Chapter 155: The first weapon refining
After leaving the courtyard of Ling Nong Jinchuan, Li Qing found out a lot of information and felt very satisfied.
However, he did not rush to find the old miner immediately, but returned to his small yard.
At this time, Fan Tong had eaten and drank enough, and lay down to rest happily.
“Although the lifespan of monsters is generally relatively long, the bloodline of this beast is indeed too bad.”
Li Qing looked at Fan Tong lying down and sighed leisurely, thinking that if he did nothing, Fan Tong would probably not be able to stay with him for more than a hundred years.
However, he still has one hundred and seventy-nine years of life left, and it will be even longer as he starts refining magic weapons.
“Alas, it seems that I still have to buy some animal feeding pills to feed it.”
When I first entered the world of immortality, there were places where spiritual stones were spent, and I hadn’t felt guilty about money for a long time. Li Qing, who had a headache, finally realized his poverty.
Suddenly, the sense of urgency to earn spiritual stones surged up.
"Now that I have obtained the inheritance of weapon refining, I can find a way to refine some magical weapons and sell them."
But now he suffers from not having more spiritual materials, so he can only refine ordinary iron. After thousands of hammerings, it was forged into the prototype of the magical weapon.
Even if such a magic weapon is refined, it is at best a low-grade magic weapon, not even a high-grade magic weapon.
“It’s just a good time to practice my skills with mortal iron, and I’m just in time to try spirit quenching and inscription patterns. Even if it’s a low-quality magic weapon, I should be able to sell it for dozens of spirit stones, right?”
Li Qing pondered for a while and thought that this idea was correct.
It is impossible to get rich by working for others.
Now that he is staying in the Liu family, in the final analysis, it is to be able to enjoy the rich aura of this place and to get in touch with other immortal cultivators.
With the eagerness to earn spiritual stones, Li Qing spent the first night comfortably in his own small courtyard.
The next morning, a clear and crisp call of a spiritual bird resounded.
Li Qing woke up from a sweet sleep, feeling refreshed and energetic.
He set up the pot, took out a small bowl of spiritual rice that Jinchuan had given him yesterday, and put it in the pot to cook.
Spiritual food like this does not require any complicated cooking procedures. It only needs to be cooked, and it is a treasured delicacy.
Li Qing was very economical and only poured half of the spiritual rice, preparing to cook a pot of sweet spiritual rice porridge for himself.
The crystal clear spiritual rice has distinct grains in the pot, and the abundant spiritual energy contained in it has not leaked out with the cooking.
For a long time, a wisp of fragrance overflowed from the pot. Just smelling it made Li Qing feel salivating.
Regardless of the fact that the porridge was still very hot, Li Qing couldn't wait to take a bite.
As soon as the first mouthful of spiritual rice porridge in his life was put into his mouth, Li Qing felt a rich sweetness emanating from his tongue and teeth.
Soon, strands of spiritual energy seeped into Li Qing's body, making him feel relaxed and happy.
Eating this kind of spiritual rice is not only a taste enjoyment, but also makes him feel very satisfied and comfortable mentally.
“No wonder so many people choose to be spiritual farmers, and the Liu family also accepts everyone who comes.”
"This spiritual rice is really a good thing. It would be great if I could eat this every day. A bowl of it every day can replace a lot of time spent in meditation!"
Li Qing sighed and kept talking. The other two ate the entire small bowl of rice porridge they cooked, and even licked the bottom of the bowl clean, not wanting to waste any of it.
After enjoying the spiritual rice porridge, Li Qing did not waste time and sat down directly cross-legged and began to immerse himself in the time of cultivation.
The sun gradually climbed high into the sky, and towards afternoon, Li Qing opened his eyes and ended this short practice.
He looked around vigilantly, and after making sure that the restrictions in the yard were intact, he told Fan Tong to look after his home, and returned to the small building alone.
After waiting for a while, Li Qing returned to the polar night world in a secret room.
He stored a set of blacksmithing tools that he once kept in Shengtian here, including the Peerless Hammer and the Wandering Dragon Dagger, but he didn't take them with him.
I am just worried about being noticed and making people miss me.
After all, the Wandering Dragon Dagger is a prototype of a middle-grade magic weapon. It is made from two kinds of spiritual materials, so it is easy to be targeted.
Li Qing moved a set of forging tools back to his yard and prepared to open the furnace to forge the weapon.
"We are already at the second level of the Qi refining stage. I will try to refine inferior magic weapons for the first time, but there will be no problem."
"However, it is not easy to expose the fact that I have the inheritance of weapon refining. "Go out, in the world of immortality, the inheritance of such skills is much more precious than I imagined."
Li Qing is very self-aware, and with his current strength, he will definitely not be able to maintain such a situation. Set of inheritance.
And in the inheritance, there is also a water-wrapped weapon refining map. If it is exposed, even the Liu family may target him.
The skills of cultivating immortals, especially the four types of alchemy and talismans, are each more important than the last.
"Let's try refining something simple first." Li Qing breathed out softly, then lit the fire and started refining a magic weapon for the first time in his life.
Li Qing snapped his fingers, and a fireball appeared out of thin air.
Boom!
