Chapter 198: Forging Master - 198
After adding the three formations he had decided upon, Zhou Fan looked at the sword. The metal it was originally forged out of was gray, but due to the fire element formation on it, it had a slight red hue.
It was very slight, but it was still noticeable to a normal human. The sword was now completely finished since Zhou Fan didn't plan on adding anything else.
In order to see how good the sword was, Zhou Fan swung it a couple times. He didn't swing it very hard, but it made a sound of cutting the air.
After swinging it around a couple more times, Zhou Fan turned around and threw the sword at the cave wall. The tip of the blade perfectly collided with it, causing a slight and miniscule white scratch that could barely be seen to be etched onto the cave wall.
Not only was Zhou Fan not upset at the result, but he was thrilled. He never expected a mere 1st rank sword to leave a mark on cave walls that had reached the 5th rank.
There were only a few reasons why it had. One, the sword had a sharpening and strengthening formation, along with the fire element formation. Although the arrays were only first rank, it greatly increased the sword power. Two, the wall was very weak despite being at the 5th rank. Its power was spread out to a thin area and it only really had enough durability to resist a core formation attack before being destroyed.
That meant that the sword, when thrown fairly fast, could leave a scratch on a core formation cultivator.
It wasn't a bad result at all, but Zhou Fan quickly ignored it and continued with the rest of the first rank forging skills.
In a week, he had become a first rank forging master. It only took that long because he had to completely master the manipulation of the heat, material, and hammering. Also, he had to learn different techniques for different weapons.
Zhou Fan increased the flames' heat and the water's coldness in preparation for the 2nd rank materials.
The first ore he threw in was some obsidian at the second rank. It quickly got hot, and Zhou Fan picked it up with Qi before he began to shape it.
While normally obsidian could not be melted and was a somewhat fragile rock, Zhou Fan's comprehension of the dao and the elements changed everything. Even something like obsidian acted like common steel in his hands.
It wasn't really anything to be proud of since even a nascent soul realm cultivator with some skill in forging could do it, but Zhou Fan still felt it was something worth being proud of in the end.
Once again, the first weapon Zhou Fan was making was a sword. Like before, even the hilt would be made up of the ore, which was obsidian in this case. He felt no need to make some sort of handle since the weapons were so low rank and that technically wasn't even a part of forging. That fell under another sub category of forging, leather making.
It was unnecessary to practice it since he would naturally have some skill in it once he mastered forging completely.
Once the sword was completely shaped, Zhou Fan dropped it in the cold water and let it cool. While he could have immediately cooled it himself, he was still trying to do it the basic way.
After a couple of seconds, the sword cooled down and completely solidified. Next, Zhou Fan needed to add formations.
Once again, he added the sharpness formation and the strengthening formation. Instead of a fire formation this time, he decided to add a water formation. It would make the sword sharper and flow better.
After adding the formations, Zhou Fan looked at the sword to make sure that he hadn't missed anything.
Once he confirmed that he hadn't, he tossed the sword at the exact same speed at the exact same wall, just inches away from where the first one hit.
This time, the sword left another mark. The mark was wider by about an inch and deeper by about half an inch, but there was no serious damage and the wall was nearly completely unharmed.
Despite the fact that the mark was barely bigger, Zhou Fan wasn't surprised. The second sword actually had more than twenty times the power of the first one, but the wall wasn't weak at all.
The first mark was so small it nearly didn't exist. The fact that the second one actually left a noticeable mark was quite impressive.
Once he stopped looking at the wall, Zhou Fan left the second sword on the ground, where it landed next to the first that had been sitting there.
It took him just about a month to become a second rank forging master. He had done nearly the same thing as before, with only a few variations and a few new techniques. What took so long was that the difficulty was higher. He still hadn't failed a forging yet, but that could all be chalked up to the fact that he was in the god realm, although he was lowering his overall power, and his immense talent.
He didn't wait long before he moved on to the first third rank ore. He took it out randomly, and the ore turned out to be a piece of gold.
Zhou Fan increased the flames' heat and the water's coldness before he threw the piece of third rank gold into the fire.
It quickly melted and Zhou Fan picked it up with Qi, beat it into shape, and dipped it in water.
As per usual, he made a sword. It looked exactly like all the other swords he had made, besides the fact that the color and material was different.
After adding the sharpness and strengthening formations, Zhou Fan decided to make the elemental formation a gold formation.
It perfectly fit with the sword and its power was great.
Chapter 199: Activating The Arrays - 199
With the formation added, the sword was completely finished. Zhou Fan turned around and threw the sword at the same wall at the same speed in a spot a foot away from the other two.
