Chapter 2: Ten Years of Penance and One Refining Instrument
A piece of dark iron essence, a wind chasing crystal, a little red copper powder, a little nether lead powder, a spirit crystal of the Wind Flame Jiao, a cup of red dragon blood, and the juice of the green arrow orchid......
There were more than a dozen materials on the small table, and Du Xijie looked at the pile of materials and smiled stupidly.
These are not the props used by witches to perform witchcraft, nor are they used for alchemy, but the materials used to refine spirit soldiers.
The so-called spirit soldier refers to a weapon that is integrated into the soul refining, and it is a weapon unique to cultivators on the Xuanwu Continent.
This shijie is not Earth, but a planet without a name.
The planet has no name, it's incredible, Du Xijie has been here for seventeen years, and it was finally determined that this planet does not have a name, no matter how incredible it is.
The planet is round, as the indigenous people of the planet know. Once a great power flew around the planet and finally returned to its original point, thus confirming that the planet is indeed round. This led to speculation that the people on the other side of the planet Weishenme would not fall, and finally reached a consensus that the people on the other side were all Celestials and could fly, so they did not fall from the planet.
There are five continents on this planet, and they are named after the 'Four Elephants' in the east, west, north and south. The four continents of the Blue Dragon, the White Tiger, the Vermilion Bird, and the Xuanwu are ruled by four races. The Qinglong Continent is the territory of the demon clan, not the mythical demons and monsters, the demon clan seems to be the existence of half-human and half-demonic beasts. The White Tiger Continent is the territory of the Spirit Clan, and it is rumored that the Spirit Clan only has women, all of whom pop out of the fruit on the tree, and rarely interact with foreign races, so they are the most mysterious race. The Suzaku Continent is inhabited by the Celestial Clan, and it is rumored that they have wings on their backs and can fly when they are born.
And the people who live on the Xuanwu Continent are the human race, and the reason why they are called the human race is purely Du Xijie's own preference. The residents of the Xuanwu Continent do not regard themselves as "human beings". The word "man" is not found on the mainland, where people call themselves the weapon race, and the foreigners call them the weapon race. It is all named because of the ability of the people here to refine and cultivate spirit soldiers.
The spirit soldier is magical, the mighty can cut the mountains with a sword, split the sea with a sword, and pierce the earth with a shot. The refined spirit soldier is integrated with the physical body, and it is usually stored in the life grid, and it can be accessed at any time, which is very convenient. In addition, the Instrument Race seems to be no different from the people on Earth in terms of appearance and physiology, so Du Xijie still likes to think of himself as a "human".
In addition to the four continents, there is also a huge continent in the center, called the Pangea Continent, which is much larger than the four continents combined.
There is no race ruling on the Pangu Continent, some people say that it is a barren land, some people say that it is a treasure land rich in resources, and some people say that there is a great danger there, Du Xijie only knew when he grew up that it was actually a continent occupied by all kinds of demonic beasts, and he didn't know much about it.
In addition to the five continents, the planet is a boundless sea, many times larger than the Pangea continent.
Du Xijie is a member of the vast army of the earth, but unfortunately he died too early, and it is estimated that he is less than ten years old, and he is vague about things on the earth. It is rumored that Du Xijie will call his mother when he is 100 years old, but it is true, a baby's mind is comparable to that of a ten-year-old child, and it is strange that he can't learn to speak.
Du Xijie has lived in the Xuanwu Continent for more than ten years, and he gradually has some understanding of this shijie. For example, the problem that the planet weishenme will have no name has troubled him for a long time, the four clans all want to name the planet, and if they can't reach a unified opinion, the planet will have no name, or there are too many names, and there are different opinions. Another example is the matter of this training instrument.
The training device is not a mysterious thing, and Du Xijie, whose principle has lived for more than ten years, has a general understanding. The body of the Instrument Clan is strange, and it can be fused with some metals or minerals, supplemented by demonic beast spirit crystals and some other things, and then cultivated with their own souls to become spirit soldiers.
