txolops Chapter 30 Taibai's Weapon Refining
Chapter 30 Taibai's Weapon Refining
The sound of the Dao gradually subsided, and all living beings remained in meditation.
Taibai didn't urge him. He quietly got up, went to the mother tree of Da Hong Pao tea, picked three tea leaves and put them into a teacup.
As hot water is poured in, wisps of white steam rise, and a unique aroma of tea fills the air.
Taibai gently blew on the hot tea, then slowly drank the bright orange-yellow tea.
The moment the tea entered his stomach, Taibai realized that the impurities in his magical power were being purified little by little, and his physical body and understanding of the laws were constantly improving.
He immediately seized this opportunity and entered a deep meditative state.
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Time passes unnoticed in the mountains; why should one care about the seasons when cultivating the Tao?
When Taibai opened his eyes, the morning mist over Wuyi Mountain had gathered and dispersed countless times.
At this moment, the fire law within his body was cleansed of the last trace of impurity, becoming perfectly pure and quietly illuminating his dantian.
Taibai carefully observed the increasingly clear and scorching imprint of laws within his primordial spirit, inwardly praising it:
"As expected of Wuyishan Da Hong Pao, its inherent power is indeed rich and profound."
This single act advanced my overall understanding of the Five Elements principle by 20%.
The gains this time go far beyond the improvement of the Five Elements.
More importantly, the Law of Fire was purified once again.
Now, his physical body has advanced to the second stage of the Profound Technique.
According to his calculations, if the five elements can be continuously circulated among the five internal organs for a long time, even if one does not deliberately cultivate for the next 100,000 years, the nourishment from this internal circulation day and night will be enough to naturally propel the profound skill into the third stage.
"We definitely chose the right path."
A feeling of joy swept through his mind, but it did not stir any waves within him.
His gaze swept over the creatures around him, whose breaths were gradually returning to normal. A thought stirred within him, and naturally arose in his mind:
"This could be a good opportunity to test the effects of combining the purified Fire Law with the Jade Void Refining Technique..."
After all, Master Yuanshi once said, "I do have some talent in the art of weapon crafting."
With this in mind, Taibai no longer hesitated and immediately began preparations according to the "Jade Void Refining Technique".
"The way of refining weapons requires innate spiritual objects as a catalyst, a furnace as the vessel, and the primordial spirit as..."
But after reading only the first few sentences, he realized something was wrong.
He did not carry any materials for refining weapons with him.
After a moment's thought, he got up and headed deep into the Wuyi Mountains to search for materials for refining weapons.
After searching for several hours, Taibai finally placed several hundred innate spiritual items in front of him and then sat down cross-legged.
Such materials are not considered precious in the primordial world; even if they were left in the wilderness, those with slightly higher cultivation levels would not bother to pick them up.
Although he is the incarnation of the innate Geng metal, his ability to identify metal-elemental spiritual materials is practically instinctive.
But to be on the safe side, he still did not intend to use the real treasures, but only to try with these rough pieces.
"We have the spiritual materials, but the furnace cauldron..."
But when he looked around, he didn't see a suitable furnace. If he were to refine a furnace now, it would be too time-consuming.
As I was pondering this, a sudden flash of insight struck me, and a thought came to mind.
Taibai pointed his fingers like a sword and made a sweeping motion in the air.
In an instant, the ground in front of them cracked silently, and a neat pit appeared out of thin air.
"This pit should also be usable as a furnace."
Taibai nodded slightly, composed himself, and mobilized the power of the Five Elements Laws within his body.
He flicked his finger, and a wisp of Samadhi True Fire leaped into the deep pit. Then, he formed a hand seal and ignited the Wuyi Mountain fire.
In an instant, the flames in the pit blazed brightly, as the Samadhi True Fire and the Earth Fire merged and fused together, transforming into a golden-red inferno.
Taibai teleported the gold ore and threw it into the pit.
He did not refer to the smelting techniques in "Jade Void Refining Techniques", but instead relied on his own perception of metal-elemental spiritual objects to probe the interior of the ore with his primordial spirit power.
This is done to remove every impurity from the ore.
At this moment, the sky above was filled with thick, inky clouds.
The demon saint Guiche stood with his hands behind his back on the cloud, his gaze lowered, quietly watching Taibai's figure.
Beside him, the bloodstains on Gui Ke's chest were still wet, his face was pale, but he still managed to maintain a resentful aura.
