Longevity: Starting with an infant's innate growth potential

Chapter 289 Advancement to Fourth-Tier Weapon Refiner

The furnace was ablaze with flames.

Enveloped in the true fire of Qianyang, the Lihuo metal stone, the fire evil stone, and the Geng metal were gradually melted and fused together.

These are all Tier 4 materials.

Even third-tier spirit flames could not melt them.

Even ordinary fourth-order spirit flames would take a considerable amount of time to completely melt them.

The process won't be so smooth.

However, the Qianyang True Fire was already at the mid-stage of the fourth rank, and with the assistance of the Golden Soul Spirit Flame and his talent, he refined all the materials in less than half a day.

And then the sword blank was forged.

The next step is to inscribe the Fire Fiend Sword Imprint onto the sword body to complete the Fire Fiend Sword.

A fourth-tier Fire Fiend Sword is sufficient to deal with attacks from Nascent Soul cultivators.

However, it seems that the Jin family commissioned this Fire Fiend Sword to deal with Yin and evil objects.

After putting away the Qianyang True Fire, Chen Ling did not begin drawing the sword seal.

Instead, he sat cross-legged and meditated to recover the magical power he had just consumed.

Although he used the Qianyang True Fire, he still expended a considerable amount of his magical power.

Meanwhile, the Fire Fiend Sword embryo, which had just been formed in the forging furnace, gradually cooled down.

On the fiery red sword, streaks of crimson and blue sword light flashed, giving it a powerful sense of lethality even without any sword markings.

This is because the sword contains a Fire Fiend Stone.

The Fire Fiend Stone contains the energy of fire and has strong offensive properties.

With a thought, Zhou Ling channeled his magic power into the Fire Fiend Sword Embryo.

In an instant, the crimson fire sword light shot into the sky.

The surroundings suddenly seemed to be engulfed in flames, with a whooshing sound.

"This already possesses the power of a fourth-tier sword!"

Feeling the power of the sword's edge, Zhou Ling secretly chuckled with satisfaction.

With the Golden Spirit Flame and [Intermediate Analysis], the forging of the sword body can be said to have achieved the best results.

This laid a solid foundation for the subsequent forging of the Fire Fiend Sword Seal.

After all, the Fiery Sword Seal needs to be combined with the fiery energy within it in order to unleash its full power.

As for the Fire Fiend Sword Seal, although it is a fourth-order sword seal, its structure is a sword seal with split and superimposed attributes.

Forging this kind of sword seal is precisely his forte.

After all, with the improvement of the Three Pure Creation Technique, he could refine his three divine souls almost simultaneously.

With the addition of the [Sixth Transformation] talent, the difficulty of the entire sword seal will be greatly reduced.

Then, Zhou Ling took out the Soul Essence Pill he had received from the Heavenly Crafts Bureau's Affairs Hall from his storage ring.

[You are refining the Soul Essence Pill's medicinal power. Herb Stress +1, Soul Essence Pill's medicinal power +3]

After taking the Soul Essence Pill, his spiritual power also rapidly increased as the medicinal effects surged.

At this moment, Zhou Ling activated [Illusionary Realm Simulation], entered the illusionary realm, and attempted to draw the Fire Fiend Sword Seal.

The scene before my eyes changed in an instant.

Zhou Ling knew that he had entered an illusion.

With the medicinal power of this Soul Essence Pill, his performance in the [Illusionary Realm Simulation] will be even better.

As Zhou Ling began to devote himself wholeheartedly to condensing the Fire Fiend Sword Seal.

The structure of the Fire Fiend Sword Seal appeared in his mind, followed by the sword seal nodes and inscriptions.

Spiritual flames gathered in his hand.

The divine sense began to inscribe the structure of the Fire Fiend Sword Seal.

Under the control of divine sense, the Qianyang True Fire fell upon the Fire Fiend Sword like a fiery spirit blade.

At the same time, within Zhou Ling's sea of ​​consciousness, as the Three Pure Creation Technique was activated, three separate souls condensed.

The power of the three divine souls was put into practice and merged into the Fire Fiend Sword along with the True Fire of Qianyang.

However, drawing cannot begin at this time.

Within the Fiery Fiend Sword, fiery energy surged forth like an overwhelming wave of fire.

Even for ordinary cultivators, especially those at the late Golden Core stage, it would be difficult to withstand this fiery aura.

Because the Fire Fiend Stone is a fourth-tier treasure, the fire fiend energy it contains also reaches the power of a fourth-tier treasure.

The divine sense of an ordinary Golden Core cultivator is simply no match for it.

However, with the activation of the [Sixth Transformation] talent, the originally raging fire waves suddenly lost much of their power.

Less than a third of what it used to be.

With the aid of the Qianyang True Fire, his consciousness quickly and easily fell into the fire's aura.

There wasn't much of a burning sensation.

However, he did not waste any time.

The next step is to condense the sword seal, absorbing this vast fire elemental energy into the fire elemental sword seal.

After the divine sense merged with the Qianyang True Fire, the three divine senses began to inscribe inscriptions on the sword.

