Clang!
A crisp clash of gold and iron rang out in the courtyard. In Li Qing's hand, a mechanism resembling a black iron lotus slowly spun.
Forging such an exquisite device had taken Li Qing a full five days!
Over those five days, he had neither slept nor rested, exhausting enormous amounts of mental and physical energy. He had practically lived beside the forge.
Li Qing was now disheveled, with two dark circles hanging beneath his eyes. Fortunately, his grandmaster-level physique was exceptionally robust, and his blood and qi were vigorous beyond measure. Otherwise, even as an immortal cultivator, he would probably have shed hair all over the ground.
"Finally finished!"
Li Qing looked at the Stormy Pear Blossom Nail firing mechanism in his hand, drew a deep breath, then slowly exhaled.
A crushing wave of drowsiness swept over him. He was nearly unable to hold on any longer. Counting the time spent refining the twenty-two bone nails, he had gone almost ten days without closing his eyes.
In a few more days, he would have to descend into the mine again. Li Qing had no choice but to set aside his plans to continue refining.
He had to rest. Otherwise, he might become the first cultivator in the Cultivation World to drop dead from overwork—and one who was also a peerless martial arts grandmaster, invincible throughout the mortal martial world!
To avoid becoming someone's after-dinner gossip, Li Qing immediately put everything back into his Storage Bag. He did not even have time to wash up before returning to his room and collapsing onto the bed.
Li Qing slept for three days and three nights without waking. Rice Bucket, who guarded the courtyard, would have suspected that its master had slept himself to death if not for the spiritual connection