To the current Liu Ming, due to the limitations of his cultivation, he was unable to display its true power. Out of the sixteen restrictions that it had, being able to activate three or four of them was already pretty good.
Even so, after refining the sword, he could change its size as he wished. He could also activate the restrictions on the sword. Its power was not something that a Practitioner Weapon could compare to.
After Liu Ming finished thinking, he immediately threw the dagger in front of him and it actually floated in the air. His hands kept forming hand signs and at the same time, his mouth continued to chant. Balls of Essence Qi continuously sprayed onto the dagger and were quickly absorbed by it, causing the dagger to become even more cold and gloomy.
However, the difficulty of refining this sword far exceeded Liu Ming's expectations.
He didn't know if his current cultivation was too low compared to this low tier Totem Sword or if refining a Totem was not an easy task.
It took him seven days to refine the first restriction on the flying sword, half a month to refine the second restriction, and two months to refine the third restriction before he could barely activate it.
As for the fourth restriction, after refining it for a few days, there was no movement. Only then did Liu Ming know that it was not something that he could refine right now. He would most likely have to wait until his cultivation reached the peak of a Late Spirit Apostle before he had a chance.
In these three months, the mysterious bubble still did not show any signs of exploding.
This caused Liu Ming to feel a bit scared. After making up his mind, he began to study the Basic Alchemy Encyclopedia that he bought from the Wei Zhou Market.
After all, after his cultivation reached the Late Spirit Apostle level, the Fa Li increasing pills were much more expensive than the ones he used before. There were also a lot fewer types of pills. Thus, if he only used low tier pills, it was far from enough to push his Fa Li to the peak of a Late Spirit Apostle.
Thus, the current him had a certain requirement for the quality of pills.
If he waited until he reached the level of a Spirit Master, his requirements for Fa Li increasing pills would be even harsher. In the future, he might not even be able to buy satisfactory pills with just Spirit Stones.
If this was the case, Liu Ming naturally hoped that he could master alchemy as soon as possible.
Although this Encyclopedia of Alchemy looked simple, it introduced the basic knowledge of alchemy and some common methods of alchemy.
According to it, it was best for an alchemist to be a cultivator who was proficient in fire-attribute or wood-attribute cultivation methods. Of course, it would be even better if he had the legendary spiritual flame.
In the beginning, learning alchemy was still very easy. After all, its essence was to decompose and recombine some medicinal ingredients, and then use high temperature to condense them into pills. As long as one wasn't too stupid, they could easily learn the general process.
The only problem was that learning it did not mean that one could actually refine pills.
After all, the successful refinement of every kind of elixir was a test of the alchemist's control of ingredients, temperature control, the time taken for the elixir to be taken out of the furnace, and other aspects.
Even the slightest deviation in one of them could cause the entire refining process to fail.
Unfortunately, most of these things could not be taught by words or by example. They could only be truly grasped through personal practice.
Therefore, no matter how brilliant a pill refiner was, when faced with the simplest pill refinement, they would not dare to say that they would have a 100% success rate.
As for those novices who had just come into contact with alchemy, even if they were to refine the simplest of pills, their success rate would be so low that it would make one's hair stand on end.
Not being able to refine a single pill after hundreds of attempts was a common occurrence for novices.
As for those mid and high tier pills, because the pill recipe was more complicated and the ingredients used were more scarce, it was impossible to practice during the refining process. Most of the time, one could only rely on the alchemist's previous experience in refining pills. Naturally, the requirements for the alchemist were even higher.
Unfortunately, a true alchemist needed to practice over and over again, and an enormous amount of resources to become one.
This naturally led to the scarcity of alchemists in the entire cultivation world. It could even be said that only those truly powerful factions in the Sect were able to cultivate true mid and high tier alchemists.
The number one alchemist in the Barbarian Ghost Sect of the Poisonous Spirit Faction was barely a mid tier alchemist. Even so, his position in the Sect was completely different from the other Spirit Masters. No one dared to lightly offend him.
After Liu Ming finished reading the entire Alchemy Basics, he suddenly had a feeling of eagerness to give it a try. After a slight hesitation, he chose the most commonly used pill, the Pill of Fasting, from the basic pill recipe at the back. After studying it in detail once more, he took out a set of alchemy tools and some ingredients. Then, he really began to grind and concoct the pill …
Five days later, a muffled "peng" sound came from the cultivation room. In front of Liu Ming, there was a white cauldron that was burning fiercely with a ball of flames. A faint burnt smell also came from it.
Seeing this, Liu Ming's face darkened. However, he still released the technique in his hand and the flames surrounding the cauldron immediately disappeared into thin air.
This was already the number of times he had failed to refine pills. However, he had not even managed to refine a single Pill of Fasting.
Although it was already stated in the ancient book that this was a very normal thing for a newcomer who had just come into contact with the Alchemy Way.
However, Liu Ming still suffered a huge blow when faced with such a situation. His excitement at the beginning had turned into abnormally dejected.
