Chapter 261: with translation of chapter title

「Buzz! 」，「Buzz! 」，「Buzz! 」

Suddenly, the tiger skin in the forging furnace violently trembled, emitting a series of piercing sounds like sword cries, after which streams of unmatched sword qi surged out from the furnace.

Seeing this, Wang Ping'an's eyes lit up instantly, unable to contain his excitement as he said: "Is this a success?"

Having experience crafting Five Elements Law Swords, crafting this Small Five Elements Sword Formation diagram was not his first time; he was quite experienced, yet this time he appeared exceptionally tense, completely lacking the ease he had when crafting Five Elements Law Swords.

When crafting the first Five Elements Law Sword—the metal-type one—he was very nervous, but thanks to the successful experience, the subsequent four swords became easier each time.

Crafting this Small Five Elements Sword Formation diagram made him far more nervous than when he first crafted a Five Elements Law Sword—by an unknown multiple.

Besides the difficulty of crafting the Small Five Elements Sword Formation diagram, which cannot be compared to a single Five Elements Law Sword, the materials for the diagram are extremely precious, and he only has one piece of tiger skin with no spare.

Failure is not allowed!

This caused him, while crafting the Small Five Elements Sword Formation diagram this time, to be tense and fearful that any minor oversight would ruin all his efforts, making it impossible to set up the Small Five Elements Sword Formation.

Besides owing a large sum of medium-grade spirit stones, he still needed to continue earning spirit stones to purchase the materials for the Small Five Elements Sword Formation diagram.

Wang Ping'an saw in the forging furnace the successfully crafted Small Five Elements Sword Formation, heaved a heavy sigh of turbid breath, relaxed, his whole body went limp and fell to the ground, unable to keep from showing a smile.

Crafting this Small Five Elements Sword Formation diagram can be said to be more arduous than a life-and-death battle he has experienced, whether it is the consumption of spirit power or mana, it is a heavy burden.

"Good thing it succeeded!"

Wang Ping'an's face was full of relief.

If he were to do it again, he could not guarantee whether he could still succeed—no, perhaps he could, after all his Small Five Elements Sword Formation diagram is at the Cultivation stage, as if a refining master were teaching him hand-in-hand.

Even if he were to start over, how could he possibly fail, and moreover he now has the experience of success.

However.

If he continues to craft the Small Five Elements Sword Formation diagram, he believes he will surely succeed, but for him it is likewise a severe psychological burden.

He still cannot help but worry whether it will succeed!

Who let the difficulty of crafting the Small Five Elements Sword Formation diagram be incomparable to a single Five Elements Law Sword, and besides, the Five Elements Law Sword is already a high-grade magical artifact, not simple to craft.

He can craft it easily because he likewise upgraded his Five Elements Law Sword to the Cultivation stage, which allows him to easily produce one Five Elements Law Sword after another.

Otherwise.

For an ordinary refiner, the Five Elements Law Sword cannot be said to be as difficult as reaching the heavens, but even after ten or twenty attempts, success is not guaranteed.

Perhaps succeeding once in a hundred attempts would be enough to say the refiner's skill is considerable.

Let alone easily crafting a Five Elements Law Sword, even producing a low-grade magical artifact is no simple matter.

Frankly speaking, the difficulty of the Small Five Elements Sword Formation diagram is entirely ten times that of a single Five Elements Law Sword.

"No matter how difficult or easy it is to craft the Small Five Elements Sword Formation diagram, at least I have succeeded in crafting it; whether I will craft it again in the future is a future matter—what matters now is to set up the Small Five Elements Sword Formation!"

Wang Ping'an smiled proudly, his heart burning hot, exactly as he controlled a Paper Person, taking the successfully crafted Five Elements Law Sword and Small Five Elements Sword Formation diagram, leaving the World Pearl, running to his home courtyard to set up the Small Five Elements Sword Formation.

He then realized that his master, Xuanqing Daozhang, had returned at some unknown time and was busy in his home courtyard, not knowing what formation he was setting up. He looked forward to it, yet also worried that once his master's formation was completed, if he later tried to control the Paper Person to act, would it be detected as abnormal by his master's formation?

"How did my master come back so quickly? If he had arrived a little later, wouldn't I have already set up the Small Five Elements Sword Formation in my home?"

Wang Ping'an inwardly snorted in dissatisfaction, knowing his master was busy in the home courtyard setting up a formation; at this moment, controlling the Paper Person to run to the courtyard and likewise set up the Small Five Elements Sword Formation was courting death.

He could only suppress his curiosity, wait for his master to rest, then sneakily set up the Small Five Elements Sword Formation in the courtyard to test its power.

With a thought, Wang Ping'an saw one jade slip after another appear in his palm—still gifts from Hu Rui. If Hu Rui had not deceived him, these jade slips contained entirely the methods for drawing intermediate talismans.

He eagerly awaited what kind of intermediate talisman Hu Rui would prepare for him.

"Ding! You have carefully studied the drawing method of the Intermediate Talisman: Thunderclap Talisman; congratulations on receiving the reward: Talisman: Thunderclap Talisman 【Entry Level】!"

As soon as Wang Ping'an affixed a jade slip to his forehead, a strand of unfamiliar consciousness arose in his mind, and the next moment a mechanical, cold voice sounded in his mind.

"Ding! You have carefully studied the drawing method of the Intermediate Talisman: Copper Wall Iron Wall Golden Light Talisman; congratulations, you have obtained the reward: Copper Wall Iron Wall Golden Light Talisman 【Entry Level】!"

"Ding! You have carefully studied the drawing method of the Intermediate Talisman: Lightning Talisman; congratulations on receiving the reward: Talisman: Lightning Talisman 【Entry Level】!"

You have reached this novel.

Wang Ping'an did not rush to upgrade the proficiency of the talisman he had just obtained—the Thunderclap Talisman—but instead took the other two jade slips, affixed them separately to his forehead, and heard two mechanical, cold voices sound in his mind.

He could not help but reveal a hint of curiosity on his face!

Hu Rui prepared for him the intermediate talismans: Thunderclap Talisman and Copper Wall Iron Wall Golden Light Talisman, which he could understand, since his initial trade was for the primary talismans: Thunderstrike Talisman and Golden Light Talisman; these two intermediate talismans are upgraded versions of those two primary talismans.

Relatively speaking, these two intermediate talismans share a lineage with the two primary talismans he knows, making them easier to learn than other intermediate talismans.

Hu Rui preparing these two talismans for him shows that she is thoughtful.

What he cares about is the additional intermediate talisman: Lightning Talisman.

He is very curious.

What is the function of this Lightning Talisman!

"Why not first draw a Lightning Talisman to try it out?"

A thought arose in Wang Ping'an's mind; he subconsciously wanted to upgrade the proficiency of the Lightning Talisman, then take out the corresponding materials to draw it, when he suddenly recalled that he still had two spoils of war unexamined.

They were the spoils from the assassin of the Netherworld Organization who tried to kill him and the cultivator who captured the Hei Mao Bu Tou!

With a thought.

Two storage bags appeared in Wang Ping'an's palm; he first took out the Netherworld Organization assassin's storage bag, opened it, and a pile of items spilled out—low-grade spirit stones, medicinal pills, and likewise magical artifacts.

It can be seen.

The assassin of the Netherworld Organization is a wealthy person!

Of course.

What also caught Wang Ping'an's attention was a conspicuous beast-skin book inside.

(End of chapter)