Devouring the Stars: The Lord of the Sky

Chapter 110 Different Methods of Treasure Refining

In just a few years, Zi Ni Chang transformed from a novice in treasure crafting into a treasure crafter capable of crafting eight types of fifth-tier primal force weapons and possessing knowledge of all eight lower-level laws.

This achievement, placed on a World Lord-level treasure refiner who has just embarked on the path of treasure refining, would be considered the pinnacle of geniuses.

But it's perfectly normal for Zi Ni Chang.

Because she was at the pinnacle of immortality, having attained the rank of Marquis.

This is like a peak Marquis trying to cultivate eight different types of secret manuals, but whose upper limit is only the Realm Lord level. Is that difficult?

Anyone who reaches the peak of a normal titled Marquis wouldn't find it difficult.

'Om—'

Just then, the Qiankun Cauldron trembled slightly, and one hundred white-gold swords, each three feet and three inches long and covered with mysterious patterns, radiating a rich aura of light and law, flew out from the cauldron.

Immediately afterwards, after all one hundred fifth-order Radiant Swords flew out of the cauldron's mouth, the mouth of the Qiankun Cauldron once again emitted a dazzling white light, and the laws of light rippled through the air.

The Qiankun Cauldron, with its abundant materials and cosmic crystals stored within, began the next round of automatic treasure refining.

The Qiankun Cauldron has a powerful automatic treasure-refining function, making it a boon for lazy people.

However, perhaps due to the limitations of the supreme rules, the Qiankun Cauldron can automatically refine treasures.

However, a maximum of one hundred identical treasures can be crafted at a time, and different treasures cannot be crafted automatically at the same time.

Of course, whether it's automatically refining one treasure or automatically refining one hundred treasures at the same time, the refining time required for both is the same.

The only difference is that the latter requires a hundred times more materials and a hundred times more energy, and yields a hundred times more finished products in the same amount of time.

Additionally, it's worth mentioning that while the finished treasures recorded in the Crystal Inheritance Tower conform to the style of treasures from the Devouring World, the specific refining process is different.

Taking the fifth-tier Radiant Sword as an example, this is how the refiners of the Devouring Stars forged it.

—Heating the E-grade Radiant Gold Essence, removing impurities by hammering, shaping it into a sword-shaped blank, and finally engraving the Law Secret Runes on the semi-finished sword-shaped blank.

However, the method for forging the Radiant Sword recorded in the Crystal Heritage Tower is quite different.

—The E-grade Radiant Gold Essence is heated at high temperature, melted into liquid metal, and impurities are removed. Then, using mental power or ethereal divine power, the liquid Radiant Gold Essence is controlled to take the shape of a sword and directly inscribed with the secret runes of the laws.

Once the Law Runes are inscribed, the liquid Radiant Gold Essence, shaped like a sword, cools down. During the cooling process, the Law Runes are kept in place to prevent any misalignment, and the fifth-tier Radiant Sword is successfully forged.

The two methods of refining treasures produce the same finished product, but the processes and the time required for refining are different.

The former involves inscribing the secret patterns of laws on a semi-finished artifact blank, while the latter involves inscribing the secret patterns of laws on liquid radiant gold essence.

Due to the vast difference in hardness between semi-finished artifact blanks and liquid metal, and the fact that inscribing the secret runes of the laws is a delicate task, the former requires far more time to refine than the latter.

This is similar to carving a flower by hand; carving a flower on a lump of clay is much easier than carving a flower on a hard metal ingot.

However, compared to the mainstream treasure-refining methods that devour worlds, the treasure-refining methods produced by the Crystal Inheritance Tower are not without their flaws.

The former involves inscribing law-based runes on a semi-finished artifact blank; if the technique is lacking, the artifact will have flaws.

If the difference is significant, it can still be considered a finished treasure after remedies; at most, the treasure's grade will decrease.

This is precisely why many fake treasures have appeared in the universe.

If it is a fake treasure crafted by humans, then during the crafting process, the craftsmen all aimed to create a real treasure, but their crafting skills were not up to par, and it ultimately became a fake treasure.

The latter involves inscribing law patterns on liquid metal. Liquid metal is fundamentally different from a semi-finished artifact blank. Before the law patterns are completely inscribed, the artifact refiner can only rely on their own experience to judge whether the law patterns are perfectly inscribed.

Once the law runes are inscribed, they cannot be altered or remedied.

If the errors or omissions that occur during the engraving process are not significant, then the treasure may have some minor flaws, but it is still considered to be of good quality.

If there are significant errors or omissions, the treasure will become worthless.

Simply put, the former takes shape gradually, with opportunities for correction along the way, while the latter takes shape instantly, with no opportunity for correction.

Comparatively speaking, using the Crystal Inheritance Tower's treasure-refining method to refine treasures is more efficient, but it also places higher demands on the treasure refiner.

