Although the White Jade Immortal Lotus Root cannot compare to the Ginseng Fruit Tree in the temple, which is a spiritual root of heaven and earth, it still has the miraculous effect of bringing the dead back to life and healing flesh and bones. Even if an immortal falls, as long as this item is used to forge the limbs, the physical body and primordial spirit can be rebuilt. It is a rare treasure!
Moreover, this thing only grows in the Daoist temple of the Primordial Celestial Venerable. How could this little immortal have so many?!
Dragon balls are not rare items. Ordinary carp can transform into dragons by walking into the Dragon Transformation Pool in the Heavenly Palace. However, the dragon balls formed in this way are inferior, with little spiritual energy, not to mention that they are not suitable for refining weapons.
Upon closer inspection of these ten dragon balls, each one was a first-rate treasure, brimming with spiritual energy and radiating a lustrous glow. It should be known that dragons are proud and would rather die than easily spit out their pearls. To have so many dragon balls, one would probably have to kill dozens of dragons on the spot...
Thinking this, the bronze beast looked at Xu Milu with an increasingly strange gaze.
(Ao Moang: There's no other way. The kids at home are clamoring for spirit vegetables. We don't have enough spirit stones, so we'll use dragon balls instead. Anyway, these things are renewable, and another one will grow in two years. I'm so happy.)
But it couldn't dwell on its shock. Then it saw the little fairy pull out several dark, shimmering scales from her sleeve, as beautiful as jade and emerald. Instantly, its eyes practically glued to them.
It was actually the shell of a giant turtle shedding!
Before, Nuwa mended the sky, cutting off the giant turtle's legs to support the heavens and earth, making it the pillar that reaches the sky. Since then, the bloodline of the giant turtle in the world has been severed, and the giant turtle beast has never been seen in this world again. Even Zhenyuan Daxian only has a few giant turtle shells in his hands, and each one he uses is one less.
This junior actually has one too!
Looking at the pile of exotic beast cores (magical beast crystals) and refined steel (firestones) that resembled a small mountain, although they were not as rare as the previous refining materials, the bronze beast was still unable to figure out the origin of these two items for a while.
"It's actually the Six Ding Divine Fire and Phoenix Feathers?!"
Upon seeing the last two items, the beast's facial markings shrunk together, its once proud tail shrank behind it, and its voice became shrill, as if it might faint at any moment from the shock.
He even possesses the Six Ding Divine Fire of Laozi! Has this person robbed the treasure vault of the Tushita Palace?!
And those phoenix feathers, the blood on them hasn't even dried yet!
Could it be that it guessed right, and the person was indeed being slaughtered right in front of it?
Slaying dragons and phoenixes, and you still say you haven't been corrupted by the murderous aura of this deadly blade?!
There are only a handful of true phoenixes still alive in the world today, and they are all related to the one in the Western Paradise. Yet this female immortal's expression is calm, as if she has only taken out half a chicken wing.
"What's wrong?"
Xu Milu didn't care about the bronze beast's attitude of being arrogant at first and then obsequious, but seeing the old artifact spirit's expressive face, she couldn't help but have a mischievous thought. So she pretended to be surprised and said:
"To my shame, ever since I conceived the idea of reforging the broken sword, I have been diligently collecting materials for weapon forging. However, while rare and precious materials are easy to obtain, materials suitable for forging a treasured sword are hard to find. In the past six months, I have only managed to collect these. I humbly request that you, senior, begin the forging process for me—"
"Sure, sure, cough cough cough—"
The bronze beast feigned composure and didn't even look at Xu Milu. Then, it flicked its tail, and the furnace in the hall roared and hummed. The huge furnace lid slowly flew into the sky, revealing the unfathomable furnace hole below.
"roar!!"
With the roar of the bronze beast, a tiny flame appeared in the center of the Creation Furnace. Seeing this, Xu Milu had a flash of inspiration and sent the flickering flame in her palm toward the furnace hole.
In the next instant, the entire Creation Furnace seemed to come alive. Light purple flames rose from the center of the furnace, and flames burst forth from the furnace mouth. A scorching heat wave swept across the entire hall, and the nearby gold, stone, and jade bricks turned into flowing light golden liquid in an instant.
"Grandpa Hou, save me!"
"What kind of fire is this! It's so powerful!!"
"It's so hot! It's so hot!!"
The terrifying heat startled the little demons watching the fire, causing them to retreat repeatedly.
Just as Xu Milu was about to intervene to block the heat, she saw the bronze beast on top of the Creation Furnace open its mouth wide and inhale sharply!
The other animal patterns carved on the furnace body began to move, and the heat was immediately drawn back into the furnace body. The liquid gold and stone on the ground slowly cooled down and turned into the shape of jade flowers.
So this is the power of the Creation Furnace?
Xu Milu secretly admired it. She knew that the Six Ding Divine Fire was the divine fire used by Laozi to refine elixirs. Although it was only a small flame, its power was not something that ordinary refining furnaces could withstand. Yet this bronze beast could easily control the flame, which showed its skill.
The bronze beast, having absorbed its fill of flames, closed its eyes comfortably, lazily sprawling on the furnace, refusing to move.
"Little brat, hurry up and put the hundred-refined steel and the giant turtle shell into the furnace! This fire will burn for twenty-eight days to refine these materials, removing the dross and keeping the essence. I will guard the furnace for you these next few days, so you can think carefully about how to forge your knife!"
"Okay, thank you, senior!"
Xu Milu knew that the other party was willing to help refine the materials, which would give her more time to prepare for the final step of reforging the broken sword, so she immediately agreed.
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Refining artifacts involves using the true essence of fire to condense the materials of the world and extract their finest elements to create precious artifacts; it is by no means an easy task.
But the seventy-two transformations passed down by the Monkey King are truly domineering. Just considering the four transformations of sitting in fire and spitting flames, and manipulating pills and talismans, there are many smaller transformations within them, not to mention alchemy, blacksmithing, and extracting the essence of medicine.
In Sun Wukong's own words:
Having learned these seventy-two transformations, one must study them daily and ponder them monthly. Once the techniques are mastered, one can understand all techniques with a single method. However, refining weapons and alchemy is a slow and painstaking process. Even if the master leads you through the door, the disciple must strive to succeed on their own, grinding tofu over many years before achieving anything.
Xu Milu wholeheartedly agreed.
As you can see in so many cultivation novels, not a single cultivator who refines weapons or pills can achieve mastery quickly.
Needless to say, alchemy requires a huge amount of resources to refine weapons, feeding them batch after batch of discarded artifacts.
However, Xu Milu's refining of this weapon was blessed with several advantages: firstly, she had superior materials; secondly, she possessed the Six Ding Divine Fire of the Supreme Lord Laozi; thirdly, she had the permission of the Great Immortal Zhenyuan to use the Heaven and Earth Limitless Creation Furnace in the temple for refining; and fourthly, she had the assistance of the bronze beast spirit. It can be said that the right time, the right place, and the right people all came together.
Even if they couldn't forge an unparalleled immortal sword, they could certainly reforge the Yin-Yang Sword in a standard and conventional way.
During the first seven days, the materials put into the furnace did not change much except for flint and refined steel.
These two items were not small in size, but under the tempering of the Six Ding Divine Fire, the truck-sized waste flint was condensed into a fist-sized stone, and the hundred-refined steel was also turned into a ball of molten steel that floated and sank in the furnace.
The white jade lotus root had become even softer, like clumps of white clay. As for the shell of the giant turtle, the phoenix feathers, and other parts, they still lay quietly in the fire without moving.
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