88: Chapter 88 Green Snake Forges the Xiliang Sword
In the Snake Cave.
The green snake remained motionless, staring blankly at the flames.
Of course, Xu Qing still had professional ethics.
As a great snake demon destined to shake the Cultivation World in the future, it was naturally impossible for him to slack off.
It was just that the process of Artifact Refining, shaping, and nurturing with Demonic Fire was truly a bit dull and tedious.
Anyway, it wasn't an Artifact for himself, so he would just shape it casually.
It didn't matter if it turned out ugly; he wasn't the one using it.
As long as he didn't ruin the refining process, it would be fine.
After three days of continuous refining, a long blade revealed a blade light in the flames that made snakes shudder.
The long blade was straight, simple, slender, and colored in red and white.
It looked like something a mischievous child had whittled from a stick picked up by the roadside using a woodcutter's knife.
Xu Qing slowly retracted the Green Fire enveloping the long blade.
The red light of the long blade also gradually faded, turning into a mix of dark red and white.
Finally done.
[Nameless Long Blade] natal spirit artifact. Refined using the spine of a wolf demon with nearly three hundred years of Dao Cultivation as the main material, supplemented by precious Ore, and nurtured with Demonic Fire, it contained innate spirituality. Attached skills: Armor Piercing lv5, Fire Blade lv5, Wolf Soul lv4, Heart's Desire lv4.
Xu Qing reached out with his small hand and summoned the long blade back into his grasp.
The long blade hummed in his small hand, struggling incessantly, seemingly quite resistant to Xu Qing.
You ungrateful wretch, This Snake helped you refine it, and yet you're still acting like a stranger!
Xu Qing bared his teeth in anger and flicked his tongue, looking extremely cute.
It was likely that this green snake had forgotten that he was currently in human form and still thought he was a green snake.
The natal spirit artifact had been infused with Mo Yufei's left arm, so it was naturally wary of strangers.
Moreover, Xu Qing had not added his own scales during this Artifact Refining process.
Adding his own scales to a natal spirit artifact that someone else would store in their body...
Xu Qing felt a bit uncomfortable about it, which made this blade even more resistant to him.
Hmph, you ugly piece of junk blade, This Snake doesn't even want you.
Xu Qing casually added a few Restrictions to the long blade and tossed it into a corner of the Snake Cave.
He couldn't be bothered to name it either.
He would leave that for its owner to do.
Now, time to start refining my own darling.
Xu Qing took out his own body.
A five-or-six-meter-long green snake appeared out of thin air.
There were no other auxiliary materials; he was refining it entirely with his own shed body.
Only in this way would it be more suitable and comfortable to store in his body.
Rest first. This is refining my own Spiritual Artifact; I cannot afford any mistakes.
Xu Qing coiled up and remained motionless, focusing his mind.
When his Demonic Power and spirit had recovered to their Peak, Xu Qing swam back to the fire pit and exhaled Green Fire.
The expression on his face was countless times more serious than when he was refining the previous artifact.
Perhaps there were other reasons why the previous blade didn't like Xu Qing.
His tail gently coiled around the body of the Resurrection Green Snake and placed it into the Green Fire.
The Green Fire seemed to sense the aura of the Origin and easily penetrated into the green snake.
The Green Fire had originally been refined and nurtured by this very body; refining the green snake with the Green Fire this time produced an unexpected reaction.
The feeling is so strange.
He drove the Green Fire to refine his own body, which was a strange feeling.
It was estimated that in the entire Cultivation World, only Xu Qing could understand this.
The green snake became smaller and smaller in the flames, as if it were continuing to shrink as a whole.
Meanwhile, directly above the Snake Cave, in the River God Temple.
The lifelike green snake statue.
The green scales on its head vibrated incessantly, even causing cracks to form in the surrounding area.
It was like a husky desperately biting its own collar.
Until a 'click' sound was heard.
The green scale detached from the statue, turned into a green light, and slammed headlong into the ceiling of the River God Temple.
