indicating an evolution of sorts.

However, Wang Lan couldn't determine the current level of the Saint Cloth. Being silver-white, it should have been a Silver Saint Cloth by color, but Silver Saint Cloths didn't emit that kind of golden light.

HUM—

Suddenly, the Saint Cloth emitted a humming sound, and a visible wave of energy rippled out from it like concentric circles in water.

The Saint Cloth's rebirth was complete. About a few dozen jin of metal remained where it had been.

"It's done!" Wang Lan said softly, taking a light step forward. His spiritual power reached out, resonating with the Saint Cloth.

CHEEW—

A loud, clear phoenix cry rang out. The Saint Cloth instantly exploded into the air and disassembled. Piece by piece, the armor plates flew towards Wang Lan and automatically fitted themselves onto his body.

In a flash of white light, the Saint Cloth was fully donned. The ninety percent coverage rate told Wang Lan that this Saint Cloth, reborn from the ashes, was no longer the low-grade item it once was. The silver-white Saint Cloth emitted a faint golden light.

Clad in the Saint Cloth, Wang Lan looked so heroically valiant that it was almost blinding. Princess Aier was already lost in a daze, completely captivated. Even Aiwei, watching from the side, wore a starstruck expression.

The amplification from the Saint Cloth didn't feel any stronger, and its movement and weight were just as before, not hindering his actions in the slightest.

Perhaps because he hadn't received the Goddess's Blood, the Saint Cloth hadn't truly upgraded in essence. However, due to the extraordinary materials used, its defensive power was definitely incomparable to its previous form. Wang Lan didn't need the Saint Cloth to provide much of an offensive boost; as long as its defense was sufficient, that was good enough.

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