The Xu family follows Taoism and seeks longevity

Chapter 13 The weapon refining is not going smoothly
  In Zimu Mountain Cave Mansion, Xu Zhiyu was concentrating on refining the weapon.

He first used ordinary iron and a black flame refining furnace. According to the method of refining magic weapons, he used the weapon melting method to condense it into a molten iron sickle, and then drove a sharp spiritual pattern into the iron tool.

Although this sickle naturally collapsed because it could not withstand the spiritual patterns, Xu Zhiyu's confidence also increased a bit. If the spiritual patterns were not completed, this ordinary iron sickle would naturally not collapse. Only when the sharp spiritual patterns were formed, would this happen? situation. Next is the actual refining.

Xu Zhiyu took a deep breath, increased his spiritual consciousness and injected it into the burning flames of the burning wood. He kept changing his fingering techniques and used the fire control technique to suppress the flames that were suddenly large and small at a balanced size.

After the furnace reaches a certain temperature, Xu Zhiyu first throws the black iron into the furnace, smelts it into molten iron at high temperature, and purifies the impurities in the molten iron.

After throwing Qingling bamboo into it, it is smelted into bamboo water and the impurities in it are purified.

This step seemed simple, but in fact it took half an hour and consumed nearly 30% of Xu Zhiyu's spiritual energy.

After completing this step, Xu Zhiyu's already frowned brows became more wrinkled, and his face gradually became more solemn. He changed the fingering techniques in his hands and used the melting method to fuse the green bamboo water and black iron water together, turning them into the shape of a green bamboo sword. But not long after the two merged, they started to repel each other. There was a "bang" sound and the lid of the refining furnace was blown away.

His first weapon refining was over. He failed even before the water formed by the two could transform into the shape of the green bamboo sword, not to mention the "sharp" spiritual pattern had not yet been implanted into the sword.

This first failure in refining did not dampen Xu Zhiyu's confidence much.

Because he never imagined that he could succeed in one attempt.

If the art of weapon refining were so easy to master, the profession of weapon refiner would not become one of the most popular professions in the world of immortality.

It is impossible for any weapon refiner, even the most talented one, to succeed in refining the weapon for the first time.

Most of the weapon refining masters have the talent of weapon refining, and then rely on countless materials to accumulate the weapon refining skills.

Therefore, in the world of immortality, among those casual cultivators who have no sect or family, there are very few weapon refiners and alchemists, because they simply cannot afford the waste of materials required to learn these two skills.

Even for a foundation-building family like the Xu family with foundation-building monks, it is very difficult to train a first-level weapon refiner who can truly make money. They must select talented children and then invest a lot of money.

Before Xu Zhiyu, the Xu family had many "regular" monks learning the art of weapon refining, but only his seventh uncle Xu Zhengming and fourth uncle Xu Zhenggui were barely promoted to first-level high-level weapon refiners. There are still second-level weapon refiners in the family. He was given step-by-step guidance and materials worth thousands of spiritual stones were poured out to cultivate him.

However, the limit for monks in the Qi training stage is the first-level weapon refiner. If you want to become a second-level weapon refiner, you must first become a foundation-building period monk.

So Xu Shengsheng said that he hoped that Xu Zhiyu could inherit his weapon refining skills. The hidden meaning was that he hoped that he could successfully build the foundation.

As long as he can successfully build the foundation and show some talent in weapon refining, Xu Shengsheng is sure to turn him into a second-level weapon refiner even if he is smashed with spirit stones!
  Of course, Xu Zhiyu didn't know this. He just felt that the materials for making weapons were hard to come by and it was a pity to waste them. Therefore, after the failure, he did not rush to try again. Instead, he packed up the scraps in the pot and carefully summed up the lessons learned.

Only when he felt somewhat confident did he start a new attempt.

In this way, fail, summarize, fail again, and summarize again.

After experiencing seventy-five failures, Xu Zhiyu felt a little bored. He glanced at the remaining weapon refining materials on the ground and felt even more confused.

After calming down for a while, he calmed down, cheered up, and started refining the weapon again.

It is still necessary to smelt Qingling Bamboo and Black Iron separately into water, purify the impurities in them, and use the Melting Technique to smelt them together.

After the two water forms merged with each other and became one body under the action of the magic formula, Xu Zhiyu frowned, moved his fingers with both hands, and drove a magic seal into the refining furnace, melting it into the molten green bamboo. Inside the sword.

