Volume 1 Chapter 28: Practicing Sword

  One Foundation Establishment Pill requires a full 500 low-grade spirit stones. This is a large number for a Qi Refining stage cultivator. Ordinary Qi Refining stage cultivators don't have that many spirit stones. Especially some rogue cultivators, the amount of spirit stones they can use is even less.

  In theory, the Foundation Establishment Pill is only used by cultivators in the Qi Refining stage, and it has only one effect. Moreover, the spiritual herbs used to refine the Foundation Establishment Pill are not rare at all. However, this thing is actually difficult to refine.

  The failure rate of Gu Ji Dan is very high, and it's not something that ordinary Dan Xiu can refine. The more powerful Dan Xiu don't want to waste their time on this either. This is why Gu Ji Dan is not as common as other Qi Refining stage pills.

  The Five Elements Sword Sect naturally has a solid foundation pill, and many sects have it. Jiang Feng wants to buy it himself because he thinks that if he can raise his cultivation to the solid foundation period before reaching the Five Elements Sword Sect, it would be a good thing. Can't a dignified ancestor only be in the refining Qi period? Even if his sword lineage only has him alone, it's not good-looking either.

  Jiang Feng was extravagant and generous, not putting the 500 spiritual stones to heart. In one breath, he bought all five solid foundation pills in the store, which surprised his partner. He confirmed that Jiang Feng was a person who didn't lack spiritual stones and carefully served him on the side.

  After taking a look at the magic tools in the store, Jiang Feng bought a low-level magic tool that was specifically used for flying. The others didn't catch his eye.

  "If the senior doesn't think much of these things, we have even better ones here. However, the cultivation required is also higher. If the senior needs a usable magic tool, our store can also help with refining it." The shop assistant said.

  Jiang Feng was also aware that such a large store must have many good items. However, as a Qi Refining stage minor cultivator, even if he were given powerful magical tools, he wouldn't be able to bring out their full potential, making it completely a waste.

  "Being able to refine it for me would be great. Then help me refine some long swords." Jiang Feng said.

  He stated the shape of the long sword he wanted to refine, as well as the required quantity, and specially instructed that under no circumstances should any formation be engraved on the long sword.

  The buddy was a bit confused when he heard Jiang Feng's request. The materials used to forge the long sword were black iron and blood pear wood, both of which contained a significant amount of evil energy and could also fuse with evil energy. In theory, these two materials would be suitable for forging the body and hilt of a flying sword. Even a foundation-building cultivator would find them more than sufficient. However, Jiang Feng's request to shape it into an ordinary long sword, without adding any array formations, was a bit of a waste of good materials.

  The flying sword used by the master, of course, won't be too big. The reason for this is that it's easier to control and good materials are hard to find. Even if there are enough materials to forge a normal long sword, they will often compress it into a smaller size. Someone like Jiang Feng, who wastes so many materials but still wants such a large shape, is truly too extravagant.

  Especially without drawing any formation, it made his companions even more confused. On each flying sword, some formations or techniques would be added to enhance the power of the flying sword. Jiang Feng didn't add anything, did he want to add them himself later?

  And even if no other attack methods are added, the long sword needs to be condensed a bit. When needed, it can still be enlarged. Now it's just too weird.

  "Then just as I said earlier, help me refine two hundred of them." Jiang Feng said.

  The fellow was nearly startled out of his wits, with a look as if he had misheard. He asked: "Senior, did you just say two hundred?"

  "Yes, what's wrong? Is it that your materials are not enough?" Jiang Feng said.

  "The materials aren't the problem. But if we refine it according to what our seniors said, there's no power in it at all. And refining so much at once is such a waste." The apprentice said.

  The buddy also held the idea of not letting Jiang Feng waste the Ling Stone. But Jiang Feng didn't think so. He said, "Just do as I say and it'll be fine. Not a single piece of Ling Stone will go to waste. Also, we need to buy some more materials, see if you have them here."

  Since Jiang Feng insisted, his partner didn't say anything else. After paying the deposit, Jiang Feng also bought a lot of other materials. It seemed that he also wanted to refine equipment himself.

  He said he'd come back in half a month to collect them, and then Jiang Feng left. To say that half a month is enough time to forge 200 black iron longswords? That's a bit tight if you're doing it the normal way. But if you're just hammering away like a blacksmith, forging 200 black iron longswords isn't a problem at all.

  After returning, Jiang Feng continued to cultivate and also tried to refine some things. Apart from the talismans, the success rate of other refining equipment was extremely low. He worked hard for half a month before barely managing to refine what he needed.

  During this time, the fellow disciple of Yuezi Peak still hadn't arrived. The flower pattern on Jiang Feng's arm also didn't change in any way. After waiting until the day of delivery, Jiang Feng once again came to that shop. As soon as he entered, the same clerk from last time recognized him.

  The buddy led Jiang Feng to another room, handed him a storage bag, and told Jiang Feng that what he needed was inside. Jiang Feng shook his hand, and out came two hundred long swords.

  The black sword body, the red hilt. It looks pretty good, absolutely much better than the treasure swords used by ordinary people. But in the eyes of a cultivator, this thing is just an unfinished waste product.

  After checking, Jiang Feng was very satisfied. He paid the spirit stone and bought some materials needed for practicing Qi back to his residence.

  Looking in the direction Jiang Feng left, the shop assistant said to a person in charge of another store next to him: "Zhang, what do you think is going on with that guy? Why would he want so many useless swords? He must be crazy."

  This Zhang senior is a master of the Solid Foundation period. He's one of the people in charge of this store. Upon hearing his junior's words, Senior Zhang smiled slightly and said: "You're still too young. Didn't you notice that man bought quite a few Black Iron and Blood Pearls? I think he needs to add special attacking methods to his long sword himself, but doesn't want to waste time forging the sword, so he came here to buy them. Moreover, this person also doesn't have much confidence in succeeding. Otherwise, he wouldn't have bought so many."

  It turns out that this is the case. Mr. Zhang's guess was indeed correct. Jiang Feng really did add some formations himself. The materials he bought back last time were all used for experimentation.

  After returning, Jiang Feng immediately got busy. He first used the materials he bought to conduct experiments. When the experiment was almost done, he added his own attacking means to the Long Sword.

  Jiang Feng added it to the long sword based on the records of Jianyi Gongfa. The completed long sword was also prepared for Jiang Feng's Gongfa.

  Cultivation was no longer a priority, all his thoughts were focused on refining equipment. It took two whole months for Jiang Feng to finish the 200 long swords. Nearly half of them were scrapped. Still, the remaining number wasn't small either.

  The long sword of today has become a small sword as long as a finger, inserted into several pieces of animal skin by Jiang Feng. Looking at his work, Jiang Feng was very satisfied, and he couldn't wait to try its power.

  At this time, Jiang Feng thought again, it has been two months since then, how come the fellow disciple of Yue Zifeng still hasn't arrived. Could it be that he's not coming?

  Just as he was thinking, Yue Zifeng came knocking on the door. Jiang Feng went out to take a look and heard Yue Zifeng say that his fellow disciple had arrived. However, they couldn't leave for now because there were some things that urgently needed to be taken care of.