In the early morning, Chu Xun faced west and clicked his teeth seven tis.
Wisps of pure white Qi of tal Essence gradually appeared before his eyes.
"Flying mystery and eight convergences, flying mystery and eight convergences..."
Silently chanting the incantation, the Qi of tal Essence converged into a pillar of qi and drilled in through his mouth and nose.
The amount of Qi of tal Essence was large, but limited by his cultivation, Chu Xun could only gather one streak of it each day.
This streak couldn't even be called a wisp.
In the furnace, the extraterrestrial teoric iron was still being burned by the charcoal fire.
It was already fiery red all over, but unlike ordinary iron billets that showed a bright cherry color, it was sowhat dark.
He used iron tongs to clamp it out and placed it on the anvil, which was a full two feet long.
The Qi of tal Essence exhaled from his mouth and nose turned into a white streak and struck into the interior of the teoric iron.
Subsequently, Chu Xun began to hamr and refine it.
For one person to do this kind of thing was naturally very troubleso.
Fortunately, he had great strength, and lifting a sledgehamr weighing over ten jin was completely effortless.
Holding the iron tongs in one hand and the hamr in the other.
Bang—
tal Forging Spell 1
tal Forging Spell 18402/30000: Possesses a slight innate perception of tals.
Bang—
Sparks flew everywhere, but the teoric iron seed to have no reaction.
Chu Xun wasn't anxious in the slightest, smashing down one hamr strike after another.
The green and white python was only five zhang long; there was still plenty of ti before it transford into a flood dragon and needed protection.
Qi Ermao passed by the front of the courtyard and called out a greeting.
Seeing that Chu Xun was busy, he didn't disturb him much.
He just thought to himself, "Back then, Brother Xun was either farming or raising grass at ho. Now the grandson he adopted is no less impressive, liking to forge iron."
"Indeed, those who aren't of the sa family don't enter the sa door."
When the temperature of the teoric iron dropped, Chu Xun added more charcoal to the furnace and then stuffed the teoric iron back in.
A few weasels hopped over, grabbed the handle of the bellows, and started helping to push and pull.
Whoosh—
Whoosh—
Chu Xun smiled and stepped out the door.
Taking advantage of the ti the teoric iron was reheating, he went to the Songliu River.
Still condensing the Essence of Ren Water to feed the green and white python.
Obtaining another wisp of the Essence of Ren Water, the green and white python happily shook its head and wagged its tail.
If Chu Xun hadn't stopped it, it would have flown up to be properly affectionate.
An old turtle the size of a millstone crawled up from the river.
The mud clods on its back were a bit thicker than before, already about an inch high.
A toad the size of a washbasin squatted on the turtle's head, going up and down as it crawled.
The old turtle crawled to Chu Xun's side, stretched out its head, and rubbed against his pant leg.
Chu Xun sighed and said, "My cultivation is insufficient right now. I can only condense one wisp of the Essence of Ren Water every ten days, so I can't feed you for the ti being."
Croak croak—
The toad opened its mouth and called out twice, lifting its foot and stepping on the old turtle's head twice.
The old turtle nudged him twice with its head, and Chu Xun seed to understand sothing.
He shook his head and said: "Your turtle shell won't do, it can't block the lightning tribulation."
For the wind tribulation and water tribulation, Chu Xun already had solutions; he just needed to complete them before the green and white python transford into a flood dragon.
There was a certain degree of difficulty, but the most important thing was enduring the ti.
Only for the lightning tribulation did he still have no clue.
The ard escort Wei Ting from Fenggu City had once said that he saw a python transforming into a flood dragon use a turtle shell to block the lightning tribulation.
Although he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he could be certain that what could block the lightning tribulation was definitely not an ordinary turtle shell.
Although the old turtle was large, it hadn't yet attained a high level of cultivation.
Even if it had, Chu Xun didn't want to use its life to transcend the tribulation.
Reaching out to stroke the old turtle's head, Chu Xun said softly: "The world is so big, there will always be an alternative thod. I will find it."
