Four days passed in the blink of an eye.
Willow Immortal Elder's slender willow branches were as nimble as the hands of the world's most skilled craftsman.
One held the freshly forged short blade blank, another held Innate Yang Steel drawn into fine wire, and several others held materials Luo Fan could not name, weaving up and down through the dappled light and shadow.
The fine strands of Innate Yang Steel were embedded along the cutting edge, their milky-white glow playing against the ink-black blade.
At the hilt, the rule-type weird crystal was carefully socketed into place. Like a needle drawing thread, the willow branches perfectly connected the crystal's internal rule pathways to the material of the short blade itself.
The process of forging an uncanny artifact looked much like manufacturing circuit boards before the apocalypse.
A circuit board was small, but its densely packed circuitry held a world of complexity.
Forging an uncanny artifact was much the same. On the surface, it looked like merely assembling a few things, but within it, not a single line in the operation of its rules or its energy circuits could tolerate the slightest error.
Luo Fan sat on a rock nearby, watching from start to finish.
He had stayed here throughout the Weird Gun's modification, and now, as the short blade was forged, he likewise never stepped away.
With a treasure on the level of Innate Yang Steel involved, he could not rest easy unless he watched with his own eyes.
On the afternoon of the fourth day, Willow Immortal Elder let out a long breath.
"It's done."
Several willow branches slowly released their grip, and the short blade dropped from midair.
Luo Fan reached out and caught it securely.
It felt hefty in his hand, slightly heavier than the Wraith Short