I'm determined to become an immortal!

After three months,

Inside the Wanshoutan Water Palace

He Sheng was putting the finishing touches on a foot-long flying sword.

A little over half a day later,

He Sheng withdrew the last wisp of magic power from his fingertips, and the flying sword that had been hovering above the spiritual spring let out a clear cry, losing all its brilliance, and fell into his palm.

The sword was only a foot long, but its entire body was as cold as autumn water. A faint arc of light, like a cold moon, flowed along the spine of the sword. It was the superior magic weapon recorded in the "Secret Manual of Refining Weapons of Tianyue Mountain", the Cold Moon Arc Light Sword.

"It's done."

He Sheng muttered to himself.

Over the past three months, through continuous practice, he has quickly mastered the art of weapon crafting and is now a true first-tier high-grade weapon crafter.

Mid-grade magic artifacts go without saying, and high-grade magic artifacts are also readily available.

In addition, his divine sense is strong, and with the blessing of the subtle ripples, the possibility of failing to inscribe the forbidden pattern is extremely low.

That's why he started trying to forge the Cold Moon Arc Sword, which is considered quite difficult among high-grade magic weapons.

"The 'Arc Light' forbidden pattern contained in this sword is quite complex. Even in terms of the structure of the spiritual restriction, it references the first and second Void Restrictions. The 'Secret Manual of Refining Weapons of Tianyue Mountain' refers to this magical weapon as the first choice for preliminary practice of Void Restrictions."

A hint of satisfaction flashed in He Sheng's eyes. He then put the Cold Moon Arc Sword into the sword box beside him and turned to look at the other two spiritual springs beside him.

Within those two spiritual springs, the water moved automatically without any wind, each nurturing an unformed flying sword embryo.

The essence of the spring was absorbed by the sword embryo like swallows returning to the forest, and its surface also shone with a layer of light as clear as the cold moon, which was the Cold Moon Arc Sword that had not yet been shaped.

Over the past three months, He Sheng has not only mastered the memories of weapon forging, but he has also tailored this layered forging method for himself based on the characteristics of water forging.

In short, he first divided the water refining process into four standard procedures:

①Purification of main materials

②Engrave forbidden patterns

③ Cultivating spirituality

④ Combined casting

The main material of the Cold Moon Arc Sword is a first-grade high-quality spiritual material called Cold Moon Stone, and it takes about fifteen days to complete the first step of purification.

He Sheng would then place the second Cold Moon Stone into another spiritual spring to begin purification on the sixth day after the first Cold Moon Stone had been purified.

Then, on the eleventh day after the first Cold Moon Stone has been purified, the third Cold Moon Stone will be placed in the third spiritual spring to begin purification.

The second step, engraving the forbidden patterns, only took four days because He Sheng had already mastered the skills of a first-class high-grade weapon refiner.

In this way, after completing the engraving of the restriction on the first Cold Moon Stone, he can rest for a day and restore his divine sense to a near-perfect state before continuing to engrave the restriction on the second Cold Moon Stone.

After completing the engraving of the restriction on the second Cold Moon Stone, he can still rest for a day, which will be the perfect time to continue engraving the restriction on the third Cold Moon Stone.

The subsequent process is naturally much easier.

After all, the third step of cultivating spirituality involves soaking in a spiritual spring and invoking spiritual techniques every morning and evening, which takes about twenty days.

The remaining smelting and casting can be completed in just one day.

The standard forging time for one Cold Moon Arc Sword is forty days. Since three of these flying swords are forged at once, an additional three days are needed to prepare the auxiliary materials.

Therefore, from the start of preparing the auxiliary materials to the completion of the forging of the third Cold Moon Arc Sword, the entire forging cycle is fifty-three days.

Throughout the entire cycle, not only can the forging of three Cold Moon Arc Swords be completed, but a considerable amount of time can also be used to cultivate the "Clear Wave Water Element Technique".

Under this method of layered cultivation, the efficiency of cultivation should increase significantly again.

