After the explanation, Li Zhen walked on the tree-lined path next to the water pavilion in the inner east garden, moving his muscles and bones.

Soon after, the front suddenly opened up, and a lotus pond with a length and width of more than 100 meters appeared, wrinkled in the morning breeze, and sparkled in the microwave.

It's not the middle of summer, and there is no lotus fragrance in the pond, but early in the morning, there are all kinds of carp floating on the water surface under the flower building to ventilate and feed, and there are special servants to feed.

There is a bamboo bridge leading to the deep water, which is an artificial lake connected to a lotus pond, and there is a pavilion in the middle of the lake, where the two-storey flower tower stands on the opposite shore, and the pillars and walls are covered with roses.

After a while, several servants brought what Li Zhen wanted, and Li Zhen walked up the bamboo bridge and came to the pavilion.

The stone benches in the pavilion are separated from the left and right, and in the middle is a round stone table two feet wide, with natural lines like petals.

There are famous craftsmen skillfully carved into a decorative picture of begonias in full bloom, luxurious and elegant.

Li Zhen sat down and said to the servant, "Just put things here." ”

After the servants retreated, Li Zhen took a piece of incense, scraped the incense powder with an incense scraper unhurriedly, and collected it all into the small clay pot in front of him.

Then, he set up the engraving tools in the white pottery bowl-like shallow belly incense burner, took a silver long-handled incense spoon, scooped it onto it, and poured it evenly.

This kind of engraving tool is a hollow silver plate made of the large Yan seal incense map, fine and light, clear lines, lightly cover with ash after flat, immediately on the furnace incense ash on the top of a two-inch square pattern.

It resembles a large Yantian compass, with a square inside and a round outside, quite a Taoist connotation, and can generally burn for about two quarters, that is, half an hour.

This is a specially designed specification, which is suitable for practitioners to meditate and settle down and carry it around the day.

After these preparations were completed, Li Zhen took the ignition tool made of overseas foreign wood, the fire bud branch, and used the spark in it to gently ignite the incense powder in the corner of the print.

As the smoke rises, the thoughts converge, and the soul seems to enter the underworld, gradually reaching the realm of the mysterious.

In the familiar smell of the spirit incense, Li Zhen felt that his divine sense was clear, and his strength was extremely strong, and even the sensing range that had not been loosened for a long time seemed to have expanded a little, and there was a sense of openness in all directions.

The things around us seem to be reflected by an invisible light, projected in the sea of consciousness at the spiritual level.

These things are presented as if they were seen with the naked eye, but they are a little more bright and delicate than those seen with the naked eye, and you can even freely adjust the angle of observation and analyze them from different directions and angles at the same time.

Li Zhen had never had such a delicate and nuanced observation experience, and suddenly felt that the mortal body was indeed extremely restrictive, and what he saw and heard was not necessarily the truth of the world.

After quietly feeling it, he made the most of his talent for smelling and recognizing people, so that the characteristics of visualizing smells and fragrance qualities were brought into full play.

This is another kind of perception that is completely different from the divine sense, and it has the subtlety of the subtle.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for him to sense a steady stream of new hairsprings.

If the gossamer seen before was only a trickle, it is now almost a real river, which spreads out with the ignition of incense ingots, and in a short time reaches thousands of people.

"That's true!"

Li Zhen was shocked, and immediately, an irrepressible ecstasy surged into his heart.

The sky does not live up to me, I will never forget, and there will really be an echo!

"It's finally the road to the sky!"

"I knew that it was impossible to be as lacking in spiritual roots as the immortal master said, and the immortal path was unfounded, and the avenue of heaven and earth should never be like that!"

How many years of hardship and unwillingness.

In this way, once it was released, the feeling of pulling out the clouds and seeing the sun spontaneously appeared.

Li Zhen pondered: "Now it has been confirmed that this gossamer does come from incense, usually condensed, and ignited to trigger. ”

"Others borrow incense to save their thoughts and benefit their souls, but in essence, they still use the qualifications of spiritual roots to refine qi. ”

"But if you don't have my natural ability, you can't take the initiative to capture, you can only passively accept, which is the essential difference. ”

"The ancients said, the meat eater is brave and fierce, the grain eater is wise and skillful, the gas eater is a god and long-lived, and the non-eater is immortal and god, what am I like this?

"Incense eaters were originally supposed to be gods and Buddhas, and incense sealed gods all rely on the faith of all beings, but now I eat incense directly, I don't have to ask God to worship Buddha, I don't have to rely on the wishes of all beings, but it is more pure. ”

"That's a ...... It's better to worship God than to worship yourself!"

