Another ten days passed.
Late that night, Qin Tiexin was sitting cross-legged on the bed in the wooden house, with Spiritual Qi flowing slowly around his body.
At Dantian, the cyclone is almost complete, and only the last trace is needed to stabilize it. In the past ten days, he worked at the Discarded Artifact Pavilion during the day and practiced "Qi Drawing Instruction" at night. Although the progress was slow, it was one step at a time.
At this moment, he was calm and guided the last few strands of Spiritual Qi into Dantian.
The cyclone gradually stabilized, and finally at a certain moment, it shook slightly and stabilized completely. Inside Dantian, a complete, slowly rotating cyclone was quietly suspended. Although it was tiny, it represented the real Qi Refining First Layer.
Qin Tiexin opened his eyes and let out a long breath.
Twenty-five days later, it was done.
He did not stand up immediately, but stretched out his right index finger, moved his mind slightly, mobilized the weak Spiritual Qi in Dantian, and gathered it on his fingertips along the meridians.
Then, outline it in the void.
Sharpness Spiritual Rune.
He has copied this Spirit Rune thousands of times in Illustrated Catalog of Ten Thousand Artifacts's Void Realm, and knows every turn and every node by heart. Now with the real support of Spiritual Qi, where his fingertips have passed, there are faint traces of light gold remaining in the air. Although it is fleeting, it is much clearer than the previous copying purely with his mind.
The strokes are smooth and the structure is complete.
Qin Tiexin took back his hand, looking at the remaining Spiritual Qi glimmer on his fingertips, a trace of satisfaction flashed in his eyes.
Qi Refining First Layer, although it is only the most insignificant step on the road to immortality, it is a brand new beginning for him.
These days, the atmosphere at the Discarded Artifact Pavilion is a bit subtle.
Li Yuan and Du Ming are missing.
At first, some people said that they had asked for leave, but then gradually word spread that someone from the Law Enforcement Hall had come, searched their residence, and found a lot of spiritual materials and Spirit Stone that should not be in the hands of the handyman disciples.
Later, the news finally spread:
Shen Qingshan found the handyman disciple who stole his sword. The disciple failed to withstand the interrogation and confessed Li Yuan and Du Ming. Follow this line to find out, Law Enforcement Hall discovered that these two people had been working at the Discarded Artifact Pavilion for many years, taking advantage of their positions to hide spiritual materials, sell them privately, and also recruit or exclude newcomers in the same group. Qin Tiexin was framed by them because they refused to join in.
The evidence was conclusive, and the two men were fined and confiscated all their illegal gains, and were sent to do hard labor deep in the mines for twenty years.
On the day before he left, Qin Tiexin was smelting Discarded Artifact Pavilion, and from a distance he saw two people being escorted by law enforcement disciples through the mouth of the valley. Li Yuan and Du Ming also saw him, with hateful eyes, as if they wanted to carve his appearance into their bones.
They probably thought it was Qin Tiexin who reported it.
Qin Tiexin didn't explain, and there was no need to explain. He just lowered his head and continued to play with the iron pliers in his hand.
The handyman disciples from other groups in the valley discussed privately:
"I heard that Senior Brother Li Senior Brother Du made a lot of money in the Discarded Artifact Pavilion..."
"You deserve it, bullying newcomers doesn't last a day or two."
"The new guy Qin Tiexin was lucky enough to escape."
"Luck? I think it's my duty and I didn't follow them."
"That's right, if you work conscientiously, you will never make mistakes."
Now, in the group Discarded Artifact Pavilion, there are only two people left, Qin Tiexin and Old Wu. Merit Hall said that they would not send new people until the next apprenticeship ceremony, so they are the only ones holding on during this period.
Old Wu didn't care about this, he still stayed in the stone house every day and occasionally came out for a walk.
Qin Tiexin, on the other hand, took advantage of this opportunity and applied for a separate stone room from the Merit Hall.
