Chapter 91 What I Want in My Life

Yuan Ming did not rush back to Biluo Cave overnight. First, it was unsafe to walk at night. Second, he did not know where he was now and whether there would be any danger around him. He planned to wait until dawn.

He simply built a thatched hut in a forest by the lake, sat down and recalled what happened today.

Yuan Ming has a good habit. Every time he encounters a big event, he will think about it carefully afterwards and summarize his shortcomings.

The reason why he encountered dangers today was that he was not thoughtful and prepared enough. He knew that Qianlu Lake was very wide, but he did not think about the possibility of getting lost. There were also things like compasses in Biluo Cave. If he prepared one in advance, there would be no trouble later.

Yuan Ming exhaled lightly and secretly kept this lesson in mind.

Although he encountered danger today, he also gained a lot, a set of "Strange Stone Records", four pieces of fire jade, a dark red iron hammer, a large storage bag, and the black wood notebook, each of which is a treasure.

"By the way, I almost forgot that there is this." Yuan Ming flipped his hand and took out something, which was the red peach he picked.

The peach exudes a refreshing fragrance, and you can feel the rich spiritual power contained in it. It is definitely a rare spiritual fruit, which may be of great help to cultivation.

But he doesn't know the origin and effect of this fruit, and he is afraid that it will be inappropriate to eat it raw rashly.

"Let's wait until we return to the sect to investigate it clearly." Yuan Ming swallowed his saliva and put the fairy peach away again.

He took out the Heimu notebook and read it carefully.

In front of the notebook is Master Heimu's self-narration, introducing his life. He was born in a small tribe in southern Xinjiang who made a living by forging iron. He has had a great interest in refining tools since he was a child. It's a pity that he was born with a weak body and could not learn the forging skills of his tribe.

Later, by chance, Heimu was found to have spiritual roots, and he was a double spiritual root of fire and wood, so he was sent to Biluo Cave to practice by the tribe.

Hei Mu was not very interested in cultivating immortals, and he was still obsessed with the art of refining weapons. However, the art of refining weapons in Biluo Cave also had high requirements for physical strength. Hei Mu was born with deficiencies and could not learn it. He could only do some forging tasks in the fire workshop, such as screening materials and swinging hammers less frequently.

Hei Mu did not give up. While trying to do his part well, he also looked for ways to solve the problem of insufficient strength.

He firmly believed that he was born to refine weapons.

During this period, Master Hei Mu came into contact with the art of driving objects, and he was immediately inspired.

With his own intelligence, Master Hei Mu forcibly combined the art of driving objects with the hammer forging of refining weapons, perfectly solving the problem of insufficient strength, and officially embarked on the road of refining weapons, and he could not stop from then on.

As Master Hei Mu himself firmly believed, he was indeed a natural refiner. It took only ten years for him to learn all the refining methods of Biluo Cave, and merged them with each other to create his own unique refining school, the Hei Mu style.

According to his own account, the back of the notebook records all of Master Heimu's lifelong experience in refining weapons, as well as his various ideas. It can be said that it is the fruit of his life's pursuit and hard work.

Yuan Ming's face became solemn when he saw this.

Chen Wan said that although Master Heimu was praised as the first weapon refining genius in Biluo Cave in the past hundred years, for some reason his weapon refining skills did not seem to be passed down in Biluo Cave. If other people in the sect knew that Heimu's notebook was in his hands, I don't know how much trouble it would cause.

"No one should know about the matter of Wuzhong Island, and the black storage bag also needs to be hidden!" Yuan Ming decided secretly, and then continued to read.

The handwriting of the self-introduction at the back began to be sloppy. It was basically the difficulties encountered by Master Heimu when refining weapons, or the complaints written when he was in a bad mood. It was scattered and not very coherent.

Yuan Ming did not slack off. He read these words carefully and did not miss any details.

According to Chen Wan, the sudden disappearance of Master Heimu caused a lot of trouble in the sect. Some clues may be found in this notebook.

These scattered words of Master Heimu revealed a lot of information. After his weapon-refining skills became more and more sophisticated, he seemed to be controlled by the Biluo Cave Sect. Later, he stumbled in refining a special secret treasure, and finally decided to leave Biluo Cave.

"If this continues, everyone will die!"

This is the last sentence written by Master Heimu in the autobiography of the notebook.

"Everyone will die? What does it mean?" Yuan Ming muttered to himself, unable to guess what Master Heimu meant by this.

Since he couldn't figure it out, he didn't waste his energy and looked through the Black Wood Flow Weapon Refining Technique at the back.

The handwriting here is very neat, and it is obvious that Master Heimu was very serious when writing every word.

The Black Wood Flow Weapon Refining Technique is divided into four steps. The first step is to smelt the ore, and then forge the embryo.

Yuan Ming is not unfamiliar with these two steps.

According to Master Heimu, smelting and forging embryos may seem simple, but they are the foundation of forging an artifact. There are many things to pay attention to, such as the ratio of ore, the control of the temperature, the strength of hammering, etc. Any slight problem will affect the subsequent refining.

