Battle Through the Heavens: Inward Cultivation, Crying Xiao Yan

He did his best to lower the temperature of the soul fire, which prevented the wooden board from burning.

Even so, the temperature of the wooden board was not low at this moment.

He quickly picked up the carving knife and began carving again.

It uses the fire of the soul to probe the inside of the wooden plank.

This time, Xiao Yang's carving went very smoothly.

Soon, the nine-stroke carving was completed.

The next moment, a system notification sounded in Xiao Yang's mind.

[Task: Learn a basic artifact pattern. Reward: Artifact Pattern Proficiency +1, 1 piece of refined iron. Completed. Claim reward?]

As the spirit-gathering pattern was completed, Xiao Yang immediately felt the surrounding energy gathering towards the wooden board.

However, its effective range is very small, less than half a meter.

Just as Xiao Yang was about to carefully sense the Spirit Gathering Pattern,

"boom!"

Suddenly, the wooden planks exploded!

Because the wooden plank was too fragile, it absorbed too much energy from heaven and earth, and it exploded!

A hint of regret flashed across Xiao Yang's face.

As expected, it's difficult to practice with these ordinary materials.

With a thought, he used his spiritual power to gather the surrounding wood chips together.

He annihilated it directly with the fire of his soul.

Next, Xiao Yang received the system reward he had just received.

The next moment, a small portion of his insights suddenly appeared in his mind.

Xiao Yang's skill level in crafting artifacts has reached 2/10 of the beginner level.

His skill level in carving the patterns improved slightly as he began.

He thought for a moment and created another task.

[Task: Learn a basic artifact pattern. Reward: Artifact pattern proficiency +1, one piece of solid rock.]

Xiao Yang did not immediately learn the new artifact patterns.

Among the insights I just shared were some insights into the patterns on artifacts.

Most of them were insights gained from the Spirit Gathering Pattern.

He prepared to try engraving it with the fire of the soul.

The Gathering Spirit Pattern is a very basic type of artifact pattern.

This is considered one of the simpler patterns on artifacts.

Although there are other simpler patterns on the vessels.

However, the reason why Xiao Yang learned this first was because a single Spirit Gathering Pattern could be used to forge a very simple basic spiritual artifact!

Spirit Gathering Stone!

The Spirit Gathering Stone is considered one of the most basic types of spiritual artifacts.

It's very easy to make.

The most basic spirit-gathering pattern is engraved on the refining material.

Even if it's just engraving a spirit-gathering pattern, it can be considered a successful refining.

Of course, to achieve better results, the ingredients need to be processed.

In addition, the more spirit-gathering patterns engraved, the more powerful the artifact.

Spirit Stones don't necessarily have to be engraved on mineral materials; they can also be engraved on plant materials, metal materials, or even monster materials.

This is the simplest type of auxiliary artifact.

Basically, most spirit weapon makers' first spirit weapon is a spirit gathering stone.

However, although the Spirit Gathering Stone is the most basic spiritual artifact.

However, in the hands of some masters, the potential is also very high.

As the materials, refining techniques, and the number of spirit-gathering patterns engraved increase, the effect of the spirit-gathering stone will become stronger and stronger.

Some powerful spirit-gathering stones can even gather the energy of heaven and earth from an entire mountain range into one place!

Such a spirit-gathering stone can directly increase the concentration of the surrounding天地 (heaven and earth) energy by ten or even several tens of times!

Without hesitation, Xiao Yang took out the refined iron he had just obtained.

This piece of refined iron is only the size of a fist.

Refined iron is a very basic material for refining tools.

Even many commonly used ordinary weapons were forged from fine iron.

For example, many of the magic core weapons are forged from refined iron.

This material is also very common, so it's okay even if it fails.

Xiao Yang did not immediately begin refining the substance, but instead first created a task.

[Task: Refine a low-grade spirit-gathering stone. Reward: Low-grade spirit-weapon proficiency +1, one piece of ironwood.]

Unlike other novices, Xiao Yang did not directly engrave spirit-gathering patterns on the refined iron.

What sets him apart from the novices is that Xiao Yang possesses exceptional fire control abilities and his soul power far surpasses that of other novices.

He could have refined the iron first, removing the impurities.

In this way, the refined spirit stones will be even more powerful.

Xiao Yang took out the Heavenly Profound Cauldron and threw the refined iron into it.

