Early the next morning, Xuanyuan placed things in the direction indicated by Ding Cong, some things he recognized, some things he didn't know, and when all the positions were properly placed, Xuanyuan returned to Ding Cong's side.

At this time, Ding Cong was sitting cross-legged in the middle of the deep valley, with a clay pot at his feet, a rootless fire was suspended in the basin, and the faint blue-blue flames swayed with the wind, as if they could be extinguished by the wind at any time.

Seeing Xuanyuan return, Ding Cong took out the black ore, and was just about to throw it into the flames, when he suddenly saw Ning Er standing aside, slowly put down the ore, closed his eyes and pondered for a while. Suddenly, Ding Cong raised his head and a light flew out in the center of his eyebrows, instantly turning into a water ball that could be entered. Ding Cong looked at the water polo and said to Ning'er: "Ning'er, you enter the water polo and see how long you can last." ”

Ning Er looked at the transparent water balloon suspended in mid-air, and then looked at Xuanyuan not far away, a little undecided.

Seeing Ning'er looking at him, Xuanyuan nodded.

Ning Er asked Ding Cong again, "High Priest, how do you want to enter?"

Ding Cong smiled: "Of course I stepped in, but I had to invade it with my whole body." ”

"I don't know water. Ning Er said with some embarrassment.

Ding Cong was stunned for a moment after hearing this, tilted his head to look at Ning Er for a while, and asked, "Didn't Shaodian teach you the trick of avoiding water? I see that your cultivation is acceptable, why can't you have these simple formulas?"

After hearing this, Ning Er said a little gloomily: "Father...... The master did not teach, but only taught some methods of practice, saying that it can strengthen the body. ”

Ding Cong was a little stunned after hearing this, no wonder Shaodian didn't mention this daughter, the exercises he practiced originated from Shen Gongke's simplified version of the exercises, and the exercises practiced by Chiyou and others of the Jiuli clan were the same as those who practiced the exercises, and they all followed a brutal and bloodthirsty path. Later, Mi Xi discovered the drawbacks, so he studied and improved it, and it gradually became a system. However, Mi Xi's knowledge is limited after all, and his improved exercises can be cultivated to the Yuan Infant Stage at most, and then there is nothing he can do. But the foundation of practice is still Shen Gongke's practice routine, until Shaodian meets himself and Lao Li.

Lao Li was very disdainful of Shaodian's exercises after reading them, and once sneered and said: "The idea of killing starts in the heart and ends in blood, no matter who practices this exercise, they will lose their minds in the end and become a demon who only knows how to kill." ”

In terms of the major cultivation of his refining period, this kind of thing is really pediatric, especially what he practiced was the way of killing, so he continued to modify that exercise, although the foundation could not be changed, but the follow-up cultivation of the heart law became closer and closer to the way of killing, and there was more harshness and grief in the killing, and the heart and blood were changed to the body and the heart. Therefore, after Lao Li perfected the exercises for him, he was no longer suitable for women to practice, unless he wanted his daughter to become a murderous demon without blinking.

After Ding Cong's investigation, he found that Ning Er's cultivation had just built a foundation, which was powerful compared to ordinary people, but it was a little low as a cultivator. It's just that he always feels that Ning'er seems to be different in some places, so he wants to test it with this water polo.

Hearing Ning'er say no, Ding Cong remembered these things, so he smiled and taught her a trick to avoid water, and let her practice before entering the water balloon.

At this time, the flames in the basin had gradually turned purple, and Ding Cong hesitated for a moment before throwing the black ore into the fire. Looking at the ore that was constantly tumbling and shrinking in the fire, Xuanyuan's eyes on the side showed joy, and Ding Cong was also engrossed in staring at the movement in the fire at this time.

When the ore completely disappeared, a fist-sized black ball of water was suspended in the flames, distinct from the dark purple flames, as if a thin transparent wall was wrapped around the black water ball. At this time, Ding Cong removed the flame and waited for the black water ball to cool slowly.

Ding Cong took a deep breath and said to Xuanyuan: "Condense a drop of essence blood out, and when a red halo appears on its body, drip the blood into it." ”

Xuanyuan held his breath and condensed the essence blood on his fingertips, and when a red halo appeared on the black ball, he quickly reached out and threw the essence blood into it.

With a soft sound of "snort", a wisp of green smoke rose up, and the essence blood left a shallow trace on the surface of the black ball and then disappeared, and then the trace slowly expanded, wrapping the entire black ball, and then disappeared in a flash.

At this time, Ding Cong breathed a sigh of relief, reached out and grabbed the black ball in his hand, and withdrew the flames before getting up and walking towards Ning'er.

Xuanyuan sat cross-legged on his knees and meditated to recover, although only a drop of essence blood was condensed, but the feeling at this time was no less than a full-strength fight.

Ding Cong walked up to Ning Er's side and asked softly, "Have you already practiced?"

Ning Er looked at Ding Cong and frowned and said, "I'm familiar with it, but is it really possible?"

Ding Cong laughed after hearing this, thinking that this little girl was really cute, and he didn't care. Condensed the water balloon in front of Ning Er again.

After Ning Er silently recited the mantra, she tentatively stepped one foot into the water balloon. Unexpectedly, before my foot touched the water balloon, a puddle appeared on the surface of the ball, which was just as big as my foot, and I didn't even touch the edge of my shoe.

