Chapter 80 Weapon Forging
Spirit boats can fly simply by being infused with spiritual energy, and their speed is similar to that of airplanes. Higher-grade spirit boats can even be faster than airplanes.
With a spirit boat, the speed of human delivery can also become very fast.
However, the cost of building a spirit boat is very high. In addition to forging various parts, it also requires meticulous design of rooms and layout.
Li Chang'an didn't believe he had the talent for weapon crafting, and that it would take him a lot of time and effort to do it himself. Now that Yao Guang Xingjun offered to help him craft it, he couldn't be happier.
Yao Guang temporarily settled down in Xuanling Immortal Mountain.
During the day, after finishing his work in the fields, Li Chang'an would take the time to learn how to refine weapons.
Yao Guang found an open space outside Li Chang'an's house and took out her weapon-refining furnace.
Her refining furnace was also a magical artifact, the size of two rooms. In addition to the main furnace, there was a forging table, a four-square-meter quenching pool, and several storage boxes for refining materials piled in the corner.
Before refining a weapon, a blank needs to be made. The material of the blank is not limited. Nowadays, there are no natural spiritual objects in the Cangxuan Realm. Most weapon refiners use spiritual power to forge iron into refined iron, and then shape it to make a blank.
Alternatively, one can take newly grown wood that has been struck by lightning, refine it with spiritual power to make it into fine wood, which can also be used as material for crafting tools.
Those late-stage Foundation Establishment weapon refiners would also venture deep underground, where, if they were lucky, they could sometimes find rare black iron and forge spiritual weapons.
After listening to Yao Guang's explanation, Li Chang'an asked, "Can we use river mud to make the vessel blank?"
He pointed to the Ningjing River, saying that the river mud at the bottom was also imbued with spiritual energy and was relatively easy to mold.
Yao Guang nodded: "River mud from the Spirit River is fine."
Moreover, it's much better than refined iron and wood, and it even has spiritual energy.
"You..." Yao Guang's expression was complicated, "Have you considered selling this river mud?"
As soon as she finished speaking, Li Chang'an heard the long-lost sound of a sword ringing out.
“Haha,” Li Chang’an laughed, “We can’t sell it.”
He didn't know what was wrong with the restriction left over from his previous life, but whenever someone asked him a question, the black sword would react regardless of whether he agreed or not.
Li Chang'an was utterly helpless.
"Alright," Yao Guang could only sigh.
The Ningjing River is about ten meters deep. Li Chang'an wrapped himself in spiritual power, went down into the river and dug out a few pounds of river mud. He also caught two black-scaled fish, which he would eat for dinner later.
After dinner, Li Chang'an began learning how to make embryos.
The river mud is grayish-blue, has good stickiness, and doesn't feel rough or sandy to the touch; instead, it feels like touching fine silk.
Under Yao Guang's guidance, Li Chang'an began to mold the blanks of the food preservation box using river mud.
The mold blank is actually the mold for the final product.
Li Chang'an took out two large pieces of river mud and carefully dug out the shape of the box in the center, and dug out the lid from the other piece.
Once the vessel blank is shaped, it needs to be placed in a refining furnace to be fired.
"The temperature during the firing of the clay blank must be kept consistent at all times. If the temperature changes during the process, it will lead to failure in shaping or cracks," Yao Guang instructed.
"Does that mean we've failed?" Li Chang'an asked casually as he drew a fire talisman.
Yao Guang shook her head: "The final product will look bad."
Li Chang'an's hand trembled.
He chuckled and said, "Haha, it's good that it didn't fail."
There are no requirements for the fire used to burn the vessel blank; the fire talisman drawn by Li Chang'an is sufficient.
Three hours later, the firing of the vessel was completed.
Li Chang'an extinguished the fire in the furnace and placed a section of purple jade bamboo into it.
Yao Guang formed a hand seal and took out a small wisp of purple flame, throwing it into the furnace.
That was the Strange Flame. Tianxuan said that Yaoguang awakened the Strange Flame when she was chosen as one of the Seven Stars of the Alliance.
Different flames are a great help in alchemy and weapon crafting, enabling cultivators to remove impurities from materials more accurately and improve the quality of the final product.
A small wisp of strange fire burst into flames as it entered the furnace, engulfing both the artifact blank and the section of purple jade bamboo within it.
The purple jade bamboo will slowly enter the vessel blank under the catalysis of the strange fire, and eventually take shape.
Six hours later, the purple jade bamboo and the artifact blank were no longer visible in the refining furnace. Instead, a small box emitting a purple light floated quietly above the strange fire.
Li Chang'an quickly used his spiritual power to retrieve the small box and placed it in the tempering pool to cool it down.
When I picked it up again, the food storage container no longer shone; its body was like a piece of deep purple jade, and it felt cool and smooth to the touch.
The next step is to engrave a spatial array onto the semi-finished food storage box on the forging table.
After the spatial array diagram is drawn, it will be burned with strange fire for six hours.
Six hours later, Yao Guang put away the strange fire, and a complete preservation box floated out, emitting a faint glow.
Yao Guang's eyes widened suddenly, and she exclaimed, "This is... a seventh-grade spiritual artifact storage box!"
"A seventh-grade spiritual weapon?" Li Chang'an was somewhat bewildered.
"A seventh-grade spiritual weapon is close to a ninth-grade weapon; it must have been crafted by a Nascent Soul stage weapon refiner."
After sighing, Yao Guang pondered for a moment and said, "However, the food storage box isn't that difficult to forge. It only requires river mud from the Spirit River, top-quality refining materials, and my strange fire..."
She murmured, "That's why it's possible to forge a seventh-grade spiritual weapon."