Cultivation is somewhat like the cultivation of immortals on the earth, but it is different. There is a meridian saying, but there is no dantian title, instead of a fateful character. The spirit soldier is usually stored in the life grid.
Cultivation is mainly to introduce the aura of the weather into the body for refining, this aura is a little ethereal, it can only be understood but not spoken, and Du Xijie himself can't say what it is. The cultivation path is divided into 12 grids according to strength, and the meaning of the number of life grids is called the 12 grids of the Heavenly Dao.
The Instrument Clan was born with twelve life qualities, but they were congenitally blocked. It is necessary to dissolve it with the qi of heaven and earth, and break through the knot of life in order to achieve supreme power. In a sense, practicing the weapon is to cultivate one's own life, put the spirit weapon in one's own life, and finally achieve the purpose of improving the spirit weapon and one's own strength simultaneously.
The history of the instrument clan is very long, so long that Du Xijie has no way to verify it. Ancient documents have been recorded for more than 50,000 years, and the origin time is even earlier. The long evolution gradually formed a complete system.
The instrument clan classified the number of cultivation life, and took the four characters of heaven, earth, xuan, and huang respectively. Those who have cultivated to one to three life grids are called Yellow Character Instrument Masters, those who have four to six life grids are called Xuanzi Instrument Masters, and so on.
Instrument Master is the name of a life cultivator, but it is usually hidden for convenience. For example, Du Xijie has now opened up a life grid, and he can be called a yellow character and a yellow character and a yellow character and a grid of articulation with the same meaning.
It has been almost seven years since Du Xijie opened the life grid, and he is not far from opening the second life grid, and he is also a leader among his peers. But he has never refined the weapon, not because Du Xijie doesn't want to, but because his wife won't let him.
According to his mother's original words: "The spirit weapon will accompany you for life, and it is better not to refine one piece indiscriminately, and if you want to refine it, you must be the most haode."
In this way, Du Xijie's selection of refining materials is almost harsh, and he basically selects materials according to the limit that the first life grid can bear.
Good materials are hard to find, and it's even more difficult to fit yourself, so it took nearly seven more years to delay.
Now that the red dragon blood is in hand, it's time to start refining your first spiritual weapon.
When refining the weapon, it is most taboo to disturb, at this time, Du Xijie is hiding in the basement of his house and is slowly matching materials.
According to the old lady's meaning, Du Xijie wants to practice a sword, and the vicinity of Heavenly Sword City is the shili range of the Sword Sect, to be precise, Heavenly Sword City and the nearby Sword Spirit City and Baijian City are all affiliated cities of the Sword Sect, and one sect controls three cities Shili is not strong.
Sword refining is also a kind of spiritual weapon that is more popular in the Xuanwu Continent, and there are good people who have done research and typeset into a book. In the book, the proportion of sword refining clans is the largest in the Xuanwu Continent, slightly more than the sword refiners.
The Sword Sect is also one of the best in the sect ranking, and it is called the three sects of Tianzi along with the Sword Sect and the Gun Sect.
There are two empires on the east and west sides of the Xuanwu Continent, namely the Instrument Soul Empire and the Machine Spirit Empire. Heavenly Sword City is located in the territory of the Machine Spirit Empire, but it does not belong to the Machine Spirit Empire.
Some cities with large sects are generally attached to sects. The sect and its affiliated cities form a small state-like existence. It's not that the Instrument Clan is not united, but it's actually caused by the rampant demonic beasts on the continent that caused the territory to be divided and divided, and the non-powerful ones can't crisscross the continent.
Although the Shili of the Instrument Spirit Empire is large, it is beyond the reach of the whip, and cities similar to those ruled by the sect will ignore it as long as they pay a certain amount of tribute on time.
Coupled with the competition between the two empires and the various sects, this has led to the current pattern of the Xuanwu Continent looking scattered.
