Wizards in the world of cultivation

Chapter 148 Modular Refining Two Forms of Magical Treasures
Although many magical treasures can change size at will, only high-level magical treasures can achieve a height of ten thousand feet like the Qionghua Cauldron.

They had only seen these high-level magical treasures in various weapon crafting manuals; this was the first time they had ever seen them in reality.

"Is this the Dean's secret weapon? It's even taller than our academy's Tongtian Peak!" a student exclaimed in amazement.

"This 'Ten Thousand Feet Tall' magic weapon must be at least a sixth-tier magic weapon. There are runes on it, so it should have been crafted using an ancient method," another student speculated.

Their weapon crafting department has two courses: the main course is the forbidden weapon crafting method, while the ancient weapon crafting method is used as a supplementary course to allow students to have a deeper understanding of the way of weapon crafting.

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The students and disciples discussed it animatedly, and many even gathered around, stroking the alchemy furnace and carefully observing the patterns on the magical artifact.

Su You did not stop them, but allowed the students to observe freely.

Su You was quite tolerant of the academy's disciples.

There are three levels of positioning for these students in the college.

The top students are similar to scientists.

Mid-level students are like training assembly line workers.

Those with the worst performance were sent to the legion to serve in the combat sequence.

Of course, there is another type: those who are average in their secondary roles but have exceptional talent in cultivation will receive training in combat and will be used for individual combat in the future.

In the seventy years since the academy opened, among all the deputy positions, the most outstanding students with the strongest professional skills are in alchemy. Some students or teaching assistants have already reached the peak of the third rank.

They are actually capable of taking over the teaching duties from the original teachers.

However, Su You began to consider that these disciples still had the potential to improve, so he only served as a teaching assistant, teaching a small number of courses.

Once these students reach the level of fourth-tier grandmasters, we can consider rebuilding the teaching system.

After letting the students study it for an hour, Su You spoke again, "This magic weapon is a seventh-order magic weapon, which is not something you can comprehend at your current level. When your weapon-refining skills break through to the Grandmaster level, I will allow you to come here to observe. After that, you will cooperate with me to refine weapons."

After speaking, Su You waved his sleeve, and a continuous stream of spiritual ore gushed out and fell into the Qionghua Cauldron.

Among these spirit mines, there are quite a few fifth-order spirit mines, but the vast majority are third-order spirit mines.

There's no way around it; the Wizard Tower is just too big, and it consumes far too many materials.
Previously, he only used stone materials to build the wizard tower, which are the cheapest, but their hardness and transmission ability are very average.

Although Su You could afford to buy fourth-tier spirit ore, it wasn't easy to find it on the market.

Over the years, he has sent a large number of his subordinates to top auctions in various immortal cities, but they have only collected a small portion of fourth-order spirit ore, all of which are intended for use in the construction of the internal space.

The outer layer contains a massive amount of material, which is still made from third-tier spirit ore.

Although he used third-tier spirit ore, it was carefully selected. He tested various third-tier spirit ores and chose the one most suitable to simultaneously bear restrictions and witch runes.

This is a high-grade third-tier spirit ore called Azure Sky Black Iron. It has a light and sturdy appearance and excellent conductivity, making it the best material for refining natal magic weapons.

To obtain this iron ore, Su You specifically sought out the power that controlled the vein and forcibly plundered it. Although he offended several Nascent Soul cultivators, it was still acceptable as it allowed him to gather enough materials to refine his natal magic weapon.

A steady stream of Azure Sky Black Iron was fed into the alchemy furnace, where it was continuously tempered by the earth fire and eventually melted into liquid.

These spiritual ore liquids were quickly sent out and eventually solidified into iron blocks the size of stone bricks.

After the iron block was placed on the ground, students kept taking it away and then began to infuse it with their own special enchantments, which he had taught them a long time ago.

This restriction was deduced by Su You. What is being inscribing now is the initial, ordinary restriction, which can be completed by these first-tier weapon refiners.

Once the first-tier weapon refiner completes this process, it will be handed over to the second-tier and third-tier weapon refiners to continue imprinting the remaining restrictions.