Li Zhen then thought of a few questions: "Incense can produce this kind of thing...... Let's call it aroma or fragrance, what is the content of different spices and incense, and how to use it to maximize efficiency?"

"These questions must be clarified, I don't have the qualifications to have a complete spiritual root, and my cultivation future is all counting on it. ”

Fortunately, this question is not difficult to verify, just do a comparative experiment.

Although the Xinling incense that Li Zhen now masters is a secret recipe, there are craftsmen under his hands to study, assist in production, and even participate in experimental assembly line production.

He is a master of incense making, not hard labor, and there is no need to do everything himself.

To maintain the mystery of the recipe, it is only necessary to grasp the key processes, and a lot of the basic work needs to be started.

Soon after, Li took out another imitation that his craftsmen had tried to make and looked at it.

The color of this incense is brown and yellow, and just what you can see with the naked eye is more than a chip behind the finished product that you have refined by yourself, but it has been verified that the effect of assisting in soul refining is still there.

The Ancestor would also take this kind of thing and use it as a reward or for other purposes.

Li Zhen concocted this piece of incense in the same way, closed his eyes in this pavilion again, and really saw that there were many more gossamers in the void again, like a gurgling spring gushing.

"Sure enough, it's a little less than before, but it's still far more divergent than when it wasn't lit!"

Looking at the gossamer in the smoke like mayflies, and soon accumulated thousands of them, Li Zhen made up his mind.

At this point, the previous speculations can be fully confirmed.

Next, Li Zhen simply took a handful of luxury, directly took the new incense ingot and lit it whole, quietly waited for it to burn, and then counted the total amount of incense after it was fully released.

As a result, the Xinling incense made by himself was more than one million, and the ordinary craftsmen made it were inferior, ranging from hundreds of thousands.

And when it is urged, there is a problem of not being able to melt.

Being able to visualize the scent, manifest the fragrance, and actively capture those fragrances with your thoughts for melting, is extremely efficient.

But if there are too many at once, it will also be muddy and difficult to take care of.

Maybe it will change when the divine thoughts become stronger in the future, but for now, it can only be slowed down, and it is most appropriate to follow the normal burning method.

Li Zhen continued to make a comparative experiment with various spices, and found that there were indeed different amounts of fragrance in them.

It's just that the ordinary incense manifestation, the number of which ranges from single digits to hundreds, and even if it is ignited, the accelerated divergence will not help, can be called completely inert, and it cannot be used as an auxiliary cultivation thing at all.

All kinds of natural spices, the raw materials used to make incense products contain slightly more fragrance, but when they are directly ignited, they only accumulate tens of thousands, which is far less than the synthesized Xinling incense.

The nature of the fragrance is also different, and Li Zhen feels that they should have their own effects, but for the time being, it is a common benefit to help the growth of the soul.

In the end, he also had a whim and tried to chew and swallow it directly, but unfortunately this time it was useless, and he couldn't use it like taking pills.

Li Zhen sighed, and seized the time to refine the few pieces of incense used in the experiment, and this day devoured millions of incense spirits, making the power of thoughts increase by three grams to remember, and after the soul went out of the body, the strength and speed of the spirit body finally began to increase imperceptibly.

......

After half a month of recuperation and exploration, it was the end of March.

The Ninth Princess said, "Husband, do you feel better?" Otherwise, you might as well lie down for a while today and don't get up so early, right?"

Li Zhen said: "That's not possible, I've been recuperating for so long, and my bones are about to rust, not to mention that today's melting flying sword is successful, I have to see for myself." ”

The ninth princess had no choice but to get up and beckon the maid to come over and dress Li Zhen, but she couldn't help but sigh: "You, as soon as you say this, you are refreshed." ”

Li Zhen had a smile on his face, full of joy, but it was not because of the secret acquisition of the Fa, but on this day, the flying sword that really belonged to him was forged.

The flying sword is not an idle thing, it is his Xianxia dream.

The sloppy Taoist rescued Li Zhen and took away the unpopular cloth bag magic weapon, but the flying sword was left for him.

It's just that most of the swords of others are poured with essence blood, and the gods are sacrificed, and they don't have their own weapons to take advantage of, at best, they are melted and taken from the materials.

Sloppy Daoists don't have that kind of idle time, but Li Zhen is not too troublesome, after all, there are also skilled craftsmen in the city, who can forge non-flow magic weapons, especially good at the most common low-level flying swords.

A flying sword costs at least 100 taels of gold, he has always wanted to get it to play, but he can't take care of it because of his career, and now he has a windfall, and he can finally take the opportunity to meet it.