The reason is very good: he has reached Qi Refining First Layer and needs the Spiritual Qi furnace to process the Law Artifact wreckage containing spiritual materials. Moreover, Discarded Artifact Pavilion is currently short of manpower, and he is willing to take on more work.
The application was approved quickly.
The stone chamber is on the west side of the Discarded Artifact Pavilion valley and is much larger than the previous wooden house. In the corner of the room, there is a stone furnace half a man tall. The furnace body is engraved with simple Spirit Gathering Formation patterns. Just inject Spiritual Qi to activate the ground fire - this is the Spiritual Qi furnace.
There is also a full set of tools next to it: large and small iron tongs, anvils, hammers, carving knives, and even several special crucibles specially used to separate spiritual materials.
Qin Tiexin stood in the stone room and touched the cold furnace wall.
With this, he can deal with the real Law Artifact wreckage.
On the second day, Qin Tiexin started a new work rhythm.
Arriving at the Discarded Artifact Pavilion at the end of the morning, he first used the mortal fire furnace to dispose of the remains of mortal vessels. He was already very good at this part of the work, and could melt three baskets of fine iron in two hours.
After Chen hour, he returned to the stone room, adjusted his breath for a while, and started to activate the Spiritual Qi furnace.
The amount of Qi Refining First Layer and Spiritual Qi is only enough to support the operation of the furnace for two hours. He must be careful with his calculations.
For the first furnace, he selected several pieces of Semi-Law Artifact wreckage - all of which were seriously damaged by Spirit Rune, but the materials were not bad. Injecting Spiritual Qi, the patterns on the furnace body lit up one by one, and light cyan Flame rose up in the furnace. The temperature was much higher than that of ordinary fire.
Qin Tiexin carefully dropped the remains into the furnace.
Under the burning of Spiritual Qi Flame, the difference in melting points of different materials becomes obvious. The fine iron part melts first and flows to the lower crucible; the doped Black Iron Sand, red copper and other spiritual materials remain solid because of their higher melting points.
This is the benefit of the Spiritual Qi furnace - you can separate different spiritual materials by controlling the heat to obtain pure spiritual material ingots.
The value of pure spiritual materials is much higher than that of mixed metal ingots.
Two hours later, Qin Tiexin ceased fire.
After the furnace cooled down, he opened the discharge port at the bottom, poured out three dull fine iron ingots, and carefully took out a small piece of thumb-sized Black Iron Sand crystal from the upper layer, as well as two pieces of Crimson Heart Copper.
This is today's harvest.
When he went to hand in the task, the steward counted the materials and nodded. "Pure spiritual materials, according to the rules, add five more grains of Spirit Crystal to each portion. Today, the mortal weapon smelted forty-two pieces of fine iron, and Semi-Law Artifact separated one portion of Black Iron Sand, two portions of Crimson Heart Copper... a total of thirty-one grains of Spirit Crystal."
Thirty-one.
Nearly twice as much as before.
Qin Tiexin took the Spirit Crystal bag, which was heavy.
The steward added, "By the way, according to the sect's rules, Discarded Artifact Pavilion servants have the right to purchase the spiritual materials they smelt at a 40% discount on the market price. You can register if you need."
Qin Tiexin thought, "How to sell Crimson Heart Copper?"
"The market price is one hundred Spirit Crystal for a fist-sized piece, and 40% off is sixty. The two pieces you melted today are worth approximately thirty Spirit Crystal. If you want it, just pay eighteen Spirit Crystal."
Qin Tiexin After all, I made thirty-one today. If I buy these two tablets of Crimson Heart Copper, there will be thirteen tablets of Spirit Crystal left. I will be a little short of money when I add the follow-up Body Refining.
But thinking about Edgeless...
He gritted his teeth and said, "I'll buy it."
He took out eighteen tablets of Spirit Crystal, carefully wrapped the two tablets of Crimson Heart Copper, and put them into his arms.
When I walked out of the Merit Hall, there were only seventeen Spirit Crystal pills left in my arms, but there was an extra spiritual material.
value.
