Xiuxian: But It's Not a Game

Chapter 116 The Damaged Demonfire Golden Canopy and its Repair Method
Damaged Demonic Fire Golden Canopy (Tier 8): Fine-quality, a demonic magic weapon containing demonic fire and evil spirits, capable of refining and killing all things.

Attributes: Activates the magic weapon to transform into a golden mountain canopy that strikes the target, dealing 50000 + 200% magic damage as physical damage. Casting range is 20 kilometers, and mana cost is 6000 points.

Attribute: Activate the Demon Fire Golden Canopy to summon demonic spirits sealed within it to attack enemies. Demonic spirits can be reborn within the Golden Canopy upon death.

Demon Lord (Normal): Level 80-99, Normal Template, 40000 HP, 3000 Attack, 10 Mana Regeneration, 0/10000.

Evil Spirit (Normal): Level 60-70, Normal template, 5000 HP, 1500 Attack, 5 Mana Regeneration, 0/100000.

Attribute: Captures enemies into the Golden Canopy of Demonic Fire, burning and refining them with demonic fire. The demonic fire damage is 10000 + 50% magic damage. If you die inside the Golden Canopy of Demonic Fire, you will lose 40 years of lifespan. For the next year, you will be consumed by demonic fire and experience gain will be reduced by 50%. If you die completely inside the Golden Canopy of Demonic Fire, you will be transformed into a demon and trapped inside the canopy, unable to be reborn.

"hiss!"

"This magical artifact is incredibly powerful!"

Su Yu assessed the situation in his mind and concluded that this thing was probably even more powerful than the Wind and Fire Fan in his hand, and it was only one step away from becoming a rare item.

Unfortunately, this thing is damaged and can only be used after it is repaired.

But there are ways to repair it.
You need to find a master of demonic weapon crafting; a normal master craftsman can't fix it.

Or you could sell it. Although it's damaged, its attributes are what they are, so it can be sold as a normal eighth-tier magic item.

But Su Yu was reluctant to part with the thing because of its abnormal properties, so she decided to keep it for the time being and ask her second brother when she got back.

A day later, everyone returned to Jinjiao Island. Zhang Chao went to hand in his mission, and Su Yu also returned to Mingsu Palace to find her second brother and tell him about the matter that might offend the Zuo family.

The second brother laughed upon hearing this:

"There's nothing to be afraid of on Prisoner Island. Besides, he started this, so we're in the right and have nothing to fear. Just ignore them for now. If they don't come, fine. But if they dare to come, Mingsu Palace isn't going to be trifled with. We'll make sure they don't leave alive."

Su Yu felt relieved, then turned around and took out the damaged Demon Fire Golden Canopy, asking:

"Second Brother, does Master Mingsu have any way to refine this demonic artifact into a Xuanmen treasure?"

Su Huan took the Demon Fire Golden Canopy, raised an eyebrow, and said with some surprise:
"Wow, this is great stuff! You're lucky, little brother, to get something like this."

"But this thing is hard to fix."

“I’ll take it to my master and see if he can fix it.”

"Thank you for your help, Second Brother."

"polite."

After leaving her second brother's place, Su Yu stretched and went back to sleep.

I had a wonderful long sleep and woke up feeling refreshed.

After eating something, he was about to go out to level up when he suddenly received a message from his second brother:

"Where are you, little brother? Come to Mingsu Palace immediately, my master is looking for you."

"what?"

"I am at home. What business does Master Mingsu have with me?"

"It's about that Golden Canopy of Demonic Fire."

"I'll be right away."

Su Yu looked completely puzzled.

"Could it be that there's something wrong with that Demon Fire Golden Canopy?"

With a sense of doubt, he arrived at the Central Bright Peak. His second brother was already waiting there. Upon seeing him, he immediately pulled him inside, saying as they walked:
"Master said there's something wrong with your Demon Fire Golden Canopy, and he wants to ask you about it."

Su Yu was filled with questions as she followed her second brother into the Mingsu Palace. They soon arrived at a hall that seemed to be dedicated to weapon crafting, where they saw Master Mingsu reclining on a seat, playing with the Demon Fire Golden Canopy.

