When I got up the next day, Liangchen found that I got up an hour later than usual, and it was already getting dark.
He quickly got up, meditated and exercised, and found that his magic power did not seem to have increased, but his energy was much better than before.
It was as if I had finally let go of everything after a long period of hard work and took a lazy nap that allowed me to wake up naturally.
He didn't know if he successfully entered the state of meditation in the end. Although his mana didn't feel increased, he felt refreshed!
"Is the increased mana really too subtle to be felt? Forget it, don't think about it anymore, ask Uncle Ye later." Liangchen thought in his heart.
After finishing morning exercises, it was already bright and he practiced another set of sword skills.
Uncle Ye pushed open the door and saw Liangchen practicing swordsmanship in the courtyard.
"My nephew Liangchen, did you enter the state of meditation last night?" Uncle Ye asked.
"Uncle Ye, my nephew was about to ask you." Liangchen stopped his sword moves and said.
"My nephew fell asleep last night according to the method you said. I don't know if he was dreaming or meditating. He felt like he turned into a point of light and flew up." Liangchen said.
"It turned into a point of light and flew up! The state of meditation is different for each person, and there is no fixed number of what you imagine yourself to be. So when you wake up in the morning, have you ever felt that your magic power has increased?" Uncle Ye said.
"I don't feel any increase in my magic power, I just feel relaxed and refreshed!" Liangchen replied.
"Meditation can increase your magic power and restore your spirit. According to common sense, this should be a sign that you have successfully entered the realm of meditation. It is normal that your magic power has not increased. Originally, this meditation method has a very subtle increase in magic power, and it needs to be accumulated over time. The effect can be felt in just a short while!" Uncle Ye said.
"This is really a gratifying thing. It's one step closer to you improving your magic power and starting to refine weapons as soon as possible." Uncle Ye said happily.
"This meditation method needs to be established before it can be practiced. Do you know why?" Uncle Ye asked.
"I don't know, nephew," Liangchen replied.
"Because this meditation is the method of communicating between heaven and earth. Only after establishing the foundation can we truly start the practice and have the key to open this realm of meditation and enter the realm of meditation.
The reason why you are successful is probably closely related to the fact that you have built a foundation.
Although you later fell into the realm, on the other hand, you only lost your mana and the key is still there.
Of course, this is just my guess. After all, situations like yours are relatively rare. "Uncle Ye said uncertainly.
"No matter what the reason is, it's a good thing to make some progress. I hope you won't slack off!"
In this way, I would run the shop with Uncle Ye during the day, and practice refining weapons with some ore waste in my spare time. Sometimes Uncle Ye would refine magic weapons and watch and learn from the sidelines.
As his magic power increases day by day, his weapon refining methods become more and more proficient.
The most noteworthy thing is that the method of manipulating flames has become even more handy, to the point where even Uncle Ye is amazed.
And during this time, Liangchen even thought of asking Uncle Ye to help with the first two steps of refining: smelting and solidification, and directly doing the last step of quenching himself.
But I don’t know if the cooperation is not skilled enough, the technology is not mature enough, or this method simply doesn’t work.
After scrapping more than a dozen swords, none of them succeeded, but I learned all the quenching steps.
Cold comes and summer comes, the eagle flies and the rabbit goes away. Another half year has passed in a flash.
On this day, Uncle Ye received a customer, bought several swords in the store, and wanted to order another sword.
When it comes to such orders for custom-made swords, Uncle Ye always decides based on the situation.
If you can do it yourself, you can take the order, prepare the materials yourself, refine it yourself, and earn some other income.
If it is a sword with a low success rate that is difficult to refine, or a spiritual treasure that exceeds one's ability, the larger the order will be sent to the family for refinement.
If the quantity is small, introduce it to other familiar stores and earn some referral fees.
The magic weapon customized for this customer is a top-grade fire attribute magic weapon, the Searing Blade. The materials have been prepared, and Uncle Ye asked for a handling fee of one thousand gold.
If you can successfully refine it once, you can earn this thousand spiritual gold.
If it fails once, the materials will cost hundreds of gold, so you won’t make much money.
If it takes three attempts to succeed, you need to post a copy.
Fortunately, fire-attributed magic weapons were Uncle Ye's best. After some thought, he decided to refine them himself.
Uncle Ye brought Liangchen to Zhihuofang again and paid the spirit gold. The two entered the Earth Fire Room, first opened the Earth Vein Fire, and sacrificed the Fire Cauldron out of the Yunding Cauldron.
Uncle Ye took out the materials one by one and placed them on the table.
Then he started to explain several materials to Liangchen.
"The main material of the Searing Blade is this fire sand stone, which is produced in extremely hot places, such as deep deserts or volcanic areas. It is orange or light red in color and contains extremely rich fire spiritual power. It is suitable for refining general fire attribute magic weapons. common materials.”
Mr. Ye pointed to several long pieces of yellow ore on the table and said.