In the blink of an eye, the new year passed, and it was the season of early spring again.
It had been almost exactly one year since Chu Xun returned to Pinecone Village, short of just one day.
On this day, he didn't start the fire in the furnace to hamr the teoric iron.
Nor did he go to the Songliu River to condense the Essence of Ren Water to feed the green and white python.
When the villagers passed by his door and saw Chu Xun sitting in the courtyard resting with his eyes closed, they all found it very amusing.
This youth was smart, generous, and kind to others.
Everything was good, except he always gave people a feeling of being old-fashioned.
Clearly seventeen or eighteen years old, exactly the age of youthful vigor, yet he acted like a seventy or eighty-year-old man.
Tucking his hands into his sleeves, leaning against the back of the chair, and dozing with his eyes half-closed.
Li Guangmao poked his head in from outside the courtyard and shouted: "Chu Chen, want to drink a bit together tonight?"
Chu Xun half-opened his eyes and said: "Not drinking today."
Li Guangmao seed to notice sothing unusual about him, walked in, and asked with concern: "What's wrong, are you feeling unwell sowhere? Do you want to help you invite a doctor to take a look?"
Scrounging wine aside, he truly treated Chu Xun as family.
"It's nothing, just resting my spirit," Chu Xun said.
Li Guangmao thought he was just too tired from forging iron every day and said: "Taking a rest is good too. You forge iron day and night, and up to now, that piece of iron doesn't even have a shape."
"If it really doesn't work, change to another piece."
The quality of the extraterrestrial teoric iron was too high, so much so that what deford first was actually the hamr.
After hamring for a few months and changing over a dozen hamrs, the teoric iron had only just barely been completely refined once.
All divine weapons and sharp blades needed to undergo a thousand hamrings and a hundred refinings.
Among the common folk, there were even techniques like the hundred-refining thod and thousand-fold steel.
For such hard teoric iron, if he wanted to reach the point of hamring it a hundred tis, it wouldn't be done in less than a few decades.
Chu Xun had very good patience, but the villagers watching the fun couldn't bear it first.
They all, like Li Guangmao, advised him to change to another iron billet.
No matter what you want to forge, using such hard teoric iron, you'll be dead of old age by the ti it's forged.
Chu Xun was noncommittal and said: "Just take it slowly."
Li Guangmao shook his head continuously upon hearing this, "This temper of yours is exactly the sa as Ah Xun's. Never mind, then you continue resting, I'm going to the fields."
As he walked, Li Guangmao sighed, "I wonder how Ah Xun is doing now."
He was even older than Chu Xun, and now had a head full of white hair.
His body was still quite good, and he could still carry a hoe to the fields.
But Chu Xun saw clearly that the "qi" on Li Guangmao's body was a bit less than when he first arrived last year.
This invisible and colorless qi represented vitality.
Watching Li Guangmao's figure gradually disappear from his field of vision, Chu Xun sighed slightly.
The world that could be seen at the Foundation Establishnt stage was completely different from the Qi Condensation stage.
Many things that couldn't be seen before were now clearly visible.
However, seeing more things sotis made one feel uncomfortable instead.
Just like Li Guangmao, watching his vitality decrease helplessly.
Birth, aging, illness, and death are destined by heaven, and no one can change them.
Otherwise, there would be no need for the Underworld to exist.
"But it just feels very unpleasant..."
Chu Xun closed his eyes, hiding a trace of displeasure in them.
At night, the village fell into dead silence.
Chu Xun, who had sat in the courtyard for a day, finally opened his eyes.
It was pitch black all around, only his eyes were very bright.
A ssage appeared before his eyes.
[Divine Office: Unconferred Loose God. Remaining ti that can be hidden per year: 0.5 (After confernt, can obtain orthodox god divine abilities, can lodge soul to substitute death)]
The ti the divine office could be hidden was almost at its limit.
Chu Xun stood up, turned and entered the house, and when he ca out again, he already had a long sword in his hand.
He then stepped out of the courtyard and walked towards the outside of the village.
[End of Chapter]
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