Chapter Eighty-Six: The Apprentice of Heavenly Craftsman (Ask for Collection, Ask for Recommendation)
"Well, good boy, get up. In the future, you will be the only true disciple of my Xu Ziwu. My name is Tiangong, and it has always been a single transmission, just because there are very few monks with refining qualifications. You have to meet a suitable disciple who can take as much as he wants, and there is no limit, as long as you shine on the way of my Heavenly Gongmen refining weapon.
By the way, I will only be your refining master in the future, and I will not be responsible for your exercises, and the exercises still need to be self-cultivation. ”
"Thank you, Master, everything is up to Master's arrangement. Zhang Yifan said respectfully, and there was no objection.
"Show me your magic weapon. ”
Zhang Yifan took out his mixed yuan gourd, golden moon ring, and gray scale shield according to his words, and hesitated slightly, but still took out the fire Jiao flag that he had basically not used.
"Haha, Golden Moon Ring, Gray Scale Shield, Fire Jiao Banner, it seems that you and I are really destined, it turns out that you are the kid who wants to repair this Golden Moon Ring that day.
Yes, yes, it's all from my Meridian Workshop. This gray scale shield and fire Jiao flag are still refined by me, especially this fire Jiao flag, which is a proud work of the teacher, and it is worth a lot of money. It seems that you have a good fairy fate. Xu Ziwu said with a smile, happy for Zhang Yifan.
"Thank you Master for refining these fine magic weapons, especially this gray scale shield has really saved the apprentice several times. Zhang Yifan said with sincere gratitude.
"Well, you apprentice, there is no meeting gift for the teacher, I originally gave you a high-grade magic weapon, it seems that you are not lacking, so let's do it, you give me the gray scale shield, and the teacher will help you refine it, and it will be regarded as a gift for you. ”
"Thank you, Master!" Zhang Yifan did not hesitate to remove the mark of the Gray Scale Shield, and handed it to Xu Ziwu with great joy.
"Well, these are two refining jade books, one of them is my experience on how to practice the way of refining weapons using the body of fire refining, and the other is the Heavenly Gong Basic Refining Sutra, if you want to start practicing seriously, I will assess it every month. In addition, you will move out of Donglai Peak from tomorrow and live in the Meridian Workshop. This is your new identity token, so you can return the inner disciple token tomorrow. "In this way, Zhang Yifan's token is gone before it is hot, and the new identity token is black and smooth, warm as jade to the touch, and its back is the same as the inner disciple token, and the front is written with 'Tiangong apprentice Zhang Yifan' Several ancient seal words, which seem quite ancient, which makes Zhang Yifan a little lovely.
"Yes, Master!"
"By the way, I forgot to mention that if you fail the assessment every month, you will be fined a thousand spirit stones until you are penniless. You know, these artifacts of yours are worth a lot of money. Xu Ziwu said lightly, which made Zhang Yifan roll his eyes in his heart, and the pressure doubled.
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In the blink of an eye, it was the end of summer and the beginning of autumn. Whether it was hot or not this summer, Zhang Yifan didn't feel it a few times, so he didn't know very well, but he knew that he was definitely in dire straits.
Only after truly cultivating the way of refining weapons did Zhang Yifan know how difficult it was to refine weapons, no wonder this cultivator in the immortal realm refiners was so rare.
In the past three months, Zhang Yifan has suffered a lot, even if he has the ability to never forget, he is a little unbearable.
As a Tiangong apprentice, he has not refined any materials at present, let alone magic weapons. Countless material names, characteristics, and illustrated books, in order to pass the assessment and not be punished by the spirit stone, Zhang Yifan memorized it day and night. Fortunately, the final assessment was passed, and Zhang Yifan couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
The more time spent cultivating the path of refining weapons, the less time spent cultivating. Under the advancement of a large number of refining Juyuan Dan, Zhang Yifan was able to cultivate to the eighth layer of the refining period, which was a turtle speed compared to before.
However, the eighth layer is equivalent to a threshold in the middle level of the Qi refining period, so it is understandable that it takes a little longer. But the thing that made him frown appeared again, and the mana he cultivated disappeared again inexplicably, exactly the same as what he had experienced before, which made his heart sink to the bottom.
Could it be that every time you cross a small threshold, you will experience a loss of mana? Zhang Yifan couldn't help but guess.
Now that something happened, Zhang Yifan had to face it and deal with the past. Fortunately, Xu Ziwu went out a few days ago with something important, and it is estimated that he will come back in half a year. He filled Zhang Yifan with a refining plan, preparing to let him practice on his own, and at the same time arranged for other refiners in the sect to conduct a certain assessment and supervision of him, and wait for him to take another big test when he came back at the end of the year. After passing the level, he began to let Zhang Yifan try the refining of materials and teach him a unique refining method of Tiangong.
Zhang Yifan had no objection to this, after a few months of study and understanding, he had begun to like refining, and at the same time began to show the terrifying talent of the body of fire refining, and had an intuition and understanding of the way of refining weapons that was different from that of ordinary monks. This is also the reason why he was able to pass the assessment of the Meridian Master, who almost made the other monks despair.
For the next half a year of refining learning, Zhang Yifan is very confident, and it should not be difficult to pass the test. According to past experience, the first thing he has to face now is the strange thing that appeared after the mana disappeared, the cultivation was greatly reduced, and the essence blood was sucked.
