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Even more advanced than Soul Iron Ore is Meteorite Iron, a rare and precious material from outer space.

For thousands of years, countless meteorites have fallen from the sky like shooting stars, but 99% of them are minerals. Among these numerous meteorites, only a tiny fraction, one in a thousand, are meteorite iron.

However, not all meteorite iron can be used to forge weapons. More than 90% of these meteorite irons are elemental iron ores, which cannot accommodate other elemental ores.

In other words, only one in tens of thousands of meteorites might be found that can be used to forge a weapon. This meteorite itself is an extremely rare and precious treasure, and even without adding other attribute ores, it can be used to forge an unparalleled divine weapon.

Once formed, such a weapon seems to come alive, slowly and automatically absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, thus giving birth to a weapon spirit.

As the artifact spirit endures the test of time, it develops its own will and acquires sentience. Ultimately, the artifact spirit materializes and ascends to become the legendary ultimate weapon—a divine artifact, a supreme treasure coveted by all.

Even the Zhangjiabao family, a weapons-making family with a history of over a thousand years, had never seen such a weapon before, only hearing about it in the ancestral precepts and genealogy left by their ancestor.

Although black iron ore is quite precious, if a cultivator has a certain level of strength, they can still obtain a handy weapon.

In the Soul Tomb of Yishi Valley, more than 90% of the weapons are made of Xuan Iron, while the remaining less than 10% are made of Soul Iron. The refined iron weapons have long since turned to dust in the long river of time.

Therefore, when Mo Yuming saw this sword blank, he immediately thought that it might be a Soul Iron sword blank.

This is because Soul Iron ore is a type of heavy iron, and Soul Iron of the same size is several times heavier than Black Iron.

When Mo Yuming held the sword in his hand, he felt its weight.

A sword blank less than three feet long actually weighed a hundred pounds.

If refined and mixed with other minerals, its weight will increase.

Although most people prefer swords for their lightness and elegance, there are also swordsmen who have become famous for their use of heavy swords.

Although Soul Iron Ore is quite rare, it is not extremely difficult to refine as a primary iron ore.

Even the finest Soul Iron ore can be forged into a decent weapon by any refiner with a bit of reputation, unlike the crude thing Mo Yuming has now.

This is precisely what Mo Yuming finds most perplexing. Since this sword was acquired by the man surnamed Liao, with his wealth, finding a good weapon refiner to forge it into a sword shouldn't have been a problem, instead of it being in its current state.

Clearly, the man surnamed Liao had tried, but why he ultimately failed remains unknown.

Even so, Lord Liao still placed it on the treasure platform, clearly aware of its value, but currently there is no way to refine it.

After fiddling with the sword blank for a while, Mo Yuming turned his attention to the old books.

The pages of these books are all made of animal hide. It's not that these books are anything special, but rather that paper has not yet been invented in this world, and all writing materials are either animal hide, fabric, bamboo strips, leaves, bark, etc.

Of course, there are also those made of gold, stone, and jade, but those are the exclusive domain of royalty, nobility, or wealthy merchants, and are generally inaccessible to ordinary people.

The oldest of them is a set of intermediate-level Xuan-rank sword techniques called "Soul-Chasing Sword Technique".

Most advanced Xuan Gong combat techniques are controlled by aristocratic families and sects. The techniques that have fallen into the hands of ordinary people are mostly low-level combat techniques. A set of Xuan-level mid-level sword techniques is already considered a very rare combat technique.

With the same level of profound skill cultivation, if one can learn advanced combat techniques, the combat power one can unleash will be much higher.

Some advanced combat techniques can even compensate for the deficiencies in the profound skills of a cultivator, often leading to unexpected victories in battles and allowing them to kill enemies of higher cultivation levels.

Mo Yuming originally had the opportunity to learn some more advanced combat skills in the canyon, such as Dugu Xian's fist techniques, Li Mubai's sword techniques, and Shi Potian's knife techniques.

However, at that time, Mo Yuming had absolutely no interest in cultivating profound skills. His cultivation level was obtained through trickery and forced indoctrination, so he was even less inclined to cultivate combat techniques that required long-term, conscious practice.

Although Mo Yuming has not yet mastered any outstanding combat skills, he does not particularly value this intermediate-level Xuan-rank sword technique.

He just flipped through it casually and then put it aside.

The second book is a book on formations, which contains several basic formation diagrams.

Although it's only a basic formation, it's still quite valuable.

Because formations are rarer than combat skills, and not everyone can cultivate them.

Formation is an extremely profound subject, involving a wide variety of disciplines.

One must not only possess a certain level of profound skill cultivation, but also learn to draw various complex array formations and diagrams, understand the refining of various array base materials, and know how to arrange array base materials in the drawn array diagrams and activate these array base materials in sequence.

Therefore, without a master's guidance, it is virtually impossible to learn how to set up formations using only a few formation diagrams.

Although Mo Yuming learned some basic knowledge of array formation from Li Mubai and successfully set up several simple array formations under Li Mubai's supervision.

However, due to limitations and Mo Yuming's "philanthropy," he did not spend much time practicing.

This means that Mo Yuming's ability to set up formations is still only at a basic level.

The book's descriptions of several basic formations piqued Mo Yuming's interest. He spent some time carefully reading through the formations and applying his previously learned knowledge to familiarize himself with them.

Although they are all basic formations, the techniques used to draw them differ depending on the lineage.

Furthermore, since everyone has a different understanding of formations, the formations they design will also differ.

Therefore, even the most basic formations require careful consideration from Mo Yuming's current abilities.

After familiarizing himself with the book, Mo Yuming became interested in a spirit-gathering array and felt it was necessary to try it out immediately.

Although this spirit-gathering array is only a very basic array, it is very simple to draw and the materials used for the array base are relatively common. However, the effect is quite good, and it can make the spiritual energy inside the array 30% higher than that outside.

If the base material is of better quality, it's possible to increase it to 50%.

After leaving Yishi Valley, Mo Yuming clearly felt that the spiritual energy outside was much lower than inside the valley, so the effect of his cultivation of profound arts was naturally much worse.

If we could create a few of these spirit-gathering arrays, it would be much better to rest or cultivate within them.