Chapter 193 Artifact Refining Level


    Mo Hua nodded proudly.


    Master Chen was shocked, "How long have you been able to draw a first-grade formation?"


    "This is all a trivial matter." Mo Hua waved his hand and continued:


    "With a first-grade weapon refining furnace and a first-grade smelting array, it should be able to attract many weapon refiners."


    Can drawing a first-grade formation be a trivial matter...


    Master Chen felt mixed feelings, and sighed, "Don''t worry, no weapon refiner can refuse the first-grade weapon refiner plus the first-grade formation."


    The skill of the weapon refiner depends on the weapon refining furnace. There are not many first-grade weapon refining furnaces in the entire Tongxian City, let alone the first-grade formations need to be drawn on the furnace.


    If you refuse this, what if you are not a fool?


    "That''s good." Mo Hua felt relieved.


    Then he remembered another question, "Master Chen, what is the level of refining weapons determined?"


    “Grade?”


    "Well," Mo Hua nodded, "just like a formation master, the nine formation patterns are first-grade formations. What kind of standard spiritual weapon can be called first-grade spiritual weapon?"


    The weapon refining furnace is actually a kind of spiritual weapon, but it is just a spiritual weapon used for cultivation and production, which is different from the spiritual weapon used by ordinary monks for attack or defense.


    The casual cultivators in Tongxian City cannot forge a first-grade refining furnace. The first-grade refining furnace that Elder Yu promised must also be bought from outside.


    But there should be a first-grade weapon refiner among the casual cultivators, so why can’t they forge a first-grade spiritual weapon?


    "This is a long story..." Master Chen said.


    Mo Hua sat on a small stool, looking like she was waiting to listen to the story.


    Master Chen took a sip of wine, sorted out his thoughts, and began to say:


    "First of all, the formation master''s fixed grade is the most difficult. Only cultivators at the ninth level of Qi refining can become a first-grade formation master..."


    Master Chen said this, looked at Mo Hua and coughed, "Overall, only the ninth level of Qi refining can you become a first-grade formation master."


    Then he continued: "Compared with the formation master, the standards for fixed grades of weapon refiners, alchemists, and talisman makers are much more relaxed. As long as they reach the late stage of Qi refining, after training, accumulated experience, and reach a certain level of skill refining, they can refine first-grade spiritual weapons, and basically become first-grade weapon refiners."


    "Then why are there few casual cultivators able to refine first-grade spiritual weapons?" Mo Hua asked.


    "There are many reasons, such as the cost of first-grade spiritual weapons, with few materials, which cannot be built by ordinary cultivators, or lack of inheritance. Many spiritual weapons refining strategies are not available in the hands of cultivators, and some refining techniques cannot be learned..."


    Master Chen sighed, "Of course the most important thing is that we don''t have a good refining furnace."


    Mo Hua''s eyes lit up, "Is the refining furnace important?"


    "That''s natural," Master Chen sighed, "This weapon refining furnace is the weapon of the weapon refiner, just like the sword in the hands of a sword cultivator. What kind of sword technique can you learn without a sword? Without a weapon refining furnace, what kind of spiritual weapon should you refine?"


    Mo Hua nodded frequently, thinking it made sense.


    Master Chen pointed to his weapon refining furnace and said, "Don''t look at my weapon refining furnace, which is not big, but it is already quite good in the weapon refining business opened by the casual cultivator in Tongxian City."


    Master Chen was a little proud, "Many people were jealous of my weapon refining furnace and wanted to borrow this furnace to refine spiritual weapons, but I didn''t agree. How could the guy who was eating be able to borrow it at will!"


    "So, many casual cultivators cannot be first-grade weapon refiners, but in fact, they cannot refine first-grade spiritual weapons without a good weapon refining furnace?"


    "Yes," said Master Chen, "If you don''t have a refining furnace, you don''t have the chance to refine a first-grade spiritual weapon. How can you become a first-grade weapon refiner?"


    Mo Hua was a little curious, "Is the refining furnace really that critical?"


