WVKWnovel #113 - Your skin?
#113 - Your skin?
That evening, Ling Yunzi produced another batch of pills.
However, this time, no sea monsters came to harass him.
Because after General Yu finished talking with Xu Chengxian, he took a trip to the riverbank.
He killed all three sea monsters who had prematurely exposed their aura.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Three sounds.
All thrown beside Xu Chengxian.
Then, with a cold snort, he flew away.
"…Actually, General Yu is quite a nice person."
Xu Chengxian wasn't the least bit unhappy about being disturbed from his sound sleep.
Just kidding, this two-zhang-long lobster was a genuine demon. Even if it had smashed into him, he wouldn't have frowned!
Besides the lobster, there were two other things, ugly and strange in appearance. One looked like a starfish, and the other, at least, looked like a fish.
Outwardly, they all looked equally unappetizing.
Bluish-green.
But it didn't matter, the cooked taste was still quite good.
"Little ones! Light the bonfire!" Xu Chengxian didn't hesitate and immediately used his divine sense to summon the little demons.
He never had the chance to eat such a big lobster in his previous life.
Now, he could eat until he vomited!
Not hungry?
So what!
He could still eat a couple of bites even if he wasn't hungry.
At worst, he could activate his Gluttony talent while eating, guaranteeing nothing would be left!
Of course, three was a bit too much after all.
When Ling Yunzi collected the pills and, together with Ling Xiao, went to find Xu Chengxian as usual, the first thing he asked was: "Yunzi, how is the crafting of the storage artifact going?"
He had refined many batches of spirit pills.
Why was he so unenthusiastic about crafting artifacts?
He hadn't even made a storage artifact yet.
How inconvenient!
Although Xu Chengxian felt that his stomach could勉强 also be used as a storage bag, what if something was accidentally refined inside?
It would easily cause trouble for himself.
"There aren't suitable spiritual materials," Ling Yunzi said, his eyelids twitching, as he calmly took a newly refined Spirit Replenishing Pill and, with a flick of his finger, sent it to the giant snake's mouth.
"No spiritual materials?" Xu Chengxian opened his mouth and unceremoniously swallowed the pill.
"Mm."
Whenever Ling Yunzi refined new pills, they would gather together like this, the three of them chatting for a few words.
It wasn't about sharing cultivation insights, nor was there any particular method. They were just casually talking about recent events.
Then they would disperse.
Since there was no fixed topic, whoever brought up a topic, the others would follow along and continue the conversation.
So, although he didn't know why Xu Chengxian brought up storage artifacts again, the two still naturally explained.
"The difference between the two, roughly speaking, is that one emphasizes skill, and the other emphasizes strength."
Pill refining emphasizes skill, techniques, hand seals, fire control, and so on, all requiring careful control of strength.
After all, the main ingredient, auxiliary ingredients, and various spiritual materials must be integrated into one. If there is a mistake, it can easily affect the pill formation.
"And artifact crafting emphasizes the application of strength, constantly forging and refining, extracting impurities, integrating spiritual materials, and imprinting array runes."
Simply put, artifact crafting requires a main spiritual material that can withstand constant forging.
Because in the process of artifact crafting, it is necessary to continuously add other refined spiritual materials to the main body.
Each addition requires a forging process to integrate the auxiliary material into the main body.
During this period, it is also necessary to imprint runes and even embed various attribute gems.
If it cannot withstand the forging and cracks appear during the forging process, and it is not repaired in time, all previous efforts will be in vain.
"After forging and shaping, the imprinted runes must form a complete array and be able to be activated by injecting mana. Otherwise, it will be a failure."
Any crack in the main body, even if it is so small that the divine sense can easily ignore it, will cause the runes to be incomplete at this step.
Incomplete runes mean an incomplete array.
Spiritual power is injected, but it cannot be activated.
Is that still a magic weapon?
If it cannot be completed, it is just a waste of effort.
"Moreover, the spiritual materials consumed in it are difficult to integrate and even more difficult to remove," Ling Yunzi's words were simple.
That is, the family fortune is not thick enough.
It's better not to bother.
"Then can't you reduce some of the forging… steps?" Xu Chengxian asked.
He didn't understand artifact crafting.
But according to common sense, if artifact crafting is regarded as ancient blacksmithing, if the iron material is not good enough, a peerless sword cannot be forged.
Then why not forge a kitchen knife first?
Anyway, anything with a blade can cut people.
"…This seat doesn't want to," Ling Yunzi's face darkened.
"Oh, Little White's artifact crafting techniques cover arrays that are nested layer upon layer," Ling Xiao interjected.
The artifact crafting techniques of the Xuanmen orthodox school have been refined generation after generation, with orderly inheritance.
How can things be subtracted just by saying so?
It affects the whole body with one hair.
It's not entirely impossible to force a reduction, but it would take time and repeated deductions.
Moreover, if the array is to be reduced, it must be reduced in sets.
That would sacrifice the effect of the array itself.
Refining such an artifact, let alone Ling Yunzi, she wouldn't be interested in using it.
"Moreover, even if it is to be reduced, the requirement for the main spiritual material still exists."
"Understood," Xu Chengxian nodded.
So, the most crucial thing is that there is no main spiritual material that can withstand it.
No wonder, the artifacts Ling Yunzi has refined so far, besides the cooking utensils for herself, are just knives and spears for the little demons.
It is estimated that they are all scraps from a furnace.
Speaking of which, Ling Yunzi's artifact refining furnace is still the black gold pill furnace.
No, there are two fairly decent artifacts that he has refined.
One is his own weapon, which looks like a horsetail whisk, but is actually a sword.
And the other is the long whip in Ling Xiao's hand.
"Your eyesight is not bad, you finally saw it," Ling Xiao said mockingly.
Then she asked with a smile, "Then can you see what is used as the main spiritual material?"
"Is it the snake skin of you two?" Xu Chengxian wasn't blind.
Moreover, he also had divine sense to explore.
The last time they fought, he could vaguely feel it.
In addition to the snake skin, there should be something else.
Should it all be a section of bone from Wushan?
"Not bad, you know to say snake skin," Ling Xiao raised her eyebrows, "Not saying something like 'your skin', is considered an improvement!"
"…Tsk," Xu Chengxian didn't want to admit that his words were unpleasant.
It's just that he was used to speaking casually in his previous life. Some words, he felt, were nothing, but when they fell into other people's ears, they were particularly unpleasant.
Of course, he couldn't change this problem, so he just let Ling Xiao怼 him back.
"Then, can my skin be used to refine a storage artifact?" He turned to ask Ling Yunzi.
"Your skin?"