On Rosy Dawn Peak, the wind howled through the heavens.
Vivid red earth baleful fire surged ceaselessly within the Scenery Sun Great Furnace, spitting tongues of flame that scorched a dark blue copper ingot and heated the air in the great hall.
Wang Qiyun stood quietly to one side, his expression composed as he silently calculated the heat and waited for the right moment.
After a full two hours, the copper ingot began to deform. Fine flecks of lightning gradually emerged from it, giving off an unbroken roll of thunder.
Wang Qiyun acted, directing the flames to part before pouring down a bottle of precious purple liquid for the dark blue ingot to absorb.
At precisely the right moment, he removed the ingot and hammered it repeatedly, gradually shaping it into a sword blank covered in intricate purple patterns.
Then he summoned a deep blue flame-starstream flame, which Junior Brother Xiao Wen had found for him. Now was the perfect time to put it to use.
Wang Qiyun took out an engraving knife, guided the starstream flame onto it, and began carving the sword blank. By the time he finished, he had engraved nine small formations, each with its own function.
These formations had all come from Hidden Spring, the sword belonging to his sect leader martial uncle. Their functions varied, including increasing the flying sword's speed and concealing fluctuations of magical power.
At last, the artifact was complete: a flying sword patterned in blue and purple. With a slight stirring of Wang Xiwei's spiritual sense, the sword rose on the wind, gradually coiling into a sword pellet before landing in his hand.
This flying sword was a middle-grade Qi Refining artifact, made primarily from [thunderclap copper] and [thunderlight water], making it ideally suited to control through lightning arts.
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