But if you underestimate the people of the Instrument Clan because of this, you will suffer a big loss. Once the demon clan colluded with the heavenly clan to form a coalition to attack the Xuanwu Continent. In just three days, the people of the Rathers gathered all the liliang of Shili on the mainland and formed a counterattack against Shili. In less than three months, they beat each other back, and in the face of danger, the instrument clan is very united. But in normal times, there is constant friction between various sects and cities.
In the realm of the Sword Sect, there are a large number of sword exercises, a wide range of choices, and the atmosphere of sword refining is also very good. To sum up, refining swords on the territory of the Sword Sect is the most cost-effective.
Thinking about all kinds of things in the Xuanwu Continent in his head, he sighed at the miracle of Shijie's creation. Du Xijie was unhurried with the ingredients in his hands. This ingredient is not a proportional combination of alchemy, but refers to the order in which the ingredients are sucked into the life grid.
As the main part of the sword body, the Dark Iron Essence was the first to be sucked into the life grid.
Calming down and drawing the aura of heaven and earth into the body, a large piece of dark iron essence slowly disappeared into Du Xijie's hands under the guidance of qi.
Although Du Xijie knew what to do, it was the first time he did it, and he felt amazing.
The dark iron essence was the size of his own forearm, and when he inhaled it, he didn't feel anything unusual, but he felt that there was something more in his life. Because he came through time, after all, there are still some thinking habits on the earth, Du Xijie does not have the feeling of taking it for granted as other instrument races, but is a little curious.
Dark iron essence is followed by red copper powder, nether lead powder and other metals. Then there is the spirit crystal of the wind crystal and the wind flame Jiao, the crystal is used to condense and store the qi of heaven and earth, which is equivalent to the heart of the spirit soldier, and the spirit crystal contains the residual spirituality of the demonic beast, which can be integrated into its own soul in the refining, and it is equivalent to the brain of the spirit soldier for the purpose of building the spirit. Then inhale the red dragon blood to stabilize the attribute quality of the refiner, and then there is a large pile of plant juice and rhizomes, all of which are similar to catalysts to promote the fusion of materials.
After all the materials were inhaled into his body, Du Xijie suddenly felt a strange feeling of swelling fill his life. The selection of materials for Du Xijie's refining is very extreme, the value of this pile of materials alone is as much as more than 100,000 yuan stones, ordinary people can't withstand such consumption at all, and ordinary people spend one or two thousand yuan stones on refining at the beginning It is already very luxurious.
The extreme selection of materials is exchanged for the boundless pain that the life grid is about to stretch out. Du Xijie is not a sissy, but at this time, Du Xijie's first thought was the pain of a woman giving birth.
When the soul came through, Du Xijie clearly remembered the heart-rending shout of the old lady when she gave birth to herself, and she yelled in pain with the bottomless cultivation of the old lady, which can be seen to be extremely painful.
So Du Xijie screamed very angrily, screaming like giving birth to a child.
Above the basement, natural dwelling. A beautiful woman smiled and said to herself: "Stinky boy, see if you dare to talk back to the old lady."
Du Xijie wanted to faint, but he couldn't. The boundless pain stimulated Du Xijie's brain, making him extremely awake and welcoming the pain with a clearer sense than usual.
But fortunately, his mind was unusually clear, although the pain was unbearable, and his voice was already hoarse. But Du Xijie still didn't forget to draw qi into his body and fuse the pile of materials for cultivation.
Du Xijie has not yet reached the realm of a Xuanzi artist, and he is not yet able to look inside the abdomen. Everything is based on physical sensations, and you can't see what changes have taken place in your body.
I only remember that I guided the qi of heaven and earth into my body according to the family tradition, and then controlled the qi to wrap those materials, so that they gradually fused together.
With the wrapping of the aura, the pain decreased a little, but only a little.
If the pain is divided into ten levels, the first level is the pain of a mosquito bite, and the ninth level is the pain of giving birth, then Du Xijie endured at the beginning was the ten levels of pain that a woman happened to be bitten by a mosquito when she gave birth.
At this time, the aura of heaven and earth slowly entered the body, enveloping the pile of materials, and the pain was slightly reduced. But it's just that the mosquitoes have drunk their blood and fly away.