Last time, he descended to the bottom and became a mortal without cultivation, and half of his essence blood was sucked away, and he almost lost his life. He estimated that this strange thing would probably come on the night of the full moon, and the time was not a few days away.
He told the other monks in the workshop that he felt the need to retreat for a few days, and then returned to his residence in the workshop, activated the masking circle, and began to wait for something strange to happen. In fact, he had some vague guesses, and the reason was the Fu Demon Gong. Since the Demon Warrior has such an anti-heaven function, it is reasonable to think about what you have to pay.
Soon the night of the full moon came, just as Zhang Yifan had predicted, the cultivation gradually descended to the fourth layer of the Qi Refining Period, and the essence blood was consumed by three layers, making his face pale as if he was seriously ill, but he did not faint, and it was much better than last time.
This made Zhang Yifan breathe a sigh of relief in his heart, the situation was better than last time, and it seemed that refining the body still had some effect. Zhang Yifan decided that he would have the opportunity to refine his body more in the future, so that the loss of essence blood would be less.
Zhang Yifan then took some pills to restore mana and essence blood, and began to meditate to restore mana. After that, he looked inward into the mysterious space, and found that the whole mysterious space had become much larger, only the size of acres before, but now it has become five acres in size, and the white well seems to have become larger, and the water in the well has become more.
"Master, the house seems to have gotten bigger, what's going on?" Xiaobai on the side looked a little dazed about the changes in the space.
"Well, that's a good thing. After speaking, without waiting for Xiaobai to ask again, Zhang Yifan couldn't wait to take out some well water and start experimenting. He took out more well water this time than before, and it seemed that he consumed less mana. One increase and one decrease, Zhang Yifan is equivalent to taking out three more layers of well water than before, which makes him happy.
Then Zhang Yifan took out the Juyuan Waste Pill, soaked it in water, and was pleasantly surprised to find that it could be purified seven or eight at a time, but you must know that it could only be purified three or five at a time, which is nearly doubled!
Holding back the joy in his heart, Zhang Yifan observed whether there were any other changes in the mysterious well water. After checking for a long time, I found that in addition to some of the above phenomena, there was nothing else, and the medicinal effect was not further enhanced, and there was no evolution when Xiaobai soaked again. But Xiaobai said that the mysterious space is larger, the range of his activities is also larger, he feels more comfortable than before, and he can also cultivate.
At this time, Xiaobai had grown to about four feet in size, and had reached the peak of the first-level demon beast, but he had not broken through the bottleneck and reached the level of the second-level demon beast.
The reason why Xiaobai has made such rapid progress is because Zhang Yifan has often bought some low-level demon beasts and demon bones to feed Xiaobai in the internal market of the sect in the past few months. At the same time, Zhang Yifan also bought a spirit beast bag, which is a bag specially for spirit pet spirit beasts, so that he can take Xiaobai with him in a bright light, so as not to be bored when he often stays in the mysterious space.
Originally, Zhang Yifan still wanted to buy some spirit beast pills, but when he looked at the price, he immediately dispelled his thoughts. Unexpectedly, the elixir eaten by this spirit beast was more expensive than that eaten by the monk, and a bottle of spirit beast elixir that promoted the growth of first-level spirit beasts actually cost ten lower-grade spirit stones, not to mention the elixirs of second- and third-level spirit beasts.
Zhang Yifan decided to refine it himself, anyway, he had a spirit beast pill. Of course, the matter of alchemy has to be put aside a little later, and at present, his main task is to learn refining tools and repair his cultivation as soon as possible.
Most of the people in the sect are relatively simple, and no one cares about this person's cultivation all day long, most of them are diligent and penance-cultivating people. No one cares about Zhang Yifan's reduced cultivation, and even if someone asks, he has a reason to prevaricate. Life is back to the way it used to be, learning to refine weapons and cultivating at the same time.
Time flies quickly, half a year has passed in a blink of an eye, Zhang Yifan has joined the Burning Sky Valley for more than half a year, and he has become familiar and understanding of the relevant affairs in the valley. Zhang Yifan's famous attractions in the valley are not obvious, so basically not many people know him, and he doesn't care about it, and still cultivates in an orderly manner according to the plan.
For the Qi refining period cultivators, at the end of each year, in addition to the necessary assessments, the sect will also hold some various competitions such as fighting methods, alchemy, refining weapons, and arrays, which are of a wide variety and the rewards are quite rich, and some will even reward Zhuji Dan. Although the registration fee for various competitions ranges from five to ten sect contribution points, the low-level monks who participate in the competitions are still flocking to them.
One of the most famous is the fighting method competition, which is divided into three levels, the sixth to eighth layers, the ninth to eleventh layers, and the twelfth to thirteenth floors during the qi refining period. Among the last level of fighting methods, there will be a Zhuji Dan among the rewards contained in the top three, which almost makes most of the high-level Qi refining stage cultivators of the sect crazy.
Zhang Yifan has always been very interested in fighting between monks, and his previous encounters also made him feel a sense of crisis. This fighting competition is mainly based on the nature of competition, and there is an uncle in the foundation building period on the side to judge, even if you can't beat your life, you can still be guaranteed. So he signed up for the second level of the fighting competition.
After nearly half a year of hard cultivation and non-stop taking medicine, he not only cultivated his mana back, but also took a step closer, reaching the level of the ninth layer of the Qi Refining Period, which can be called divine speed.
So in addition to the workshop, the place where Zhang Yifan runs the most is the trial tower, and he occasionally comes once or twice a month, just to hone his fighting skills.