Chapter 689 Sword blank
When Xia Fan got the Qiankun bag from Liu Fangliang, Liu Fangliang was not dead yet, and the ban at the mouth of the bag was useful. Now that Liu Fangliang has died, his divine thoughts placed in the Qiankun bag ban disappeared, which also made Xia Fan less trouble when he broke those bans.
Of course, the lack of trouble does not mean that there is no trouble at all. After all, although Liu Fangliang's divine consciousness is gone, the prohibitions will not disappear because of this. If you want to open the Qiankun bag, you still have to crack these prohibitions.
Fortunately, Liu Fangliang is just a sword cultivator and is not very good at formations and prohibitions. He seems to be quite confident in his strength and thinks that no one can take away the Qiankun bag from him, so there are not many prohibitions placed on the bag, but there is another hidden killing move.
"Swish!" When Xia Fan broke through the last restriction, a cold light suddenly flashed, and a sharp and extremely sharp sword light pierced towards him.
This move is not only vicious and absolutely unpredictable. If it were someone else, he would definitely be hit on the spot, because no one would have thought that such a sharp sword light would suddenly appear when he was about to open the Qiankun bag. This was really unexpected. However, Xia Fan was not hit. Seeing the sword light hitting towards him, he directly stretched out his finger and blew it up with a bang.
Although the energy scattered and turned into a strong wind, the surrounding trees swayed continuously, and many leaves scattered and flew around, it did not hurt Xia Fan at all.
"What's going on?" Ge Changhe, who was tilting his head to study the grassland above his head, was stunned and asked casually.
"It's okay, it's just a little trick left by Liu Fangliang." Xia Fan replied casually and said, "Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on and share the benefits."
"You got this, I'm afraid it's inappropriate, right?" Ge Changhe said embarrassedly.
"What's wrong with this? Let's get half of the meeting." Xia Fan smiled and said, "Now we are in the same group. Of course we have to share together when we have benefits, otherwise wouldn't it be unfair? I got good things like this, and you got good things too. Just don't be reluctant to leave me back."
"That's definitely not." Ge Changhe shook his head quickly, just about to pat his chest to make a promise.
Xia Fan opened the Qiankun bag and poured out everything in it. Although Liu Fangliang's bag had a lot of space, there were not many things in it. Except for some clothes, shoes, hats, and other debris that Xia Fan and Ge Changhe could not use, the rest were basically things commonly used by practitioners, such as spiritual jade, elixirs, materials for elixirs and refining weapons, as well as some jade slips.
Of course, everyone can use Lingyu, so the two of them will share it evenly. As for the elixir, Xia Fan doesn't like it very much. After all, he can refine elixirs himself, and the quality of the elixirs he refined is not worse than those of Liu Fangliang's. Therefore, Xia Fan just took one pill and studied it. After finding that the quality is average, he gave it to Ge Changhe.
Ge Changhe was not picky, and was very happy to get these elixirs at once, so he gave Xia Fan all the alchemy materials and weapon refining materials that he should have given to him. His statement also made Xia Fan unable to refuse. He said: "I don't move the alchemy and weapon refining at all. It's useless to take these things. It's better to use them for you. It's better to get each of them in this way. What's better, not to mention that when I killed Liu Fangliang, I didn't do much. I got some spiritual jade and got all the elixirs. It's really hard to get more things."
Xia Fan was quite satisfied when he heard what he said. He said before that he wanted to divide things, not that he was stupid, but that he had his intentions, one for fairness, and the other for this to test Ge Changhe's character. After all, since he was here to find treasures, he would definitely get a lot of good things in the future. If Ge Changhe was the kind of person who was greedy and wanted to see money, even if Xia Fan would still walk with him, he would definitely be more careful. You should know that it is normal for a practitioner to turn against others for the sake of his treasures, and it would be impossible to be careful.
As of now, at least Ge Changhe has a good character, which makes Xia Fan more willing to go with him.
Liu Fangliang's Qiankun bag contains not many alchemy materials, few types, and not high quality. At most, he can only be used to refine some ordinary elixirs. Xia Fan did not take it seriously. According to his estimate, either Liu Fangliang was not proficient in alchemy, so he could not find any good things, or he had already refined the original alchemy materials with good quality, so there was naturally nothing good things left.
Given that Liu Fangliang didn't even have an alchemy furnace in his Qiankun bag, Xia Fan was more inclined to be the first possibility.
As for the refining materials, Xia Fan was quite surprised, because in addition to some materials of good quality, such as flowing sand, starlight stone, Thousand Smelting Copper Essence and other excellent quality materials, he also found a sword blank.
