Chapter 109: The Art of Refining Equipment, If You Get Infected, You're Doomed
Ignoring the sudden accident, Ruan Xing had not forgotten her purpose. She followed the guidance of the kind-hearted monk and arrived at the waterfall on the other side of the mountain. There were several female monks concentrating on using the water flow to guide the tempering of magic weapons with their own spiritual power.
Ruan Xing did not disturb them rashly, but walked over and stood aside and watched quietly.
After a while, one of the female cultivators seemed to have come to an end and stopped. Immediately, a female cultivator next to her smiled and said to her, "Sister, are you almost done with it? You used so much silver dragon silk this time. I think the luster of the soft smoke gauze is almost catching up with the top-grade magic tools."
"Thank you for your kind words. I hope it is of the best quality." The female cultivator smiled and replied, "This soft smoke net needs to be soaked in cold spring water for a few days. I will leave first."
A second-rank weapon refiner could only refine mid- to low-grade magic weapons. Even if he used high-grade materials, the probability of refining a top-grade weapon was only one in ten thousand. It was not an exaggeration to say that smoke was coming out of one's ancestral grave. Therefore, the female cultivator did not have any extravagant hopes and just took it as a compliment and joke.
She collected a white silk-like magical instrument from the waterfall and was about to leave when Ruan Xing hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Senior sister, please stay. Excuse me, who is Senior Sister Meng from Yaoguang Peak?"
The female cultivator asked curiously, "I am Meng Hui. Are you looking for me?"
"I'm a new registered disciple of Yaoguang Peak, and I would like to ask you a few questions." Ruan Xing smiled embarrassedly.
She has always been so bold in the simulation, asking questions directly without wasting time. Even if it makes the other party dissatisfied, it doesn’t matter. She can just try a different way in the next simulation.
"Ah, Junior Sister Ruan Xing, I know you." Meng Hui suddenly realized, "What do you want to ask?"
Ok?
Ruan Xing was a little confused. The grudge between her and the Xu family could not be made public, and her presence was not very high in Nanzhou. What's more, the cultivator from Zhongzhou who went to Nanzhou to participate in the Jintai Secret Realm has not returned yet. She should not be famous enough that Meng Hui has heard of her, right?
"Where did this come from?" Ruan Xing asked puzzledly.
Meng Hui said leisurely, "Two days ago, my master told me to pay more attention to the Sect Affairs Hall. If there are any monks from Nanzhou who have not been assigned yet, I should go to Yaoguang Peak. If they can't come, I should notify her immediately. It's strange to say, when I knew you were coming yesterday, I immediately asked the Sect Affairs Hall to assign you to Yaoguang Peak. I didn't expect them to be so embarrassed. I quickly notified my master, and he came over in less than a cup of tea. He asked for you to come. My master went through so much trouble, but he only let you be a nominal disciple. I thought our Yaoguang Peak was going to have a second direct disciple."
It turned out that she was able to be assigned to Yaoguang Peak thanks to this senior sister who kept an eye on the Sect Affairs Hall day and night.
"Well, I'm really sorry to trouble you, senior sister. You are about to form a pill, but you delayed for two days for me. I feel really uneasy." Ruan Xing said in a low voice.
"Yes, according to the original plan, I only needed to wait for you for one day, but you took two days. What did you do during that day?" Meng Hui blinked at her meaningfully.
Ruan Xing was stunned. It was impossible to say that she had created the "little boy" and sold the stolen goods.
But Meng Hui did not insist on an answer from her, and continued, "Don't worry, Master and I have no intention of digging into your private affairs, we are just asking casually. But I don't understand, what is so special about you that would cause Master, who has always been aloof from the world, and Qingyuan Daojun, who has never accepted a registered disciple, to fight for you?"
what! ?
Ruan Xing was stunned. When she heard what Meng Hui said just now, she thought that it was someone from Elder Xu's family who wanted to detain her and that was why they didn't let the Sect Affairs Hall assign her. She didn't expect that it was Taoist Master Qing Yuan who wanted her.
But why?
Fu Qinghong in the storage bag suddenly gave her the illusion that it was hot.
"I don't know what's so special about her..." Ruan Xing said hesitantly. Compared with other cultivators, maybe she just entered the Tao a little earlier, was a little younger, and practiced a little faster.
But the two big guys definitely didn't like her because of her potential, because... they both just wanted her to be a registered disciple... Woohoo, so pitiful.
"Look at me. You were the one who wanted to ask me questions, but I'm the one asking you questions." Meng Hui slapped her forehead in annoyance. "Don't be offended, Junior Sister. Tell me what you wanted to ask. Your cultivation level is similar to mine, so it shouldn't be a problem with cultivation. It's probably about the Yaoguang Peak. I'm the first disciple of our Master, so I know almost everything about the Yaoguang Peak. Come on, let's talk while we walk."
Ruan Xing followed her footsteps in confusion, "Where are you going, Senior Sister?"
"Go to Tianyan Peak and borrow their cold spring to soak my soft smoke net." Meng Hui raised her eyebrows and waved the white silk in her hand.
