Natural Fairy Species

Chapter 276 Spring and Autumn Cicada Refines the Sword of Immortality

“It’s another top-quality magical weapon. Why do you think my talent in weapon refining is not as good as the formation technique?”

Bai Zichen threw away the newly formed copper hammer and threw it aside in disgust.

 At the middle stage of pill formation, one advantage of condescending Yu to refine a low-grade spiritual weapon is that you don’t have to worry about the lack of true energy.

 A mere low-grade spiritual weapon, even if it is refined until the earth fire is exhausted, will not wait until the day when the true energy is exhausted.

So Bai Zichen started refining it very quickly without stopping. Anyway, the complexity of the lower-grade spiritual weapons is not difficult in front of his powerful spiritual consciousness.

 Two hundred materials were consumed in more than a month.

It’s just that the final results were not satisfactory. Excluding more than thirty times of complete refining failures, only about fifty finished products were made.

The rest of the results were due to improper use of techniques and were downgraded into top-quality magic weapons.

If he were an ordinary weapon refiner, he would have already suffered extreme losses, and no matter which sect would be able to continue training him.

Only Patriarch Bai, who is wealthy and does not do it to make money but just to hone his weapon-refining skills, doesn't care.

 Put all the refined low-grade spiritual weapons and top-grade magic weapons into a storage bag, throw them out of the courtyard, and land firmly on a jade plate.

The deacon disciples who have been instructed will come and take it away, hand it over to the back of the Refining Hall, and then bring back a new batch of refining materials.

"Be thick-skinned and call yourself a second-level low-grade weapon refiner. Anyway, I don't pursue the rate of return. I will start trying to refine mid-grade spiritual weapons tomorrow. If the success rate is low, I will just use the quantity."

Bai Zichen changed the refining target and prepared to start refining the bronze mirror of the middle-grade spiritual weapon level.

 A normal weapon refiner must hone his skills to a very high level, and only seek breakthroughs after he has sufficient confidence in refining spiritual weapons of the current level.

But his starting point is different. Trying to refine spiritual weapons beyond his own control is actually of great benefit to improving the realm of weapon refining.

 Be able to master some exquisite weapon refining techniques in advance, and how to process higher-level spiritual materials and minerals.

 Once you succeed and gain experience, you can quickly break through to the next level.

 The only price you have to pay is the constant failures in the early stage and turning a large amount of precious spiritual materials into a pile of waste.

 At no expense, and using his mid-stage pill-forming cultivation to reach the realm of refining weapons, he finally refined the first high-grade spiritual weapon in less than a year.

"It's a pity that I don't have enough spiritual materials, otherwise I could start refining the second-level flying sword..."

Bai Zichen reviewed the achievements of the Bai family members a year ago. Perhaps because the time was too short, not even one of the tens of thousands of spiritual bamboos had appeared yet.

As for the other second-level flying sword, the Tianxin Sword, it takes three years to refine the main material of the white iron elite with pill fire.

With his current success rate in sword refining, there is no hope of success without preparing ten or twenty sword refining materials.

How can I have the time to slowly temper so many white iron elites?

 When I was sorting out the third-level sword-refining materials on my body, I dug out a material that I had carefully collected—

 Things that I feel are more important are all stored in the high-grade storage bag obtained from the monk Youlongmen.

 Half of it is green and evergreen, and the other half is rotten and crispy.

It is the remnant of the second-order Spring and Autumn Cicada, one of the five strange insects.

Mingming was only a second-order high-grade spiritual insect when he was alive, but in Bai Zichen's mind, his status was much more important than that of a third-order monster.

An ice cellar was specially built in the main hall, covered with thousand-year-old ice jade, and formations were arranged to store thousands of kilograms of the flesh and blood of the Golden-winged Thunder Roc Demon King.

Every once in a while, ten kilograms will be cut off, thawed and eaten.

