Immortality begins with becoming a master weapon refiner

Chapter 151 A Perfect Year

A three-eyed blood beast materialized in the center of the Blood Sea Holy Army, all clad in blood-red armor. Its withered, thin blood claws could grab a large number of demonic beasts from the demon army with each strike and crush them to pieces.

The demon-slaying army, known as the "troublemakers," clashed head-on with the demons, with countless war weapons behind them firing giant crossbow bolts with intense spiritual energy, divine light released by celestial shuttles, or explosions from soul-devouring cannons.

Every second, thousands of lives are lost.

Human or demon.

Blood rained down relentlessly, with all sorts of severed limbs, scales, and feathers, the density of which was even more exaggerated than a torrential downpour.

This is a battlefield, a real meat grinder!

Without the protection of a military formation, a ninth-rank cultivator is nothing but cannon fodder. An eighth-rank true cultivator can only protect himself at the highest level. Only a seventh-rank cultivator can tremble and dominate the outcome of a local battle, but if targeted by the enemy, they will also be in dire danger.

Both humans and demons suffered heavy casualties, making it far more intense than any war between mortals.

Gu Qing was stunned. Even with his strong will, he was shocked. This was only a local war. If it were to expand to the entire territory, what would it become? Just thinking about it sent chills down his spine.

"grass!"

He couldn't help but spit out a curse, his idea of ​​joining the training was gone. He sighed again, and the Taotie head emerged from between his eyebrows, disappearing into the ground in the blink of an eye.

He intends to nourish the Demon-Slaying Sword with the blood, flesh, and essence of countless demons.

The head of the Taotie is the best vessel. Rather than being swallowed by the earth, it's better to keep it. In the future, when his cultivation advances further, he will also go and experience it.

Gu Qing did this very discreetly.

It also avoided the corpses of human cultivators, and even when extracting essence from the corpses of demons, it only took one-tenth of the amount, which was about the same as what naturally flowed away.

There will be no problems when recovering the corpses and spoils.

The portion that Gu Qing took away would have seeped into the ground anyway.

Gu Qing was still somewhat hesitant to touch someone else's spoils of war, as it was unethical. It would be inhuman to just take away the gains that someone had risked their life for.

Therefore, he only takes the edges and corners.

Even so, the sheer volume of deaths is still enormous.

In just half an hour, the Taotie head was full.

After Gu Qing retrieved the items, he descended the city wall. If it weren't for the giant fire spirit tree inside that was nurturing the marrow-cleansing bracelet, he probably could have absorbed the energy for another half an hour.

But that was enough; Gu Qing was easily satisfied.

In his Qi Sea, he poured all the absorbed demon blood and some residue into the Crimson Sky Pagoda. The nine-story pagoda was instantly filled with the sea of ​​blood, and the top of the pagoda, where the Demon-Slaying Sword was located, became the center.

The demon blood boiled, constantly being absorbed and refined by it.

Nourish the sword body.

That should be enough for it to digest for a month or two, and then it might be able to get promoted.

In addition, the pile of bones inside the tower has filled the first level of space. They are all fragmented demon bones, and it is impossible to piece together a complete skeleton.

But this quantity, along with the remaining essence, is enough for Gu Qing to complete the forging of the second evil artifact.

"I'll try it tomorrow."

The next day.

After asking Master Lian Chu for leave, and with the protection of the Guhuoniao bird, Gu Qing entered the smelting room to cultivate weapons in seclusion.

This artifact is called the Corpse Bone Fan. Gu Qing incorporated the concepts and techniques of the Extreme Yin Corpse Refining Technique. He had previously considered combining corpse techniques with evil refining methods to create demonic puppets using demonic corpses as materials.

This evil artifact originally used the art of yin wind as a means of attack.

After Gu Qing's deduction and modification, the methods were integrated, and it became the Corpse Bell, an object for manipulating zombies, except that the object was shaped like a fan.

"With bones as the spine and demon blood as ink."

"Transform the demon puppet pattern, refine it with the Yin and Netherworld."

"One of each of the three restrictions—Corpse Restriction, Demon Puppet Restriction, and Corpse Control Restriction—has been transformed into an artifact by the spirit of the Netherworld!"

