The four of them still lived in a dilapidated temple outside the city. Their daily routine was to refine magical instruments. In the past, Qianjimen had few materials, and disciples could only save up one type within a few months. They might only be able to refine one once a year. This also made them develop the habit of frantically reducing the error rate, otherwise they would have to wait another year after failing once.
Now that all the materials can be purchased at once, several people are working hard to refine it.
Ming Liusha, Xiyu and Xia Er have been refining weapons for a while now, and they have all reached the stage of perfecting their Qi training. They are only one step away from building their foundation.
If a weapon refiner wants to break through, the better the weapon he refines, the more likely he is to break through. In addition to relying on refining weapons to gain enlightenment and ascend to a higher realm, sufficient spiritual energy is the most basic condition for ascending to a higher realm.
As for Ye Su, she has been drawing talismans to earn spirit stones.
Refining magic weapons requires a large amount of spiritual power. They are in the ruined temple and there is no spiritual energy, so they can only consume spirit stones.
Although the Vajra Talisman was valuable, Ye Su did not sell it. He just drew some and gave them to his fellow junior brothers and sisters for self-defense.
In the world of cultivation, since secret realms and places of inheritance are opened from time to time, people often learn the skills of other sects, so the capable are promoted. Originally, there was no need to mind this aspect, but with the experience of the elders of Qianji Sect, Ye Su did not want the Five Elements Sect to find an excuse to blackmail her magic weapon, so she only sold the Speed Talisman every once in a while.
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Xia Er had just finished carving the patterns on the sword when he looked up and saw Ye Su coming back: "Master Sister, what are you holding in your hand?"
"A Complete Collection of Talismans?" Xiyu collected his spiritual power and said, "Big Sister, this kind of book sounds like a lie."
Ye Su held the thick book in her hand and said, "It's not expensive. It only costs three thousand low-grade spirit stones."
Ye Su did not take this technique book that could be bought with such a small amount of spirit stones too seriously. As long as one talisman was useful, it would be considered a profit.
Today Ye Su went into the city and sold all the speed talismans she had drawn in the past few days. On the way, she saw a stall selling various technical books, and she picked out a book on talismans.
Ye Su threw a bag of buns to them. "The stall owner asked me to flip through a few pages. Those talisman diagrams look very complete."
At that time, she sketched it out in her mind and thought it should be a useful talisman diagram.
"Look, look." Ming Liusha came over and said.
Ye Su opened the book of talismans. She had read the first page, but from the second page onwards, the talisman diagrams in the book were fake, without any complete pattern. In this thick book of talismans, only the pages that the stall owner "randomly" flipped through had complete talisman patterns.
Although Xiyu couldn't understand the talisman, she could clearly see one thing: "Big sister, this picture seems to be the same as the previous one."
"I see." Ye Su tore off the complete pages of talismans, "These pages seem to be real. Let me try."
She placed the talisman pictures on the ground, took out a pen and paper, and began to draw talismans.
"Turning, evil, talisman." Ming Liusha tilted his head to look at the pages of talisman pictures on the ground and slowly read out, "Fainting, sleeping, ka-ka-talisman?"
Ye Su's drawing of talismans was not as difficult as that of ordinary talisman masters. It seemed as if he was just drawing a stroke on the paper normally. In a short while, he had completed several pages of talismans.
She put down her pen and asked, "Who wants to try?"
Ming Liusha took the talisman at lightning speed, and then... stuck it on Xia Er's back.
Before Xia Er could glare at him, he started crowing like a chicken: "Cluck, cluck, cluck."
"Surely, it is, a Fu." Ming Liusha couldn't help but sigh.
Xia Er was angry: "Hehehe?"
Ye Su raised her eyebrows slightly, picked up the sleeping talisman with two fingers, and stuck it on Ming Liusha's forehead.
Ming Liusha was caught off guard, and the sleeping talisman took effect, causing him to fall headfirst to the ground, where he was supported by Xiyu's scabbard.
Both talismans are useful. Now it depends on the timeliness. There is still one talisman left. Ye Su put it into her Qiankun bag and did not try again: "I have only heard of luck transfer. The talisman of changing evil may not be a good one."
Xia Er: "Hehe."
Xiyu slowly moved the scabbard and let Ming Liusha lie on the ground, then he stopped: "Big sister, there is less than a month left, have you thought about what kind of magic weapon to refine?"
