Volume 3: Ignorance of Qi Refining Twenty-Eight: First Acquaintance with Runes
"Senior Brother Cheng" Qian Chao walked to Cheng Qiantang's case and gently placed a storage bag on it, "It's refined, please take a look at Senior Brother Cheng." ”
"So fast!" Senior Brother Cheng put down the book in his hand, took the storage bag and looked at it, there were more than a dozen green copper ingots in it, as well as some other miscellaneous ingots of various colors of different sizes.
"Yes, yes, Senior Brother Qian is melting these ores faster and faster, come," said Senior Brother Cheng took out a green copper ingot from the storage bag and put it on the case, "This is for you." ”
"How good is this......"
"Take it, you'll be able to use it later."
Qian Chao no longer shirked, picked up the green copper, and thanked Senior Brother Cheng with a smile.
"Senior Brother Qian, how did you practice after the "Six True Meanings" was told to you last time?"
"I was about to talk to Senior Brother Cheng about this, after Senior Brother Cheng told me last time, I have practiced many times by myself, and some I don't understand it and ask Senior Brother Tutorial."
"Okay, anyway, it's okay at this time, you can tell me in detail."
"Yes"
At this time, they were still in the same courtyard that Senior Brother Cheng used to explain to everyone for the first time, separated from the Chengqi Hall by a wall.
At this time, more than 20 days have passed since Senior Brother Cheng's last examination of the school's imperial arts, that time in the school, according to Senior Brother Cheng's words, Qian Chao did not participate, at that time he was smelting green copper ore next door, I heard that everyone in the school was miserable, no one could make Senior Brother Cheng nod in approval, and finally Senior Brother Cheng set a deadline for them for another month, and made an appointment to come here to accept the examination school after a month.
When Qian Chao was asking questions, there was also a disciple at the door of the courtyard who also practiced alchemy and seemed to have come to ask Senior Brother for Tutorial, Qian Chao turned his back to the person at this time and did not find it, and Senior Brother Cheng faced that person, because the other people who had told Qian Chao could not listen to it now, so Senior Brother Cheng stopped the person with his gaze and asked him to wait.
The man could only stand at the gate of the courtyard and wait for Qian Chao to finish asking for advice, and then watched Qian Chao stand up with envy, saluted Senior Brother Cheng, and entered the Chengqi Hall through the small door above the high wall.
Of the more than 100 disciples who practiced the art of refining weapons together, none of them could make Senior Brother Cheng nod in approval. Originally, there was nothing to do, but then I don't know who found out first, Qian Chao, who entered the inner door together, actually went to the Chengqi Hall every day, and he also wanted to follow in to see what was going on, but he was stopped by the senior brother at the door of the Chengqi Hall, and after asking carefully, he realized that Qian Chao could continue to practice alchemy in the Chengqi Hall a long time ago.
This discovery surprised many of the disciples who entered the Jiuxuan together, so some people recalled that when Senior Brother Cheng took the school imperial art that day, he didn't see Qian Chao participate, thinking that he had already been recognized by Senior Brother Cheng and was qualified to enter the Chengqi Hall.
Later, everyone's conjecture about Qian Chao was roughly divided into two kinds, one was that Qian Chao's imperial art far exceeded that of everyone else, and he could enter Senior Brother Cheng's eyes, so he was allowed to enter the Chengqi Hall. The other is that Qian Chao must have an extraordinary background and not a low status, and even Senior Brother Cheng does not dare to provoke him, so he can enter the Chengqi Hall in advance by passing everyone.
Later, someone came to Qian Chao in the name of asking for advice, and what came was Qian Chao's nodding friend when he was in Youming Valley.
Qian Chao's own practice method only said to Tang Ping, even if he concealed it from Senior Brother Cheng, he naturally wouldn't say half a word to people who intersected with him. However, Qian Chao did not lose them, and he picked up some of his experience in using the Imperial Artifact Technique and told them some demonstrations.
From then on, those disciples who came with him all decided that this young Brother Qian was definitely not a person from an extraordinary background, if he had a deep background, how could he live in that cramped small courtyard like everyone else? Seeing that Brother Qian was almost the same as Senior Brother Cheng when he used the Imperial Technique, it was no wonder that he was able to enter the Chengqi Hall so early, it must be that his spiritual root qualifications far surpassed everyone else, otherwise what explanation could there be?
After everyone persuaded themselves in their hearts, they gradually lost interest in Qian Chao, and yes, Brother Qian's spiritual root qualifications are good, this is a congenital determination, and the innate things are brought out of the mother's womb, how can I change it? Since it can't be changed, it's better to continue to work hard, and strive to make Senior Brother Cheng see it as soon as possible, and it is serious for him to enter the Chengqi Hall himself. It's just that occasionally when I think of the tide of money, I will bring some envy and even jealousy.
What everyone thought of him, Qian Chao didn't pay attention, his mind was all on the art of refining, some time ago, Senior Brother Cheng alone explained to him the "Six Fu True Meaning" in detail, and he began to prepare for the first refining.
