Zombie Bodyguard Chapter 1508 - 1505: Smelting, the Glorious End

"What the hell is this noise? It’s so unbearable!" Ling Shuiyao frowned, feeling displeased.

The screeching sounds had a bizarre frequency, resembling ghostly wails mixed with teeth grinding, truly unnerving, even causing Lin Tian to frown deeply.

Tang Banqing, however, remained calm. She focused on the flas inside the sword furnace and remarked quietly, "Although the predecessor of Ghost Orb was the Tang Sword, it was refined by an Onmyoji. If I’m not wrong, the blade contains evil energy."

As soon as she finished speaking, a wisp of black air burst from the fireball, breaking through the flas and crashing into the furnace wall. The Fire Suppression Talisman flashed suddenly, a stream of flas swept across, striking the black air precisely and burning it to nothingness instantly.

Shortly after the black air erged, the surface of the Ghost Orb gradually softened, then lted, turning into a puddle of molten iron that flowed down the furnace wall. Tang Banqing activated a chanism, and the trough channel at the bottom closed imdiately. The molten tal from the Ghost Orb did not escape but remained in the grid at the bottom of the sword furnace.

Seeing the chanisms of the sword furnace, Lin Tian couldn’t help but be impressed, marveling at how much more ingenious it was compared to modern steel furnaces, proving that ancient tis also possessed advanced technology.

In particular, the "Mo Jing" and "Lu Ban’s Book" docunted the most advanced chanical knowledge of ancient tis, though only parts of these ancient texts have survived. Lin Tian had read many ancient texts but had never had the chance to see these two.

Rumor has it that "Lu Ban’s Book" is divided into two parts, the upper part containing craftsmanship thods, and the lower part with Lu Ban’s secret technique. It is said that anyone who reads the lower part would suffer family misfortunes, but Lin Tian believed there was another truth, perhaps the lower part held so Heavenly chanism or secret.

"What powerful talisman work, the Zhang Family, being a family of exorcists, truly lives up to their reputation." Ling Zishan praised.

"Sword of the King, throw it in," Tang Banqing continued to direct, and this eccentric old lady seed to beco a different person once she started forging, focusing solely on the task.

Lin Tian picked up the Sword of the King and threw it in, when suddenly the voice of the Sword Spirit echoed in his mind: "The once glorious days have co to an end, what a pity..."

"You’re awake?" Lin Tian communicated in his mind.

The Sword Spirit did not respond, and Lin Tian figured it was feeling lancholy. After all, it had witnessed the glory and demise of the Sword of the King. However, the Sword Spirit suddenly said, "Lin Tian, if this sword is successfully forged, would you let inhabit it as its Sword Spirit?"

"You want to beco the spirit of the new sword? Did I hear you right? Don’t you seek freedom? By becoming the spirit of the new sword, you’ll be eternally bound to it, unless this new sword suffers the sa fate as the Sword of the King." Lin Tian expressed surprise.

The Sword Spirit was silent for a mont, seemingly in thought, then said, "The destiny of the Sword Spirit is such, and even I cannot change it."

Lin Tian pondered for a mont and said, "Alright, I will consider it. Once the new sword is forged, I’ll give you a reply."

The Sword Spirit, unusually, did not nag or urge Lin Tian for an imdiate answer, and instead fell silent. Lin Tian paid no further mind to it and focused again on the sword forging.

The Sword of the King was enveloped by flas as soon as it entered the furnace, but unlike Ghost Orb, it did not turn red-hot. Instead, a faint golden glow emanated from its surface, preventing the fire from lting it.

Observing this through the viewing port, Tang Banqing slightly furrowed her brows. She hadn’t expected that the broken Sword of the King was still so mystically powerful.

"Carbon crystals, four pieces," Tang Banqing instructed solemnly. Lin Tian used both hands to add four carbon crystals.

The addition of new fuel caused the flas to surge. Lin Tian could even hear the sounds of wind and fire clashing within the furnace, like a bellows being vigorously pumped, but in this furnace, the air was completely controlled by the chanism.

Any chanism needs a power source, whether spring, water, or manpower. Lin Tian was curious about the power source inside the sword furnace, but now clearly wasn’t the ti to inquire.

The Sword of the King was damaged after all, and the golden light, akin to a candle’s last flare, couldn’t last long against the heat of Earth Fire and the Fire Suppression Talisman.

With a soft "pop," the Golden Light Shield of the Sword of the King shattered, dissipating within the sword furnace. Without the protection of the golden light, it still couldn’t escape the fate of being lted like the Ghost Orb.

However, the Sword of the King lted much slower than the Ghost Orb. It started with the break point lting, then, like a candle burning, it eroded bit by bit.

The resulting molten tal was a faint golden color, dripping down and gathering in another grid at the bottom of the sword furnace. By the ti the Sword of the King had completely lted, two hours had passed, and another pool of pale golden liquid had ford at the bottom of the furnace.

Realizing the duration it took to lt the Sword of the King, Lin Tian suddenly rembered sothing extrely important and couldn’t help but ask, "Old Tang, I’ve heard that forging a sword can take several months, even a year, is that true?"

The reason Lin Tian was concerned about the ti needed to forge the sword was because he simply didn’t have that much ti. Besides the later search for the zombie bloodline, the university freshman registration in early September was already imminent. This trip to the Ancient Martial World would end just as the new sester began, making it impossible for him to stay in Tang City for months, not to ntion a year.

Tang Banqing kept her gaze on the sword furnace and replied without turning her head, "The long ti to forge a sword is due to two reasons: first is the difficulty of lting the minerals. It is said that when Gan Jiang and Mo Ye forged a sword, it took three years just to lt a piece of Sky Blue Iron, and even then, it didn’t lt until they used blood and flesh to consecrate the furnace."

"Whether the consecration thod is true or not, I cannot say, but we definitely won’t need to consecrate the furnace. With Earth Fire and the Fire Suppression Talisman, the lting step won’t consu much of our ti."

"The second reason is the prolonged ti spent on shaping, and in ancient tis there was a lost skill known as the Hundred Refinent thod, where the iron billet was repeatedly heated and forged to remove impurities, resulting in Hundred-refined Steel. We can burn out impurities during lting, so this won’t take much ti."

"Overall, if things go smoothly, it should take between three to seven days to forge this sword. Of course, unforeseen events could shorten or extend this duration." Tang Banqing explained in detail.

"Three to five days is acceptable," Lin Tian exhaled a sigh of relief.

"Do you have sothing to take care of, Lin Tian?" Ling Zishan asked.

"Uh, isn’t there a sword appreciation gathering? I’m curious and thought I’d take a look." Lin Tian stamred, casually coming up with an excuse.

Tang Banqing snorted lightly, "What’s there to see at a sword appreciation gathering? Once you successfully forge this sword, it will surpass Purple Lightning and Blue Frost. At that ti, it will be the Supre Divine Sword, and you won’t even notice other swords."

"Alright, focus on forging. Get the Heart of the teorite ready." Tang Banqing commanded sternly with a serious expression.