With the Black Mountain Mountains at his back, the flesh and blood of third-level monsters is not a scarce commodity for him.

However, such exotic insects as the Spring and Autumn Cicada are difficult to find even if they are offered at a sky-high price.

"If I can only refine a spiritual weapon, then I might as well keep it. An insect beast of the level of the Five Great Strange Insects can be used as a specimen, which is much more valuable than a spiritual weapon."

Bai Zichen gently rubbed the body of the Spring and Autumn Cicada, half of it was as elastic as jelly, as if it was not dead yet.

The other half is like a piece of dead wood, afraid that if you apply too much force, it will fall into pieces.

Even if he could use this spring and autumn cicada body to refine an extremely powerful spiritual weapon, he would not be tempted.

 At any rate, my success in elixir theory was partly inspired by the Spring and Autumn Cicada.

 It has commemorative significance and is a rare specimen.

"The main reason is that the Spring and Autumn Cicada appears too rarely, and there is little opportunity in the world of immortality to study how to use it..."

When Bai Zichen's fingers touched the cicada wings behind it, it suddenly vibrated, and the power of time appeared inexplicably in the air.

The emerald green half of the body of the insect is getting brighter and brighter, but it is constantly shrinking.

The decayed half exudes a sense of desolation, and ash particles are constantly falling off the insect body, as if it has been dead for tens of millions of years.

“It’s not shrinking, it’s returning to the larval state...The other half has been eroded into powder by the years, and can no longer maintain even the most basic form!”

I don’t know why the power of time in the body of the Spring and Autumn Cicada, which had been dead for many years, was touched, but Bai Zichen suddenly felt an extremely longing emotion coming from something in his dantian.

　　The Wushangqing Micro Sword Box rushed out, the sword box opened, and a ball of thunder leaped up, directly facing the remains of the Spring and Autumn Cicada.

The body of the Spring and Autumn Cicada, which was undergoing strange changes, collided with Lei Mang, and actually merged together very well.

 In a few breaths of time, whether it was the evergreen half or the decayed and ashes part, they all disappeared.

 Only a few bits of debris are left, slowly falling in the air.

 “You’re going to eat the Spring and Autumn Cicada?”

Bai Zichen could clearly feel that the power of time and space that suddenly appeared had no trace left. It did not dissipate but was swallowed up by the thunder.

 He stretched out his hand to call Lei Mang over. He was stunned by the message that Ziwei Thunder Sword Embryo conveyed.

 Soon, it was discovered that the status of the Qing Emperor's Sword of Eternal Life had changed dramatically.

“The Ziwei Thunder Sword Embryo swallowed up the remaining time power in the Spring and Autumn Cicada’s shed. Although it is weak and almost non-existent, it is a gift from heaven and earth... It directly acts on the Qing Emperor’s Sword of Eternal Life, shortening the time it takes to hide the sword by one frame!”

As long as Bai Zichen holds the thunder light, he can sense the progress of hiding the sword. There are only twenty-nine years left.

The Spring and Autumn Cicada is indeed one of the five great strange insects. An insect born from the long river of time, it is only a second-order spiritual insect that comes into contact with the power of time.

Just one corpse shortened the time it takes to hide the supreme magical power of the Azure Emperor's Sword of Eternal Life by more than half.

“If I can kill several Spring Autumn Cicadas and put them on my body, wouldn’t I have the opportunity to fulfill the dream of Yuan Ying Zhenjun of the Yulong Sect and continuously kill the Qing Emperor Sword of Eternal Life!”

Bai Zichen immediately thought of this possibility, but quickly shook his head and gave up.

The one I encountered may be the only one in Liang Kingdom, and I haven't heard anything about the Spring Autumn Cicada for many years.

But in the future, if you encounter someone selling the remains of the Spring and Autumn Cicada left long ago, no matter how high the price is, you must try your best to get it.