Li Zhen said to the ninth princess: "For the husband, he yearns for the immortal family, and he wants to find the immortal but can't, can't he still play with a flying sword that does not enter the stream?"

"The cost of only a few hundred taels of gold is not as valuable as Mei Ji or a famous horse. ”

The ninth princess said: "Mei Ji can entertain people when she buys it, and famous horses can ride it, what do you want this flying sword for?"

When Li Zhen said this, he immediately became interested, and asked: "Speaking of which, your monk's ability to drive flying swords is mostly related to divine soul thoughts or mana?

The ninth princess said: "Yes, the pouring of essence and blood, and the cultivation of divine thoughts, can make their own qi linger on it, and other idlers can't carry it with divine thoughts, otherwise low-level monks will be snatched away when they meet high-level monks, and they will be robbed of their blades when they meet, and they can't do anything at all, even high-level monks also need to pay attention to them all the time, so won't it become a weakness?"

Li Zhen said: "I see, I don't have the qualifications to have all the spiritual roots, so it shouldn't hinder the sacrificial magic weapon and bind myself, right?"

The Ninth Princess said: "The sacrificial refining magic weapons are mostly related to the life qi machine, and the ancestor sent you a message to the spirit rune before, so that it is convenient to contact at a critical moment, and it is also from this origin, and it will not hinder it." ”

Li Zhen said: "Then I will rest assured." ”

While chatting, the two washed and dined, and then took a group of servants and maids out of the door, and went to the sword house of Master Hong, a famous craftsman in the east of the city.

When he came to the destination, Li Zhen jumped out of the carriage, and what he saw was a high platform of several zhang like a mountain of flames.

It is actually made of huge mountain rock hollowed out as a whole, the shape is like a furnace, and the iron water in the ditches on both sides is flowing down, like a waterfall rushing endlessly.

This has the momentum of a small-scale steelmaking plant, which is advanced in a handicraft workshop that relies on manpower, and the structure of the furnace, the fuel used, and the alloy formula are all real secrets, and the manpower and material resources consumed are by no means imaginable by ordinary craftsmen.

"Dangdang, dang!"

The constant sound of knocking came from all around, and it was the forgers of the Sword House who were working at their own stations, and they had begun to take shape in the form of assembly line production.

As the shopkeeper Huo said, all the crafts in this world are for the sake of the immortal master, because of the help of some extraordinary powers, it has the technology and ideas that surpass the ancient society.

Li Zhen noticed that they were repeatedly beating some sword blanks, all of which were refined steel, which was a treasure of no inferior quality to special steel, with a value between ordinary things and spiritual materials, and was often used in magic weapons and blades that were not in the flow of goods.

In front of the innermost iron felt, an old man with white hair and beard sat smoking a dry cigarette, watching two craftsmen who looked like disciples pound the sword blank, and the rhythmic sound alternately rose and fell, clanging, as if overshadowing the other sounds.

This old man is Master Hong, the sword-forging master of Hong's shop.

A disciple stepped forward to remind them, and Master Hong saw them, got up with a cigarette stick, and stepped forward to salute: "See Li Yuma, the ninth princess, I don't know if the two of you are coming, you have missed the distance, and I hope to forgive your sins." ”

Li Zhen stretched out his hand to help: "Master Hong doesn't need to be polite, we took the liberty to visit and cause you trouble." ”

Master Hong smiled and said, "Li Juma is here to get the flying sword?"

Li Zhen said: "Yes, I heard that the flying sword that you have entrusted your lord to forge has been completed. ”

Master Hong said: "It's not a secret, I already have a sword blank that is about to be formed in this shop, and it has been repeatedly refined thousands of times, and the horse master placed an order a while ago, just use it to forge, if it is not pure gold for mortal materials, there is no magic use of spiritual materials, it is enough to enter the flow of goods, and now the horse is just right, borrow a drop of your essence blood into the sword body, and it can be baked." ”

Crafting a flying sword is time-consuming and laborious, not to mention, it also requires a skilled craftsman to do it, and when it is forged, it also needs to be integrated into the master's essence blood when it is baked, so as to fill his body with the life qi machine and lay the foundation for future sacrifices.

The reason why Li Zhen came to witness the flying sword in person was to put his own mark on this flying sword.

As for the flying sword that he picked up before, of course, it was completely smelted, and the pure gold was extracted as a forging fee.

But it alone is far from enough, Li Zhen also spent an additional 150 taels of gold as materials, as well as used up some personal relationships, before inviting the most outstanding master craftsman in the city, Master Hong, to personally take action.