Next, Liu Changxu swung the Forging Hammer and began hammering the rough blank of the spirit artifact longsword. This was an essential step in crafting blade- and sword-type magical artifacts.
This was done to make the blades and swords sturdier and more durable. Blade- and sword-type magical artifacts and spirit artifacts that had not been hammered and forged were easily damaged in combat.
After more than a thousand hammer blows, the spirit artifact longsword finally shone with a dazzling red radiance. Gold-patterned iron was Spirit Materials with both metal and fire attributes, so a spirit artifact longsword made primarily from it naturally possessed both attributes as well.
Next came the engraving of artifact runes, an extremely intricate and difficult task.
There were two common methods of engraving artifact runes. One involved using an engraving knife, which Qi Refinement cultivators generally employed when crafting magical artifacts. This was mainly because their magic power was insufficient to engrave runes into hard Spirit Materials directly.
The other was the magic power engraving method Liu Changxu used. It involved compressing and condensing magic power in midair into the shape of a small knife, then guiding it with divine sense to engrave the rough spirit artifact blank. Runes engraved with magic power were of excellent quality, but the process consumed a great deal of magic power and soul strength.
Besides being an artifact-refining tool, the Magic Blade was also a powerful secret offensive art. Since it was formed from compressed and condensed magic power, one could theoretically conjure countless flying knives out of thin air, making it an exceptionally formidable group-attack technique.
Depending on the attributes of the magic power, these could be fire-attribute flying knives, water-attribute flying knives, and so on, each with its own unique uses. Liu Changxu named this secret technique the