Chapter Ninety-Four: Sword Embryo

  The days just passed by one after another in such an ordinary way.

  Deep in the night, Zhao Yang sat cross-legged in the Spirit Gathering Array, holding that piece of "Thousand Year Wood Heart" in his hand. At this moment, he was frowning, concentrating all his attention on controlling the true energy within his body to transform into strands as fine as hair, flowing through his fingertips and entering the meridians of the "Thousand Year Wood Heart".

  The meridians inside the 'Thousand Year Wood Heart' had long been fully combed by Zhao Yang, and the true energy could travel smoothly through those meridians to all parts of the 'Thousand Year Wood Heart'.

  Under Zhao Yang's control, the weak true energy carefully carved out the shape of 'Thousand Year Wood Heart'. After these days of carving, today's 'Thousand Year Wood Heart' already vaguely has a few points of law sword embryo. The top becomes sharp and sharp, along with the down also become flat and round, only difference is that finally gradually grinding out the two sides of the sword edge can become the 'sword embryo' of the law sword.

  After these days of gathering the spiritual energy of heaven and earth in the Ling Array, the "sword embryo" of this wooden law sword has also brought a hint of spiritual movement. The inner light is more rounded and emerald green, like a beautiful jade gemstone, and there is a faint blue glow flowing on the "sword body".

  Cultivating a law sword with true energy carving is a water mill kung fu. If Zhao Yang can have the cultivation of the 'Golden Elixir Period', he can stimulate the elixir fire to refine the instrument, and the trivial thousand-year-old wood heart will be refined into the shape of a 'sword embryo' in just two or three hours, and then directly use the elixir fire to engrave the law array and talismans inside the sword embryo to refine the law sword.

  Unfortunately, Zhao Yang's current cultivation was only at the initial stage of Qi Condensation, and he could only rely on his True Qi to meticulously carve the sword embryo bit by bit. Once the sword embryo took shape, he would then use his True Qi to spend a large amount of time slowly engraving the formation patterns and talismanic marks within the sword embryo through water grinding techniques.

  Fortunately, Zhao Yang's law sword is now almost half completed. In a few days, when the two sides of the sword edge are opened, this 'sword embryo' will be formed, and the remaining ones will be engraved with law arrays and symbols.

  As for what kind of spell array and talisman would be engraved on this wooden sword, Zhao Yang had already made plans in his heart. As a sword that was tempered with a piece of 'thousand-year wood core', it could not withstand those overly powerful and sharp spell arrays.

  Like the "Fēng Ruì Zhèn", "Jīn Yǎn Zhèn" and "Xuán Rǎo Zhèn" which enhance the sharpness of the golden law sword, it is absolutely impossible to engrave these golden law arrays on this wooden law sword. In addition, fire-based law arrays such as "Liè Huǒ Zhèn" and "Chì Yàn Zhèn" also cannot be engraved on a wooden law sword.

  Whether it's a golden array or a fire array, they are naturally restrained by the wooden law sword. Engraving these two types of arrays on the wooden law sword, once the power of the array is triggered, I'm afraid it will directly collapse the law sword.

  Zhao Yang's plan was to carve out a 'Gathering Yuan Formation' and a 'Yi Mu Lei Formation'!

  The role of '聚元阵' is to help the Fa sword automatically gather the wood-based yuanqi between heaven and earth, which can reduce the true energy consumed by Zhao Yang when driving the Fa sword to a certain extent, allowing Zhao Yang to control the Fa sword for a longer period. At the same time, those wood-based yuanqi can also serve as a power source for another Fa array - '乙木雷阵'.

  The effect of 'Yǐn Mù Léi Zhèn' is to stimulate the release of 'Yǐn Mù Léi Lì', causing the sword to be surrounded by Yǐn Mù thunder and lightning, dealing damage to the target. Furthermore, if Zhao Yang's cultivation can advance further, he can even use the 'Yǐn Mù Léi Zhèn' on his sword to directly stimulate a bolt of 'Yǐn Mù Léi Tōng' to strike the target.

