Sea Cultivation: Giant Ships and Heavy Artillery Knock on the Door to All Races

Chapter 100: Qi Refining Level , Top-Grade Phantom Sword
The next day,

Lin Qianfan found Jiu Ye who was on vacation and asked him to teach him swordsmanship.

"Oh? You've come this far? Practice?"

"Please teach me, Master Jiu!"

Jiu Ye and Lin Qianfan are both sword cultivators with golden spiritual roots, and even their skills have many similarities. It is easy for Jiu Ye to guide Lin Qianfan.

"It's fast, but not very powerful."

Upon hearing this, Lin Qianfan increased his strength, or more accurately, increased the output intensity of the sword energy in his sword moves to increase his aggressiveness.

“It has enough skills but lacks artistic conception.”

Lin Qianfan came here to learn about the word "artistic conception", because the second realm of sword cultivation is sword intent. Lin Qianfan has not found his own sword intent yet and is a little confused.

"Strong-willed, but too conservative."

This has to do with personality. Lin Qianfan prefers to proceed step by step and steadily.

There's nothing wrong with that!
Sword cultivators sometimes do need to hide their edge, but sometimes they also need to show their edge. The transition between the two needs to be mastered, and this is where Lin Qianfan needs to grow.

"The sword is sharp, but too..."

Lin Qianfan and Jiu Ye, who had suppressed his cultivation, exchanged a hundred moves. During these hundred moves, Jiu Ye pointed out Lin Qianfan's various shortcomings and inconsistencies in a targeted manner.

"You are very smart and talented, but your studies are too diverse. You need to forge your own path, otherwise you will always be one step away from becoming a genius."

"Thank you, Master Jiu, for your guidance!"

"Go."

Jiu Ye is a solitary female swordsman who does not rely on anyone. Although she is taciturn, she is generous when guiding Lin Qianfan. This can only be achieved within a family system.

Dock area.

"Where have you been, kid? I haven't seen you all year round."

"Thank you for your concern, Elder Ten. I'm going to the boat shop in Central."

"Wow, so impressive? Did you deliberately make up a lie just to please me?"

"It's true, if you can't do it, test me."

"I believe you. I heard that you are about to become the number one person below the foundation building stage. What is there to test? What are you here for today?"

"During my time running the shipyard, I've been exposed to a variety of things... Now, I'd like to try some work that bridges the gap between the first and second levels, to prepare for my future push to the second level."

"Ah? You've come this far? You're not really going to the Central to open a shipyard, are you?"

"Didn't you just say you believed it?"

"I just lied to you."

"... "

"But now I truly believe it, but I feel my position is threatened, so I won't teach it!"

"Then I'll go?"

"No! You still have a lot of work to do."

West Coast Market.

This time when Lin Qianfan returned home, he brought back all the goods he had stockpiled during the storm season, and even borrowed a few storage bags from the shipyard.

The stolen goods obtained from murder and robbery were all traded through the second-hand market after being personally modified, and the prices were quite good.

Although the flow of people in the West Coast Market is not particularly large, it connects all parts of the Yulong Islands and cannot be traced once they leave.

Among them, the monster materials with average value and large quantity flow into the market normally. Although the throughput here is large, the price is not low, and is significantly higher than that of production places such as Lan'an Market.

The remaining small part is relatively precious and has a higher unit price, especially the dragon vein monster materials obtained from the water cave where the Jiaoling Fruit Tree was discovered, all of which were recycled back to the family.

Although the family will earn less by recycling the materials, they will earn more after processing the materials, so it is cost-effective overall.

"This way, I'll have enough spirit stones to exchange for Foundation Establishment Pills in the future."

After handling everything, Lin Qianfan retreated back to the second floor of the library. He wanted to hurry up and digest the treasures.

...

Time flies like water.
Two years passed in this cycle.

In spring, Lan'an Market and Zou Ji Boat Shop.

"Finally reached the eighth level of Qi Refining!"

