In the Shushan Sect, Li Shiming made elixirs once a day. Compared with the five elixirs a day before, it only took about three or four hours to refine a third-grade elixir at a time, which was relatively more time.
He began to find out the weapon refining inheritance he had obtained before. Of course, the weapon refining inheritance in his hand was of very low grade, but it was still enough for getting started.
In fact, it is an extremely wasteful behavior to use spiritual fires such as Chiyang Spiritual Fire, which has almost reached the level of golden elixir, to learn weapon refining.
Especially since he is still practicing with first-grade materials, and all he makes are magic weapons.
It was not difficult to make a magic weapon, but he soon discovered the shortcomings of the weapon refining inheritance in his hand.
In his hand was the weapon refining inheritance summed up by casual cultivators. Whether it was first-grade or second-grade weapon refining materials, only a relatively small amount of the weapon refining materials were recorded, and there was no relevant information on most of the weapon refining materials.
This cannot be blamed on the weapon refining inheritance of casual cultivators, but is caused by the casual cultivators themselves.
There are not many weapon-refining materials that casual cultivators have access to. Most of the better resources are occupied by the big sects and big forces. Those that can fall into the hands of casual cultivators are looked down upon by the big sects and big forces.
Of course, it's not that there are no good materials, but that casual cultivators don't have a inheritance system like a large sect, so they can only rely on their own experience. Even if they are lucky enough to encounter good materials, they don't dare to refine them by themselves.
Once casual cultivators fail to use good materials, or fail to achieve the desired quality, the losses will be too great for casual cultivators to afford.
Therefore, the weapon refining inheritance in Li Shiming's hands was of little use soon after he started to use it.
Just when he was thinking about whether to use his contribution points to redeem a piece of weapon refining inheritance from the sect, the sect's elder Zhang sent a message of visit outside the Sword-holding Peak.
After Li Shiming saw the magic formula, he was slightly startled. He naturally knew Elder Zhang. Elder Zhang was a Jindan elder from the lineage of his master, Elder Su, but his relationship with Elder Zhang could only be described as average.
Who calls him a junior? Elder Zhang only praised him verbally before, but it was for the sake of his master, Elder Su.
After that, he became an alchemy master. Elder Zhang's enthusiasm was not particularly eye-catching among the many golden elixir monks, so he could no longer leave a deep impression on him.
However, although he didn't know why Elder Zhang came here, he could not help but see him because of the friendship between Elder Zhang and Elder Su.
Li Shiming opened the mountain protection formation and invited Elder Zhang in.
"Shiming, my sudden arrival has disturbed you, right?" Elder Zhang said with a smile as soon as he saw Li Shiming.
This is a reflection of Li Shiming's status. Now all the elders of the sect live with him on an equal footing.
Elder Zhang also looked at the time. Li Shiming's alchemy time was fixed every day, and no monks would disturb him during this time.
He said this intentionally to bring the relationship between the two people closer in a low profile.
"Uncle Zhang is so polite, no need to disturb him!" Li Shiming smiled and invited him to the pavilion specially built for entertaining guests on the top of the mountain.
Li Shiming took the second-grade spiritual tea and the spiritual spring water that had been improved by Jingling Koi, brewed a cup of spiritual tea and handed it to Elder Zhang.
"Tea or water! Ever since the celebration, I have been thinking about your spiritual tea!" Elder Zhang was not in a hurry to say why he came. He took a sip of the second-grade spiritual tea and said with bright eyes.
"Since Uncle Zhang likes it, take a piece of spiritual tea and some spiritual spring water with you when you leave!" Li Shiming waved his hand and said with a smile.
The second-grade spiritual tea is made by himself, and the taste is naturally excellent, not to mention that it is paired with a spiritual spring that has been upgraded to the first level. It is estimated that the quality of this spiritual spring is better than that of Yuanying Ancestor.
, the spiritual spring here is the best in the sect.
This is also a gift that he can currently get, and there is no need to think too much about the quantity.
"Then I'm not welcome!" Elder Zhang said happily. When the atmosphere reached this point, he got down to business: "I heard that you are learning to refine weapons recently?"
Li Shiming's learning of weapon refining will be discovered by anyone who is interested.
Li Shiming is different from before. Many monks in the sect are paying attention to his every move.
Recently, he used his contribution points to exchange for a batch of first-grade weapon refining materials. How could he hide such a thing from the monks in the sect.
He had no intention of hiding it, mainly because learning to refine weapons was not something shameful.
"Yes, I'm just passing the time!" Li Shiming replied with a smile.
"You are already in the late stage of foundation building, and you should really learn to refine weapons. I have never heard of you learning to refine weapons, so I will recommend myself to teach you how to refine weapons. Although I am not a master of weapon refiners, I am only one step away from being a master of weapon refiners.
