After deciding to forge the magic weapon herself, she took out her usual reserves: spirit stones and spirit jades, which were the most basic materials for forging magic weapons.
Ordinary weapons were mostly made of steel or iron, but as magical weapons, they were not like ordinary godly weapons, which were used to cut through thistles and thorns, or to break bricks and stones. Their main function was to store magical power, conduct magical power, and instantly release magical power.
These three points were the main criteria for determining the value of a magic weapon.
Secondly, it was the magical equipment's expansibility, compatibility, durability, and ability to resist attacks.
Spirit crystals, spirit jades, and spirit stones, these were the three core materials for forging a magic weapon.
Among them, the Spirit Crystal determined the limit of the magic power stored in a magic treasure. It was the upper limit of a magic treasure. Apart from the craftsmanship of the blacksmith, the Spirit Crystal was also very important for a magic treasure to reach a high level and quality.
Spirit jades determined the power conduction of a magic weapon. The instant release of magical power was also the size of the explosive power. Spirit jades were not the largest component of a magic weapon. They ranked second, but they were equally important.
Although spirit crystals could store a large amount of magical power and Zhenqi, it was useless to just release it. It needed to conduct the magical power, and then accurately transport it to the place it needed to go.
In this conduction process, the transmission of magical power was very important, because a little carelessness could lead to damage, delay, or even delay.
In the battle of great cultivators, every little bit had to be fought. No one wanted to use a magic weapon to release magical power in the next second.
At the same time, spirit jades also played a role in the expansion of magic weapons. For example, the size and precision of a magic weapon could withstand depended on the material of spirit jades.
The harder the material, the higher the purity, the more it could bear high-strength and high-precision magic arrays. This was because high-strength and high-precision magic arrays meant that the magic array could amplify the power of spells, or the magic weapon was born with stronger spells. When it was released in an instant, if the material was not hard enough and pure enough, it could easily lead to the collapse of the magic array, and even further backfire on the user.
Spirit Stones, on the other hand, determined the durability and resistance of a magical equipment. Although these abilities were ranked later, it did not mean that they were not important. It was just that compared to the previous few, they were slightly less important.
If spirit crystals were the upper limit of a magic treasure, then spirit stones would be the lower limit of a magic treasure.
How bad a magic treasure could be depended on the spirit stones used to create it. Whether a magic treasure could remain strong and undamaged after going through hundreds of battles also depended on the spirit stones used to create it.
Among the various types of magic treasures, some magic treasures did not require a head-on collision, so the spirit stones used to create them did not need to be of high quality and grade. However, some magic treasures needed to charge and break through enemy lines and take the lead in battle. Thus, the spirit stones they used must be able to withstand the fierce battles, blows, and tempering. Otherwise, wouldn't it be a joke if the magic treasure broke halfway through the battle?
Grand Senior Sister knew Li Chengfeng's fighting style: he was proficient in close combat. Although he had some long-range abilities, compared to his senior brothers and sisters who had been cultivating for a long time, his long-range abilities were very weak.
When he got close, that was when he was at his strongest.
That was why this magic treasure needed to have a strong long-range attack and also be able to use his close combat strength. She knew that she could not make Li Chengfeng a magic treasure that could be used for indirect combat.
For example, Zhou Jieyi's' Purple Gold Jade Token 'was a typical' indirect combat 'magic treasure. It did not fight directly with cultivators, nor would it use itself as a shield to block attacks for the cultivator. Hence, it did not need to have strong resistance.
Because of this, this type of magic treasure's biggest weakness was: it was afraid of direct confrontation.
If a cultivator grabbed the opponent's magic treasure and attacked it, with a precise and powerful attack in a short period of time, causing the magic treasure to break, it would be the end of the cultivator.
However, in normal fights, very few cultivators would do this.
Because to the magic treasure user, if the opponent could explode with such power, or even break their strongest magic treasure, why would they stay and wait for death?
For an attacker, why would they attack a Dharma treasure without killing the user?
Other than indirect combat magic treasures, there were also magic treasures that could assist in healing, buff, curse, summon, and direct combat magic treasures.
