Chapter 139
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Chapter 139: Refining the Spiritual Sword
This time, Yi Chen’s research and testing of the energy circulation pathways for the weapon refining technique had slightly worse luck.
He took a few detours and spent forty days successfully creating it.
This was a bit longer than expected.
Fortunately, he finally succeeded in crafting the weapon refining technique.
Unlike other skills, the weapon refining technique is more like a tool.
It is a tool that can activate and combine various properties of spirit mines.
After some thought, Yi Chen took a batch of Ice Cold Iron and a small amount of four other spirit mines from the shelf.
He wrapped the Ice Cold Iron in divine consciousness, controlling it to float.
With a wave of his hand, a flame shot out, engulfing the floating Ice Cold Iron.
As spirit power surged continuously, the temperature of the flame began to rise rapidly.
Five hundred degrees, one thousand degrees, one thousand five hundred degrees…
The impurities on the surface of the Ice Cold Iron gradually vaporized as the temperature increased.
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"Just as I expected, Yi Chen’s new skill is meant for creating long swords."
"Impressive! The temperature of this flame actually exceeds three thousand degrees and is still rising. I remember that the flame temperature from the Method of All Laws only reached a little over one thousand degrees, right?"
"Even if Yi Chen’s realm is higher, reaching the sixth level of the Spirit Consciousness stage and gaining a deeper understanding of fire laws, it should only reach about two thousand degrees at its limit when using the Method of All Laws."
"Over four thousand degrees!"
"Now it’s over five thousand degrees… I checked the Ice Cold Iron; its melting point is over six thousand degrees, so it seems like it’s not a difficult task!"
The viewers in the live room immediately became lively.
"It really is as Yi Chen said; the uses of divine consciousness are simply countless. Without divine consciousness, you would have to use materials with an even higher melting point to first create a smelting furnace."
"Hey, look at the scanner data. This flame is a bit special! There’s no difference between the core flame, inner flame, and outer flame; it’s all one uniform temperature."
"It’s probably to keep the flame’s temperature consistent and stable, preventing the spirit mine from heating unevenly, which would affect different parts."
"I was wondering why Yi Chen spent so much time specifically creating a skill to cast flames; it turns out it’s not only to greatly increase the flame temperature but also to maintain a consistent and stable temperature."
"The Ice Cold Iron is starting to melt! I just wonder how Yi Chen will solve the obvious issue of the Ice Cold Iron releasing cold air."
"If he can somehow trigger this characteristic alongside the Sword Energy, it would be invincible."
"I think he might be trying to suppress this characteristic using other materials. Otherwise, if you hold it normally, you would still get frostbite from the cold air."
"After all, the cold air from this Ice Cold Iron can affect an area of three to four decimeters. Even if you use other materials for the hilt and sheath, you would still be affected when using it."
"Yi Chen must be able to think of a solution; otherwise, how could he possibly spend more than two months creating this new skill?"
"Indeed, two months is quite a while, though not as long as the time spent creating the Method of All Laws and the Beast Taming Technique, it’s still significant."
"If it weren’t strong enough, Yi Chen wouldn’t waste so much time on just one sword."
Everyone is filled with anticipation.
No one thinks that the new skill Yi Chen spends over two months creating will be ordinary.
Although no one can figure out how to solve the problem of the Ice Cold Iron’s cold air leakage, the vast majority firmly believe that Yi Chen’s new skill can find a solution.
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In the refining room, after the flame temperature reaches seven thousand degrees, it stops rising and maintains this temperature without any change.
The Ice Cold Iron begins to melt quickly in the high-temperature flame.
Various impurities continuously vaporize and disappear.
Its volume shrinks by one-third.
Yi Chen’s divine consciousness starts to enter the liquefied Ice Cold Iron.
The most obvious negative characteristic of the Ice Cold Iron is that spirit power encounters resistance while flowing through it.
In other words, if the Ice Cold Iron is refined into a spiritual sword, when casting the Heaven-Slashing Technique, the spirit power will be consumed and slowed down, resulting in a decrease in both the power and release speed of the Sword Energy.
The first thing Yi Chen needs to do is to burn away this most obvious negative characteristic.
The Ice Cold Iron is only a second-grade spirit mine, so its strongest negative characteristic is not too intense.
In the Qi Sea, spirit power surges.
As the function adjusts, the color of the flame begins to change from bright red to blue.
The temperature rises to over eight thousand degrees.
The characteristic that hinders the operation of spirit power within the Ice Cold Iron is continuously extracted by the flame, dissipating into the air.
Once this characteristic is completely resolved, Yi Chen starts to extract other less obvious negative characteristics.
Of course, not every negative characteristic can be drawn out.
Some negative characteristics, while not very intense, require an extremely high temperature for the flame.
If the flame temperature exceeds the boiling point of the material, it will vaporize as well.
There are also some negative characteristics that are completely attached to the material and cannot be separated at all.
What Yi Chen can do is to extract as many of the material’s negative characteristics as possible.
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"What’s happening?"
"It’s been over an hour since the flame suddenly changed color, and Yi Chen hasn’t made a move, just letting the flame continue to burn the liquid Ice Cold Iron."
"Is it possible that Yi Chen hasn’t figured out the forging process yet? Is he stuck here considering what to do next?"
"What’s there to consider? It’s just about adding other materials! You can see that from the five spirit mines Yi Chen took at once; he’s planning to forge an alloy sword."
The viewers in the live room start to become confused.
The scanner is unable to detect the characteristics of the spirit mines, so it naturally cannot scan that Yi Chen is using flames with special functions to keep extracting and drawing out the negative characteristics from the Ice Cold Iron.
To the viewers in the live room, the Ice Cold Iron has long since liquefied, but after the flame changed color, Yi Chen has remained stationary without further action.
Two hours later, the blue flame turns back to red.
The temperature drops to just over six thousand degrees, barely maintaining the liquid state of the Ice Cold Iron.
In the refining room, Yi Chen exhales a sigh of relief.
Finally, he has successfully extracted all the negative characteristics that could be drawn out from the Ice Cold Iron.
Next comes the fusion of new materials.
The other four spirit mines are auxiliary materials that Yi Chen predicted based on their characteristics.
The reason it is a prediction is that these four spirit mines most likely will enhance the main positive characteristics of the Ice Cold Iron or add other positive characteristics to the spiritual artifact.
But "most likely" does not mean "definitely," and it still requires fusion to test what kind of effects will arise from the combination of the two materials.
Each spirit mine has hundreds or thousands of different characteristics.
When two spirit mines melt together, these characteristics do not influence each other.
However, if the two spirit mines are combined into one, it becomes a completely different concept.
What Yi Chen needs to do is not to simply melt the two spirit mines into an alloy.
Instead, he aims to refine the two spirit mines into one, creating a new special spirit mine.
After controlling the second spirit mine with his divine consciousness, he puts it into the flame, where it begins to melt rapidly and blend with the liquid Ice Cold Iron.
When the two materials merge, as Yi Chen adjusts his skills, the flame suddenly changes from bright red to a light yellow.
As the two materials refine, countless characteristics begin to intermingle and clash.
The vast majority of the characteristics do not affect one another. However, many characteristics begin to change and merge differently during the refining process.
Some changes and merges promote benefits, while others create more negative characteristics.
Once the two are completely refined into one, the flame turns from light yellow back to blue again, starting to refine the negative characteristics within.
Then, the second auxiliary material and the third auxiliary material are added…