Master Heimu spent a lot of time on smelting and forging embryos. The content of each step is much more complicated than that in the fire workshop. Take the forging embryos as an example. The fire workshop can forge at most a thousand times, while Master Heimu requires ten thousand times, and the details of each forging are also very high.

Yuan Ming read it roughly. Although there are many things he doesn't understand, he sometimes feels like waking up from a dream and his mind is opened.

However, he didn't study this in detail and continued to read it.

Because of his lack of strength, he could only touch the first two steps in the fire workshop of Biluo Cave. He didn't know what the subsequent refining was like. He had been curious for a long time, and now he finally had a more comprehensive understanding.

Yuan Ming quickly turned the pages, browsed ten lines at a glance, and combined with his own thinking, he quickly figured out all the steps of refining.

After smelting and forging the embryo, the next two steps of refining are engraving and infusing spirits.

If only smelting and forging the embryo are performed, the weapons forged are just ordinary weapons. No matter how well such weapons are forged, they are at most tougher and sharper than ordinary weapons, such as the Green Fish Sword.

If you want to refine a magical weapon with special power, you need to engrave and infuse spirits.

The so-called engraving is to engrave some runes containing magical power on the weapon, so that the weapon contains special effects. Some can make the weapon sharper, some make it extremely strong, and even make the weapon inspire power such as fire and lightning.

"The pattern engraved on the stone-breaking hammer in the fire workshop is probably a rune. No wonder it can easily break hard ore." Yuan Ming recalled the first time he sifted materials.

Runes are extremely precious. Every weapon refiner spends his entire life collecting as many new runes as possible. Every time he masters a rune, he can refine a new magic weapon.

The same is true for Master Heimu. Forty-five runes are recorded in his weapon refining notebook, including "sharp rune", "armor-breaking rune", "wind rune" and so on.

At the end of the page where the runes are written, there are some more complicated things, which seem to be many runes connected together. With his current knowledge, he can't understand it at all.

Carving runes is not easy. Heimu believes that each rune represents a rule for the operation of the spiritual power of heaven and earth. There must be no mistakes when carving, otherwise the entire rune will have no effect. If you want to be proficient in carving runes, you need years of practice.

Many weapon refiners can only master a limited number of runes in their lifetime. The main reason why Master Heimu is so famous is that he has a high level of attainment in runes. He has mastered all 45 runes in this notebook.

To refine a magic weapon, it is not enough to just engrave runes. After the runes are engraved, they cannot immediately have power. They also need to be infused with spirits.

The so-called infusion of spirits, to put it simply, is to inject mana into the engraved runes to stimulate their power.

This step is simple to say, but it is not easy to do. Infusion of spirits requires extremely high mana control. These newly engraved runes on the magic weapon are actually very fragile. A slight excessive impact will cause the runes to collapse.

And infusion of spirits has another purpose, which is to completely integrate the runes and the magic weapon.

Only after the newly engraved runes and the magic weapon are integrated can they be completely stable and withstand the fierce collision of future battles. To achieve this goal, it is far from enough to rely solely on skilled mana control. It also requires a kind of innate spirituality, which can also be said to be talent.

Among the steps of refining magic tools, the probability of failure in infusing spirit is the highest. Even for senior refiners, the success rate is only 20% to 30%. According to the notes, even Master Heimu has a success rate of less than half.

Seeing this, Yuan Ming couldn't help but sigh at the difficulty of refining.

He continued to flip through the notes and soon finished reading the whole notes, looking into the distance.

Yuan Ming was not very interested in the way of refining. He insisted on going to the Fire Workshop to learn forging these days, mainly to gain a foothold in Biluo Cave. Now that he got this Heimu notes, he had a shortcut in refining, and maybe he could try it.

He didn't expect to reach the level of Master Heimu, but he could refine the most ordinary magic tools.

During these days in the sect, Yuan Ming understood more and more clearly the power and importance of magic tools.

Magical instruments are divided into four grades: low-grade, medium-grade, high-grade, and top-grade. Most of the ones in the hands of Biluo Cave disciples are the lowest-grade low-grade magic instruments, but even low-grade magic instruments are not available to everyone. As for the middle-grade magic instruments, they are extremely rare, and only a few inner disciples have one.

Yuan Ming unconsciously saw Kun Tu's figure in his mind. The black flag in his hand was called the Yin Gui Flag, which was a middle-grade magic instrument and was well-known in Biluo Cave.

He had personally experienced the power of the Yin Gui Flag. If he had not escaped quickly, he would have died under this flag.

As for the high-grade and top-grade magic instruments, Yuan Ming had never heard of anyone owning them. It was rumored that only those in the foundation-building stage had such treasures in their hands.

He took off his Qingyu Sword. In recent battles, the role played by this sword has become less and less. If he could upgrade it to a magic instrument, even a low-grade magic instrument, his strength would increase immediately.

Yuan Ming was silent for a moment, and then opened the black wooden notebook again and read it carefully from the beginning.

The night passed quickly.

Yuan Ming left the hut, determined his location, and headed straight for the Biluo Cave Mountain Gate.