Returning to the stone room, Qin Tiexin closed the door and took out Edgeless and the piece of Crimson Heart Copper that was the size of a fingernail.
He had never used this piece of Crimson Heart Copper before - the mortal fire furnace was not hot enough to melt this second-level spiritual material. Now that he has the Spiritual Qi furnace, he can finally try it.
He placed Crimson Heart Copper and Edgeless side by side on the anvil, took a deep breath, and activated the furnace again.
Light cyan Flame rises.
Qin Tiexin first put Crimson Heart Copper into the furnace. Under the burning of Spiritual Qi Flame, the dark red metal gradually became transparent, with a luster like Lava on the surface, but it did not melt immediately - the melting point of the second-level spiritual material was higher than imagined.
He continued to pour Spiritual Qi, and the temperature of the furnace rose again.
After a full quarter of an hour, Crimson Heart Copper finally began to soften and turned into a pool of dark red liquid metal, slowly flowing in the furnace.
That's it now.
Qin Tiexin Use iron pliers to pick up Edgeless, put the sword blade into the furnace, and slowly immerse it in the pool of Crimson Heart Copper liquid.
Zi--
A strange sound sounded.
Edgeless The dark sword body seemed to come alive and began to actively absorb the surrounding red copper liquid. The dark red liquid spread and penetrated along the lines on the sword body, like water droplets seeping into dry soil, and was absorbed completely in the blink of an eye.
The whole process only takes a few breaths.
Qin Tiexin takes back Edgeless, check carefully.
The blade of the sword is still dark black, and no change can be seen. But when you hold it in your hand, it feels heavy.
At least ten pounds heavier.
It used to be one hundred and sixty five pounds, but now it should be about one hundred and seventy five pounds.
And Qin Tiexin can feel that the "hunger" in the sword body has weakened a bit. Although it is still there, it is no longer as strong as before.
The strangest thing is that the size of the sword has not changed at all.
The weight has increased, but the volume has not changed, which means the density has increased. But the density of Crimson Heart Copper is not much higher than that of fine iron...
Qin Tiexin shook his head and stopped thinking if he couldn't figure it out.
He waved Edgeless a few times, and the heavy feel was more satisfying than before. But with his current Body Tempering Third Layer, which weighs two thousand kilograms, the weight is still too light.
"You need at least a thousand pounds to get it." Qin Tiexin said to himself.
It seems that in the future, in addition to practicing, I will also have to save money to buy spiritual materials.
In the days that followed, Qin Tiexin lived an almost rigid life.
Every day, he gets up at 10 o'clock and practices "Old Qin Household Body Tempering Method" first - now he has been able to do it for the 18th time. The pain like muscle tearing all over his body is still there, but the recovery speed is getting faster and faster.
Then go to the Discarded Artifact Pavilion and use the mortal fire furnace to process the mortal items for two hours.
Return to the stone room after Chen hour, adjust your breathing for half an hour, and then use the Spiritual Qi furnace to process the Law Artifact and Semi-Law Artifact remains for two hours.
At noon, he goes to the dining hall to eat - now he has five bowls of spiritual rice for each meal, and occasionally adds a bowl of soup. The servant disciples in the dining hall have changed from the initial surprise to a habit, and even leave food for him in advance.
At the end of the day, I continued to go back to the stone room, sometimes smelting, sometimes studying the Spirit Rune on the scrapped Law Artifact.
Shen Shi went to the Dharma Lecture Hall to attend a class - the free month had passed, and now he had to pay Spirit Crystal, five pills for each class. But he didn't miss a lesson.
Practice "Qi Drawing Instruction" at night, consolidate Qi Refining First Layer's cultivation, and continue to copy "Sharpness" Spirit Rune, Sun Daniu moved to live in the mine, and Qin Tiexin simply rented this house now for 10 Spirit Crystal per month, which is not expensive.
