A Record of A Mortal's Journey to Immortality

Chapter 412: Green Bamboo Cottage

Han Li felt both joyful and a bit curious. If he continued to accelerate the maturation of the golden thunder bamboo, would it undergo any further changes?

With this thought, Han Li spent several months continuing to drip the green liquid onto the bamboo.

The result was that the bamboo’s color and power showed no change at all, and its size remained about that of a ten-thousand-year-old bamboo, no longer growing an inch.

Instead, during this period of accelerated growth, a young bamboo sprouted beside it.

As more green liquid was applied, the young bamboo gradually grew. After several months, the new Heavenly Thunder Bamboo was almost identical in age and appearance to the original, except this time it was a complete bamboo stalk.

Seeing this, Han Li was not disappointed; on the contrary, he was overjoyed.

To be honest, just one original Heavenly Thunder Bamboo was barely enough to forge a full set of twelve “Green Bamboo Bee Cloud Swords.” Now that he knew the green liquid could also sprout young bamboo, the problem of insufficient raw materials was completely solved.

However, this also sparked greater ambition in Han Li.

Since he no longer needed to worry about the quantity of raw materials, he no longer limited himself to forging only twelve flying swords. Instead, he suddenly conceived the idea of forging the maximum number of “Green Bamboo Bee Cloud Swords,” a full set of seventy-two.

Although with his early foundation formation stage magical power, he couldn’t possibly refine and control that many flying swords at once, he was in no hurry. He could slowly refine them one by one as his cultivation base improved.

After all, as long as the swords were a complete set, they could be stored as a magical treasure within his body or separated for individual use without any problem.

Once this idea took root, Han Li was filled with enthusiasm and began considering whether he could actually accomplish this.

The greatest difficulty in forging a set of magical treasures was the inconsistency of raw materials, which made successful forging difficult. But now he was using Heavenly Thunder Bamboo all from the same bamboo stalk, so that was no longer an issue.

What remained to be seen was his forging skill and preparation of auxiliary materials.

He had already prepared the auxiliary materials. Whether forging twelve or seventy-two swords, the amount of auxiliary materials used was the same, so there was no need to gather more.

The only worry he had now was his own lack of forging skill.

After all, he had no prior experience in forging magical artifacts.

If it were ordinary magical treasures, there would be no such concerns—it was a relatively simple process, easily handled by alchemy flame refinement.

But the “Green Bamboo Bee Cloud Swords” were different.

Even a single one of these swords was far more complex than typical magical artifacts.

Moreover, forming a complete set required the semi-finished swords to be refined using a special magic formation, which demanded a certain level of formation knowledge. Without this, forging the swords was impossible.

Han Li was determined and resolute; despite so many difficulties, he decided that if he was going to forge flying swords, they would be the best possible.

Otherwise, he wouldn’t have been so obsessed with the Heavenly Thunder Bamboo in the first place.

After thinking carefully for a day and a night in his secluded mansion, Han Li finalized his cultivation plan for the next twenty or so years.

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A few days later, in the market district of Tianxing City, a small, unremarkable shop suddenly changed ownership. The new owner was an ordinary young man in his thirties, accompanied by a tall, burly man with thick eyebrows and big eyes, serving as a servant.

The young man immediately renamed the shop from “Madam Li’s Sundries” to “Green Bamboo Cottage.” At first, only talismans and medicinal herbs were sold, but half a month later, some crude low-rank magical artifacts were also added.