One of the reasons why Li Shiming decided to go into seclusion this time was to refine the flying sword.
You should know that the 'Meteoric Gold Stone' he obtained is enough to refine ten flying sword magic weapons.
Even with the help of the Silver Corpse Nanming's 'Nanming Lihuo', he didn't know how long it would take to successfully refine the ten flying sword magic weapons.
Of course, due to his natal magic weapon IBMz15, the process of refining the flying sword magic weapon would not affect his other tasks, not even the alchemy.
He opened the design from his life-saving magic weapon, IBM z15. The file of the design was extremely large.
In the computer room, Li Shiming's nano-level manipulation has increased from 27 nanometers to 10 nanometers. This is the result of his overall quality improvement after he was promoted to the middle stage of the Golden Core.
The flying sword magic weapon refined this time has magic runes inside that are prepared to be engraved using a 10-nanometer control force.
When he started to refine it, melting the meteorite gold stone, which he had thought was the most difficult, turned out to be extremely simple.
The Nanming Lihuo of the silver corpse Nanming, within the range of power that the Tiangang Four Phases Formation could withstand, took only ten breaths to melt the 'Meteorite Gold Stone'.
He melted several prepared third-grade metals using the Nanming Lihuo and mixed them with the 'Meteorite Gold Stone' to form a third-grade alloy with multiple properties.
Since the Nanming Lihuo is strong enough, there is no need to add any catalyst during the entire melting process, making the third-grade alloy extremely pure.
Li Shiming used his spiritual power to separate one-tenth of the third-grade alloy. The Silver Corpse Nanming lowered the temperature of the Nanming Lihuo a little, allowing one-tenth of the third-grade alloy to solidify. His spiritual power turned into an iron hammer and continuously forged the third-grade alloy.
At this time, the number of brains involved in refining the device increased to four. After forging, the third-grade alloy soon became exactly the same size as the IBMz15 design drawing.
The error will not be greater than 10 nanometers, which is the theoretical limit he can achieve and he has achieved this limit in actual operation.
Although it has not yet been attached to the magic, one can feel that this flying sword is perfect just by looking at it. The curvature of the sword body, the length of the sword body and the hilt have all been extensively analyzed and studied by IBMz15.
The design of the flying sword was derived from a large amount of knowledge on refining equipment, as well as the flying sword magic weapons made by predecessors, combined with the scientific theories of previous lives.
When he actually saw the appearance of this flying sword magic weapon, Li Shiming felt that this was how it should be.
The next step is to attach spells. The more runes attached to spells, the better the effect will be.
However, when he was refining a second-grade spiritual weapon before, due to the limitation of materials, the number of runes he could attach to it was greatly restricted.
This time, the quality of the third-grade alloy reached the ultimate third-grade, allowing him to fully exert his abilities.
Adhering to the philosophy of sword cultivation, flying swords and magic weapons will not carry any special abilities. Although such flying swords and magic weapons have some special power, they are easily restrained.
In the philosophy of sword practitioners, only the purest flying sword magic weapon, with the most basic additional skills, can unleash the power of the sword practitioner's sword intent.
Although Li Shiming is not a pure sword cultivator, he intends to refine a flying sword magic weapon that conforms to the sword cultivator's philosophy.
He arranged the solid rune, acceleration rune, sharp rune, flexible rune, spirit storage rune and air-breaking rune in the six positions of the six-line formation.
Each rune is drawn with 10-nanometer lines. Although the lines are too thin, which reduces the material consumption during the engraving process and weakens the effect of each rune, this engraving method can produce tens of thousands of times more magical runes for flying swords than normal means.
It can be said that the magical runes he engraved on the sword blank were so clear that most Jindan cultivators would not be able to see them even if they held them in their hands. Only those who practiced secret methods to enhance their eyesight would be able to see the magical runes.
His method of refining equipment has exceeded the scope of equipment refiners. Not to mention the equipment refiners in the Jindan stage, even the Yuanying ancestors cannot achieve the same level of equipment refining as him.
If he didn't have the 'Divine Eyes', the computer room space, and his life-saving magic weapon IBM z15, he would never have been able to achieve 10-nanometer control capabilities and apply this control ability to refining equipment.
The Nanming Lihuo maintains the temperature, so that the sword blank is always at a hardness that can be engraved.
Starting from the tip of the sword, he engraved one six-line formation after another and arranged them into a larger six-line formation combination.
This was the first time that Li Shiming refined a magic weapon in this way. Although there was a simulation analysis of his natal magic weapon IBMz15, which gave a success rate of 100%, there were still some differences between the actual result and the simulation.
Fortunately, there were a lot of materials for refining this time. He could take out a sword blank to practice. Even if he failed, he wouldn't have too much regret.
His brains were devoted to the work of engraving. Completely different from other refiners, what consumed him most of his time was not melting the refining materials, but engraving.
