Chapter 14: Initial Refining of Equipment
The chaotic energy within his body had increased by about seven or eight times, and the situation of violent inflation did not appear again. And under the control of small meteorites, it began to run quickly around the first layer route of Hunyuan Jue, starting from Dantian and ending at Dantian.
"Foundation established, I've successfully established my foundation!" Little Meteor excitedly shouted in his heart. Succeeding in establishing his foundation meant that he had taken the first step into the realm of cultivation. As he opened his eyes, Little Meteor suddenly found that the world around him had become clearer, as if a spring rain had washed away the dusty sky, making everything seem exceptionally vivid. Moreover, Little Meteor also felt that his spirit was now more abundant than ever before, with an unprecedented sense of fullness!
He walked out of the chaotic golden tower and looked at the clear sky, feeling a bit like he was dreaming. But his feet touching the ground and the existence of the chaotic air in his body told him that everything was real! More precious than pearls! Suppressing his excited mood, Little Stream began to carefully experience the energy inside his body, feeling very strange and fun, making him involuntarily indulge in it until Little Spring woke up with a start and called out "Brother".
The next few days, Xiao Liuxing didn't practice anymore, but instead got familiar with the new members inside his body.
Still in the main palace of the Golden Tower, Xiaoliu sat on the ground with his legs crossed, holding several pieces of golden essence stone. Beside him were many black magical artifacts of various shapes and sizes. The golden essence stone was a top-grade material for refining equipment, at least in the mortal world. Why use only top-grade materials? Not to mention the materials inside the Golden Tower, just the Xianyao Ring alone had plenty of top-grade materials from the Cultivation Realm. Had Xiaoliu gone stupid? Refining equipment with better materials would result in a more powerful artifact.
Of course, Xiao Liuxing is not stupid. He has read the Jade Classics collected by Master Xīyángzi and the chapter on equipment in the Hun Dun Treasure. He knows the common sense of refining equipment. Why only use top-grade materials to refine equipment? The reason is simple: it's not that Xiao Liuxing doesn't want to, but he can't himself, because the better the material, the higher the requirements for refining them. It has been a year since Xiao Liuxing fell off the cliff. Although Xiao Liuxing has extraordinary talent, plus the help of the Hun Dun system and the Hun Dun Treasure, his cultivation is progressing by leaps and bounds, reaching the middle stage of Bi Gu, only one step away from the Golden Elixir.
Such an achievement would be a heaven-defying miracle in the entire cultivation world, a miracle within miracles. However, the Closed Mountain period is just that - the Closed Mountain period. The Chaotic Fire cultivated at this level can only refine top-grade refining materials. The Chaotic Fire is cultivated using the Chaotic Qi in one's body as its foundation, so its power is naturally much stronger than the Three Flavors True Fire commonly used in the cultivation world. People who cultivate to the Closed Mountain level can only refine lower-grade materials with their Three Flavors True Fire, but the Chaotic Fire can refine top-grade materials! This shows just how powerful it is.
This is just the beginning, the Chaotic Fire is divided into six realms: Chaotic Fire, True Chaotic Fire, Chaotic Yin Fire, Chaotic Yang Fire, Chaotic Divine Fire, and finally the Void Fire. Each realm is also divided into three levels, with the weakest Chaotic Fire able to refine all ordinary materials in the mortal world by the later stages.
The Chaotic True Fire can only be cultivated during the Yuan Ying period. After it is refined, it can refine and transform all materials in the mortal world, and even refine and transform materials from the immortal realm. According to the Chaotic Treasure Canon, its greatest power can melt and refine the Three Realms and Six Paths! Of course, Xiao Liuxing doesn't have any concept of this yet, just like how we know that one hundred million is a lot of money, but if you've never owned it, you can't truly understand what it means.
With the chaotic air, the golden essence stone was suspended in mid-air at a height equal to the chest. Then, the chaotic fire method was activated, and only a small golden dot appeared out of thin air in the palm of the hand. This small dot began to grow larger at a speed visible to the naked eye, becoming a light golden flame - this is the chaotic fire. The small flame slowly grew larger until it reached a height of about thirty centimeters before stopping.
At this time, only to see the small streamer's palm slightly tremble, the primordial fire slowly flew from the small streamer's palm to the position of the golden essence stone, wrapping it inside. The golden essence stone began to melt slowly as the primordial fire approached, and a fist-sized golden essence stone turned into a pool of black, thick liquid in just a few minutes. When all the golden essence stones had melted halfway, a piece of white metal the size of a rubber eraser suddenly appeared in the primordial fire. This white metal was something that the small streamer had prepared long ago, directly taken out from the carefree ring, and it was also a very famous special material in the cultivation world - silver tin. This metal is the only one in the cultivation world that belongs to the top-grade material, but has a low melting point of special type material.
As it is a top-grade material, there won't be many of them. Like the small meteorite, just one piece can make many people go crazy for it. Even Xīao Yóu Zǐ, the number one person, only has a dozen or so pieces. This material, when added in moderation during equipment refinement, will increase your artifact's hardness and attack power by a whole level. This is also why it is classified as an extreme-grade material.
