Chapter 798: Chapter 35 Sword Casting Master Luo Yan
Long ago, Miss Shi once had a magical treasure called the Heaven-flipping Seal, which was a replica of the Heaven-overturning Seal.
The reason it was a replica was that the grade rank of the Heaven-flipping Seal was very low; it only required the True Yuan of the Foundation Establishnt Realm to activate, and naturally, it could only strike down enemies at the Foundation Establishnt level.
Therefore, once Shi Liuli achieved Core Formation, she completely abandoned this magical treasure.
Now, having obtained the genuine Heaven-overturning Seal, Luo Yan finally witnessed the extraordinariness of a divine artifact.
Look! This angular shape, filled with a rustic beauty; holding it in one’s hand, this profound weight, brought incomparable reassurance; the brilliant radiance flickering on its surface, the best emblem of a divine artifact…
“Wake up, my husband.” Shi Liuli poked him with her finger at his side, “The immortal took the Shennong Cauldron away.”
“Oh.” Luo Yan finally ca to his senses and waved his hand, “Let it be taken away then, since we’ve exchanged it for this Heaven-overturning Seal, we’re not at a loss.”
Shi Liuli uttered an “Oh,” ready to go back to continue her work, only to see Luo Yan fiddling with the Heaven-overturning Seal in his hand for quite a while before handing it over, “Take it.”
“What for?”
“For your protection,” Luo Yan said, “I have the Innate Five Elents Great Chaos Divine Light, I don’t need this Heaven-overturning Seal.”
A warmth imdiately surged in Shi Liuli’s heart. How could such a divine object like the Heaven-overturning Seal be useless?
Even if Luo Yan had the Five-colored Divine Light, able to overco all things not from the Five Elents, there are always things outside the scope of the Five Elents, such as the Thunder thod, such as yin and yang… And the Heaven-overturning Seal’s crude and powerful physical attacks were perfectly suited to make up for Luo Yan’s shortcomings.
But Shi Liuli understood the mindset of n better; she knew she couldn’t reject it outright in this situation, or it would make her husband lose face, giving the impression “my wife doesn’t appreciate my kindness.” So she willingly humd in agreent, taking the Heaven-overturning Seal and securing it.
Since I’ll be accompanying him whenever he leaves ho in the future, my magical treasure might as well be his.
After Shi Liuli left the room, she saw the Sect Leader of Xuandu standing outside, who spoke to her:
“Let’s put this matter to rest. There likely won’t be anyone coming to trouble you after this, and you shouldn’t pursue this matter further.”
“Naturally,” Shi Liuli, understanding her position, imdiately agreed, “We won’t make it difficult for the Sect.”
“Also, you should still enhance your sword casting skills,” the Sect Leader advised her, “A well-sold Flying Sword is not necessarily a good one; in the Cultivation Realm, the right of speech often doesn’t lie with the side with more people.”
After the Sect Leader gracefully departed, Shi Liuli stood in the center of the courtyard, smiling bitterly after a while.
If I could cast higher-quality Flying Swords, why would I abandon the essentials to chase after trifles?
Elder Shi Ding was no more, and the only one left to consult was Master Linghu Chu, but Linghu Chu had already set up his own faction within the Sect, and was in a competitive relationship with the Heavenly Craft Workshop. Shi Liuli did not wish to use up the goodwill from before, preferring to imrse herself in researching the scriptures left by her father.
After reading the scriptures several more tis, Shi Liuli took out new materials, ready to lt them into a Sword Embryo.
This stage of lting the Sword Embryo is crucial as it determines the Five Elents Attribute and other features of the final Flying Sword. The problem is that one must wait until the sword is truly forged to confirm the quality of the Flying Sword itself.
Often, the Sword Embryo lting step already has issues that go unnoticed. Once the Flying Sword is fully forged and problems are detected, going back to ticulously investigate and locate the issue consus a great deal of ti and energy, causing Shi Liuli considerable distress.
If only my father were still here… Just watching during sword refinent, he would have told imdiately if sothing went wrong.
With this thought, Shi Liuli felt a tinge of sadness, so she sat by the window to rest for a while, wiped the moisture from the corners of her eyes, and spaced out.