Even though he invested more than a hundred brains, leaving only a small number of brains to maintain his alchemy and cultivation, it still took him ten days to complete the engraving of his first flying sword magic weapon.
There is no way to speed up the process of engraving on a sword blank. You can only increase your brain input and distribute the engraving work.
Ten days later, Li Shiming held a flying sword magic weapon in his hand. Since he made it himself, his spirit was integrated into the refining process, making the flying sword magic weapon in a state of being 100% refined by him after it was refined.
This flying sword, which he named "Flowing Star", was flashing with strange light all over.
The light on the "Flowing Stars" is emitted by the six-line formation, and the six-line formation is composed of magical runes that are so tiny that they cannot be seen by the naked eye.
On the tiny flying sword magic weapon, 360,000 six-line formations were drawn with 10-nanometer lines, and each six-line formation was composed of six magical runes with different effects.
Just as he was holding the flying sword magic weapon, he suddenly looked up at the sky. This flying sword magic weapon that had just been successfully refined seemed to be rejected by the rules of heaven and earth, and a thundercloud appeared in the sky.
The appearance of thunderclouds naturally attracted the attention of many cultivators of Shushan Sect.
But when they discovered thunderclouds appearing on Chijian Peak, they no longer paid attention to it.
If this thundercloud appeared somewhere else, it might be a cultivator preparing to survive the thunder tribulation, but when it appeared at Chijian Peak, it was most likely one of Li Shiming's refined corpses preparing to survive the tribulation.
A year ago, Li Shiming made many refined corpses survive thunder tribulations one after another, and the monks in the sect have not forgotten about it.
Just as they thought so, Ancestor Zuo flew to the outside of Chijian Peak, quietly hovering in the air and watching the thunderclouds.
Elder Su paid special attention to Li Shiming. Even though he guessed that it was most likely Li Shiming's corpse refining to survive the tribulation, he still came over.
"Greetings, Elder Zuo!" Elder Su bowed and greeted Elder Zuo.
“Su boy, you have taught a good disciple who has achieved brilliant results in alchemy. I didn’t expect that he is equally extraordinary in refining equipment!” Patriarch Zuo looked at the thunderclouds, shook his head and sighed to Elder Su.
"Ah, is this a weapon disaster?" Elder Su was stunned. He said in disbelief.
No wonder he was surprised, weapon robbery is extremely rare.
Most of the time, weapon disasters will occur when refining a fourth-grade magic weapon.
As for refining a fourth-grade magic weapon, only an old Nascent Soul ancestor can do it. If for no other reason, the fourth-grade refining materials need the Infant Fire to melt.
Not to mention, it is impossible to control a fourth-grade magic weapon without a Nascent Soul.
Li Shiming was only in the middle stage of the Golden Core Realm. If he said he could refine weapons, Elder Su would believe it. But if he said that Li Shiming had refined a fourth-grade magic weapon, Elder Su did not believe it.
The truth is that no matter how powerful a middle-stage Jindan is, he cannot melt fourth-grade refining materials.
Even if Li Shiming had fourth-grade refining materials, he should not have started refining in the Jindan stage. Even if he succeeded in refining, he would have to at least be promoted to the Yuanying stage before he could use it.
"It is indeed a weapon calamity, but it doesn't look like the weapon calamity of a fourth-grade magic weapon!" Old Ancestor Zuo was also a little confused, and he shook his head and said.
Ancestor Zuo didn’t know much about weapon disasters.
His four magical weapons were passed down from the sect.
Although the Nascent Soul ancestors have the ability to refine fourth-grade magic weapons, fourth-grade refining materials are too rare. Generally speaking, even if they obtain them, they will also find a way to use these fourth-grade refining materials to exchange for fourth-grade refining materials that are more suitable for them from other Nascent Soul ancestors.
This has led to the fact that many Nascent Soul ancestors of large sects have never refined a fourth-grade magic weapon for themselves in their entire lives. After all, through the sect's inheritance, they can always inherit a suitable fourth-grade magic weapon.
This is the case with Patriarch Zuo. His understanding of the weapon calamity came from the scene of the weapon calamity he witnessed with his own eyes when he visited a Yuanying Daoist friend who successfully refined a weapon many years ago.
The weapon disaster that Li Shiming encountered here was obviously different from that one.
The power of this thunder tribulation was far less than that one. It was obvious that this was a thunder tribulation targeting a third-grade magic weapon.
This is even more rare. If a third-grade magic weapon can trigger a weapon calamity, it means that the third-grade magic weapon is beyond the scope allowed by the rules of heaven and earth.
The rules of heaven and earth will bring down thunder tribulations. A third-grade magic weapon will become more powerful if it survives the thunder tribulations. It will be allowed to exist and rewarded by the rules of heaven and earth.
