CHAPTER 963: CHAPTER 528: ARTIFACT REFINING

In the chamber, the ’Nanming Leaving Fire’ in Li Shiming’s hand was burning, and the incredibly hard Fourth Grade Thunder Radiance Profound Iron softened in just over ten breaths.

This is why Li Shiming used the ’Nanming Leaving Fire’ for artifact refining. If he used his Nascent Fire, not to mention the consumption on the Nascent Soul, just the time to soften the Fourth Grade Thunder Radiance Profound Iron would take at least over ten hours.

Divine Power Flames are the top tier of flames, especially after the Nascent Soul Stage, the ’Nanming Leaving Fire’ can truly unleash its power.

Just as the Fourth Grade Thunder Radiance Profound Iron softened, strands of Divine Sense appeared, transforming into heavy hammers striking the softened Fourth Grade Thunder Radiance Profound Iron.

These Divine Senses were born of Li Shiming manipulating ten brains. In the chamber, he was like a sovereign, with 5-nanometer control turning the Fourth Grade Thunder Radiance Profound Iron into the shape of the Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer.

From the start of crafting until now, it took less than one hour.

The next part requires consuming a lot of time; Li Shiming manipulated one hundred brains to transform into one hundred independent Divine Senses, starting to engrave patterns on the rough form of the Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer.

The Fourth Grade Thunder Radiance Profound Iron itself is extremely sturdy, and since this is not a melee treasure, he did not attach reinforcing runes but chose the ’Yuqing Thunder Scripture’ matching Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer treasure runes.

The IBMz15 had analyzed the previously obtained Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer, with the ’Yuqing Thunder Scripture’ as reference, and Li Shiming’s own Nascent Soul Stage insights from cultivating the ’Yuqing Thunder Scripture,’ all reflected in these runes.

The small runes contained Li Shiming’s understanding of the ’Yuqing Thunder Scripture,’ coupled with the research findings on the Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer from his life treasure IBMz15, resulting in even more perfect runes.

IBMz15 developed a scheme for the rune engravings on the Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer.

On the not-too-large surface space of the Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’s rough form, 3.6 million small formations are to be arranged. Each small formation is composed of twelve runes, and these 3.6 million small formations constitute a Thunder Attack Array.

This is the maximum bearing capacity of Fourth Grade Thunder Radiance Profound Iron, not the limit of Li Shiming’s rune engraving ability.

With 5-nanometer precision, not to mention 3.6 million small formations, even increasing them a hundredfold wouldn’t be an issue, but the small formations also require materials to support them.

It is because Fourth Grade Thunder Radiance Profound Iron is a fourth-grade upper-stage refining material with extremely high quality that it can support engraving 3.6 million small formations.

The process of engraving small formations is the most troublesome; with 5-nanometer precision engraving, under the control of the innate treasure IBMz15, ’Divine Eye Insight’ and Divine Sense can accurately complete the task.

This refining took a full three months; what he told Grandmaster Hu was that he was in seclusion to refine Nascent Soul Late Stage Fourth Grade Spirit Pills, and Grandmaster Hu previously gave him materials for two batches of Nascent Soul Late Stage Fourth Grade Spirit Pills.

Refining a batch of Nascent Soul Late Stage Fourth Grade Spirit Pills takes forty days. In between two batches, there is time needed to recover energy and to analyze and research problems encountered in the first batch and summarize experiences, so he said he needed to be in seclusion for three months.

In fact, the difficulty of refining Nascent Soul Late Stage Fourth Grade Spirit Pills was not high for him, and he actually refined only one batch, yielding six Nascent Soul Late Stage Fourth Grade Intermediate Spirit Pills with his precise control, maintaining his consistent alchemy ability.

Of course, he could not present all six full pills of Nascent Soul Late Stage Fourth Grade Intermediate Spirit Pills; he only planned to present three Fourth Grade Spirit Pills to give Grandmaster Hu an explanation as he really didn’t want to be too eye-catching.

And three months was exactly the time IBMz15 proposed for refining the Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer.

Li Shiming held the refined Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer in his hand, just a little step away from being activated, yet he cautiously paused from taking the final step.

His artifact refining method was unprecedented in the Cultivation World.

When refining a Third Grade Flying Sword, he only used 360,000 Six Trigram Arrays, turning the crafted ’Flowing Light Star Meteor’ into an Artifact Tribulation Treasure.

The Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer in his hand was engraved with 3.6 million more complex formations; he had a feeling that once the final refining was completed and the treasure was activated, a Heavenly Tribulation would descend.

Absolutely cannot complete this last step at the Ten Thousand Beast Sect, showcasing a certain alchemy ability to obtain the resources he wanted.

However, further displaying a formidable artifact refining ability would bring him immense trouble.

Moreover, he wanted to turn the Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer in his hand into a hidden card, one that other cultivators must not know about.

In three months, besides completing artifact refining and alchemy, his cultivation also did not fall behind. The spiritual power in his Nascent Soul increased a bit, not much but several times more effective compared to ordinary Nascent Soul Cultivators’ three months of cultivation.

After all, there are not many Nascent Soul Early Stage Practitioners who can afford to continuously use Early-stage Nascent Soul Fourth-grade High-level Spirit Pills for cultivation.

Upon coming out of seclusion, he first sent a communication technique to his master, Grandmaster Hu, and soon received a reply from Grandmaster Hu.

Grandmaster Hu is currently guarding the Ten Thousand Beasts Cave Heaven and immediately sent a clone to come over.

Li Shiming opened the Formation on the mountain peak, just as Grandmaster Hu’s clone passed through the Formation and entered the mountain peak.

"Greetings, Master!" Li Shiming bowed and saluted to Grandmaster Hu’s clone.

He was somewhat puzzled in his heart because, with his perception, he couldn’t discern any difference between this clone and Grandmaster Hu’s true body.