    Master Chen said: "The essence and iron ore in the cultivation world, and even the bones of monsters, are extremely tough. They must be refined with furnace fire before they can be forged. There is no elixir fire in the Qi Refining Period, so they can only use furnace fire. The furnace is of low grade and weak firepower, and the materials cannot be refined, so naturally they cannot be forged..." Mo Hua understood, and then asked: "If there is a good refining furnace and the furnace fire is also strong, how can we forge a first-grade spiritual weapon?"


    Master Chen sighed, "This is a bit troublesome."


    Mo Hua poured him a glass of wine, "Do you drink a little wine and say it slowly."


    Master Chen looked at Mo Hua''s curious eyes and felt helpless, "Since you want to hear it, I''ll just say it briefly."


    "The grade of spiritual weapons is determined by the standards set by the Dao Ting. How many fine iron or equivalent materials are contained in each piece of spiritual weapons, how many processes are processed, and how many times they have been forged are all measurement standards."


    "The most important one is the number of forgings. Generally, the first-grade spiritual weapon is forged hundreds of times. Then, according to whether the material of the spiritual weapon is hard, whether the shape of the spiritual weapon is special, and whether the technique of the spiritual weapon is complicated, it is appropriately increased and decreased. After being recognized by most weapon refiners, it is customary, and then it is clearly stipulated by the Taoist court and entered into the fixed-grade specifications."


    "It sounds so troublesome..."


    "That''s because you are not a weapon refiner, so it sounds cumbersome. If you become a weapon refiner, you will swing a hammer for a few days according to the weapon refining score and forge a few days of fine iron, you will naturally understand everything."


    Mo Hua looked at his little arms and legs, and after thinking about it, he would just forget it.


    Master Chen smiled and said, "Simply put, it depends on how many times you can hit iron. If you make a spiritual weapon, the grade will naturally not be lower. As the saying goes, ''A thousand times of tempering, you will become a weapon'', which is what it means."


    "That''s similar to drawing a formation. The more formations are drawn, the more array patterns it contains, the higher the grade. It seems that the principles in this world are all the same." Mo Hua nodded.


    Master Chen also smiled and said, "I don''t understand the formation, but according to your statement, it is indeed the case."


    Mo Hua asked again, "What about alchemy and talisman making are the same?"


    "Is alchemy and talisman making... I guess it''s similar, but I haven''t learned it, and I don''t know the tricks inside. After all, it''s like a mountain to make arbitrary assertion."


    Mo Hua nodded, this is the truth.


    Although he is quite proficient in formation, he only knows some basic things when it comes to refining weapons and alchemy. He has never learned a lot of the details in it himself, and has practiced them with his own hands, so he is confused when he thinks about it.


    Not only is it just alchemy and weapon refining, just take the formation as an example. The difference between the restoration formation and the single formation is relatively large. He is more familiar with the Five Elements formation, but he is not particularly clear about it if it involves other formation pivot structures or attribute types.


    For example, the Three Talent Formation, there are other two quatrain formations, four symbol formations, seven-star formations, eight-gua formations, etc. mentioned by Mr. Zhuang.


    I guess it is very different from the Five Elements Formation when you really learn and use it.


    Not to mention that Mo Hua has also heard of some evil formations such as demon formations, demon formations, evil formations, ghost formations, and corpse formations, and are explicitly prohibited by the Dao Court.


    Then Mo Hua had another doubt and asked, "Master Chen, are you familiar with talisman making?"


    "I''m not very familiar with it." Master Chen said truthfully.


    "You know a little bit."


    Master Chen said in confusion: "What do you want to know?"


    "Is there any difference between talisman making and formation?"


    When Mo Hua was practicing in Tongxianmen, he also learned some courses that briefly introduced talismans, but those courses were too superficial and knowledge-oriented, which was different from the actual situation of practicing Taoism.


    When learning the formation, Mo Hua always felt that the formation he drew on paper was very similar to the "talisman" I remembered in another life.


    Ink painting has never quite understood what the difference is.


    (This chapter ends)