One after another, the blue sky spirit bricks were piled up, reaching a height of a hundred feet, estimated to be over a hundred million spirit iron bricks.

If Su You were to work alone, it would take him an unknown number of years to complete such a large quantity of Azure Sky Spirit Bricks.

However, with the help of this group of students, the speed is many times faster.

The only drawback is that there are relatively few second- and third-tier weapon refiners, which makes setting up higher-level restrictions much slower.

Fortunately, Su You provided them with a steady stream of pills to restore their mana and spiritual energy, and even prepared a place for them to rest so they could continue refining pills without interruption.

After refining these basic materials and creating the basic modules, Su You didn't rest and started taking action.

He doesn't need to deal with the restrictions on cultivation for the time being, but he does need to handle the inscription of witch runes for wizards.

Su You hesitated for a while regarding knowledge about wizards and did not spread it for the time being.

Although the Great Wilderness Secret Realm is quite secluded, it's best not to spread knowledge about wizards for the time being. Once the natal magic weapon is crafted, a group of people can be selected and sent into the Wizard Tower for training.

Furthermore, the inscription of the witch runes requires extremely strong mental power. In order to prevent contact with the restriction during the inscription process, it doesn't matter once the inscription is completed and the two form a symbiotic state.

They brought a batch of already engraved Azure Sky Spirit Bricks into the Pill Spirit Secret Realm.

Su You's main body had been waiting inside for a long time. It was definitely not easy to refine a natal magic weapon by relying solely on his clone.

If he and his clone work together, their efficiency can be said to double.

Time passed slowly, and the inscription on each of the Azure Sky Spirit Bricks was completed.

However, the speed of the disciples outside could not keep up with his recording speed.

Fortunately, Su You had other things to refine, after all, the construction of the entire Wizard Tower didn't rely solely on these spirit bricks.

The internal construction also requires a lot of materials. In addition, some new buildings need to be added to the outside of the Wizard Tower to increase its capabilities and functions.

A small component was created, and Su You quickly infused it with a restriction.

These components don't need to be inscribed with wizarding runes, as they aren't closely related to the wizarding system.

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Seven years and six months have passed. Most of the disciples here have already returned home. For example, the first and second-tier weapon refiners completed their missions and went back long ago. Only a little over a hundred third-tier weapon refiners remain here, working day and night to set up the restrictions.

However, this is the last batch of Azure Sky Spirit Bricks. After that, Su You will need to complete the next task on his own.

As dusk fell, the disciples finally completed setting up all the restrictions.

Su You also emerged from the Danling Secret Realm at the opportune moment. Looking at the piles of Azure Sky Spirit Bricks on the ground, he swept them with his divine sense and nodded in satisfaction. "Not bad, you did a great job. Your rewards have been sent to the Dream Butterfly Mirror. You can go back to the academy to redeem them."

This weapon-refining mission practically drained the entire weapon-refining department. Although it wasted so much of their time, the rewards were incredibly generous, including not only a large amount of points but also higher privileges within the academy.

That's enough to make up for the damage they suffered during this period.

After seeing off these disciples, Su You took all the materials into the Danling Secret Realm.

One by one, the spirit bricks began to be stacked up, forming the prototype of the wizard's tower on the flat ground.

The exterior of the Wizard Tower is now fully constructed.

After a spell was cast, the restrictions on all the spirit bricks were activated simultaneously, connecting them together.

However, this alone is not enough to securely bind these spirit bricks together; once the restrictions are broken, they will scatter again.

Su You came to its side and suddenly exerted force, trying to lift the wizard tower, which weighed hundreds of millions of tons and was three hundred feet tall.

Unfortunately, although his body refinement cultivation had reached the fourth level, he was still somewhat powerless against such weight.

Finally, by combining magical power and his own strength, he slowly sent it into the alchemy furnace for the final quenching.

This process is very important. After the final fire tempering, these blue sky stone bricks will gradually fit together and be firmly combined, just like a whole. Even if the internal restrictions are not activated in the future, they will still be a complete whole.

