Chapter 689: Sword Blank
When Xia Fan got this Qiankun bag from Liu Fangliang's hand, Liu Fangliang was not dead, and the prohibition at the mouth of the bag was still useful, but now that Liu Fangliang was dead, the divine thoughts he placed in the prohibition of the Qiankun bag also dissipated, which also made Xia Fan less troublesome when he broke those prohibitions.
Of course, less trouble does not mean that there is no trouble at all, after all, although Liu Fangliang's divine thoughts are no longer in it, those prohibitions will not disappear because of this, and if you want to open the Qiankun bag, you still have to break these prohibitions.
Fortunately, Liu Fangliang is just a sword cultivator, and he is not very good at things such as formations and prohibitions, and he seems to be quite confident in his own strength, and feels that no one can snatch the Qiankun bag from him, so there are not many prohibitions arranged on the mouth of the bag, but there is a hidden killing move.
"Huh!" When Xia Fan broke the last prohibition, suddenly a cold light flashed, and a sharp and abnormal sword light stabbed at him.
This hand is not only ruthless but also absolutely unguardable, if it is replaced by someone else, it will inevitably be hit on the spot, because no one would have thought that when they were about to open the Qiankun bag, such a sharp sword light would suddenly appear. It was too much of a surprise. However, Xia Fan didn't get hit, seeing that the sword light was coming, he directly stretched out his finger for a price, and after a bang, it exploded.
Although the energy was scattered, the surrounding trees swayed in the wind, and many leaves scattered in all directions, but it did not hurt Xia Fan in the slightest.
"What's going on?" Ge Changhe, who was looking up to study the grassland above his head, was stunned for a moment and asked casually.
"It's okay, it's just a little trick left by Liu Fangliang at the beginning. Xia Fan replied casually, and said, "Come, come, come, come and share the benefits." ”
"This is what you got, I'm afraid it's inappropriate, right?" Ge Changhe said a little embarrassed.
"What's wrong with this, half of the meeting. Xia Fan said with a smile: "Now that the two of us are in a group, of course we have to share the benefits together, otherwise wouldn't it be unfair, I got good things, and it is the same if you get good things, don't be reluctant to go back." ”
"Surely not. Ge Changhe hurriedly shook his head, and almost patted his chest as a guarantee.
Xia Fan opened the Qiankun bag and poured out everything in it. Don't look at Liu Fangliang's bag, the space is not small, but there are not many things in it, except for some clothes, shoes and hats and other miscellaneous items that Xia Fan and Ge Changhe can't use, the rest are basically things commonly used by cultivators, such as spirit jade, pills, alchemy and refining materials, and some jade slips.
Among them, the spirit jade is naturally used by everyone, so the two of them will share it equally. As for the pills, Xia Fan didn't think much of it, after all, he knew how to refine the pills himself, and the quality of the pills he refined was not worse than Liu Fangliang's pills, so Xia Fan just took one and studied it, and after finding that the quality was average, he gave them all to Ge Changhe.
Ge Changhe was not picky, and he was quite happy to get these pills all of a sudden, so he reciprocated and gave Xia Fan the alchemy materials and refining materials that should have been given to him. And his statement also made Xia Fan unable to refuse, he said: "I don't use the alchemy refiner much at all, and it's useless to take these things, it's better to use them for you, so it's good to take what you need, not to mention that when I killed Liu Fangliang, I didn't make much effort, and I took a big advantage by dividing some spirit jade and getting all the pills, so it's really not good to take more things." ”
When Xia Fan heard him say this, he was also quite satisfied. He said before that he wanted to divide things, not because he was stupid and generous, but because he had his intentions, one was for fairness, and the other was to test Ge Changhe's character. After all, since he is here to hunt for treasures, he will definitely get a lot of good things next, if Ge Changhe is the kind of person who is insatiable and interested in making money, even if Xia Fan will still walk with him, he must be more careful. You must know that it is too normal for cultivators to turn their faces and kill people for the sake of treasures, and it is really not okay to be careless.
At present, at least Ge Changhe's character is not bad, which makes Xia Fan more willing to go with him.
There are not many alchemy materials in Liu Fangliang's Qiankun bag, and the quality is not high, at most, it can only be used to refine some ordinary pills, but Xia Fan didn't pay too much attention to it. According to his estimates, either Liu Fangliang is not proficient in the way of alchemy, so he can't find anything good, or he has already refined the original alchemy materials of good quality, so there are naturally no good things left.
Given that Liu Fangliang didn't even have an alchemy furnace in his Qiankun bag, Xia Fan was more inclined to the first possibility.
As for those refining materials, it was a bit of a surprise to Xia Fan, because in addition to some materials that were not of bad quality, such as streamer sand, star glow stone, thousand refining copper essence and other materials of excellent quality, he also found a sword blank.
For Xia Fan, this was definitely a bonus. Ever since the Silver Flower Sword shattered, Xia Fan has been thinking about refining a decent flying sword, but the flying sword is different from other magic weapons, and the difficulty of refining a seemingly small sword is much greater than that of other magic weapons, and the time and energy spent during the period will naturally be a lot more.
