Zhang Ling's current level of artifact crafting skill can be considered quite good. Opening a small shop in the market is definitely more than enough.
During this period, he also accumulated a lot of top-grade magical artifacts, and for this reason, he went to the market several times to sell all these crafted artifacts.
The consumption of a large amount of materials in the artifact crafting process, for other cultivators, I'm afraid it is a kind of prodigal behavior.
But Zhang Ling does not have this concern, as long as his artifact crafting skills can continue to improve, everything is worth it.
Of course, the sale of the crafted artifacts has also exchanged a lot of spirit stones, which can basically make up for his losses.
This day, Zhang Ling was sitting in the earth fire room with a black spirit wood about ten feet long and the thickness of a wrist next to him, and more than a dozen boxes of various sizes, filled with spirit ore of various sizes. On the other side, there was also a largest water tank, filled with wisps of cold air.
Zhang Ling quietly sat cross-legged in place. After a stick of incense time passed, he let out a long breath and opened his eyes.
With a flick of his hand, a black writing brush about a foot long appeared in his hand. The tip of this brush shimmered with a golden light, showing a metallic color.
This is a spirit pattern engraving knife that all artifact refiners need to use. A layer of spiritual light rose from Zhang Ling's hand, and he grasped the engraving knife. With a quick grab of his other hand, the black spirit wood was fixed in the air in front of him.
This is a section of thousand-year-old black iron wood. Now that Zhang Ling's artifact crafting skills have reached a stage, he wants to try whether he can refine a magic treasure.
Perhaps Zhang Ling would not dare to try other materials, but he does not lack spirit wood.
Zhang Ling held the spirit pattern engraving knife and waved it quickly, drawing fine golden threads that submerged into the black iron wood.
Instantly, the entire black iron wood was enveloped in a layer of golden light, revealing a layer of dark light. This is the spiritual light of the black iron wood itself.
The golden threads thrown out by Zhang Ling were like wind blades, instantly shattering this layer of dark light and landing on the main body of the black iron wood. Suddenly, wood chips flew, and large pieces of black wood fell.
Soon after, the entire black iron wood had shrunk several circles. The black iron wood had been peeled off its outer skin, revealing a purplish-black color.
Zhang Ling had no expression on his face. With a thought, the spirit wood came into his hand and was placed on his lap. Then, holding the spirit wood in one hand and the engraving knife in the other, he kept gesticulating on it.
This scene lasted for several days. The black iron wood in his hand had been carved into the shape of a wooden sword.
The wooden sword is three feet three inches long and overall cyan-black, completely unlike the material of is always surrounded by a layer of dark light. The hardness of the thousand-year-old black iron wood is no less than that of ordinary spirit ore.
This is the first step in refining a magic treasure, and it has been completed. The wooden sword in hand is the magic treasure embryo.
Zhang Ling swallowed a pill and sat in place to restore the consumed spiritual power.
Soon after, he acted again. The next step is the most critical step in refining the treasure, fusing other materials.
Zhang Ling first adjusted the power of the earth fire in the earth fire to the maximum. Then, he used the furnace to melt more than a dozen special materials of different sizes. This step of melting materials also consumed a lot of time.
Finally, these materials turned into streams of liquids of different colors, which he sealed in the furnace with spiritual power.
Zhang Ling once again took out the spirit pattern engraving knife and absorbed these liquids one by one. With his movements, the engraving knife in his hand also changed into different colors.
This is because of the different materials. Finally, he used the engraving knife to turn these spirit ore liquids into spirit patterns and engrave them on the wooden sword. This is the most important step in refining the treasure, and also the most difficult one.
You should know that the attributes of these materials are different, and some materials are incompatible with black iron wood.
Zhang Ling sat on the ground holding the engraving knife, carefully carving on the spirit wood. At this moment, all his spirit was focused on the spirit wood.
While combing the spiritual power on the wooden sword, he injected mana into the engraving knife, turning the other materials absorbed on it into runes.