With a loud "boom", a bolt of lightning fell straight to the top of Chijian Peak.
The 'Flowing Star' in Li Shiming's hand seemed to have a spirit and flew towards the thunder on its own initiative.
Powerful sword intent erupted from the Liuguang Xingyue Flying Sword. This was the lightning sword intent that Li Shiming had introduced into the sword body before. Unexpectedly, the Liuguang Xingyue Flying Sword would actually store it in the sword body to fight against the heavenly thunder.
Li Shiming looked at Liuguang Xingyun worriedly. This was the flying sword magic weapon he refined and it had already recognized its master. Although it was not his natal magic weapon, if Liuguang Xingyun was damaged, he would also suffer certain mental damage.
In addition, it took him ten days to successfully refine this meteorite. The energy consumed alone made him reluctant to let the meteorite be damaged.
The thunder from the sky struck the sword body of Liuguang Xingyun. Densely packed six-line formations appeared on the surface of the sword body, blocking the bombardment of the thunder from the sky.
Three hundred and sixty thousand solid runes made the small sword body incredibly strong.
Even when facing heavenly thunder, the sword was protected and did not suffer any damage.
Instead, the soul storage rune took the opportunity to absorb a lot of heavenly thunder power and stored it in the sword body.
The thunderstorm came quickly and disappeared quickly. The thunderclouds dissipated after one strike.
Li Shiming waved his hand, and the falling stars flew back into his hand.
After experiencing the thunder tribulation of Liuguang Xingyue, the sword body seemed to have some changes. The sword body carried a sharper sword intent and contained the breath of heavenly thunder.
This new sword intent, which is a fusion of the heavenly thunder and lightning sword intent, is derived from his sword intent and is naturally extremely compatible with him.
He stretched out his finger and tapped lightly on the sword, and a bolt of heavenly thunder sword intent flowed along his finger into his body.
His body trembled slightly, but his face showed surprise.
Although he has not yet comprehended the Heavenly Thunder Sword Intent, he has sensed a direction. He only needs to continue to comprehend the Heavenly Thunder Sword Intent in the flowing stars, and his lightning sword intent will gradually transform into the Heavenly Thunder Sword Intent.
All along, there has been a huge gap between his sword intent and the extremely yang sword intent of his clone Li Yuanba.
Especially in terms of the power of sword intent, even if Li Yuanba did not rely on Xing Yijian to enhance his sword intent, his Zhiyang sword intent was several times more powerful than Li Shiming's thunder and lightning sword intent.
But as long as Li Shiming comprehends and masters the Heavenly Thunder Sword Intent, he will be able to catch up with his clone Li Yuanba in terms of sword intent.
Heavenly thunder is the power manifested by the rules of heaven and earth. The rules of heaven and earth will send down thunder of different powers according to the different levels of life forms.
What Li Shiming sensed was the Jindan-level heavenly thunder. Although its power was not very great, heavenly thunder was the nemesis of all life. No matter who the cultivator was, he had to prepare himself in advance before facing the heavenly thunder.
In particular, the power of the Heavenly Thunder Sword Intent will continue to increase as his sword intent increases.
Li Shiming was just about to continue to comprehend the Heavenly Thunder Sword Intent on the falling stars, but he discovered Patriarch Zuo and Elder Su outside the Sword Holding Peak formation.
He didn't know what had happened, but he actually alarmed Old Ancestor Zuo and quickly flew out of the formation.
"No need to salute, show me the magic weapon you just refined!" Old Ancestor Zuo waved his hand to stop Li Shiming from saluting. His curiosity was aroused, and he was eager to see what kind of third-grade magic weapon could actually trigger a thunder tribulation.
If other cultivators asked for this, Li Shiming would definitely not agree.
But facing Ancestor Zuo, he did not have the strength to oppose. Besides, it was impossible for a dignified Nascent Soul Ancestor to steal a third-grade magic weapon from him.
What Li Shiming didn't care about the most was that he didn't plan to refine only one Flowing Star Meteorite, but ten. Even if Ancestor Zuo didn't return it to him, he still had nine.
Patriarch Zuo took the falling star. With his ability in the Nascent Soul stage, he could clearly see the six-line formation on the falling star, as well as the tiny magical runes that made up the six-line formation.
"Although you can refine powerful magic weapons and enhance your own combat power through refining weapons, you cannot invest too much time in it. I'm afraid it took you a long time to refine this flying sword magic weapon?" asked Old Ancestor Zuo, shaking his head.
He knew that Li Shiming had inherited the "Divine Eyes" of Qianye Temple. After seeing the densely packed runes on the falling stars, he believed that this was the weapon that Li Shiming had spent several years to refine.
Perhaps all his previous time in the mortal world was spent on this flying sword magic weapon. He was worried that Li Shiming would shift his focus, which would affect Li Shiming's path of cultivation.