The three divine souls proceeded simultaneously, completely synchronized, and in perfect coordination.

As the sword imprint gradually solidified, wisps of fiery energy began to be drawn into it.

As the first sword imprint successfully coalesced, the crimson sword body became even more dazzling.

It's as if a small sun is gathering on the sword.

Zhou Ling then continued drawing, and soon another inscription condensed.

This Fire Fiend Sword Seal contains a total of six inscriptions, arranged according to their quality.

The light from the Fiery Sword grew even more intense.

The fiery aura on the sword surged even more violently, as if trying to break free from the restraints of the Qianyang True Fire, and ran rampant in all directions.

This further increases the difficulty of refining.

Fortunately, Zhou Ling had other spiritual flames. He once again condensed earth spirit fire to suppress these surging fire evil energies.

However, this is, after all, a fourth-tier inscription, and even with various auxiliary means, Zhou Ling could not escape its reach.

But soon, the sword seal shattered.

The first attempt to refine it failed.

This was expected.

After examining the sample and using the [Intermediate Analysis] tool to locate the problem, Zhou Ling continued refining the product.

In this way, with the help of [Environmental Simulation], it took him half a month to gradually improve his proficiency with the Fire Fiend Sword Seal.

"The Fiery Sword is finally complete!"

Sitting cross-legged on the futon, Zhou Ling looked at the crimson sword floating in front of him with a joyful expression.

The sword, surrounded by a crimson light, was five feet long and had a thick blade.

A lifelike sword pattern resembling a fiery dragon runs along the blade, as if it might leap off at any moment.

Looking at the fiery dragon, Zhou Ling felt as if he were surrounded by fiery sword energy.

It seemed that as soon as this fiery sword light launched its attack, he would be reduced to ashes in an instant.

"Then let's test the actual power of the Fiery Sword Qi."

Thinking of this, Zhou Ling took out a black shield from his storage ring.

This is the test sword and shield I received from the Heavenly Crafts Bureau.

It is a third-tier treasure, and ordinary third-tier swords cannot damage it.

Zhou Lingxuan immediately channeled his magic power into the Fire Fiend Sword, condensing a wisp of fire fiend sword light, which then blasted towards the black shield.

"boom!"

The fiery sword energy crashed down like a fiery dragon, producing a deafening roar.

The next second, the black shield's black light surged, condensing into a black armored battle shield several meters in size.

However, under the fierce bombardment of the Fiery Sword Qi...

The black armor shield gradually crumbled.

With a thud, the black shield fell to the ground.

The once bright light became dim and lifeless.

"This is the power of the Fiery Fiend Sword!"

Looking at the scene before him, Zhou Ling couldn't help but gasp inwardly.

Because his Fiery Cloud Sword Intent did not match the Fiery Fiend Sword, this fourth-tier Fiery Fiend Sword was not integrated.

However, the fiery energy within its original fiery stone was sealed within the sword seal.

This in itself is an existence no less than sword intent.

Once the fiery energy within is activated, its power is considerable.

"With my current cultivation level, I can only unleash 60% of the power of this Fire Fiend Sword at most."

"That's enough to shatter a Tier 3 Black Shield!"

Excitement appeared on Zhou Ling's face. This meant that he was already a fourth-tier weapon refiner.

Fourth-tier swordsmith.

Keep in mind that he is currently only at the late stage of Foundation Establishment.

If this were told to others, probably very few people would believe it.

Generally speaking, those at the peak of the Golden Core stage, or even in the later stages, are considered to have the opportunity to refine a fourth-tier treasure.

After all, the later the inscription process, the higher the requirements for spiritual power.

Generally, cultivators who practice advanced soul cultivation techniques have a much higher level of soul power and purity than other cultivators of the same level.

The distance to Foundation Establishment cultivators is simply too great.

The reason Zhou Ling was able to do that is...

The main factors are the Qianyang True Fire and one's innate talent.

With the help of the [Illusionary Realm Simulation], he gradually increased his proficiency in the Fire Fiend Sword Seal.

At the same time, there is deduction and reasoning, and the difficulty keeps decreasing.

Finally, with the help of the [Six Transformations], it was successfully refined.

After putting away the Fire Fiend Sword, he discovered that his spiritual and magical cultivation had significantly improved.

During this time, he consumed all the Spirit Essence Pills and Soul Essence Pills he received from the Heavenly Crafts Bureau.

Under the influence of the [Medicinal Stress], the medicinal power was doubled, and his cultivation level also doubled.

His cultivation progressed rapidly.

In terms of magical cultivation, I feel I've taken another step closer to the ninth level of Foundation Establishment.

His spiritual energy reached five thousand feet, which is comparable to a cultivator at the fifth level of the Golden Core stage.

This is also a huge gain.

Generally speaking, elixirs contain erysipelas.

After a cultivator absorbs a certain amount of elixirs, they must eliminate the elixir poison from their body.

Otherwise, excessive elixirs will corrode the meridians and the dantian, seriously affecting cultivation.

