Volume 1 Chapter 31: Attempting to Forge a Sword

Chapter 31 Trying to refine the sword

After visiting the market, Wang Miao said, "We are here too early. Most of these vendors are disciples of the three major sects. They are just selling junk to fool people. There will be an auction in twenty days. There will be many people coming then, so there should be treasures."

"Auction?" It was the first time Zhang Pa heard about it, and he was a little curious.

"You don't even know about the auction?" Wang Ying didn't believe it, but still explained simply, "It's for good magic tools and elixirs. Everyone bids together, and the highest bidder wins."

Zhang Pa understood and smiled, "It's fun, this is fun, I must see it."

Sun Ziqi pouted and said, "What's the use of seeing it? The cheapest things in the auction cost thousands of spirit stones. I can't afford it. I wonder how much money Brother Zhang has?"

Wang Miao hurriedly replied, "If you don't have money, you can exchange it with items of equivalent value. Besides, it doesn't cost money to see it." He also said to Zhang Pa, "Brother, do you want to rest? You can go to my tent. After a few days, someone from your sect will come and move it back."

Someone from your sect? I really don't know what to say to those uncles. However, he did not want to rest at Xianyun Valley, so he declined, saying, "Don't bother me. I'll just find a place outside the market to rest. If you have anything, you can come to me anytime."

Hearing Zhang Pa's words, Wang Miao was a little disappointed, and then he clasped his fists and said, "In that case, Wang will take his leave." The few people said goodbye and separated.

Zhang Pa walked south from the market, and walked nearly a hundred miles. There was no one around, so he drew a barrier and lay down to rest.

Since he met Old Man Li, 128 Fu Shen snakes have been put into the beast-controlling bag. It has been six days since today. Zhang Pa wanted to let them out and let them play. After thinking for a long time, he didn't dare to do it. What if someone targeted them and killed them to steal the treasure... Zhang Pa was not so bold. Not only did he not dare to release the Fu Shen snakes, but he also put the three big dogs in the bag. Be careful and you will be safe. Everything should be done with caution! As for how to hide it from the master when he returns to Tianlei Mountain in the future... Let's talk about it later.

The divine sense searched and found that there was no one within 20 miles around, or it should be said that there was no one with a lower cultivation level than himself. Zhang Pa took out the storage bag given by Lin Sen. At that time, in addition to the seventeen jade boxes, there was also this storage bag that was thrown on the table. Because Lin Sen was in a hurry to drink, he didn't see what was inside. Later, when he came out of the cave and returned to the world, he explored the items in the jade box and forgot about the storage bag.

He opened the bag and probed into the spiritual consciousness. The items in the bag emerged in his mind one by one. Seeing these things, Zhang Pa was ecstatic. Top-quality jade, all top-quality jade, big pieces and big pieces, I don't know how many there are, the largest one is comparable to a city wall. Not only white jade, but also red jade, yellow jade and other colored jade, especially two-color jade and rainbow jade.

Jade is a very strange thing. Multicolored jade can only be considered low-grade, and single-color jade is considered high-grade. Among the high-grade, according to the purity, transparency, brightness and spiritual energy content of the single color, several grades are divided in the high-grade. The best white jade is cold to the touch, crystal clear, without a trace of impurities in the jade, and stores a lot of spiritual energy. Compared with white jade, colored jade has similar functions, but because of the scarcity of colors, it is more expensive.

In addition, there are also top-grade jades among the variegated jades, such as two-color jade and rainbow jade, which are more valuable than top-grade single-color jade. As the name implies, two-color jade is a piece of jade with two different colors. To put it in a figurative way, it is like a piece of red jade and a piece of green jade stuck together to form a whole piece of jade, but the two colors are in their own series, and they are clearly separated from each other, and never mixed with each other. Such jade is called two-color jade. By analogy, three or more colors are called three-color jade, and more colors are called rainbow jade. This kind of multi-color top-grade jade is very rare and extremely precious.

The preciousness of jade that cultivators distinguish depends entirely on how much spiritual energy is contained inside. The reason why two-color jade is expensive is that the spiritual energy content of two-color jade of the same size is twice that of single-color jade, three-color jade is three times, and rainbow jade is more.

Seeing so many top-grade jades, Zhang Pa was stunned. The place where the five spirits gather is too magical. No wonder Lin Sen was reluctant to leave.

