Chapter 155: First Refining

After leaving Lingnong Jinchuan's courtyard, Li Qing, who had found out a lot of information, felt very satisfied.

However, he did not rush to find the old miner as soon as possible, but returned to his own small courtyard.

At this time, Fan Tong had eaten and drunk enough, and lay down to rest happily.

"Although the lifespan of monsters is generally long, the blood of this bastard is really too poor."

Li Qing looked at Fan Tong lying down, sighed leisurely, and thought that if he did nothing, Fan Tong would probably not be able to stay with him for more than a hundred years.

However, he still has a lifespan of 179 years, and it will be longer as he starts to refine magic tools.

"Alas, it seems that I still have to buy some animal feeding pills to feed it."

When he first entered the world of cultivation, there were places where he had to spend spirit stones everywhere. Li Qing, who had not felt a headache because of money for a long time, finally realized his poverty.

All of a sudden, the urgency of earning spirit stones surged up.

"Now that I have inherited the weapon-refining tradition, I can think of a way to refine some magic tools and then sell them."

However, he is now suffering from the lack of more spiritual materials, and can only refine ordinary iron for thousands of times, and then forge it into the prototype of a magic tool.

Such a magic tool, even if it is refined, is at most a low-quality magic tool, and it is not even a low-quality magic tool.

"It will be just right when the time comes. I will use ordinary iron to practice, and try to temper the spirit and inscribe patterns. Even if it is a low-quality magic tool, it should be able to sell for dozens of spiritual stones, right?"

Li Qing pondered for a while and thought that this idea was not wrong.

If you want to get rich, it is impossible to rely on working for others.

Now he stays in the Liu family, in the final analysis, just to be able to enjoy the rich spiritual energy here, and to contact other immortal cultivators.

With the idea of ​​earning spiritual stones in his heart, Li Qing spent the first night comfortably in his own small courtyard.

The next morning, a crisp spiritual bird cry rang out.

Li Qing woke up from a sweet sleep, feeling refreshed and energetic.

He set up a pot, took out a small bowl of spiritual rice that Jinchuan gave him yesterday, and put it in the pot to cook.

Spiritual objects like this do not require any complicated cooking procedures. As long as they are cooked, they are a precious delicacy.

Li Qing was very frugal. He only poured half of the spiritual rice and prepared to cook a pot of sweet spiritual rice porridge for himself.

The crystal clear spiritual rice was clearly separated in the pot, and the abundant spiritual energy contained in it did not leak out with the cooking.

After a long time, a wisp of fragrance floated out of the pot. Just smelling it made Li Qing feel salivating.

Regardless of the fact that the porridge was still very hot, Li Qing couldn't wait to taste it.

The first mouthful of spiritual rice porridge in his life, as soon as it entered his mouth, Li Qing felt a burst of rich sweetness, emanating from his tongue and teeth.

Soon, strands of spiritual energy seeped into Li Qing's body, making him feel relaxed and happy.

Eating this kind of spiritual rice is not just a taste enjoyment, but also makes him feel very satisfied and comfortable spiritually.

"No wonder so many people choose to be spiritual farmers, and the Liu family also accepts everyone."

"This spiritual rice is really a good thing. It would be great if I could eat it every day. A bowl every day can replace a lot of time for meditation and practice!"

Li Qing sighed, and ate the small bowl of spiritual rice porridge in a few seconds, and even licked the bottom of the bowl clean, not wanting to waste a bit.

After enjoying the spiritual rice porridge, Li Qing did not waste time, sat down directly, and began to immerse himself in the time of practice.

The sun gradually climbed to the sky, and near noon, Li Qing opened his eyes and ended this short practice.

He looked around vigilantly, and after making sure that the restrictions in the yard were intact, he told Fan Tong to look after the house, and he returned to the small building alone.

After waiting for a while, Li Qing went back to the Polar Night World in a secret room.

He stored all the blacksmithing tools that he had placed in Shengtian here, including the Wushuang Hammer and the Wandering Dragon Dagger, which he did not carry with him.

He was worried that someone would see the clues and attract attention.

After all, the Wandering Dragon Dagger is a prototype of a mid-grade magic weapon, made of two kinds of spiritual materials, and it is easy to be targeted.

Li Qing moved a whole set of blacksmithing tools back to his yard, and prepared to start refining the furnace.

"Now I'm at the second level of Qi Refining Stage. It's no problem to try to refine inferior magic tools."

"But it's not easy to expose the fact that I have the inheritance of refining tools. In the world of immortal cultivation, the inheritance of such skills is much more precious than I thought."

Li Qing is very self-aware. With his current strength, he definitely can't keep such a set of inheritance.

Moreover, there is a water-wrapped net refining diagram in the inheritance. If it is exposed, even the Liu family may target him.

The immortal cultivation skills, especially the four types of pills, weapons, arrays and talismans, are more important than one.

"Let's try to refine something simple first." Li Qing exhaled lightly, and then lit the furnace fire and began to refine magic tools for the first time in his life.

Li Qing snapped his fingers, and a fireball appeared out of thin air.

Boom!

