Chapter 68 Azure Sky Stone

  Sun Ming did not feel the dangerous gaze revealed in Lan Yun Zhen Ren's eyes, and continued to refine what he was refining with ease.

  Various materials were taken one by one into the spiritual fire for refinement by Sun Ming, although the properties and shapes of the materials were quite complex, they were thoroughly distinguished. After a whole day passed, Sun Ming's most basic refining process finally came to an end. The Heavenly Fire Old Dao was anxious in his heart, some of the faster equipment refiners had already completed their refinement and sat there resting.

  Sun Ming sat there motionless, staring blankly at the half-refined magic treasure in front of him (if these uncombined materials could be called a magic treasure).

  Nangong Liuyun, this girl, at this moment had a very serious look on her face, refining a seemingly beautiful magic treasure. The entire body was snow white, with silver light flashing, moving freely in the spiritual fire, looking ethereal and lively. It was actually a white silk-like magic treasure. Although it hadn't been successfully refined yet, its entire body was overflowing with treasure light, obviously destined to be a spiritual instrument.

  Murong Yunfan, the greatest opponent of Sun Ming, seemed to be the fastest among all cultivators. A fire-attribute flying sword had already taken shape, and although it was very far away, everyone still felt the intense fire energy emanating from the sword, like a blazing flame. This was also when Murong Yunfan began to meticulously inscribe an array pattern onto the flying sword, as the quality of a spiritual artifact largely depended on the effectiveness of the array pattern inscribed upon it. Spiritual artifacts were divided into lower, middle, upper, and extreme grades, which to a large extent relied on the array patterns they carried.

  The flying sword of Murong Yunluan was obviously engraved with many array methods, roughly estimated, the Spirit Gathering Array, the Fire Condensation Array, the Xi Intensification Array... densely covered the entire surface of the flying sword, but it made the flying sword look even more enchanting, without a hint of disorder, it seemed that Murong Yunluan's strength as a five-star equipment refiner was genuine.

  Just as Sun Ming was thinking, Murong Yunfan had already completed the refining process. However, as a disciple of the Qixiu Alliance who was so highly valued, just having a mid-grade spiritual artifact was not enough. Just when everyone thought that the first treasure of this trial was about to be born (of course, excluding that flying needle enthusiast), Murong Yunfan's hands stopped moving. He took out two Cold Jade Spirit Bottles from his storage ring.

  "What's in the Frost Spirit Jade Vial? What could be inside that would warrant using such a precious container?" Even Tianyi, normally calm and composed, couldn't help but feel a stir. The Frost Spirit was a crystal found only on extremely cold cultivation planets, and it took tens of thousands of years for it to transform into jade. It was considered one of the best tools against heart demons by cultivators, even rarer than the Ten-Thousand-Year Warm Jade. And yet, here it was being used as a vase... which spoke volumes about the value of what was inside.

  "It seems that the Repair Union attaches great importance to the outcome of this competition." Murong Yunluan said thoughtfully, looking at the two cold Jingling jade bottles he had taken out.

  Murong Yunluan's jade hand turned, and the cold jadelike bottle in her left hand was opened wide. A large drop of milky white liquid dripped out from the bottle and fell onto the flying sword that had almost been completed.

  "Essence of Nine Heavens, it's really this thing." Ming Xin's face looked a bit unsightly.

  At this time, the drop of Jiu Tian Ling Mei liquid slowly merged into the already formed flying sword. Suddenly, a soft glow slowly emanated from the flying sword, and the milky white light slowly spread across the entire flying sword. At this moment, Murong Yunfan's other hand moved, and another drop of golden ** dripped down from the Han Jing Ling Yu bottle.

  "Master Uncle, what is this thing that Mu Rong Yun Luan dropped?" Tian Huo asked with a puzzled face. After all, something that can be stored in a bottle carved from cold spiritual jade, just like the Nine Heavens Spiritual Essence Liquid, must be extremely precious.

  "Hmm, this should be the Iron Essence Liquid." Ming Xin thought for a moment before responding.

  "Huh? Iron Essence Liquid? What is this thing? Why isn't it recorded in the sect's classics?" Tianyi asked.

  "It's common knowledge that iron is the most ordinary metal in the Cultivation Realm, but ordinary iron won't be used by cultivators to refine equipment. The iron that can be used by cultivators to refine equipment will at least be of the Xuan Iron and Ling Iron grades. This Iron Essence Liquid, however, is a very peculiar thing. It's produced from completely ordinary iron ore, without any special distribution characteristics, and there won't be any large signs before it forms." Zi Xiao explained.

  "But Master Uncle, what's the use of this thing?" Tian Huo asked.

