Stellar Transformation-Chapter 561: Episode 16 Episode 22 The Trial of Ten Million (A New January, Asking for Monthly Votes~~)
Artifact Refining encompasses three major steps: the first is "Achieve the Artifact Embryo," the second is "Quenching," and the third is "Enlightenment."
Nearly two thousand golden scrolls, ninety percent of which narrate the process of achieving the Artifact Embryo.
The remaining ten percent mostly deal with "Quenching," whereas "Enlightenment," this step, occupies only a very small portion.
The second step: Quenching!
A weapon, being merely hard, is not enough; its toughness and flexibility are also very important. After all, that which is too rigid is easily broken.
Quenching is the process of softening and toughening. An Artifact Refining Master can even make a weapon sharper through ’Quenching.’
The biggest challenge of Quenching is—the Quenching Medium!
The Quenching Medium is, in actuality, water, and the quality of the water is extremely important. The better the quality of the water, the better the Quenching Medium, the more flawless the weapon can be in the Quenching step.
One-element Heavy Water and Gold Element Heavy Water are extremely rare in the Divine World, and in the "Gold Element Heavy Water," there is even—Cold Mist Energy.
The Divine Kings might possess "Nihility Karma Fire" due to True Fire within their bodies, but those who possess "Cold Mist Energy" are extremely rare.
On seeing this, Qin Yu was overjoyed.
"My Mutated Hua Lian Clone, created through the fusion of the Black Lotus Heart and the Golden Orb, excels at using the Cold Mist Domain. With this Clone, my Quenching Medium will definitely be the most perfect," Qin Yu became even more excited.
Even if other Divine Kings tried every means to obtain "Cold Mist Energy," how could their use of the Cold Mist Energy compare with that of Qin Yu’s Clone, which possessed the Cold Mist Domain?
The first difficulty of Quenching—the Quenching Medium.
Quenching has a second challenge, that is—temperature control.
Different weapons require different Quenching Mediums. It is not the case that the colder the Quenching Medium, the better. After all, some materials might freeze and crack immediately upon encountering Cold Mist Energy.
Moreover, the timing control during the Artifact Embryo’s Quenching is also very important.
How long should Quenching last? When should Quenching stop?
Staying too long in the Quenching Medium might degrade the quality of the Artifact Embryo. Staying too briefly might not allow the Artifact Embryo to reach its maximum quality.
Temperature control is extremely important.
It is a combination of experience, observational skill, and talent.
"Among the three major steps, this ’Quenching’ seems to be slightly simpler than ’Refining the Artifact Embryo,’" Qin Yu thought to himself. However, Qin Yu forgot that not even Divine Kings could control "Cold Mist Energy" perfectly.
Cold Mist Energy, this is the highest-grade Quenching Medium.
The third step of the three major steps—Enlightenment!
After the first two steps, even if the weapon is crafted, at most it meets the standards for hardness, sharpness, softening, and other aspects. But—
To be worthy of the name ’Heavenly Divine Artifact’—
The most important process is "Enlightenment"!
Although the golden scrolls record very little of the "Enlightenment Skill," that’s because... the power of Enlightenment Skill is determined by Array Formation mastery!
Adding an array to the ’artifact,’ making the weapon an organic whole, enabling it to perfectly control energies like metal, wood, water, fire, earth, light, darkness, and thunder, allowing the weapon to connect with the heaven and earth, undergoing an essential transformation!
This is Enlightenment.
Once Enlightenment is done, the final grade of a weapon is determined.
After Enlightenment, weapons will exhibit an ’amplitude’ effect, becoming a complete whole, with properties becoming more pronounced. Even special effects might appear!
For example, the ’Sharpness’ specialty effect of the Red Blood Divine Sword appeared after Enlightenment.
"No wonder Che Hou once said that without reaching the Fifth Level Array Formation, it would be absolutely impossible to refine a Heavenly Divine Artifact!" Qin Yu now fully understood.
If the Array Formation mastery does not reach the Fifth Level, the effects of Enlightenment would never meet the standards of a Heavenly Divine Artifact.
The standard of a Heavenly Divine Artifact—being able to effectively amplify Heavenly God Power!
While for ordinary Divine Artifacts, infusing Divine Power would achieve the best amplification effect. But if Heavenly God Power were infused, the Attack Power might increase only slightly, and the amplification effect might actually diminish.
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In the spacious Artifact Refining Hall, with only two jadestone-colored cloud beds, Qin Yu opened his eyes, his previously floating golden scrolls had all vanished.
"No wonder it’s said, a true Artifact Refining Master is definitely an Array Master. So that’s how it is. The Enlightenment Skill may be the simplest, but it’s also the hardest," Qin Yu sighed inwardly.
Simple, simple in procedure.
