Chapter 1 Rebirth

  After resting for a night and restoring his spiritual energy to its best state, today was the day he would start crafting his first spiritual artifact. After a night of contemplation, Chen Xuan still decided to make this knife his own destined treasure.

  Since his debut, this knife has been with him all the time. If he were to change another weapon, he would have to adapt again, so in the end, he decided to refine this knife into his own destined magic treasure.

  It's not yet considered a life-bound artifact, and it can only be stored in one's own body when it reaches the Yuan rank. However, this doesn't prevent it from being refined into a Ling artifact. At that time, I'll infuse my soul into it to make an artifact spirit. In the future, when this sword advances to the Yuan rank, its power will also become even greater.

  Arriving at the specially designed room for refining equipment and elixirs, the room was very large, roughly over 200 square meters. Chen Xuan took out all the materials for refining equipment from his ring.

  Pyrrhotite, Cinnabar, Celestial Demon Blood, Jade Essence, Heavenly Water Wood...

  All sorts of materials were laid out on the table, all of which were obtained by Chen Xuan from the outer disciples who were killed by Tianmo on the battlefield of Tianmo. The collections of these disciples were all taken away by Chen Xuan, and some were also taken from Sanlang's body. These people had collected for several years to collect so many materials, and in the end, they all benefited themselves cheaply.

  Re-read the equipment refining technique again, not everyone can refine equipment. If the refining technique is incorrect or the materials are operated in reverse order, it may result in material waste at best and complete destruction of the entire weapon at worst, and even lead to a furnace explosion, causing the entire spiritual device to explode.

  What is meant by refining equipment is to infuse these materials into one's own weapon, and then through some complex hand seals, engrave various formations on the weapon. The more powerful the formation, the greater the might of the spiritual instrument will be. Everything is now ready.

  With the knife suspended in mid-air, Chen Xuan used the Lianqi hand technique to bring out the first material, Tianmo Blood. This was also what Lao Li had told him, originally there wasn't this item, it was all brought up by Lao Li. First, infuse the Tianmo Blood into the Lingyuan, allowing the Lingyuan to undergo a variation and be able to absorb materials on its own.

  Because the Tianmo can only evolve by absorbing various materials and human essence, it will be much simpler if successful. However, since ancient times, many people have added Tianmo blood when refining equipment, but none of them have succeeded.

  The Tianmo blood does not belong to the refining material, once the Tianmo blood is added during the refining process, the spiritual instrument will be scrapped. After so many years, Lao Li has come up with a set of special handprints that can restrain the Tianmo blood through speculation, and only this set of handprints can decompose the Tianmo blood.

  Chen Xuan's hands formed a mysterious handprint, injecting the Tianmo blood into the interior of the Zhanma knife. Various arrays were engraved on it, and the Zhanma knife emitted a humming sound, constantly trembling as it tried to expel the Tianmo blood.

  "Chen Xuan, hurry up and divide a piece of your soul into the interior of Zhan Ma Dao as its instrument spirit. Without an instrument spirit to suppress it, the Tian Mo blood won't be able to fuse with Zhan Ma Dao." Lao Li reminded him.

  Chen Xuan hastily separated a small piece from his own soul and sent it into the Zhan Ma Dao, at which point the Zhan Ma Dao slowly calmed down. Is this the inside of the Zhan Ma Dao?

  Chen Xuan's soul entered the interior of the Zhan Ma Dao, and the Tian Mo blood clashed left and right, wanting to escape from within the knife. If the Tian Mo blood didn't enter the body of the knife, this knife would soon become scrap metal.

  The Devil's Blood contains the Devil's Spirit, ordinary people can't dissolve the devilish nature of the Devil.

  "Give me alchemy."

  Chen Xuan's Heavenly Demon Blood struck out with over a thousand symbol seals, and only then did the Heavenly Demon Blood begin to show signs of disintegration. Slowly but surely, it merged with the Slashing Horse Knife, and soon the brown blade began to transform into a blood-red color.

  "It's now."

  Chen Xuan put the various materials on the table into the interior of Zhan Ma Dao in order, and after striking out ten million symbol seals to refine these materials, the materials melted away bit by bit, all the materials were absorbed by Zhan Ma Dao, and Zhan Ma Dao was also undergoing a shocking transformation.

  The blade is three inches longer than before, the width of the knife has increased by one finger, and the thickness has increased by one centimeter. The entire blade emits a blood-red glow, making it even more eerie.

  Chen Xuan repeatedly carved various arrays on the knife, the more arrays there were, the greater the power, but when carving the arrays, it was also extremely consuming spiritual energy. The spiritual energy in Chen Xuan's dantian quickly disappeared, and for two days now, Chen Xuan had already carved tens of thousands of arrays on the knife.

  Chen Xuan had not stopped yet, if he were to replace the ordinary Lingwu realm with his own spiritual instrument, at most a few thousand arrays would be engraved, and the spiritual power would be insufficient. However, Chen Xuan's dantian had a tripod furnace that was constantly absorbing spiritual energy for him.

