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One strike after another was thrown out, only stopping Yi Yan only when he was several hundred meters deep into the mountain wall.

Turning his head to take a look at the place that was blocked by broken stone, Yi Yan felt quite satisfied with this cave that had a circumference of thirty meters.

Even though this was an extremely difficult situation for mortals to reach, and even though it was a few hundred meters deep, out of caution, Yi Yan still set up a dozen or so defensive and isolation arrays around him before sitting cross-legged in the center of the cave.

If it was Yi Yan from his previous life, he would naturally choose to use his flying sword without hesitation. Flying swords were the most common magical equipment used by cultivators, and most of the attacking techniques taught to them by Master Hao Cheng and the others, as well as the attacking techniques Yi Yan learned from the Spatial Channel, used flying swords.

However, in this life, compared to his previous life, Yi Yan's condition had undergone an earth-shattering change. He was unable to become a cultivator in the traditional sense like his previous life, and the question of what kind of treasure he should choose to fully display all of his strength was a question that required serious consideration.

After comparing the various treasures commonly seen in Cultivation Realm, Yi Yan decided to refine a Tang Dao his own after careful consideration.

There were two reasons for this: Firstly, the basic < Seven Deadly Arts > technique that he had studied for close combat was a saber art. Secondly, Tang Dao's appearance was somewhere between a blade and a sword, so he could use it to his advantage.

Choosing Tang Dao not only made use of the convenience from his previous life, but also combined with the characteristics of this life. It was the best choice.

Since he had already decided, Yi Yan did not waste any more time. He immediately took out a variety of Refining Material s and prepared to refine.

However, it had been a long time since he had refined a complete magical equipment from the beginning to the end. He was no longer familiar with refining techniques, and the energy within his body had greatly changed compared to that of the True Fire in his previous life.

Therefore, he needed to practice a bit before officially starting to get used to the environment as soon as possible.

Yi Yan took out the flame at the eye of the fish with the Grand Moon power in his dantian. Seeing the golden flame, which was much larger and darker than when it first appeared, compared to the temperature when he had reached the stage of stage in his previous life, Yi Yan was deeply satisfied.

With the increase in temperature, coupled with his own refining techniques, he would definitely be able to create the weapon he wanted. For upper tiered Spiritual Artifact, Yi Yan did not want to, he would only be able to barely make it in the late stage of Soul Division in his previous life, but was confident that he would be able to make it with lower or middle tier Spiritual Artifact.

Carefully controlling the flame, Yi Yan slowly calmed it down. He put the materials into the flame in a sequence, this time he was preparing to refine the most common flying sword in Cultivation Realm.

Furthermore, in order to quickly familiarize himself with the new energy, Yi Yan had only used a few low-ranked and middle-ranked Refining Material. Thus, in less than an hour, these ingredients had already completely melted into a ball of liquid.

After that, Yi Yan did not immediately continue. Instead, he carefully controlled every part of the burning liquid, trying his best to make them evenly and reach the same temperature.

This was a secret technique taught to him by Daoist Master Hao Cheng in his previous life. The degree to which impurities would be removed by materials with different temperatures was also different. It would deform during final quenching and cooling.

The slightest mistake would cause the quality of the refined magical equipment to be affected.

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Unfortunately, the vast majority of cultivators didn't notice this point. After the materials melted, they began to remove the impurities, resulting in the final refining of magical equipment to have all kinds of minute flaws.

After approximately half an incense's time, under Yi Yan's powerful Spiritual Sense, the temperature of this lump of material finally reached its optimal state. Only then did Yi Yan control his True Essence and begin the next step.

After removing the impurities, controlling the formation of the materials, and drawing the array, there was only one final procedure left, which was quenching.

Ordinary cultivators would need to use the Cold-attribute First Sky of Water when quenching. However, the current Yi Yan naturally did not need to go through so much trouble, as the silver flame at the Yang Fish Eyeball was the ready-made hardening agent.

Moreover, the cold energy of the silver flame and the temperature of the golden flame were at the same level, and were one and the same. The quenching effect was incomparable.

While lamenting about the superior conditions of the [Seal of Life And Death] in refining, Yi Yan withdrew the golden flames, and instead released silver flames as he began to temper them.

Carefully controlling the silver flames to quickly wrap the magical equipment that was already refined into a shape, Yi Yan heaved a sigh of relief.

After the successful completion of the tempering process, Yi Yan carefully withdrew the silver flames and ended the refining process.

Looking at the medium grade treasure flying sword in his hand, Yi Yan nodded in satisfaction.

After carefully reflecting on his gains and shortcomings in the refining process, Yi Yan once again released his golden flames and began to refine his next treasure.

