Longevity: Starting with an infant's innate growth potential

Chapter 83 Repairing the Fire Sword (Please Subscribe)
After closing the door, Zhou Ling went to the main room, poured a bowl of water, and drank a few mouthfuls.

Both parents went to the workshop and were not at home.

Afterwards, I ate a quick lunch that my mother had left for me and went back to my room.

He took out the black gold seal he had just bought and examined it carefully.

[You are analyzing the Black Gold Seal. Basic Analysis +1, Black Gold Seal Proficiency +1]

After a careful examination, Zhou Ling was able to roughly determine the damaged area of ​​the black gold seal.

"This black gold seal weighs eighty-five catties. It is made primarily of black gold, with some earth-geng stone added. It was refined by infusing the seal with second-order earth fire."

"This fire-refining method allows the materials and the inscription to fuse better, unleashing greater power!"

"Because the refining method was correct, the imprint was naturally formed. As long as the spiritual power is activated, it can be used to condense a mountain-like attack, which is incredibly powerful!"

Looking at the black gold seal in his hand, Zhou Ling murmured.

The Wujin Seal is a composite seal, consisting of two seals with eighteen patterns each, one for gold and one for earth.

The Black Gold Seal plays a stabilizing role, while the Mountain Seal serves an offensive function.

The mountain inscription inside only has three dim and dull lines, which can be easily redrawn.

Regarding the black gold inscription, six of the inscription lines have become dim, and it will take considerable effort to restore them.

"Fortunately, it was made using the fire-refining method, so I was able to repair it with the help of beast flames, which made the process much more efficient."

After putting down the black gold seal, Zhou Ling picked up the Fire Gang Sword and examined it carefully.

[You are analyzing the Fire Spirit Sword. Basic Analysis +1, Fire Inscription Proficiency +1]

"The Fire Qi Sword weighs thirty-three catties. It is made of second-grade Fire Qi Stone and Xuan Iron as the main materials, and a small amount of Geng Metal is also incorporated."

"The refining method requires the use of spiritual flames and true fire condensed by a second-grade weapon refiner."

"It's the same method of fire refining, but the difference is that it requires a purer magical flame."

"The cost of this kind of refining alone is enough to make it expensive!"

"Moreover, the crafting of second-tier inscriptions is very different from that of first-tier inscriptions."

"The reason why a spiritual artifact is called a spiritual artifact is that it possesses a certain spirituality."

"Once a spiritual artifact is crafted, it possesses certain growth attributes. Under the nurturing of a Foundation Establishment cultivator's mana over many years, its power and grade will increase accordingly."

"Once it is refined into a Foundation Establishment cultivator's natal treasure, its connection with the cultivator will be further strengthened, and its power will be even greater."

"Therefore, refining requires more sophisticated techniques, and the inscription nodes need to be tempered by spiritual fire so that they can contain sufficient spiritual power to sustain the cultivator's long years of cultivation."

"And this Fire Qi Sword is composed of second-tier Fire Qi Inscriptions."

"The second-tier fire energy inscription is not complicated; it is a composite inscription composed of two first-tier high-grade fire energy inscriptions."

"But the key point is the twelve inscription nodes that connect the two inscriptions. These nodes are not only numerous, but their difficulty in drawing is also several times that of a first-grade high-quality inscription."

"But of the twelve nodes, eleven were broken."

Based on the specific information obtained from the [Preliminary Analysis], Zhou Ling breathed a sigh of relief and secretly thought with a look of joy on his face.

Without the [Basic Analysis], even a second-grade weapon refiner might not be able to analyze the problem between the two magical artifacts.

There's simply no way to fix it.

With the help of the [Basic Analysis] tool, Zhou Ling easily figured out the problem.

The next step is to treat the symptoms accordingly.

Although his current spiritual cultivation level is not yet sufficient to independently draw a first-grade high-quality inscription.

But repair is different.

After all, the overall structure of both inscriptions is still intact.