I don't know how long it has been, whether it is an hour, or a day, or a month, or a year? Du Xijie couldn't remember clearly, the pain made him forget and lose his judgment of time.
When the pain gradually disappeared, if Du Xijie could look inward at this time, he would find that the materials in the life grid had merged into a semi-liquid sphere.
Du Xijie wiped his forehead and the water in his hand. Looking at the clothes again, they were all wet with sweat, leaving a large puddle of water stains on the floor, and Du Xijie looked like he had just been fished out of the sea.
There was no time to rest, Du Xijie hurriedly attracted the spiritual energy into the body, and at this time he had already entered the most critical moment of refining, the stage of transforming and building spirits.
Although the fusion material is painful, it is not very difficult, and even the unqualified rarely make mistakes, unless they choose a material formula that exceeds the tolerance limit.
However, the transformation and spirit building is the key to the quality of a spirit soldier.
With the same formula, the quality of the transformation and spirit building determines the quality of the spirit soldier. Those with high qualifications are often able to refine divine weapons, while those with low qualifications are easy to waste a bunch of good materials and refine vulgar goods.
Of course, this statement is not absolute, and the transformation and spirit building is a one-time effort, and the main thing is that it comes from the inspiration of that moment. Some people can forge supreme treasures with a flash of inspiration, but some people can't look forward to it once in their lives.
The transformation in the transformation of the spirit refers to the carving of the shape of the spirit soldier, using the qi of heaven and earth as a knife to shape the shape of the material.
For example, the sharpness and solidity of the sword depend on the quality of the shape.
Spirit building is the reinforcement and improvement of material attributes, such as the materials chosen by Du Xijie, the main fire attribute is supplemented by the wind attribute. The strength of the spirit soldier's attributes depends on the degree of spirit building.
Although the transformation and spirit building belong to different categories and sound like two different steps, the whole process is done in one go and should be counted as one step.
After Du Xijie calmed down, he slowly entered a mysterious state. The heart is ethereal, and he only thinks about transforming and building spirits.
In this state, the master has no consciousness of the outside world, and even if someone inserts a knife in his heart at this time, he will not have any reaction, so there is usually someone to protect the Dharma when refining the weapon, and Du Xijie's wife is guarding the door at this time.
After entering the ethereal state, Du Xijie would only do one thing, transforming and building spirits.
Some people say that refining weapons is to train the heart, and every spiritual soldier is carved with heart.
But in this state of unconsciousness, it is basically impossible to think that it is impossible to control the style attributes of the spirit soldier, and there is no experience to draw on, because no one will remember what they did when they wake up.
The only way to do this is to do autosuggestion while you are usually conscious, which is a bit like self-hypnosis.
For example, if Du Xijie wants to refine a sword, he often thinks about the sword in his heart, and over time, he has a sword in his subconscious.
Seventeen years after the crossing, Du Xijie's wife almost kept the sword in his mouth every day, Du Xijie thought that he had a sword in his heart for a long time, but at this time, unexpected changes were taking place in his life.
The mixture of materials slowly elongated into a long strip. Then the head of xiangxia bends and becomes a bit like the letter 'L'. The center of the material slowly hollows out, forming a tubular shape and gradually growing some protrusions......
Du Xijie was unaware of these changes, everything was just subconscious instinct, and he didn't even know what he was doing now.
If you can see it, you can see that the mass of material is slowly turning into a gun, a pistol, a huge revolver.
The barrel of the pistol is extremely long, the length of an adult forearm. The butt of the gun is fiery red, and there is a butterfly pattern with only half a wing. The whole gun is natural, simple but innovative, with six golden bullets stuck on the wheel, but the bullet is milky white, and the silver gun body is dotted with fiery red lines.
When Du Xijie woke up, he knew what kind of spirit weapon he had refined, and when he took it out of the life grid, he was startled, and he actually dropped the pistol on the ground, and muttered in his mouth: "It's over, this time it will be torn alive by the tigress." ”