The reasons boil down to three reasons, one is that although the flying sword is also a magic weapon, for the vast majority of cultivators, its status in their minds is very different from that of ordinary magic weapons. This truth is actually not difficult to understand, for example, the sword is also a kind of weapon, logically speaking, it is no different from knives, guns, sticks, axes, hooks and forks and other weapons, but in fact, whether it is a literati or a military general, but the sword has a different preference, and it is given a lot of meaning that other weapons do not have. From this point of view, the cultivation world is really no different from the secular world.
It is precisely because the flying sword has a unique position among the magic weapons that there are cultivators who devote their whole lives to cultivating this way, and then there is the so-called sword cultivation. For sword cultivation, flying swords are not only their magic weapons, but also their way and life, the so-called sword in the sword is not an exaggeration for sword cultivation.
Although Xia Fan is not as extreme as sword cultivation, he still has some different attitudes towards flying swords in his heart, so he is not very willing to casually refine a first general and use it. Because of this unwillingness to compromise, it is not so easy to refine a satisfactory flying sword. If there is no suitable use, Xia Fan would rather not use it.
The second is that the flying sword seems to have a simple structure, but it is really not easy to refine it well. This is sometimes far more difficult than refining other magic weapons. For example, when Xia Fan first refined the Scorpion Eye, it didn't take much effort at all, and it basically took a little time to complete it with the materials. Of course, this also has something to do with the special situation at that time. But from one side, it is enough to prove that the refining of some magic weapons is really not difficult, and even quite arbitrary.
However, the refining of flying swords is different, and the general refining of flying swords has a relatively strict step, which is in turn for material selection, smelting, billet making, carving array, sacrificial refining, etc., which cannot be said to be indispensable, but it cannot be completely omitted. Among them, the most troublesome is the previous three steps of material selection, smelting and billet making.
Legend has it that someone opened a mountain to mine in order to refine a peerless divine weapon, collected the essence of hardware, and spent dozens of hundreds of years to refine a divine weapon, which is definitely not an exaggeration, and it is actually the three major steps of material selection, smelting and billet making.
Of course, not all flying swords have to go through these three steps, and there are still some exceptions, for example, Xia Fan did not go through this process when he refined the silver sword, the reason is very simple, the material used by Xia Fan at that time is an extremely rare material, so there is no need to choose any materials at all, and the smelting is already a good sword blank, and Xia Fan will naturally save a lot of trouble when he uses it to refine the flying sword.
But after all, other people didn't have as much luck as him, so if they wanted to refine the flying sword, these steps were still indispensable. And the so-called selection of materials, in fact, is to collect all kinds of materials needed to refine the flying sword, this process is absolutely amazingly difficult, sometimes in order to find a material may take ten or eight years or even longer, not to mention others, it can be seen how difficult. And the selection of materials is just the beginning, not to mention the rest.
Because the refining of flying swords is so strenuous, there are many people who ridicule sword cultivation, saying that they only cultivate flying swords, and most of the time they only recognize a natal flying sword, not because they are very dedicated, but because it is too difficult to refine flying swords, so they don't want to waste their time on this. Of course, there is a sense of ridicule in these words, but it also shows the hardships of refining flying swords.
The third is that it is not easy to refine the flying sword, and it is even more difficult to raise it after refining.
The magic weapon is different from the blade used by the warriors in the world, which only requires sharpness, but also requires spirituality, which is the so-called instrument spirit. This is especially true of flying swords.
When refining treasures, there are many magic weapons that give magic weapons and spirits, and the simplest is nothing more than to beat the existing soul body into the magic weapon. For example, when Xia Fan was refining the Ten Thousand Soul Banner, letting Dudu be his main soul was an excellent example. This method is certainly worry-free and trouble-free, but it also has a big disadvantage, that is, most of the time, using the soul body as a machine spirit will cause the two to not fit well.
The reason is very simple, stuffing a person's soul into a magic weapon, it is like a person changing a body that does not belong to him, can he get used to it, is it strange?
For this reason, many people have given up this method of giving the magic weapon spirit, but changed to another method, one is to place divine thoughts, and the other is to find a way to give birth to the magic weapon itself through continuous warmth.
Most of the flying swords use the latter two methods, refining the flying sword into a life-threatening flying sword, that is, placing their own divine thoughts in it, reaching the level of being like an arm, and those who are unwilling to do so can only find a way to cultivate the instrument spirit. However, its difficulty is definitely more difficult than refining a flying sword.
Xia Fan himself is not a sword cultivator, of course he will not refine the flying sword into a life flying sword, so he can only choose the latter. Just thinking about it, Xia Fan felt a headache.
Because of these three reasons, Xia Fan had not refined the new flying sword for a long time, but now that he saw this ready-made sword blank, he moved the idea of refining the new flying sword on the spot, and as soon as this idea came out, he couldn't suppress it.
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