Longevity through Upgrading Buildings-Chapter 676 - 295: Sword Pavilion: Level 1
Ji Yuan looked at the first top-grade Spiritual Artifact he’d crafted with his own hands, feeling quite pleased in his heart.
Casually, he flourished the sword and then tossed it into the air.
With Spiritual Qi activated, the sword transformed into white light, weaving through the courtyard before finally returning to his hand.
"The sword light is white as snow, so I’ll name you ’White Rift’."
The first top-grade Spiritual Artifact he crafted, a sword-type Spiritual Artifact, Ji Yuan naturally intended to keep as a memento.
As for upgrading the Sword Pavilion, the panel requirement just stated it needed a sword-type Spiritual Artifact.
Even low-grade artifacts count, and mid-grade ones would work too; there’s no need to insist on using a top-grade artifact.
That’s too extravagant.
After stowing away the treasure sword, Ji Yuan thanked the Fire Python Zhenren in his heart for his generous gift.
If not for the top-grade Spiritual Artifact level refining equipment and the books recording artifact refining experiences left by him,
Ji Yuan’s breakthrough to a Tier Two Top-grade Artifact Refiner wouldn’t have been so easy.
Ji Yuan couldn’t afford to continue crafting swords to upgrade the Sword Pavilion just yet.
After barely improving his refining skills, he certainly needed to attempt crafting the Celestial Thunder Seed.
Ji Yuan had begun preparing the materials for refining the Celestial Thunder Seed as early as the initial stage of Foundation Establishment.
Now at the peak of Foundation Establishment, if fully refined, he estimated he could craft four or five hundred of them.
Intense sulfur, ground alum from hundred-formed rocks, charcoal from millennia-aged wood, and Tier Two thunder-fire stone.
These materials, when professionally proportioned and meticulously refined by a Tier Two Top-grade Artifact Refiner, could yield the enormously powerful Celestial Thunder Seed.
Ji Yuan was now at the peak of Foundation Establishment; with the help of the Celestial Thunder Seed... future battles would be invincible!
However, during the refining process, extreme caution was required.
The scarcity of Celestial Thunder Seeds was partly due to few artifact refiners mastering this technique.
On the other hand, many artifact refiners who knew this technique were also blasted to death.
Ji Yuan was fearless.
Besides having peak Foundation Establishment Mana, his body cultivation was also late-stage Foundation Establishment.
If he were to be blasted close-range by a Celestial Thunder Seed, he’d only suffer minor injuries at worst.
A modified Qi Blood Pill would restore him to full health, no matter the injury.
So in the days that followed, Ji Yuan began cautiously experimenting with crafting the Celestial Thunder Seed.
At first, he lacked experience, so he didn’t dare produce them in bulk.
If a chain of explosions were to blow him to pieces, he’d indeed become the biggest joke in the world.
Fortunately, Ji Yuan exercised caution, particularly with his Divine Sense being comparable to mid-stage Golden Core, resulted in no major issues in the proportioning and hand-crafting process.
Thus, the first ever Celestial Thunder Seed crafted by his own hands was completed!
With the success of the first, the rest followed swiftly.
Success after success, he soon got carried away, Ji Yuan was no exception.
While crafting the fifth one, being careless for a moment, then...
"Boom—"
The explosive sound startled the entire Alchemy Square, causing the Ice and Fire Elder to arrive almost instantly at his courtyard entrance, tearing through the formation without hesitation.
"Ji boy, where the hell are you!"
Amidst the swirling dust clouds, the ground bore a several-meter-deep crater.
The walls were shattered, and the house collapsed.
The entire courtyard was annihilated.
This was even after Ji Yuan used the array to fully gather and suppress the explosion’s effect, otherwise, the entire northwest corner of the Alchemy Square might have collapsed, at least the streets nearby would have been demolished.
"Here I am."
Ji Yuan immediately shut down all building effects, then crawled out from the pit.
At this moment, he was in tattered clothes, stained with blood, even bleeding from his ears due to the close proximity.
After climbing out, he lay on the ground, taking deep breaths to make his injuries appear more authentic.
As Ice and Fire Elder approached him without a word, an Escape Light appeared, heading towards the courtyard.
"Everyone return, I’ll stay here."
With a wave of Ice and Fire Elder’s oversized sleeve, the other Golden Core Zhenrens left.
But some didn’t follow suit.
Hunting Owl Zhenren didn’t leave; he went straight into Ji Yuan’s courtyard.
"Ji Yuan, what are you up to?"
After entering, Hunting Owl Zhenren’s gaze even towards Ice and Fire Elder was skeptical.
Same sect ought to trust each other.
"Nothing, nothing."
Seeing Hunting Owl Zhenren’s look, Ji Yuan quickly sat up, waved his hand to dispel the haze of dust, and then weakly explained:
"I was just trying to dismantle a Celestial Thunder Seed to find its material composition, so I could make them myself."
Speaking, Ji Yuan quickly covered his mouth, coughing violently until he spat out a clotted blood from his throat, feeling slightly better afterward.
"But I didn’t expect an error during dismantling that triggered an explosion of the Celestial Thunder Seed, luckily I reacted fast, used an array to suppress it, or else I’d be a goner today."
Ice and Fire Elder listening couldn’t resist smacking him on the head.
"And you still refer to yourself as ’I’!"
"I haven’t seen someone as reckless as you, dismantling a Celestial Thunder Seed to study its formula, if it were that simple, Celestial Thunder Seeds would be everywhere!"
Ice and Fire Elder gave him a hard glare.
