139: Second-tier mid-grade alchemy furnace
Aside from clearing Secret Realms,
Zhang Sheng began to Cultivate the second-grade wood-element Spell, "Green Vine Entangling Kill", until he reached the Perfected State Realm.
Subsequently,
he began to Cultivate a first-grade wind-element Spell, "Wind Blade Art". After reaching the Perfected State, he Cultivated a second-grade wind-element Spell, "Hurricane Strangling Kill".
Before he could reach the Perfected State, the time arrived to Cultivate the Sixth Cycle of Life and Death of the Nine Tribulations Secret Codex - Qi Sea Chapter.
After the Sixth Cycle of Life and Death, Zhang Sheng also Cultivated "Whirlwind Strangling Kill" to the Perfected State!
Thus far.
The different types of Spells Zhang Sheng had mastered were:
Metal Spells: Moon Slash (Second Grade);
Wood Spells: Spring Breeze Turning into Rain Technique (First Grade), Wood Prison Cage (First Grade), Azure Rain Art (Second Grade), Green Vine Entangling Kill (Second Grade).
Water Spells: Water Binding (First Grade), Freeze (First Grade), Breath of Frost (Second Grade).
Fire Spells: Fireball Technique (First Grade), Flame Manipulation Art (Second Grade);
Earth Spells: Earth-Binding Quicksand (First Grade), Sand Blast Funeral (Second Grade);
Wind Spells: Wind Blade Art (First Grade), Hurricane Strangling Kill (Second Grade);
Lightning Spells: Electric Shock (First Grade), Lightning Light Arrow (Second Grade).
As well as the healing Spell, Rejuvenation, Eye Techniques, and so on—all were at the Perfected State Realm!
Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth, Wind, and Lightning!
Currently, there were only seven types of second-grade offensive Spells. He was still two types short for the cultivation of the Nine Tribulations Secret Codex - Divine Breath Chapter.
Zhang Sheng could only place his hopes on the Spell Jade Slips dropped in subsequent Secret Realms... "Dean Hou, this is the instructional video I recorded for the 'Thick Earth Art'."
Thick Earth Art was also a first-grade Spell for nurturing spirit plants, capable of gathering terrestrial Qi and increasing soil fertility.
"Zhang Sheng, do you have any suggestions regarding the pre-sale price for this video?" Hou Wu asked respectfully.
"Dean, you are a Senior; there's no need to be so respectful toward me," Zhang Sheng said calmly. "Let's set the pre-sale price at one hundred spirit pearls."
As Zhang Sheng's strength grew and he did more for Huaxia, everyone unconsciously became increasingly respectful toward him.
"Alright," Hou Wu replied, his expression still carrying a hint of restraint.
By now, the Dean's hair had completely turned black again, and the wrinkles on his face had mostly vanished; it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say he looked twenty years younger.
With the crisis in Huaxia resolved, Hou Wu felt at ease and began to Cultivate; as for his Talent, it had long since vanished.
Dean Hou took out several Flying Daggers.
"These are the latest second-grade Low Grade spirit tool flying daggers forged by the Artifact Refining Academy. Take a look!"
Zhang Sheng took the Flying Daggers.
They were incredibly sharp, gleaming with a cold light.
"They truly are second-grade Low Grade Spiritual Artifacts. I didn't expect everyone's progress to be so fast!" Zhang Sheng was genuinely happy.
"However, while simple Spiritual Artifacts like these can be forged, a Pill Furnace is much more complex. We are currently unable to forge a second-grade Pill Furnace," Hou Wu said helplessly.
"Although a first-grade Pill Furnace can also refine spirit gathering pills, it becomes scrap after only a few uses. It's truly difficult to manage."
"The second-grade Pill Furnaces we are currently using are just a few dropped from Secret Realms, which greatly limits the production of spirit gathering pills."
"This is indeed a problem," Zhang Sheng thought for a moment. "How about this: send over some Materials, and I'll see if I can forge a few second-grade Low Grade Pill Furnaces."
"I'm not aiming for high-quality ones; forging a few second-grade Low Grade Pill Furnaces shouldn't take much time," Zhang Sheng thought to himself.