"Oh." Ruan Xing also stepped onto the flying sword. "Senior Sister, I want to ask about Senior Brother Qintai. Did he grow up in Yaoguang Peak since he was a child?"
"That's about right." Meng Hui said, "He came to Yaoguang Peak when he was seven years old. Master once asked me to take care of him, but he was a bit withdrawn when he was young. He wouldn't get close to anyone except the white wolf. The most I could do was to bring him meals a few times and buy him some clothes. He did everything else by himself. When he was thirteen and started to draw in Qi, he only ate fasting pills and refused to eat. Although I watched him grow up, we didn't have a very good relationship."
Ruan Xing nodded thoughtfully. Qin Taihe was practicing Taoism in Xuanbing Sect, so he was most likely practicing the Tongxuan Sutra.
"Then Senior Sister, do you know what Senior Brother Qintai likes?"
Meng Hui burst out laughing. "I've never seen anything he likes. Why, do you want to please him? Is there something you want to get from him?"
"I want to know the exercises for the Jindan stage of the Tongxuan Sutra." Ruan Xing answered very honestly.
"This? Can't you just ask me?" Meng Hui turned around and looked at her.
Ask you——eh?
Yes, although Meng Hui has not reached the Golden Core stage yet, she must have the skills before she is ready to form the Golden Core.
Ruan Xing was overjoyed and asked expectantly, "Will Senior Sister tell me?"
"Of course not." Seeing Ruan Xing's visible disappointment, Meng Hui laughed heartily. "Of course, this kind of thing still needs Master's consent. Qin Taihe won't give it to you, so just give up. But Master is not the kind of person who will hold you back from cultivation. Just wait, Master will definitely talk to you about it after a while."
Ruan Xing replied dejectedly, "Okay."
Tianyan Peak was soon reached.
The two jumped off the flying sword. Meng Hui looked at Ruan Xing's sword and touched her chin, "Junior sister, your sword is chipped."
Ruan Xing subconsciously looked at the low-grade magic sword in his hand and was silent for a moment.
That was when she was attacked by Elder Xu. She subconsciously raised her sword to block it. Although she didn't lift it up, the sword was damaged, and there was a crack and a gap on the sword.
Since she hadn't relied on swordsmanship in recent fights, she had almost forgotten about it.
Ruan Xing smiled and said, "Yes, I accidentally damaged it. I'll get a new one when I have a chance."
Anyway, this sword is not valuable. It is just an ordinary low-grade magic sword, without even an engraved talisman with special effects.
There were a few mid-grade magic swords among her stolen goods, but she didn't dare to use them, so she sold them all. After the simulation is over, she can go to Xianyuan City to buy a magic sword for the transition.
"Senior sister, I am a weapon refiner. How about I refine one for you?" Meng Hui patted her shoulder. "You can prepare the materials first, and I will refine it for you after I have formed the elixir. Don't worry, with my level, I will never waste materials for you!"
Ruan Xing's mind moved, and he thought of the snow marrow still in Jian Lai's eye socket. How about learning how to refine weapons, and then refine a spiritual weapon for yourself in the future?
"Okay, Senior Sister, but can you teach me when you refine the weapon? I also want to learn how to refine the weapon."
"It's no problem for me to teach you." Meng Hui had a look of surprise on her face, "But you have to think carefully. The method of refining weapons is that water quenching will make you poor for three generations, and fire refining will ruin your whole life. Once you get involved, you can't change it."
"What does this mean?" Ruan Xing asked humbly.
Meng Hui explained: "I don't know if you have learned about this in Nanzhou before. There are very few weapon refiners outside, but there are talisman makers and alchemists everywhere. The reason is that talisman makers and alchemists only lose money in the early stage of practice and learning, and they can make money in the later stage. As for weapon refiners, wow, from entry level to master level, they always lose money!"
She shook her head as she spoke. After Meng Hui's introduction, Ruan Xing finally understood the key.
One is the difference between water quenching and fire refining. The water quenching method has high requirements for spiritual awareness, and the materials of the magic tools that can be refined by water quenching are very expensive. The fire refining method is relatively cheaper, but it has an impact on the body. If you refine it too much, you will become a big and strong man. Unless you reach the Nascent Soul stage to reshape your body, you will have to maintain the image of a big and stupid guy. Who among the immortal cultivators does not pursue the appearance of an immortal? Naturally, this becomes an unsatisfactory shortcoming.
Secondly, if an equipment refiner wants to upgrade his level, he must practice and polish a lot. Every cultivator basically consumes at least several bottles of elixirs every month, but for magical instruments, ordinary cultivators only have one or two at most, which are enough for several major realms. Unless they are fighting against people with a huge gap in cultivation, the magical instruments will basically not be damaged. Of course, once the magical instrument is damaged, the person is probably dead too, and there is no need to replace it with a new one. What is more likely is that the person dies but the magical instrument is still there, and it becomes stolen goods and circulates back into the market.
