Chapter 36 Re-Training the Magic Weapon
The most difficult step is to carve the spell pattern on the soul. It can only be done after reaching the Jindan realm. Before that, it can only be done at the moment when the soul leaves the body. There are not so many requirements for the subsequent links. As long as the soul can bear it, you can practice to increase the talisman characters.
Shi Xuan visualized the first seal character in the second stage of Xiaoyou Qingfeng Dun, and slowly, this cloud-shaped talisman character began to emerge in his soul.
This talisman character only has some of the characteristics of the ancient cloud seal, but it is still complicated. Shi Xuan just didn't control it well, and this talisman character disappeared.
Visualizing talisman characters is not as simple as imagined. The order of formation of talisman characters must conform to certain rules. Which part to visualize first and which part to visualize later is a key to learning magic. In addition, the spacing between each stroke must be visualized to be the same. This is not like visualizing the true method, you just need to get its meaning.
Shi Xuan tried seven or eight times before he finally visualized the seal script in his soul, and then carefully let it slowly approach the inscription pattern of Xiaoyou Qingfeng Dun, and finally maintained a mysterious distance above the first-level inscription pattern, seemingly touching but not touching.
After stopping, Shi Xuan operated the inscription pattern in the essence of his soul, and suddenly felt hot. The seal script and the inscription pattern had some wonderful connections, but they did not become a real whole.
Shi Xuan continued to work hard and visualized other seal characters in succession. He visualized five or six seal characters and stopped when he felt that the soul was already hot. This exceeded the limit of that soul today, but a small half of the ancient cloud seal had formed above the first-level inscription pattern.
Although there was an extra half of the ancient cloud seal, it did not affect the use of the first-level Xiaoyou Qingfeng Dun. When stimulating the supernatural power, the small half of the ancient cloud seal did not need to play a role. Only when the second level is truly completed will it be completely combined and become a second-level inscription pattern.
Shi Xuan slowly practiced the other six minor magical powers again. When he finished, he felt very tired. He was busy practicing the Qingfeng Mingyue Zhaoshen Zhenfa to recover a little. After that, he had to nourish the seal characters to make them fully compatible with the essence of the soul.
In the next few days, Shi Xuan asked Yan Jujian to go to the mountains to find the best wood, and asked Ding Mingde to go to the city to buy a few good cauldrons. It would be best if there were furnaces and cauldrons used in Taoist temples. In addition, he had to buy some materials that Shi Xuan asked for to prepare for the formation to increase the temperature of the flame and the formation to stabilize the flame.
The second-level magic is indeed simpler. Three days later, Shi Xuan successfully visualized the last seal character and moved it to the layer of inscriptions above the Xiaoyou Qingfeng Dun. As soon as it was placed, the entire layer of seal characters formed a complete ancient cloud seal mixed with several general characters. At the same time, a golden light flashed above, and this layer of inscriptions became a connected whole with the first-level inscriptions. Shi Xuan finally practiced a second-level magic.
After the first time, the rest was much easier. Shi Xuan practiced the Golden Blade Divine Wind Slash, Golden Dragon Armor Spell, Invisibility, Yin-Yang Eyes, and Qi-Viewing Spell to the second level that night. Only the Upper Clear Hand Pivot Thunder was far from the time of breakthrough because it was the second level.
After comparison, Shi Xuan confirmed that the effect of the second-level minor magical power was at least doubled compared to the first level.
Shi Xuan was not idle during the day. Through careful study of the books on refining instruments and the refining methods of the Life and Death Plate instruments in the "Baolu", Shi Xuan initially thought of three plans to re-train the instruments. However, two of them were purely for backup and would cause great damage to the materials of the White Bone Soul Banner itself. I hope they will not be used at that time.
The materials and refining methods of the White Bone Soul Banner are very good. The fact that it can be refined to perfection in the seventh level itself shows that it is a top-grade instrument that can withstand most restrictions. Therefore, Shi Xuan racked his brains to choose which restriction to use for refining after the re-training is complete.
The restrictions provided in the White Bone Soul Serving Banner Refining Book are undoubtedly the most suitable, but Shi Xuan doesn't like them. First, the thousand-year-old skulls on both sides are completely shattered, and a large part of the restrictions are related to this. And to abandon these and extract the irrelevant restrictions from them to form a new restriction, Shi Xuan is not capable of this yet. Second, it requires the method of sacrifice of living people, and Shi Xuan cannot accept this now.
However, one day Shi Xuan had a flash of inspiration and took out the restrictions of the magic tools in the "Bao Lu" for research. He unexpectedly found that the restrictions of the first level of the Life and Death Disc Magic Tool and the restrictions of the first two levels of the White Bone Soul Serving Banner are largely the same, and the restrictions of the following levels are more and more different.
Shi Xuan was thinking about whether to use the restrictions of the Life and Death Disc to sacrifice the White Bone Soul Serving Banner. Most of the restrictions in the front are the same, and the description of the effectiveness of the Life and Death Disc shows that the materials of this banner are roughly consistent with the properties of this restriction. Although the materials required by the Life and Death Disc seem to be very high-level, the White Bone Soul Serving Banner is also a top-grade magic tool, and the materials will not be too bad.