To put it simply, this alchemy technique is a method that uses the imperial art as the pen and its own aura as the ink, and writes the runes one by one on the refined spiritual weapon.
Senior Brother Cheng called it an engraved rune, and Qian Chao preferred to say that it was a writing rune after understanding the principle.
However, there is one of the biggest obstacles here, and that is that the aura cannot be seen or touched.
The Nine Spiritual Sect is in the Five Spirits Sect, and the Five Spirits Sect is a rare place in the world where the spiritual veins gather, which is suitable for monks to practice, but many monks are in this Five Spiritual Sect every day, in this place where the spiritual veins gather, who has ever seen what the spiritual energy looks like and what color?
In the same way, the runes engraved on the refining vessel with aura are also invisible.
When the monk refines the weapon, he can only rely on the memory of the runes he has imprinted, where the last rune is written, where the next rune is written, the two runes can not intersect, they must be staggered from each other, if the two runes even have a little bit of touch together, it is said that the two runes will be completely wasted, to erase and start over, the key is that it is difficult to find this when refining the weapon, only when the refining is over, you can only find it when you try the spirit weapon that you have refined, if there is a mistake, you can only go back to the furnace and start again.
In addition, imprinting this rune is also very spiritual power and mind-consuming.
The method Qian Chao used when he practiced by himself was also very strange in the eyes of others. On the fire eye in the Chengqi Hall, he melted a green copper ingot into high-temperature juice, and then used the imperial art to shape the green copper into the shape of a piece of paper, which was actually a green copper plate, and then used the imperial magic to write runes on the green copper paper with his aura.
The first time I tried it, Qian Chao felt that it was abnormal, not to mention that the whole process had to be in the green copper above the fire eye when the temperature was high, only the spiritual power consumed by the engraved rune Qian Chao felt that he was unsustainable, after writing the first rune, Qian Chao stopped to prevent the spiritual power from drying up, if he couldn't continue to hold this piece of green copper, let it fall into the fire eye below.
Later, even if Qian Chao was cautious and fully prepared, he could only barely write two runes on the blazing green copper in one go.
In fact, according to Qian Chao's method, the "Yuan Chu Technique" and the Imperial Art were used together, and when the spiritual power was exhausted, it would stop for half a moment to recover the spiritual power, but it could continue to be written.
There is one of the most basic rules for this engraving or writing runes, that is, no matter how many runes there are when refining the weapon, as long as they start at the beginning, they must not stop and do it in one go, and they must stop and drink a cup of tea before continuing to write after writing two strokes, or take a breath and take a break after writing and then write down another one. Senior Brother Cheng said that the high temperature would make the engraved runes disappear slowly, and even if they disappeared, the monk's eyes could not see them, and the only solution was to write down the runes and engrave them correctly.
But Qian Chao always felt that something was wrong. He thought that others should not know the number of ways he cultivated, and if the other senior brothers and sisters did not accept the pill or use the spirit stone when refining the weapon, they could only use their own spiritual power in one go. I haven't heard of any senior brothers and sisters in the Chengqi Hall who are willing to use pills and spirit stones when refining spiritual weapons, and they all rely on their own spiritual energy. But anyone Qian Chao has seen in Chengqi Hall, calling him a senior brother and sister, refining a spirit sword with three runes is a light and ingenious thing, why is it so difficult to write two runes by himself? Putting aside the gap in cultivation, is there any kind of teleportation that I don't know when I engraved the rune?
He asked Senior Brother Cheng for this question, but the answer given by Senior Brother Cheng made him a little dumbfounded.
"Senior Brother Qian, why did you make such a big rune?" After listening to Qian Chao's question, Cheng Qiantang knew what Qian Chao's problem was, and when he said this, he still had a very funny look.
"Huh?" Qian Chao didn't understand when he heard it.
"Look," said Senior Brother Cheng, who took out a spirit sword, but it was the original size, the size of an ordinary hairpin.
"When the spirit sword was refined, it was such a big thing, how long and wide can this sword body be? There must be at least three runes on it, how big do you think that rune can be? ”
"This rune, it's very wonderful, well, let me tell you, you use a big pen like a rafter, write a mat-sized 'one' word, that's just one, if you write this word in small block letters, others can also understand that it is a word, big characters and small characters, the meaning of the word is the same, but the pen and ink spent is too different, don't you say? The same is true for runes, which consume spiritual power, and the bigger they are, the more so, so we don't seek to be big, but to be accurate. You just need to practice writing the runes small and clear, without collusion. ”
Qian Chao understood at this time, and couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart.
"It's also my fault, I didn't care about some of the things that were easy to get confused when I first told you about the "Six Fu True Meaning", so I'll tell you about the key points again."
Qian Chao hurriedly thanked him, and then began to listen carefully to Senior Brother Cheng's "Six True Meanings" to himself again.