"By the Evil Emperor's decree: Refine!"

With a spit, burning gold flames surged forth, engulfing all the broken bones and limbs in the Crimson Cloud Tower. The white bones turned to liquid, and demonic energy soared into the sky.

The fragments of the hundred demon corpses merged together, and under the influence of the Crimson Crow's divine consciousness, they transformed into bone fragments about a foot long, which were then refined continuously through burning with flames.

Its size shrank slightly again, and a few days later, eighteen bone fragments formed a white bone fan.

He then extracted some demon blood from the top layer and used it to inscribe extremely yin patterns. This was an extremely arduous task. From the very beginning, Gu Qing was aiming for a spiritual weapon in this crafting process.

It was destined to be a long refining process.

The art of crafting artifacts has undergone a fundamental change at the spiritual artifact stage, and the time required is incomparable.

According to Gu Qing's prediction.

It takes a year to forge a low-grade spiritual weapon, which shows how precious it is. It's even more impossible to use it to fill up weapon Dao points. He doesn't need it for now; he still has more than 5,000 points saved up.

It took nearly a month to successfully refine the prototype of the Corpse Bone Fan.

The rest is to slowly nurture it with the fire of burning gold.

Once it is stored in the Qi Sea and tempered in the shadow of the sun, the process is considered complete.

After emerging from seclusion, Gu Qing rejoined the ranks of weapon refiners.

He focused on repairing the damaged war artifacts, accumulating merits and occasionally going to the city wall to observe the great battles and collect demon blood to feed the demon-slaying sword.

On ordinary days, all I do is practice meditation.

Gradually.

Among all the orifices in the body, the illusory images belonging to the sun and the moon, which are divided into yin and yang according to the yin-yang duality pattern, gradually solidify.

The benefits derived from normal breathing exercises, including absorbing the essence of the sun and moon, have reached a bottleneck.

This was a year after he arrived at Tianlao Pass.

The second step of the "Meals of the Sun and Moon" project is complete!

With his cultivation breakthrough, Gu Qing's strength reached a new level. The essence of the sun and moon was initially mixed into the Yanlong True Essence, greatly increasing its power.

The third step is to make the shadows of the sun and moon tangible.

The illusory images of the sun and moon in the Qihai point and the 720 acupoints are transformed from illusion to reality.

At that time, the sun and moon will be the main stars in the Qi Hai (Sea of ​​Qi) area.

The sun and moon within the hundreds of orifices of the body are secondary stars. It is as if the cultivator has mastered the power of the sun and moon, using the power of the sun to cleanse the physical body and the power of the moon to cleanse the divine consciousness.

Essence, Qi, and Spirit are undergoing a second evolution.

This will bring you to the threshold of becoming a seventh-rank True Person. This third step, solidifying the sun and moon, is also the opportunity to break through to the seventh rank.

If one can achieve a breakthrough in one fell swoop, the essence of the sun and moon will be completely fused with true energy.

You will gain real human magic power!

This is also the origin of the name of the first realm of the seventh rank, "Transformation of Magic Power". After possessing magic power, its purity is more than ten times that of an eighth-rank true cultivator, and its strength can almost sweep away true cultivators.

Generally speaking, the second step of cultivating to the eighth rank is completed.

One can then claim to be a perfect cultivator, and the third step is actually the same as breaking through to the seventh rank.

In the cultivation world of the Southern Wilderness, the [Dharma Flower Pill] provides the greatest boost for breakthroughs!
Fortunately, this item is often the highlight of auctions elsewhere and is rarely sold to outsiders.

On the frontier battlefield, this thing can be exchanged for merit points.

One per person.

Gu Qing's accumulated achievements are already sufficient.

In other words, the seventh rank is within reach!

Gu Qing still needs to make more preparations for his breakthrough. The essence of the sun and moon is needed to cleanse his physical body and consciousness, and the power of the sun and moon is also a large amount.

We must make full preparations.

He planned to exchange some of the spiritual medicines with the attributes of the sun and moon, and use the Star Dew condensed by the Purple Star Qi Gathering Strategy as the energy source for the other part.

This stuff is essentially no less potent than the essence of the sun and moon.

It can even have the effect of prolonging life.

(End of this chapter)