World of Cultivation Eight Hundred and Sixty Five – Ghost Fire Forging

Chapter Eight Hundred and Sixty Five – Ghost Fire Forging

When Zuo Mo walked out of the room, Qing Xiao’s eyes lit up. In a flash he appeared in front of Zuo Mo and asked concernedly in a low voice, “Big Brother, your wounds are healed?”

Zuo Mo smiled. “No, but the situation is slightly better.”

“Great!” Qing Xiao was happy. “This place is slightly depressing, but if it can make Big Brother’s body better, it is a good place.”

Zuo Mo patted Qing Xiao’s back. “It will be good soon.”

After talking with Qing Xiao, Zuo Mo ca to the death energy pool. He inspected the changes of the shen wood coffin. The five were in a slightly better state. However, Zuo Mo’s brow quickly furrowed. The death energy in the death energy pool was much fainter.

It seed that he really did have to go to the Sea of Ten Thousand Boiling Pools and pick five high quality death energy pools.

He stood and walked towards the outside.

“Grandmaster!” The guard hurriedly bowed towards Zuo Mo.

“We are going to the Sea of Ten Thousand Boiling Pools.”

“Yes!” The guard summoned the bone carriage.

On the carriage, Zuo Mo asked casually, “How has the forging of the crystal bones been? Have you finished preparing?”

The guard hesitated and then said, “It has not gone very well.”

“Oh, what problems occurred?” Zuo Mo was slightly surprised.

“This lowly one is not quite clear,” the guard shook his head.

Zuo Mo thought and said, “Then let’s first go to where they are forging the crystal bones.” Zuo Mo needed large amounts of crystal bones. If there were not enough crystal bones, it would be difficult to proceeded with the following forging. Since he had agreed and had benefited so much from the Ghost Lord, Zuo Mo did not want to skimp.

“Yes!” A thread of respect ca into the guard’s voice. He had followed the ghost lord for many years and had seen those so-called grandmasters. Regardless of their skill level, almost all of them had their noses in the sky and had proud expressions. Only this grandmaster had a good temper and was easygoing.

The bone carriage turned and flew into another direction.

The bone carriage moved quickly, the bone mountains flashed by. The sll of sulphur in the air increased. It was possible to see bright red lava slipping out through the valleys. Sparks flew and thick smoke rose into the air.

Bright red flows of lava could be seen everywhere. It was possible to see white bones that bobbed and moved in the lava in a terrifying picture.

Zuo Mo marveled inwardly. It had to be said that the Ten Thousand Tombs of the Netherworld was an unique place.

The guard saw Zuo Mo seed to be very interested and introduced the area, “If we go forward, we will arrive at the Fire Cetery. That is where we forge. The fire cetery is abundant in earth fire and there are many that co here to forge. In the past, this place was sparsely populated, then shen equipnt ca into style on the market. More and more people started to learn to forge shen equipnt and more and more people ca to the fire cetery.”

“Oh, how is the skill level of the Yin Tomb Guards in forging shen equipnt?” Zuo Mo asked curiously.

“Not very good.” The guard twisted his mouth. He clearly was not satisfied with the skill level of his group. “It is terrible. Lacking compared to the four nether lords. The Nether lords are worse than the xiuzhe realm. In the past, soone purchased a batch of Mo Cloud shen equipnt. That level of skill is amazing. It is a pity that the Mo Cloud shen equipnt does not match our shen power. The effects are not good. Otherwise, we will definitely will just buy directly from them.”

Zuo Mo was very happy when he heard praise for Mo Cloud Sea from other people. His mind shifted. “Are you not able to communicate with Mo Cloud Sea? Why would they not sell shen equipnt?”

“We had been planning to buy from them, but then sothing happened.” The guard seed to be wary of this question and did not discuss any further.

Zuo Mo was perceptive. It seed as though the Nether Realm was not very calm either.

“Daren, the Fire Cetery is up ahead,” the guard pointed forward and said.

The bone carriage rounded between two hills and the scenery opened in front of them, an extrely large basin surrounded by mountains. Countless flows of lava flowed down from the mountain peaks as they gave off thick plus of smoke.

Hundreds of streams of lava gathered at the base of the basin.

Thick pillars of fire occasionally erupted out of the center of the basin. Watching from far away, countless pillars rose and fell in a spectacular scene.

“This is the Fire Cetery?” Even Zuo Mo couldn’t help but be stunned by such a great scene.

“Yes! Grandmaster, this is the Fire Cetery! One of the best fire regions in the Nether World!” The guard’s voice was filled with pride.

The bone carriage flew swiftly downwards.

There were people waiting on the ground already and they moved over when the bone carriage landed. They bowed and called Grandmaster.

“This is the steward of the Fire Cetery, Lu Zhuang,” the guard introduced.

Zuo Mo greeted Lu Zhuang who was overwheld. Lu Zhuang was of a simple appearance and he was very embarrassed. “Grandmaster, please forgive us. Everyone tried to forge the white bones, but the best is only at this level.”

Lu Zhuang handed over a piece of bone. There were many ugly white marks on the transparent bone.

Zuo Mo frowned. This was caused by leaving too many impurities.

Zuo Mo identified the problem. He had based his predictions using the skill level of Golden Crow Camp. The forging skill level of these people were far below Golden Crow Camp. From this bone, it could be seen the so-called best were about the sa skill level as the fringe apprentices of Golden Crow Camp.

He needed a great amount of crystal bone. He could forge them, but he did not want to waste his ti on the simple preparation work. He had thought that work like this could be done by other people.

Forging like this that was simple and was needed in great amounts was best for less-skilled forgers to forge.

“Who forged this piece?” Zuo Mo asked.