This time, when the sword hit, the tip went through the cave wall completely. It continued forward until half of the sword's body was lodged in the wall.
It stayed like that, leaving the sword as a permanent ornament on the wall. Zhou Fan felt that the result was natural and didn't stop for a moment before he continued forging.
In three months, Zhou Fan mastered 3rd rank forging.
In a year, he mastered 4th rank forging.
In five years, he mastered 5th rank forging.
In twenty years, he mastered 6th rank forging.
In a hundred years, he mastered 7th rank forging.
In five hundred years, he mastered 8th rank forging.
After a long five thousand years, Zhou Fan mastered 9th rank forging.
All that remained between him and his return to cultivation was the mastery of tenth rank forging.
Like he had for the past thousands of years, Zhou Fan increased the heat of the fire and the coolness of the water.
He took out an ore and manually strengthened it to the god realm. He then put in the flame and let it burn. Unlike before, the flame took a while to heat up the ore to a good level.
After waiting for a while, the ore finally heated up. Zhou Fan took it out of the stub with his Qi and beat on it. The mending of the ore took a while longer than before as well, but he soon had a good sword shaped ore.
Next, Zhou Fan dipped it in the water. After an entire day, the sword cooled down. Zhou Fan picked it up and put some formations on it. This time, he added a lightning elemental formation, along with the usual strengthening and sharpening formations.
Once he was done, he looked at the sword. Now, he was truly proud with the results. He wasn't dumb enough to throw the sword at the wall since it would very likely destroy the entire planet, and instead put it in his spatial ring.
He had stopped throwing the sword at the wall once they reached the lesser dao creation realm. Looking behind him, there was still a long tunnel that went down millions of miles left behind from his casual throw of the space shattering realm sword.
Zhou Fan turned back around and began to practice with god realm forging.
In a million years, Zhou Fan mastered god realm forging. Realizing that he was finally done, he let out a breath of relief.
While he wasn't upset that he had spent so much time mastering the arts, it got repetitive after a while. It was also physically and mentally demanding.
Now that he was done, he felt like he was free. Before he did anything else, he decided to take a week long vacation. It wasn't that he was lazy, but that he had too much free time regardless.
Zhou Fan's first thought was to go to the same river he had been to before, but he realized that it had been overrun by plants and no longer existed.
Zhou Fan walked over to the teleportation array and decided to travel around and try to find something good to do.
When he teleported through the array, he appeared under a large pile of plants. Zhou Fan quickly cut them with some sword Qi and flew up. Looking around, he felt he had underestimated the difficulty of finding something relaxing to do.
The entire world was completely covered with plants. Even the mountain seemed like a small hill of plants. There were no rivers, no oceans, no cliffs, just plants.
Zhou Fan was so stunned that he decided to temporarily halt his idea of finding a relaxing activity and extended his divine sense to cover the entire planet.
Besides the addition of many more plants and the removal of many terrains, everything seemed similar to the time before he started forging. The living plants were still there, and they seemed to be thriving in the new environment.
Zhou Fan could tell that the planet would be completely fine and safe without his life rain from the simple sweep of his divine sense.
Everything had evolved to be able to survive without water. It seemed that Zhou Fan's time on the planet was completely over since there was nothing to do but exist among plants.
Before he left, however, there were a couple things he wanted to do. One, activate all the arrays that he had placed around the world long ago. Although there were now many plants, the arrays had been created solely with Qi. In other words, they were like an intangible existence that wouldn't decay for millions of years.
Zhou Fan covered the entire world with his divine sense once again. This time, he covered the living plants and their homes with Qi before he inputted Qi into every single array on the giant planet.
Boom!
Krshhh!
Pop!
Many sounds suddenly sounded out and many colors dyed the planet. There were explosions, rips, and humming sounds that covered everything.
Zhou Fan saw one section of the planet get hit by a god realm explosion array, only for it to be stopped by a god realm protection array.
On another side, he saw a giant tree bloom to the sky and rain down life Qi. Next to it, a dry and dead tree imitated it, only releasing death Qi.
On other sides, there were collisions of light and darkness, water and fire, healing and destroying, creation and destruction, soul and body, and many other types of opposites colliding.
As everything calmed down, Zhou Fan saw that the planet had suffered gravely. Luckily, he had protected the living plants and their homes from everything.
Zhou Fan waved his hand, and the plant world seemed to patch itself up, having only less plants covering the world.
Such an act was fairly simple to Zhou Fan with his current strength and the fact that the planet was under his mortal dao.
The next thing he needed to do before leaving was upload the information on the arts to his mortal dao.
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