Ten days later,

After the third Cold Moon Arc Sword was completed, He Sheng carefully examined the information on the water droplet and couldn't help but gasp:

"This stacking technique is practically cheating!"

First, completing the forging of a Cold Moon Arc Sword will grant you a 50-point proficiency boost.

Within a 53-day period, He Sheng successfully forged three Cold Moon Arc Swords, increasing his weapon-forging skill by a total of 150 points.

Most importantly, the total training time for weapon refiners has increased by a full 117 days!

It should be noted that in the first-tier high-grade weapon refining stage, the time rate is 2, which means that the exchange ratio between the weapon refining skill practice time and the general cultivation time is 1:2.

The fifty-three days of cultivation time in the present world have been exchanged for one hundred and seventeen days of skill practice time. In this aspect alone, the time ratio has reached a terrifying 4.4!

In addition, He Sheng's "Qinglan Water Elemental Skill" increased by 25 days during these 53 days, which is another 0.9 time rate.

In addition, there is the "Blood and Flesh Rebirth Technique" which has a time limit of 1 for AFK training.

In summary, under the operation of the Stacked Refinement Technique, He Sheng's cultivation efficiency reached an extremely terrifying 6.3 time rate!

This is equivalent to 6.3 times the cultivation efficiency of other cultivators of the same level, and these are conservative estimates.

After all, for He Sheng, who possesses the ability to turn back time, every bit of his cultivation time can be allocated to the right cultivation projects.

Even for ascetics, it is difficult to guarantee that they can practice continuously for all twelve hours of the day.

Even more frightening is that the Triple Refining technique is not the limit of the Water Refining Way.

However, He Sheng is not prepared to make any changes in the short term, as he still needs time to comprehend what he has gained from cultivation and develop his own cultivation methods.

"With this method of layering and refining, as long as I have enough resources, I can maintain this level of efficient cultivation indefinitely."

Indeed, the correct way to use the time-saving time-saver is to exchange resources for time.

The art of crafting is extremely resource-intensive, and the time required will increase further once the crafting skill reaches the second tier.

At that time, my cultivation efficiency will also be further improved!

He Sheng put away the three Cold Moon Arc Swords he had just finished forging with a smile on his face.

"Let's rest for two days first, reflect on what we've gained from this training, and see if there's anything that needs improvement."

I'll take some time to handle the miscellaneous matters within the Water Palace...

He Sheng did not choose to immediately start the next round of refining, since continuous refining would take a heavy toll on his mental energy.

"Xiao Qing".

He Sheng summoned the Green Snake and inquired whether anything had happened in the Water Palace during this time.

"Rest assured, Immortal Master, Qing'er and her sister have been guarding the entrance carefully all this time, and there has been no movement around the pool, except..."

The green snake hesitated for a moment before continuing:

"The giant python inside the water cage is quite restless, making noise from time to time."

The giant python with the precious light mentioned by the green snake is naturally the treasure-swallowing snake. This guy is a die-hard and has always refused to communicate with He Sheng.

He Sheng wasn't in a hurry; he first locked the creature in the Starlight Water Cage inside the Water Mansion.

Considering that they were both snakes, they should be able to communicate more easily, so he sent the green and white snakes to negotiate from time to time.

Make a commotion?

He Sheng was pleased rather than angry upon hearing this.

"It's good to make a commotion."

"Making a scene means this guy is restless and wants to cause trouble. You and the White Snake should try to communicate with him more often to see what he's really thinking."

The green snake nodded repeatedly in agreement.

He Sheng praised the green snake a few times, rewarded it with several spirit stones, and then dismissed it.

Then, as if remembering something, he took out a spirit stone and placed it between his chest and abdomen. He saw that the bright and intelligent water ape was hiding in his arms, staring blankly at the spirit spring without moving.

He Sheng had intended to tease it with spirit stones, since judging from the green and white snakes, no demon beast disliked spirit stones. However, this guy remained oblivious, completely unmoved by the spirit stones.

"Could this little guy be mentally challenged?"