txolops Chapter 59 Mysterious Fire Mirror
Chapter 59 Mysterious Fire Mirror
Lu Xuan nodded in agreement: "That's only right. I'll give Fellow Daoist Luo three months to prepare. I'll send someone to invite him to my cave at that time." With that, he got up to take his leave.
After seeing Lu Xuan off, Luo Ming immediately returned to the depths of his cave, holding the jade bottle and pondering, "It seems this person has become aware of the existence of the Fat Sun Bird, and is trying to curry favor with me to get my help in refining a magical artifact. I just wonder what kind of artifact could make him pay such a price. Could it be a magical treasure?"
But he quickly dismissed the idea. How could a Foundation Establishment cultivator possibly go to the trouble of crafting a magic weapon? After pondering for a while, Luo Ming felt that with his current strength, he would be in no danger unless he encountered a Core Formation cultivator.
Summoning the impatient Zhiyang Bird to his side, he opened the jade bottle, and a violent fire-attribute aura rushed out. Upon smelling the aura, the Zhiyang Bird's eyes lit up and it let out an excited cry.
Luo Ming chuckled and immediately drew out the essence blood from inside. Just as he was about to feed it to the Zhiyang Bird, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration. He separated a small clump from it and put it back into the jade bottle, giving the rest to the Zhiyang Bird.
As the essence blood entered its body, the Fat Sun Bird instantly burst into flames of white fire, its surface shimmering with light as it began to fully absorb the primal power within the essence blood. Luo Ming set up a spirit-gathering array nearby, providing ample spiritual energy support for it.
He originally thought it would take three months for the Zhiyang Bird to break through, but its foundation far exceeded his expectations. Just one month later, a strong spiritual energy fluctuation erupted in the cave. The Zhiyang Bird's body grew slightly larger, and the temperature of the supreme yang fire around it rose another level. It had successfully broken through to the third level of demon beast!
After the Zhiyang Bird broke through, its spirituality increased, and the power of its supreme Yang fire also surged. Luo Ming was overjoyed to see this, feeling that his strength had increased again.
However, there were still two months until the agreed time, so he wasn't in a hurry. Instead, he devoted all his energy to cultivation, honing his magical power while nurturing the Fire God's Thorn within his soul.
The thought of the pain of severing his own consciousness made Luo Ming feel uncomfortable all over. After failing twice, he finally succeeded in refining one.
Two months later.
As agreed, Luo Ming arrived at a pavilion in the center of the town and met Lu Xuan, who was chatting and laughing with an old man in white.
"Fellow Daoist Luo, this is Elder Bai, the one who possesses the Flame Sparrow." Lu Xuan stepped forward and introduced him, then introduced Elder Bai, "Brother Bai, this is Fellow Daoist Luo Ming. His demonic beast can provide us with the third type of top-tier spiritual fire."
Elder Bai glanced at Luo Ming and was surprised to see that he was already at the mid-Foundation Establishment stage at such a young age. He then nodded slightly and said, "Fellow Daoist Luo is young and promising. With your help, Brother Lu's Xuanhuo Mirror refining project will be much more successful."
Luo Ming responded modestly, and the three of them, without further delay, entered the pavilion. Lu Xuan walked to the ground in the center of the pavilion, raised his hand and cast a spell in front of him. The stone wall in front of him rippled like water, revealing a stone staircase passage that could only accommodate one person at a time. The passage walls were inlaid with glowing fluorite, illuminating the darkness below.
"The refining site is deep underground in the market, where there is a natural fire vein. I have already carved out a stone chamber here and set up a fire control array to stabilize the power of the flames," Lu Xuan explained, taking the lead as he descended the stone steps. Luo Ming and Elder Bai followed closely behind, and as soon as they stepped into the passage, they felt a scorching heat rushing towards them.
Descending the stone steps for about a hundred steps, the view suddenly opened up, revealing a spacious stone chamber carved from an underground fire vein. In the center of the chamber, a crimson fire vein meandered and coiled, with leaping flames illuminating the entire chamber in a fiery red glow. Surrounding the fire vein were array flags shimmering with spiritual light, clearly the fire-controlling array Lu Xuan had mentioned.
