Chapter Twenty-Three: The Scorching Sword
When he got up on the second day, Liangchen found that he got up an hour later than usual, and it was already getting dark.
He hurriedly got up, meditated, and found that his mana did not seem to have increased, but his spirit was much better than before.
It's as if the long-term fatigue finally put down everything and slept a lazy nap that woke up naturally.
He didn't know if he had succeeded in entering the meditation realm in the end, although he didn't feel the increase in mana, but he was refreshed!
"Could it really be that the increased mana is too subtle to be felt? Forget it, I don't want to, wait and ask Uncle Ye. Liangchen thought in his heart.
After the morning exercise, the sky was already bright, and he practiced another set of swordsmanship.
Uncle Ye pushed the door out and saw Liangchen practicing swords in the courtyard.
"Nephew Liangchen, did you enter the meditation realm last night?" asked Uncle Ye.
"Uncle Ye, my nephew was about to ask you. Liangchen stopped the sword move in his hand and said.
"My nephew fell asleep last night according to what you said, and I don't know if it was a dream or a meditation realm, and I felt like I finally turned into a point of light and flew up. Liangchen said.
The realm of meditation depends on the person, and there is no definite number of what he imagines himself to be. Then when you wake up in the morning, do you feel that your mana has improved?" said Uncle Ye.
"I didn't feel the increase in mana, but I just felt relaxed and refreshed!" replied Liangchen.
"Meditation increases mana and restores the spirit. As a matter of common sense, this should be a sign that you have successfully entered the state of meditation. It is normal that the mana has not increased, and this meditation method is very subtle to the increase of mana, and it needs to be accumulated over time to have an effect. For a while, where can I feel it!" Uncle Ye said.
"This is really a gratifying thing, it is a step forward for you to improve your mana as soon as possible and start refining weapons. Uncle Ye said happily.
"This meditation method needs to be built before it can be cultivated. Do you know why?" asked Uncle Ye.
"My nephew doesn't know. Liangchen replied.
Because this meditation is the method of communicating heaven and earth, only after the foundation is built, can it be regarded as the real entry point of cultivation, and only then can it be regarded as having the key to open this meditation realm and enter the meditation realm.
The reason why you can succeed is probably related to the foundation you have built.
Although you later fell to the realm, on the other hand, you only fell with mana, and the key is still there.
Of course, this is just my guess, after all, it is rare to see a situation like yours. Uncle Ye was not sure.
"Whatever the reason, it's good to be able to make some progress. I hope you don't slack off!"
In this way, Liangchen followed Uncle Ye to set up shops during the day, and used some ore waste materials to practice refining tools in his spare time, and sometimes Uncle Ye refined magic weapons, and watched and studied on the sidelines.
As the mana increases, the refining methods become more and more proficient.
The most noteworthy thing is that the means of operating the flame are even more handy, and it has reached the point where Uncle Ye is also amazed.
And during this time, Liangchen even thought of asking Uncle Ye to help refine the first two steps: smelting and condensation, and directly carry out the last step of quenching.
But I don't know if it's because the cooperation is not skilled enough, or the technology is not mature enough, or this is simply not the way to work.
After scrapping more than a dozen swords, none of them succeeded, but they learned all the quenching steps.
The cold comes and the summer comes, and the eagle flies and the rabbit goes. It's been another half a year.
On this day, Uncle Ye received a guest, bought a few swords in the store, and ordered another sword.
When encountering such orders for customized swords, Uncle Ye depends on the situation.
If you can do it yourself, you will take the order, prepare your own materials, refine your own, and earn some other income.
If it is a sword that has a relatively low success rate and is difficult to refine, or a spirit treasure that exceeds the scope of one's ability, the order will be sent to the family for the family to refine.
If the amount is small, it will be introduced to other familiar stores and earn a little introduction fee.
This guest, the customized magic weapon is a high-grade fire attribute magic weapon Scorching Blade. The materials have been prepared, and Uncle Ye asked for a handling fee of 1,000 gold.
If you can refine it successfully at one time, you can earn this thousand spirit gold.
If it fails once, the materials will cost hundreds of gold, and you won't make much money.
If it takes three times to succeed, you need to post the book.
Fortunately, the fire attribute magic weapon is Uncle Ye's best magic weapon, and after thinking about it, he decided to refine it himself.
Uncle Ye took Liangchen to the Burning Fire Workshop again, paid the spiritual gold, and the two entered the Earth Fire Room, first opened the fire of the earth veins, and sacrificed the fire tripod out of Yunding.
Uncle Ye took out the materials one by one and placed them on the table.
Then he began to explain several materials to Liangchen.
"The main ingredient of the Scorching Blade is this fiery sandstone, which is found in extremely hot places, such as the depths of the desert, or volcanic areas. The color is orange or light red, and it contains extremely rich fire spiritual power, which is a common material for refining general fire attribute magic weapons. ”
Ye Lao pointed to a few long strips of yellow ore on the table and said.
