Chapter 153 Thunder Shield

Chen Li was busy with Alchemy, and the Family operated and developed normally.

After Zhu Lingyue reached the Late Foundation Establishment Stage, Chen Li gave her a manual on how he cultivated Burial Fire, titled [Chen Family Burial Fire Cultivation Insights].

Chen Li summarized his cultivation insights on Burning Heaven Art, Blood Fire, and True Fire, along with his experience in Fusing Burial Fire.

Looking at her husband's cultivation notes, Zhu Lingyue felt a warmth spread through her heart; she resolved to communicate more with her husband in the future.

...Time flowed like a stream, and another month passed. Chen Li was still busy with Alchemy.

Inside the Artifact Refining Residence, Chen Songxiao and Chen Songli built another production line for refining Ore using thunder ore, a fully automated process for purifying thunder ore.

Once the Spirit Stone was placed, the production line started!

In this past month, they had purified about a thousand catties of space anchor stone, enough to create higher-grade Teleportation Array base plates; even Fifth Grade was no longer out of reach.

As for thunder ore, there was even less need to mention it; after setting up the process, they were refining the purity of thunder ore every day, yielding dozens of catties in just a few days.

Chen Songxiao said, "Sister, I'm going to forge a Fifth Grade Thunder Shield. I'll put off making your Teleportation Array base plate for now!"

Chen Songli replied, "That's fine. I can work on mine. You focus on making your Thunder Shield first!"

"If you run into any problems, we can discuss them together!"

"Okay!"

Chen Songxiao began his operation. A pile of powdered thunder stone, refined from thunder ore, started to melt under the earth vein fire. He followed the instructions in the [Chen Family Artifact Refining Summary], performing hand seals, adding other Materials, injecting spiritual power, and so on.

A few days later, a shield filled with pure lightning power emerged.

On the operating table, Chen Songxiao took out a Thunder Burst Talisman and activated it against the shield. Then he took out the calamity severing saber to chop at it. Soon, cracks appeared on the shield.

Chen Songxiao wrote his evaluation for this plan: The shield is too brittle; the Fusion is inadequate.

Thunder Shield Production Plan 001 — — Failure!

Chen Songli was also working at an adjacent operating table, making her own Teleportation Array base plate. By following the diagrams in the Formation book, she could successfully forge a base plate infused with spatial power.

Soon, she successfully created another set of Fourth Grade Teleportation Base Plates. Because the purity of the space anchor stone powder had increased, these were more durable than the first set, and the teleportation channel was more stable and secure.

She decided to aim for the Fifth Grade level Teleportation Array!

The higher the grade of the Teleportation Array, the more exquisite the forging process required, the greater the amount of space anchor stone needed, and the more difficult the spatial Formation patterns to inscribe.

Chen Songli took a few deep breaths. She decided to challenge herself. Her father had already managed the refinement of the space anchor stone; what reason did she have not to try!

Thus, the two of them worked—one forging shields, the other forging Teleportation Array base plates. Every day, they took thousands of catties of refined raw Materials from the Artifact Refining Residence's Ore warehouse, consuming them piece by piece without any psychological pressure.

This was because these Materials were only a tiny fraction of the Ore in the warehouse.

Bold experimentation—that is how the Artifact Refining Great Masters of the Chen Family were formed—they were built up through piling up Materials.

The foundation of the Chen Family was revealed once again: they could experiment freely, waste Materials a few times, and never need to worry, because they had too much, too much—enough for you to refine!

Both major Ore discoveries had been found by Chen Songxiao; it was also due to his own good fortune, as his Pulse Seeking Technique had already reached Major Achievement.

Shield after shield was discarded by Chen Songxiao and thrown into the scrap warehouse. Chen Songxiao adopted a method of finding the optimal one, recording his progress while refining.

The scrap warehouse was also piled high with various Magical Artifacts—swords, sabers, shields, crossbows, and more that had been discarded!

These scraps could be taken out and sold in a shop!

Chen Songli's refining was different; she practiced slow work for fine results. She generally succeeded in making two sets out of every three sets she crafted, because she had the established solution—if it worked, it worked.

The two of them were forging artifacts in the Artifact Refining Residence.

...

The Dao Seeking Platform appeared, and Chen Songyan competed with Chen Songmei!

"Second Brother, we are both at the Early Stage of Foundation Establishment. I just started cultivating "Nine Whips Life-Binding Entanglement," so please go easy on me!"

After reaching Foundation Establishment, Chen Songmei found a Cultivation Technique on the second floor of the Immortal Learning Tower, a close-combat killing skill for the Foundation Establishment level!

She now took out a whip that was dark cyan in color; the Magical Artifact warehouse had matching items, so she took one out.

Chen Songyan took out his thunder roar sword and also said, "Haha, don't worry!"

The two began to fight. After a dozen breaths, Chen Songyan was entangled by Chen Songmei's whip!

The thunder roar sword was knocked to the ground, and Chen Songyan immediately broke his defense.

"No way, I can't even beat you!"

"Haha, I admit defeat!" Chen Songmei laughed.

Chen Songyan refused to believe it. "Again!"

A short while later, Chen Songyan was defeated again, once again entangled by Chen Songmei's whip. Chen Songyan was near tears, "Songmei, let go of your Second Brother, I give up!"

"Second Brother, you're too weak!" Chen Songmei said with a laugh.

"Your whip is so sharp! You should find a chance to spar with your Eldest Sister or Third Brother. They can definitely give you a good fight!"

"No way, Second Brother, practice with me again. You need to improve too."

Chen Songyan quickly refused, "No, no, why would I want to get beaten again!"

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On Qingfeng Mountain, Chen Songxuan came for an inspection again. Li Chun, Luo Anyue, and Meng Chong were by his side.

"Third Young Master, we have over two thousand Spirit Chickens, over three hundred Spirit Pigs, ten Spirit Colts purchased... this year's spirit rice harvest is ninety-three thousand catties..."

Li Chun reported from the side. He was now at the Third Level of Qi Refining and served as the general manager for the Non-Clan Cultivators of the Family. Luo Anyue and Meng Chong were both deputy managers.

Chen Songxuan nodded and said to him, "Open a shop in the county to sell this spirit rice, Spirit Chickens, and Spirit Pigs. Find a few people to look into it."

"Yes, Young Master!"

"How are the more than thirty acres of spirit wood on White Stone Mountain and Pingtian Mountain growing?" Chen Songxuan asked again.

"Reporting to Young Master, under the irrigation of the Spirit Rain Formation and diligent manual care over the years, they are growing normally and have basically all survived."

"Good!" Chen Songxuan nodded, then asked about some other matters.

Chen Songxuan then said to Meng Chong, "Meng Chong, arrange for a few people to go notify the other Qi Refining Immortal Clans. Just tell them to come to Dongbai Mountain or Qishi Mountain next year to pay their taxes."

"Understood!"

"Anyue, send a few more stationed Cultivators from Dongbai Mountain and Qishi Mountain over here. Just hand over the Spirit Worms you have successfully incubated to me!"

"Yes, Young Master!"

After finishing his inspection, Chen Songxuan took out three bottles of qi overflowing pill and said to the three of them, "These are your rewards, one bottle for each of you. You have all done well over the years; keep it up!"

"Thank you, Young Master!" The three bowed in return!