Chapter 31 Weapon Refining
Master Chen is at the eighth level of Qi refining. He is over a hundred years old. His beard and hair are half white, and he has a strong build. His face has been burned by fires all year round, making him dark, but he is energetic and has a loud voice.
Master Chen is watching several disciples forge iron. Maybe some of the disciples did something wrong. Master Chen scolded him with his eyes widened. Several tall and strong weapon-refining disciples were being scolded obediently, without even daring to raise their heads.
After training for a while, Master Chen personally demonstrated by swinging a sledgehammer. With his strong physique, he swung the sledgehammer with great force. The red-hot fine iron was beaten until sparks flew everywhere, and gradually the prototype of the knife was forged.
After the beating, Master Chen just wiped his sweat, his breath was even, and he didn’t seem to have used any strength.
Mo Hua, who was born frail, looked envious. It would be great if he could have such strength sometime…
“Look, iron is meant to be struck like this. What did you do just now? You are weak. The older girls are more energetic than you at embroidery!”
Master Chen reprimanded several disciples again. He turned around and saw a child with red lips and white teeth and watery eyes looking at him with envy.
Master Chen hesitated for a moment and asked, “Little boy, do you also want to learn to make weapons?”
It is difficult for casual cultivators to make a living. They have to make a living after leaving the sect. Some people cannot learn anything practical in the sect, so they have to find their own way and learn a craft.
There are often monks nearby who send their children to Master Chen to learn how to make weapons with Master Chen so that they can be self-reliant in the future.
Master Chen just collected some spiritual stones casually. If there were no spiritual stones, he would collect some spiritual grains and the like as a bundle of cultivation.
Mo Hua looked at several tall disciples, then looked at his little arms and legs, shook his head helplessly, and then said directly: “Master, will you help people refine stoves here?”
“Stove?” Master Chen looked at the ink painting, “You are a child, why do you ask this?”
“I asked for my mother.”
“Of course I know how to make stoves, but refining stoves requires a lot of fine iron, which is not a small sum of money when converted into spiritual stones.”
“Then if it’s a smaller one, wouldn’t it be cheaper?”
Master Chen said: “This is natural. Smaller stoves cost a lot less refined iron and manpower, and are naturally cheaper. However, there are few people in Tongxian City who refine small stoves. The formation requires someone to design and prepare it separately. I’m afraid it will take a lot of spiritual stones to engrave.”
“How many spiritual stones does it cost to refine the smallest stove?”
Master Chen did not hesitate just because Mo Hua was a child. Instead, he carefully took out a piece of paper and wrote down the prices of various materials recorded on it one by one. Then he calculated them together, and finally added up the stoves of different sizes and scales. The spiritual stones spent are all listed.
Master Chen handed the paper to Mo Hua, and then said: “Of course, this is only the cost of materials. We, the weapon refiners, also have to calculate the working hours. We count them by the day. How many days it takes to refine this stove will be charged for that many days.” cost.”
“Oh,” Mo Hua wrote down each one, and then said goodbye:
“I made a note of it, and I will come back to you after I go back and discuss with my parents to determine how big the stove will be.”
Master Chen hummed, waved his hand and said, “Go back early, little kid, be careful on the road!”
He didn’t pay much attention to what Mo Hua said. There were many monks who asked him to make weapons but didn’t respond after asking the price. Most of them said they would go back and think about it and there was no follow-up.
What’s more, he is still a child in his teens, and he is still refining a spiritual weapon like a stove, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and most likely has little content.
After Mo Hua returned home, he chose a stove that was suitable in size and within his affordability according to the price given by Master Chen. The cost of materials alone was about one hundred and fifty spirit stones.
There is also the labor cost of refining the weapon, which is still open to discussion.
Mo Hua didn’t know how long it would take Master Chen to refine this stove. However, by visual inspection it would take ten days and a half, which would be between fifty and seventy-five spiritual stones.
Some of them are beyond the budget of Mo Hua. When the time comes, you may have to ask your parents for some spiritual stones, or ask someone to borrow some.