So, what should a weapon refiner do with the hundreds or thousands of ordinary low-grade magic weapons produced from the first to the second level?
All of them were sold at a low price of dozens of spirit stones, sometimes not even enough to cover the cost of the materials, and the extra success rate and loss meant pure loss.
Therefore, there are very few independent weapon refiners who cannot support themselves at all. The weapon refiners trained by sects and families have already saturated the market.
The most important thing is that there are recipes for alchemy but not for refining instruments. There are only a few hundred types of instruments in the world. Refining instruments only requires refining them into suitable instruments according to the properties and characteristics of the materials. This has also led to some high-level instrument refiners not charging for the labor fees when they refine instruments for others in order to have access to more high-level materials for refining instruments and pursue higher realms. Sometimes they even pay for it if the refining fails.
Meng Hui wanted to refine a new magic sword for her not just to take care of her junior sister, but also to refine a few more magic weapons to increase the success rate of her own mid-grade magic weapons.
"No wonder it's like this." Ruan Xing whispered to himself.
"Do you want to learn more?" Meng Hui asked.
Ruan Xing nodded firmly, "Learn!"
With the simulator, she doesn't have to worry about losing money.
After finishing this chat, the two of them stepped into the gate of Tianyan Peak.
Meng Hui felt like she was back home. She greeted every disciple from Tianyan Peak she met and introduced Ruan Xing to them.
"Hello, junior sister."
"Senior sister is here."
"Hey, Junior Sister, when do you plan to form your elixir? I'll go and protect you!"
Meng Hui smiled and responded one by one, "It will be soon. I will definitely find you when the time comes."
"Who is she? Wow, she has completed the foundation building at such a young age?"
"This is our new junior sister from Yaoguang Peak. I'm here to borrow Hanquan and bring her over to introduce herself to the sect." Meng Hui pointed at Ruan Xing and said.
"Then go quickly. There is no one at Hanquan today."
Even at Yaoguang Peak, Ruan Xing had never seen such a strong sense of friendship between teachers and students. She couldn't help but ask, "Does Senior Sister have a good relationship with them?"
"Well, to be honest, I've spent more time at Tianyan Peak than at Yaoguang Peak." Meng Hui recalled the past. "Master and Daoist Qingmeng are good friends. When Master first moved to Yaoguang Peak, he didn't like to stay there every day and often brought me to Tianyan Peak. I became familiar with Daoist Qingmeng's disciples, and several senior brothers and sisters took good care of me. Sometimes I didn't dare to disturb Master, so I went to them for advice. But to be honest, I embarrassed Master. I haven't formed a pill in such a long time."
It has been less than forty years since Meng Hui established her foundation. For ordinary cultivators with average qualifications, it is normal to take fifty or sixty years to form a golden elixir, let alone forty years. But she could not help but feel anxious. After all, she was the first disciple of her master. Qin Taihe, who entered the Tao more than ten years later than her, has already achieved a golden elixir.
Although she is not as good as the direct disciples, she cannot be suppressed by other registered disciples. There are already several junior brothers and sisters in Yaoguang Peak who have completed the foundation building. She has to seize the opportunity.
Thinking of this, Meng Hui frowned slightly.
"Don't worry, isn't Senior Sister almost forming a pill?" Ruan Xing smiled sweetly, "I'm waiting for Senior Sister to help me refine a magic weapon after she forms a pill."
"Well, once the magic weapon is finished, I will start to form the elixir." Meng Hui touched the soft smoke net in her hand, threw it into the cold spring, and said sadly: "It should be no problem to have a medium-grade one. I hope that luck will favor me this time and give me a high-grade one."
……
On Tianyan Peak.
Taoist Master Qing Meng stood beside True Master Qing Hong, who suddenly asked, "I don't think she's anything special, did you make a mistake?"
"There are forty-nine great ways, and one of them is derived from heaven. What I can calculate is only the most likely thing to happen." Daoist Master Qingmeng said leisurely, "Although I can't see clearly what the future will be like, isn't it the right choice to avoid the one I least want to foresee?"
"I'm fed up with your nonsense. I'm going back to Yaoguang Peak." True Lord Qinghong said, then turned around and left.
"Junior sister is like this again. She leaves as soon as she hears something she doesn't like." Daoist Master Qingmeng shook his head and smiled helplessly, "No matter what, I have to say that my calculation is correct. She cannot become anyone's apprentice--"
True Lord Qinghong looked towards Hanquan calmly, "I see, she has a rebellious mind and is prone to betraying her master and ancestors."
Don't call the police anymore, we are lucky QAQ
She is not a kind, beautiful character. She is just a very bad little girl, so it is normal for her to kill anyone. She has died hundreds of times in the simulation, so just let her go.
And the voting results are as follows!
10 "I simulate others' cultivation, and only ghosts can reason with you" 27 votes
Original title: "Who wants to be a vicious female supporting role if they can cultivate immortality?" 15 votes
Other votes below 10 will not be counted. I will wait for the editor to go to work on Monday and send it to her for her to decide.
(End of this chapter)
