"Xuantian Sect, what are you really thinking? If you really like her, then go after her. If you don't like her, then go back to Kunlun and continue your cultivation."
You don't understand.
With a long sigh, Xuan Tianzong got up and walked out.
"Don't you understand? You think she's Gu Yue, then she is Gu Yue. There's no need for all this complicated stuff. Come on, follow me!"
Hao Yun snorted, grabbed Xuan Tianzong without giving him a chance to resist, and dragged him to find Li Yingqi.
The two arrived in front of a house, and Hao Yun opened his mouth and shouted.
"Yingqi! Come out here for a moment."
The somewhat naive Li Yingqi walked out and frowned slightly upon seeing Xuan Tianzong.
"Elder Hao, what brings you here?"
"Ahem! Nothing much, just came to see you."
Hao Yun was a little embarrassed at first, acting as a matchmaker for someone, but he quickly adjusted.
"This is Xuan Tianzong, the current leader of the Kunlun Sect, who is a good friend of mine."
Li Yingqi glanced at the Xuantian Sect a few times, then nodded with a smile.
"I almost forgot, I still have some pills in my alchemy furnace. You guys chat first, I'll be right back."
Without saying a word, Hao Yun shoved Xuan Tianzong and turned to leave.
After disappearing from their sight, Hao Yun secretly sneaked back to check on the situation.
Hello!
Xuan Tianzong stammered a greeting, his expression somewhat reserved.
"Hmm, are you very familiar with Elder Hao? When did you meet?"
Hao Yun usually spends his time refining pills or researching all sorts of strange and unusual things, and rarely shows his face. This makes Li Yingqi feel very strange that he would have friends.
"I met her the day before yesterday; I'm quite familiar with Dan Chenzi."
As they were talking, Li Yingqi invited Xuan Tianzong into the room, and the two chatted.
Hao Yun, who was watching from the shadows, saw that the two got along quite well, so he stopped paying attention to them.
Back at his lodgings, Hao Yun began studying weapon crafting. The knowledge of formations was so profound that it made Hao Yun's head buzz.
After careful consideration, Hao Yun decided to give it a try; guessing blindly wasn't a solution.
In the warehouse of Mount Emei, Hao Yun's eyes gleamed with greed as he looked at the mountain of refining materials.
After selecting some less valuable materials, Hao Yun returned to his room and began attempting to refine weapons.
The Samadhi Fire appeared, and Hao Yun threw a piece of star iron into it. Under the heat of the flames, the star iron began to deform.
"Tsk! This speed is too slow."
The iron block remained unmelted for a long time, and Hao Yun frowned in thought, wondering if he should try to cultivate the Samadhi True Fire.
After careful consideration, Hao Yun finally gave up. The Samadhi True Fire was extremely difficult to cultivate, and Hao Yun had tried it but made no progress.
After extinguishing the Samadhi Fire, Hao Yun put away the half-melted Star Iron. He planned to use the Earth Fire to forge weapons, which would greatly increase the forging speed.
"Duan Lei! Duan Lei!"
Hao Yun shouted twice, pulling Duan Lei out from his cultivation.
"Where is the weapon-refining room? Take me there."
"Elder Hao, you can ask anyone and they'll all know that I'm currently cultivating."
Since Hao Yun was an elder, Duan Lei couldn't say anything and could only stare at him with resentment.
Chapter 102 First Time Refining Weapons
"Haha, aren't we familiar with each other? Take me there, I might need your help later."
Hao Yun patted Duan Lei on the shoulder and laughed heartily, completely unconcerned.
Reluctantly, Duan Lei led Hao Yun to the weapon-refining room. This weapon-refining room had been empty for who knows how many years. As soon as the door was opened, dust and smoke rose up instantly.
"There's so much dust. How long has it been since anyone cleaned this place?"
Duan Lei took a step back and couldn't help but frown.
"All you do all day is practice swordsmanship. If I hadn't come to you, would you even remember there was a weapon-refining room here?"
Hao Yun's rhetorical question made Duan Lei a little embarrassed. Forging weapons was really not suitable for them. Who had the patience to sit by the fire every day? Wouldn't practicing swordsmanship be better?
Ignoring Duan Lei beside him, Hao used his Taoist magic to simply clean the dust in the room.
The interior of this weapon-refining room is quite nice; the furnace used for refining weapons and the mechanism for controlling the temperature of the earth fire are all meticulously designed.
Walking up to the stove, Hao Yun activated the mechanism, and an opening appeared at the bottom of the stove, allowing the subterranean fire to surge up, rapidly raising the temperature in the room.
After checking the furnace used for refining weapons and finding no problems, Hao Yun took out the piece of star iron from earlier and threw it in.
"I'm going to refine some weapons now. You can go back now if there's nothing else."
Having found the weapon-refining room, Hao Yun began to discard his useful servant.
Duan Lei gave a wry smile, said nothing, and turned to leave.
The door to the refining room closed, and Hao Yun concentrated all his attention on the furnace. Under the high temperature of the earth fire, the star iron melted rapidly, and impurities were gradually stripped away.
For his first time refining a weapon, Hao Yun decided to try refining a flying sword first.
Seeing the star iron melt, Hao Yun threw in three more pieces of ore. Because the ores had different melting points, Hao Yun controlled the three ores to float in different areas.
