Chapter 321: Seeing the Flying Knife Again

"So that's it. Does Sun Shi have any suggestions?" Wang Yu asked thoughtfully.

Sun Shi pondered for a long time before saying slowly:

"If you were not a true disciple, I would definitely suggest you sign a spirit contract with the sect and become a dedicated artifact refiner for the sect, using the sect's resources to practice artifact refining and familiarize yourself with second-rank materials.

Elder Bai, the only second-rank artifact refiner in our sect, is nearing the end of his lifespan and has rarely taken action to refine second-rank artifacts in recent years. The sect is planning to cultivate a second-rank artifact refiner and has even selected several first-rank artifact refiners as candidates, giving them a large amount of resource support.

But you happen to be a true disciple, and your main energy in the future will definitely be placed on cultivation and impacting the realm, so you cannot sacrifice cultivation time to specifically refine artifacts for the sect.

In this way, no matter how good your artifact refining talent is, the sect will not really spend resources to cultivate you. If you want to become a second-rank artifact refiner, you can only collect materials bit by bit and slowly try to refine second-rank artifacts to break through.

My suggestion is, at the beginning, it is best to start practicing with second-rank materials that are easy to purchase, such as Iron Mother, and when refining second-rank artifacts, also choose simple artifacts like knives and swords, and the number of second-rank inscriptions should be as few as possible.

Once you truly master the refining method of a certain artifact, you can privately accept some employment tasks for artifact refining in outside markets, using other people's materials to accumulate experience and purchase second-rank materials. This process will definitely be very long.

The standard for a second-rank artifact refiner is to master at least three different refining methods for second-rank artifacts, one of which must have no less than thirty-six inscriptions. Whether this standard can be achieved depends on your future opportunities."

"Thank you, Sun Shi, for your guidance. Disciple knows how to do it. Second-rank materials, even things like Iron Mother, are not something that can be bought with spirit stones at the General Affairs Hall. The contribution points spent are an astonishing number." Wang Yu thanked Sun Shi and sighed again.

"If second-rank artifact refiners were so easy to cultivate, our sect wouldn't have only one second-rank artifact refiner. It's really that cultivating a second-rank artifact refiner requires resources that even the sect can't bear." Sun Shi seemed to have thought of something and sighed as well.

"At least Senior Brother Wang is already an official artifact refiner. I have learned for so many years, but I am still just an artifact refining apprentice, and because of artifact refining, I have delayed a lot of my own cultivation. I don't know if I will have the opportunity to impact Foundation Establishment in the future." Xiao Wei listened to the conversation between the two and smiled bitterly.

"Girl Xiao, you still have some talent in artifact refining, otherwise how could I have accepted you back then? As for not being able to refine first-rank artifacts until now, it can only be said that you are still a bit short of heat in this way. Once the heat is reached, it will be a matter of course." Sun Shi looked at Xiao Wei but said indifferently.

"Sun Shi is right. I also think that Senior Sister Xiao can become an official artifact refiner, it's just a matter of time." Wang Yu also smiled and said.

"I hope so." The short-haired woman sighed and replied.

One month later.

Inside the cave dwelling, in the Earth Fire Room.

Above the rolling flames, a palm-sized black flying knife was floating quietly in the air.

Wang Yu's eyes flashed with crystal light, and he was using one hand to hold a thin and long inscription needle, inscribing a bean-sized sword-shaped inscription on the flying knife. He had already inscribed eight complete sword patterns in front, and was currently inscribing the ninth silver sword pattern.

He had no expression on his face, his hands were as steady as Mount Tai, and he had already entered the overclocking mode.

"Puff" sound.

The ninth silver sword pattern was finally successfully completed on the flying knife, and the flying knife began to hum lowly, with a layer of faint flowing light blooming on its surface.

"Success."

Wang Yu saw this, instantly exited the overclocking mode, and a trace of joy appeared on his face.

This flying knife, he failed more than a dozen times before and after this month, and spent more than twenty thousand spirit stones worth of Iron Mother, before finally successfully refining it.

Compared with before, the same flying knife, the same nine-inscription sword pattern, the only difference was the materials used.

It's just that the previous flying knife artifact used ordinary iron essence, and this time it used Iron Mother.

But Iron Mother is worthy of being a second-rank material. Whether it is building the artifact embryo or inscribing inscriptions, the difficulty has increased sharply.

First of all, melting Iron Mother materials is not an easy task.

Not only does it require a higher temperature of earth fire, but the melting time is also more difficult to control. If you are not careful, you may turn the Iron Mother material into waste because the time is too long or too short.

Secondly, compared to iron essence, Iron Mother is several times tougher and more difficult to forge.

Even in high-temperature situations, it must be hammered continuously with great force to slowly deform, but if you are not careful, the deformed place will bounce back bit by bit, requiring one place to be hammered repeatedly more than a hundred times to truly change the form.

This is just the most common Iron Mother. If you encounter other second-rank materials with more extreme attributes, even the refining of the artifact embryo is a headache.

As for the more important inscription later, it also becomes more and more difficult.

Originally, the inscription needle that could be inscribed smoothly on first-rank artifact embryos like iron essence, wanting to leave traces on materials like Iron Mother, tests the precise control of one's own strength even more.

Fortunately, he had overclocking assistance, so he adapted to the hardness of Iron Mother in such a short time and could inscribe smoothly on it.

Although this flying knife only has nine inscriptions, it is also a simplest second-order superimposed inscription, and it also uses second-rank materials, so it barely belongs to a second-rank artifact.

I don't know how powerful such a crude second-rank artifact is.

Wang Yu pondered in his heart, grabbed the flying knife in his hand, and after urging it slightly with magic power, the flying knife turned in his palm, turning into a group of black cold light and blooming.

"Swish" "Swish" sound was loud.

On the surrounding walls, seven or eight deep blade marks appeared suddenly.

Not two days later, Wang Yu went to the Scripture Pavilion again and specially chose a twenty-four spirit pattern wind-attribute spell "Wind Arrow Technique."

Two months later.

In the silver hall, in the artifact refining room condensed.

Wang Yu was half-naked, standing next to a giant iron station next to the rolling earth fire, holding a black giant hammer, and kept hammering a red long-strip metal.

The metal flattened bit by bit under the great force of hammering, but bounced back bit by bit, but the giant hammer did not stop at all like a storm, and after hammering more than a hundred times, he used iron tongs to clamp the somewhat blackened long-strip metal and threw it into the nearby furnace.

After the long-strip metal became red again, it was clamped to the iron anvil again and hammered again and again.

Gradually, the long-strip metal became flat, vaguely having the appearance of a long knife.

Two hours later.

In the earth fire furnace room of the silver hall, above the rolling flames, Wang Yu used a thick long needle to concentrate on inscribing pale cyan inscriptions on a black long knife. ===== CHAPTER 322 =====