He couldn't help but chuckle, his tone laced with sarcasm:
"Father, what's there to see? A mere Golden Immortal, picking up some scrap spiritual materials, using a ditch as a furnace, dares to dream of forging treasures? He's just making a fool of himself!"
He clutched his chest, which was heaving with excruciating pain, hoping his father would take him away to heal his wounds soon, rather than watching this "child's play" here.
However, Guiche remained unmoved as he listened to his son's words, still quietly looking down.
In fact, he did not believe that Taibai could forge any extraordinary treasures, and it was even uncertain whether it could be made into a complete artifact.
But he did not voice this thought.
After all, this son is too arrogant. If we continue to indulge his desires, he will likely become even more ignorant of the immensity of heaven and earth and cause great trouble sooner or later.
Seeing that his father remained silent, Gui Ke assumed he was giving his consent and, suppressing his pain, continued:
"Father, let's go. He can accurately remove impurities from the gold essence, but that's just because he has the instinct of being a natural Geng metal essence."
"Hmph, using oneself as a mirror to refine something of the same origin as oneself... that's rather cold-blooded."
"Father?"
Below, Taibai was completely absorbed in refining the weapon, oblivious to the gaze coming from the heavens.
Once the last impurities were stripped away and burned away, under the fusion and tempering of the Samadhi True Fire and the Earth Vein True Fire, the primordial golden essence finally began to melt, turning into a pool of golden liquid.
Guided by his thoughts, Taibai controlled the condensation, stretching, and shaping of this golden liquid.
Gradually, the prototype of a sword emerged from the fire, with a straight spine and the first glimpse of its edge.
Having reached this crucial step in weapon crafting, Taibai suddenly understood, and a profound realization arose from the depths of his primordial spirit:
I am truly gifted in the art of weapon crafting.
With his current Golden Immortal cultivation level, the probability of him successfully refining an acquired spiritual treasure is at least 40%.
However, the quality of the materials available is limited, which has become a bottleneck.
If forced to continue, it will at most become a celestial artifact, but will hardly be classified as a spiritual treasure.
Taibai understood that the material was insufficient to support the inscription of the restriction, so he immediately calmed his mind and used the "Jade Void Refining Technique" in his Purple Mansion to find a solution.
After reading it only once, Li Bai already had a plan in mind.
He immediately threw the remaining spiritual materials he had found into the pit furnace.
However, these materials did not fuse directly with the sword blank.
Instead, they manipulated them to float in the flames a few feet away from the sword embryo.
At this moment, he needs to use the Samadhi True Fire as a catalyst to extract the primordial power from all the materials.
He made hand seals, his entire focus on the several clumps of spiritual materials floating in the flames.
His focused state was so intense that even the numerous Wuyi Mountain cultivators who had quietly gathered around did not notice him at all.
However, the difficulty in separating the remaining materials from their original source was far greater than expected.
It took Taibai several times longer than usual to barely complete the extraction, but the obtained essence still contained impurities, which he could not completely remove with his current cultivation level.
He no longer insisted on purity, and decisively drew upon the four strands of origin, slowly channeling them into the sword embryo according to the principle of mutual generation of the five elements.
After a long time, those origins successfully merged and became the origin of the sword embryo.
Within the flames, a three-foot-long sword had taken shape, with five-colored light subtly flowing across its blade.
The moment the longsword appeared, Taibai began to circulate the power of the Five Elements Laws within his body, continuously injecting restrictions into it.
As the restriction was applied, the longsword began to change, and patterns related to the five elements began to appear on its blade.
Taibai imbued this spiritual treasure with a total of ten restrictions, placing it among the top-grade spiritual treasures of the later world.
As soon as the longsword was completed, Taibai immediately activated the Five Elements Laws, his ten fingers flying as he imbued the sword with the restrictions of the Five Elements Dao.
As the restrictions were gradually imprinted layer by layer, natural Dao patterns corresponding to the Five Elements gradually emerged on the surface of the sword:
Sharp metallic patterns, winding wood grain, flowing water ripples,
The leaping fire cloud patterns and the steady mountain rock patterns are intertwined and form a hidden cycle.
With the blessing of ten restrictions, this treasure, though classified as low-grade, possesses all five elements and has a solid foundation.
Among them, the five restrictions lay the foundation for the rotation of the five elements, and the five restrictions are specifically responsible for the extreme killing power of Geng metal.
Therefore, the Dao patterns on the sword are most prominent in Geng metal runes, with its sharpness surpassing all other elements and dominating the entire situation.
Because of these restrictions, the sword's offensive power is comparable to that of a mid-grade acquired spiritual treasure.