"Sharp spirit pattern fusion."

The water-like green bamboo sword flashed with aura, and aura appeared on its surface. Xu Zhiyu noticed the situation in the refining furnace, changed the fingering techniques of his hands, and said in a deep voice.

"Condenser"

The next moment, the molten iron flying sword made an inexplicable "sizzling" burning sound.

In less than three breaths, the water-like green bamboo sword turned into a real sword, and a spiritual charm of flickering aura emerged on the sword. This is the characteristic of a magical weapon.

Through his spiritual consciousness, Xu Zhiyu realized that the magical weapon was ready.

"It worked.

He quickly opened the lid of the refining furnace, took out the newly refined green bamboo sword, and looked at it carefully, as if he couldn't put it down.

A sense of pride also arises spontaneously.

He is not a professional weapon refiner, but he joined the Taoism on the way, and after a quick supplement of knowledge, he refined this magical weapon. Next, after slowly increasing the success rate to 30%, he can officially become a first-level low-grade weapon refiner.

"Finally I have a skill at my disposal," Xu Zhiyu thought happily.

Xu Zhiyu took a closer look at the green bamboo sword in his hand and found that the quality of this sword was barely adequate and of poor quality. At best, it could only be regarded as one of the lowest-quality magic weapons.

At this time, there were still a lot of basic weapon-refining materials given to him by his grandfather, but he did not continue to refine them. Instead, he took the finished magic weapons that he had refined and the experience of refining them that he had summarized while refining them. , as well as letters written to his parents, were given to Xu Zhengqi, a family monk who came to collect the output of Xuantu iron ore, and asked him to take it back to the family and give it to his grandfather and forward it to his parents who were far away.

Xu Zhengqi ranks tenth in the "zheng" generation of the Xu family. Both of his parents are ordinary mortals. He is already forty years old this year. However, because the quality of his spiritual roots is only five spiritual roots, he has only reached the fourth level of Qi training with mediocre cultivation. . There is no hope of building a foundation in this life.

When he heard about Xu Zhiyu becoming a first-level weapon refiner, he was naturally surprised at first, and then he took the things with joy and nodded vigorously: "Nephew, don't worry, I will definitely bring the things and letters to the clan uncle and Your parents’.”

After he finished speaking, he paused, and then said earnestly and earnestly: "But you should also practice well and don't focus all your energy on refining weapons. You are the one who is expected to build the foundation of our Xu family. You are the elder of the clan. But we are counting on you to build the foundation and successfully lead our Xu family to continue on!"

"What Uncle Shi said is that I will practice hard and never let my elders down!" Xu Zhiyu nodded and responded with a serious face.

"As long as you know what's going on, I'll leave first." Watching his clan uncle Xu Zhengqi leave, Xu Zhiyu controlled the formation to restore it to its original state, and behind closed doors he read the long letter that his parents had asked his clan uncle to bring him.

Xu Zhiyu read the letter written by his parents to him word by word, with a smile from the heart on his face. A simple letter from his parents inspired him far more than a thousand words from others.

After reading the entire letter, he carefully put away the letter and whispered happily to himself: "There are still two years left. When I complete the remaining two years of garrison duty, I will return to my family and prepare to break through to the seventh level of Qi training. , as long as I break through to the seventh level of Qi training and advance to the later stage of Qi training, I will apply to my family to station in Fangshi, and then our family can be reunited!"

But he couldn't be happy about what happened next.

Logically speaking, with successful experience, the success rate should be much better when refining weapons later. However, Xu Zhiyu continued to refine weapons for the next two months, and the success rate basically did not improve.

It cannot be said that there is no improvement at all, it can only be said that it is minimal. The second time, he used the materials seventy times and successfully made the Green Bamboo Sword, using five less materials than the first time.

He thought it was a normal phenomenon and continued to refine weapons crazily, trying to increase the success rate, which even delayed his practice. However, the result was not satisfactory. Sixty-two parts of materials were used to successfully refine it for the third time, and the success rate increased slowly.

"We can't go on like this. We still need to write a letter to grandpa and ask for advice. Just in time, the family monk who came to collect the output of Xuantu iron ore should be coming soon, so let him take it back," Xu Zhiyu thought a little discouraged.

(End of this chapter)