A senior brother laughed. This newcomer was not stupid. He knew what could be bought cheaply and what must be bought well. A sword was a cultivator's last weapon. Of course, it could not be neglected. Even if it could not be used freely, it should at least be able to withstand the attacks of others. It could not be used casually.
"Attribute? Characteristics? Do you have any special requirements? "
Lou Xiaoyi shook his head. "Hard! Sturdy! The rest does not matter! "
A senior brother understood a little. It turned out that this junior brother liked to fight in close combat.
Different cultivators had different requirements for their swords. Many people liked swords with attributes. For example, a long sword forged with fire attribute materials. If used together with fire attribute techniques, the effect would be greatly increased. When waved, flames would surround the body, and it would have a certain spell effect.
But there were also many people who liked to rely purely on sword skills and sword qi to support their close combat system. These were two different directions. There was no difference in superiority or inferiority. They just had different preferences.
With attributes, one would lose speed. If one pursued sword speed, one would have to give up on spells. It was that simple.
"There is a sword called Long Sword. In terms of firmness, not to mention in this shop, it is unique in the entire market!
It is forged with selected black gold. Every time it is layered, special materials will be added. It is formed by twelve layers!
The method of picking black gold is excellent in both toughness and hardness. One hundred mid-grade spirit stones, no bargaining … "
Once again, he opened a hidden box on the counter. But this time, it was not a hodgepodge of trash like last time. Instead, it was a rather exquisite sword box. He took out a long sword and handed it over.
Lou Xiaoyi took the sword in his hand and felt an indescribable sharp aura. He was not an expert in sword forging, but he believed in his intuition. This was a good sword!
With a wave of his hand, light and shadow swayed. There was only an afterimage and no sound of the sword.
"It is a good sword!" Lou Xiaoyi echoed.
A senior brother laughed at himself. His shop had never sold shoddy materials, which was why there was today's situation. Black gold was a very common material in the cultivation world. Like this ordinary sword-shaped thing, no one would use high-grade materials to make it. If it was made with precious materials like the flying sword, no one would be able to afford it.
The key was in the forging method and the special materials added. This was where the sword's value lay.
"You have good taste! I take back my previous opinion of your choice of swordsmanship being brainless!
As an apology, and also as a reward for the customer, I'll give you a flying sword case! "
By the time Lou Xiaoyi walked out of the shop, his net worth had already shrunk by more than half. Everyone had their own shopping habits. Some people liked to compare in every possible way when shopping, picking and choosing, and derive pleasure from it. He was the exact opposite. He liked to do it all at once, saving time and worry!
Do you think you can find the best price-performance ratio just by comparing the goods? Not ever! Because the essence of this shopping method was to never be satisfied, he did not want to put his mood on such meaningless dissatisfaction!
What he wasn't satisfied with was other things!
He added some small parts, and before he ran out of spirit stones in his pocket, he embarked on his return journey. Shopping was indeed enjoyable, but that was only for those who had a lot of money in their pockets. For a foreign visitor like him who had no foundation, even if he came here once a year, the more he bought, the more sullen he felt!
He was not an ascetic. After three years, he would find something to do, the kind that would make him rich quickly …
The icy river rolled down. Lou Xiaoyi had already adapted to this kind of noise. He found that it was more challenging and effective to train his six senses in the noise. When he saw this world in the future, it would never be a relatively simple environment. There would always be various kinds of complicated situations, where countless divine senses intersected, all kinds of sounds mixed, and all kinds of smells mixed … He would have to distinguish what he really needed from among them.
There were too many things to pay attention to, but the most important thing now was that after several days of preparation, under the advice of a senior brother, he had already used up the iron copper. It was so that he could familiarize himself with the feeling of using his energy to inscribe sword formations on the weapons.
As a dignified Swordsman, he did not practice swordsmanship by controlling the sword. Instead, he spent his time inscribing sword formations, which made him speechless.
In his mind, practicing swordsmanship should be the kind of improvement in the control of the flying sword after thousands of times of controlling the flying sword, not hiding in the cave and scribbling on the sword, hoping to inscribe one more layer of sword formations, one more layer … Even if this kind of improvement would be more direct, faster, and more fulfilling!
Placing the slightly ugly flying sword in front of him, Lou Xiaoyi recalled the form of the sword formation he was going to inscribe this time. This was a flying sword formation of the water element, which was also the easiest type for a flying sword.
The most important thing in inscribing sword formations was to pay attention to the smoothness of flowing water, without any stumbling in the middle. Only then could the sword formation be fully unleashed. To achieve this, there were a few aspects.
Whether the magical energy was always sufficient and evenly distributed; whether the sword formation was familiar with the sword formation itself; whether there were any external disturbances, etc.
Of course, when a true expert inscribes sword formations, it was a kind of random thing. Maybe they had something in mind, maybe they were drunk, or maybe they were in high spirits. When the time came, they would not pay attention to the distribution of magical energy, but would do as they pleased, incorporating their personal understanding of the great Dao into the formation … This kind of state was too far away from Lou Xiaoyi, so far that he could not even see it.
Relying on the tens of repetitions from before, Lou Xiaoyi completed the first inscribing without any mishaps. He succeeded!
It was not that he was talented in inscribing sword formations, but because this was the simplest sword formation. If all the foundational cultivators in the dome were to use it as practice when they first entered the sect, there would not be many who would fail.
Another very important reason was that there was nothing on the sword embryo, which was equivalent to inscribing on a blank space. This made the difficulty much lower. Only when inscribing the second layer of the sword formation would a cultivator's ability be tested, because he had to avoid damaging the first layer of the sword formation!
The flying sword could no longer be called a sword embryo. It was now a real flying sword, even though it was still in its initial stages.
Lou Xiaoyi channeled his magical energy into it, and under the guidance of his consciousness, the flying sword trembled and floated up slightly. It jumped diagonally and slapped horizontally into a pile of snow a few feet away, disappearing without a trace!
The first sword, a perfect … failure!
There were many things that needed to be coordinated, such as the strength of the magical energy, the control of the sword formation, the adjustment and control of the soul. This was not like throwing the sword formation into the sky and the flying sword would automatically complete the rest of the attack. It was like a magical item, which required countless times of familiarity to be able to control and release at will, to the extent of the sword's will.
This was a process that every Swordsman had to go through, especially at the beginning, when they were completely clueless. It was like a beginner driving, with the accelerator, brake, and steering wheel in a mess, wishing that they had a few more hands and legs!
At this point, he had mastered all the secret techniques from the Bo 'ao Tower. The only problem left was how to go deeper. This would determine how he would get out of the protection period two years later. Would he go down the dome with his ultimate skills, or would he look at the world with his naked eyes …
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