More importantly, he had used up almost half of the alchemy materials he had purchased.
This made his heart ache greatly, so he stopped practicing alchemy. He planned to find an opportunity in the future to look for a few more alchemy manuals from the Sect, or directly find an alchemist in the Sect to consult before considering the problem of starting alchemy again.
Thus, in the following period of time, without any pills to consume, Liu Ming could only slowly cultivate the Dark Bone Method using his innate talent of doing two things at once.
Time passed bit by bit. In the blink of an eye, another three months had passed.
During this period of time, nothing strange happened. Even Liu Ming was a little uneasy. He suspected that the mysterious bubble had disappeared from his body.
But on this day, while he was cultivating, he suddenly felt his Spirit Sea tremble, and a wave of devouring power immediately swept out.
After a year, the mysterious bubble had finally appeared.
Liu Ming was startled. Without hesitation, he summoned the White Bone Scorpion and used the Spirit Communication Technique to communicate with it. Then, he began to use the Dark Bone Method to control the Fa Li in his body.
This time, the devouring was even fiercer than the last time. If it wasn't for the fact that Liu Ming had advanced to a Late Spirit Apostle and his Fa Li had increased by three to four times, he would have been sucked dry in a short amount of time.
But even so, the bubble had sucked seventy to eighty percent of the Fa Li in Liu Ming's body before he was satisfied and stopped the devouring.
During this period of time, Liu Ming did not feel any signs of his lifespan being stripped away and he let out a sigh of relief.
However, when the bubble in his body burst, Liu Ming's vision went black and he once again appeared in the dusky space.
It was the same space, but it was clearly much larger than before. It was already three hundred feet wide.
Along with Liu Ming, the White Bone Scorpion, which was connected to his mind, also appeared.
This ghost was clearly stunned at the fact that it had appeared in another place. However, it immediately realized that this place seemed to have some impression of it and immediately began to excitedly crawl in all directions.
Liu Ming did not ask much about the White Bone Scorpion. Instead, he let out a sigh of relief and his expression slightly relaxed.
It seemed that although the mysterious bubble was devouring his Fa Li more fiercely each time, the interval between its appearances had also increased by a lot. This was good news for Liu Ming.
Based on the fact that the interval between each appearance was almost twice as long as the previous one, the next appearance of the mysterious bubble should be a buffer of two years.
Of course, this was only his assumption. Whether or not there was such a long time was still a different matter.
At the very least, he needed the mysterious bubble to appear a few more times before he could truly understand the pattern of its appearance.
Liu Ming silently pondered for a while and his hands formed a hand sign, preparing to start practicing the Fireball Technique that he had already mastered.
… …
Half a year later, between Liu Ming's two hands was an enormous fireball with a diameter of three feet. It slowly rotated without stopping. With a shake of his arms, it let out a whistling sound as it flew towards the opposite side.
With a "hong" sound, a mushroom-shaped, black-red cloud soared into the sky from the opposite fog wall. It unexpectedly caused the entire space to tremble slightly.
Liu Ming's face revealed a satisfied expression. At the same time, a scarlet symbol in his mind flashed and disappeared.
Of course, the enormous fireball just now was not a normal Fireball Technique. It was a combination of several fireballs stacked together to create such a frightening power.
Although it was also a low level spell, after the Fireball Technique was cultivated to the Perfection Stage, it increased the power of destruction the most. Its power was far greater than that of the Wind Blade Technique.
Liu Ming sat on the ground and prepared to recover the mental strength that he had previously used.
However, when he glanced over, he saw that the White Bone Scorpion was wildly stabbing at a nearby fog wall with its tail hook.
The black tail hook was already as fast as lightning. At this moment, under the control of the White Bone Scorpion, it transformed into countless black shadows. At the same time, a black light could be faintly seen at the front and it let out a sharp "chi chi" sound.
Seeing this, Liu Ming faintly smiled.
Since he had deliberately brought the White Bone Scorpion into this space, other than wanting a living creature to accompany him for a long time, he also wanted to train it while he was at it.
Since he could increase the proficiency of his spells in this space, the White Bone Scorpion should naturally be able to do the same.
Looking at it now, his thoughts were correct. Under the situation where the White Bone Scorpion continuously practiced its tail hook, its stabbing speed was astonishingly two to three times faster than it was half a year ago.
Don't underestimate these two to three times!
The tail hook stabbing was originally the scorpion's fastest and most powerful attack. Now that it had improved, its destructive power seemed to have multiplied.
Because of this, Liu Ming naturally felt more at ease and let the White Bone Scorpion continue to practice.
After resting for a while, Liu Ming began to think about what spell to practice next. Whether it was the power or the release speed of the Water Arrow Technique, it couldn't be compared to the Fireball Technique or the Wind Blade Technique. He naturally didn't plan on wasting time on this.
Because of this, he naturally considered the other higher level spells that he had learned.
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