Volume 1 Cachumen Chapter 1 Refining
Bright red flames danced vividly in the furnace, scorching the fist-sized fragment of a golden meteor. Wu Xie pressed his hands on the formation on the front of the refining furnace, continuously inputting true qi into it, urging the furnace fire to heat up.
Next to the furnace, Clay was watching the flames, judging the heat by his vast experience in refining; Luo Yu sat next to a bucket and used his true qi to condense the ice cubes in the bucket repeatedly, lowering their temperature while restraining the cold qi to exercise his ability to control the cold.
There are several key elements of the refiner: one is the raw material, the second is the flame, the third is the furnace, the fourth is the control, the fifth is the rune, and the sixth is the quenching. To put it simply, it is to use a sufficiently high flame to soften those special materials in a suitable furnace, then reshape them, and engrave the required runes on them, and finally quench them in an appropriate way, so as to determine the results of the refiner.
Among the three people present, Wu Xie is the contemporary senior brother of the Qingyang Concept, a famous cultivator in the world, and the ability to control fire is not a second person among the monks in the realm of entering the Dao; Clay has been concentrating on the study of artifacts since before entering the Tao, and after entering the Tao, he began to study alchemy, although he is not very old, he is already a professional in this field; Although Luo Yu didn't know how to refine weapons, she was good at controlling water, and she was able to use her mana to create a cold ice cube comparable to the 10,000-year-old Xuan Ice, which was one of the best mediums for quenching.
However, even if the three of them joined forces, it would not be easy to refine the meteorite fragment in front of them.
Meteorite fragments are fragments of stars that fall from outside the Nine Heavens, they themselves are the products of extremely high temperature burning, and they also contain the infinitely powerful Nine Heavens Divine Fire - this fire, also known as "Starfire", has an extremely high temperature and terrible adhesion, once it is touched, it will continue to burn, and it is extremely difficult to remove.
The degree of high temperature resistance of this flame material is naturally very amazing, if it weren't for Wu Xie being able to control the flame and continuously increase the furnace temperature with true qi, even if the ordinary refining furnace burns for a few days and nights, it will not be able to soften it a little!
Wu Jie's spirit was highly concentrated, urging the furnace fire to continue to heat up, only to see that the light of the flame became more and more intense, but the color gradually faded, from red to bright yellow, and then gradually turned to green and white, and then turned into pure blue after the most lush, like the long sky in autumn, full of a sense of clarity.
But the temperature of this flame is so staggering that ordinary steel can turn into molten iron in the blink of an eye, and the rock will be burned into slurry, and if it gets on a person's body, it can burn an entire living person to ashes almost instantly.
But even in this kind of high temperature, the meteorite fragments are still unmoving, without the slightest intention of softening.
"Almost." Clay reminded aloud, "Next." ”
Wu Xie took a deep breath and continued to urge the true qi, but it was no longer simply raising the temperature of the fire, but condensing the flame.
Heaven and earth have their own rules, and the flames of the mortal world have been raised to the level of pure fire, and the temperature has almost reached the limit. Unless he replaced the furnace fire with those rare divine fires in the mortal world, no matter how much he urged the true qi, the temperature would not rise too much.
Although he himself has a special flame called the "Demon Refining Divine Fire", if he wants to replace this furnace of flames with the Demon Refining Divine Fire, he can't do it if he is exhausted!
So at this moment, we can only retreat, condense the flame as much as possible, and prepare for the next process.
When the flame condensed to give birth to a sense of agility, he temporarily stopped under the prompting of the clay, maintained the state of flame, rested for a while, and then took a deep breath again, and suddenly the fire in his left eye, which was no different from ordinary people just now, flew out and fell into the refining furnace.
This flame seemed ordinary at first glance, but when it entered the furnace, the originally stable cyan flame in the furnace vibrated violently, and it parted left and right like a soldier meeting a general, allowing the golden flame to calmly fall into the center of the furnace and envelop the meteorite fragments.
Wrapped in the Demon Refining Divine Fire, the fragments of the meteorite that had not moved at all finally changed, and several edges and corners began to gradually become obtuse and rounded, and the whole showed a trend of softening.
What Wu Xie had to do was to urge the true qi and use those cyan furnace fires as raw materials to continuously transform more demon refining divine fires, while controlling the stability of the flames and burning the meteorite fragments evenly.
This time, it burned for two or three hours, and the fragments of the meteorite finally turned into a lump of soft dough.
"I'll stabilize the fire, you take a break, and get ready to shape and engrave." The clay hurriedly held down the magic circle on the refining furnace instead of Wu Jie, and a mouthful of Aoki true qi sprayed into the furnace, using his own true qi as fuel to maintain the temperature of the furnace fire.
Naturally, this would consume his true qi extremely quickly, but all he had to do was to help Wu Xie buy some time to rest and adjust, even if his skills were relatively shallow, it was enough.
Wu Xie gasped violently a few times, took out a few elixirs and swallowed them, and his face, which was originally a little pale due to excessive consumption of true qi, quickly became rosy again. But he didn't rush back to the furnace, but sat there and closed his eyes to recuperate, recovering his mind that was as overdrained as his true qi.
After a while, he opened his eyes and was refreshed.
Replacing the clay that was already a little exhausted, he turned his true qi into a pair of flame hands, kneading the meteorite fragments in the furnace into a ring, and then carved a series of runes on the ring.