After completing this step, the basic structure of the wizard tower is complete. The next step is to fill in the internal modules and then fuse them together with fire.

The wizard tower is now 300 feet tall, and Su You has constructed 100 floors, totaling 100 modules. All of these modules are made of fourth-order spirit ore, making them even more robust.

Fortunately, he didn't need to arrange the specific buildings on each floor; he only needed to use modules to divide the 300-zhang height into 100 floors.

After the second fire refinement, the Wizard Tower can be said to be basically completed.

Of course, this basic completion refers to the overall construction; further internal modifications are still needed.

After finalizing the complete structure, Su You hung the modules he had crafted on the outer eaves of the Wizard Tower, a total of four hundred modules. He did not fully integrate these modules; they could be categorized separately later.

After completing this step, he sent the Wizard Tower back to the Danling Secret Realm.

There are still many things to be filled inside the Wizard Tower. Although the outer buildings are complete and can form large cycles, internal coordination is still needed, especially regarding the core tower spirit and energy.

Upon reaching the bottom floor of the Wizard's Tower, it was discovered that no ability pool was located there.

Although Su You needs an energy pool, things like natal magic treasures still require external energy input; relying on their own absorption is too inefficient.

“The creation of the spatial secret realm has been tested more than ten times, and this time should be no problem either,” Su You murmured as he stood in the center.

That's right, the reason why each floor of the Wizard Tower is set so low is because he plans to create a secret realm attached to the Wizard Tower inside.

This will allow the Wizard Tower to have a more spacious area.

Moreover, while the Wizard Tower possesses considerable combat capabilities, it is also the primary location for research work, requiring a vast space.

It may even require a large number of secret realms to conduct different experiments in different secret realms.

Originally, only third-tier wizards had enough financial resources to create secret realms within their wizard towers, both to increase their research space and to increase their income.

However, Su You can now be said to be very wealthy. The outer construction of the entire wizard tower is no worse than that of a third-tier wizard. In addition, he has been collecting spatial materials for opening up spatial secret realms since he received the inheritance in the field of opening up spatial secret realms.

We have already collected over a thousand sets of fourth-order space materials. Even if we fail a few more times, it will only be a waste of some materials.

Su You first had his twin clones retrieve a huge energy pool from the top floor to activate the entire wizard tower.

The wizard's tower is surrounded by layers of force fields, both inside and out.

After making preparations, Su Youcai began to explore the secret realm.

Mysterious incantations slowly echoed in the air, and a piece of spatial jade floating in the air exploded with a 'boom'.

The spatial ripples instantly caused considerable damage to Su You.

Fortunately, he is currently standing here in his true form, creating a spatial secret realm. With his fourth-order body refinement, he is unlikely to die from such spatial backlash; at most, he will be seriously injured.

For Su You, being seriously injured was actually a good thing. He continued the Undying Silkworm's Heavenly Silkworm Life and Death Transformation, which allowed him to passively evolve and also gave him super strong recovery abilities.

With the help of some pills, he fully recovered in half an hour.

After two more failures, the spatial ore finally stopped exploding and vanished into nothingness, its spatial power suddenly spreading outwards.

In the central region, a tiny particle was formed, and within this particle was a miniature space that was a hundred feet high, a hundred feet long, and a hundred feet wide.

Although the space of this secret realm is extremely small, it can still be considered a secret realm. It will continue to expand after absorbing spiritual energy, so there is no need to worry about the space area remaining unchanged.

After completing the bottom layer, Su You continued upwards, opening up space layer by layer.

Some of these floors successfully created secret spaces on the first try, while others required several attempts before they succeeded.

In summary, after the entire 100-story Wizard Tower was opened up, it only consumed a little over 300 spatial materials, leaving more than 800 sets of spatial materials.

These spatial materials are not useless.

Since the Wizard Tower is a combination artifact, modules can be added later, which can be saved for opening up secret realms in the future.

It can also be used directly in the Secret Realm to increase the limit of the Secret Realm.

(End of this chapter)