Immortality begins with becoming a master weapon refiner

Chapter 76 The Nine Forbidden Locks of the Escape Shuttle (Seeking recommendations and monthly votes!)
There are currently three people who have accepted this task.

Besides Gu Qing, the other two are native cultivators from the Southern Yue Kingdom, so there should be around five people in the end.

There's still a month until their departure. Their main purpose is to investigate the cause of the gathering of yin energy and to set up an array to block it, lest the dead turn into ghosts and cause trouble.

It's not a combat mission, but purifying the Yin energy is a time-consuming task. The total time allotted is two years, but the exact duration is unclear and can only be estimated after an on-site investigation.

Nanli City, the most prosperous city in the Southern Wilderness, is located in the center of Taiyue Prefecture. Qian County is roughly on the edge, and the round trip is estimated to take more than ten days.

You can indeed stop by and have some fun while doing a mission.

To be honest, Gu Qing didn't think much of this task.

He prefers straightforward combat missions.

Departure, action, slaying, return to the mountain.

Simple and easy, no need to think too much, just go out and relax.

Investigating the source of Yin energy requires sustained and continuous effort.

very annoying.

I should have known better than to let that old rascal make the decisions for him.

"The disciple retire."

"Go ahead, take this. The Forget-Worry Pavilion will need it."

"Uh……"

Gu Qing took the jade bottle, looked at it again and again, and finally put it into his treasure pouch. He didn't need it, but it didn't matter if he kept it.

We will depart in one month.

Then he needs to hurry up with his preparations.

Heading to the equipment room of the weapon-refining hall, Gu Qing selected several materials, preparing to refine his desired magical artifact.

He overcame almost all the difficulties in terms of transportation tools in that year, and only needed to do it himself.

The blueprints for the functional magical artifacts used for imprisonment were also found in the Scripture Pavilion, and it wouldn't be difficult to forge them.

They are:
The Supreme Magical Artifact: Escape Shuttle.

Superior magical artifact: Nine Forbidden Secret Lock.

The Dunyuan Shuttle was a gift from Dean Chen of the Life and Death Peak of the Sword Forging Manor, and it was related to the forging of a set of advanced weapon patterns.

Just like the [flame], [high temperature], and [burning] that Gu Qing is most familiar with.

If these three patterns are used to refine magical artifacts, they will become three runes, engraved inside the artifact.

If one can achieve perfect integration and fully understand the underlying principles.

It was a single, advanced artifact rune created in one stroke, named [Blazing Fire Spirit Rune].

One advanced artifact pattern is equivalent to three advanced artifact patterns.

Its power more than tripled.
To forge a spiritual weapon, the minimum requirement is to use five basic weapon patterns to form a magical restriction, which can increase the power by dozens of times. Spiritual weapons are then classified as having one restriction, two restrictions, three restrictions, and so on.

Although no magical restrictions have yet been formed in the top-grade magical artifacts.

However, it already has the rudiments of a forbidden technique—an advanced artifact pattern!
This is an inevitable step in the art of weapon crafting.

The prototype of the Dunyuan Shuttle's magical restrictions consists of three artifact patterns: [Escape from the Void], [Divine Speed], and [Return to Origin], which is also where the difficulty lies.

Gu Qing's year of painstaking study was not in vain.

Although he was somewhat rusty at this moment, he proceeded steadily and surely, and the Crimson Crow Divine Sense, which had broken through to the third level, could also lend him a helping hand.

Using divine sense to inscribe weapon patterns is much easier and simpler than using true essence to refine them, and it allows for better attention to detail.

in this way.

Ten days later, Gu Qing's first top-grade magic weapon, the Escape Shuttle, was completed.

Nineteen basic spirit runes and a prototype of the [Escape Yuan Restriction] are the strongest items he has created. Although they are only used for transportation, it shows that his skills are still constantly improving.

The Dunyuan Shuttle is shaped like a flat boat.

