[You have successfully forged a profound level high-grade magic artifact, the Gold Spirit Banned Shield, and gained a lot of forging experience during the process. Your understanding of the Forging Path has deepened, forging experience 150.]
The feedback information from the panel appeared before Shen Mo. Then, he withdrew the Nether Fire and handed the renewed Spirit Banned Shield to Chen ngze, who had remained silent by his side.
While Chen ngze was weighing the shield, he quickly swallowed an elixir to restore his Mana, silently circulating his cultivation thod to refine the dicinal properties into Mana. After resting for a short while, he summoned the Nether Fire once more.
He controlled the spirit fla, burning the Golden lon Hamr magic artifact. Simultaneously, he cast seals, attempting to strip the superfluous spirit gold from the magic artifact and shrink the engraved runes to a re fraction of their original size.
If the material of a magic artifact constitutes its body, then the complex runes engraved within are its soul! Both are essential in crafting the power and characteristics of the magic artifact, indispensable to one another.
Repairing and enhancing the Spirit Banned Shield was relatively easy; it only required replacing its original materials with higher-grade ones. There was no need to alter the precise and systematic complex runes within the shield!
However, to make the Golden lon Hamr magic artifact more suitable for Chen ngze, Shen Mo needed to change its size and form. Aside from re-lting its materials, he also needed to alter many runes, making them more minute and intricate so they could exert their proper power within the thumb-sized Golden lon Hamr. The difficulty naturally increased considerably!
And transforming the Purple Bamboo Sword into a one-ti magic treasure required erasing the existing runes within it. He needed to reconstruct and arrange new runes suitable for the purple bamboo material, enabling it to store Mana and, at a critical mont, explode with astonishing power! The difficulty was, if anything, cumulative!
Fortunately, Shen Mo’s forging proficiency was already quite excellent. After a day and night of refining, the two magic artifacts were reborn, like butterflies erging from their cocoons.
[You have successfully forged a profound level high-grade magic artifact, the Finger Hamr, and gained a lot of forging experience during the process. Your understanding of the Forging Path has deepened, forging experience 220.]
[You have successfully forged a one-ti magic artifact, the Purple Bamboo Sword, and gained a lot of forging experience during the process. Your understanding of the Forging Path has deepened, forging experience 235.]
Including the previously ntioned shield-type magic artifact, Shen Mo gave them new nas based on their forms and characteristics.
The Finger Hamr, aside from resembling a finger in size and shape, also alluded to the phrase ’an immortal pointing the way’... One hamr strike could send you on your final journey!
Given Chen ngze’s current cultivation level, if she used her martial arts and cultivation thod to throw this Finger Hamr, even a cultivator at Layer IX of the Qi Gathering Realm would be severely injured if caught off guard!
Shen Mo had inscribed a complete set of runes unique to one-ti magic treasures into the Purple Bamboo Sword. Usually, it was kept fully infused with Mana. In a life-and-death crisis, it only needed to be activated with Mana, much like a talisman. In an instant, it could transform into hundreds of densely packed, sharp bamboo fragnts infused with sword Qi, piercing the enemy full of holes.
Shen Mo didn’t dare to guarantee it could affect a Spirit Sea Realm expert! But below the Spirit Sea Realm... no one struck by this magic artifact could escape unscathed.
Even Shen Mo himself, despite his nurous defensive asures and exceptionally strong physique, wasn’t sure he could block all of the Purple Bamboo Sword’s attacks if struck. He wouldn’t die, but he might spend an entire day picking out bamboo splinters!
Chen ngze was very satisfied with the two new magic artifacts. The Spirit Stones she usually accumulated, aside from buying elixirs, were spent on Grade III talismans and one-ti magic treasures.
The magic artifacts she possessed, besides a Flying Sword of decent quality, included a nail-shaped magic artifact and a square brocade kerchief. These were all spoils of war from when she and Shen Mo had explored the Ghost Nation Ruins together! Now, with the Finger Hamr, the previous nail-shaped magic artifact could be sold.
Shen Mo was about to ask Chen ngze if she needed any other magic artifacts. If so, he could refine them for her...
At this mont, however, his Sound Transmission Talisman and Chen ngze’s Sound Transmission Talisman started vibrating simultaneously.
"Dad!"
"Uncle Chen!"
The two exchanged a glance, their faces uncharacteristically paling in unison.
It turned out to be Chen ngze’s father, Shen Mo’s Uncle Chen, who had returned from Tianshan City in Zhong State.
"Senior Sister Chen, let’s go. You’ve avenged your great enmity and resolved your obsession; this calls for a grand celebration," Shen Mo said, rising to his feet. Removing the faintly glowing Prohibition Talisman, he walked towards the entrance of his cave mansion. "It’s perfect timing that Uncle Chen is back too. Let’s throw a victory banquet and celebrate properly!"
Chen ngze nodded and followed Shen Mo closely as they went out to greet her father, Chen An.
When Chen An saw the two of them walking out of Shen Mo’s cave mansion together, his expression was quite a sight! He looked sowhat astonished, sowhat overjoyed, sowhat perplexed, and sowhat dejected...
His deanor was strikingly similar to that of a mortal father discovering his precious daughter had been spirited away by the young man he esteed most.
Chen ngze quickly discerned her father’s peculiar thoughts. Embarrassed and slightly annoyed, she took out the Gold Spirit Banned Shield and thrust it into his arms.
Interrupting her father’s wild conjectures, Chen ngze said huffily, "This is a spoil of war from our trip. Shen Mo re-refined it; it’s specially for you."
Chen An barely glanced at it before putting the Spirit Banned Shield away. He then stared seriously at the two of them. Only when Chen ngze nervously lowered her head and Shen Mo also looked rather discomfited did he finally heave a long sigh.
"Never mind, never mind! You’ve both grown up. You have your own minds now, and you’re more capable than I am!" There was a hint of wistfulness in Chen An’s voice, and also a touch of gratification. "Your mother should be able to rest in peace in the Nine Springs."
"Dad..."
Seeing the tears glistening in her father’s eyes, Chen ngze took Chen An’s arm and began to comfort him softly. The father and daughter spoke in low voices for a while.
Shen Mo had no opportunity to interject and could only listen quietly to their conversation. For the most part, Chen An reminisced about the past, telling Chen ngze stories about her mother. When Chen ngze’s mother was murdered by the Liu and Wu families, she had been too young to rember. Thus, Chen An worried that if anything were to happen to him, no one in this world would rember Mada An.
"Dad, don’t say such things. We cultivators live much longer than ordinary people. You still have plenty of ti," Chen ngze consoled him.
Theoretically, a cultivator at the Qi Gathering Realm could live for over two hundred years! But in reality, very few died of old age. Most perished in conflicts, demonic calamities, or from various accidents, such as an invasion of Heart Demons, an outbreak of pill poison, or mishaps during cultivation...
Afterward, Chen ngze told Chen An about their trip to Sishui City. She particularly ntioned that she had beheaded the cultivators from the Liu and Wu families and then paid her respects at the Chen Family relic site.
Hearing this, Chen An’s eyes filled with tears, yet he burst into hearty laughter!
Seeing the atmosphere gradually lighten, Shen Mo also began to arrange the "victory banquet" to celebrate the Chen father and daughter successfully avenging their family. He bought spiritual als from the Dining Room, along with spiritual wine and Spirit Fruits, and even personally grilled so demonic beast at... After a flurry of activity, the small banquet finally began to take shape.
"Mo’er..." Chen An raised his cup of spiritual wine, looking towards Shen Mo. "This cup is for you! On behalf of the fifty-seven mbers of my Chen Family, I toast you!"
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