“Of course, the fundamental solution is to truly grasp the avenue of time…”

According to the Yuan Ying Zhenjun of Yulong Sect who obtained the Blue Emperor's Sword of Eternal Life, he speculates that the true use of this great magical power may not require the step of hiding the sword for hundreds of years.

 Every time the sword is struck, it contains the power of time, so it can be called the real sword of time. The sword can make people grow old.

 It's just that the requirements for cultivators at that level are too high, and even the power of transforming into gods is impossible.

The time it took to hide the Qing Emperor's Sword of Eternal Life was suddenly shortened to less than thirty years, which made Bai Zichen very excited.

If the True Blood God moved slower, he would really have time to perfect this sword. Please ask a True Lord Nascent Soul to taste it.

The Ziwei Thunder Sword Embryo returned to the sword box after eating a full meal, and turned into a mysterious light and flew back to the Dantian Qi Sea.

"The Supreme Pure Micro Sword Box is indeed of great benefit to warming and nourishing the flying sword. Last time, the Yuexuan Sword damaged its original power, and it almost recovered in the short time in the sword box... and the Ziwei Thunder Sword Embryo is also almost real. Awakening, it is no longer just a sword fetus, but a real flying sword!"

The Ziwei Thunder Sword Embryo was originally a flying sword of unknown order, but when I held it in my hand just now, I could already feel the sword body reuniting.

The awakening of this sword represents great significance. It is not just that the power of the natal flying sword is greatly improved, but it also opens up the possibility of returning to the top.

As long as Bai Zichen’s cultivation level continues to improve, the Ziwei Thunder Sword Embryo will one day be able to reproduce the style of the ancient Ziwei Thunder Sword, and be upgraded to a fourth-level flying sword, or even a fifth-level flying sword!

 The improvement of weapon refining skills can only be temporarily stopped due to the lack of sword refining materials.

 After all, what he wants to do is just be a sword refiner to satisfy his flying sword needs.

You don’t want to become a master of weapon refining. You need to be proficient in a variety of weapon refining techniques.

Bai Zichen walked to the clear stream, grabbed a handful of rice and fed it to the happily swimming fish, and sat quietly for half a day.

Walking back to the thatched cottage, he sat cross-legged on the futon, calmed down and closed his eyes. The light from the five crystals on his body shone for several feet, forming a dense ball of light surrounding his body.

 …

“Master Nephew Li, I can understand your desire to become the disciple of Ancestor Bai, but since the ancestor lives in the main hall, you don’t even have a chance to meet him. You might as well wait until you achieve foundation building to at least have more opportunities to meet him.”

 Huo Feiyan earnestly advised the young man in front of him not to blindly get into trouble.

Mainly because this handsome young man with thick eyebrows and big eyes does have extraordinary qualifications, otherwise she would be impatient to say anything to a qi-refining disciple.

“Of course I understand this, but I just don’t give up if I don’t come here every few months. Maybe my ancestor is in a good mood and is willing to see me when he is out of seclusion.”

Li Guizhen is the disciple of the thunder-type alien spirit root. He traveled thousands of miles from other states and counties to gain the name of Zhenren Bai.

In just a few years, he successfully became a true disciple. He would rather not have to go to the third level spiritual land to practice on Tianlei Cliff, just to be closer to Patriarch Bai.

Every two or three months, he would try to go to the clifftop hall to ask for an audience.

He also deliberately made friends with the Bai clan members, just thinking about whether he could have an audience with Patriarch Bai.

Although Patriarch Bai has only one disciple who has entered the house so far, maybe after meeting him, he is sincere in pity and has good qualifications, so he will make an exception.

“I’ll ask you when I meet Senior Brother Lu next time, but don’t hold out too much hope.”

If possible, Huo Feiyan herself would like to worship Ancestor Bai.

Asking Li Guizhen to ask questions is actually equivalent to asking questions for oneself, so as to know whether Patriarch Bai has any idea of ​​accepting a disciple.

 (End of this chapter)