Fellow cultivators who often refined artifacts all knew that blacksmithing was actually a skill even ordinary people could learn.
Wang Jixuan felt a little embarrassed too.
He was only a minor cultivator at the Initial Stage of Spirit Gathering. He could neither melt precious materials directly in his palm nor obtain a suitable Forging Treasure Cauldron. Even if he had one, he currently lacked the mana to activate it. He could only use this relatively primitive method.
But this was already far better than when he had made the Bone-Piercing Nails...
He had broken the materials apart with his hands back then.
Hammering artifact materials had another advantage: throughout the forging process, he could continuously introduce spiritual energy into the blade blank and slightly improve its quality.
The blade blank gradually took shape. Since there was not much material, and this was only a small knife, it was merely meant to verify the feasibility of this type of artifact.
Very soon, Wang Jixuan heated the blade blank until it glowed red again, brought it before him, and, right in front of Uncle Tai, joined his fingers into a Sword Finger and pointed forward, swiftly carving two simple sets of restrictions onto its front and back.
Uncle Tai stared wide-eyed. "Holy shit! What kind of merciless iron hand is that?"
Wang Jixuan smiled without speaking, his full attention fixed on the blade blank. The most crucial and important step had arrived.
His cheeks puffed out as he exhaled a burst of Dantian Qi. The restriction patterns around the blade blank lit up in an instant, and pathways formed within the entire blank according to the shape of the restrictions!
Strands of spiritual energy gathered toward the blade blank.
Wang Jixuan moved swiftly—quenching it, reheating it, hammering it again. Next came the