The materials used were of high quality, so the final product far exceeded her expectations.
I originally thought the highest rank would be the fifth grade, but I never expected it to reach the seventh grade.
This was the first time that a spirit artifact of grade five or higher had appeared in Yao Guang's refining furnace. However, this spirit artifact was just a food storage box, which didn't sound impressive at all.
Therefore, while Yao Guang was happy, her feelings were also quite complicated.
Li Chang'an didn't care about all that. He didn't care whether the magical artifact was powerful or not. For him, the best thing was what he needed and what was useful.
He looked at the food storage box in his hand with some surprise.
He probed with his divine sense and found that the storage box of this seventh-grade spiritual artifact actually had a spacious area of over a hundred acres and a height of about a hundred meters. Even if all the vegetables he had planted were harvested at once, this storage box could still hold them all.
Li Chang'an was greatly encouraged and planned to refine a few more food storage boxes to replace the storage boxes in the warehouse.
Storage boxes can only store items and do not preserve food. Their advantage lies in the fact that they do not require a refining furnace. Now that there are better food preservation boxes, it is time for them to be replaced.
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It took Li Chang'an more than twenty days to refine a total of ten storage boxes, all of which were seventh-grade spiritual artifacts.
He spent some time rearranging the warehouse, and the space that was originally crammed with storage boxes now only had ten food storage containers, making it much more spacious.
After that, Li Chang'an began refining spirit mustard.
When he sculpted the spirit mustard seed vessel, he still shaped it into a box. After all, he had sculpted ten fresh food storage box vessel blanks and was already very experienced in sculpting box-shaped molds. He could sculpt them quickly and well, with the box walls being extremely smooth.
Crafting a Spirit Mustard Box is more difficult than crafting a Fresh Storage Box. Excluding the initial shaping process, there are three steps involved, requiring three sections of Purple Jade Bamboo.
The first section of purple jade bamboo was fired together with the vessel blank. After the spirit mustard box was initially formed, it was taken out, a spatial array diagram was carved on it, and then it was put into the furnace with the next section of purple jade bamboo to continue firing.
The spatial array diagram required for Lingjie is much more difficult to construct than that for a food storage box.
After the second section of the purple jade bamboo has been completely integrated into the spirit box, it must be taken out again to inscribe a spirit-gathering talisman.
The basic manual already provides instructions on how to draw the Spirit-Gathering Talisman, which Li Chang'an has practiced quietly in his spare time.
However, drawing this talisman during weapon crafting is completely different from regular practice.
From the very first stroke, Li Chang'an felt his spiritual power surging wildly towards the Spirit Box. By the time he finished the last stroke, all his spiritual power was exhausted.
A spirit-gathering talisman is a talisman master's spiritual power used to create a spiritually imbued environment within a spirit space.
Of course, the more spiritual power a talisman master has, the more concentrated the spiritual energy will be in the final product's spiritual space.
After finishing drawing the spirit-gathering talisman, Li Chang'an was already covered in cold sweat.
He put the Spirit Mustard Box and the third section of Purple Jade Bamboo into the furnace and saw the strange fire burn even more fiercely, and the Spirit Mustard Box gradually became shiny in the fire.
It took half a month to forge a Spirit Mustard Box, and the final product was a sixth-grade spiritual artifact.
Although it wasn't as high-grade as a food storage box, Li Chang'an was already very satisfied.
He couldn't wait to probe with his divine sense.
The first-class Lingjie is 10 square meters in size and has unlimited height.
For spirit mustard seeds below the fifth grade, the space size of each grade is three times that of the previous grade.
For spirit mustard seeds of grade five and above, the size of each grade is only twice that of the previous grade.
The sixth-grade spirit box is 1620 square meters in size, and the space is surrounded by a faint blue light.
After checking it over, Yao Guang confirmed that there was spiritual energy inside. Even if a spirit beast egg were put in now, it would absorb the spiritual energy and hatch successfully.
There are no spirit beast eggs available now.
Li Chang'an simply put a chicken and an egg inside, observed for a long time, and found that the chicken was still in good condition. Under his spiritual guidance, the chicken even hatched a chick as usual.
Li Chang'an withdrew his divine sense with satisfaction and put the two chickens, one big and one small, back into the chicken coop.
His initial request was to refine the Preservation Box and the Spirit Mustard, which has now been completed.
In the days that followed, Yao Guang began to build the spirit boat.
The spirit boat requires more refining materials, and Li Chang'an can only supply the main material, purple jade bamboo. The other materials are all taken out by Yao Guang from the storage box next to the refining furnace.
Feeling indebted to her for providing so many refining materials, Li Chang'an gave her some spirit rice and spirit-grade vegetables.
One by one, the intricate parts were forged in the furnace and then assembled.
Most of those parts were made of metal, and the clanging sound of Yao Guang forging fine iron could be heard every day in Xuanling Immortal Mountain.
On the forging table, from assembling fragmented parts, a prototype of a spirit boat gradually took shape.
Finally, Yao Guang began to forge the shape of the spirit boat.
The shape of the spirit boat was made entirely of two purple jade bamboos and some ordinary trees.
Using purple jade bamboo as the main framework, the tree was shaped into planks and placed in the refining furnace to be forged together, forming the hull of the spirit boat.
It took more than four months to complete a spirit boat. Another winter came to the Cangxuan Realm, but the Xuanling Immortal Mountain remained as springtime as ever.
Early that morning, before dawn, the mandrill, who was having a sweet dream while lying on the soft bed, was startled awake by Yao Guang's excited voice:
"Tianxuan! Li Chang'an! The spirit boat is ready, would you like to come and see it?!"
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