Chapter 118: Wood Sword

Jiang Ding came to the cultivation room, carrying a schoolbag, holding a flowerpot the size of a rice cooker in his hand.

【Spirit-Gathering Flowerpot】

【Low-grade magic treasure, engraved with first-layer Spirit-Gathering Array, first-layer Condensing Water Array, first-layer Fire-Gathering Array, a good helper for planting spiritual plants - produced by Li's Craft Shop.】

This was a low-grade magic treasure he bought after anonymously selling a fire-attribute precious material in the Banyan Tree network, used to plant the wood sword.

The flowerpot was placed on the ground.

Jiang Ding opened his schoolbag, took out two bags of nutritional spirit soil specially for planting spiritual plants and poured them on the ground, and took another small bag of iron powder he made, mixing it evenly into the nutritional spirit soil.

A small tip for planting: when planting metal-attribute spiritual plants, mixing in an appropriate amount of pure iron powder can promote the growth of spiritual plants.

After fully mixing, Jiang Ding transferred all the nutritional spirit soil to the Spirit-Gathering Flowerpot, and even cleaned the thin soil on the ground clean with internal power bit by bit.

Input internal power, the first-layer Condensing Water Array in the flowerpot automatically operated, absorbing a large amount of moisture from the air, and automatically stopped when the metal-attribute spiritual plant soil humidity was reached.

Not only that, this specially engraved first-layer Condensing Water Array could also maintain the soil humidity according to the value set by the owner, drawing water if it was too wet, and supplementing water if it was too dry.

If the spiritual plant had major abnormalities, the flowerpot would also flash red light to alarm.

The first-layer Fire-Gathering Array would keep the temperature of the flowerpot soil constant. Now it was set to about 322 degrees Celsius, the temperature that most metal-attribute spiritual plants liked most.

Very intelligent.

"Next is to melt the talisman sword into the seed."

Jiang Ding went through the content about the wood sword in the second layer of "Great Sun Sword

【Name: Thorn Blue Wood Seed】

【Evergreen shrub, 0.5-2.5 meters tall, irregularly multi-branched; branches are fleshy and relatively thick, young branches are grayish-yellow, branches are short and dense. Leaves are alternate with pale blue stripes, absorbing solar energy during the day to store it, and emitting a blue fluorescent light at night...

Function: Contains a relatively rich amount of the newly discovered substance 'Blue Gold 2413', the function of which may be related to this new component...】

This water-drop-shaped gemstone is actually a Thorn Blue Wood seed, which is homologous to the Blue Gold reagent; compared to other spirit plant seeds that still need to be sought out, it is extremely compatible with the talisman sword, and it is expected that after being refined into a wooden sword, it will significantly enhance the sharpness of the flying sword.

"Array Spirit, request to open the skylight."

Jiang Ding said.

The skylight overhead slowly opened; at high noon, the brilliant golden sunlight shone straight down, attracted by the talisman sword suspended in mid-air, causing a large amount of light to gather, making it incomparably dazzling and bright.

The surrounding temperature gradually rose, becoming abnormally hot and dry.

Jiang Ding did not pause in the slightest, continuing to urge the Great Sun Spirit-Gathering Array within the talisman sword to gather more essence of the Great Sun.

Gradually, one could clearly see the color of the talisman sword's body turning bright red, no different from an iron block in a furnace, with the temperature exceeding three thousand degrees Celsius, already approaching the melting point of tungsten.

There were waves of scorching, stinging pain in his mind, and a faint emotion of fear came from the talisman sword; under the high temperature of several thousand degrees, there were signs of the array patterns melting and the sword body being destroyed.

"Continue!"

Jiang Ding remained unmoved, urging the Great Sun Spirit-Gathering Array to swallow the surrounding Great Sun essence even more frantically, causing the sword body's temperature to rise further.

Three thousand, four thousand, five thousand degrees Celsius!

At this temperature, one could already see that parts of the sword body had turned into liquid; looking from the outside in, one could clearly see the fine and complex array patterns trembling incessantly under the protection of his internal power, with very few places showing the phenomenon of the array patterns and the liquid completely fusing into one.