The next most critical thing is the formation.
Mo Hua spread out the molten formation diagram on the table and began to study it carefully.
The Molten Formation contains five fire-based formations. The strokes of the formations are mostly located away from the fire. Looking at the complex formations alone, they are much more complicated than the Golden Stone Formation and the Solid Earth Formation.
Mo Hua sighed slightly, got rid of distracting thoughts, and began to concentrate on writing down the formation patterns and the sequence of brushwork.
Even while eating, Mo Hua was thinking about the patterns of the molten fire array. After chewing the steamed buns for a few times, he became lost in thought and held the steamed buns in his hands in a daze.
Liu Ruhua looked angry and funny, pinched his cheek and said, “The food should be delicious, and you can think about things after eating.”
Mo Hua came back to his senses, chuckled, then concentrated on eating, and ran back into the house after eating.
Mo Hua had almost memorized the formation patterns of the Molten Formation, and then spent another hour practicing on the straw paper with ink that did not contain spiritual power. Then he entered the Sea of Consciousness at midnight and began to practice the formation on the stone tablet. Law.
Looking at the formation pattern alone, although it is relatively complicated, the basic structural logic is no different from other formations. It is not difficult to memorize the formation pattern, but the difficulty should be the spiritual consciousness.
The consciousness of ink painting may not be able to support him to draw a complete molten formation diagram.
Ink painting began to draw the molten fire formation on the remaining monument.
At first, the three formations went smoothly, but when it came to the fourth formation, it became obviously difficult, and the consciousness gradually became sluggish, and there was a feeling of drying up.
Mo Hua frowned.
When the fourth pattern was finished, there was a tingling sensation in the sea of consciousness, as if the river bed where the tide had receded began to have mottled cracks.
Mo Hua quickly stopped and quickly erased the formation patterns on the remaining stele, and the sting of his consciousness was relieved.
Mo Hua collapsed on the ground where the sea of consciousness seemed to be both empty and real, gasping for air.
“It’s over, the spiritual consciousness is a bit different…”
Mo Hua’s spiritual consciousness was only enough to draw four formation patterns. After drawing four formation patterns, there was no energy left to draw the fifth formation pattern.
It seems that there is only one formation pattern left, but the spiritual consciousness cannot be strengthened quickly in the short term. This just one formation pattern may be stuck for a long time.
“How to do it?”
Mo Hua pondered in his mind.
There is no shortcut to the growth of spiritual consciousness. This is generally accepted knowledge in the cultivation world.
At least this is recognized by the monks in the Qi Refining Realm of Tongxian City.
Mo Hua asked Yan Jiaoxi for advice, and Yan Jiaoxi also said that most of the growth of spiritual consciousness can only rely on the improvement of cultivation. The higher the level of cultivation, the stronger the spiritual consciousness will naturally be.
The second is to enhance spiritual consciousness through the use of spiritual consciousness. The more and more frequently a monk uses spiritual consciousness, the stronger his spiritual consciousness will naturally be. For example, because formation masters often draw formations, they need to use their spiritual consciousness frequently. Naturally, their spiritual consciousness is much stronger than that of ordinary monks.
Mo Hua also asked if there was any special method for cultivating spiritual consciousness, and Yan Jiaoxi said bluntly that there was no such thing.
Whether it is ancient books or records of various methods of aristocratic families, there is no safe and reliable method for cultivating spiritual consciousness. Some of them are mostly the skills of evil demons and heretics. Once practiced, most of them will become evil and become demonic cultivators that everyone can punish.
Whether it really doesn’t exist or is secretly collected by a wealthy family is unknown.
But even if there were, ink painting would definitely not be available, and even if one could get it, one would not dare to practice it at the risk of going crazy.
Mo Hua is currently at the third level of Qi refining, and will not be able to break through to the fourth level in a short time. It is impossible to enhance his spiritual consciousness by increasing his cultivation.
There is only one method in front of you:
Keep drawing formations.
The best shortcut is the method without shortcuts.
(End of chapter)