Difficult, difficult in Array Formation!
"I can set up the Array Space, but I’m not capable of establishing Fifth-level, Sixth-level, Seventh-level, or Eighth-level Arrays," Qin Yu mockingly chuckled to himself.
Qin Yu was very clear about his own Array Formation mastery.
Setting up an Array Space relied on his universe’s Space Law, and did not mean he was capable of deploying Fifth and Sixth-level Arrays.
Nevertheless, understanding this ultimate perfect Array Formation was already enough.
"According to Senior Che Hou Yuan, the pinnacle of Enlightenment is perfect harmony, achieving the ultimate coordination! His Eighth-level Formation is already quite harmonious. However, my ’Qiankun’ Array should have reached the utmost level of harmony. The energies of metal, wood, water, fire, earth, light, darkness, and thunder have achieved perfect harmony," Qin Yu’s face lit up with a smile.
This determined that... weaponry refined by Qin Yu would uniformly use the ’Qiankun’ Array for Enlightenment.
Qin Yu floated up from the cloud bed and moved to the center of the Fire Refining Hall.
"To start with Artifact Refining, first refine the ’Artifact Embryo,’" Qin Yu’s mind moved, and a large pile of materials appeared in a corner of the Artifact Refining Hall, all acquired from Mishen Palace.
Che Hou Yuan had long prepared them for his successor.
"There are many methods for refining the Artifact Embryo; how exactly should I do it?" Qin Yu frowned, recalling something Che Hou Yuan had once said—’To become the new ’Artisan God,’ one must not simply copy the methods of the predecessors. Instead, one must forge one’s own way, the most suited Artifact Refining method for oneself!’
To create his own Artifact Refining method?
Such innovation is not so simple. Each of the few renowned Artifact Refining Masters in the Divine World had gone through trial after trial to eventually derive their methods.
"First Refining, then concluding. I’ll start by experimenting with the various previous Artifact Refining methods, and then slowly explore the path of Artifact Refining that belongs to me!"
Qin Yu made a decision!
With a single thought, seven blocks of materials piled in the corner of the Artifact Refining Hall flew toward Qin Yu. Stretching out his hand, two types of flames flew out from the Refining Fire Bracelet — Black Divine Fire and White Pure Fire.
Qin Yu began his first experimental refinement.
The method he adopted was a common artifact refining technique from the history of the Divine World called ’Vortex Wave Technique’.
Qin Yu was well aware. The main reason that there are so few artifact refining masters in the Divine World is that the majority of talented artifact refiners were hindered at the ’Enlightenment’ stage.
Even if they refined artifact embryos very well, they could not craft Heavenly Divine Artifacts due to insufficient cultivation in formations. Without crafting Heavenly Divine Artifacts, they couldn’t become artifact refining masters.
The ’Vortex’ method, though simply a common artifact refiner’s technique...
Yet, Qin Yu felt that in terms of ’refining artifact embryos,’ this method’s efficacy was not much weaker than that of ’Artisan God’ Che Hou Yuan’s "Thousand Hammers and Hundred Refinements."
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’Vortex Wave Technique’, ’Nine Curves Fire Refining’, ’Artifact Wu Technique’...
Diverse, peculiar methods were continually experimented with by Qin Yu, each providing him with different experiences and realizations, radically improving his comprehension in artifact refining.
Qin Yu dedicated himself wholeheartedly, where each weapon’s materials were all low-grade. The first crucial criterion for an ’artifact embryo’ is the materials; if the materials are too poor, it’s simply impossible to refine a good weapon.
However, after all, Qin Yu was using them for ’experimentation’.
When more than a thousand years had passed in the Divine World, at the moment when Qin Yu was most focused on his experimentation, he discovered — he had used up all the ordinary materials in the Mishen Palace.
Over a thousand years had gone by in the Divine World.
How long had Qin Yu himself been experimenting? It was difficult to calculate, as the ’New Universe’ was now accelerated to its extreme, reaching more than five thousand times faster than before.
The Fire Refining Hall where Qin Yu was located, constantly operated at the limit of time acceleration, with time continuously hastening. Qin Yu estimated that he must have been experimenting for about five to six million years.
"I’m out of materials? What should I do?" Qin Yu thought with a frown.
Suddenly, Qin Yu smiled, "Ah, I’ve forgotten, the East Pole Saint Emperor had entrusted that if I ran out of materials, I could ask him for more!" Immediately, Qin Yu telepathically communicated with Qiu Zhongfu, asking him to personally collect a large quantity of ordinary materials.
"It seems I need to make a return trip to Lanxuan Hall," Qin Yu muttered to himself.
"Eh?" Qin Yu was suddenly taken aback, "I’ve reached the Upper Heavenly God Realm?"
