Fairyland Sunshine

Chapter 162 Opening the Furnace

Sword ball.

Its shape is a pill, which means sword. It is both hard and soft, light and agile.

It has no edge or blade, but it is sharp enough to cut gold and jade. It is round and perfect, and has the toughness to wrap around the finger.

This special "sword weapon" is much more difficult to refine than ordinary flying swords, and it is also much more difficult to control than ordinary flying swords. However, if it can be used freely, it will be like a dragon finding water and a tiger adding wings to those who are proficient in swordsmanship.

Xu Heng also didn't expect that what Wei Gong wanted to refine was actually a sword pill.

He had never practiced controlling the sword pill, let alone running it and performing various sword techniques. However, as a sword practitioner, he had a vague expectation in his heart. He wanted to try out the sword pill to see how mysterious it could be.

In the end, Xu Heng did not choose to refuse, but returned to his guest house, and pondered the steps of sword refining day and night, and even deduced the method of running the sword pill in his inner vision.

This went on for another three days and nights.

Before dawn that day, Wei Haizhi had already arrived and invited Xu Heng to watch the ceremony. Xu Heng readily agreed.

The two of them left the fairy city and headed east. Along the way, Xu Heng looked at the terrain with a thoughtful look on his face. Sure enough, after flying about six or seven hundred miles, he saw a round valley sunken into the ground in his sight.

Xu Heng made a rough estimate and concluded that the valley was about 1,200 feet long and wide, and was inclined on all sides like an inverted cone. Every few steps on the slope, there was a passage covered with forbidden talismans, extending straight to the center of the valley.

"Sure enough." Xu Heng's eyes flashed. He had noticed on the way just now that there were winding fire veins on the earth. They were all fire energy drawn from the volcanoes that were scattered all over the island. Now that he was here, he could see that most of these fire veins indeed converged here.

I think the place where the fire veins converge is the "furnace" specially arranged by Wei Gong.

Wei Haizhi brought Xu Hengfei to the bottom of the valley. There were high platforms on all four sides of the valley. Apart from that, there was only a huge hole that looked like a sinkhole and had no bottom.

Wei Gong had already sat down on one of the platforms, but Wei Haizhi and Xu Heng did not go there. Instead, they landed on the platform facing him, stood still, and waited silently.

Xu Heng had memorized the steps for opening the furnace by heart and did not feel any doubts. He just calculated the time silently in his mind.

In the blink of an eye, the sun rose from the east and reached the zenith. At this moment, Wei Gong suddenly cast a spell.

Xu Heng's heart moved, and he suddenly felt the fire veins in all directions become active. A huge amount of heat flowed along the earth, and soon a beam of fire suddenly rose from the sky pit, and it seemed that it would go straight into the clouds. For a moment, the red light could be seen in the sky within dozens of miles.

Wei Gong was constantly moving, and he did not stop for a moment even after the fire was lit. He pointed downwards again, and a cloud of brilliant golden sand flew into the tiankeng. The flames in the tiankeng immediately rose again, but were suppressed as Wei Gong's magic formula changed.

Although the fire was reduced in intensity, its power did not diminish at all. Instead, it became more and more intense as time went by, and a golden light spread.

The sun sets and the moon rises, and before you know it, a day has passed. The flames in the tiankeng have completely turned golden. Only then do you see Wei Gong make another move, waving his sleeves downwards, and handfuls of precious materials all fall into the tiankeng.

"What?" Xu Heng was shocked.

Being able to watch a master of weapon making is a rare opportunity, so Xu Heng had been paying close attention to Wei Gong's movements, but he had never expected this to happen.

When ordinary people refine weapons, they need to be meticulous about the order in which the materials are put into the furnace, the time intervals, and even the changes in the fire power during the process, lest the slightest mistake would ruin the entire furnace of precious materials.

