Chapter 645 – Sword Casting
Chapter 645: Casting Swords
Looking at the wooden sword broken in two in her hand, Xu Chuniang was slightly stunned.
A moment later reacted that it was the wooden sword that was too fragile to withstand too much force.
If you wanted to learn how to use a sword, you had to build a suitable sword first.
A wooden sword wouldn’t do, and ordinary mortal iron wouldn’t do too well either.
She still had some spirit ore in her hand, so she should be able to build a handful of swords.
Xu Chuniang pondered for a moment, and turned over all the spirit minerals she had collected in passing when she crossed the western sea some years ago.
In terms of fourth-order spirit minerals alone, there were seven or eight types of red refined copper essence, green copper and gold essence, and five-colored iron essence.
There were even more third-order spirit minerals, twenty to thirty of them.
The small piece of Geng Jin’s stone that Kong Huan had gifted back then was also among them.
Xu Chuniang specialized in the Dao of Formation and was not good at refining weapons, having only read some basic books, she had a slight understanding of the physical properties of spirit minerals and the process of refining weapons.
However, having cultivated to the YuanYing realm, it was not too difficult to roughly refine a working sword.
Anyway, she was refining swords for practicing sword techniques, not looking for grade and power, as long as it was sturdy and durable.
Xu Chuniang gave it a slight thought, and chose Red Refined Copper Essence, Green Copper Gold Essence, and a small amount of third-ranked ebony gold, as raw materials.
It was her first time refining a sword, and she wasn’t very sure, but the fewer materials used, the higher the success rate.
The Red Alchemy Copper Essence and Green Copper Gold Essence, which were fourth-ranked weapon refining materials, were strong enough on their own.
Adding a small amount of ebony gold was able to fuse the two even more perfectly.
After recalling the refining process in her mind, Xu Chuniang casually laid down several boundaries, released the Meteorite Heart Flame, and calcined the Red Refined Copper Essence.
The Red Refining Copper Essence appeared to be a dark copper color, with the cross-section vaguely revealing a few reddish colors that intermingled with the large swaths of dark copper color.
As the Meteorite Heart Flame burned, the Red Refined Copper Essence showed some signs of liquefaction, flashing with a strange and dazzling luster.
Xu Chuniang glanced at the Red Refined Copper Essence, shook her head, and continued to patiently calcine it.
At the current rate, if she wanted to completely calcine it, it would take at least ten days and half a month.
Twelve days of continuous calcination, a large piece of Red Refining Copper Essence finally turned into a dark copper-colored and red-colored liquid.
Xu Chuniang split out several strands of Meteorite Heart Flame, carefully wrapped this group of Red Refined Copper Liquid, and then took a large piece of Green Copper Gold Essence, and continued to calcine it.
The Green Copper Gold Essence exuded a golden-green luster, its texture slightly softer than the Red Refined Copper Essence.
After ten days, the process of calcination and purification was completed, turning the Green Copper Gold Essence into a Green Copper Gold Liquid.
Right now, there was only ebony gold left to calcine and purify.
As a third-order spirit ore, ebony gold had a much softer texture than the first two, and was a common spirit ore used to aid in smelting.
After only half a day, Xu Chuniang had calcined a small piece of ebony gold into ebony gold liquid.
After the spirit ore had been calcined and purified, it was time for the most crucial melting.
This step was directly related to the grade of the finished product.
If the smelting fails, then this refining is basically a failure.
Even though only three types of spirit minerals were used in this refining, Xu Chuniang still didn’t dare to be careless.
She first separated a small group from the Red Refined Copper Liquid and added it to half of the Wujin Liquid.
The red-colored luster of the Red Refining Copper Liquid fell into the Wujin Liquid, and the red color of the sword turned pale.
After the two melted into each other, Xu Chuniang then added a small amount of Red Refined Copper Liquid into it several times, until the two melted into each other, and the process was considered complete.
Xu Chunniang heart slightly relaxed, will this spirit mineral liquid with meteorite heart flame package, put aside, and then take over the green copper gold liquid and the remaining half of the ebony liquid, so that the two melted.
Finally, the most important step was to fuse the Red Refined Copper Liquid mixed with the Ebony Liquid with the Green Copper Gold Liquid. Xu Chuniang first took a few drops from each of the two Spirit Mineral Liquids to test whether the two could be melted smoothly.
After all, if the melting failed, the two high-grade spirit minerals, the Red Alchemy Copper Essence and the Green Copper Gold Essence, would be directly scrapped, and the loss could not be described as heavy.
The two parts of the spirit ore liquid gathered together, issued a “snorting” sound, not only did not melt, but instead repelled each other up, a large amount of white gas.
Seeing this, Xu Chuniang realized that the amount of Wu Jin was too small, and did not melt away the repulsive force between the Red Refined Copper Essence and the Green Copper Gold Essence.
She set aside the wasted Spirit Mineral Liquid, took out a large piece of Wu Jin, and continued to calcine it ……
Three days later, after several attempts, Xu Chuniang finally melted all the Spirit Mineral Liquids together smoothly.
Next, the spirit sword could be molded.
Withdrawing the Meteoric Heart Flame, Xu Chunniang utilized her divine sense to shape the mass of spirit mineral liquid into shape, bit by bit.
After the spirit mineral liquid cooled, a sword embryo was born.
To turn the sword embryo into a true spirit sword, there were still several steps to go through.
Due to the limitations of the conditions, it could only be carried out up to this point.
Looking at the slightly rough sword embryo in her hand, Xu Chuniang felt a slight sense of accomplishment in her heart.
The sturdiness of this sword embryo had met her requirements.
It had taken nearly a month, and although only the sword embryo had been created, it was barely usable.
Xu Chuniang swung it a few times, and the sword embryo danced in the air, bringing out a whistling wind sound.
Even the laurel tree on the side swayed.
Looking at the dappled shadows of the trees, Xu Chuniang couldn’t help but be slightly mesmerized, remembering the bustling streets she had strolled through the other day, as well as the mortals that traveled through the streets.
Obviously, she had deliberately come to this mortal city with the intention of relaxing for a few days, taking a closer look at the scenery that she had missed out on all these years.
But when she was busy, she always forgot the time.
Pulling a sword flower at any time, taking a piece of cloth to wrap the sword up and put it on her back, Xu Chuniang pushed open the courtyard door and walked towards the outside.
Walking out of the boundary, the unique clamor of the mortal city, one by one, reached her ears, bringing with it the fireworks of the world, lively and vivid.
“Hehe, when did someone move into this small courtyard?”
The few women who lived nearby heard the commotion and sized up Xu Chuniang in a big way.
When their gazes landed on the sword on her back, they shrank slightly again, not daring to say much.
A woman who carried a sword on her back was no ordinary person, and was afraid that she would not be easy to get along with.
A few children playing in the distance, saw the sword on her back, but a coaxed around, a curious look.
A boy even boldly asked, “Can I touch your sword?”
Xu Chuniang unlocked her sword and gently held it at her side, “Be careful.”
Through the cloth, the boys’ hands were placed on top of the sword, and they could still feel the deep coolness.
He was so frozen that he retracted his hand, his gaze toward the sword still envious and eager, what a powerful sword!
Seeing this, several other children also competed to touch the sword.
Some were even more resourceful and directly fell down, exclaiming under their breath, “Lady warrior above, accept my worship, take me as your disciple and teach me the divine power!”
Xu Chuniang raised her eyebrows slightly, and before she could speak, a woman next to her rushed up and lifted the child who was bowing.
“Brat, where did you learn this set of teacher-worshipping etiquette, this is not a place to worship indiscriminately!”
(End of chapter)