At this moment, there were only Yan Yue and Death Eye on the cloud platform. The moon had already quietly risen into the sky, bringing some light to the originally dark land.
A gentle breeze blew past, lifting up their slender hair and tangling it in the dark shadows.
Quietly, neither of them spoke.
Death Eye narrowed his eyes, unable to see Yan Yue's current expression. He slowly raised his right hand, and the bead on his wrist quickly spun.
Yan Yue cautiously took a step back. What kind of artifact was this? Why was she unable to resist it?
If they were to meet in the competition, wouldn't he lose without a doubt?
However, it must not be easy to activate it. Otherwise, why didn't he use it every time!
The competition rules stated that demonic beasts, elixirs, and formations could not be used, but talismans?
There were not many requirements for talismans and artifacts, but it could not exceed one's cultivation by too much. In other words, as long as it was not too high level, it was fine.
That was true!
There was no such thing as absolute fairness in this world.
Death Eye walked step by step towards Yan Yue. Yan Yue did not move. It was not that she did not want to, but that she could not move.
Hmph!
Death Eye laughed coldly. Let's see where you can run now, Yan Yue!
"What are you two doing here instead of training?"
Saved. Yan Yue sighed in relief. Teacher Yi Suixian, I've never been so happy to see you!
Tsk!
Death Eye snorted in his heart. He was annoyed that he had been disturbed.
However, he did not show it on his face. He still had a cute smile on his face.
"Uncle-Master Yi!"
"Uncle-Master Yi!"
Yi Suixian nodded and said, "I won't ask what you're doing here. Your training with Uncle-Master hasn't ended yet, right?
If you have time to fight here, then go train immediately! "
"Yes, Uncle-Master." Death Eye smiled at Yi Suixian, then looked meaningfully at Yan Yue before turning to leave.
Seeing that Yan Yue didn't move, Yi Yixian asked, "What are you still doing here? Why aren't you going?"
Yan Yue's eyes darted left and right before she suddenly asked, "Martial Uncle Yi, you've returned safely?
This is great! "
Yi Yixian was shocked, his face flushed red, and he said angrily, "What nonsense are you talking about!
Where did you hear that from? "Yan Yue shrugged and said indifferently," Ai!
To think that I was so worried about Martial Uncle! "" You, stop changing the topic. Hurry up and go train. "
"I have something to do!"
When Yan Yue said this, her expression was much calmer, as if she was stating a fact. She no longer had the teasing look from before.
"I still need to ask for three more days of leave. Martial Uncle Yi, sorry to trouble you." With that, Yan Yue bowed to Yi Suixian and left without waiting for his reply.
This child is really … Sigh!
Yi Yixian shook his head, "She's really not cute!
I really don't know what Martial Brother Sui likes about her, but sometimes, she does seem a little cute … It's just that she's too impolite. Next time, I must talk to her properly. "
"Who are you talking about?" A cold voice sounded.
"Of course it's Yan Yue, that stinking brat.
Eh, Martial Brother Sui!
Elder Xiang, you're here too? "
Seeing that it was Alpha Suiren and Xiang Pei, Yi Yixian awkwardly touched the back of his head, his heart almost unnoticeably raised.
"You damn brat, the effects of the medicine haven't worn off and you already ran out. Can't stand the loneliness, huh?" Xiang Pei put his hands on his hips and roared at Yi Yixian angrily.
"Eh, how could that be? Ah!
Martial Brother Sui, aren't you going to train with that group of children?
Why are you here? "
"I heard that a certain idiot ran away, so I'm here to catch him." This Martial Brother really makes people worry. Thinking about that unexpected kiss in the cave, Alpha Suiren gritted his teeth and thought that it was definitely, definitely a stain in his life.
He should really be glad that no one saw it, otherwise, he would inexplicably carry the name of a homosexual.
This debt, he will properly make his Martial Brother pay for it. Speaking of which, that was his first kiss!
Eh!
Alpha Suiren instantly went offline, his heart swaying in the wind and rain.
Xiang Pei dragged the shouting Yi Yixian away. Alpha Suiren stood in place for a while, then walked towards a few large stones engraved with the competition's arrangements. As half a master, he had to pay attention to his disciples. Ou Shanghe had already entered the Jindan Period a few days ago, so there were only six people left. None of them were on the first day, but they were on the second and third days.
