Chapter 98: Spirit Patterns

The next day at noon, in the earth fire room.

Wang Yu and the other two sat cross-legged on one side of the giant cauldron, each stretching out a palm to press on the cauldron leg, letting the flames in the three dragon-head cauldron ears grow a few points thicker.

Above the giant cauldron, the white small sword embryo was now also slightly reddish.

On one side of the giant cauldron, the black-robed old man sat cross-legged on a yellow cushion, pinching a spell with one hand and chanting something.

Suddenly, he raised one hand and cast a spell toward the roof of the earth fire room.

"Bang!" A sound.

The roof suddenly cracked open a large hole, and a mechanical bracket slowly protruded from it, with two shiny copper mirrors embedded in the front.

The black-robed old man flicked his sleeve, and two white crystals shot out, flashed, and disappeared into the copper mirrors.

The next moment, the two copper mirrors trembled slightly, each spraying a white beam of light, one of which covered the sword embryo above the giant cauldron, and the other shot onto the opposite stone wall.

Suddenly, a giant sword image magnified more than ten times was clearly visible on the stone wall.

Wang Yu was somewhat astonished by this.

This thing was not mentioned in those few artifact refining notebooks, could it be this Master Sun's unique secret technique?

At the same time, the black-robed old man flipped his hand again, taking out a yellow gourd and a purple round bowl from his bosom.

I don't know what material the purple round bowl was made of; without seeing the old man cast a spell, just placing the round bowl in front of him, it floated quietly in the air.

Then, the old man picked up the gourd, poured a silver liquid into the bowl, put the gourd away, and took out a pitch-black long needle-like magic artifact from his bosom.

He stroked the long needle with one hand, looked at the white small sword in the giant cauldron, and opened his mouth to say to the three people below:

"Refining a magic artifact is divided into three steps. The first step, material selection, is the simplest. Generally, what materials can be used to refine a tool embryo depends entirely on the artifact refiner's own experience and understanding of the materials, as well as what materials are available in hand.

The second step, tool embryo creation, is also easy to say; it tests the level of the artifact refiner's refining skills. The quality of the tool embryo also has no small impact on the power of the magic artifact.

If the first two steps are not done well, it at most affects the quality of the magic artifact, but if the last step goes wrong, the magic artifact refining fails completely.

This is also why I can complete material selection and tool creation alone, but I must call people to help with the final spirit pattern inscription, because I want to minimize all possibilities that cause spirit pattern failure.

Inscribing spirit patterns is a slow and meticulous job. I can only use one hour a day to do this, and I have to rest and nourish my spirit at other times, so the whole process will take at least half a month and at most two months.

The old man said these words, took out a talisman from his bosom, shook it in the wind toward the opposite stone wall, and it burned spontaneously. Then seven rays of spiritual light flew out from it, flashing into the stone wall.

The next moment, seven blurry spirit patterns appeared on the giant sword on the stone wall—one cyan, six red—but all the spirit patterns were intertwined into a ball, flashing incessantly.

Witnessing this scene, Wang Yu was even more surprised. These were not recorded in the artifact refining notebooks either.

No wonder this Master Sun called for helpers, and people were immediately willing to come; some things must be seen with one's own eyes to be learned.

"Spirit patterns on magic artifacts are roughly divided into two types. One is called 'Weapon Pattern', which can directly bless the attributes of the tool embryo, for example, making the tool embryo lighter, faster, or stronger, sharper, etc.

The other is 'Dharma Pattern', which can constitute spell spirit pattern diagrams, allowing the tool embryo to possess various powers of spell supernatural abilities.

"The original Fire Dragon Sword only needed to be inscribed with the six-spirit-pattern Fire Flower Spell, but now I have decided to add a weapon pattern that makes the magic artifact sharper, letting it merge with the Fire Flower Spell spirit pattern diagram to become a ranked magic artifact. The inscription difficulty is naturally completely different, which is also a challenge for me.

Inscribing spirit patterns usually requires a magic artifact-level inscription needle or inscription knife. One can directly hold the inscription needle and inscribe the spirit patterns on the tool embryo bit by bit, or one can use spiritual sense to control the artifact from a distance to inscribe.

The old man does not cultivate fire-attribute techniques and cannot resist the power of earth fire for a long time, and I am old and weak, so I choose to use artifact control to inscribe spirit patterns."

This Master Sun, I don't know if he was saying it for Wang Yu and the others to hear, or for himself. As soon as these two sentences were finished, he used the pitch-black long needle in his hand to soak in the liquid in the round bowl for a moment.

Following this, he flicked his wrist, and the pitch-black long needle flew above the white small sword, starting to shake on the sword body with the needle tip facing downward.

At the same time, the entire process of the inscription needle carving on the sword body was clearly reflected on the stone wall opposite.

Master Sun, while gazing at the giant image magnified more than ten times on the stone wall, carefully controlled the inscription needle, leaving dots of silver marks on the sword body, and these marks quickly connected together...

The short-haired woman and the outer sect man kept carefully maintaining the earth fire power unchanged.

Wang Yu, at this moment, silently recited "Overclocking". His five senses magnified rapidly, everything around him slowed down, and his eyes flickered with crystal light as he looked at the inscription needle on the small sword.

Under his super-strong vision observation, the first spirit pattern the black-robed old man inscribed was that cyan spirit pattern.

This spirit pattern didn't look too complicated.

The black-robed old man's artifact control technique was also very exquisite. Although the inscription needle could only leave a tiny bit of trace on the sword body each time, after a while, he still completed the majority of the silver mark on the sword body.

But just at this moment, the seven spirit patterns on the stone wall blurred, and their forms changed simultaneously, completely different from before.

The old man, however, was not moved by the changes on the stone wall at all and still inscribed the spirit patterns at his own rhythm.

Wang Yu used his super vision to silently record all the movements and rhythms of the inscription needle.

A quarter of an hour passed, and the first spirit pattern was successfully completed.

Master Sun began the inscription of the second spirit pattern.

This spirit pattern was very smooth at the beginning, but when one-third was inscribed, the seven spirit patterns on the stone wall blurred and changed simultaneously again.

The first completed spirit pattern on the small sword flashed in response, making the sword body tremble slightly, and the falling position of the inscription needle immediately had a slight deviation.

Witnessing this scene, a thoughtful expression couldn't help but appear on Wang Yu's face.

Seeing this, the black-robed old man's face looked as ugly as if he had eaten dog feces. With a flick of one hand, the inscription needle flew back, and he ordered:

"Increase the earth fire power by ten percent."

The three people heard this and immediately increased their mana injection. The flames spraying from the dragon-head cauldron ears immediately grew a circle thicker.

The incomplete spirit pattern, under the impact of the earth fire below, quickly disappeared from the surface of the sword body, leaving only the first complete spirit pattern still flashing on the small sword.

Master Sun took a deep breath, soaked the inscription needle in the liquid in the round bowl for a while, and then activated this magic artifact again, starting to inscribe the second spirit pattern on the small sword again.

But this time, when the second spirit pattern was half completed, for some reason, the inscription needle trembled again and made a mistake.

Seeing this scene, Master Sun's face became somewhat ugly.

Wang Yu, however, seemed to have seen clearly what happened just now, and a trace of an imperceptible strange expression appeared on his face. ===== CHAPTER 99 =====