Master Mingsu appeared to be a middle-aged man, dressed in a Xuan Yue robe. He had an extremely handsome face, but his hair was somewhat gray and there were fine lines at the corners of his eyes, so his real age should not be low.

Su Yu quickly stepped forward and bowed:

"I met Su Yu, a disciple of Yunzi, at the Suspended Mountain, and also met the Venerable Mingsu."

"Get up."

Master Mingsu asked without looking up:
"The last time I saw Jin Yinian, he was just a core disciple. He was full of ambition and wanted to challenge for the position of a true disciple. Now it seems he failed and has accepted his fate by taking on disciples. Which disciple are you?"

"This disciple is Master's sixth disciple."

Master Mingsu looked up and his gaze fell on Su Yu. He sized him up, raised an eyebrow, and, as if intrigued, looked him up and down again. He then asked with interest:
"Your vital energy and magical power are extraordinary. Have you awakened some kind of bloodline?"

"Yes, he has awakened the bloodline of a true dragon, so his qi, blood, magic power, and physique are all very high."

Master Mingsu's gaze shifted, and she chuckled thoughtfully, nodding as she said:
"good."

He pushed the golden canopy of demonic fire in his hand towards us and said:
"I called you here to ask what your thoughts are on restoring this treasure."

Su Yu asked, puzzled:

"What is the meaning of this, Venerable Master?"

"You may not know that this Demon Fire Golden Canopy is actually a Buddhist treasure. It was once a ninth-tier Buddhist treasure, but for some reason it fell into the hands of a demonic cultivator. He forcibly corrupted the Buddhist treasure with demonic magic and turned it into a demonic treasure, causing the treasure's grade to drop."

"wipe?"

Su Yu was both surprised and astonished. She quickly recalled the many demon god reliefs she had seen on the inner wall when she was imprisoned in the Demon Fire Golden Pavilion. Some of them seemed to resemble the wrathful Vajras of Buddhism.

I hadn't thought much about it before, but now that it's mentioned, it does seem somewhat similar.

Ignoring Su Yu's shocked expression, Master Mingsu continued:

"I have three repair methods here, please listen." "The first method is to directly repair it into an eighth-tier magic treasure, which will cost about three or four thousand gold and can be repaired in two or three months."

"The second method is to ask a high-ranking monk to use Buddhist teachings to purify the demonic energy and restore the treasure to its original form. However, the original essence of the treasure is already incomplete. Many Buddhist treasures, statues, and relics inside the golden banner have been removed. Even after restoration, it will only be an eighth-level Buddhist treasure."

"This will cost four or five thousand gold coins in materials and will take more than half a year to repair."

"The third method is to ask a high-ranking monk to reforge it, and then collect at least 10,000 merits to inject into the magic treasure, reshaping the original essence of the Buddhist treasure and reproducing a ninth-level Buddhist treasure."

"This requires adding a large number of Buddha statues and relics of eminent monks. The material cost alone would probably be tens of thousands of gold coins, and it would take more than half a year. But the most crucial thing is that we don't know where to obtain the 10,000 merits."

Well.
Su Yu hesitated for only a second before making a decision and asked:
"May I ask, if we choose the third option, how much will the material cost be?"

He definitely wouldn't choose the first one; what kind of talk would it make for a disciple of a celestial sect to accept a magical treasure?

That leaves only the second and third options.

In the past, he would definitely have chosen the second option: to get an eighth-tier magic weapon first.

But now that he already has an eighth-tier magic weapon, and two more, he is not in a great hurry to acquire an eighth-tier Buddhist magic weapon. He will naturally choose a ninth-tier magic weapon instead.

What is the concept of a ninth-tier magic weapon?
The higher the grade of a magic weapon, the greater its power; correspondingly, the higher the grade, the fewer the number of such weapons.

It takes two level 200 divine bird feathers and divine bird souls, plus a lot of money, to refine only an eighth-order magic weapon. Although a ninth-order magic weapon is only one order higher than an eighth-order one, its power is many times greater. Su Yu thought of the ninth-order dual-polar divine cauldron he saw at the Xuanzhen Immortal Sect auction house, whose power was ridiculously exaggerated.

