Chapter 107: Express Delivery from the Immortal Capital

Without looking for any assistants, Jiang Ding settled down in the Sword-Casting Villa.

Swish!

The talisman sword left its sheath, was coated with a layer of White Origin Liquid, and hovered quietly not far from him, gathering a large amount of sunlight and spiritual energy from heaven and earth to temper itself.

Jiang Ding closed his eyes and sensed for a moment.

For many days, the talisman sword's tempering had not stopped, and it was now approaching the limit of the first-layer talisman sword of the "Great Sun Sword-Planting and Sword-Refining Method." It was expected to be completed in six or seven days, opening the cultivation of the second-layer wood sword.

This was also the reason why he found a place to settle down. The cultivation of the wood sword required planting a seed integrated with a talisman seed, waiting quietly for it to take root and sprout, grow branches and leaves, and become lush, at which point the wood sword would be completed.

He glanced at the Heavenly Sound Stone in the Golden Blade Sect's Patriarch Hall.

It was still there, and the black-robed person was still meditating by the blood pool.

"Very good, I want to see how much lifespan a Qi Condensation cultivator has, and how long they can sit in one place."

Jiang Ding sneered, closed his eyes, and the fledgling eagle internal power circulated in his body, continuing to nourish the extraordinary meridians.

At the current speed, it will take another ninety days to achieve the Lesser Heavenly Cycle of the Young Eagle.

After practicing for four or five hours, he felt a bit tired. Jiang Ding left the main gate, found a shop selling charcoal, ordered three carts of charcoal for backup, and also purchased iron ore, anvils, fire tongs, hammers, and the like in bits and pieces, instructing the shopkeeper to deliver them to the Sword-Casting Villa.

Yes, he planned to continue the business of the Sword-Casting Villa.

There were several reasons. One was to cover his tracks; the location of the Sword-Casting Villa was considered prosperous, and it would be eye-catching if the owner had nothing proper to do every day. He didn't need to make money, just having something to do was enough.

The second was the most important reason. The third layer of the "Great Sun Sword-Planting and Sword-Refining Method" was the iron sword, which required integrating the wood sword into a sword embryo refined with Taiqing Divine Iron and Law-Breaking Immortal Gold, plus a large amount of precious materials, and constructing more complex array patterns.

Similarly, he planned to entrust the Central Array Spirit Computer to guarantee it, exchanging part of the Taiqing Divine Iron for Law-Breaking Immortal Gold and a large amount of precious auxiliary mineral materials, and entrust a Nascent Soul-level artifact refining master to refine the sword embryo.

There was no other way; only Nascent Soul-level power could handle Taiqing Divine Iron.

As for the issue of trust, he would not trust any cultivator in the face of such a supreme treasure, but he would trust the Central Array Spirit Computer created by the countless efforts of past sages.

History had proven this. There had been Soul Transformation cultivators who, for various reasons, wanted to turn the Immortal Sect into a sect of one person, taking whatever they wanted, causing huge turmoil within the Immortal Sect, and the deaths of countless cultivators and mortals.

But in the end, they were all suppressed and killed by the Central Array Spirit Computer uniting the forces of all sectors of society, and the turmoil was quelled.

The Central Array Spirit Computer could be trusted.

Besides this, the Dao Foundation Sword could be continuously refined and grown. Each advancement must cover the original array patterns with higher-level array patterns.

Therefore, he must master the art of sword refining, and now he had to take precautions.

Jiang Ding drove several horse-drawn carts filled with various goods into the Sword-Casting Villa's gate, which had not been opened for a long time, attracting curious gazes from many passersby nearby.

"Villa Owner Liu, the charcoal has been unloaded. Do you see anything else that needs to be done?"

An assistant pointed to the neatly stacked charcoal next to the furnace, the meaning very clear.

"No, thank you, little brother."

Jiang Ding settled the shipping fee and the money for the charcoal, sent away the assistants, and was just about to start practicing some earth-method forging techniques when a pale-skinned Confucian scholar came to visit.

