Walker Of The Worlds

Chapter 3490: Making An Armlet For Cattaleya

Daoist Chu returned to his own studies, clearly inspired. Meng Bai carried stacks of copied diagrams with him like priceless treasures, his eyes sharper than they had ever been.

Lin Mu, meanwhile, returned to meditation.

He spent the next week doing little else but sit, breathe, and feel.

He assessed how his body responded now that the immortal essence was no longer hammering it from within. He tested circulation speeds, compression limits, and recovery rates. He let the Essence Meridian Casting network flow freely, then restricted it, then forced it into unusual paths.

Each test confirmed the same thing.

His body had adapted completely.

By the seventh day, Lin Mu opened his eyes and rose from his meditation mat, feeling light, grounded, and wholly himself.

He stepped out into the open courtyard.

Only one presence greeted him.

Cattaleya was sprawled lazily on a stone bench, one leg dangling off the side, gnawing on a roasted piece of meat that looked suspiciously like something pulled from the sea earlier that morning.

Lin Mu blinked.

”...Where is everyone?”

Cattaleya chewed, swallowed, and wiped her mouth with the back of her hand. ”City.”

”All of them?” Lin Mu asked.

”Daoist Chu and Meng Bai got sick of staring at lines and circles,” she said. ”They went to wander around, probably buying useless junk and pretending it is research. The beasts went with them. Elyon slipped away earlier. Information gathering. Spying. Creeping around. Usual stuff.”

Lin Mu nodded slowly. ”I see.”

”They left this morning,” Cattaleya added. ”Might be back late. Might be tomorrow.”

Lin Mu stood there for a moment, unsure what to do.

Cattaleya squinted at him, then grinned. ”What. Did you forget?”

Lin Mu frowned. ”Forget what?”

She raised a finger and pointed straight at his forehead.

The Silver Mirage Circlet gleamed faintly under the sunlight.

Lin Mu froze.

”...Ah.”

Cattaleya burst out laughing. ”You really forgot.”

Lin Mu rubbed the back of his neck. ”I was busy.”

”Busy inventing cultivation realms,” she said smugly. ”Very impressive. Still forgot.”

”I did say I would make something,” Lin Mu admitted.

”You did,” Cattaleya said, leaning forward eagerly. ”And I am very patient. But my patience has limits.”

Lin Mu smiled. ”I will start now.”

She leaned back, satisfied. ”Good. I will look forward to it.”

Lin Mu returned to his room, closing the door behind him.

He sat down and began to think seriously.

A circlet was the obvious choice, but also the worst one. Cattaleya’s fighting style involved headbutts, ramming attacks, and reckless charges. No matter how strong the material, repeated impacts would eventually damage it.

He needed something durable, but also placed somewhere less likely to take direct hits.

An armlet.

Upper arm placement meant stability, less exposure, and more space for formations.

Decision made, Lin Mu began planning.

He would not use ordinary metals.

The base would be an alloy.

Thousand Tempered Steel for resilience and structural support.

Black Immortal Bronze for essence conduction and shock absorption.

Void Streak Titanium as the binding agent, rare, expensive, and incredibly stable under extreme forces. Its natural affinity for spatial stability would prevent deformation even under violent impacts.

Lin Mu’s eyes gleamed faintly as he began sketching the design in his mind.

This would not just be an accessory.

It would be something worthy of Cattaleya.

A few hours later...

Lin Mu sat cross legged within the sealed room, the air around him thick with heat, spatial fluctuations, and the faint metallic scent of molten immortal materials.

Before him hovered a crucible formation, suspended in midair rather than resting on the ground. It was an old habit of his, born from years of refining dangerous materials. If anything went wrong, he could simply disperse the formation and let the contents fall into an isolated spatial pocket rather than risking damage to the surroundings.

At the moment, two pools of molten metal floated within the crucible array.

One glowed a deep, dignified silver with faint golden undertones. This was Thousand Tempered Steel, a metal forged through repeated refinement cycles until its internal structure became absurdly resilient. It was famous for its ability to recover from deformation, almost as if it remembered its original shape.

The other was darker, almost obsidian black, but with subtle bronze highlights that pulsed softly as immortal essence flowed through it. Black Immortal Bronze was far rarer and far more valuable. It was prized not just for durability, but for how naturally it conducted and stabilized both immortal essence and immortal qi, making it ideal for tools meant to endure violent usage.

Lin Mu controlled the flames around them with ease.

His fire was no longer crude or aggressive. It was precise, layered, and obedient. The Thousand Tempered Steel melted first, followed by the Black Immortal Bronze, both reduced into perfectly uniform liquid states without impurities.

Only then did Lin Mu turn his attention to the third metal.

Void Streak Titanium.

It sat on a separate jade platform beside him, barely larger than a fingernail clipping in total mass. Thin streaks of faintly shimmering silver ran through its dark body, like frozen lightning trapped inside solid matter.

”This thing really is troublesome,” Lin Mu muttered.

Void Streak Titanium was not native to any world. It was born in the void itself, condensed from unknown processes that occurred when destroyed worlds, collapsed spatial layers, and ancient debris collided and eroded over eons.

It did not behave like normal matter.

Heat barely affected it. Elemental flames slid over its surface as if it they did not exist. Even immortal fire could only warm it slightly.

Little Shrubby’s flames might eventually work, but even then the risk of damaging the other materials or destabilizing the crucible was too high.

Lin Mu inhaled slowly.

”This will do.”

He extended a finger and carefully guided a thread of Spatial Qi into the crucible array. The Qi did not touch the molten metals yet. Instead, it wrapped around the Void Streak Titanium like an invisible cocoon.

The effect was immediate.