Then, it wobbled as it pulled itself out of the ceiling and flew around the River God Temple, as if looking for something.
Then, as if it had caught a scent, it excitedly dashed in one direction.
The direction was exactly toward Xu Qing's Snake Cave.
Meanwhile, Xu Qing.
Was constantly forming hand seals, staring into the flames, and occasionally sticking out his pink tongue.
He was so focused that he thought he was still in his green snake form.
In the flames, the green snake had already turned into a three-foot-long sword embryo.
It was entirely green, covered with a layer of small, delicate scales that looked like sword patterns.
Just then.
Xu Qing's expression shifted as he looked toward the entrance of the Snake Cave.
A green scale excitedly pounced over.
Vaguely, Xu Qing seemed to see the phantom of a green snake sticking out its tongue and licking over.
What the heck?
Xu Qing experienced Madam Bai's feelings for the first time.
He couldn't help but dodge, and the scale, unable to brake in time, charged straight into the flames.
...!?
Xu Qing was shocked.
The scale shot straight into the sword embryo just like that.
The Green Fire violently jumped at this moment, and the sword embryo hummed and vibrated incessantly.
Cracks appeared on it, as if it were about to explode.
Only then did Xu Qing remember the Origin of that scale.
It was the scale he had plucked from his body and refined into the statue.
The scale stored most of the statue's Power Of Will.
Damn, damn, damn! It's going to explode, it's going to explode!
Xu Qing was extremely anxious.
Watching the gradually cracking sword embryo, his clever snake brain thought rapidly.
Now he had to find a way to bind these spreading cracks.
A thought struck him, and he took out a jade-like seed.
This was the seed that had transformed from the vines that had entangled the Resurrection Green Snake in the Heavenly Treasure Land.
It was also a part that had differentiated from his own heaven and earth spiritual seed.
Holding onto the 'dead horse as a living horse doctor' mentality, Xu Qing began his exclusive Artifact Refining technique.
Artifact Refining technique: The 'Throw Everything Into The Fire' technique!
He tossed the spiritual seed into the flames and kept forming hand seals.
The seed landed on the hilt of the sword embryo, began to sprout and grow, and jade-like vines extended out.
They coiled around the sword hilt, circle by circle.
The spreading cracks were also joined together, merging again in the flames.
Xu Qing also plucked out handfuls of scales and kept throwing them, along with snake blood, into the flames.
The cracks spreading on the sword embryo were finally stopped.
Xu Qing reached out, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and breathed a sigh of relief.
...
After this twist that almost cost Xu Qing half his life, the green sword was finally preserved.
And its quality seemed to be even higher.
Refining a scale full of Power Of Will into a natal spirit artifact might bring with it some strange skills.
This Snake, This Snake really is an Artifact Refining Genius.
To be able to save it even like this.
Can such a Genius as me really exist in this world?
Xu Qing couldn't help but think this.
Ahem.
Artifact Refining, Artifact Refining; I cannot afford any more mistakes.
There were no more twists in the subsequent Artifact Refining.
A green, three-foot-long sword floated in the air.
A piece of jade was embedded at the end of the hilt, the hilt was jade green, and the diamond-shaped sword guard was covered with snake patterns.
The sword body was slender, the blade shone with green light, and a row of scales grew along the spine of the sword.
[Nameless Long Sword] natal spirit artifact, refined using a complete Resurrection Green Snake as the main material, with heaven and earth spiritual root and Lisheng Green Snake scales as auxiliary materials, formed by gathering the prayers of the masses. Attached skills: Divine Artifact lv3, Armor Piercing lv5, Indestructible lv5, Self-Healing lv4, Space Blade lv4.
[Divine Artifact lv3] Revered by the masses, collects Power Of Will, can improve the quality of the sword.
[Indestructible lv5] The Spiritual Artifact is indestructible; no matter what kind of damage it sustains, it can recover over time. Even if completely destroyed, it can be reborn within the owner's body.
[Space Blade lv4] Attacks carry space damage.