Path to Heaven
chapter-181

Chapter 181: Commence Artifact Forging!

Nearing noon the second day. A streak of cyan descended from the sky, as Wei Suo’s figure surfaced.

He had just escorted Ji Ya and Han Weiwei back to Cyan Wind Mound and returned after.

He was clueless as to what Ji Ya told Han Weiwei, but Han Weiwei didn’t even raise a single word about training in Wei Suo’s cavern abode. However, seeing the way she bit her lips, she definitely felt unhappy and reluctant. Besides, establishing a cavern abode himself and one that was outside the Heavenly Dome, was definitely a new and interesting experience to her.

Upon spectating Ji Ya’s disappearing figure, Wei Suo’s heart had welled up with many untold and complicated emotions. After all, he was someone who had perused through every inch of her body in Sky Valley with his eyes, and even intimately touched her before.

After descending into the valley, Wei Suo felt rather dispirited as he had truly wasted much time on his return trip. Nevertheless, feeling that his cultivation was inadequate, he didn’t dare to gloriously barge straight. Instead, he took several detours as he proceeded prudently, leading to an excessive usage of time. Still, he quickly composed himself and started by surveying his two Immortal Exterminating Vine saplings.

The growth of the two Immortal Exterminating Vines was exceptionally elating. The first vine had grown to over 30 centimetres, while the other was roughly 15 centimetres.

To Wei Suo, two vines were definitely not enough. Minimally, more than ten vines would be needed to satisfy him. Thus, he tossed over another level 2 Rot-meal Eagle. When the two Immortal Exterminating vines competed to wrap over it, Wei Suo produced Liu Sanbao’s broadsword and followed the same recipe; chopping the two Immortal Exterminating vines and planting it by the side.

After making sure the two newly planted vines were fine, Wei Suo sympathetically threw another level 2 Rot-meal Eagle carcass to the first Immortal Exterminating Vine. It was truly miserable. Every time it grew, it would be chopped. Moreover, it was destined to be chopped a few more times. Thus, Wei Suo wanted to compensate it properly.

That Immortal Exterminating Vine swiftly devoured the carcass and absorbed all flesh and blood; leaving not a single stench of blood lingering that could possibly entice other demonic beasts over. Basically, by letting these seemingly useless level 2 demonic beast carcasses to feed the Immortal Exterminating Vine, allowed Wei Suo to feel very much at ease.

Following that, Wei Suo returned into the mountain crack. Yet upon returning, he abruptly flew back up and quickly excavated the second stalk of Immortal Exterminating Vine he planted, before cautiously placing it into his Treasure Elemental Jade Case.

As it turns out, Wei Suo just realized something. In the case of an unexpected mishap where his Immortal Exterminating vines were all exterminated, he would only be able to harvest another Immortal Exterminating Vine a decade later by returning to Sky Valley. Hence, he would first store an Immortal Exterminating Vine with him as insurance.

After going back into his cavern abode, Wei Suo immediately marched into his Mind Devouring Bug nurturing room.

It had just been a mere 3-4 days, but his Mind Devouring Bug had clearly grown larger again.

And since he didn’t need to employ his Mind Devouring Bug for now, Wei Suo was too lazy to test the formidability of the growing Mind Devouring Bug. Instead, he first checked on the 30 plus demonic beasts he placed here earlier.

Wei Suo quickly discovered that at the heads of these demonic beasts, were exceptionally round holes. Furthermore, the heads were all hollow. Evidently, the appetite of his Mind Devoouring Bug surpassed his expectations.

Thus, he retrieved a hundred plus demonic beasts from a Treasure Receiving Pocket and tossed it inside the demonic beast nurturing room. Then, Wei Suo proceeded to his Earth Furnace room, and poured all his efforts into concocting Heaven Mending pellets.

In the following days, Wei Suo concocted Heaven Mending pellets through day and night. In the wee hours of each morning, he would head out to check for signs of a Flare Beacon as well as his Immortal Exterminating vines.

On the seventh day, he had accumulated 86 Heaven Mending pellets on him. Meanwhile, around the entrance of this mountain valley, congregated an assembly of 24 Immortal Exterminating vines.

The demonic beast carcasses that had their brains consumed by the Mind Devouring Bug, became fertilizer for his Immortal Exterminating vines. Whereas the solid bones and indigestible shells of the carcasses were then stored by Wei Suo, in preparations to be used in forging artifacts in the future. It could be said he didn’t waste a single resource.

And at dawn on this very day, a Flare Beacon he was expecting rose into the sky from an exceedingly vast distance away.

After spending a good half of the day, Wei Suo received Zhu Xiaochun and Zhen Chongming from a mountain valley in Cyan Wind Mound, where they had arranged beforehand. Then, he handed over a batch of spiritual stones to the two simple-headed dimwits and ordered them to go into secluded training.

After replenishing another batch of demonic beast carcass, Wei Suo finally begun his true closed door training.

This time, Zhen Chongming handed him a total of 125 Heaven Mending pellets. In addition to the 86 he concocted, he now had 211 Heaven Mending pellets.