  These two spell arrays will not enhance the sharpness of the magic sword, nor can they increase the speed of the magic sword. However, they are undoubtedly the most suitable spell arrays for this pure 'Thousand-Year Wood Heart' forged magic sword.

  Apart from these two spell arrays, Zhao Yang also planned to engrave a 'Solidity Rune' on this sword. This was a rune that solidified the body of the sword itself. Although the 'Thousand Year Wood Heart' was already extremely solid, with a hardness comparable to metal or stone, it was after all a wood-elemental sword. If it were to clash with a gold-elemental or fire-elemental artifact, it would inevitably suffer damage due to being restrained.

  Having the 'Solid Sign' would make it much better, as long as the power of the 'Solid Sign' is activated, it can greatly enhance the firmness of the law sword and its resistance to gold and fire damage!

  Zhao Yang was indeed very careful with this law sword. Although the material of this law sword destined it to be only a "mortal" law instrument, for Zhao Yang who is now penniless and white-haired, even a mortal law instrument is precious enough.

  In terms of the material "Thousand Year Wood Heart", it can only engrave this many spell arrays and talismans, if there are more, its body will be unable to withstand stronger powers, resulting in the collapse and self-destruction of the magic sword.

  When wielding the Fa Jian, the power of the internal Fa array and talismans requires the controller to actively trigger it in order to fully activate it. The untriggered arrays and talismans will not consume too much true energy from the controller, only after triggering, will they require the controller to provide a constant flow of true energy to support the operation of the array or the activation of the talisman.

  With Zhao Yang's current true energy, after refining this magic sword, in the absence of activating any law arrays or talismans, it can roughly support the consumption of the magic sword for about half an hour.

  Once one of the formations or talismans is activated... this time will be drastically shortened. If all are activated... Zhao Yang can only maintain control for five or six minutes at most.

  This is still thanks to the 'Gathering Yuan Formation' itself being able to gather a certain amount of yuan energy to make up for the consumption. Otherwise, if it were another formation, Zhao Yang would be lucky to control it for three minutes...

  Zhao Yang held the 'Thousand Year Wood Heart' and continued to carve it with his true energy until he finally stopped at nearly three o'clock in the morning. During this time, Zhao Yang would spend two hours every night practicing and cultivating after which he would spend almost two more hours carving the magic sword.

  As a result, his daily sleep time became extremely short. Because he still had to get up at 5:00 every morning for morning exercise practice. It can be said that one day is less than two hours of sleep.

  Fortunately, Zhao Yang is now in the Condensing Qi stage of cultivation, and he no longer needs at least five or six hours of sleep like ordinary people. Usually, two hours of deep sleep are basically enough. Moreover, if there's nothing to do at noon, Zhao Yang will also take a short nap to supplement his rest.

  After taking a look at the sword in his hand, which only had two sides that hadn't been sharpened yet, Zhao Yang let out a slight sigh of relief. "At most, it'll take three more days to finish carving this sword. By then, all that will be left is to engrave the magic array and talismans!"

  As for the spiritual energy nourishing method of the sword... Zhao Yang has been placing the 'Thousand Year Wood Heart' in the Spirit Gathering Array all these days, and it is already being nourished. Presumably, once the formation patterns and talismans within the sword are fully engraved, the nourishment of the sword should also be completed.

  This unfinished magic sword is the first magic weapon that Zhao Yang obtained after crossing back to Earth, and even though he had owned many magic weapons in 'Di Yuan Xian Lu' that were countless times stronger than this one, he couldn't help but look forward to the moment when this magic sword would truly be forged.

  The native Xianlu is ultimately the native Xianlu, he has now returned to Earth, and everything in the native Xianlu has become a thing of the past. Everything must start from scratch, accumulating bit by bit...

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