The room was instantly filled with a dazzling array of light attribute materials, emitting a faint soft light on the ground.
Refining ink, to be precise, should be regarded as a necessary pre-step for card making.
However, in daily card making, especially low-end star cards, most commonly used inks can be purchased directly on the market, and card makers prefer to buy ready-made ones.
The ink used to upgrade [Morning Star] is made of more than 40 kinds of materials. Of course, it cannot be regarded as regular ink, so Lu Li could only do it himself.
Lu Li's eyes focused on the storage cards on the table.
Among the several star cards that contained the reference book, there was a star card of a different color.
——Ink refining tools are stored inside.
The steps for refining ink are not complicated.
After hundreds of years of development, card makers have summarized a set of semi-automatic refining processes and invented a complete set of corresponding tools.
Therefore, compared to drawing star symbols and star trails, the skills required to refine ink are not worth mentioning at all.
Unless special materials are used, the card maker basically only needs to ensure that the furnace is not fried when performing this step.
The star card flashed, and a transparent can-shaped device appeared on the table.
Lu Li gently tapped the surface of the device with his index finger knuckle, making a crisp sound of "knock, knock, knock".
"Is it really such a bargain?" He rubbed his chin and muttered to himself, "But it is enough for refining materials below level four."
Star Card Association does have a lot of money, but it is not stupid.
If you carelessly place an instrument worth millions of star coins in the card-making room, it will be easy for others to take advantage of you.
——After all, there are no cameras in the card-making room.
Of course, generally speaking, card makers will bring their own ink refining equipment. Only card makers like Lu Li, who buy ready-made ink to make low-end cards all year round, have little need for ink refining equipment.
Lu Li opened the upper lid and poured a tube of light blue liquid into the inner tank.
This is the ink solvent.
Materials that can be refined into ink generally have good solubility, and low-level materials can even be dissolved with pure water.
But this upgrade requires too many materials. It would take a whole tank of water to refine the ink.
This unique ink solvent solves this problem very well. Just one small tube can contain more than fifty kinds of materials. It is the only magic weapon for card makers to refine ink.
After the liquid covered 2/3 of the inner tank, Lu Li inserted the plug of the device into the wall socket.
Yes, the operation of refining ink is so down-to-earth.
The device will continuously convert star power into thermal energy, heating the inner tank evenly through radiation.
——Just like cooking rice in a rice cooker.
Once the solvent changes from light blue to colorless, you can start putting materials into it.
This process required waiting for about ten minutes, and Lu Li was just in time to process the raw materials.
Lu Li looked at the various light-attribute materials and took out a grass plant that emitted a soft white light.
This is the third-level vegetation - Rainbow Grass.
"A piece of broken grass as thick as a thumb is worth 100,000 star coins?" Lu Li pinched the Rainbow Grass with two fingers and waved it lightly in the air a few times.
This Rainbow Grass was not only expensive, but also very rare. Lu Li had to wait for a full month to get one.
Throw it into the card maker's own medicinal poison.
Lu Li took out the medicine pestle and crushed the Rainbow Grass.
As the herbs were shattered, the white light that originally emitted was also shattered, turning into thousands of twisted rainbows that flickered randomly in the small medicine mortar.
"It makes sense that white light breaks up into various colors of visible light."
While mashing the blades of grass, Lu Li also complained out of boredom.
After about ten minutes, the solution in the device changed from light blue to colorless, and the rainbow grass leaves in the medicine mortar also became extremely fine.
Lu Li poured the fragments into the solvent, and the liquid in the device turned light blue again.
The ink solvent is colorless, and the blue color is a special indicator that can determine the energy distribution in the solution.
When the solution becomes colorless again, it means that the previous material has been completely and evenly dissolved in the liquid, and that is the best time to add the next material.
After that, it was a quiet time for refining the ink. Lu Li continued to process the materials, put in the solution, and process the materials...
...
Eight hours later.
Lu Li chewed a piece of free fruit in his mouth, stared at the solution in the device, and yawned.
Refining ink is like this, it doesn't require any technical content, it's just a matter of killing time.
Finally, during Lu Li's long wait, the solution changed from light blue to colorless again, and the volume of the liquid had also become one-tenth of its previous size.
"It's finally okay."
Lu Li stretched out, unplugged the plug from the wall, took out the entire liner, and set it aside to rest.
"The next step is to complete the star card circuit!"
His eyes narrowed slightly, and [Morning Star] appeared between Lu Li's fingers.
On the card surface, 10 star symbols flashed with milky white starlight, which was the pattern he drew when absorbing the Source Star Card.
[Morning Star] relies on this circuit to break through the seal of the white star card and become a first-level star card.
Now, Lu Li wants to add 20 star symbols and matching star tracks to the card, turning it into a second-level card with 30 star symbols.
Lu Li took out a few more pieces of white paper from the storage card.
Those were the last few pages of Teacher Fatty's letter, which described how to upgrade the Source Star Card.
There was no text on one of them, just a whole page of numbers.
This is a kind of code name between their master and apprentice, which represents the coordinates on the card, just like "gun two draws five" in chess.
Ever since Lu Li first started learning card making, Teacher Fatty had used this code name to teach, but now it seemed to have become a code word for secret communication between the two.
It was quite painful for Lu Li to learn at that time, but he didn't think too much about it. He just thought that everyone learned to make cards this way.
But looking back now, is it possible that Teacher Fatty was already prepared to use secret codes when he started making cards?
Twenty Star Talisman is not difficult, and it couldn't be easier for Lu Li.
The carving knife cut across the card surface. In just half a minute, the lines on the card surface became much more complicated. It's just that the extra twenty star symbols are dim, unlike the other ten that sparkle faintly.
"It's finally the last step." Lu Li took out a dropper and carefully sucked out the ink worth more than two million yuan.
The ink was filled with concentrated star power of light attribute, but the light was gentle and there was no abnormality.
Lu Li aimed the eyedropper, squeezed out the ink bit by bit, and filled the twenty dim star symbols.
After a while, all the star symbols on the card began to emit white light, and Lu Li could also feel the changes in [Morning Star].
——It has unlocked the second layer of seals and become the second level.