If the quality levels are the same, the probability of it being scrapped is higher.

However, the Qiankun Cauldron, which can automatically refine treasures, seems to have bypassed this drawback.

As long as the treasure refiner can perfectly refine a treasure once, then when the Qiankun Cauldron automatically refines such a treasure, all the treasures produced will also be perfect.

'It really is an automated treasure-refining factory!'

Looking at the hundred fifth-tier Radiant Swords, Lu Jin nodded in satisfaction.

Generally speaking, the price of a Tier 5 Force weapon is close to 100 billion cosmic coins.

The price, which is close to a hundred billion cosmic coins, refers only to ordinary fifth-tier Force weapons.

Although the fifth-tier Radiant Sword is not considered the highest-grade among fifth-tier Force weapons because it does not involve higher-level laws.

However, a fifth-tier Radiant Sword with perfect craftsmanship is considered a minor top-tier item, and selling it for thousands or even trillions of cosmic coins would not be a problem.

One hundred handles at a time, that's dozens or even hundreds of mixed units.

As for the cost?

Compared to the value of the Radiant Sword, the material costs and energy consumption are almost negligible.

Don't be fooled by the fact that the treasure refiners in the universe are just 'bad blacksmiths'; as long as their treasure refining skills aren't too bad, they're all rolling in money!

Moreover, when using the Qiankun Cauldron to forge fifth-order Origin Force weapons, it is not necessarily required to use E-grade metals.

By using D-grade metals, or even C-grade metals, one can also forge fifth-tier Force weapons.

The Qiankun Cauldron contains the Fire of Creation, which has the effect of refining all things and can refine low-grade materials into high-grade materials.

For example, to forge a fifth-tier Radiant Sword, it originally required E-grade Radiant Gold Essence, but if you use the Qiankun Cauldron, you only need to use D-grade Radiant Gold.

Of course, refining materials with the fire of creation requires a certain amount of energy and also results in a huge material loss rate.

Each time materials are refined to a higher level, the ratio of materials required is 1000:1.

That means a million parts of C1 grade metal can be refined into a thousand parts of D1 grade metal, or into one part of E1 grade metal.

Compared to other metals in the universe, where the price difference between different grades can range from thousands to tens of thousands of times, after deducting the cost of the energy consumed in refining, refining materials with the Fire of Creation can still yield a small profit.

However, what Lu Jin valued was not the relatively small profit margin after refining the materials.

Even if there were no profit margin, the refining properties of the Creation Fire would still be extremely valuable.

The universe is vast, and there are plenty of metals below F grade. Even F grade and G grade metals can be bought with money.

However, if the material is of a high-grade treasure or even a supreme treasure level, it will be very difficult to buy.

However, with the Qiankun Cauldron containing the fire of creation, even ordinary stones can be refined into materials for crafting powerful treasures or even supreme treasures. The prerequisite is that there are enough stones and a willingness to spend a great deal of time and energy on refining them.

Zi Nishang raised her hand and placed the hundred fifth-tier Radiant Swords into her world ring.

Suddenly, Lu Jin thought of a idea he had considered before and said to Zi Nishang, "Nishang, try it out later and see if you can refine a soul-type treasure with a passive self-destruct effect."

"A soul-type treasure that can self-destruct?"

Zi Nishang was stunned, somewhat confused.

If it's a treasure of the soul, how is it related to self-destruction?
Touching his chin, Lu Jin said, "If it's feasible, I need a soul-type treasure like this."

This soul treasure itself has the effect of protecting the soul.

However, when I encounter an irresistible soul infiltration and annihilation or soul enslavement, this treasure can automatically sense that I cannot bear it and cannot commit suicide on my own. Then, the treasure will kill me by self-destruction.

If such a treasure were to protect the soul, the possibility of being enslaved or destroyed by the soul could be eliminated.

For Lu Jin, who possesses clones, the death of one of his bodies is no big deal; at most, he would just lose the treasures he was carrying.

But if the soul infiltrates and kills or enslaves the soul, then it's all over.

As a cheat code user, influenced by external cheat codes and numerous extremely high-level treasures, Lu Jin was certain that once he perished, the Lord of the Universe and the True God would be unable to reverse time and space to revive him.

The methods of soul enslavement are also unsolvable in the original universe.

It can be said that once he is infiltrated and killed or enslaved by a soul, perhaps only in the future, after Luo Feng becomes the Lord of Luo City, will it be possible to save him.

Lu Jin had previously asked the spirit of the Crystal Inheritance Tower, 'Lingling,' if there was a method for crafting treasures with similar effects.

Unfortunately, while there are countless methods for refining treasures within the Crystal Inheritance Tower, there is no such bizarre soul-type treasure.

That's right. Soul enslavement and the like would definitely be considered the actions of a great demon in the primordial world.