She then stood up once more, ready to resu her work, only to see Luo Yan had already pushed the door open and co in.
“Husband?” Shi Liuli asked, aning “What’s the matter?”
“It’s nothing, I just ca to see,” Luo Yan said with a smile.
“Oh.” Since he said it was nothing, Shi Liuli didn’t bother with him any further and continued with her work.
She first needed to sieve the finely-ground jade powder, then mix it with water to dissolve impurities, filter it, and proceed to drying before it could be shaped.
Just as Shi Liuli was about to employ Fire System spells, Luo Yan suddenly grabbed her arm.
“Making a sword with jade quality, its attribute is tal, and one must not use open fire on it. Otherwise, with fire overcoming tal, the refined tal will be dull, brittle, and prone to shattering.”
Shi Liuli: ???
Though unexpected, his words were indeed correct. During her previous attempts at sword refinent, the final products had poor flexibility and strength; she just hadn’t figured out the reason and was still investigating it.
However… does my husband also understand sword refinent?
“Without applying open fla, yet needing to heat and lt the jade powder, how should one do it?” Shi Liuli asked slowly.
“That’s simple.” Luo Yan laughed, “Use plants as fuel, burn them until they turn to ash, and while they’re still red-hot, cover the jade powder to heat it up. This thod is called the ‘hidden fire technique,’ specifically designed for refining jade swords.”
Shi Liuli thought carefully and realized that the classical texts left by her father did not ntion this “hidden fire technique.”
But what her husband said seed to make sense…
She obediently followed his instructions, burnt the plants at high temperature to ash, then covered the jade powder with the ash separated by a layer of rock wool, and indeed, she smoothly lted it.
After pouring the jade liquid into the mold, Shi Liuli waited for it to solidify, only to hear Luo Yan say again:
“Jade is fragile by nature, but if you add a little teoric iron, it becos more ductile.”
“teoric iron?” Shi Liuli couldn’t help but ask, “Can teoric iron, that thing, really be compatible with jade?”
“We’ll know once we try,” Luo Yan said with confidence.
Although the Heavenly Craft Workshop had declined, they were not short of materials. Shi Liuli then fetched so teoric iron and asked:
“How should it be lted?”
“Still with the hidden fire technique.”
After lting the teoric iron, she injected it into the mold, and saw that the two materials quickly blended together perfectly, becoming one and the sa, indistinguishable from each other.
“This…” Shi Liuli was surprised for a mont, then she started pondering deeply.
Once the mixture was completely cooled, it turned into a dull jade color. Shi Liuli marveled in her heart, but asked aloud:
“What’s next?”
“Continue,” said Luo Yan.
Shi Liuli: ……….
She took the solidified jade from the mold, and carefully polished it into shape, then began to engrave formations on it.
“My dear,” Luo Yan said again, “that’s not how you carve formations. Let teach you.”
Taking the file, he moved it over the sword embryo like a dragon or serpent, quickly completing all three formations.
“Did you see clearly?” Luo Yan asked.
“No,” Shi Liuli shook her head honestly.
The formations sealed on the sword were not like the formations Luo Yan usually studied, which emphasized simplicity and compactness, similar in so ways to talisman scripts. How had her husband learned to do this?
Lost in thought, Shi Liuli watched as Luo Yan again lted so jade powder and teoric iron, then attached it to the sword embryo, sealing the formations within, and said:
“With this, a fine sword is made.”
“My dear, here I have many years of experience in sword casting for you to study. Don’t let down, okay?” he said.
Years of experience in sword casting? When have you ever cast a sword?
Shi Liuli was baffled as she took the scripture. After studying it for a while, she finally realized—it was the sword casting essentials recorded on the Shennong Cauldron.
Once she understood, she couldn’t help but turn around and wipe the corner of her eye.
“Why are you crying, my dear?” Luo Yan asked, puzzled.
I went to great lengths, taking risks for you to obtain these sword casting secrets, and you are not even thankful, so why the crying and sobbing?
“It’s nothing,” Shi Liuli shook her head, smiled, and said, “Just tears of joy, that’s all.”
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