Chapter 80: Beginning Preparations for the Second Acquired Resonance

Bedroom attic.

Sunlight shone in through the window, falling upon Li Luo. At this moment, he held a jade slip, pressed it against his brow, and closed his eyes slightly, browsing through the vast amount of information within.

What was recorded in this jade slip was precisely the "Small Formless Divine Forging Art" left to him by Li Taixuan and Tantai Lan.

After a long while, Li Luo opened his eyes and reached up to rub his brow with his fingers. Although he was mentally exhausted, his eyes were filled with excitement.

After all, Li Luo had been looking forward to planning this second acquired resonance for a long time.

And with this true contact with the "Small Formless Divine Forging Art," Li Luo finally understood just how troublesome a task it was to forge an acquired resonance.

The essence of the "Small Formless Divine Forging Art" is to extract the required energy or substances from the countless materials in the world that contain various energies. For example, if one wanted to forge an acquired fire resonance, one would need to find various materials containing fire energy, refine and extract them using specific techniques, and finally bring the energy within them into balance. Only by using one's own soul and essence blood as a guide could the resulting object be considered a qualified acquired resonance.

The most troublesome point in this process is the need to constantly search for countless materials and then test their compatibility with one another until a certain point of balance is reached.

In a sense, this is technical work, and even more so, it is grueling labor.

Therefore, after reading the "Small Formless Divine Forging Art," Li Luo knew that in the days to come, he would likely have to spend a significant amount of time on this.

But the only good news was that at the end of the jade slip, Li Luo saw some notes left by Li Taixuan and Tantai Lan. These were some of their previous attempts, which was clearly precious experience that could save the novice Li Luo a great deal of valuable time.

And most importantly, he saw a hint left by Li Taixuan and Tantai Lan. That hint was a suggestion for his second acquired resonance; they suggested that Li Luo choose a wood resonance as the main attribute for this acquired resonance.

The reason for this choice was actually due to the essence blood and lifespan Li Luo had lost when refining his first acquired resonance. Although the resonance power of the water-light resonance would gradually compensate for these deficits, for the sake of safety, it was best if the main attribute of the second acquired resonance was a wood resonance.

Because the power of the wood resonance not only has restorative effects but also possesses some special detoxifying properties, which would enhance Li Luo's survival. Under the triple healing of the water, light, and wood resonances, those past deficits of Li Luo's should no longer affect his foundation.

"Wood resonance?"

Li Luo fell into deep thought. Originally, his vision for the second acquired resonance leaned toward an attack type, but now that his father and mother had recommended a wood resonance, his vision would have to undergo some changes.

Li Luo thought for a moment. In fact, with the enhancement of his improved resonance arts, his water-light resonance's attack power was not weak, so it wouldn't be impossible for the main attribute of this second acquired resonance to be a wood resonance.

Moreover, wood resonance arts are mostly control-based. He could develop more in this area in the future; when fighting others, he could first control them and then use arrows to shoot them into a hornet's nest.

It's just that this doesn't seem very cool; instead, he might be seen as a perverted torture fanatic.

But it didn't matter; his handsome appearance had already reached its peak, so he didn't really need enhancement in that regard.

Thus, Li Luo made his decision. He formed a hand seal with one hand, channeled it with resonance power, and tapped it onto the jade slip.

Hum!

A ray of light emerged from the jade slip, quickly falling and growing in the wind, finally forming a six-pointed light wheel about a foot in size.

On the light wheel, many holes could be seen. A rough glance revealed a total of 128, distributed on both sides of the wheel—eighty-six on one side and forty-two on the other.

The majority were for the main, the minority for the auxiliary.

And in the center of the wheel was a depression outlined with mysterious patterns.

This was the "Small Formless Divine Wheel."

It was precisely the auxiliary object needed to forge an acquired resonance. This thing was quite troublesome to forge, and with Li Luo's current strength, he couldn't do it, but fortunately, his father and mother were thoughtful and left him one.

From now on, if he wanted to forge a second acquired resonance, he would need to refine and purify various materials using special techniques, then fill them into the holes of the Small Formless Divine Wheel, causing the main and auxiliary elements on both sides to reach a perfect balance of proportions, and finally inject his own soul and essence blood to complete their fusion.

Li Luo stared at the six-pointed light wheel for a long time, then flicked the jade slip and put it away.

If the main attribute is wood resonance, then what about the auxiliary attribute? How should he choose?

Li Luo sat in front of the tea table, lost in thought.

The scorching sunlight shining in from outside the window gradually shifted, eventually turning into a dark red sunset.

Li Luo finally let out a breath, then picked up a pen from the tea table and lightly wrote two words on the white paper in front of him.

Wood.

Earth.

These were the attributes he had decided on for his second acquired resonance: wood as the main, earth as the auxiliary.