Shi Han, Death Pupil, and Ghost Lie were on the second day, while Qing Shang Quan, Yan Yue, and Nan Zhimeng were on the third day.
When the time comes, I'll have to take a look. I hope that these children won't disappoint me.
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"Master Yuan, can you lend me some blacksmithing manuals?"
Yan Yue didn't return to Windward Residence. Instead, she went to the blacksmithing room. There was only one old man guarding the room. He was a very amiable old man. Although he was only at the sixth level of Qi Refining, his blacksmithing level had already reached the fifth level.
In the Cultivation World, it was very difficult to see older people. If his cultivation didn't progress, he probably didn't have much time left.
Yan Yue had always been respectful towards him. As a Chinese child, respecting the old and cherishing the young was the most basic thing.
Please forgive her for the habit she brought from Earth. Even if she knew that Martial Uncle Sui, Martial Uncle Yi, and those elders were already in their seventies or eighties, she would still treat them as her peers due to their youthful faces.
This was a subconscious habit, and it would be very hard to change it.
Yuan Shi felt somewhat moved. He had been guarding this blacksmithing room for dozens of years. When the disciples saw him, they didn't show disdain, ridicule, or ignore him. Although no one said anything on the surface, it wasn't as if he didn't know that they were secretly mocking and ridiculing him. After all, he was already 79 years old, but his cultivation was still at the sixth level of Qi Refining.
In this Tianyi Sect, 79 years old wasn't considered old, but his heart had already aged a few hundred years.
However, this child was so respectful and courteous every time she saw him. This really made him feel gratified. It turned out that such a child still existed.
Yuan Shi smiled and asked, "Are you still here to look at the blacksmithing manual?
I'll go get it for you now. Wait here for a while. "After saying that, he turned around and slowly walked towards a room.
"This time, please give me the basic practical instructions. Sorry to trouble you." Seeing that Master Yuan was about to leave, Yan Yue added.
Yuan Shi nodded. After a while, he slowly walked out of the room, holding several thick books in his hands.
Seeing this, Yan Yue quickly took the books in his hands and casually flipped through them. Yan Yue found that there were even middle and high level blacksmithing rules. She raised her eyes and looked at Master Yuan, who was smiling amiably at the side, with a little surprise. These could only be read after entering the middle level, right?
Yan Yue nodded slightly to Master Yuan and said silently in her heart, "Thank you."
Holding several blacksmithing books, Yan Yue came to a big room inside.
The room was completely empty, but it was surrounded by tightly shut stone doors. There were more than a dozen of them, and they were all tightly connected to each other.
This big room was called "Fire", which was used for blacksmithing by the outer sect disciples.
In front of each door, there was a sword-shaped bead with a small groove above it, which was just big enough to put an identity jade stone.
Yan Yue walked to one of the doors and inserted the identity jade stone into the groove. Immediately, the jade stone emitted a weak light, and the sword-shaped stone pillar also lit up.
Yan Yue put her hand on the stone door, and the tightly closed stone door slowly opened upwards.
After Yan Yue went in, the door was quickly closed again.
Yan Yue sat cross-legged on a cushion with her hands flat on her knees, eyes closed, and all her spiritual sense spread out.
The books in front of her were turning page by page under the driving of her spiritual power. Yan Yue opened her spiritual sense and quickly read the information in the books.
One night passed. Yan Yue withdrew her spiritual sense, closed the book, and came to the smelting furnace.
Yan Yue opened her storage bag and took out a pile of materials that could be used for blacksmithing.
Demonic beast teeth and bones, demonic beast blood and demonic beast skin, some ores for blacksmithing, and a few discarded swords. Oh, there was also the mirror fragments from Gu Yi, which should be able to be used for blacksmithing!
At the bottom of the furnace, the fire was lit. Half of the furnace's melting liquid and a small bottle of grass washing juice were poured in. Yan Yue first threw the ores into the furnace. Then, she drove her spiritual power and increased the fire. Small bubbles appeared on the surface of the water.
This process was very slow, but it consumed a lot of spiritual power. Originally, she could use the external fire, but Yan Yue didn't want to do this. If she wanted to cultivate the connection between the artifact and herself, and increase the compatibility between them, it was better to do it herself.