"Greetings, Brother Liu."

The young Confucian scholar looked honest and seemed to be in poor health.

He brought a portion of snacks and bowed: "My surname is Zhang, given name Zihou. I am the owner of the Golden Jade Bookstore next door. I heard that you have moved in as a neighbor, so I came to visit."

A distant relative is not as good as a close neighbor.

In a feudal society with almost no rule of law or social security, mutual assistance between neighbors was an important supplement. Even for villains who did all kinds of evil outside, many would pay great attention to the relationship between neighbors.

"Greetings, Brother Zhang."

Jiang Ding was stunned, welcomed the person in, and apologized: "Just moved in, there is nothing, making Brother Zhang laugh."

This was indeed a mistake. He had no requirements for food, clothing, housing, or transportation, so he hadn't purchased anything, and couldn't even entertain guests with a little tea.

"Don't dare, Brother Liu is busy with everything now. I just came to get to know you. We will gather again in a few days."

Zhang Zihou left a gift and took his leave.

After sending the person away, Jiang Ding closed the main gate, came to the place where swords were forged in the Sword-Casting Villa in the past, and recalled the content in the "Complete Collection of Ancient Internal Power Artifact Refining Techniques" he found in the Immortal Sect library yesterday.

Generally speaking, internal power martial artists can at most refine 'half-magic treasures', which have different functions such as amplifying internal power, or carrying water and fire attributes, which are far from being comparable to true magic treasures.

The principle is to extract natural array patterns from the spiritual metal extracted from spiritual mineral materials through repeated hammering and other means using internal power. Most of them are simple Five Elements arrays such as the Sharp Metal Array, Condensing Water Array, and Thick Earth Array.

The success rate is extremely low.

Any martial arts person who can forge a half-magic treasure can call themselves a sword-casting master, which is enough to become a town-sect divine weapon of a large sect. They are very rare, and the waste is extremely serious.

The main reason is that these sword-casting masters do not understand the principles of arrays and can only perceive the patterns appearing in the device embryo with internal power hammering through experience, constantly adjusting the hammering until a pattern similar to what their ancestors have always been pursuing appears, and then they stop hammering.

Then they sacrifice the sword with the fresh blood of a large number of livestock, activate the similar patterns explored by their ancestors for generations, and hope for success like a gamble.

The greatest pursuit of many sword-casting masters in their lives is to be able to forge a town-sect divine weapon and leave their name in history.

Various sword-casting sects have similar inheritances, with differences in level, but none can escape this limitation.

"The first step is to crush and smelt iron ore to refine crude iron..."

Jiang Ding came to a piece of iron ore, selected a few pieces of good quality and placed them on the anvil, but did not go to get the hammer.

Clang!

Draw the sword, slash!

The three pieces of iron ore were cut into two halves, and the patterns drawn by the sword energy were spread all over the cut surface, almost turning the iron ore into a honeycomb.

"The sword energy is still not fine enough, unable to slash the iron ore into particles with one sword."

Jiang Ding muttered to himself, and another sword strike followed, and the iron ore shattered into small pieces the size of beads.

After observing and adjusting for several minutes, another sword strike followed.

After slashing a hundred swords in a row, it still did not achieve the effect of turning the ore into powder with one sword as imagined.

Jiang Ding was not in a hurry either. He finished today's two hours of sword forging, sat cross-legged, and continued to nourish and temper the large and small branches of the extraordinary meridians. At the same time, he used part of his mind to manipulate the talisman sword hovering in the air, using the Great Sun Spirit-Gathering Array to absorb the essence of the Great Sun and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to temper the sword body.

It wasn't until one or two o'clock in the afternoon that he returned to his room, watched his phone for a while, and prepared to sleep.

"The express delivery sent from the Beidou University Affiliated Biological Research Center in the Immortal Capital has arrived at the Qianyang Distribution Center and will be delivered to your hands tomorrow."

The information popped up by the Banyan Tree Express app made Jiang Ding happy.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 108 =====