Chapter 170: Refining Magical Instruments

After returning to the Liu family's territory, Li Qing's next time was completely occupied by two things.

The first was cultivation. Without elixirs, he could only rely on cultivation to grind the bottleneck in front of him.

In fact, breaking through the bottleneck of the early stage of Qi Refining is not particularly difficult. This is a realm that can be overcome as long as time is spent.

Even if the aptitude is poor, it will naturally be able to complete the breakthrough over time.

Fortunately, Li Qing has no shortage of time. Now his remaining life span has increased to 190 years. The long years have given him plenty of time to grind this realm bottleneck.

The second thing is to refine the weapon.

Li Qing forged a large number of inferior magic weapon prototypes for himself, and the materials used were all ordinary iron.

After he forged it hammer after hammer, a number of magic weapon prototypes of different styles were born.

"The market demand for inferior magic tools is too small. Even casual cultivators in the early stages of Qi Refining may not appreciate them. They can only be used for practice."

"After you become proficient in the inscription patterns, start refining the Wushuang Hammer into a magic tool."

Li Qing looked at the dazzling array of weapons on the ground. Any one of them could be a magical weapon that could make a name for itself in the secular world.

In this way, Li Qing immersed all his mind in the two steps of quenching the spirit and inscription patterns.

This process is destined to be long and boring. Constantly repeating quenching the spirit and inscription patterns requires great patience and perseverance.

However, it was in this persistent process that Li Qing's refining skills became more and more proficient.

As time passed, when the fifth inferior magic tool was refined, Li Qing had a new understanding of the most basic five elements spirit patterns.

[Successfully refined inferior magic tool: Qushui Sword, rewarded with six years of life! ]

Li Qing took this long sword engraved with water attribute spirit patterns in his hand and breathed a sigh of relief.

He injected a ball of spiritual power, and then waved it twice casually, and a sharp blade formed by a stream of water slashed out of thin air.

Swish!

"The power is pretty good, but the distance of the water blade is a bit short, and it can only threaten a target more than ten meters away."

After the voice fell, Li Qing put the Qushui Sword back into the storage bag, and then closed his eyes, carefully experiencing the gains brought by this refining, while restoring the mana in his body.

Five magic weapons brought Li Qing a total of thirty years of life.

At this moment, his remaining life span was directly pushed to two hundred and twenty years!

Even some cultivators who built their foundation late and exhausted their potential may not live as long as Li Qing.

Of course, in addition to the thirty years of life, Li Qing's refining skills have improved a lot.

Using ordinary iron to refine inferior magic weapons is no longer a problem for him.

After a long time, Li Qing slowly opened his eyes and digested the experience gained from this refining.

"If you want to refine the Wushuang Hammer into a magic weapon, then it is best to use earth-attributed spiritual patterns. The thicker the better. Great ingenuity is not artificial. This is the way to fight with the Wushuang Hammer."

"But blindly pursuing thickness, the Wushuang Hammer, which is mostly made of ordinary iron, may not be able to withstand the pressure of the battle. If it can be supplemented with some fire-attributed spiritual patterns, perhaps unexpected results can be achieved?"

In the Yin-Yang Five Elements, there are mutual generation and mutual restraint, among which fire generates earth, and Li Qing's main practice happens to be fire-attributed.

In the Wushuang Hammer with earth-attributed spiritual patterns as the main, appropriately adding a few fire-attributed spiritual patterns is definitely a positive attempt.

The more Li Qing thought about it, the more he felt that he should try it well. Now he is quite proficient in engraving spiritual patterns of a single attribute, but if he wants to use more than two basic five-element spiritual patterns as a combination, the difficulty will definitely increase exponentially.

"The five elements of spiritual patterns are only the basis of refining. The refining technique in the world of immortal cultivation has been developed for so many years, and it is estimated that more schools of spiritual patterns have already been derived."

"Alas! The road of refining is really a long way to go!"

After saying that, Li Qing took out the Wushuang Hammer.

This ancient and heavy black hammer has been with Li Qing for a long time. He clearly remembers that when he first refined this magic weapon, his martial arts cultivation had just been promoted to the external strength level.

All along, whether it was refining or fighting, he used this hammer very well, and he was very familiar with every trace and pattern on it.

"Let's temper the spirit first!"

Li Qing put his hands on the hammer and began to infiltrate his own pure spiritual power into the hammer, making this Wushuang hammer spiritual and becoming a material that can be engraved with spiritual patterns.

The step of tempering the spirit was very smooth, even so smooth that Li Qing couldn't believe it.

"Sure enough, these spiritual materials with natural spirituality are easier to temper than ordinary iron, especially the affinity of this kind of spiritual material for spiritual power, so it is too smooth to temper it!"

"No wonder apprentices of refining equipment have to learn to temper ordinary iron. If they can temper ordinary iron, they will be more handy to temper these spiritual materials in the future."

After completing the tempering, the next step is the most difficult part, the inscription!

This time, Li Qing was more focused than ever before.

Every time the inscription failed, a lot of spirituality in the material would be consumed. If there were too many failures, the tempering would have to start again.

Of course, if it was just ordinary iron, Li Qing would not feel so distressed, it would just be a matter of tempering it again.

But there is black gold in the Wushuang Hammer. Every time the inscription failed, the black gold spiritual material would also lose the spirituality naturally contained in it.

If there are too many failures, the ink gold will be wasted!

"It's okay. Anyway, I still have two pieces of ink gold in my hand. These are the ones I saved when I refined the Qinghong Sword. Even if I fail, the worst that can happen is to melt another piece of ink gold into the Wushuang Hammer."

"I don't believe that my two pieces of ink gold can be directly wasted!"

When he thought of this, Li Qing's heart suddenly settled down and began to engrave spiritual patterns on the Wushuang Hammer.

First, the earth attribute spiritual pattern, with a faint yellow spiritual light, began to appear on the hammer surface of the Wushuang Hammer with the movement of Li Qing's fingertips.

The earth attribute spiritual pattern focuses on a heavy weight!

It just fits the combat characteristics of the Wushuang Hammer. It is best to smash it with one hammer, no matter what kind of protective spiritual light and defensive magic weapon.

This is also Li Qing's favorite way of fighting.

Tsk!

Failed!

The earthy yellow spiritual pattern just engraved on the head of the Wushuang Hammer melted away as quickly as spring snow, and the spirituality of the hammer itself was also lost.

Seeing that the spirituality of the black gold had been slightly lost, Li Qing frowned slightly and felt a little distressed.

But he did not lose heart, and quickly adjusted his mood and continued to focus on the engraving of the spiritual pattern.

Days passed, and in a blink of an eye, it was time to go to the mine again.

Li Qing looked at the Wushuang Hammer, whose spirituality was gradually lost, and sighed deeply.

Still failed to refine it successfully. The combination of the basic spiritual patterns of the two attributes was much more difficult than he imagined.

Especially when engraving, the compatibility of the spiritual patterns must be fully considered, which makes the engraving more difficult.

"It still doesn't work. It seems that I have to consider remelting a piece of black gold. If I fail a few more times, the spirituality of the black gold material of the hammer head will be lost."

With that, Li Qing stopped refining the weapon, and hurriedly meditated to restore his spiritual power and prepare for the mine tomorrow.