It took Lin Qianfan a full three years from the time he first entered the seventh level of Qi Refining to the current eighth level.

It’s not that it can’t be faster, it’s just that it can’t be faster.

There is no point in growing faster, it will only bring trouble to yourself. Growing too fast will only bring backlash at some point in the future.

"The total amount of spiritual energy has increased by more than 50%. Only then can it be considered invincible in the Qi Refining Realm."

In the past two years, Lin Qianfan has ridden Silver Scale in the wild and killed many powerful monsters, including some that were stuck at the peak of the first level and were seeking a breakthrough.

During his two winter trips back home, Lin Qianfan challenged the powerful late-stage cultivators of the family one by one. Now, except for two former foundation-building seeds who failed in their foundation-building, he could only fight them to a draw.

But today was different. While the jump from Qi Refining Level 7 to Qi Refining Level 8 only superficially increased the total amount of spiritual energy, it was a significant boost in Lin Qianfan's overall strength. "The intensity of my gold spiritual energy output has increased by three points, making my attacks even more powerful. My spiritual energy recovery has also increased by three points, making me less vulnerable to prolonged battles. My physical strength has been pushed to its limit, pushing my swordsmanship even higher, and even raising the bar for my soul."

Feeling stronger power flowing into his meridians, Lin Qianfan was not overly happy. All this was the result of his day and night practice.

"From now on, you can be a little more radical."

In the small and small area of Lan'an Market, Lin Qianfan believed that he was invincible as long as he did not encounter a Foundation Establishment cultivator. Even if all the ninth-level Qi Refining cultivators from the three major families came, it would be useless.

"Before that, we need to refine the Phantom Sword first."

Although this Phantom Sword is still relatively suitable for Lin Qianfan's realm now, with Lin Qianfan's background, he can fully control stronger magical weapons, and even top-grade magical weapons can exert their power.

"The target is a top-grade magical weapon!"

Three years have passed since Lin Qianfan first tried to refine a top-grade magical weapon. He has refined or improved over a hundred top-grade magical weapons, which have even been sold to other regions.

Therefore, Lin Qianfan’s requirements for the Phantom Sword are no longer limited to high-grade magic weapons, but are directly aimed at top-grade magic weapons.

What is the best magic weapon?

The top-grade magic weapon is of a very special rank, not equivalent to the peak of the ninth level of Qi Refining, but a special existence between the first and second levels.

In short, the embryo originally used to refine a second-level spiritual weapon unexpectedly failed during the refining process, causing the spiritual weapon to be downgraded to a magic weapon.

Although it is a magic weapon, it has some characteristics of a spiritual weapon. Its attack and defense strengths are obviously far beyond those of a top-grade magic weapon, but it is far from the level of a low-grade spiritual weapon. This is a top-grade magic weapon.

Often, only cultivators who have reached the peak of the ninth level of Qi Refining are worthy of owning top-grade magical instruments, and can activate top-grade magical instruments that consume extremely high amounts of spiritual energy.

However, it is not ruled out that some foundation-building cultivators who have just entered the foundation-building stage and have no money to replace their equipment will use top-grade magic tools for a few years.

After all, the power of a top-grade magic weapon unleashed by a cultivator at the peak of the ninth level of Qi Refining depends on the cultivator's own limit, while the power unleashed by a top-grade magic weapon used by a cultivator at the foundation-building stage is at the limit of the magic weapon. The two are incomparable.

It is naturally impossible for Lin Qianfan to use the shadow stone as the main material for the top-grade phantom sword he intends to refine. The strength of the shadow stone is completely unable to meet the second-level standard.

Instead, he planned to use a small piece of second-level shadow black gold that he had bought at a high price as the main material. The characteristics of this material were also suitable for refining the Phantom Sword, and it was highly compatible.

"This amount is definitely not enough to refine a spiritual weapon, but if I go straight for a top-grade magic weapon, the success rate should be quite high."