They made some magical instruments and sold them in the previous month, and then focused on the selected magical instruments, after all, it was related to whether they could enter the Po Yuan Gate competition later.
"Not yet." Ye Su did not have any particular interest in magical instruments. There was only a difference between being able to make them and not being able to make them. During this period of time, she had been busy earning spirit stones, most of which she sent back to Qianjimen. She did not have any inspiration for refining magical instruments.
Xiyu was not in a hurry: "Big Sister, you can make a sword or a knife." The magic weapons made by Big Sister have always been more powerful than theirs.
"Cluck, cluck, cluck!" the Charlotte chicken cried in agreement. When it heard its own voice, it immediately put up its hands and covered its mouth.
A quarter of an hour later, Ming Liusha woke up and tore off the talisman paper on his forehead. The talisman pattern on it had disappeared. He held it in his hand and it instantly turned into ashes and floated in the air.
Seeing this, Ye Su looked at the talisman paper on Xia Er's back. Sure enough, the talisman pattern had disappeared. She didn't reach out to touch it, and it turned into ashes on its own.
It is different from the speed symbol I drew before.
She didn't know whether it was because the speed runes had been transformed or if only these types of runes would behave like this.
Ye Su did not delve into it further, as she had other things to do. She wanted to carve all the rare deformation patterns that she remembered and could be used on magic tools into jade slips and distribute them to her fellow junior brothers and sisters.
A few days later.
Ye Su opened his eyes and glanced at the brothers and sisters who were about to wake up in the dilapidated temple, then stood up and walked out: "I'm going out for a walk."
There is a forest outside the city. A few months ago, they passed by it when they were flying at low altitude with swords and saw a mountain spring. Today, she suddenly thought of the mountain behind Qianjimen and thought of going over to take a look.
When Ye Su arrived at the mountain spring, she found that it was a little different. The spring water here flowed more slowly, and with the chirping of birds and insects around, it gave her the illusion of being in a paradise. It was much better than the desolate back mountain of Qianjimen. She had once thought that Qianjimen was so poor that even birds were unwilling to come to the back mountain.
Ye Su jumped onto a stone in the middle of the stream, looked up at the sky, and the morning sun slowly rose.
The surrounding area is covered with a thin layer of water veil due to the mist of mountain springs, which is particularly obvious under the light of light golden color. With just a slight breath, the fresh water vapor in the forest will refresh your heart.
Ye Su stretched out her hand and broke through the thin water gauze. Suddenly, she had an inspiration and thought of what kind of magic weapon she wanted to make. However, she was missing a few materials and had to go to the city to buy them.
After going over the magic weapon he was going to make in his mind, Ye Su turned around and prepared to go to the material shop in Dinghai City. He jumped over the slowly flowing spring water, and when he saw something out of the corner of his eye, he stopped suddenly.
There were clusters of tall, green, broad leaves growing beside the mountain spring, swaying in the shadows. Among them, there was a leaf closest to the spring water flowing down the cliff. What caught her attention was not the leaf, but a black shadow on it.
—It’s a small snake.
Even from a distance, Ye Su could see that the little snake was as black as jade, with its eyes closed, lying lazily on the broad green leaves, and the mist from the mountains fell on it layer by layer.
The only flaw is that there is a white mark on the top of the head that looks like a scar.
Cultivators have spirits. This little snake looks like some kind of spiritual creature. Even if it is not, its black jade scales make it an extraordinary creature.
Ye Su was not unfamiliar with monsters and spiritual creatures, but he had never read any information about a little snake like this one.
The light golden light sprinkled on the little black snake, adding a bit of fairy air to the green leaves and gurgling springs. However, the little snake was obviously not sleeping well, and its tail blocked its eyes.
Ye Su inexplicably sensed a sense of impatience from the little snake's movements. She looked up along its tail that was blocking her eyes, only to find that a ray of morning sunlight was shining on the broad leaf.
There were so many broad leaves, but it chose this one. When the morning light shone into its eyes, it blocked them with the tip of its tail and didn't even open its eyes.
A delicate and lazy little black snake.
Ye Su smiled silently, and slightly retracted one hand, gathering mist into water at her fingertips. She then gently flicked away the drop of water, suddenly hitting another broad leaf, just enough to block the morning sun.