  "The essence of iron, after a long period of time, has been imbued with spirituality through the refinement of heaven and earth's spiritual energy. After another long period of time, this block of iron filled with spirituality will produce a golden liquid. The little girl from the Qixing Sect uses this thing, which is the best material for refining flying swords. With just one drop, the sharpness and flexibility of the flying sword will be greatly enhanced, making it a treasured item that sword cultivators dream of obtaining. But now, in order to win, it's difficult...". Mu Ting let out a sigh and lowered his head, not speaking again.

  Just as everyone was busy watching Murong Yunfan's movements, Sun Ming also started. The corners of his mouth were still slightly smiling. Although the movement seemed very slow, it was actually quite relaxed and natural. The Star Iron slowly changed shape in the spiritual fire, and Sun Ming controlled the temperature of the spiritual fire, keeping the Star Iron in a state of near-solidification. His hands didn't stop making various hand seals, which looked dazzling but had a trajectory to follow. On the surface of the circular-shaped embryo of the Star Iron, dense and intricate talismans began to be inscribed with array patterns, with a complexity that was almost comparable to an interstellar transmission array.

  When Sun Ming's formation was completed, Bi Cai's three days and three nights had also passed more than half, almost all the instrument repairers were making final adjustments to their own magic treasures, while Sun Ming's magic treasure in his hand seemed to have just been completed halfway.

  Again, a part was separated from the spiritual fire. Sun Ming used the spiritual fire to maintain the temperature of the circular magic treasure embryo forged with star iron, while controlling this small and pitiful ball of spiritual fire to smelt nine identical Bi Kong stones.

  It seems that Sun Ming was born to do fine work, and he actually engraved array methods on nine Bi Kong stones. Although each Bi Kong stone had the same array method to be engraved, he engraved nine at the same time, and even manipulated two spiritual fires at the same time. Fortunately, no one around him noticed, otherwise Sun Ming would have been in big trouble.

  Along with the withdrawal of that Flying Needle crafter, the time left for Sun Ming was also running out, seemingly less than three hours. Yet, Sun Ming's expression remained unchanged, not revealing any hint of urgency, still exuding an air of confidence as his hands continued to churn out seal scripts one after another.

  Sun Ming's senior brothers and sisters performed as they should, even with the help of so many materials, some of them performed beyond their level. However, they still managed to refine two low-grade spiritual artifacts. The two of them looked at Nan Gong Liu Yun's mid-grade spiritual artifact-level white silk-like treasure in his hand with some jealousy. But when they saw Mu Rong Yun Luan's high-grade spiritual artifact-level flying sword in her hand, they felt a bit depressed. Even Ling Xing's eyes had a hint of greed, after all, the fire-attribute high-grade spiritual artifact-level flying sword was undoubtedly the favorite among artifact refiners.

  At this time, the highly anticipated Nan Gong Liu Yun and Murong Yun Luan turned their questioning eyes towards Sun Ming. After all, circular-shaped magical artifacts were rare in the Cultivation Realm, not to mention one that he had never seen before in any ancient texts.

  Sun Ming, however, did not notice the gazes of these people. With an extremely focused expression, he stared at the Linghuo's law treasure embryo shape, and slowly, the two separate Linghuo merged into one. The nine Bi Kong stones, which were roughly the same size as the ones Sun Ming had inscribed with array techniques, slowly revolved around the law treasure embryo shape forged from Xingchen Iron, occasionally emitting a clear and faint glow. It was truly beautiful, and in an instant, everyone's gazes were once again drawn to Sun Ming.

  "This kid is getting more and more incomprehensible, not only has he mastered the Xuanhuo Jiubian, now he's actually going to use the Inlay Technique to complete this thing, haha, just once." As soon as Dusk Heart's words fell, Sun Ming's hand movements changed.

  If you observe closely, on the surface of this circular treasure, there are nine small recessed holes corresponding to the nine Bi Kong stones. They are distributed around the periphery of the circle, and in the center of the circle, there is a slightly larger recessed cavity that doesn't seem to have any use at first glance.

  And the nine Azure Void Stones were slowly moving into their corresponding cavities, as if they had always been meant to be there. The nine Azure Void Stones fit perfectly into the cavities, and suddenly the Azure Void Stones and the array on the circular treasure lit up. With Sun Ming as the center, the spiritual energy of the entire grand hall converged onto his treasure, causing the surrounding crowd to exclaim in shock.

  Fortunately, the strange phenomenon came quickly and went away quickly. The treasure that Sun Ming had successfully refined in front of him was like a child who had eaten his fill, let out a belch, and the gathered heavenly energy dispersed again. Sun Ming saw from the spiritual fluctuations on the treasure that it was a high-quality spirit instrument. Although it was still far from the top-quality spirit instrument he had refined under the guidance of Cloud Master, this was after all his first independently completed work. Thinking of this, Sun Ming couldn't help but smile with satisfaction.