This process was very long, and from time to time, bursts of muffled sounds erupted between Zhang Ling's hands. There was even a time when several spiritual forces were out of balance and almost exploded.
If he didn't have the Golden Core cultivation base, and used his own powerful spiritual power to forcefully suppress the unbalanced spiritual power, the entire earth fire room would have been blown up.
The danger of refining magic treasures is not small. You should know that the power of magic treasures is different from that of magic tools. The power contained in them is at least ten times greater. If not handled properly, one will be seriously injured.
In the world of cultivation, it can be said that only cultivators above the Golden Core can refine magic treasures. It is not to say that those artifact refiners whose strength does not reach the Golden Core cultivation base have poor skills.
But their strength is too weak, and they cannot suppress the spiritual power fluctuations on the materials in the process of refining treasures, so naturally they cannot refine magic treasures.
Of course, in the normal process of refining treasures, many artifact refining apprentices or other artifact refiners are also used for assistance. This not only improves the success rate of refining treasures, but also maximizes the reduction of materials that will be wasted.
In this way, Zhang Ling stayed in the earth fire room for a whole month. When he came out again, his face was dark.
Zhang Ling sighed for a long time. With a flash of spiritual light in his hand, a black long sword appeared in the palm of his hand. With a gentle wave of the long sword, the sound of breaking wind came from the air.
Looking at the power of the black long sword, it seems not weak, but it has indeed been ruined by him, and can only be regarded as the best of the top-grade magic tools.
It seems that the power is not weak because the material used is thousand-year-old black iron wood, and several good treasure refining materials are also integrated on it. The degree of hardness has long exceeded the top-grade magic tool.
This kind of ruined magic treasure is more powerful than the top-grade magic tool, but it does not enter the eyes of the Golden Core cultivators.
Zhang Ling reluctantly put away the black sword, and a light of escape flashed on his body, turning into a yellow light and flying towards the spirit medicine field. This more than a month of refining the treasure ended in failure.
However, he also summed up a lot of experience. The reason for this treasure refining failure was because he was not proficient in mastering several spirit patterns. He still needs to practice several times, and he believes that he can master most of the spirit patterns engraved on the magic treasure.
Before long, he came to the medicine field.
To Zhang Ling's surprise, the gourd vine was no longer emerald green, but mostly presented a dark brown color, as if there were signs of wilting.
Zhang Ling did not dare to neglect, thinking that something had happened to the gourd vine, and quickly went over to check.
After some checking, Zhang Ling breathed a sigh of relief. Although the gourd vine was in a withered state, the gourds of various sizes condensed on it, including the Two Instruments Gourd, did not show signs of wilting.
With a thought, Zhang Ling summoned the White Ape Puppet. This puppet has only been used to cultivate this gourd vine during this time. A small piece of soul-nurturing wood was placed in its body, in which a wisp of his divine sense was stored, which was used to control the puppet.
Soul-nurturing wood can keep the soul from dissipating for a long time, and also has a lot of blessing to the divine sense, which can keep it immortal for a period of time.
The White Ape Puppet opened its mouth blankly and flew out a square piece of wood. A gray light flashed on it, and a thumb-sized gray light submerged into Zhang Ling's head.
This is the divine sense used to control the puppet. Zhang Ling carefully sensed it and understood all the details of the puppet's cultivation of the gourd vine during this time.
This kind of unconscious puppet is easy to control, as long as a wisp of divine sense can do it.
If it wasn't for the fact that the earth fire room he was in before was on the other side of the entire Fire Cloud Island, and the location of the medicine field was a bit far away, exceeding the range that his maximum divine sense could cover, he wouldn't have to bother so much.
The White Ape Puppet did not make any mistakes in the process of cultivating the gourd. Zhang Ling turned his head and carefully checked the gourd vine again, then it is only possible that the gourd vine itself has changed.