Lu Zhuang hurriedly summoned the forger. It was a youth in his twenties. Lu Zhuang hurriedly said, “Ming Hong is the best forger here, he is the most skilled.”

“Give him a piece of white bone, I’ll watch as he forges it,” Zuo Mo said.

Ming Hong beca alert. He had heard that a great grandmaster had co to the Ying Tomb Guards this ti. He hadn’t expected the grandmaster to personally co to the Fire Cetery and would personally teach him. He could not waste a chance like this.

Ming Hong beca as alert as possible as he started to forge the white bone.

Zuo Mo’s mouth gaped at the following actions. Ming Hong was using the fire that erupted from the Fire Cetery to forge!

Zuo Mo pointed at the focused Ming Hong and asked Lu Zhuang, “You all forge like this?”

“Yes!” Lu Zhuang had an expression of punishnt. “Shouldn’t it be so?”

Zuo Mo was completely speechless. He had been ntally prepared before that the Yin Tomb Guards were not skilled, but he had not expected for their skill to be so low.

“Don’t you know that there are many impurities in these pillars of fire? If the fla itself is not pure, how can you forge?” Zuo Mo shouted in a rarely stern tone. “Don’t you have the xiuzhe’s scrolls? How can you not even know this basic knowledge?”

Lu Zhuang had a grimace. “Grandmaster, please do not be angry! It is not that this lowly one does not know that forging needs flas, because we cultivate nether shen power we cannot absorb earth fire.”

Without knowing it, there were more and more mo gathered in the surroundings. They had heard that a grandmaster had arrived and had all ran over.

Zuo Mo stilled. He finally realized. The forging arts of the xiuzhe had gone through tens of thousands of years of developnt. What flas could be used, which ones were not good, that must have been learned through the contributions of countless people. For the mo, ten years ago, they didn’t need to know how to forge. They had refined their bodies as weapons, and only began forging as they entered the era of shen power. Shen equipnt was sothing unfamiliar to everyone, but to them even forging was unfamiliar.

This fundantal knowledge needed to be accumulated through countless people. There were no shortcuts.

The faces were bitter and dispirited. They had studied for so many years, but they still did not understand.

The mysteries of the forging world were unreachable to them.

Zuo Mo sighed inside. He looked at these faces, and suddenly thought of himself back at Wu Kong Mountain.

“Nether shen power is not suited for absorbing earth fire. You have death energy within your shen power and that is even more unsuited for earth fire. However, other than earth fire, there are other types of fire. The reason that xiuzhe mostly use earth fire is because, for them, earth fire is easy to absorb and control.”

Everyone listened carefully in fear of missing a word.

“But you are suited for yin type fires, like ghost fire,” Zuo Mo continued.

“How can ghost fire be used to forge?” soone shouted from among the crowd.

They were familiar with ghost fire. The shen power that many people cultivated carried small amounts of ghost fire. This as the Ten Thousand Tombs of the Underworld, ghost fire and similar fires could be seen everywhere.

Zuo Mo smiled slightly. “For the xiuzhe, ghost fire is not a good fire to forge with. But for you, it is most fitting. Does anyone have ghost fire?”

A weak voice said, “Grandmaster, I do.”

Zuo Mo followed the noise. It was Ming Hong who had just demonstrated for him. Zuo Mo said gently, “Let see.”

Ming Hong moved his hand, and a pale green ghost fire floated in his hand.

“Other powers are usually mixed in with ghost fire when used in attacks. However, in forging, you have to rember the most important quality about any fla is purity. The purer the fla, the more suited it is for forging.” Zuo Mo’s voice was not loud, but it could be heard all over.

“This ghost fire’s quality is not bad, but it has not been refined enough. It is easy to refine fire. Channel your shen power.” Zuo Mo then said to Ming Hong. “Try.”

Ming Hong hesitated. Hiss, the ghost fire was absorbed into his body. As the ghost fire circulated around his body, Ming Hong’s face beca a pale green.

About an hour later, the green tinge on Ming Hong’s face gradually faded. He summoned the fla. The ghost fire was slightly more green than previously.

“Alright, when you refine ghost fire it will be pure when it is colorless.” Zuo Mo suddenly threw a white bone to Ming Hong. “Try forging this with the ghost fire.”

Ming Hong looked helplessly at Zuo Mo.

Zuo Mo patiently taught, “Control the ghost fire to wrap around the white bone.”

Following the words, Ming Hong used the ghost fire to surround the white bone. Soon, the white bone was covered in a terrifying layer of green and a layer of sweat appeared on Ming Hong’s forehead.

“Do not stop.” Zuo Mo shouted in a low voice, “Focus your mind, pay attention to controlling the fire to perate into the interior of the bone.”

Ming Hong gritted his teeth and persisted. He forced himself to control the ghost fire. Monts later, he was soaked in sweat.

But he persisted without a sound.

The pale green bone started to change. It gradually beca transparent.

Zuo Mo taught Ming Hong and everyone listening how to connect ghost fire and seal scripts, how to control the ghost fire more effectively.

“It’s good!”

Ming Hong sat down on his behind on the ground, unable to move, but had an expression of undisguised joy on his face. A transparent and faintly green bone was in Zuo Mo’s hand.

“The green color is because the ghost fire is not pure enough,” Zuo Mo evaluated.

The people who had been watching this scene beca excited. So forging was actually like this.

Zuo Mo saw this and waved his hand. “Those with ghost fire, start refining your ghost fire. Those that don’t, go find ghost fire.”

Then he did not pay any more attention to the crowd. He said to the guard, “Let’s go, to the Sea of Ten Thousand Boiling Pools.”

The guard bowed respectfully. “Yes!”

Translator Ramblings: I really appreciate how that Fang Xiang managed to keep the three races true to their traits for the entire story and actually put so more thought into the different cultures.