Against The Sky Supreme

Tan Yun took a deep breath, sitting cross-legged to calm his mind. He began to tackle the third step, preparing to forge the sword embryo of the Supreme Respect Grade Flying Sword for the second time.

"Primordial Flame."

With a flip of his right hand, a towering twelve-zhang primordial flame shot forth from his palm, slowly swirling in front of him.

The artifact spirit of the Supreme Respect Grade Flying Sword's sword embryo underwent its second forging.

"Star Array Forging Furnace—Gather!"

Tan Yun's expression turned serious, and he rapidly spun his hands in an intricate, mysterious trajectory in front of his chest. Suddenly, streams of golden spiritual power, each about the size of a thumb, were drawn into the primordial flame, resembling tiny stars that remained still!

In total, there were nine thousand spiritual power stars.

Each star represented a formation base.

In the blink of an eye, the nine thousand stars unleashed a burst of light barrier, intertwining to form a forging furnace for refining artifacts.

If this scene were witnessed by artifact masters from the Heavenly Punishment Continent, they would be utterly shocked and dumbfounded!

Because the method of condensing the star array forging furnace using spiritual power was only heard of in legends; no one had ever seen it in reality.

Once the star array forging furnace was formed, a flash of purple light appeared from Tan Yun's Qiankun Ring, and a completely purple sword embryo flew into the star array forging furnace, hovering in parallel within the primordial flame.

As time passed unnoticed, half a year later, when the sword embryo began showing signs of melting, Tan Yun focused his thoughts, and the primordial flame shrank from twelve zhang to six zhang, steaming the sword embryo with intense heat, preventing it from cooling down while also stopping it from melting.

Tan Yun closed his eyes, and based on the sword patterns' memory of the Supreme Respect Grade Flying Sword, he waved his right arm, shooting out a stream of light golden spiritual power that hovered in the air.

"Buzz—"

The space rippled like water, Tan Yun's hair flew in the wind as he released his spiritual sense to envelop that stream of spiritual power.

Under the control of his spiritual sense, the stream of spiritual power began to separate into fine strands like hair.

After a whole month, the stream of spiritual power transformed into tens of millions of strands.

Tan Yun manipulated each strand of spiritual power. After six months, these tens of millions of strands formed a phantom of a flying sword in the low air.

The intertwining strands of spiritual power dazzled the eyes, representing the sword patterns of the Supreme Respect Grade Flying Sword!

The sword patterns, similar in function to formation patterns and talisman patterns, were formed from condensed spiritual power lines. If there was even a single error in a spiritual power sword pattern, the entire sword's patterns would become useless, leading to a failed forging.

Of course, with Tan Yun's exceptional skill in artifact forging, mistakes were out of the question.

"Ha!"

Tan Yun let out a deep breath, controlling the spiritual power sword patterns, and slowly imprinted them onto the sword embryo. Before long, the golden patterns completely merged into the sword embryo.

Tan Yun withdrew the primordial flame and began to let the sword embryo cool and solidify…

Due to the high temperature emitted by the sword embryo during cooling, Tan Yun, who stood five zhang below, was drenched in sweat, feeling the suffocating hot waves rushing towards him.

Half a month later, when the sword embryo was completely cooled, it meant that Tan Yun had completed the third step of the second forging.

Feeling somewhat fatigued after a long time controlling the sword embryo with his spiritual sense, Tan Yun took a half-day break. Rejuvenated, he once again manipulated the sword embryo to hover within the star array forging furnace, starting the fourth step, the third forging.

As the sword embryo burned in the primordial flame, if one could peer into the sword body, they would find a complete sword pattern inside!