Therefore, it is not necessary to expend too much spiritual energy to construct the structure.

Instead, you just need to draw according to the inscriptions, marks, and nodes on the paper.

"However, I don't have any first-grade high-quality spirit ink on hand yet!"

"We're not in a rush to repair the Black Gold Seal, but we can try to fix the Fire Qi Sword!"

Picking up the Fire罡 Sword, Zhou Ling murmured.

The main problem with the Fire罡 Sword is that all eleven nodes are damaged. Even if a second-grade inscription master could see the problem, they wouldn't be willing to expend spiritual flames to repair it.

After all, refining a new one might consume less resources than repairing it.

"Let's try using Beast Flame first, see if it can repair it!"

With that thought in mind, Zhou Ling began to condense beast flames.

A palm-sized golden spiritual flame suddenly flickered on his palm.

The temperature in the room suddenly rose, and a burst of golden light flashed.

On the sword, Zhou Ling found the location of the inscription. Using his finger as a pen, he tentatively inputted a wisp of spiritual flame, feeling the spiritual flame flow smoothly between the inscriptions.

However, it came to an abrupt end at the crucial point.

It felt like something enormous was blocking the way ahead.

Zhou Ling held his breath and began to gradually increase the output of the beast flames, with nodes of the inscription outlined on the sword.

Golden beast flames moved nimbly with Zhou Ling's fingers, gradually appearing on the black sword and condensing into mysterious patterns.

Wisps of flame flickered on the sword's blade from time to time.

Next, Zhou Ling began to focus all his efforts on repairing the nodes.

"call!"

"Finally, one is fixed!"

He didn't know how much time had passed when Zhou Ling exhaled. At this moment, almost 70% of the beast flame in his body had been consumed.

[You are repairing an inscription. Precision control +1, Fire Inscription Proficiency +1]

"As expected of a second-tier spiritual artifact, it consumes so much just to repair one node!"

Looking at the beast flame in his hand, which had shrunk by more than half, Zhou Ling shook his head helplessly.

If it were ordinary spiritual flames that one had condensed oneself, it would be impossible to repair this node.

Next, he took out two first-grade low-level fire-attribute spiritual herbs and a green lotus fire seed from his storage bag.

These medicinal herbs were obtained by him in exchange for the Thunderfire Ball with Chu Xing and other alchemists.

Now, every time Chu Xing and the others return, they leave Zhou Ling with a low-grade or mid-grade first-tier fire-attribute spiritual medicine.

In exchange for some lightning fireballs.

Then, Zhou Ling held the elixir and, with the help of the beast flame, began to absorb and refine its medicinal power.

[You are absorbing Red Leaf Grass, Elixir Stress +1, Red Leaf Grass Power +1]

[Your Spirit Flame absorbs Wood and Fire Qi, Spirit Flame level +1, Beast Flame grade +1, Spirit Flame grade +1]

[Your Spirit Flame has absorbed the Qi of the Azure Lotus, increasing its Qi-Absorbing Spirit Fire grade by 1, its Beast Flame grade by 1, and its Spirit Flame grade by 1.]

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The next morning, Zhou Ling woke up and felt that the beast flame had recovered to about 70 or 80 percent.

He then took out the Fire罡 Sword, activated the spiritual flames, and continued his attempt to repair it.

Finally, just before breakfast, another node was fixed.

Thanks to previous experience, the beast fire was consumed at around 60% this time.

After putting the Fire罡 Sword into his storage bag, Zhou Ling let out a long sigh of relief, stretched, and smelled the aroma of food wafting from outside the room.

I felt my stomach rumble.

He then got up and left the room.

Mother had already prepared breakfast, including spirit rice porridge, meat buns, and spirit eggs.

There were also three food boxes on the table.

There were five jars of spirit wine on the table.

The food was delicious, and Zhou Ling ate with great relish. After finishing her meal, she packed her things, said goodbye to her parents, and headed to Maple Leaf Mountain.

(End of this chapter)