Chapter 464: Taiqing Flying Sword Needs to Eat

After class, Jiang Ding pondered the problem while flying toward the mining district dormitory, only to be blocked by a formation.

"Warning, this is a private dormitory. Entry is prohibited."

"Sorry, old habits."

Jiang Ding felt somewhat embarrassed.

For over a hundred years, he had grown accustomed to it; he simply couldn't react in time.

A streak of escape light swept him tens of kilometers, landing atop a mountain peak shimmering with silver-white metallic luster and brimming with spiritual energy.

Surrounding him, silver-white metal mirrors reflected blinding light, harsh and scorching, with temperatures reaching hundreds of degrees—highly unsuitable for habitation—yet for him, it felt wonderful, bringing a sense of ease.

"Over the next ten years, I must complete the transition to the new Gong Fa and... refine the flying sword."

Jiang Ding drew a deep-blue flying sword from between his brows, gazing at it for a long time.

The Taiqing Flying Sword, as the sword of his Dao foundation, should be forged from Taiqing Divine Iron and Po Fa Xian Jin, and then surpass them.

This is not an expectation,

but rather a future fact.

A human cultivator's Ben Ming Fa treasure naturally grows continuously with cultivation and time.

To achieve this, besides continuously refining the prohibitions, one must also melt in more heavenly treasures and earthly gems.

"The Jin Dan portion of the 'Great Sun Dayang Dayang Tianchi Sword Refining Method' has already been worked out by the teacher; this Ben Gong Fa has not been lost, and with some modifications, it will suffice."

Jiang Ding retrieved the secret technique from the library and read it carefully.

"The treasure-refining technique of the Great Sun Sword Pavilion, named Great Sun Divine Prohibition, similarly designates treasures with twelve Di Sha prohibitions as Zhong Pin Fa treasures, and those with thirty-six Di Sha prohibitions as Zhong Pin Fa treasures... Compared to the Xian Men's 'Ten Thousand Dao Star Refining Art', it places greater emphasis on the flying sword's heat, sharpness, and the nurturing of sword intent, making it more suitable for me."

After reading it several times, Jiang Ding committed its contents to memory.

Mainly, because over the past few decades, he had participated in the development and modification of this sword-refining method, so mastering it required little time.

"The prohibitions..."

Jiang Ding took out a broken Mei Shang Pin Hei Yu Fa treasure, split in two, and flooded it with his Shen Hun, examining it closely.

This Mei Shang Pin Fa treasure came from a direct descendant of the Beast Path of the Liu Dao Sect, the Jin Dan late-stage cultivator Heishan.

"Fifty-one Di Sha prohibitions."

Jiang Ding's Shen Hun saw the fifty-one residual traces of Di Sha prohibitions within the Shen Hun Lao Yin; centered on the Shen Hun imprint, they vaguely formed a complex great formation, but with the Hei Yu broken in two, everything had collapsed and scattered.

He then took out the Jin Ta of Jin Ta Wang and the jade hairpin of Lady Senior Qian She, both Mei Shang Pin Fa treasures.

"The Jin Ta has forty-one Di Sha prohibitions, the jade hairpin has thirty-seven prohibitions; they barely qualify as Mei Shang Pin Fa treasures."

Jiang Ding judged: "It seems that, in terms of Fa treasures alone, Jin Ta Wang and Lady Senior Qian She are far inferior to Heishan."

Mei Shang Pin Fa treasures possess between thirty-seven and seventy-two Di Sha prohibitions; seventy-two Di Sha prohibitions represent the complete perfection of Di Sha, and advancing further transforms them into Ying Bao.

One can imagine that the further one goes, the harder it becomes to refine, encountering terrible bottlenecks, almost comparable to a human Jin Dan cultivator advancing to Yuan Ying.

The 'Great Sun Dayang Dayang Tianchi Sword Refining Method' contains a saying:

A Fa treasure is like a person; a person is like a Fa treasure.

"As for the refining technique, the methods of Jin Ta Wang and Lady Senior Qian She are the most common in the Cultivation World: the Northern Yuan Xiu Xian Gao Jie Tian Gang Di Sha Refining Method; the array patterns are simple and easy to learn, with no additional effects."

"Heishan is far more sophisticated; his method is inherited from the Beast Path's 'Blood Sacrifice Treasure Refining Art'. Each refinement requires the consumption of spiritual livestock and human sacrifices..."

"... Alas, these Modaoda Sects... their effects can add more spirituality to the Fa treasure; if one sacrifices more flying birds and demonic beasts, it can increase the treasure's speed, as is the case with the Hei Yu Fa treasure."

"The 'Great Sun Dayang Dayang Tianchi Sword Refining Method (Electromagnetic Version)' can significantly increase the flying sword's spirituality, solidity, sharpness, heat, electromagnetic affinity, and electromagnetic control; even with the same number of prohibitions and the same Fa treasure material, it can crush the Beast Path's treasures without issue."

"Requirements... different types of Jin Zhi heavenly treasures and earthly gems, and quite a lot of them."

Jiang Ding waved his hand casually.

The storage jade pendant shimmered, and hard block-shaped objects flew out one by one, continuously, quickly covering the sky and spreading over several kilometers, still expanding outward.

These metal blocks included common materials like gold, silver, copper, iron, zinc, manganese, tungsten, and special ones like N2702 Po Fa Steel, various models of Po Fa Steel, alloy steel, etc. —all mundane creations of human industrial civilization.

