After the sword blank's initial shape had been completed.
Zhou Changqing did not rush to inscribe the artifact patterns.
In reforging the Glorious Thunder Tyrant Sword, he had no intention of adding only Dragonbone True Steel. That would have been far too plain.
So he took out another item.
It was a crystal roughly two inches across, irregular in shape, its transparent body threaded with traces of silver.
Those sparse silver strands resembled fine cracks. Where they touched the crystal's surface, they looked like mysterious lightning runes, faintly radiating a piercing sharpness!
It was none other than the thunder-magnetic mystic crystal he had obtained in the Thunder Sea at Thousand Thunder Valley!
This object had been left behind by Mang Tianchi, the dean of Jia Nan Academy. It was also a top-quality material, only slightly less valuable than Dragonbone True Steel.
If he combined it with Dragonbone True Steel to reforge the Glorious Thunder Tyrant Sword, the Overlord Sword's quality would surely rise another level.
If he was going to refine his primary sword, he would make it the best.
Otherwise, wouldn't all his efforts over this long stretch of time have been wasted?
Metal attribute dou qi surged from his hand, holding the thunder-magnetic mystic crystal suspended in midair.
Then the metallic qi transformed into numerous razor-sharp edges and slashed toward the mystic crystal!
Clink, clink, clink...!
After an hour of relentless slashing by the metallic qi's sharp edges, the mystic crystal, though hard, was far less resilient than the true steel and had been sliced into numerous tiny fragments.
He dropped these thunder-magnetic mystic crystal fragments into the Artifact Cauldron.
Then Zhou Changqing began precisely controlling the lightning, weakening it so that the temperature fell along a unique curve.
As the temperature dropped, the molten-metal sword blank's writhing