Seeing this, Ning Er's confidence increased sharply, and she quickly invaded her entire body into the water balloon. At this time, Ning'er seemed to be wearing a layer of transparent armor on the outside of her body, and there was not even a trace of water stains on her clothes.

After Ning'er entered the water balloon with her whole body, the surface of the water balloon was closed, and it looked like a mermaid amber from a distance. Ding Cong didn't pay any attention to Ning Er, and came to Xuanyuan's side again, and only then did he relax when he saw the blood on his face gradually recover.

After Xuanyuan finished his practice, he asked, "How is it?

Xuanyuan knew the refining process long before it started, and this time the refining required him to condense his essence blood three times, but he was a little weak after condensing it for the first time just now, but now he is afraid that it will be a failure to stop.

So he gritted his teeth and said, "It's okay, I can hold on." ”

Ding Cong looked at him and said earnestly, if you can't do it, don't be stiff, it's a big deal to continue tomorrow.

Xuanyuan was stunned after hearing this, and only after a long time did he come back and ask, "Isn't it going to be done in one go?"

Ding Cong rolled his eyes and said, "Who told you that you have to do it in one go?"

Xuanyuan was discouraged: "Then why is the high priest in a hurry?"

Ding Cong said helplessly: "When I came, I didn't even use half of my usual speed, how can you see that I am in a hurry?"

Xuanyuan was shocked again and was speechless for a long time. After a while, he asked again: "Then before we come out, you said that it will take a long time to retreat and refine the sword, so let me settle down the affairs of the alliance?"

Ding Cong regretted that he didn't talk to him about the basic course, the basic course about refining and casting.

So he said even more helplessly: "This sword refining is divided into three steps, refining raw materials, smelting materials, and casting utensils. When refining raw materials, there are two main raw materials that need the blessing of your essence blood, the process of smelting materials and casting artifacts can be done by myself, but when the sword is baked, you still need to use your essence blood to refine before you can brand your divine soul mark, so you must follow. If I refine my own weapon, what will I use you for? ”

Well, at this time, Xuanyuan knew that he came here this time to add a divine soul mark to this sword.

At this time, the water balloon in the distance suddenly burst with a "bang", and Ning'er, who was covered in muddy water, got up on the ground and walked towards the two of them in embarrassment.

Ding Cong looked at Ning Er, who was dripping with water, with great satisfaction, and said, "I will pass on a mental method to you later, study it well during this time, and you will use it at the last moment." ”

Ning Er heard that she still had her own task, and happily agreed.

On the third day, Ding Cong did not move, Xuanyuan rested, and Ning'er practiced.

Fourth, Ding Cong relocated the things that Xuanyuan placed around, Xuanyuan rested, and Ning'er practiced.

Day 5 & 6...... Day 9.

Xuanyuan couldn't help it, ran to Ding Cong and asked, "High Priest, when can I start the follow-up things?"

Ding Cong looked at Xuanyuan, who was a little anxious, and said with a smile: "Since you are so anxious, let's do it today." ”

Xuanyuan nodded in agreement, and then saw familiar things, clay pots, purple flames, the origin of the soil.

This time, Ding Cong did not throw the origin of the earth into the fire to calcinate like last time, but placed it under the flames, and then began to continuously throw all kinds of tree branches into the fire, and the raging flames rose into the sky, and it didn't take long for the trees to burn the city to ashes. The soot slowly fell on the origin of the earth, covering it layer by layer, but strangely, instead of getting bigger, the origin of the earth continued to shrink, shrinking from the size of a fist to the size of a bird's egg, and began to sleek up continuously.

At this time, Ding Cong shouted at Xuanyuan and made a move, and Xuanyuan hurriedly pointed out the essence blood on his fingertips.

Then, just like the black ball, the origin of the earth became a small yellow ball that was collected by Ding Cong.

In the following time, Ding Cong did not rest anymore, but continued to refine different materials, from mountain-like rocks to small water droplets the size of grains, in short, he continued to refine for more than 20 days. When the last raw material was refined, Ding Cong relaxed.

Xuanyuan looked at it from the side and admired it in his heart, he couldn't hold on to refining things so sleeplessly.

After Ding Cong rested for three days, he adjusted his mental state to the best before he began to prepare to start smelting materials.

This process is more laborious than that of refining, and the properties of each material are different, so it is difficult to integrate them. Fortunately, after eighty-one days of smelting, a piece of material that looked like gold and non-gold appeared in front of Xuanyuan's eyes.

Xuanyuan couldn't tell what kind of feeling he had about this thing that he didn't know what it was, in short, he felt that this thing was a part of himself, although this feeling was not strong, but it was very clear.

Ding Cong practiced again for three days, during which he checked the results of Ning Er's study and found that this little girl was very motivated and should be able to play her role normally at the last moment.

Just before Ding Cong began to forge the sword, he called Xuanyuan to his side and asked very solemnly, "Have you ever thought about the name of the sword?"

Obviously, Xuanyuan thought about this matter very carefully, and replied a little embarrassedly: "Is it good to use Xuanyuan as the name?"

After saying this, Ding Cong froze, and a voice kept sounding in his heart, "Shouldn't it be to avoid water?"