What she wanted wasn't a dead object, but an artifact that had a soul.
When most of the ores were melted, Yan Yue threw a few discarded swords into the furnace. After thinking about it, Yan Yue also threw in the curved sword. For her current self, the power of that sword was not good.
Originally, Yan Yue controlled the fire with one hand, but now, she controlled it with two palms. The power of the fire increased by another level.
The temperature in the cave slowly rose.
Yan Yue's clothes were still dry. Perhaps it was because it was a magic robe.
However, beads of sweat appeared on her skin. Yan Yue could clearly feel the water droplets flowing on her body. Amidst the scorching heat, she could occasionally feel a trace of coolness.
In the end, Yan Yue didn't add more fire to the bottom of the furnace. Instead, she placed her hands on both sides of the furnace's wall and continued to heat the furnace.
The liquid in the furnace was rapidly boiling, like a rolling sea of fire. It didn't have the slightest desire to stop.
Slowly, until the furnace emitted wisps of white smoke, Yan Yue withdrew her hands. She sat on the ground, somewhat exhausted. After eating a few Origin Spirit Pills, Yan Yue went to the side and leaned against the cave wall to rest.
Every once in a while, Yan Yue would go forward to check the situation inside the furnace. After repeating this several times, the furnace was still bubbling.
Once again, she came to the front of the furnace. There were a lot fewer bubbles. It was about time.
Yan Yue selected a few bones from the pile of demon bones. First, she used her spiritual power to shatter them and sprinkled them into the furnace. Then, she roasted them for a few hours. After that, she changed the heat to medium, and then slowly lowered the heat.
The color of the liquid in the furnace became very dark. However, it emitted a very, very weak light. It wasn't conspicuous, but it made people unable to move their eyes away.
Yan Yue held a high level refining manual and started to read it. What she needed to do now was to wait for it to gather by itself. The gathering of external forces would only disrupt its original order, which wasn't good.
A day passed in this way as she waited. Seeing that it was about time, Yan Yue began to gather its shape. Almost every cultivator had a sword, so Yan Yue also planned to be simple and cast a long sword.
Inside the furnace, a semi-melted object slowly rose. Under the effect of Yan Yue's spiritual power and spiritual sense, this melted object slowly took shape and gradually took the shape of a sword.
Her hands released flames and her spiritual sense entered it. She began the final delicate formation. Although this was her own flame, she still felt a slight burning pain when her spiritual sense went through it.
With a crackling sound, cracks appeared on the sword. Slowly, cracks appeared on the entire sword. A thin layer of black skin fell off the sword, revealing a black sword that emitted a dark light.
Yan Yue used her spiritual power to hold the sword in one hand and took a writing brush in the other. She dipped it in demon blood and began to embed 'laws' and 'mysteries' into the sword. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. For the last one, Yan Yue didn't use demon blood. Instead, she cut her index finger and drew a strange symbol in the air. The blood symbol seeped into the sword.
After the last Profound Meaning seeped into the sword, the light on the sword dimmed a little. However, its aura suddenly changed, revealing a sharp and majestic aura. After a while, the aura was withdrawn, and the sword became much more ordinary.
Looking at the pile of mirror fragments, Yan Yue thought for a bit and took the sword. She crushed the fragments into powder and rubbed it on the sword with her bare hands.
Her palm became red, but the sword was still very hot. If it wasn't for cultivation, an ordinary person's skin would have been torn open!
Even so, by the time Yan Yue had crushed all the fragments into powder, several blisters had appeared on her right hand. Two of them had already ruptured, and blood was gushing out from them.
Yan Yue didn't waste any time and rubbed the blood on the sword. The sword let out a buzzing sound and trembled as if something was about to come out.
Yan Yue took out a wooden bucket from her storage bag. After filling it with clear water, Yan Yue held the still hot sword in one hand and placed her other hand on the edge of the wooden bucket. She poured a cold aura into the clear water.
Only when the cold aura came out of the water did Yan Yue let go of the sword and sink it into the water.
The sword didn't sink but floated in the water. A sizzling sound echoed. In just a few breaths of time, bubbles appeared on the surface of the water. For a moment, the only sound that could be heard in the stone room was the sound of bubbles bursting.
Yan Yue wiped the sweat from her forehead and meditated to recover her strength. Time quietly passed by for a few more hours.