The five most famous legendary swords in the world were all direct combat magic treasures!
Each of them could split the heavens and earth, each of them could hold their own, and each of them could charge and break through enemy lines!
Grand Senior Sister wanted to make a direct combat magic treasure for Li Chengfeng!
She wanted Li Chengfeng to become the strongest and most indestructible weapon in his hands, so she had to give him an indestructible magic treasure!
Grand Senior Sister walked to the lowest level of the furnace, the boiling lava illuminating her face. However, she did not seem to feel the suffocating heat. She raised her hand and the lava rumbled in the pool. The lava boiled, and a staircase slowly rose from within.
Grand Senior Sister walked forward, a thick layer of frost forming beneath her feet, wrapping around the flames and the red-hot stairs. However, they instantly melted into water and dripped downwards. As the water dripped downwards, it quickly froze again, causing the stairs to look like there were countless icicles hanging upside down. It was a spectacular sight, a beautiful sight to behold.
Grand Senior Sister walked to the furnace and with a wave of her hand, a Cosmos Sack flew out from her hand. The Cosmos Sack poured hundreds of kilograms of spirit stones into the furnace.
When these spirit stones came into contact with the boiling lava, it did not take long for them to soften rapidly. The outer surface of the stones was burned into soft lava, revealing the most essential mineral parts inside. They slowly sank, while the dark impurities floated on top, making the entire furnace look black and red.
Not long after, a hole opened at the bottom of the furnace, and the bright red spirit stone liquid flowed out of the opening. This was the purer part of the material, and it flowed along the grooves and gathered at the storage slot of the cube. It began to be affected by the surrounding cold energy and quickly solidified into gray bricks.
Then, the sound of gears clicking came from the bottom of the furnace. This brick was moved away and the furnace tilted, dumping the black impurities floating on top into the lava pool.
Grand Senior Sister then repeated the process, pouring spirit stones into the furnace again. When there were more than a hundred of them, she raised her hand and threw them all back into the furnace for another round of refining. This time, she held a ball of flame in her palm and threw it into the furnace. Immediately, the furnace boiled violently, melting the hundred spirit stone bricks into liquid.
By the time the bright red liquid flowed out and solidified, the spirit stone brick had already revealed a greyish-white color. It seemed that the purity was much higher than before.
Grand Senior Sister repeated the process again. For every hundred kilograms of spirit stones, she took half a kilogram of liquid and solidified it into spirit stone bricks. For every hundred bricks, she continued to refine them until only half a kilogram of essence was extracted.
When the number of greyish-white spirit stone bricks reached a hundred, they were thrown into the furnace for a third refinement. Just like before, only half a kilogram of liquid essence was extracted.
This time, the spirit stone brick condensed from the third batch of liquid essence was pure white in color, and it even looked a little transparent.
Grand Senior Sister glanced at it and continued.
These few days, other than returning to the forbidden area to help Li Chengfeng and the rest train, Grand Senior Sister stayed in front of the furnace, not moving an inch. When she finally gathered a hundred pure white spiritual stone bricks, she threw them back into the furnace to reforge it.
This time, it was the last time. The newly refined spirit stone bricks were pure white and transparent. One could almost see what was happening on the other side, just like a crystal.
This time, Grand Senior Sister looked satisfied when she saw the completed brick. For this brick that was almost a hundred percent pure and extremely hard, Grand Senior Sister had used a total of a million kilograms of spirit stones!
To refine her magical weapon, she needed twenty high-grade spirit stone bricks of the highest purity. In other words, she needed ten million kilograms of high-grade spirit stones, ten thousand tonnes!
One kilogram of high-grade spirit stones was equivalent to ten taels of silver. To refine a high-grade magical weapon, just the spirit stones alone would cost twenty million taels of silver!
This was equivalent to ten years of tax revenue for Tong 'an, the most prosperous city in the Northern Lands!
The financial and material support required for a top-notch magic treasure was absolutely unimaginable by ordinary people!
What did it mean to say that the poor study and the rich practice martial arts?
This was it!
What did it mean to say that the poor play with talismans and the rich play with magical weapons?