The primordial fire surged into the Heavenly Profound Cauldron and began to scorch the refined iron.

In fact, Xiao Yang believes that there are some similarities between refining medicinal materials and refining equipment materials.

The primordial fire is far more powerful than the soul fire.

The temperature of the primordial fire can be higher than that of the soul fire.

Moreover, this is because the primordial fire has merged with the spiritual fire of all beasts.

Therefore, it is more effective when refining certain monster materials.

As time went by, Xiao Yang quickly finished refining the iron.

Just as he expected.

Refining iron was not difficult for him.

The first refining process removes most of the impurities.

Next comes the most crucial step—engraving the Spirit Gathering Pattern!

Xiao Yang's primordial fire began to transform, becoming the purest soul fire.

His soul fire surged directly into the refined iron.

At this moment, his soul fire acted like a carving knife, beginning to engrave spirit-gathering patterns inside the refined iron.

Xiao Yang was a little inexperienced when it came to engraving for the first time.

Therefore, he was very slow.

He hoped to guarantee success on the first try.

In fact, this is not very difficult for many beginners.

Other magical artifacts are difficult to forge because they require a perfect fusion of rare and precious elements.

Moreover, different patterns on objects must be combined together.

However, this basic auxiliary artifact only requires one material and one secret pattern to be engraved.

This level of difficulty can be described as very low.

Soon, Xiao Yang succeeded!

[Task: Refine a low-grade spirit-gathering stone. Reward: Low-grade spirit-weapon proficiency +1, one piece of ironwood. Completed. Claim reward?]

The next moment, Xiao Yang felt the energy of heaven and earth within a radius of eight meters around him gathering towards him.

At this moment, the concentration of the energy of heaven and earth around him has increased by at least 20%!

Normally, a beginner's first attempt at crafting a spirit-gathering stone is considered good if it can gather energy within a five-meter radius and increase the energy concentration by 10%.

However, because Xiao Yang refined refined iron, his spirit-gathering stone was even more effective!

Chapter 172 Divine Skill!

After Xiao Yang put away the spirit-gathering stone, he immediately claimed the reward.

He discovered that his proficiency with low-grade spiritual artifacts had improved slightly.

He has now reached the beginner level of 3/10 in the low-grade spirit weapon proficiency.

After receiving the reward, his experience in crafting magical artifacts also flooded his mind.

He discovered that most of these crafting experiences were for crafting simple magical artifacts.

However, even so, it is still very precious.

After absorbing these experiences, he felt as if he had forged these magical artifacts himself.

Although it was impossible for him to immediately forge these magical artifacts.

However, with just a few practice sessions, Xiao Yang was able to forge these magical artifacts.

This is where the system's greatest strength lies.

These experiences are like a series of standard instructional videos.

Even if Xiao Yang only watches it once, he might not be able to learn it directly.

However, with repeated viewings and his own attempts, he was able to master it.

In fact, with this experience, Xiao Yang was even able to improve his proficiency on his own.

After putting away the spirit-gathering stone, Xiao Yang continued to learn other artifact patterns and tried to forge some simple spiritual artifacts.

And just like that, a few days passed quickly.

As Xiao Yang received another proficiency bonus, a system notification sounded in his mind.

[Task: Raise your weapon crafting proficiency to Minor Mastery. Reward: +2 Spirit, +3 random Low-Grade Spirit Weapon Blueprints. Completed. Claim reward?]

After several days of study, he has improved his proficiency in the art of calligraphy to the minor level.

After Xiao Yang digested the insights into the artifact patterns given by the system, he directly claimed the reward.

These days, he has been crafting some simple magical artifacts.

He crafted some spirit-gathering stones, sound transmission tokens, self-cleaning clothes, and so on.

The spirit-gathering stone that Xiao Yang has now refined can gather the energy of heaven and earth within a ten-meter radius, increasing the concentration of the energy of heaven and earth around him by 30%.

A voice token is essentially a mobile phone with only call functionality.

However, this "phone" can currently only connect to distances of one thousand kilometers.

Self-cleaning clothes are clothes that can clean themselves automatically.

The Myriad Laws Garment he previously acquired already had the self-purifying artifact pattern found on the self-purifying garment.

In the past few days, in addition to refining weapons, Xiao Yang has also been refining some pills.

His proficiency in making pills has also improved considerably.

[Host: Xiao Yang]