Rhine finally is the ultimate material, melting point though low also than gold essence stone high. It appears in the chaotic fire for a few minutes without seeing its fusion, this is also the reason why Xiaoliu Xing put it in early. Without paying attention to Rhine, Xiaoliu Xing began to control the chaotic fire to smelt the impurities that had completely transformed into ** in the gold essence stone. Only black ** was seen constantly shaking and changing shape, each shake smaller by a little, each change of shape shrinking again by a little. Xiaoliu Xing sat like this continuously using the chaotic air to flip **, until ** no longer became smaller.
The first step in refining the instrument: melting the material, removing impurities, has been completed. Next is the second step: shaping. Before that, Xiaoliu took out half of the fully melted silver tin and mixed it into the refined gold, then continuously stirred to make it evenly distributed. Only then did he truly begin shaping, starting with the sword hilt, followed by the sword guard, and finally the sword blade. Throughout the entire process, Xiaoliu was extremely careful, as evidenced by the strange-shaped instruments on the ground that were his experiments. The sword blade was completed without any deformities, but Xiaoliu still didn't relax. He had to take the remaining silver tin and turn it into a thin, even layer spread evenly over the sword blade. This is an extremely critical step, as if the silver tin is not distributed evenly, the flying sword will have defects, and when attacked, due to uneven stress, it will be more prone to breaking than without the addition of silver tin. Therefore, Xiaoliu was extremely cautious.
Fortunately, the previous experiments with other materials went smoothly, and Xiaoliu completed this task successfully. The silver-white color was evenly applied to the sword blade, which was originally black. Until now, Xiaoliu finally breathed a sigh of relief. Only one last step remained, also the most crucial step: engraving the spell array, which was also the most mentally exhausting step. Taking a light breath, Xiaoliu recalled all the spell arrays that needed to be added in her mind - three attack spell arrays and one defense spell array. These four spell arrays were already deeply ingrained in Xiaoliu's memory from her previous equipment refinement experience, and recalling them now was just to calm herself down.
Undo the Chaos Flame, first are three attacking spell arrays, and finally is a defensive spell array. Concentrate all divine consciousness, Little Meteor "swoosh swoosh", just a few moves to complete the deployment of the spell array. At the moment when the four spell arrays were fully deployed, Little Meteor forced out a mouthful of its own essence blood, dripping onto the flying sword.
In an instant, the flying sword emitted a burst of white light, and Xiao Liuxing's heart suddenly had an additional sense, a sense of the flying sword. "Success!" Xiao Liuxing's heart was filled with wild joy, finally succeeding after more than 20 failures. At this moment, Xiao Liuxing suddenly felt a wave of dizziness, and with a thud, he sat down on the ground. He hadn't expected that completely refining a flying sword would consume all his primordial energy and divine consciousness. "My cultivation is still insufficient," Xiao Liuxing sighed in his heart, then began to meditate with closed eyes. The external primordial energy surged towards him like a flood.
About an hour later, Xiao Liu Xing had fully recovered. He opened his eyes and smiled. This time, he not only successfully refined the flying sword but also upgraded his cultivation from Mid-Stage Valley to Late Stage! What a wonderful surprise.
Her heart skipped a beat, the flying sword that had been floating in the air after being refined flew into Xiaoliu Xing's hand. It wasn't until now that Xiaoliu Xing had time to take a look at the refined flying sword. The black hilt was one foot long and had some simple textures produced by the carved seal method, making it no longer appear dull.
The sword is one meter two long, with a few simple plum blossom patterns on it, which were specially painted by Little Meteor. Because Little Meteor likes this flower that only blooms in winter. The blade of the sword is silver-white, and at first glance, you can tell that it is very sharp. Moreover, from time to time, a gray light flows through the body of the sword, making the whole sword no longer look cold.
That was the chaotic air left in the small meteor's law array. "Top-grade treasure", the small meteor, who was no longer unfamiliar with the Xiu Zhen realm, immediately saw the level of the flying sword, which was very good, and it was worthy of being refined from fine gold stone and top-grade silver tin. It was worth it! The small meteor gave it a loud name "Meteor Sword", just like its own name, also its own destined flying sword. And so, the initial prototype of the Meteor Sword that would dominate the three realms and six paths in the future appeared in the world.
Xiao Liuxing couldn't help but gaze lovingly at the flying sword he had just refined, his heart bursting with excitement. Under his grandfather's influence, he had long yearned for a life of wielding a sword and roaming the jianghu, and now he finally had a sword of his own.
Controlling the flying sword to fly randomly in the air. Although it can't kill enemies thousands of miles away like a storyteller, 200 meters is still okay, this is the distance that Xiaoliuxing has tested and found that he can fully control the flying sword, exceeding this distance, it's a bit out of his power, but for Xiaoliuxing, there's no rush now, his current realm is only in the stage of "Bì Gǔ", when his own strength increases later, he can naturally let the flying sword be farther away from himself. With a movement in his heart, the flying sword flew back from afar and entered his dantian, the chaotic energy in his dantian wrapped it up after it entered. If the sword cultivators of the Xiūzhēn realm saw this scene, they would definitely be shocked and exclaim "Yù Jiàn"!