Taking the Heaven Mending pellets he had refined previously into account, Wei Suo reckoned he would only need 150 before allowing his Purple Mystic True Technique to be upgraded to mid-level Earth Rank.

Yet pellets after pellets, Wei Suo soon finished refining 150 Heaven Mending pellets. However, he didn’t stop there, and proceeded to refine the rest of the Heaven Mending Pellets.

Only then, did Wei Suo opened his eyes and stood back up.

At the instance of opening his eyes, a seemingly violent current jolted through his eyes. Then with a full exertion of energy, eight radiating Divine Seas and two mirages of Spirit Roots projected out from his body. The eight radiating Divine Seas were dazzlingly resplendent, illuminating the entire room in violet splendor.

Rumble! Rumble!

Concurrently, the true energy flushing out from his body transmitted sonorous booms; analogous to tremendous waves crashing against a massive reef.

Raging waves beating against the shore!

Only a true cultivation technique of mid-level Earth Rank, could attain the rumbling sounds of raging waves beating against the shore! Wei Suo’s Purple Mystic True Technique had finally been promoted to mid-level Earth Rank.

After issuing a satisfied slight smirk, Wei Suo departed from his training room and returned to the Earth Furnace room.

At present, with the thickening of his true energy, he could now cast his Samadhi Divine Flame skill for longer periods. Now that he could maintain its Xiantian True flames for prolonged periods, he was finally ready to attempt artifact forging!

The reason Wei Suo ordered Zhen Chongming and company to go into secluded training, wasn’t because he wished to refine his Heaven Mending pellets. It was ultimately because he wanted to commence his artifact forging endeavor with the Earth Furnace.

After entering the Earth Furnace room, Wei Suo first produced a long, black stone, followed by a chisel. Slowly, he chiselled a groove onto the black stone, before proceeding to carefully polish this groove into a glossy state.

Next, his hands swung into action. A bright white flame blazed out from his hand, and following his hand techniques, its heat soared with frightening intensity. The surrounding air seemingly combusted with white flames with a tinge of azure brilliance, as the flames slowly morphed into different shapes.

At the start, it gathered into a ball. Then, the ball shrunk and transformed into a tiny needle that was wafting about.

After consecutive transformations, Wei Suo became adequately proficient and paused. Then, he produced a silver essence metal from his Treasure Receiving Pocket.

Cyan Search Silver!

What Wei Suo needed to do now, was to forge this Cyan Search Silver into a Cyan Search Silver magic staff that could be inlaid with five magic pearls.

Prior to this, the green gowned Old Man had already accounted the forming method of this staff to Wei Suo. Furthermore, the Cyan Search Silver could be melted many times and wouldn’t be destroyed through forging. Hence, it didn’t matter if the green gowned Old Man guided Wei Suo. In the very least, Wei Suo needed to try forging on his own first and gain some experience.

Sou! Two golden toad mouths opened on the Earth Furnace. Then, twin streaks of scarlet earth flames congealed upwards onto the Earth Furnace, before transforming into an endlessly churning inferno.

With a serious expression, Wei Suo placed the fist sized Cyan Search Silver above the endlessly churning inferno.

As fiery tongues incessantly licked about, the endlessly churning inferno gradually heated the Cyan Search Silver into molten red. However, it remained hard. Evidently, the fire power of the twin golden toad mouths was insufficient to melt the Cyan Search Silver.

Nevertheless, Wei Suo didn’t will for another golden toad to open its mouth. Instead, he reached his hand out and cast his Samadhi Divine Flame skill again, and unleashed its Xiantian true flames.

The white Xiantian True flames slowly formed into a ball and enveloped the entire Cyan Search Silver.

Very quickly, the surface of the Cyan Search Silver appeared soft. Not an incense worth of time later, the fist-sized Cyan Search Silver had utterly changed into a regiment of silver liquid.

With a grab, the Xiantian True flames wrapped around the ball of molten Cyan Search Silver left the Earth Furnace. Then, he controlled it to pour into the groove of the black stone he had prepared earlier.

After dispelling the Xiantian True flames, the molten Cyan Search Silver rapidly condensed. Then, upon lightly tapping against the back of this black stone, an unremarkably looking silver short staff dropped out.

Without pausing, Wei Suo quickly picked up the silver short staff and placed it above the Earth Furnace flames.

Next, the silver short staff turned fiery red within the earth flames.

But when Wei Suo once again channeled his Xiantian True flames over, the silver short staff melted within a split second into an ugly looking silver juice.

Your granny!!”

Wei Suo dejectedly exclaimed.

Actually for the next step, he needed to use the Xiantian True flames to change the silver short staff into a semi-liquid state. Then, after transforming the Xiantian True flames into a needle shape, he would have to carve a talismanic array onto it. Sadly, his control over the Xiantian True flames wasn’t very good, and completely melted the staff.

“Seems like forging artifacts ain’t gonna be a simple task. Just the heat intensity of the Xiantian True flames still requires much practice.”

After a gloomy grunt, Wei Suo once again poured the silver juice into the black stone mould, and repeated the same steps.

In the following three days and nights, he stayed by the fiery blaze of the Earth Furnace as he worked without rest.