Every few days, he would use his accumulated Spirit Crystal to buy some spiritual materials that he had smelted and blend them into Edgeless. The weight of Edgeless was slowly increasing, one hundred and eighty kilograms, one hundred and ninety kilograms... Although it was still far from a thousand kilograms, he was finally moving forward.
During this process, from Illustrated Catalog of Ten Thousand Artifacts to the Void Realm, that cold voice would occasionally sound:
[First Glimpse of Spiritual Runes progress update: (7/10)]
[Hundred Appraisals of Spiritual Materials progress update: (15/30)]
Qin Tiexin discovered that when he was dismantling and scrapping Law Artifact, if he encountered one with a special structure or Spirit Rune remaining, he could use the "Appraisal" ability to observe it carefully and memorize its internal structure and spiritual power circuit remnants, so that he could slowly advance the progress of "First Glimpse of Spiritual Runes".
And identifying and contacting different spiritual materials can advance "Hundred Appraisals of Spiritual Materials".
He became more and more addicted to this kind of learning.
A large number of scrapped Law Artifacts are delivered to the Discarded Artifact Pavilion every day. Although most of them are mortal weapons and Semi-Law Artifacts, occasionally the wreckage of real Law Artifacts can be seen. The Spirit Runes and special structures remaining on those wreckage are all valuable knowledge to him.
Old Wu would occasionally come out of the stone house and see Qin Tiexin staring at a piece of wreckage in a daze. He didn't bother him and just stood aside and watched for a while.
Once, Qin Tiexin ran into trouble when dealing with a severely damaged Lower-Grade Law Artifact shield - there was a residual "Rebound" Spirit Rune inside the shield. Although 80% of it was damaged, the remaining spiritual power circuit was extremely unstable, and a slight inadvertence could trigger a spiritual power rampage.
He tried several times but didn't dare to do it.
Old Wu walked behind him at some point, and a hoarse voice sounded, "The spiritual power circuit is broken at the 'Gen position', you have to remove it from the 'shock position' in the opposite direction. First use three-point Spiritual Qi to protect the break, and then use the knife."
Qin Tiexin was stunned for a moment, then followed the instructions.
Sure enough, the dangerous Spirit Rune wreckage was successfully dismantled.
He turned around to say thank you, but Old Wu was already walking away with his hands behind his back.
From then on, Qin Tiexin began to deliberately observe Old Wu's disassembly techniques. The old man's movements seemed random, but in fact, every cut fell on the key point, which was extremely efficient and never made mistakes.
Qin Tiexin Write it down silently and try to imitate it when you practice.
Occasionally when he encounters something really difficult, he will muster up the courage to ask. Old Wu mostly ignores it, but when he is in a good mood, he will give one or two key pointers, which often makes him enlightened.
In the corner of the stone room, Qin Tiexin made a small wooden box.
The box contained not valuable spiritual materials, but things that others had thrown away as "waste" - a piece of metal engraved with incomplete and strange patterns, half a special bone component of the spiritual power circuit, a strange part removed from a certain Law Artifact, the use of which no one could recognize...
These are his "research samples".
After completing the task every day, he would spend some time studying these fragments, trying to restore their original Spirit Rune structure, or speculate on their purpose.
Although most of the time he found nothing, the occasional flash of inspiration was enough to excite him for a long time. He would not smelt the scrap until it was thoroughly studied.
[First Glimpse of Spiritual Runes progress update: (8/10)]
On this day, when Qin Tiexin was pondering a piece of sword grid fragment removed from a scrapped magic sword, the voice in the Void Realm sounded again.
There are still two left.
He put down the pieces and looked at the sky outside the window.
Dusk has arrived and it's time to go to the dining hall.
When he stood up, he clenched his fists subconsciously. The membrane under the skin became stronger and tougher, and the strength surging in the muscles also slowly increased. Although Qi Refining's progress was still slow, Body Tempering Third Layer was already stable, and it was not far from the fourth level of "Tianjin".