, this is the reason why my talent for refining is so poor. However, the inheritance of the refining in my hands is top-notch!" Elder Zhang nodded and said.
Elder Zhang understood Li Shiming's study of weapon refining.
Learning to refine weapons in the later stage of foundation building is a secondary job that most monks who have confidence in themselves and can advance to the golden elixir stage must learn.
Because after a monk reaches the golden elixir stage, he needs to prepare magic weapons for himself.
Magic weapons can be purchased or refined by oneself. Generally speaking, one's own inheritance will have a method for refining magic weapons, which is a magic weapon that matches one's own skills.
Refining the magic weapon that is consistent with the main practice method, plus the magic weapon that you refine yourself, is more closely connected with your own soul and has better controllability. These characteristics make qualified Golden Elixir monks refine their own magic weapon.
Elder Zhang believes that this is the case for Li Shiming. With his status as an alchemy master, Li Shiming's probability of producing an elixir is much higher than that of other late-stage foundation-building monks.
At this time, for the sake of becoming a pill, it is normal to learn to refine weapons.
"Thank you, Uncle Zhang, I was looking for someone to guide me!" Li Shiming said with great joy.
There are weapon-refining inheritances in the sect that can be exchanged, but the truly good weapon-refining inheritances are all passed down by the monks who specialize in weapon-refining in the sect. There are few inheritances to the outside world, let alone redemption with contribution points.
This is just like the alchemy inheritance. You can also use contribution points to redeem the alchemy inheritance in the sect. However, if you want to learn the 'Shushan Alchemy Code', the only chance is to get it from Elder Ma.
"Can you let me see the magic weapon you refined?" Elder Zhang heard what Li Shiming said and asked with a smile.
Li Shiming took out several first-grade magic weapons that he had refined, and looked at Elder Zhang with some embarrassment, waiting for Elder Zhang's comments.
I am studying the weapon refining inheritance of casual cultivators, so it is estimated that the first-grade magic weapon I took out will be difficult to catch the eyes of Elder Zhang.
"Your purification method is extremely rough, but your control of the flame is extremely fine, making the material purified to the extreme by you. This is related to your alchemy, but it is only a first-grade weapon refining material. If it reaches a second-grade or third-grade material, the control used in alchemy
The Fire Technique is beyond its power!" Elder Zhang commented while inspecting the first-grade magic weapon.
Li Shiming certainly knows his own abilities. With the assistance of IBMz15, he can do the best in various processing techniques.
But as Elder Zhang said, he also felt his weakness in controlling fire.
The Spiritual Flame Control Technique in the 'Shushan Alchemy Code' mainly improves the subtle control ability of the spiritual fire, and can achieve precise temperature control and changes when refining elixirs.
When using the Spiritual Flame Control Technique to refine weapon refining materials, the flame temperature does not need to be as precise as when refining elixirs.
Because even a tenth of a degree difference in temperature during elixir refining may cause problems with the elixir liquid in the elixir furnace, and when refining the elixir, as long as the temperature is controlled within an error of one or two degrees, it will be within a reasonable range.
However, when refining the weapon, the temperature needs to be instantly increased by thousands of degrees, which is something that the Spiritual Flame Fire Control Technique cannot take into account.
"Of course, my requirements are too high. From a beginner's perspective, these first-grade magic weapons of yours are already perfect!" Elder Zhang continued.
The first-grade magic weapon in his hand fully unleashes the potential of the material. It is estimated that he would do it himself, and the best he can do is that.
On the one hand, his previous comments were to promote the inheritance of the weapon refining in his hands, and on the other hand, they were to prevent Li Shiming from underestimating the weapon refining method.
At this time, he already had the same feeling as when Elder Ma taught Li Shiming how to make alchemy. Before it even started, he discovered that Li Shiming's talent in refining weapons was astonishing.
Using obviously extremely low-level weapon refining techniques, he was able to refine such a perfect first-grade magical weapon.
Elder Zhang can see the traces of casual cultivators in his weapon refining techniques.
But if a casual cultivator could refine a magical weapon to this extent, even a first-grade magical weapon would be enough to become famous in the Beishu continent, but he had never heard of any casual cultivator's weapon refining master using it like this.
Rough weapon refining techniques are as perfect as Li Shiming's.
This is talent, Li Shiming's talent for refining weapons.
"Uncle Zhang, what should I do?" Li Shiming was not satisfied with Elder Zhang's praise, but wanted to solve the problems encountered in the weapon refining.
He has heard too many compliments for a long time. Ever since he started refining alchemy, he has been repeating all kinds of compliments in his ears.