But if he started to refine without knowing too much, it would be hard to say whether the materials would not be able to withstand the last few restrictions, and whether the banner would be useless at that time, so Shi Xuan was very hesitant.
However, on the second day after Shi Xuan cultivated the second-level magic, he made up his mind to use the Life and Death Plate Restriction to refine the magic weapon. After all, his Taiyi Thunder Talisman had been used up, and having one more magic weapon in hand would also give him more protection. Who knows if he will encounter an enemy stronger than the two-headed tiger in the future. Using the White Bone Soul-Serving Banner Restriction to refine, firstly, it is unknown when the materials will be collected, which does not conform to the principle of being available immediately, and secondly, it is unacceptable.
After making all kinds of preparations, Shi Xuan directed Yan Jujian and Ding Mingde to arrange the purchased materials into a formation, and then placed the wood blocks chopped from the best wood in the center of the formation, and finally placed the furnace bought from a Taoist temple on top of the wood blocks.
Shi Xuan used magic to ignite the wood blocks and preheat the furnace, and asked Yan Jujian and the others to stand by. For Shi Xuan now, refining equipment is not something that can be done by one person, so he asked them to send wood and fan the fire.
When the bottom of the furnace was hot, Shi Xuan put the white bone soul flag and the small half of the flagpole on it into the furnace, and added some materials to help melt the flag later, so that Shi Xuan could cut it.
Shi Xuan walked around the furnace, using the fire control method in the refining book to concentrate the temperature of the flame on the broken hole of the flag. Although there was no restriction, and the combination of this part of the material was stable after being broken by thunder, the temperature of the wood fire still seemed far from enough to melt the mixed materials that were no longer stable at the broken part.
While controlling the fire, he lifted the materials he had just put in to the hole in the banner like a puppet on a string. These low-grade materials can help melt when they come into contact with the original material.
Shi Xuan finally managed to find a trace of his mind, signaling Ding Mingde and Yan Jujian to prepare the wood and add it at any time. Then he glared, pinched the spell, and used the most violent method in the fire control spell. At the same time, the other third of his mind also opened the fire control array to the maximum.
The orange flame itself suddenly surged, engulfing the furnace, and the color also turned yellow with a hint of white. Shi Xuan was looking for this moment, and controlled the heat generated at this moment to the hole in the banner through the array and spell. As expected, the broken part softened slightly.
Shi Xuan opened his mouth, and a pale white wind blade flew straight to the broken part, one after another, and after three, the broken part was finally torn horizontally, and the small half of the banner with the broken part was separated from the bottom.
But at this time, Shi Xuan found that the furnace was actually burned. This was the beginning of the omission. How could an ordinary furnace withstand such a high temperature? Shi Xuan had no time to regret. His soul condensed, and a black seal appeared in front of him. With a finger, the seal hit the banner. The lower half of the banner was in flames and finally stopped in the air.
"You two quickly use the magic circle to control the flames!" Shi Xuan had to let the two go on stage. Fortunately, they had rehearsed it before. The main reason was that Shi Xuan was worried that he would not be able to do two things at the last critical moment. Unexpectedly, he used it now.
After several months of practice, especially the teaching of the immortal secrets in the last few days, Yan Jujian had a comprehensive understanding. Controlling the magic circle was not a problem. Ding Mingde was also qualified to help and add wood.
According to the refining method of the white bone soul flag, Shi Xuan waved it with a specific technique. One after another, black seals appeared in the air and hit the broken part of the banner, which was faintly combined with the intact banner. Finally, the upper half of the banner formed a border with strange patterns.
Shi Xuan's Taoist robe was soaked by sweat and dried by the fire, but before he succeeded, the black seal characters hit the end of the flagpole and the junction with the upper half of the flag. The black seal characters drilled into the pole and the flag, and at the same time Shi Xuan controlled the white bone soul flag to flip back and forth to facilitate the seal characters.
With a loud shout, the last seal character condensed and was pointed by Shi Xuan at the black flag. When it hit the black flag, the surrounding Yinsha chaotic air rushed towards the black flag, and part of it successfully penetrated into the black flag.
Although Shi Xuan was extremely tired, seeing that the magic weapon was successfully retrained, the joy in his heart suppressed the physical and mental discomfort. He barely used magic to protect his body and took the black flag from the fire. At the same time, he indicated to Yan Jujian and the others that they had completed the task and no longer needed to control the flames.
The entire black flag was more than one third smaller than before, only about one person tall. The black banner had strange patterns, which looked strange and dazzling, but the evil ghost head did not reappear. I think it was caused by the restriction of the white bone soul banner, and the hand felt like gold and cloth.
Shi Xuan did not treat Yan Jujian and Ding Mingde badly. Although he collected the small half of the banner, he still gave the other fragments of the banner he had picked up to the two of them. He also took out a piece of flagpole debris and told them to use half each when refining weapons in the future. As for now, let Yan Jujian keep it. The basic knowledge of refining weapons will be taught to them in a few days. Of course, those evil parts that require blood sacrifice will definitely not be taught.