More than five months later, Having once again completed three rounds of refining Cold Moon Arc Light Swords, He Sheng drifted out of Longevity Pool Water Manor and headed straight for the Toxic Miasma Marsh to the south.
Over the past half year, he had not merely been refining artifacts. He had also thoroughly sorted out the design for that top-grade magic artifact improved upon the Blood-Transforming Shadowless Blade, drawn up a process diagram, and listed every precaution.
First came the artifact-refining materials. He Sheng intended to use three primary materials.
The first was the remaining two-foot-long venom fang of the Black Jade Blood Python, which gleamed with a ghostly blue light.
The second was the Black Jade Blood Python's venom sac, as large as a millstone and still containing terrifying toxicity.
The third was the Thousand-Legged Centipede's pair of hooked jaw-legs. The venom glands attached to them could complement the Black Jade Blood Python's lethal poison, producing a more corrosive mixed venom.
There were also two supplementary materials.
One was the second-rank mid-grade material "Azure Phosphorus Sand" obtained from the Lower River Branch's secret vault.
The other was the three-hundred-year Azurewood Root he had traded for at the previous gathering of high-level Southern Mountain Society cultivators. He intended to use one-third of it.
Though this magic artifact had been improved with reference to the Blood-Transforming Shadowless Blade, their material properties were as different as heaven and earth.
The original Blood-Transforming Shadowless Blade was made for slaughter, emphasizing sharpness and concealment.
The core of He Sheng's improved magic artifact, however, lay in one word alone: poison.
Since he was refining a virulently poisonous magic artifact, he naturally could not begin work in the water manor. One careless mistake could contaminate the spirit spring, and that would be a devastating loss.