"Besides, I'll inevitably have to forge a Pill Furnace for myself in the future, so I'll treat this as practice."
Zhang Sheng took out his own cyan rock fire copper furnace.
To forge new furnaces, he could simply replicate his own cyan rock fire copper furnace.
Using his powerful Divine Sense combined with his Penetrating Spiritual Eye, he memorized every detail of the Pill Furnace.
With his Barlin Artifact Refining Technique at the Perfected State, Zhang Sheng could see the general composition of the Pill Furnace at a glance.
The primary Materials were Fire Copper, along with Blue Granite and Warm Jade.
The mineral Materials produced in the Secret Realms were very abundant, and none of these three were in short supply.
In less than three hours, Hou Wu sent someone to deliver several tons of raw Materials.
Zhang Sheng followed the general methods of the Barlin Artifact Refining Technique and began the forging process.
Smelting Materials and shaping—under his powerful Mental Energy and his Artifact Refining technique at the Perfected State, everything proceeded smoothly.
Until he began to engrave the runes, imitating those on the cyan rock fire copper furnace.
The Pill Furnace currently being forged suddenly experienced a backflow of spiritual power and exploded!
"Forging failed!"
However, the talent panel still displayed this skill!
"Learning skill—Forging cyan rock fire copper furnace, progress: 49%"
Zhang Sheng instantly understood the many errors and omissions in the forging process!
He needed to add a small amount of Iron Essence, adjust the proportion of Blue Granite, the order of rune engraving, and so on.
He began to forge again.
The second attempt also failed.
But the mastery progress had reached a staggering 83%.
He still needed to make some minor adjustments to his forging techniques.
On the third attempt, after more than two hours of forging, he finally succeeded!
An identical cyan rock fire copper furnace appeared before Zhang Sheng.
It was also a second-grade Low Grade Pill Furnace, but it was perfectly sufficient for refining second-grade spirit gathering pills.
The talent panel also showed a change.
"Skill: Forging cyan rock fire copper furnace · Second Grade (Beginner: 15/100)"
Forging just one increased the Realm by 15 points, which was quite exaggerated.
He decided to continue forging,
Early the next morning,
Zhang Sheng's speed in forging Pill Furnaces became faster and faster, and he eventually forged ten furnaces.
Seven were Low Grade, and three were Medium Grade.
After keeping two Medium Grade ones for himself, he handed over a total of eight cyan rock fire copper furnaces—including his original one—to Hou Wu.
He arranged for Alchemists to refine spirit gathering pills.
Among them, the Medium Grade Pill Furnace was undoubtedly given to Zhao Xue.
The large number of mist-condensing spirit firs planted in Huaxia were the capital for cultivating Divine Breath Realm Cultivators.
Now, the many mist-condensing spirit firs in the Planting Base were already bearing fruit and were about to break through to the second grade.
"In that case, I'll add a bit more fuel to the fire!"
Zhang Sheng flew over the spirit fir trees, and with a wave of his hand, a large amount of Azure Rain Spiritual Rain fell.
After absorbing the spirit rain, the spirit fir trees
began to vibrate slowly, one after another!
A refreshing fragrance spread out as the spirit fir trees grew taller and taller.
Large cones turned from light blue to deep blue at a speed visible to the naked eye.
They were completely ripe!
Simultaneously, the spirit fir trees broke through to the second grade one by one.
Among the spirit fir trees, each over a hundred meters tall, many Spirit Farmers wept with joy.
Amidst cheers and laughter, they waved to Zhang Sheng in the distant sky.
There were also children from unknown families jumping among the branches of the spirit fir trees.
They looked only a few years old; it was truly remarkable.
The influence brought by the cultivation civilization was simply too great.
Even such small children were beginning to come into contact with cultivation methods.
Zhang Sheng understood that this was an inevitable part of the era's development.
Just like the rusted new energy vehicles on the streets, many things from the old era were being phased out.
A large number of cars were abandoned.
Now that everyone could fly, who would still use a car?
However, a technological civilization could develop terrifying products like nuclear bombs; its potential was bound to be extremely high.
It was just that the people of today had not yet developed it!
Zhang Sheng opened his Smart Terminal,
"Dean Hou, send me the current data on various natural and social sciences!"