Ancient Weapon Refining Dou Technique Model! Please Keep Reading! Please Vote!

Ancient Weapon Refining · Dou Technique Model! Please Keep Reading! Please Vote!

Dou Artifacts generally fell into two realms: Mortal Artifacts and Spiritual Artifacts.

Mortal Artifacts referred to Dou Artifacts whose material properties had merely been activated, with no special effects. This was the norm for most Dou Artifacts, especially those above the Mysterious-grade—almost all of them were such Mortal Artifacts, or rather, Pseudo Earth-grade and Pseudo Heaven-grade artifacts.

Spiritual Artifacts were the finest among Dou Artifacts. Not only did they perfectly coordinate the properties of their materials, they also fused in an energy model contained within a Dou Technique, activating extraordinary effects—the "traits" Jiang Lin spoke of.

However, it was worth noting that Jiang Lin's forging of Spiritual-grade Dou Artifacts was still unstable. Even some of the weapons he forged with "Qi-breaking" properties mainly owed that quality to the Fire-Gold attribute of his Dou Qi, which allowed him to activate the sharpness hidden within certain metal-element materials. Thus, he forged a kind of half-Spiritual Artifact. Of course, to others, those were already top-tier Dou Artifacts.

"Besides learning material properties, I also have to study different types of Dou Techniques."

Inside the forging room of Myriad Medicine House, Jiang Lin tossed two unprocessed Wind-element Magic Cores into a large wooden chest in the corner. The chest already held dozens of Magic Cores of varying sizes and colors.

"Luckily, this world doesn't have that setting where magical beasts need a hundred years, a thousand years, or a hundred thousand years to mature. Otherwise, with how quickly I burn through Magic Cores, even the Monster Mountain Range couldn't support me alone."

The Dou Qi Continent was vast beyond measure and home to countless races. Magical beasts, humans, snake people, Bear People, and the Dragon Clan were all plentiful. Besides Artifact Forgers, Alchemists were also major consumers of Magic Cores, yet this resource had never fallen into shortage.

Mm. Wondering why?

Because if you were bold enough, anything could become a Magic Core.

After all, if you human Alchemists could use magical beasts to make medicine, then it wasn't excessive for us Dragon Clan Alchemists to use humans to make medicine, right?

Besides, Magic Cores did not necessarily have to be called Magic Cores. Jiang Lin was, after all, viewing the world from a human perspective. What if, among other races, what humans called Magic Cores were called Human Cores instead? Thus, Magic Cores did not refer exclusively to the Dou Qi inner cores of magical beasts, but collectively to the Dou Qi inner cores of all living creatures.

Jiang Lin walked over to a small bookshelf nearby. His gaze swept across more than thirty Dou Technique Manuals of various attributes before finally settling on a Yellow-grade low-tier Dou Technique called "Light Wind Steps."

All the Dou Techniques on this small bookshelf had been exchanged by Jiang Lin over the past year in Wutan City and Qingshan Town, using Yellow-grade low-tier Dou Artifacts. Most were Yellow-grade low-tier, while only a few were Yellow-grade intermediate.

Naturally, Jiang Lin could not cultivate the wind-element Dou Technique Light Wind Steps, but he could use the meridian diagram in the Dou Technique Manual as reference. Then, relying on his terrifying Spiritual Sense, he could continuously trial and error his way toward the corresponding energy model, shrink it using Dou Qi materials, and fuse it into his own Dou Artifacts, thereby adding trait effects to them.

For example, Jiang Lin's Black Knight breastplate possessed the "Diamond Armor" trait when activated by Dou Qi, enhancing his resistance to blows, knockback, and defense. If he had activated this ability when facing the Howling Moon Wind Wolf's Moon Blade attack, perhaps the breastplate would not even have been left with a mark. But Jiang Lin had not done so, choosing instead to take the attack head-on. He had feared running short on Dou Qi and being unable to deal with dangers that might arise in the perilous Monster Mountain Range, so he could not casually exhaust the Dou Qi within his body.

Why was Jiang Lin's fighting style so violent and decisive? Because he could not fight prolonged battles, especially when fighting across ranks.

Jiang Lin could add Magic Cores to weapons to reduce Dou Qi consumption, but he rarely added Magic Cores to armor. Weapons were used on others, while armor was worn on himself. If armor relied too heavily on Magic Cores, it increased the risk of those cores being shattered in battle. Only a few key areas inside Jiang Lin's Black Knight Armor had embedded Magic Cores, and those could only be activated by the Dou Qi within his body at critical moments. That was also why Jiang Lin conserved Dou Qi—he needed enough Dou Qi left to "boot up."

"Calibrating a Dou Technique Model is simply not work meant for humans." Jiang Lin picked up "Light Wind Steps" and looked at the meridians within. His brow rose, and he felt like his head would explode if he looked at it one more second.

It was not that the meridian diagram of Light Wind Steps was complicated. On the contrary, the lower the grade of a Dou Technique, the simpler its cultivation diagram was—though certain special Dou Techniques were exceptions.

But whether the cultivation diagram was simple or complex, whether its annotations were brief or detailed, every Dou Technique Model Jiang Lin calibrated that allowed Dou Qi to flow smoothly was a challenge no less difficult than creating a Dou Technique from scratch.

Because there was subtle Dou Qi resistance between different meridians and acupoints. Nearly every Dou Technique played tricks with those minute traces of Dou Qi resistance. Even cultivation methods that many Dou Qi Cultivators completed instinctively—bugs that ran smoothly—required Jiang Lin to figure out those incredibly subtle differences!

It was like Programmer Number One writing a buggy program that could still run, then Jiang Lin, Programmer Number Two, trying to recreate it. The moment he saw bugs running wild everywhere, his head exploded and he had no idea where to begin. So, he had to abandon copying and pasting. Instead, he manually copied the code line by line, fixing any bugs that might appear along the way, until he finally produced a Dou Technique program that looked the same but contained subtle differences.

"If ancient Artifact Forgers all worked like this, they were practically born programmers!" Jiang Lin hugged the Dou Technique Manual and looked at its absurdly brief, absurdly subjective descriptions. Tears of joy streamed from the corners of his eyes. He understood that in situations like this, aside from the overall model, not a single piece of data inside could be trusted.

Ancient Artifact Forgers: Come on, where are your blueprints? Once you research a Dou Artifact blueprint, can't you just exchange it with others?

Jiang Lin did not know that even among ancient Artifact Forgers, few were like him, researching at least three Dou Technique Models in a mere three years. Most ancient Artifact Forgers spent half their lives researching certain powerful Dou Technique Models, turning them into Soul Blueprints, then exchanging models with other Artifact Forgers. As the number of Dou Technique Models in their hands grew, ancient Artifact Forgers could combine and adjust them into more powerful Dou Artifacts, then turn those combinations and data into Soul Blueprints for further exchanges.

As for people like Jiang Lin, who relied on exceptional Spiritual Sense to conduct endless trial and error with terrifying efficiency, continually researching all sorts of Dou Technique Models by himself in a short time, ancient Artifact Forgers generally called them Hanging Monsters.

Yet the agonizing process of exploring Dou Technique Models had also brought Jiang Lin enormous gains.

Namely, his understanding of Dou Techniques had even surpassed that of their creators.