Moreover, the great demons in the primordial world generally only eat meat, drink blood, and devour souls, rarely enslaving other living beings. Naturally, the treasure-refining inheritance tower of the West Sea Dragon Palace does not contain the method for refining such treasures.

Buddhist methods of salvation?

You're kidding, those are disciples of a sage. Ordinary dragon sons and grandsons don't even have the qualifications to be mounts on Mount Ling.

Upon hearing this, Zi Nishang pondered for a moment, then her eyes lit up, and she nodded, saying, "The treasure-refining methods within the Crystal Inheritance Tower are vast as the sea. There are treasures that can protect the soul, treasures that can automatically sense the user's state, and treasures that can self-destruct."

Since treasures with these effects exist, it is theoretically feasible to integrate these effects into one treasure.

At most, it's just that because it focuses on more aspects, its effect isn't as strong compared to other treasures of the same level. I'll give it a try!

Special treasures have multiple effects, but their individual effects are weaker compared to other treasures of the same type and level.
Don't panic. If the treasure's effect is at the bottom of its grade, then I can just use a higher-grade one.

"No rush, take your time."

As the saying goes, work and rest should be balanced; now we should do something beneficial to our physical and mental health.

Lu Jin smiled and shook his head, then stepped forward and took Zi Nishang's slender hand.

"boom--"

Zi Nishang raised her eyebrows slightly, her mind racing. She slammed the doors of the weapon-refining hall shut, and looked at Lu Jin meaningfully, saying, "Whoever admits defeat first is a little dog!"

Lu Jin: "."

A few days later, a report from one of her servants led Zi Ni Chang, who had rebelled against the Heavenly Gang, to let Lu Jin, who had almost been ruined, go.

Of course, Lu Jin felt that he couldn't be broken.

Although he was no match for Zi Ni Chang, he was still a peak ninth-tier stellar cultivator with a hundred times the life gene.

Losing a little protein, fat, enzymes, water, etc., wouldn't kill him.

Moreover, with his clones, he can be fully resurrected after dying once.

The news was reported by Han Yifeng, the chief administrator of the Guanghan Star Region, and it was related to the Peak Genius Battle that would begin after March.

Han Yifeng, the former prime minister of the Great Qian Kingdom in the Qiankun Realm, became Lu Jin's soul servant. Lu Jin bestowed upon him a lower-level law godhead, enabling him to become a primary immortal military lord.

"How to say it specifically?"

Inside the Divine Kingdom Temple, Lu Jin asked Zi Ni Chang, who had just exited the virtual universe.

Zi Nishang said, "The battle of the top geniuses will begin after March."

The Heavenly Frost King ordered his generals to notify the lords of all the major empires and private star systems within the Universe Kingdom, demanding that we ensure the safety of the geniuses who had distinguished themselves in the Genius Battle.

Previously, within the Great Luo Heaven, I shut down virtual cosmic communications. Unable to contact me, that divine general sent me an email and then notified the Archon.

"Did the email mention any rewards? For example, if a genius within the kingdom ranks highly in the Genius Battle, would the Heavenly Frost King personally fund the reward?"

Lu Jin asked.

Regardless of whether the ruler of the Frost Kingdom values ​​geniuses as much as the ruler of the Dry Witch Kingdom, who is heavily in debt, as the ruler of the Universe Kingdom, he must make some kind of gesture.

Zi Ni Chang nodded: "Yes, if any genius in the territory ranks in the top 1,000 in the finals, they will be rewarded with 10,000 Hunyuan units."

The top 100 will be rewarded with 100,000 Mixed Yuan Units.

The top ten will be awarded 500,000 Mixed Yuan Units.

If you rank first, you will be rewarded with one million Mixed Yuan Units.

"It seems you, my lord, will earn 1.5 million Chaos Units this time."

Lu Jin said with a smile.

The fifth level of the Nine Divine Weapons, mastered by the wielder; in the battle of geniuses, who can stand against him?

Even Berlan, who is said to appear only once every ten thousand epochs, is no match for him.

To be honest, in Lu Jin's opinion, if we really talk about the talent of the people who participated in the Genius Battle in the original work, Bolan, who is said to be one in tens of thousands of eras, can only be ranked fifth.

Luo Feng, Rong Jun, Hong, Lei Shen.

Needless to say, Luo Feng and Rong Jun are both exceptional talents. The former has the protagonist template, and the latter is also recognized as having stronger talent than Bo Lan.

As for Hong and Lei Shen, although they couldn't even make it to the final round during the Genius Battle in the original story, it doesn't mean their cultivation talent was weak.

After all, whether in terms of cultivation age or the guidance of their teachers, Hong and Thor are far inferior to Berlan.

If they had the same amount of time and resources for cultivation as Bolan, I believe Hong and Leishen would not be weaker than Bolan.

Bonus chapter for May (4)

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