It is pure white all over, with flowing cloud patterns all over the hull, and there is a desk and two cushions in the middle, which can be used for resting while traveling.

There is a depression at the back that can be filled with spirit stones to serve as a power source to drive it, or it can be driven by magic power.

After refining it, Gu Qing was satisfied. He couldn't wait to go out and test fly it, and finally came to a conclusion: the flight experience was fast and stable, and it also had a windproof spirit shield.

Its speed was about 1.3 times faster than when he flew using Fire Release.

He put it into his treasure bag.

Without stopping, Gu Qing began the refining process of the Nine Forbidden Secret Locks.

This item is a special ritual implement.

It is divided into nine sections like a whip, each with a pattern. The connecting material in the middle is called the "Forbidden Yuan Silk," which requires the assistance of another weapon-refining technique that Gu Qing has only recently learned.

The Way of Plants and Wood, the Masterful Hands of Golden Threads!

He hadn't studied this method for long, but due to the effect of applying the techniques to other areas, he had already reached a level of mastery, and could easily twist a tough silk thread by hand.

Furthermore, Gu Qing also wanted to carve six different patterns on it.

It is also the core artifact pattern of the Nine Forbidden Secret Lock.

【Forbidden Yuan】, 【Lock Qi】, 【Resilient Silk】, 【Sealing Demons】, 【Suppressing Ghosts】, 【Exorcising Spirits】.

The nine-section artifact rings that go with the coat are all infused with [Sealing] artifact patterns.

This is the origin of the name "Nine Forbidden Locks".

Shaped like a whip, it has nine layers of sealing and is effective against any enemy.

It took Gu Qing ten days to refine this treasure.

Thus, it was twenty days later when everything was over.

There are still ten days left before departure.

Gu Qing simply swallowed a Azure Sea Pill and went into seclusion to cultivate. Ten days later, his cultivation level increased by another significant amount.

The departure date is tomorrow.

Today is the annual grand lecture at the Lecture Cliff, and since the time was set this way, I wanted to listen to the lecture before leaving.

All I can say is that the disciples of Baiyue Mountain are incredibly studious!

We can also meet up before we leave, get to know each other, and discuss the arrangements.

After rummaging around for a while, he put on the newly issued blue robe for disciples, which was the disciple's attire after Gu Qing's cultivation reached the middle of the eighth rank.

It is considered a low-grade ritual implement, with minor functions such as dust removal, temperature regulation, and making things look brand new.

It has more decorations than the white disciples' robes.

There was also an extra ribbon of the same color used to tie her hair up.

If one breaks through to the eighth rank, there will be a set of purple robes for disciples.

White, blue, purple, in that order.

As for the disciples at the ninth-grade Foundation Establishment realm, they wore gray robes. Although the materials were exquisite, they were ordinary clothes, simple and unadorned, with little value.

When Gu Qing first started learning about the art of crafting artifacts from plants and trees, in addition to enriching his own crafting skills, he also wanted to personally tan a magic robe.

How can a weapon refiner use a magical artifact crafted by another refiner? Wouldn't that prove their own lack of skill?!
It's still early.

When Gu Qing arrived at the Lecture Cliff, there weren't many people there, but he still saw quite a few gray-robed disciples.

These people were mostly local cultivators from the Southern Yue Kingdom.

We rarely see each other in high places before, but this is the first time we've seen so many people in the same place on such a large scale.

The lecturer for this grand lecture was another seventh-rank master who called himself "True Man Shanmu." Unlike True Man Lianfeng, he lectured at an astonishingly fast pace.

This topic is a detailed explanation of the practice of refining essence into qi.

He condensed what should have been a three-day course into half a day.

This reveals his hasty personality.

"No wonder he didn't come three days in advance. He must know Master Shanmu's style. One day in advance is enough. That's outrageous."

Gu Qing muttered to himself.

As he was searching for his teammates for this mission, he saw four people walking towards him together.

(End of this chapter)