The next day,

Lin Qianfan, who had adapted to the new realm and adjusted his physical and mental state to the best, brought all the materials to the highest-level underground fire room in the east district of Fangshi.

It is very difficult for Lin Qianfan to smelt the second-level materials by himself. The spiritual fire formation he used before is also not effective. He needs to rely on the geographical advantages. Only the earth fire drawn up from the earth veins can meet this condition.

"Tsk tsk~ It seems no one has been here for a long time. If that's the case, the Ichthyosaur Islands are quite deserted now."

These configurations were in place when Lan'an Market was first built, but now few people come to borrow this second-level underground fire chamber, which is enough to explain the problem.

The extent to which the Yulong Islands can develop depends on the extent to which the Lin family can open up, and the extent of the Lin family's openness depends on the level of the Lin family's Jindan cultivators.

Only when the Lin family's Jindan cultivators advance to the middle Jindan stage, or even the late Jindan stage, will the Yulong Islands become more open as a whole.

This is a contradiction in itself!
Boom~
The gushing yellow-purple flames emitted extremely high temperatures, and the golden spiritual power, which was originally restrained by the flames, used all its strength to protect Lin Qianfan.

"Two years of preparation, success or failure depends on this one move!"

Lin Qianfan's current weapon refining ability has reached the limit of the first level, and there is no room for improvement. As long as he successfully refines this top-grade magic weapon, he will meet the prerequisites for advancement to the second-level weapon refiner.

The shadow black gold ore is dark gold in color. Under the continuous burning of the earth fire, it gradually softens and melts into liquid. Lin Qianfan uses the separation array of the earth fire chamber to pick out all the impurities.

If these impurities are not removed completely, they will affect the strength of the finished product. Although I am not aiming for a second-level spiritual weapon this time, it is necessary to have the rigorous and perfectionist mentality that a weapon refiner should have.

"Next, smelt various auxiliary materials."

If Lin Qianfan uses only second-level shadow gold as the main material, he will not be able to do so. That will make the project doomed to suffer huge losses, which Lin Qianfan cannot accept.

Therefore, this Phantom Sword is mixed with a lot of auxiliary materials that are compatible with Shadow Mysterious Gold, so as to reduce the overall cost.

At the same time, too many first-level auxiliary materials are also one of the reasons why it is destined to not become a second-level spiritual weapon.

"Very good, the next step is to train!"

If all dimensions do not meet the standards, it will be difficult to create a top-grade magic weapon, so Lin Qianfan must strive for perfection in some dimensions to ensure that the overall level of this sword can pass the line.

Dang~dang~dang~
Lin Qianfan took off his robe to reveal his muscular upper body and manipulated the formation to hammer continuously, fusing the different materials to the extreme and extracting all the impurities that were previously impossible to pick out to ensure its strength.

"Phew~ It's really strenuous work."

Although it was not Lin Qianfan himself who was swinging the hammer, it was still somewhat difficult for the Qi-refining cultivator to barely invoke the second-order auxiliary formation, and the consumption of spiritual energy was huge.

"The last step is to burn the runes!"

A perfect sword blank is still just a sword blank. It also needs to be matched with runes such as sharpness, armor-piercing, toughness, stealth, light, and lightness.

For the same magic weapon, the more runes you engrave, the more difficult it becomes exponentially. Lin Qianfan, who had practiced in his mind countless times in advance, engraved them one by one according to the predetermined order and layout.

"to make!"

As the last rune in the design was completed, the newly-forged Phantom Sword instantly went from being cold and awe-inspiring to being low-key and restrained, making it impossible to tell that it was a top-grade magical weapon.

"Om~"

The sword energy is injected, its sharpness is chilling and breathtaking, but the sword light is condensed and not released, which is extremely dangerous.

"This is the first time I have successfully refined a top-grade magical weapon. This is also my first top-grade magical weapon."

"With it in hand, I am invincible under the foundation of the Ichthyosaur Islands."

(End of this chapter)