Internal power surged out wildly; in order to protect the relatively fragile array patterns, a massive amount of internal power was consumed every single moment.

"Temperature, continue to rise!"

Beads of sweat appeared on Jiang Ding's forehead, yet he still said calmly.

He urged the Great Sun Spirit-Gathering Array within the talisman sword even more crazily, gathering more Great Sun essence to raise the temperature, to the point that the sunlight even a few meters outside the cultivation room dimmed slightly.

The talisman sword had completely turned into liquid!

He still felt it was not enough and continued to urge the Great Sun Spirit-Gathering Array to draw in Great Sun essence.

Five thousand five hundred degrees Celsius, five thousand seven hundred degrees Celsius, five thousand nine hundred degrees Celsius!

The further it went, the more massive the internal power required to be poured into the talisman sword for every slight increase in temperature; the Tier 1 Great Sun Spirit-Gathering Array emitted creaking sounds of being unable to bear the burden, as if it would completely collapse in the next second.

"It can still hold for seven seconds."

The sweat on Jiang Ding's forehead increased, but his eyes remained incomparably calm; he knew his heart-blood flying sword like the back of his hand and had precise calculations.

Six thousand degrees Celsius!

Finally, it reached a certain critical point; the talisman sword had even turned from bright red to scorching white, and the air itself showed visible, transparent, twisting ripples.

Boom!

A chaotic explosion seemed to occur within his mind; the Tier 1 Great Sun Spirit-Gathering Array, Tier 1 Special Sharp Metal Array, Tier 1 Floating Array, and Tier 1 Flying Array—the patterns of these four arrays twisted and deformed, intertwining with each other within the talisman sword that had completely turned into liquid, with each containing the other, forming a seamless whole.

Wisps of blue smoke rose; this was because many bamboo and wood fibers within the talisman sword's body could not withstand such high temperatures and sublimated into wisps of blue smoke, causing the talisman sword's body to shrink further.

"Finally..."

Jiang Ding exhaled lightly, controlling the talisman sword—now a ball of liquid metal with clearly visible array patterns—to fly down and land on the Thorn Blue spirit wood seed, which was protected by layers of internal power in his hand.

Sizzle!

More blue smoke rose; even as a metal-attribute spirit plant, it suffered no small amount of damage under this high temperature.

Jiang Ding, however, was not worried; after multiple tests and simulations, the Thorn Blue spirit wood seed was fully capable of withstanding this high temperature.

After the seed had adapted slightly,

at his thought, the talisman sword transformed into threads of scorching array patterns that seeped into the seed's epidermis, with some outer array patterns distributed everywhere, the middle array patterns seeping into the endosperm, and the core array patterns merging into the seed embryo.

The talisman sword and the spirit seed were initially fused together.

Jiang Ding's expression was solemn; he still did not release the internal power protection for the talisman sword and the spirit seed.

The temperature of the talisman sword's array patterns slowly decreased; only when it dropped to over three hundred degrees Celsius—the temperature the Thorn Blue spirit wood seed liked most—did he release the internal power protective isolation between the two.

Jiang Ding picked up the spirit seed and held it before his eyes, observing it carefully.

It was still the size of a fist and looked like a pale blue gemstone, only now the gemstone had many complex golden pattern lines on it, from the surface layer all the way to the core seed embryo.

Now the two were only 'grafted' together and could not yet be called a single entity.

He carefully dug a small hole, planted the spirit seed into the spirit-gathering flowerpot, covered it with thick soil, and poured internal power into the bottom of the pot, activating the Tier 1 Water-Condensing Array and Tier 1 Fire-Gathering Array, which spat out water vapor at about 322 degrees Celsius, bit by bit soaking all the spirit soil in the flowerpot until water droplets fell onto the floor of the cultivation room.

His perception of the spirit seed weakened bit by bit, until finally only a faint, almost imperceptible connection remained, enough to determine whether it was still alive.

Jiang Ding was not worried; this was a normal phenomenon, as the spirit seed was initially stabilizing, accumulating energy and nutrients for the subsequent breaking of the soil and germination.

"Half a month, fifteen days to germinate..."

He silently calculated the time and made up his mind not to go out for anything without his flying sword.

(End of chapter)