He is almost immune to words such as praise, and he focuses more on self-improvement.
"My weapon-refining inheritance is called the Zhang family's weapon-refining inheritance. There have been three weapon-refining masters and nine senior weapon-refining masters in my family. In my generation, I am the only senior weapon-refining master left. With your skills,
With the talent of weapon refining, it is only a matter of time before he acquires the Zhang family's weapon refining inheritance and becomes a weapon refining master!" Elder Zhang waited for Li Shiming to ask the question, and he answered in a deep voice.
"Uncle Zhang, this is your family inheritance!" Li Shiming did not expect that the weapon refining inheritance mentioned by Elder Zhang was a family inheritance, so he couldn't help but remind him.
Although he really wanted to learn the Zhang family's weapon refining inheritance, family inheritance, especially the family inheritance that is still being passed on, is rarely passed on to outsiders.
This is the foundation for a family to settle down and live its life, and it is the crystallization of the wisdom of many generations of the family.
"Shi Ming, the Zhang family has been passed down to this day. Currently, there are only three people with spiritual roots. Apart from me, the other two have four spiritual roots and five spiritual roots. There has not been a child with spiritual roots in the family for fifty years.
, I put this inheritance in my hands, I might as well leave it to you. You just need to help me protect the Zhang family within the scope of your ability. Maybe after many generations, a descendant with excellent spiritual talent will appear, and you can win over it.
A handful!" Elder Zhang explained helplessly.
Li Shiming knew what Elder Zhang was thinking. This was also the situation that the Immortal Cultivation Family was most worried about.
Normally speaking, since the bloodline of the cultivating family has the bloodline inheritance of monks, the proportion of spiritual roots appearing in the cultivating family is very high.
However, bloodline can change, and in a marriage with a mortal, the bloodline of a monk may be greatly diluted, causing the probability of the appearance of spiritual roots to decrease.
The number of female cultivators in the world of immortality is very small, and the number of female cultivators who are willing to form Taoist couples is even smaller.
Therefore, many monks who want to leave their bloodline have to marry mortals, and the lower the level of the monks who want to leave their bloodline, the better.
Golden elixir monks like Elder Zhang were able to leave heirs through secret methods when they first entered the golden elixir. However, after entering the golden elixir for a long time, their bodies have been completely transformed by the golden elixir, and the probability of leaving heirs will be extremely low.
Even if the secret method is used, it will be the same.
Not to mention that if a Golden Elixir monk forcibly leaves an heir during the Golden Elixir stage, it will cause damage to the body and even affect his future cultivation path.
In addition, breaking Yuan Yang and Yuan Yin before the golden elixir stage will reduce the probability of being promoted to the golden elixir, so truly talented monks will not leave heirs easily.
Therefore, a cultivating family will inevitably encounter a situation where the descendants with spiritual roots in the family are not able to take over. This period may be decades or hundreds of years, but as long as there are monks to protect them, there will always be descendants whose spiritual talents return to their ancestors.
Elder Zhang didn't know how many years it would take for the Zhang family to have another descendant with good spiritual talent. He needed a young and potential monk to provide protection for the family.
By paying for the family's weapon refining inheritance, a young alchemy master can provide protection for the family. Elder Zhang is very willing to do this.
Li Shiming thought for a while and realized that it would be easy to protect a cultivating family. Anyway, Elder Zhang is still the elder of the sect. At least while Elder Zhang is still alive, he does not need his protection.
After Elder Zhang left, Li Shiming must have reached the golden elixir stage, so he could just protect the Zhang family of immortal cultivators.
"Uncle Zhang, I accept the Zhang family's weapon refining inheritance!" Li Shiming said with a smile.
Elder Zhang was also very happy. He took out a jade slip and handed it to Li Shiming.
Li Shiming took the jade slip and placed it between his eyebrows to look at it.
There is a lot of content in the jade slips, and the vast amount of content shows the Zhang family's accumulation of weapon refining.
There are a large number of various refining materials, some of which Li Shiming has seen, and many more that he has never seen or even heard of, all of which have detailed descriptions.
These instructions include the characteristics of the refining materials, the melting point during refining, what kind of effects it will produce when combined with other refining materials, etc. It can be said to be an encyclopedia of refining.
Compared with Li Shiming's previous inheritance of weapon refining, the inheritance of loose cultivation tools is like kindergarten graffiti, and the weapon refining inheritance in his hand is like a teaching book from a famous university.
Moreover, this Zhang family's weapon refining inheritance also records several secret techniques specific to weapon refining, including the 'Dragon Breath Explosive Fire Technique', 'Hundred Revolutions Purification Technique' and other refining techniques.
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