After doing this, she walked away lightly, not noticing that the little snake had lowered its tail tip, closed its eyes, and even shook them with some contentment.
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Arriving in Dinghai City, Ye Su ran around almost every material shop before he could barely find all the necessary materials: ice spider silk, elixir and wing sand.
These three materials are not particularly precious, but few equipment refiners use them, especially all three together, so most material shops do not have them in stock.
Ice spider silk and Alchemy Liquid are relatively easy to find, but Wing Sand is the most obscure, almost no weapon refiner knows how to use it, and it is not expensive.
Ye Su finally found wing sand in a material store called Wendong.
"You only want the wing sand?" the shopkeeper asked her, "Do you need any other materials?"
"No, that's enough."
With the direction of refining the weapon in mind, Ye Su quickly walked out of the city and stopped when passing by the forest.
According to her habit, she preferred to practice refining in a place with the sound of water, but when she thought of the little snake on the broad leaves beside the mountain spring, she finally walked back to the ruined temple.
There was quite a bit of noise during the refining process.
As soon as he entered, Xia Er inside looked up and asked, "Big Sister, where have you been?"
"I went into the city and bought some materials to make a magic weapon for throwing and pulling." Ye Su took out a few things.
"Ice spider silk, golden liquid." Xiyu came over to take a closer look, and his eyes fell on a bag of gray sand and mud: This is..."
"Wings, sand." Ming Liusha recognized it.
"Yes." Ye Su reminded them, "We also need to know some unconventional materials."
These three people read a lot of books, but they always limit themselves to the areas they like and don't touch on other things.
Wing sand is rare and many weapon refiners basically do not use it. Only those who are good at refining hidden weapons may have heard of it. It is used to change the color of the blending weapon during the refining process.
Ye Su took the ice spider silk and mixed it with the gold-making liquid. In that instant, the ice spider silk changed from its original snow-white color to gold. This step gave the ice spider silk the toughness and variability of metal. With a lift of her fingertips, the color-changing ice spider silk floated in the air. Then, spiritual fire rose in her palm, controlling and chiseling all the ice spider silk.
A strand of ice spider silk is as thin as a hair, but Ye Su still tampered with a bundle of ice spider silk without even failing. This shows how precise her control over her spiritual power is.
This carving process took a full five days. During the process, Ye Su crushed tens of thousands of low-grade spirit stones, but did not touch the medium-grade spirit stones.
On the morning of the sixth day, she freed one hand to get the wing sand, melted it with spiritual fire, and put it into the carved ice spider silk.
As soon as the wing sand was added, the golden ice spider silk began to change color, from golden to light golden, and it was not over yet.
Ye Su continued to add wing sand until the ice spider silk gradually turned black and faintly golden, and then the blending was complete.
After the color change is completed, the final step is to continue using the gilding liquid to wrap the ice spider silk layer by layer to form it.
Ever since the ice spider silk turned black, she had already thought of what shape she wanted to refine it into.
—A bracelet that looks like a small black snake with its head and tail connected.
It was almost exactly the same as the little snake he saw that day, but out of inexplicable selfishness, Ye Su did not carve that white mark on the top of its head.
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"Senior Sister, are you done?" Xiyu asked cautiously, while Ming Liusha and Xia Er beside her also stared at her intently.
Ye Su stood up holding the black gold bracelet and said, "Try it."
Three people stood behind the eldest sister, waiting for her to test the magic weapon.
Ye Su walked towards the headless Buddha statue in the temple, and after a distance, injected spiritual power into the bracelet.
The head of the black and gold bracelet suddenly spit out icy spider silk, which exploded in an instant, like a veil of rain and fog, with a hazy and strange beauty. However, the next moment, the mist revealed a ferocious look, and each wisp of mist bloomed and stretched, like a shrunken snake, full of ferocity, opening its mouth wide to bite the headless Buddha statue and smashing it to pieces.
The three people behind him took a deep breath in unison. This magic weapon was both powerful and beautiful. It was indeed worthy of being made by the eldest senior sister.
Ye Su raised her hand slightly, and the tiny snake shadows that had pierced into the Buddha's body gathered together again as if something was pulling them, and finally turned into light golden ice spider silk and flew into her palm: "It's done."
"Big sister, what is the name of this magic weapon?" Ming Liusha stopped stuttering and asked quickly.
Ye Su thought for a moment and said casually, "Mist kills flowers."