Beneath the giant sword, Jiang Feng and Yuchi Hanqing sat side by side, both gazing up at the incantations carved upon it.
Though the laws of time within the ruins were blurred, that did not mean time had stopped flowing.
As time crept by, Jiang Feng gradually grasped the meaning of the incantations on the giant sword and used them to steadily eliminate certain interfering factors.
Within his mind, the unlocking incantations had already begun to take shape.
"Truly ingenious beyond measure!" Jiang Feng exclaimed.
"You've figured something out?" Yuchi Hanqing immediately asked.
Jiang Feng nodded. "The unlocking incantations were hidden far too deeply."
As he spoke, he began tracing the unlocking incantations through the air.
Yuchi Hanqing watched with a thoroughly bewildered expression. She had to admit that she had never even seen the incantations Jiang Feng was drawing, much less understood their meaning.
Jiang Feng explained, "I derived all these incantations from the ones on the giant sword."
"A refiner must not only know how to use existing incantations, but also how to draw and combine incantations himself."
"You can regard incantations as a language—a language for programming. What you need to do is use certain basic languages to construct more complex ones, even an entire program."
Yuchi Hanqing was completely lost. Jiang Feng noticed her expression as well and thought to himself that not everyone could master the forging of spirit artifacts. It was not something one could learn through simple study alone; one also needed a certain degree of talent.
As he spoke, he had already drawn a complete scroll of incantations in the air.
Yuchi Hanqing stared excitedly at the complete scroll of incantations, then turned to ask, "Is this the incantation for the key?"
Jiang Feng nodded. "That's right. This is the incantation for