"These two pieces are garnets, fire attribute gemstones, and their color is generally purple or blood red, translucent or transparent. It is mostly produced in magma. An auxiliary ingredient for refining fire-attribute magic weapons. ”
Ye Lao pointed to two pearls the size of an egg and translucent like purple grapes.
"These are citrine, which are formed by the gathering of fire aura that is expelled by the fire sand stone during molding, and are generally associated with the fire sand stone.
This vial is the blood of the Fire Lion Beast. Middle-level demon beasts, living in groups, spitting fire and spitting smoke, are invincible during the foundation building period. ”
Uncle Ye then briefly explained the items on the table one by one.
After the introduction, Uncle Ye took out a small bluestone mill from the storage bag, grinding it to the size of an apple, and handed it to Liangchen.
"Grind those citrine. Be sure to grind it finely. Uncle Ye commanded.
Liangchen answered yes and took Xiao Mo over. I took a citrine and put it in the grinding heart and turned it slowly.
"Citrine is born from the gathering of the aura of fire, and it contains extremely rich aura, which is easy to lose after polishing, so it must be made on site. Uncle Ye said as he checked several other materials.
"The amount of flint and garnet is ten to one. Uncle Ye picked up the fire sand stone in his hand and weighed it a few times, and then picked up the garnet.
"It's not detailed enough. Go ahead. Ye Lao checked the citrine powder he had ground again.
It took more than an hour for a few citrine to be polished, and Uncle Ye poured the citrine powder into the blood of the fire lion beast, and added a few other materials to let Liangchen mix evenly.
After another hour, the quenching material was ready, and the other materials were ready.
As a few pieces of fire sand stones slowly flew into the fire ding, Uncle Ye began to officially refine the sword. When the fire sand stone entered the fire ding, it was quiet in the ding, so two hours passed, and there was no change, but it turned from orange to dark red.
"Fire sand stone itself is born in hot places, so it is extremely resistant to high temperatures and takes a long time to melt. Ye Lao said.
After two hours, the sand stone finally began to melt, and the melting speed was also very slow, and it took nearly two hours from the beginning of the melt to the complete melting.
The melted fire sand stone is like a ball of blood, and various granular impurities are constantly overflowing.
In this way, it took another half an hour before the refining of the fire sand stone was completed, and then the garnet was put into the ding.
The garnet became unusually bright as soon as it reached its peak, and after only an hour it began to melt into something like magma.
Seeing this situation, Ye Lao controlled the two and began to fuse.
I saw that the fire sand stone and the garnet seemed to have found a companion, and as soon as Fang touched them, they were intertwined, and finally slowly turned into a cloud of purple begonia-colored liquid.
Then after waiting for about half an hour, Ye Lao began to form the condensate.
Three hours later.
A big sword that was red all over and looked like it was made of magma slowly took shape!
The hilt is on the top, the tip of the sword is on the bottom, the sword is three feet long, the sword body is about four fingers wide, and it slowly widens about five fingers forward to one-third of the way, and gradually converges into the tip of the sword at two-thirds of the way.
The sword grid is three fingers wide and half a foot long, with a diamond-shaped stop at each end.
Because it is a two-handed sword, the handle is held with more than one finger, and the end of the hilt is refined into a flame pattern.
The sword shape is square, which gives people a sense of oppression!
Uncle Ye began to control the temperature of the flame to drop, and the magma-like sword gradually turned dark red, so that it took about half an hour before Uncle Ye sacrificed the blood of the quenching beast and fell on top of the sword, pouring down.
The beast's blood splashed a cloud of red mist, as if it was about to spread, but an invisible hand grabbed them, so that they could not escape, and finally slowly gathered around the sword, forming a cross-shaped blood mist.
The blood mist close to the sword was gently adsorbed on the sword, and a slight sound of "Z" lifted a wisp of red smoke, and the sword was like a magnet to suck the red smoke into the sword body.
In this way, as time passed, the thousands of blood mist particles wrapped in them slowly became thinner and less few.
One hour, two hours, three hours, until the fourth hour, the blood mist disappeared.
And the blade had turned purple-red like a coagulated blood clot.
The flames in the ding became smaller and smaller, the temperature slowly dropped, and the temperature of the sword body became lower and lower.
Uncle Ye controlled the flames more and more subtlely, and his forehead was already slightly sweaty.
Liangchen knew that the critical moment had come, and stared at the giant sword in Dingzhong with bated breath, sensing the changes in the sword and the surrounding aura.
With a sound of "Whew-", the flames in the leylines that had gradually become smaller suddenly became larger, rising two or three feet high, and rushed straight to the roof!
Liangchen was stunned for a moment, thinking that Uncle Ye was controlling the flames out of control, and suddenly a powerful suction force appeared out of thin air, and he hurriedly resisted!
But I saw that the giant sword in the fire sucked up the flames that erupted from the room like a whale sucking water, as if closing the door of the earth's fire.
A crimson sword, hanging quietly in the air!