"I have completed the embryo of this Xuanhuo Mirror. It took me several years to slowly inscribe the runes inside. Now only the final step of spirit infusion remains. I will have to rely on the spirit beasts of you two in the future."
As soon as he finished speaking, Lu Xuan made a hand seal and pointed at the fire control array flags around him. The array flags immediately shone brightly, controlling the release of the earthly fire below.
"It took several years to inscribe the array runes inside. Could the Xuanhuo Mirror be some kind of magical artifact material?" Luo Ming couldn't help but wonder.
He now understood why the other party valued this treasure so much; it turned out they wanted to refine a semi-finished magic weapon, still at the level of a top-grade magic artifact, similar to the Qiankun Pagoda of the Yan Family Fortress.
As for why it is called a semi-finished product, it is mainly because although the main body is a material for magic weapons, its power is far from that of a magic weapon. If one of these three spirit beasts reaches the fifth level, then its power can definitely barely reach the level of a magic weapon. Now it only has the foundation to grow into a magic weapon.
He couldn't help but admire the other party's ambition. Once this treasure was finished, if it were nurtured by the Earthly Fiend Fire for a long time, it might actually become a magic weapon. However, he was a little puzzled as to why the other party would spend so much to refine this item. Shouldn't they have tried to advance to the Core Formation stage with the resources they had?
Lu Xuan then took out the Xuanhuo Mirror and slowly placed it into the groove in the center of the formation. As time passed, under the scorching heat of the Earthly Fiend Fire, the Xuanhuo Mirror gradually turned into something resembling red crystal.
At this moment, Lu Xuan turned to Luo Ming and Elder Bai: "Fellow Daoists, you can now activate the demon beast spirit fire! The spirit fire must be precisely injected into the mouths of the three beast heads on the Xuanhuo Mirror, and then I will use a secret technique to control and fuse them."
Elder Bai nodded first, raised his hand and summoned a demonic beast with crimson feathers, resembling a sparrow but several times larger, which flew out of the storage bag. It was the Flame Sparrow.
"Chirp!—" The Flame Sparrow let out a soft chirp, opening its mouth to spit out a blazing crimson sun fire. The flames flew like arrows towards the Flame Crystal. Immediately afterward, Lu Xuan released the Fire Toad. The Fire Toad, as large as a millstone, puffed out its cheeks and spewed out a ball of eerie green flames, which intertwined with the crimson sun fire and surged toward the Flame Crystal together.
At the same time, Luo Ming had a thought and commanded the Zhiyang Bird. The blazing white pure yang fire roared out, and the three spiritual fires converged inside the Xuanhuo Mirror, forming a three-colored fire ring that could be seen through the Xuanhuo Mirror.
Seeing this, Lu Xuan quickly manipulated the formation to guide the three-colored fire rings, which slowly contracted, coiled, and finally merged into the Xuanhuo Mirror.
The entire refining process is extremely dangerous, requiring constant control over the power and fusion rhythm of the spiritual fire. The slightest mistake could cause the three spiritual fires to clash.
Of the three, Lu Xuan was the one who expended the most energy. Not only did he have to control the input of the Fire Toad Azure Flame, but he also had to constantly control the fusion of the three spiritual flames in the Profound Flame Mirror, which greatly consumed his divine sense.
Time passed slowly, and after an hour, Lu Xuan's face had turned somewhat pale. He quickly took a moment to swallow a recovery pill.
Another quarter of an hour passed, and when the last wisp of spiritual fire completely seeped into the mirror, the Xuanhuo Mirror suddenly burst out with a dazzling three-colored spiritual light. After the spiritual light subsided, an object about a foot in size, shaped like a bronze mirror, with mysterious fire patterns engraved on its surface and three ferocious beast heads on its back, floated in the array, appearing extremely agile.
"It's done!" Lu Xuan panted heavily, his voice tinged with exhaustion but unable to hide his excitement. "The Profound Fire Mirror is complete. It only needs to be nurtured in this fire control array for a few days to completely stabilize its power. It's a pity I don't have any pill fire to nurture it, but even so, its power is already among the top-grade magic artifacts."