But when Mr. Wei got angry, he threw all the precious materials into the fire!
Xu Heng looked into the furnace and saw that the golden flames were actually separated. Some were strong, some were weak, some were concentrated, some were scattered, and some were constantly changing between them. The manipulation was so subtle that it was almost magical. Xu Heng was slightly shocked. Wei Gong was indeed a master of the art of weapons. Just from this one move, we can see how high his attainments were. Just from the fire method, he might have reached the realm of perfection that he could not even grasp.

However, Xu Heng is also confident that he will be able to reach this level in time.

Therefore, after a brief moment of surprise, he put aside his distracting thoughts and started watching carefully again. As for Wei Haizhi, he was already fascinated by it.

Mr. Wei refined all the precious materials together, and it took him seven days to complete the task. All the precious materials, with the three kinds of gold as the main body, were melted into a mercury-like liquid.

At this moment, Wei Gong suddenly activated his magic, and a strong wind blew up. A large lump of refined medicinal mud flew down and wrapped up the liquid. In a moment, it had condensed into a big ball and could no longer change.

Xu Heng secretly felt regretful, he knew that this step was to use the medicinal mud to nourish the precious material, and also to conceal the essence of the formation of the sword pill. You have to know that this step is not as simple as condensing the precious material into a small pill.

The shape is a pill, which means sword.

How to refine the 'sword pill' without losing the 'sword intent' is the most important thing.

But since he couldn't see it, there was no need to worry about it. Xu Heng knew that this stage would take quite some time, so he simply closed his eyes and began to comprehend what he had seen before, turning it into the accumulation of his own fire method.

Before he knew it, another hundred days had passed. Suddenly, Wei Gong shouted loudly, and golden flames rose up in the furnace. The fire seemed to be out of control and was even more intense than the day the furnace was turned on, burning the clouds in the sky into a golden glow.

Wei Gong began to continuously change his spells and struck into the golden flames. Gradually, the golden flames gathered together, wrapped in the medicinal mud and rose into the air, transforming into a huge fireball floating in the air.

"Xu brat!" The voice of Wei Gong reached Xu Heng's ears and he shouted, "Remember, you only have ninety-nine and eighty-one days. If you exceed the limit, you will lose it!"

Xu Heng's spirits lifted. He knew that it was finally time for him to perform the ritual of refining the forbidden technique.

When the sword embryo is about to be formed, it is both an easy and difficult task to refine the restrictions.

The ease lies in that it is much easier to inject magic power and refine the restrictions at this time than to refine the restrictions on a mature magic weapon.

The difficulty lies in the fact that the magic weapon has not yet been completed, so everything must be done with extreme caution and there cannot be any mistakes, otherwise the magic weapon may be damaged, or even lead to failure.

However, in order to refine this sword, Xu Heng had already practiced the methods of injecting magic power and refining restrictions in his inner world, and he had mastered them by heart. At this moment, he was confident.

Xu Heng responded by exhaling lightly, making a seal on his chest with his left hand, and putting his right hand together with the sword finger upwards. He practiced silently for a moment, and suddenly pointed towards the air. Then a fire dragon flew out with a large number of golden talismans and fell directly into the fireball.

“Fellow Daoist Xu?” Wei Haizhi was greatly surprised, and Wei Gong’s eyelids also jumped. “This kid actually practiced the Tiangang and Disha prohibitions at the same time.”

What's even more surprising is that this person was able to divide his mind into two parts, yet his technique was so skillful that he didn't damage the sword embryo at all!
"Good boy." Wei Gong secretly praised in his heart: "If you can keep it up, it is very likely that you can refine this sword pill into a top-grade magic weapon with all the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Evils in one fell swoop."

There is no grade distinction among magic weapons. The so-called top-grade magic weapons are actually those that have at least been refined with the eighteen levels of Tiangang restrictions, or the thirty-six levels of Disha restrictions. Only magic weapons that are able to resist the magical power of cultivators who have refined the Tiangang restrictions are considered top-grade by the world.

This is also a major hurdle in refining magical instruments. As for having all the Heavenly Gangs and Earthly Evils, that is even more difficult.

(End of this chapter)