  The blade grew smaller and smaller, as if compressing itself. A large amount of impurities left over from the previous forging process were squeezed out of the blade, making it even more compact. The tip of the blade emitted a piercing screech, like an excited, yet starving heavenly demon.

  The entire knife was about to fly out of Chen Xuan's control when he shouted, "Come back!" and grabbed the whole blade again with one hand.

  "Merge me."

  The final step, thoroughly infusing his soul into the blade, from then on no one could take this sword away. When Chen Xuan's separated soul was fully merged with the sword, he felt a flesh-and-blood connection to it.

  Rumble.

  A dark cloud appeared above Chen Xuan's head, and suddenly a bolt of lightning struck the newly forged knife, causing it to emit a shrill whine. The knife's spirit was severely injured.

  "Chen Xuan, this is a heavenly tribulation. Only when one breaks through the Tianling realm will they encounter a heavenly tribulation. The sword you have refined has been rejected by heaven and earth, and heaven and earth are intolerant of it. Heaven has sent down a heavenly tribulation to destroy this sword, which is an evil sword."

  Lao Li shouted in Chen Xuan's mind.

  Bolts of lightning struck the newly forged sword, causing cracks to appear on its body. Chen Xuan saw that his newly forged slash horse knife was about to be shattered by the lightning and loudly shouted.

  "If heaven wants to reject me, I will fight against heaven; if earth wants to abandon me, I will destroy earth."

  Ten thousand yuan ling dan were swallowed by Chen Xuan, and the spiritual power in his dantian was frantically recovering.

  "Give me the key."

  Chen Xuan frantically stamped various seals onto the blade, stabilizing it. Every time the blade was split by lightning, Chen Xuan would stamp his handprint to restore it, and the blade became increasingly dense, expelling all sorts of impurities from within.

  Lightning seemed to be enraged too, from the initial bowl-mouth-thick lightning, it turned into bucket-thick lightning, one after another hacking towards the magic knife, the blade emitting a mournful whistling sound.

  Chen Xuan's clothes had long been burned clean by the lightning, and now the lightning was not only striking the sword body, but also seemed to want to destroy Chen Xuan together. Chen Xuan's physical body was also suffering from the lightning attack, his entire body had already begun to crack open, with golden blood constantly flowing out. Chen Xuan seemed to be unaware of the pain in his flesh, and frantically struck millions of talismans onto the sword body to stabilize it and prevent it from being destroyed by the lightning.

  After a day and night of thunderstorms, the thunder and lightning slowly began to disperse, but the dark clouds above still had not dissipated. The waves surged up again.

  "Chen Xuan be careful, this is brewing the final blow, you must be careful, the final blow is even more terrifying than a thunderstorm on a summer day." Lao Li reminded Chen Xuan.

  Chen Xuan once again took out 10,000 elixirs from the ring and swallowed them down, and the spiritual energy in his dantian was restored once more.

  A red lightning bolt shot down from the dark cloud, and the entire cave's air produced a thunderstorm factor. The air emitted crackling sounds, and even the air was mixed with lightning. What kind of lightning is this that's so terrifying?

  "Thunderbolt through the heart."

  Chen Xuan's mind was filled with unbelievable thoughts about Lao Li.

  "Boom."

  The entire cave shook as lightning struck the knife.

  "Give me a kiss."

  Chen Xuan let out a loud shout, the red lightning was absorbed by the Zhan Ma Dao, and the remaining lightning all entered Chen Xuan's body. Chen Xuan spat out a mouthful of blood, the red lightning went crazy inside the sword, destroying it, and every time it destroyed something, Chen Xuan recovered once.

  I'll use this Heart-Piercing Thunderbolt as my spiritual artifact. The first nutrient to be absorbed, Chen Xuan actually wants to refine the thunderbolt and merge it into the blade. This is too crazy! Lao Li has already become numb. This kid is too crazy, he didn't expect that adding the Tianmo blood to the spiritual artifact would produce such a huge reaction, suffering from the backlash of the Heavenly Rules, wanting to destroy this spiritual artifact.

  The lightning that entered Chen Xuan's body was wreaking havoc on his physical body, and every time it destroyed his body, Lao Li would use the Soul Stone to repair it once. The vibration of the knife also slowly stopped.

  The lightning finally disappeared, and the reddish-brown Zhanma knife floated in mid-air. Chen Xuan sat on the ground, staring at the floating Zhanma knife. At this moment, there was not a single bit of spiritual energy left in his dantian. He had consumed 100,000 dan medicines in just one day and night to withstand all the lightning. If he hadn't exchanged for 200,000 dan medicines this time, the knife would probably have been destroyed by the lightning.

  Each time the Soul Stone is repaired, Chen Xuan's physical body can be seen to have tiny particles of lightning attached to every cell, and the movement of the cells becomes faster.