Half a year later, looking at the several tens of treasures placed in front of him, Yi Yan finally felt that the state and feel of his artifact forging had basically recovered.

In his previous life, his Spirit Separating Stage was only this much, since he was able to refine artifacts of the highest quality using low-grade and intermediate-grade materials.

After these six months of unremitting efforts, Yi Yan's control over his True Fire had reached an extremely high level. Although he did not dare to say that he had done as he pleased, it could be said that he had achieved perfection.

On this basis, Yi Yan had already reduced the time it would take to remove the's impurities from the original four hours to less than an hour.

This was not only because he had more precise control over the primordial flames, but also because Yi Yan had tried and learned a new method of controlling flames in the past half year: combining the two colors of gold and silver flames together, and controlling the ratio of the two types of flames to change the temperature. This was much easier than forcefully suppressing the temperature of the golden flames with his own cultivation at the beginning.

Looking at the magic treasure on the ground with a regretful expression, Yi Yan slowly closed his eyes.

Half a year had passed and Yi Yan didn't have much time left.

One day later, Yi Yan, who had been sitting there motionlessly, suddenly opened his eyes.

After being tempered by True Fire for the past half year, Yi Yan's cultivation had increased yet again. He was now at the peak of the late stage of the Aurous Core stage and was only one step away from the early stage of the Nascent Infant.

However, even if it was not as time-consuming and tiring as breaking through a cultivator to the Nascent Soul stage, Yi Yan was still unwilling to break through again. In his opinion, a weapon with one's hands would be much more useful in battle than raising one's cultivation.

His Spiritual Sense swept over the pile of elemental materials. Naturally, he would use the best and most suitable materials for his own magical equipment.

After more than four hours of screening, Yi Yan finally confirmed more than ten ingredients.

In the next moment, a cluster of flames appeared out of nowhere within Yi Yan's right palm, the golden color of the flames were even deeper than before. Evidently, after half a year of constant tempering, not only was Yi Yan's control of the flames more fluid, the flames themselves had also received a large amount of training.

When Yi Yan focused his mind, he selected the materials and threw them into the flames one by one. The various materials were mixed together like sand and as the flames burned, they gradually blended together in a perfect manner.

After every type of material melted, Yi Yan would work hard to force out the impurities within, making the material as pure as possible.

By the time all the ingredients had melted, a day had already passed.

As he stared at the rolling golden flames, he was unable to force out any more impurities in the material. Yi Yan's strong consciousness instantly spread out, enveloping the ball of bright silver liquid.

Under Yi Yan's meticulous control, the shape of the liquid constantly changed, and in a moment, a weapon similar to Tang Dao that came from the Yi Family's secret cave appeared in front of Yi Yan. The blade was straight, two feet and two inches long, one inch wide and two parts thick.

The handle of the eight-inch blade can be held with both hands and is both hacking and stabbing.

And this, was precisely the ideal weapon that Yi Yan had in mind.

However, Yi Yan's figure did not relax even after Tang Dao had formed. This was because the next inscription of the formation was the most important step in the refining process.

Although a magical equipment was limited by the materials used, if it could be used to carve a high-grade formation inside the magical equipment, it could increase the magical equipment's grade to the maximum.

After Tang Dao was formed, Yi Yan did not retract the golden flames in his right palm. With a wave of his left hand, formations began to take shape in the air, and turned into a series of afterimages that struck the Tang Sword floating in front of him.

Tang Dao trembled as ripples that could be seen with the naked eye spread out.

Yi Yan did not move, his gaze was only fixed on Tang Dao, but from his speed of drawing which was getting slower and slower, as well as his pale complexion, it could be seen that he had used all his strength.

Finally, following the release of the last hand seal from Yi Yan's hand, the floating Tang Dao suddenly shook and stopped trembling.

Yi Yan let out a long breath and took out a pellet from the Storage Ring to swallow that had recovered his true essence. He was a little regretful in his heart because he had only engraved a mid sized composite formation of sixty-four formations in this Tang Dao. There was still some distance between him and his best result from his previous life.

However, with Yi Yan's late stage of the Aurous Core stage cultivation, the result was already good. If not for him possessing the late stage of the [Body Fusion] s mental state, the result would be unimaginable.

After all, in his previous life, Yi Yan could only do this when his cultivation reached the early stage of Soul Division.

There was only one step left. Yi Yan had only slightly recovered his primeval essence, and before he could even fully utilize the effects of the spirit pellet, the color of the flames in his palm had quickly changed. In a breath's time, only the silver flames were left, completely covering Tang Dao.

His right hand held onto the Tang Dao that was completely refined, Yi Yan's emotions could not help but become excited. He suddenly cut the tip of his right index finger, and a drop of his blood essence dripped onto Tang Dao.

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