However, Zhou Ling possesses the Five Elements Spiritual Flame within his body, which will cause the poisonous pills to turn to ashes and disappear under the burning flames.

It poses no threat to him.

However, after the elixir is absorbed and becomes magical power, it also needs a process of settling and purifying.

After all, the higher the grade of the cultivation technique, the more profound and pure the magical power cultivated will be.

Then he couldn't help but chuckle.

The laughter was partly due to the improvement in cultivation, but mostly because a fourth-tier sword had been forged.

Having successfully forged this Fire Fiend Sword, he will undoubtedly be able to establish a firm foothold in the Heavenly Crafts Bureau this time.

From now on, no one can question him because of his low cultivation level.

Currently, no one in the Heavenly Crafts Bureau can reliably forge fourth-tier magical artifacts.

Even He Shen's success rate is less than 20%.

Having received two sets of materials, he successfully forged the Fire Fiend Sword.

This means that the success rate has reached 50%.

In reality, he succeeded on his first try; the other document is still in his storage ring.

Of course, he failed many times in the [Illusionary Realm Simulation] before he was able to succeed on his first try in reality.

With this successful experience, the next time they face a fourth-tier treasure...

Zhou Ling believed that this wouldn't be difficult for him.

Let's see what news we've heard in the meantime!

Zhou Lingxuan immediately activated the communication jade.

Before he went into seclusion, he had already told Xin'er and the others that if they had anything important to discuss, they could come directly to his cultivation room to find him.

It seems there's nothing wrong now.

However, given his current status...

This time, I've been in seclusion for over half a month to practice swordsmanship, and there will definitely be a lot to do.

Listening to the various voice transmissions, Zhou Ling discovered that there was a lot of good news.

Among these, Luo Xuan's successful comprehension of the second realm of swordsmanship brought him the greatest joy.

Besides her, Bai Ji's cultivation level also reached the peak of Qi Refining.

If I can obtain a Heavenly-grade Foundation Establishment Pill next year, I might be able to achieve Heavenly-grade Foundation Establishment.

However, Zhou Ling didn't dare to have too high hopes for that.

Bai Ji's foundation is not as good as Song Yue's.

Moreover, the Heavenly Foundation Establishment requires many conditions; if even one condition goes wrong, all efforts will be in vain.

However, since it is Bai Ji's own choice, Zhou Ling will fully support him.

As for whether it will succeed, that's up to fate.

Besides news about the disciples.

Good news also came from both Taoist temples.

They actually promoted him to the position of instructor in the inner court.

This surprised Zhou Ling.

Did the two deans make a decision?

However, he soon realized that with his current position as the head of the Heavenly Crafts Bureau, he was naturally qualified to become an instructor in the inner court.

Even higher.

At the Taoist academy, Zhou Ling has arranged for disciples to assist in teaching, and given his current status, he can even hold a class every few months.

There shouldn't be any problems.

Although Lu Yunxi sent many telepathic messages to the Heavenly Crafts Bureau...

However, it is essentially a work report.

Nothing particularly important happened.

Because most things are proceeding as planned.

It won't be troublesome to deal with.

In addition, there were two voice transmissions from the palace courtyard, three days apart, both asking him when he would enter the Sword Shadow Jade to cultivate.

There have been many things going on lately, and Zhou Ling hasn't been able to enter the Sword Shadow Jade for a while.

"There has been no significant progress in the Five Elements Sword Dao during this period."

"However, with the addition of the Five Elements Sword, its power may be several times greater when wielded."

"Moreover, when used in combination with other Five Elements Swords to form a sword formation, its power will definitely increase exponentially!"

Zhou Ling thought to himself.

Now his soul can simultaneously control five Five Elements Swords to form a sword formation, and if this third-grade top-quality Five Elements Sword is added...

That would double the difficulty, and he hadn't yet tried to control it the same way.

If it can be condensed into a large Five Elements Sword Formation and unleashed, its power will also increase exponentially.

However, he wasn't in a hurry about this.

After all, with the improvement of his divine soul, he felt that the probability of successfully casting the Great Five Elements Sword Formation was still very high.

I'll find some time to enter the Sword Shadow Jade again and have a match with Dean Gong.

Finally, there was some great news that surprised him even more.

The Song family's expansionist army has already occupied 70% of this territory.

Each of the participating families reaped considerable rewards.

The head of the Song family sent him a telepathic message.

The third-tier spiritual vein he desired was already prepared.

Ask him if he wants to go and collect it.

They needed to continue expanding, so they didn't have time to help Zhou Ling collect the funds.

This speed was something Zhou Ling never expected.

The Song family and its subsidiaries have only been expanding their territory for less than three months.

The speed is so fast, it seems the cultivators in this realm are still relatively weak.

He then sent a telepathic message back to the Song family head, saying that during this time he would go and collect the spiritual veins!

After all, matters concerning spiritual veins are of great importance.

With a stable spiritual vein, the cultivation speed of everyone in the family will increase.

As for how to collect it.

Then let's discuss this with Steward Luo.

After all, acquiring spiritual veins is not a simple matter.

(End of this chapter)