In the past several million years, Qin Yu had been completely immersed in artifact refining and hadn’t noticed that he had already reached the Upper Heavenly God Realm. During these millions of years, Hua Lian’s Avatar had been continuously comprehending the space realizations left by Zuo Qiumei.
After millions of years, the half of the space comprehension that Qin Yu had left for his clone, Hua Lian’s Avatar, had already understood half.
Half of the space comprehension given by Qin Yu to his clone was, in fact, a quarter of the total space comprehension left to Qin Yu by Zuo Qiumei.
Qin Yu and Li’er each obtained half of Zuo Qiumei’s space law comprehension.
In truth, Hua Lian’s Avatar had only comprehended one-eighth of the space law.
Yet, with just that bit of space law, Qin Yu had managed to step across the threshold into the Upper Heavenly God Realm. From this, one could see that there’s a huge difference between just entering the Upper Heavenly God Realm and being at the peak of that realm.
"Li’er’s comprehension speed is a bit slower than my clone’s, she’s currently still at the peak of the Middle Level Heavenly Gods Realm," Qin Yu observed Li’er and determined this at a glance.
The soul body of Hua Lian’s Avatar was comparable to an Upper Heavenly God, naturally allowing for an extremely fast speed of comprehension.
"I won’t disturb Li’er any longer," said Qin Yu with a slight nod, and then he vanished from the Artifact Refining Hall.
The peak of Donglan Mountain.
A green-robed clone of Qin Yu was sitting cross-legged, quietly comprehending a portion of the Space Law left by Zuo Qiumei. What this clone comprehended, Qin Yu himself naturally comprehended as well.
The eyes of the green-robed Qin Yu clone suddenly opened and he spoke out, "Original body!"
Qin Yu nodded slightly, and with a thought, the last cluster of rainbow light in his mind flew directly into the clone’s mind, merging into it.
"Continue your cultivation," Qin Yu said, and then his entire being left the New Universe and returned to Mu Mansion.
Qin Yu currently had no time to delve into the comprehension of Space Law, leaving the task to his clone.
After all, the path of Artifact Refining was incredibly time-consuming; it had taken millions of years for Qin Yu to accumulate just a bit of experience. Of course, now Qin Yu could create an artifact refining method if he wanted to.
However, Qin Yu was striving for perfection.
Qin Yu decided to conduct more experiments and accumulate more experience. Only after gaining more insights would he create a new artifact refining method.
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In a garden behind the East Pole Saint Emperor Hall, the East Pole Saint Emperor, Huangfu Yu, was leisurely chatting with his wife.
"Your Majesty," said a tall and slender woman with an icy demeanor respectfully, "people from Lanxuan Hall have come to collect refining materials. The vast majority are ordinary materials, with only a small portion being slightly more valuable. However, the quantity is exceedingly large..."
The East Pole Saint Emperor Huangfu Yu immediately became overjoyed.
"Haha, he’s finally started artifact refining. Good, good, the larger the quantity the better. If he’s asking for so many ordinary materials, it seems he’s experimenting and accumulating experience—excellent. A person whose formation cultivation surpassed ’Che Hou Yuan’ refining artifacts is something worth looking forward to," the East Pole Saint Emperor said happily.
The expression on the face of the tall and slender icy woman suddenly became somewhat embarrassed, "Your Majesty, the quantity is so large that our stores of ordinary materials have been, well, completely cleared out."
"Cleared out?" The East Pole Saint Emperor Huangfu Yu was startled, "This Qin Yu, can he, can he even use all of it?"
...
Qin Yu brought back large quantities of spatial materials, and then, together with Jiang Lan, he returned to Mu Mansion before once again entering the ’New Universe’ to begin secluded cultivation. The limit of time acceleration in the New Universe had now reached more than five thousand times, giving Qin Yu ample time to experiment. 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂
In the Artifact Refining Hall.
Qin Yu commenced artifact refining once again. With a sufficient supply of materials, he fearlessly continued his relentless experimentation. In this vast sea of experiments, a novel artifact refining method—built upon the collective experiences of many artifact refining experts—was gradually taking form.
Time passed, but Qin Yu, immersed in artifact refining, felt none of its passage.
This Artifact Refining Hall contained not a single weapon; where then were the weapons Qin Yu had experimented with over the years? Even though they were made from inferior materials, Qin Yu’s ’Quenching’ and ’Enlightenment’ skills were still quite strong, and the weapons he refined weren’t too bad.
Outside Mishen Palace on Donglan Mountain.
Scattered around the entire mountain forest were weapons discarded like garbage, countless in number, certainly running into the tens of thousands. The worst of these weapons were still Divine Artifacts. And there were even Low Grade Heavenly Divine Weapons among them.
These were the products of Qin Yu’s massive experiments!
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