The flames rose in the forge, and the temperature rose rapidly. The red furnace fire also reflected Li Qing's face red.

He put the iron ingot into the furnace, and after it was calcined for a while, he took out the hammer early and started forging.

For the first time, he did not plan to refine any attack-type magic weapon, but planned to refine some simple ones first to warm up his hands and familiarize himself with the process.

Soon, the red iron ingot was forged into a round iron plate.

After repeated repetitions, Li Qing refined a total of three iron plates, and then he overlapped the three iron plates and continued to forge them.

He planned to forge these three iron plates into a whole piece to strengthen the thickness of ordinary iron.

With one hammer after another, sparks continued to burst out. Under the action of the Wushuang Hammer and Li Qing's huge force, a round iron plate with a slightly thicker middle, thinner surroundings, and slightly concave inward gradually took shape.

"This thing, let's call it a heart plate."

When the heart plate gradually cooled down, Li Qing's face immediately became solemn, and his eyes revealed unprecedented seriousness.

The forging has been completed, and the next step is the second step of tempering the spirit!

This is an indispensable step before the inscription. If you want the spirit pattern to be successfully engraved on ordinary iron, you must use your own spiritual power to temper it, so that ordinary iron has spirituality.

Li Qing took a deep breath, and he pressed one hand on the iron plate, closed his eyes, and patiently urged the spiritual power in his body.

He carefully sensed the structure of this iron plate. The internal structure of this iron plate that he had forged by himself was clearly presented in Li Qing's mind.

The next moment, the pure spiritual power in Li Qing's body began to penetrate into this iron plate.

He strictly followed the requirements and tempered it very carefully.

Not long after, Li Qing's palm trembled, and the penetration of mana was stopped.

"Huh! At the place where the three iron plates were melted together, the penetration of mana suddenly became stagnant."

The first tempering of the spirit ended in failure!

Fortunately, Li Qing's forging level has reached the pinnacle, and his body did not collapse because of a failed soul quenching.

The inferior magic weapon, the prototype of the heart guard, is still intact.

Li Qing continued to repeat the previous steps and continued to quench it with spiritual power, not feeling bored at all.

After all, it is ordinary iron, not those spiritual materials that are born with spirituality, so the difficulty of soul quenching can be imagined.

In fact, most weapon refiners, like Li Qing, practice soul quenching with ordinary iron.

If ordinary iron can be successfully quenched and endowed with spirituality, then the difficulty of soul quenching other spiritual materials in the future will definitely be reduced a lot.

In the following time, Li Qing failed many times again, for various reasons.

Either the mana input was interrupted, or the size of the mana was not controlled well, or it was a little anxious or a little slow.

In short, the difficulty of soul quenching is much higher than he imagined.

Finally, when the spiritual power in Li Qing's body was about to be exhausted, he finally completed the soul tempering of this palm-sized iron plate.

"Ha! It's finally done!"

Li Qing wiped the sweat from his forehead. This was much more tiring than his body forging. It was the kind of exhaustion that exhausted his body and mind!

"Just completing the soul tempering of a palm-sized iron plate, I have exhausted my spiritual power. It's really exaggerated."

"If I refine other larger magic tools in the future, I'm afraid that my cultivation level of the second level of Qi Refining will not be enough!"

While complaining, Li Qing looked at the semi-finished magic tool in his hand with a satisfied look.

The soul tempering was successful, and this heart guard made of ordinary iron also had spirituality. Next, spiritual patterns can be engraved on it.

Now it is a semi-finished magic tool, but it actually has a certain degree of defense and can slightly defend against some weak magic attacks.

However, Li Qing's inner satisfaction did not last long, and his confidence was completely dispelled by the next step of inscription.

There are many types of spiritual patterns engraved on the magic weapon. Although he has learned them in the inheritance of refining weapons, now that it is time to actually do it, his mind is at a loss.

"Well, let's start with the most basic five-element spiritual patterns."

Li Qing muttered to himself and chose the inscriptions of earth and gold, both of which are used to enhance defense.

After thinking about the types of inscriptions introduced in the inheritance, Li Qing opened his eyes and tapped his finger on the heart plate.

In fact, this process is a bit like drawing talismans, but unlike drawing talismans, the inscriptions of refining weapons have no fixed style. What kind of magic weapon you want to refine depends on the creativity of the refiner.

Unless there is a refining map similar to the pill recipe, otherwise, refining magic weapons depends on the performance of the refiner.

A knowledgeable and experienced refiner not only needs to be able to recognize various spiritual materials and know the characteristics of spiritual materials, but also needs to understand many types of spiritual patterns.

Then, combined with the characteristics of the spiritual materials, different spiritual patterns are engraved to give full play to the properties of these spiritual materials.

Even in this process, the mutual generation and restraint of yin and yang and the five elements need to be considered.

This is why there are always people in the world of immortal cultivation who say that alchemists and talisman masters only need to use resources to pile up, while array masters and weapon refiners need to look at personal talent.

The former refines more and strictly follows the steps of the pill recipe, and can always achieve practice makes perfect.

The latter, however, requires a little bit of enlightenment in the dark.