Published: March 3, 2025
Chapter 508: The Final Lesson
Although crafting a life-bound magical treasure significantly reduces the difficulty, it still involves creating a magical artifact. The requirements for craftsmanship cannot be too low; otherwise, it would inevitably affect the quality of the life-bound magical treasure, which Liu Yu cannot accept.
Therefore, despite the lack of time, he has to squeeze out some time each day to study artifact refining. After a lot of practice over time, he has reached the level of refining high-grade magical artifacts.
“Zizi”
Under the golden-red alchemy fire, some low-level spiritual materials are easily melted, transforming into liquids of various colors that hang in the air like molten iron.
The alchemy fire of a golden core cultivator is incredibly powerful, able to yield significant results even in duels against opponents of the same level. Its temperature exceeds that of ordinary geomantic fires by a considerable margin. At this moment, using it to handle these low-level spiritual materials is like using a cannon to shoot at mosquitoes—effortless.
After just half a minute of roasting, the once incredibly hard spiritual materials for low-level cultivators are easily refined. The impurities are gradually separated out.
Refining and purifying, separating impurities, condensing into shape, and inscribing runes—under the illumination of the golden-red fire, Liu Yu's expression is intensely focused, guiding the entire process with his spiritual consciousness, meticulously separating impurities from various spiritual materials.
At this step, the advantages of his cultivation level become evident. With the powerful spiritual consciousness and mental strength of a golden core cultivator, he can multitask, refining several spiritual materials at once, greatly speeding up the entire artifact refining process.
Of course, the faster the process, the quicker the consumption of spiritual stones, because Liu Yu's success rate in crafting is much lower than the failure rate.
“Buzz buzz”
In the blink of an eye, two minutes have passed, and the high-grade long spear artifact he is refining has been completely inscribed with various functional runes.
Success or failure hinges on the next moment!
The inscribing of runes isn’t the end; it must be fused with the artifact embryo to count as a true success. Otherwise, if the integration of the runes fails, even if the refined artifact doesn’t get completely destroyed, it will still fall far short of the expected quality and will have various flaws.
To some extent, this would be an indisputable failure.
The golden-red alchemy fire gradually diminishes, but its temperature increases instead, roasting the already shaped artifact to become more solid.
“Buzz buzz”
Under high-intensity roasting, the spear artifact trembles incessantly. If it weren’t for Liu Yu’s strong control, it would have already shattered into pieces.
“Now!”
Thanks to his repeated practice, Liu Yu senses that the moment of fusion between the rune formation and the artifact embryo is approaching, and he is mentally prepared.
One breath, two breaths...
Finally, on the eighth breath, a flash of divine light sparks in his eyes!
The spell gesture he has been slowly forming in his hands suddenly changes, becoming urgent and rapid.
“Buzz buzz buzz”
The spear artifact quakes violently, with a sharp whistle ringing throughout the refining room.
Measuring around three meters long and entirely dark red, the spear is inscribed with a multitude of runes, radiating a milky spiritual light.
Unsurprisingly, these are all offensive runes.
The spear is a weapon of murder, and in some secular places, it is referred to as “the king of weapons” or “the thief of weapons.”
The title “king of weapons” stems from its aggressive and fierce offensive style, and the longer reach it has due to the saying, “an inch longer, an inch stronger.”
The title “thief of weapons” comes from the various usage methods of the spear, such as thrusting, coiling, collapsing, pricking, and dancing flowers.