At the same time, the clay commanded Luo Yu, who had been preparing, to transport the piece of Xuanbing, which had condensed harder than steel.
When all the runes were carved, Wu Xie took a deep breath for the last time, opened the refining furnace with the magic method, grabbed the ring made of meteorite fragments with both hands made of divine fire, and threw it at Xuan Bing without hesitation.
With a loud sound, a white mist filled the refining workshop, and then it was blown away by the sudden breeze. I saw that the ring was stuck in the center of the ice, shaking violently.
It seems to have spirituality, and wants to fly out of the ice and back into the refining furnace. But he was suppressed by Luo Yu with his tempered true anger, and he couldn't escape.
After a while, the vibration of the ring finally stopped, and the crisp sound echoed through the refining workshop.
This chirping had a strange trill, as clear as striking a high-quality bell chime, and as agile as the chirping of a spirit bird, one after another, four times before and after.
When the magic weapon is refined, it often sings itself, and the more the sound, the stronger the spirituality of the magic weapon. The four rings of the instrument mean that the spirituality of this magic weapon is already outstanding among the so-called "quasi-magic weapons", and if it can be specially refined, coupled with years of warm cultivation, there is a great certainty that it can be promoted to the level of "magic weapons".
Although there is only one word difference between quasi-magic weapons and magic weapons, there is a difference between heaven and earth in power. Wu Jie's invisible sword and ghost ring are magic weapons, they can not only be stored in the body, but they can be used as you like, and they are really as convenient as the fingers of the arm.
Not only that, but their texture can be further enhanced, for example, the invisible sword, obviously the material used itself is not particularly high-grade, but its texture is far beyond the limit that these materials can reach, and it can even suppress those quasi-magic weapon flying swords made of high-grade materials in a head-to-head confrontation.
Two years ago, Wu Xie used this flying sword to defeat Zhu Quan, the most outstanding contemporary disciple of Lao Junguan, a famous sect in the southeast evil sect, and he was so proud that he couldn't use his swordsmanship, and he was almost so depressed that he vomited blood.
Although the ring that Wu Xie and they just made is not a magic weapon in the real sense, because the material is pure and high-level, the power will far exceed that of ordinary quasi-magic weapons, not to mention that it has the possibility of being promoted to a real magic weapon-if it flows into the casual cultivation, it will probably be regarded as a treasure by a certain level of casual cultivation and regarded as a trump card......
But the three of them were not happy, and after Wu Xie took the ring out of the Xuan Bing, he couldn't help but shake his head again and again.
"Still failed!"
Around this ring, a thin circle of golden flames was swirling, which was the remnants of the Nine Heavens Divine Fire and the Demon Refining Divine Fire. Although there is not much left, it is at least enough to cope with one or two big battles.
But that's not what they wanted!
"The quenching temperature is not low enough, and the quenching speed is too slow!" Tao Tu sighed, "Only when the temperature is low enough and the quenching is fast enough can the divine fire be forced to give up the confrontation and retreat directly into the magic weapon and turn into fire." Now like this, the divine fire has basically been exhausted in the quenching process, and it will be gone after one or two times - without the divine fire, can it be used as a brick to smash people? ”
"Or is my cultivation too low......" Luo Yuqiao's face blushed slightly, "If my cultivation is higher......"
"It's not your fault!" Wu Xie interrupted her self-blame, "The meteorite fragment is a treasure of heaven and earth, and we burned it with divine fire. This kind of thing wants to rely on the true qi of the initiating monk to condense the ice to complete the quenching, which is a bit unrealistic. ”
"Yes, one failure may be your problem, senior sister, every time it fails, it means that our design ideas are wrong!" The clay groaned, and after a while, he finally came up with a solution, "It seems that we still have to find those heavenly and earthly treasure-level things to quench!" ”
Wu Xie nodded, took up the divine fire, and re-burned the ring, and after a while, the thin flame on it suddenly became violent, turning into a golden flame that swirled around it.
Now it has regained the firepower of the Meteorite Fragments, and it has also returned to a state that can be used as a refining material.
Wu Xie has never been a wasteful person, especially a natural treasure like a meteorite fragment, not a single star can be wasted. If he wasted a piece of meteorite fragment like this and threw it away, Uncle Zhang Long would have to knock him on the head!
The three of them sighed for a while, but there was still no way to do it after all.
The sect stipulates that for disciples of their level, ordinary refining materials can be supplied openly, but the things of the Heavenly Material and Earth Treasure level are not provided at all, only giving them some clues and letting them collect them by themselves.
This is not to be stingy, but for those disciples who have not yet broken through the bottleneck of the passage and have not been able to see, experience is indispensable. The process of treasure hunting is also the process of training.
Since ancient times, we have never heard of a genius who only relied on retreat and penance to ascend to the top. Every predecessor who can ascend to the Tao has gone through countless experiences, experienced tempering, and insight into human feelings, and finally was able to see the nature and clear mind. On paper, it is shallow in the end, many things cannot be understood without personal experience, and many truths are just words on paper without experiencing them.
For Wu Xie and them, what they need most now is not a natural treasure, but appropriate training!
So a few days later, Wu Xie set off with the clay to go to the 100,000 mountains to find the heavenly treasures that could be used for quenching.