For Xia Fan, this was definitely an unexpected surprise. Since the Yinhua Sword shattered, Xia Fan has been considering refining a decent flying sword, but the flying sword is different from other magic weapons. The seemingly small sword is much more difficult than other magic weapons, and the time and energy spent during this period will naturally increase.
The reasons are summed up in three types. One is that although the flying sword is also considered a magic weapon, its status in mind is very different from that of ordinary magic weapons for most practitioners. This principle is actually not difficult to understand. For example, swords are also weapons. Logically speaking, it is no different from weapons such as swords, guns, sticks, sticks, axes, hooks and forks. But in fact, both literati and generals have different preferences for swords and give them many meanings that other weapons do not have. From this point of view, the cultivation world is really no different from the secular world.
It is precisely because the flying sword has a unique position among magic weapons that practitioners have spent their entire lives dedicated to this path, and then have the so-called sword cultivator. For sword cultivators, flying swords are not only their magic weapons, but also their way and lives. The so-called sword in people, the sword in people, the death in people, is not an exaggeration for sword cultivators.
Although Xia Fan is not as extreme as a sword cultivator, he still has a different attitude towards the flying sword, so he is not very willing to make a random one and use it first. Due to this unwilling attitude, it is not so easy to make a satisfactory flying sword. If there is no suitable use, Xia Fan would rather not use it.
Second, the flying sword seems to be simple in structure, but it is really not easy to refine it well. This is sometimes much more difficult than refining other magic weapons. For example, when Xia Fan refined the body scorpion eyes, it didn't take much effort. Basically, it took a little time to complete it. Of course, this is also related to the special situation at that time. But from one aspect, it is enough to prove that the refining of some magic weapons is really not difficult, and it is even quite casual.
But the refining of flying swords is different. Generally, there are relatively strict steps in refining flying swords, namely material selection, smelting, smelting, sacrificing, etc. It cannot be said that none of them are indispensable, but they cannot be completely omitted. The most troublesome one is the previous three steps of material selection, smelting and smelting.
Legend has it that some people mined the mountains and mined to refine peerless magic weapons and collected the essence of hardware. It took dozens or hundreds of years to refine a magic weapon. That is absolutely no exaggeration. It is actually the three major steps of material selection, smelting and making blanks.
Of course, it is not necessary to go through these three steps to refine all flying swords, and there are some exceptions. For example, when Xia Fan refined the Yinhua sword, he did not go through this process. The reason is very simple. The material used by Xia Fan at that time was an extremely rare material, so there is no need to select materials at all. The smelting is already a good sword blank. Xia Fan used it to refine the flying sword, which will naturally save a lot of trouble.
But others do not have as good luck as him, so these steps are still indispensable to refining a flying sword. The so-called material selection is actually to search for various materials needed to refine a flying sword. This process is absolutely amazing. Sometimes it may take ten or eight years or even longer to find a material, let alone other things, which shows how difficult it is. And selecting materials is just the beginning, let alone other things.
Because it is so difficult to refine the flying sword, many people teased the sword cultivators, saying that they only cultivate flying swords and most of the time they only recognize one natal flying sword. It is not that they are so dedicated, but that it is really too difficult to refine the flying swords, so they don’t want to waste all their time on this. Although this is ridiculous, it also shows the difficulty of refining the flying swords.
Third, it is not easy to refine the flying sword, and it will be even more difficult to maintain it after it is refined.
Magic weapons are different from the weapons used by warriors in the secular world that only require sharpness, but also spirituality, which is the so-called weapon spirit. This is especially true for flying swords.
When refining treasures, there are many magic weapons that give magic weapons and spirits. The easiest thing is to inject existing soul bodies into the magic weapons. For example, when Xia Fan refining the Ten Thousand Soul Banner, letting Dudu be his main soul was an excellent example. This method is certainly worry-free, but it also has a big disadvantage, that is, most of the time, using soul bodies as weapon spirits will lead to the lack of compatibility between the two.
The reason is very simple. If a person's soul is stuffed into a magic weapon, it would be strange if he changes a person's body that does not belong to him.
For this reason, many people have given up this method of giving magic weapons and weapon spirits, but have changed to other methods. One is to rely on spiritual thoughts, and the other is to find ways to continuously nourish the magic weapons, hoping that the magic weapons will give birth to the weapon spirits themselves.
Most of the flying swords use the latter two methods. Refining the flying sword for life is to place your divine thoughts into it and reach the level of an arm that is used to use your fingers. If you are unwilling to do this, you can only find a way to nourish the spirit of the weapon. However, its difficulty is definitely more difficult than refining the flying sword.
Xia Fan himself is not a sword cultivator, so he certainly would not refine the flying sword for life, so he could only choose the latter one. Just thinking about it, Xia Fan felt a headache.
Chapter completed!