"These two pieces are garnets, fire-attribute gems. They are generally purple-red or blood-red in color, translucent or transparent. They are mostly produced in magma. They are auxiliary materials for refining fire-attribute magic weapons."
Mr. Ye pointed at two egg-sized translucent gems with the color of purple grapes and said.
"These are citrines, which are formed by the accumulation of fire spirit energy expelled when the fire sandstone is formed. They are usually associated with the fire sandstone.
This bottle is the blood of the fire beast. Intermediate level monsters live in groups, spit out fire and smoke, and are invincible during the foundation stage. "
Uncle Ye then briefly explained the items on the table one by one.
After the introduction, Uncle Ye took out a small bluestone grinder from his storage bag, ground it to the size of an apple, and handed it to Liangchen.
"Grind those topaz. Be sure to grind them carefully." Uncle Ye ordered.
Liangchen said yes and took Xiaomo. I took a topaz and put it into the grinding heart and turned it slowly.
"Topaz is produced by gathering the aura of fire. It contains extremely rich aura and is easily lost after polishing, so it must be made on site." Uncle Ye said while checking several other materials.
"The weight of fire sand stone and garnet is ten to one." Uncle Ye picked up the fire sand stone and weighed it in his hand for a few times, then picked up the garnet.
"It's not fine enough. Continue." Mr. Ye checked the topaz powder he had ground again.
It took more than an hour to grind several topaz. Uncle Ye poured the topaz powder into the fire beast's blood, and then added several other ingredients and let Liangchen mix it thoroughly.
After another hour, the quenching materials were prepared, and at this time other materials were also ready to be completed.
As several pieces of fire sand slowly flew into the fire cauldron, Uncle Ye began to formally refine the sword. The fire sand stone entered the fire cauldron and stayed quietly in the cauldron. Two hours passed without any change, except that it changed from orange to deep red.
"Fire sand and stone itself was born in high-temperature places, so it is extremely resistant to high temperatures and takes a long time to smelt." Mr. Ye said.
Two hours later, the fire sand and stone finally began to melt, and the melting speed was also very slow. It took nearly two hours from the beginning to complete melting.
The melted fire sand and stone are like a ball of blood, with various granular impurities constantly overflowing.
After another half an hour, the fire sand stone was completely refined, and then the garnet was put into the cauldron.
The garnet became extremely bright as soon as it entered the cauldron, and after only an hour it began to melt and turn into something like magma.
Seeing this situation, Mr. Ye controlled the two to begin to merge.
The fire sandstone and garnet seemed to have found companions. They intertwined as soon as they came into contact, and finally slowly turned into a ball of purple liquid.
Then after waiting for about half an hour, Mr. Ye began to condense the liquid into shape.
Three hours later.
A sword that was red all over, like a sword made of magma, was slowly taking shape!
The hilt is at the top, and the tip is at the bottom. The sword is three feet long, and the blade is about four fingers wide. It slowly widens to about five fingers at one-third of the way forward, and gradually converges to the tip at the two-thirds point.
The sword grid is three fingers wide and half a foot long, with a diamond-shaped stopper at each end.
Because it is a two-handed sword, one hand holds the other finger, and the end of the hilt is formed into a flame pattern.
The square shape of the sword gives people a sense of oppression!
Uncle Ye began to control the temperature of the flame to drop, and the magma-like sword gradually turned dark red. It took about half an hour before Uncle Ye poured out the blood of the tempered beast and dropped it on top of the sword.
The beast blood spattered a red mist, which seemed to spread, but a hand invisibly grabbed them, making it impossible for them to escape. Finally, it slowly gathered around the sword, forming a cross-shaped blood mist.
The blood mist that was close to the sword gently adsorbed on the sword. A subtle sound of "here" raised a wisp of red smoke, and the sword sucked the red smoke into the sword like a magnet.
In this way, as time goes by, the thousands of wrapped blood mist particles slowly become thinner and become less and less.
One hour, two hours, three hours, until almost the fourth hour, the blood mist disappeared.
The sword body has also turned into a purple-red color like coagulated blood clots.
The flames in the cauldron are getting smaller and smaller, the temperature is slowly dropping, and the temperature of the sword body is also getting lower and lower.
Uncle Ye controlled the flames to become more and more subtle, and there was a slight sweat on his forehead.
Liangchen knew that the critical moment had arrived. He held his breath and stared at the giant sword in the cauldron while sensing the changes in the sword and the surrounding aura.
With a sound of "Huh--", the flame that had gradually become smaller in the earth veins suddenly grew larger, rising two to three feet high, and went straight to the roof!
Liangchen was stunned for a moment, thinking that Uncle Ye was controlling the flames out of control. Suddenly a powerful suction force appeared out of thin air. He hurriedly used his skills to resist it!
But he saw that the giant sword in the fire sucked up all the flames spurting out of the room like a whale sucking water, as if it had closed the door to the earth's fire.
A red sword hung quietly in the air!
