Chapter One Hundred and Sixty One Forging the Sword Billet (1/2)

Chapter One Hundred and Sixty One Forging the Sword Billet

The Stalagmite Fire suddenly grew as though oil had been poured on the fire. The flame jumped in height, the presence increasing along with it.

Zuo Mo couldn’t help but become nervous. The most important moment had come.

The large Stalagmite Fire spat like a furious beast, the cold and explosive presence spreading into the surroundings. Even Zuo Mo’s channels were affected, feeling like they were pierced by needles.

Su hurriedly took back her ling power. At this time, her ling power was unable to help Zuo Mo, and would only distract him.

She opened her eyes and saw Zuo Mo trembling as he sat in front of her. His forehead was covered in a layer of frost.

Such a powerful cold fire!

Su was shocked inside. She stared nervously at Zuo Mo. If the merging this time failed, then there definitely wouldn’t be any forging of her sword billet.

Zuo Mo’s heart was in the air. He had done what he could do. The rest was up to fate.

As time passed, the restless Stalagmite Fire slowly quieted. The flame continued to shrink down and finally stabilized.

The new Stalagmite Fire had formed!

The present Stalagmite Fire was completely different compared to before. First, the size was about one third larger than before. The biggest difference was the past Stalagmite Fire had been milky white but the present Stalagmite Fire was surprisingly divided into three levels.

The outermost layer was the same milky white flame as before, and the middle was a dark red flame. What surprised Zuo Mo the most was the black fire in the very center. Even though it was just a thread, it was still easily detectable. The three levels were clearly divided.

The white flame was the Stalagmite Fire, the deep red flame was the Lava Earth Fire processed from the Intense Fire Dan, then what was the thread of black fire? Zuo Mo was slightly curious.

After investigating, he finally understood. This extremely thin strand of black fire was actually the toxin which had infected the flame when he had processed the Inky Black Lotus seed last time! If it wasn’t for the abnormal change this time, he wouldn’t have detected that his fire seed contained such a powerful toxin. What he hadn’t even thought about was that toxins could turn into flames!

The new flame was very different from the past Stalagmite Fire and it felt different to control.

The cold and yin energy had greatly decreased but the shift between ice and fire was more easy to accomplish. What Zuo Mo did not understand at all was how the thread of black fire could be used. In this three leveled fire, the Stalagmite Fire was of the lowest grade, then it was the Lava Earth Fire. The highest grade was this black fire which Zuo Mo knew nothing about. Upon further thought, Zuo Mo felt it was normal. This thread of black fire was received through processing the fourth-grade Inky Black Lotus Seed. That was fourth-grade!

The Stalagmite Fire was just a second-grade fire seed.

He didn’t hurry, slowly exploring the new flame. This was a completely new flame. Even the [Yin Fire Bead Chapter] did not describe this kind of flame. This meant that Zuo Mo could only explore and understand on his own.

Being deep in his investigation of the new flame, Zuo Mo forgot the passage of time.

Su noticed Zuo Mo’s body had resumed normal. The frost on his forehead had disappeared. She released a breath. Seeing that Zuo Mo seemed to be in meditation, she didn’t hurry him, sitting down at the side to recover her ling power. She had waited so long, she didn’t care about a few more days.

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Zuo Mo sat for three days.

When he opened his eyes again, other than exhaustion, there was a light that was unable to be disguised in his eyes.

Su’s heart relaxed.

After another day, Zuo Mo had recovered to his optimal state and was finally going to start forging the sword billet.

Zuo Mo did not allow Su to watch. If people watched, it was easy for the forger to be disturbed. He went into a seclusion room. The materials he needed had already been placed there. There was also a pile of jingshi for Zuo Mo to recover his ling power.

Zuo Mo snickered. He naturally would take the jingshi. Starting from now until he successfully forged the billet, he would stay inside the room. Su personally stood guard outside.

He took out a jade scroll. The jade scroll contained all the formations that needed to be carved onto each sword billet as well as the method to forge the sword billet. There was nothing exceptional about the forging method. Zuo Mo only needed to glance through it to understand the process.

His mind was quickly attracted to the four kinds of formations.

These were four kinds of formations he had never seen before. Just this was enough for him to be full of interest. To allow the forger to be able to successfully finish the forging, the jade scroll had extremely detailed descriptions of the four formations.

After he finished, Zuo Mo couldn’t help but inhale sharply.

A fourth-grade formation!

Four kinds of completely different fourth-grade formations!

Now he understood why Su hadn’t managed to find someone to forge the sword billet until now. Each sword billet needed to have a fourth-grade formation carved onto it. Four sword billets, four completely different kinds of fourth-grade formations.

Also … … there was a strange connection between these four formations.

Zuo Mo had thought that he had properly prepared, found that the difficulty in forging the sword billets was much higher than he had predicted. It was much much higher!

He helplessly shook his head. He really was going to take a loss on this job! This difficulty, he could have asked for a much higher price. Zuo Mo felt deep regret for having lost such a good opportunity, especially since he was now penniless.

His attention went back to the formations. The first step he needed to do was understand these four formations.

If he didn’t understand the formations, how could he carve the formations on the small sword billets?

If this was before the Sword Test Conference, he would have definitely patted his ass and left. Four kinds of completely different fourth-grade formations was definitely outside of his abilities. Zuo Mo had just upgraded his fire seed and bathed in the introductory formations of the jade scroll from Kun Lun, leaving his confidence at its peak.

He decided to challenge this difficult task!

According to the description on the jade scroll, he started to study the four types of formations. From this, it was possible to see how much help the Kun Lun jade scroll was to him! Having studied the Kun Lun jade scroll, Zuo Mo’s vision and understanding had gone up several levels.