At this moment, Venerable Mingsu, with an expression that seemed to have anticipated his response, said:
"If you choose to reshape this treasure, you will need to pay a full 60000 taels of gold, including all materials and the cost of hiring a high-ranking monk. It will take half a year. At that time, you will receive a prototype. You will need to collect 10,000 merit points and inject them into the treasure to make it fully formed."

"hiss!"

This price startled Su Yu, and he shook his head, saying:

“I don’t have that much money right now.”

"It's alright. Come find me when you have money. Of course, if you have connections, that's fine too. Your grandmaster is the head of the Suspended Mountain. Perhaps he can find an even more powerful weapon-refining master."

Master Mingsu tossed the Demon Fire Golden Canopy over, which Su Yu quickly caught.

"Thank you for your help."

"It's alright. Su Huan is both my apprentice and my son-in-law. You are his younger brother, so you're practically family. You can come to me directly if you need anything in the future."

"Thank you, Venerable Master."

Master Mingsu nodded and waved for them to leave.

After leaving Mingsu Palace, Su Huan said to him:
"Sixty thousand taels of gold is too much; Second Brother can't come up with that much right now."

Su Yu quickly said:

"There's no rush. Even if you have the money to refine it, you won't have enough merit to activate the source. Compared to 10,000 merit, 60,000 gold is a minor issue."

Su Huan thought for a moment, then nodded and said:
"Indeed, accumulating 10,000 merits is not easy."

"By the way, second brother, do you know any way to quickly accumulate merit points?"

"This is not easy. There are generally two methods. One is to practice Buddhist mental techniques, which will lead to the practice of deliverance. You can gain merit by delivering sentient beings, but this is very slow and requires a lot of effort."

"Another way is to kill demonic cultivators. Demonic cultivators kill living beings more or less when they practice magic, and their merit is basically negative. You can gain a lot of merit by killing them."

"But killing a large number of demonic cultivators could easily attract the attention of demonic experts who would hunt you down, which is too risky."

“In addition, merit can be gained in some special circumstances, but this is not common and it is difficult to gain a lot of merit.”

"That's it"

Su Yu scratched his head and waved his hand, saying:

"No rush, let me think about it first."

"also."

After parting ways with her second brother, Su Yu arrived in Jinjiao City with a preliminary idea in mind.

Money is easy to say. He currently has 2400 gold coins, the Longevity Fruit can be sold for several thousand gold coins, and the Four Symbols Thunder God Formation he has can be sold for nearly eight thousand gold coins, which is more than fifteen thousand gold coins.

Earn the rest of the money slowly. It will take a lot of time to accumulate merit anyway. It would be good enough if we could refine this kind of treasure before the tribulation.

He estimated that it would take him at least ten years to perfect all his cultivation techniques and condense all four immortal bones before he could complete his tribulation. He had plenty of time.

If you have a ninth-tier magic weapon, you'll almost certainly win the Loose Immortal Tribulation.

"can!"

Su Yu put this matter aside for the time being and went to the shop to sell all the miscellaneous spoils of the trip, including three sixth-tier magic treasures, for a total of 426 gold.

then
"Should we go to the Wind God's Palace?"

But the thought that if I went to the Wind God's Palace, I would definitely lose the Wind God's Token made me reluctant to part with it.

Although this thing has a single attribute, it is very powerful and can bind multiple targets at the same time. Don't be too strong in PvP.

But then I thought, even the tokens for entering and exiting are eighth-tier magic treasures, which means that the Wind God Palace is of a very high level, and perhaps there is a chance to obtain tremendous benefits.

But then he thought again, based on the experience accumulated by players over tens of thousands of years, there is usually a test when entering the Divine Palace in this situation. The reward is determined by passing the test or by the test results. With his current strength, it is unlikely that he will get a good result.

"Let's play it safe."

After much deliberation, Su Yu finally decided to wait until later.

(End of this chapter)