Putting away the storage bag, Zhang Pa planned to learn the art of refining talismans. The talisman can instantly cast a powerful spell, which is definitely a good thing to save your life. You must prepare a few more. But how to learn it and from whom?

Then a worry came to my mind, I had no money! The only thirteen spirit stones were exchanged for a pile of broken ores. I took out all the ores and piled them in front of me, one kind of black iron ore and one kind of fine iron ore. Anyway, I had nothing to do, so I decided to refine instruments for fun. If I could refine a magic instrument, I could sell it for money.

Refining instruments requires fire. Unless you have reached the stage of forming a pill, you can activate the pill fire to refine it. Otherwise, you have to find an open fire to refine instruments. This fire is the fire of true essence. With different cultivation levels, the name will change. The stage of forming a pill is called Dan fire, the stage of the Nascent Soul is called Yuan fire, and if you can cultivate to become a god, it is the fire of the gods. Zhang was afraid of the foundation-building stage. Although his internal breath and Yuan Shen were strong, he was not a master of forming a pill after all, so he couldn't activate the fire of true essence.

Fortunately, there was Lin Sen.

If it were someone else, they would not be able to refine weapons because of insufficient cultivation, so they would definitely look for a place with dangerous fire and rely on fire from the ground or heaven. For example, the Lingshan Sect, which refines pills, and the Bailian Valley, which casts weapons, are like this. Another method is to set up a formation, borrow flammable and high-temperature objects, and use the formation to drive the flame to meet the requirements of refining weapons.

Lin Sen gave Zhang Pa such a thing, the fine fire furnace. After taking it out, it stood on the ground. It was the size of a wine jar, with a very shallow opening. There was something dark underneath that went all the way to the bottom of the furnace, and it smelled like saltpeter.

After casting a spell, a flame rose from the mouth of the jar. Zhang Pa moved the ore above the flame. After a short while, the black iron and refined iron in the ore turned into liquid and slowly separated. Other impurities were still suspended in the air. This was because the furnace temperature was not high enough, and the impurities could not be directly evaporated like the fire spirit. Zhang Pa waved his left hand to flick away the impurities, and raised the refining cauldron with his right hand. When the flame above the cauldron turned white, he put in the black iron liquid and separated it into drops floating in the fire. Then the refining cauldron shot out lightning to shape one of the drops of black iron liquid. After a while, a small black sword was refined. Zhang Pa took it back and refined the next drop of black iron liquid. This reciprocating operation, except for the occasional mistakes that were damaged, a total of 37 black iron swords and 32 refined iron swords were refined.

Zhang Pa was very excited and took the magic sword to look at it in front of him. At this time, he found that there were people standing outside the barrier. He panicked and hurriedly cast a spell to extinguish the refined fire furnace, put it and the refining cauldron away, and stood up to look at the crowd.

There were more than 200 people standing outside, including Wang Miao, Sun Ziqi and others, all looking at him with complicated eyes. Zhang Pa looked at the crowd and blamed himself. How could others not know about the noise of refining the weapon? What made him most angry was that he was so focused on refining the weapon that he didn't notice anyone coming. He was very upset.

A middle-aged man in the crowd said: "At the age of twenty, he has the top level of foundation building. Not bad, not bad. Tianlei Mountain can actually cultivate such talents. Fellow Daoist, the fine fire furnace and refining cauldron you use are very good. I wonder if you are interested in selling them?"

Zhang was afraid that someone would see through his true identity at a glance, and he was stunned and didn't know how to answer. Someone on the side said: "Old Monster Wu, isn't this disciple from your Bailian Valley? He seems to be very skilled in refining weapons."

The middle-aged man narrowed his eyes and shook his head slightly: "What a pity, there is no such talent in my valley. The good refining weapons are not of high cultivation, and the refining weapons of high cultivation are average. Daoist friend, you use the fine fire furnace to refine black iron magic weapons, which is a waste of natural resources."

Zhang Pa said: "I refined it for fun and didn't think too much."

The middle-aged old monster Wu laughed: "Using the fine fire furnace to refine for fun? Who is your master? Zhen Tiandao? Or the master Zhenru?"

Zhang Pa replied respectfully: "The disciple has not yet become his disciple."

This made Wu Laoguai stunned. He was a master of a sect and knew what the top disciples of the foundation-building stage meant to the sect. It meant that a master of the Jindan stage would soon appear, which meant that the sect's power would grow stronger.