A few minutes later, all the impurities in the ore were removed, and Hao Yun tried to blend the four different ores together.
As the mechanism was activated, the temperature of the underground fire rose again, and the ore, which had been slowly melting, quickly solidified into a clump.
According to the records on the jade slip for refining weapons, Hao Yun cast several spells, and the fused ore was stretched into the shape of a flying sword.
This was Hao Yun's first time refining a weapon, and his technique wasn't very skillful, so the flying sword looked bumpy and uneven.
Looking at the flying sword in the furnace, Hao Yun's forehead began to sweat. Refining weapons was far more difficult than refining pills. Just determining the nature of the flying sword had taken up a lot of Hao Yun's energy.
After being modified more than ten times, a three-finger-wide scimitar was forged by the earth's fire into a thin sword only one finger wide.
This situation can only be described as a mixed blessing. The good news is that the four types of ore have perfectly blended together, but the bad news is that the flying sword has become too hard and is prone to breaking.
Lowering the temperature of the earth fire and solidifying the flying sword, Hao Yun quickly inscribed three magic arrays within the flying sword by making hand seals.
The first formation can change size; the second is a metal-element formation that increases weapon sharpness; and the third is a sword-controlling formation that allows even those with low cultivation levels to fly on swords for short periods.
Once the flying sword was completed, Hao Yun waved his hand, and the light blue flying sword hummed as it flew out of the furnace.
With a whoosh, the flying sword landed at Hao Yun's feet and stuck straight into the ground.
The newly forged flying sword was very hot, and Hao Yun wasn't foolish enough to reach out and touch it.
With the mechanism shut down and the underground fire extinguished, the temperature inside the room began to drop slowly.
After waiting for the sword to cool down, Hao Yun reached out and pulled out the flying sword, then held it horizontally in his hand and examined it back and forth.
"Hmm, not bad. I do have a real talent for weapon crafting."
This light blue flying sword is very appealing; anyone with a good eye for aesthetics will surely fall in love with it.
As for the grade of the flying sword, Hao Yun skipped it directly. How good could a flying sword made by a beginner be?
After playing with the flying sword for a long time with satisfaction, Hao Yun finally put it aside. During the forging process, Hao Yun gained a lot of inspiration.
For example, the choice of minerals: the four minerals I just selected are all hard. If I add one or two soft metals, the quality of the flying sword may be improved by another level.
At a deeper level, there are mineral properties. Combining minerals with different properties can have surprising effects. For example, fire-attribute minerals and wood-attribute minerals are mutually reinforcing. If they are put together, they may enhance the power of the flying sword.
Without further ado, Hao Yun opened the mechanism, found a piece of volcanic black rock, and threw it into the furnace. It seemed that the temperature of the earth fire was not high enough, as the volcanic black rock did not melt for a long time.
Seeing this, Hao Yun increased the heat, making the room even hotter. Only someone with Hao Yun's good physical condition could sit here without changing his expression. If it were anyone else, they would probably be sweating profusely.
Hao Yun was very particular about the mineral pairing this time, selecting five pieces of ore and throwing them into the furnace according to the principles of mutual generation and restraint of the five elements.
The first step of removing mineral impurities went smoothly, but a problem arose when it came to mineral fusion. No matter how much Hao Yun increased the temperature of the furnace, the five types of ore in the furnace just wouldn't fuse.
When problems arose during the refining process, Hao Yun closed his eyes and pondered the refining knowledge recorded in the jade slip. He thought for a long time but still couldn't find a solution.
Is this weapon forging going to fail?
This thought made Hao Yun somewhat unwilling, but he had no solution.
Suddenly, Hao Yun had a flash of inspiration and remembered alchemy. Alchemy requires a reasonable combination of medicines, with the main medicine combined with a variety of auxiliary medicines.
The reason for using auxiliary medicines is to avoid conflicts between them. The same principle applies to refining weapons. The five types of ores I threw in are all of high quality.
According to alchemy, he simply threw in five main ingredients without adding any auxiliary ingredients to complement them.
Having figured this out, Hao Yun pondered for a moment, then picked out an inconspicuous brown ore from the pile of ore—red copper, also known as blood copper.
Red copper is a relatively common type of ore, but it has one characteristic: it has no properties.
When the ore is put into the furnace, under high temperature calcination, copper quickly turns into liquid.
Hao Yun tried to fuse the ores again. With the help of red copper, the five ores began to fuse.
There's hope!
Hao Yun's face lit up with joy; he really was a little genius.
After successfully fusing the ore, Hao Yun was about to shape it when he discovered a problem: the six minerals fused together would make the flying sword about the size of a door panel if used to forge a flying sword.
Time was of the essence, so Hao Yun quickly decided to abandon the flying sword project and instead focus on seals.
According to Hao Yun's preferences, the mineral quickly took shape, and because of the previous experience, the shaping was much faster this time.
After three revisions, a square seal with a five-clawed golden dragon coiled on it was successfully forged.
Next came the induction of the formations. Hao Yun's hands moved like butterflies, and in just a few seconds, he had infused all sixteen of his signature formations into them.
Once the final array was completed, the seal broke through the furnace and soared out before Hao Yun could control it.
A deafening dragon's roar rang out, and the seal flew out through the roof. Hao Yun's eyes widened. Holy crap! What's going on? The seal I forged has become sentient!