Many composite materials surpassed numerous spiritual materials in indicators such as sharpness, toughness, and hardness, with types numbering in the hundreds of thousands.

The rest were spiritual materials flashing with spiritual light: Qing Chong Guang Tie, Hong Ling Tong, Yin Chong Guang Tie, and other first and second-tier spiritual materials, as well as third-tier items like Ling Tong Mu, Tie Tai Jin, and Yin Ling Jin.

Some of these were collected in the Three Kingdoms lands or traded via the Ling Bao Merchant Association; the rest were all purchased from the Xian Men markets.

Anyway, he bought one type at a time; since third-tier heavenly treasures and earthly gems were expensive, he only bought a thumb-sized piece to test first.

There were also various specialties of the Xian Men, various artificially synthesized Ling Jin, and the like, available in markets and laboratories; this category was the bulk of it.

"Start with iron."

Jiang Ding absorbed a piece of pure iron and placed it upon the Taiqing Flying Sword.

Buzz!

The flying sword trembled extremely slightly.

"Not very fond of it."

Jiang Ding carefully sensed the Taiqing Flying Sword's instinct.

The feeling was a bit like bread mixed with nine layers of sawdust; when starving, one could eat it, and it had a tiny bit of use.

At other times, it was better not to bother.

"Copper, zinc, manganese..."

Jiang Ding brought over a pile of metallic elements in succession, gathering the entire periodic table, plus new metallic elements discovered in the Cultivation World.

They were all much the same.

The Taiqing Flying Sword showed little interest in these mundane materials.

"It seems spiritual materials are needed..."

Jiang Ding made a preliminary judgment.

Buzz buzz!

The Taiqing Flying Sword suddenly revealed a hint of excitement.

"Tungsten?"

"It likes tungsten."

Jiang Ding looked at the material in his hand, his heart filling with joy.

Tungsten, atomic number 74, a gray-black crystal, hard and brittle, with a very high melting point; it can be made into very fine wires and special alloy steels, and is a widely used industrial material.

The key is that, compared to spiritual materials, it is extremely cheap!

"It feels a bit like a small cake... that kind of feeling."

He carefully sensed it.

"It can serve as a snack, a side dish, but not enough as a staple."

"That's enough; this is good too."

Jiang Ding said joyfully.

"Next is the composite material test."

"Let's start with 304 stainless steel."

Jiang Ding took a steel ingot from the floating steel around him.

"Sawdust-bread grade."

"303 stainless steel, aluminum-titanium alloy, copper-zinc alloy..."

"All are sawdust-bread grade."

"Cold-hard wotou grade, barely edible."

"N2702 Po Fa steel, one of the peak crystallizations of Immortal Gate material science, achieving a weak Kong Dong effect with mundane materials."

Jiang Ding, eyes full of expectation, placed the steel ingot onto the Taiqing Flying Sword.

Buzz-buzz!

"Dessert-cake grade."

"That's acceptable too."

The materials floating in the sky came and went, constantly decreasing; after spending a month, all tests on mundane materials were completed.

"Two dessert-cake grades: Po Fa steel and metallic tungsten."

"Cold-hard wotou grade: eleven; the rest are all sawdust-bread grade."

Jiang Ding filled in his test results on a form.

Then he began testing first-, second-, and third-grade spiritual materials.

"Green Light Iron, Green Spirit Iron, Red Light Copper... these first-grade spiritual materials are all cold-hard wotou grade, useless; relying on them, it would take thousands of years to advance to a high-grade magical treasure, not even as good as Po Fa steel."

"Second-grade metal-attribute spiritual materials... wotou grade, the kind just out of the oven, a bit better, but still the same."

"Third-grade spiritual materials: rice grade; they can be absorbed and smelted to improve the Flying Sword's quality, but they are very ordinary, just like rice, only capable of making one grow healthily."

"Don't expect to become tall and strong, born with divine strength, or for the Flying Sword to obtain a crushing-grade quality within its own tier."

"Immortal Gate artificial synthetic material test."

Jiang Ding began the final test.

As for fourth-grade Nascent Soul-level materials, they cannot be obtained in large quantities for now, so they are not considered; they are too extravagant.

"Third-grade artificial electromagnetic spiritual gold: gourmet grade!"

"Third-grade artificial bronze spiritual gold: rice grade..."

"Rice grade, rice grade, rice grade... gourmet grade..."

A huge pile were rice grade; gourmet grades like electromagnetic spiritual gold were extremely rare.

The Taiqing Flying Sword's growth requires smelting ten thousand kinds of gold from the world!

Not just one kind.

Smelting too much of the same type of spiritual gold would make the Taiqing Flying Sword tired of it.

To put it in the language of Immortal Cultivation Science, it needs tens of thousands of types of spiritual gold; through the Great Sun Dayang Dayang Tianchi Sword Refining Method, it forges a composite material sword body that is supremely sharp and keen.

In short, the child cannot be picky; it must eat staples, gourmet food, snacks, coarse tea and plain rice, and trace elements—everything.

"Synthetic Synthetic Gengjin No. 21!"

Jiang Ding took out a pure gold-colored metal block that constantly radiated a sharp aura, frequently piercing the ground with dense Kong Dong; his face showed an expression of expectation.

Although he hadn't tested it, he instinctively knew that this monkey-version Dao Foundation Flying Sword material, suggested by Zhang Zhang Junsheng, would definitely have a significant growth-promoting effect on the Taiqing Flying Sword.

(End of this chapter)