The flames rose in the forge, the temperature rose rapidly, and the red fire made Li Qing's face turn red.
He put the iron ingot into the furnace, and after it burned for a while, he took out the hammer early and started forging. When he tried refining for the first time, he didn't plan to refining any attack-type magic weapon. Instead, he planned to refining some simple ones first so that he could warm up his hands and become familiar with the process.
Soon, the red iron ingot was forged into a round iron plate.
After repeating this process, Li Qing refined a total of three iron plates, and then he overlapped the three iron plates and continued to forge them.
He planned to forge these three iron plates into one piece to strengthen the thickness of the iron.
With hammer after hammer, sparks kept shooting out. Under the action of the unparalleled hammer and Li Qing's huge force, a circle was slightly thicker in the middle, thinner around, and slightly concave inward. The shaped iron plate gradually takes shape.
"Let's call this thing a heart-protecting board."
As the heart-protecting board gradually cooled down, Li Qing's expression immediately became solemn, and his eyes revealed an unprecedented seriousness.
The forging has been completed, and the next step is the second step of soul quenching!
This is an indispensable step before the inscription. If you want the spiritual pattern to be successfully engraved on mortal iron, you must use your own spiritual power to temper it, making mortal iron spiritual.
Li Qing took a deep breath. He pressed one hand on the iron plate, closed his eyes tightly, and patiently stimulated the spiritual power in his body.
He was carefully sensing the structure of this iron plate. The internal structure of this iron plate, which was forged by him, was clearly presented in Li Qing's mind.
The next moment, the pure spiritual power in Li Qing's body began to penetrate into the iron plate.
He strictly followed the requirements and tempered them extremely carefully.
Not long after, Li Qing's palm trembled, stopping the penetration of mana.
“Phew! Where the three iron plates were smelted together, the penetration of mana suddenly became stagnant.”
The first spirit quenching ended in failure!
Fortunately, Li Qing's shape-forging level has reached its peak, and his body did not collapse due to a failed soul quenching.
The inferior magic weapon, the prototype of the heart guard, is still intact.
Li Qing continued to repeat the steps just now and continued to temper his spiritual power without feeling bored at all.
After all, it is ordinary iron, not one of those spiritual materials that are born with spirituality. The difficulty of tempering the spirit can naturally be imagined.
In fact, the vast majority of weapon refiners, like Li Qing, practice spirit quenching with mortal iron.
If you can successfully temper ordinary iron and give it spirituality, then the difficulty of tempering other spiritual materials in the future will definitely be reduced a lot.
In the following time, Li Qing failed many times for various reasons.
Either the mana input was interrupted, or the amount of mana was not controlled well, either a little too hastily or a little too slowly.
All in all, the difficulty of soul tempering was much higher than he imagined.
Finally, when the little spiritual power in Li Qing's body was about to be exhausted, he finally completed the spirit quenching on this iron plate, which was no more than the size of a palm.
"Ha! It's done!"
Li Qing wiped the sweat from his forehead. This was much more tiring than forging, the kind of exhaustion that was exhausting both physically and mentally!
“Just completing the quenching of a palm-sized iron plate consumes all the spiritual energy in the body. It is really an exaggeration.”
“If we refine other larger magic methods in the future, I’m afraid the second-level cultivation of Qi Refining is not enough!”
While complaining, Li Qing looked at the half-finished magic weapon in his hand with a satisfied look.
Spirit quenching is successful. This heart-protecting plate forged from ordinary iron also possesses spirituality. Next, spiritual patterns can be engraved on it.
Now that it is a semi-finished magic weapon, it actually already has a certain degree of defense and can slightly resist some weak magic attacks.
However, Li Qing's inner complacency did not last long, and then his confidence was completely dispelled by the step of inscription.
The spiritual patterns engraved on the magic weapon are divided into many types. Although he has learned about the weapon refining inheritance, now that it is time to actually do it, his mind is at a loss.
"Well, let's start with the most basic five-element spiritual patterns."
Li Qing muttered to himself and chose two types of inscriptions, earth and gold, both of which are used to enhance defense. .
After briefly recalling the types of inscriptions introduced in the inheritance, Li Qing opened his eyes and placed his finger on the heart guard.
Actually, this process is a bit like painting a talisman, but what is different from painting a talisman is that there is no fixed pattern for the inscriptions on the weapon. What kind of magic weapon you want to refine depends entirely on the creativity of the weapon refiner.
Unless there is a weapon refining map similar to the elixir recipe, refining a magic weapon depends on the performance of the weapon refiner.
A knowledgeable and experienced weapon refiner not only needs to be able to recognize various spiritual materials and know their characteristics, but also needs to understand many types of spiritual patterns.
Then combined with the characteristics of the spiritual materials, and then engraved with different spiritual patterns, to give full play to the properties of these spiritual materials.
Even in this process, it is necessary to consider the mutual generation and restraint of yin and yang and the five elements.
This is why there are always people in the world of immortality saying that alchemists and talisman masters only need to use resources to accumulate, while formation masters and weapon refiners need to look at their individual talents.
The former has practiced a lot and strictly followed the steps of the elixir, and can always achieve the goal of practice making perfect.
But the latter requires a little bit of understanding.
(End of this chapter)