Wood-earth resonance!

Since the strength of the wood resonance is the control system, he would take it to the extreme in this regard, and the best auxiliary for the wood resonance is undoubtedly the earth resonance.

With the power of the wood resonance and the power of the earth resonance reinforcing each other, the control effect achieved should be even stronger.

And come to think of it, the water resonance and light resonance also fit quite well with the wood resonance.

And the power of the earth resonance excels in defense, which could also enhance Li Luo's survival ability.

Because of these reasons, Li Luo decided on the attributes for his second acquired resonance.

Having made his decision, Li Luo did not hesitate further. He stood up and left the room, found Cai Wei in the old residence, and brought up his requirements.

"The Young Manor Master needs various materials containing wood and earth energy?" Although Cai Wei felt a bit strange about this request from Li Luo, she agreed after thinking about it.

"There is some stock in the old residence's warehouse; I will help you take it out. If it's not enough, I will arrange for people to go to the market to purchase it for you."

Although these materials were quite valuable, the income of Xiyang House was rising steadily, which had already been able to relieve a lot of pressure for Cai Wei. She no longer had to be like in the beginning, wishing she could split a single Heavenly Gold in half to use.

"Thanks, Sister Cai Wei."

Li Luo waved his hand with a smile and turned to leave, not wanting to disturb Cai Wei's work.

Cai Wei watched Li Luo's departing back with her beautiful eyes and smiled slightly, because she felt that Li Luo seemed to be in a very good mood today.

Immediately, she carefully put away the account book and went to handle the matters Li Luo had ordered herself.

With Cai Wei's astonishing efficiency, two hours later, the first batch of materials was delivered directly to Li Luo's room.

In the attic.

Li Luo took a cyan plant from a jade box; the plant's branches and leaves were covered in cyan flowers, and the flowers were like wind chimes.

This was a Wood Bell Flower, a rare flower containing wood-attribute energy.

Li Luo recited the incantation of the Small Formless Divine Forging Art in his heart, while his fingers formed seals, channeling his own resonance power.

Chi chi!

A moment later, a flame the thickness of a thumb formed in his palm. The flame was extremely special; it was somewhat transparent in color, as if it did not contain any energy attributes at all.

"Is this the Small Formless Fire?"

Li Luo's eyes were full of curiosity. This flame was actually the core of the Small Formless Divine Forging Art. Only materials refined through this fire could be used to forge an acquired resonance.

It was just that Li Luo's own resonance power was too weak, so the Small Formless Fire he channeled was only this thin wisp.

"Sigh, I'll make do with it."

Li Luo shook his head helplessly, then plucked a Wood Bell Flower, ignited it with the Small Formless Fire, and calcined it.

However, for his first refinement, Li Luo failed to master the heat, so he burned it directly into ashes.

It's fine, failure is the mother of success.

The second, the third, the fourth—an entire plant of Wood Bell Flowers was burned to ashes.

"You've got to be kidding? It's this hard?" Li Luo was a bit dumbfounded, but there was no other way; he could only treat it as gaining experience and continued to take another portion of materials to begin refining.

After burning through several portions of materials in succession, Li Luo finally got a feel for it and eventually succeeded in refining a rare herb containing earth-attribute energy.

It was a lump of brown liquid. Li Luo placed it into the first hole on one side of the "Six-Pointed Light Wheel." Immediately, that hole lit up, and a faint ray of light spread out, connecting to a hole next to it.

Seeing this, Li Luo was overjoyed. He switched to another material to refine and finally placed the resulting product into the hole connected by the ray of light.

However, this time, as soon as the second energy liquid was put in, the Six-Pointed Light Wheel emitted a faint vibration, as if it wanted to expel this object.

This was a repulsion reaction.

Li Luo hurriedly took it out; this indicated that this material was not suitable for forging an acquired resonance.

Next, Li Luo tried several more materials one after another before finding one that was not repelled, filling the hole connected by the ray of light.

As this second hole was filled, another ray of light spread out, connecting to the third hole.

Clearly, only when Li Luo filled all the holes on this "Six-Pointed Light Wheel" and caused the main and auxiliary sides to reach a balance would the forging of this second acquired resonance be considered complete.

But after a whole night, until Li Luo had exhausted his own resonance power, he had only filled four holes on the "Six-Pointed Light Wheel."

This was clearly a very time-consuming task.

However, Li Luo was not in a hurry. After all, he still had some time before reaching the Resonance Master stage. Before that, he had plenty of time to slowly try various materials and fill this "Six-Pointed Light Wheel" to perfection.

And when that time came, it would be the day his second acquired resonance, the wood-earth resonance, would be born.

Regarding this, Li Luo expressed great anticipation.

(End of chapter)