Chapter 74 Weapon Forging

The festive cheer gradually faded, and Black Magpie Mountain returned to its usual tranquility.

The festival left everyone with beautiful memories; the fireworks in the mountains would bloom forever deep in their minds, making them look forward to the next one even more.

Several springs and autumns passed, time slipped away, and another month went by in the mountains.

At Qingfeng Mountain, Li Chun, at the breeding farm, had already been feeding for six months. Getting 0.5 contribution points every sixty days meant he now had 1.5 contribution points from the breeding farm.

Luo Anyue obtained 1.5 contribution points from incubating at the breeding farm. They hatched one batch a month, with about forty in each batch, and about thirty surviving the seedling stage, totaling over a hundred that had passed the seedling stage.

The bulk of their earnings came from cultivating spirit wood. Three months ago, they had finished planting fifteen mu each on both White Stone Mountain and Pingtian Mountain. On top of that, they planted several more mu to reach a total of ten thousand spirit wood plants.

They informed Chen Songxuan, who came and set up the Spirit Restraining Formation and the Spirit Rain Formation on the mountain. Simultaneously, they each recorded fifteen contribution points.

Chen Songxuan told them that the planting tasks were over. There were now tasks for Puppet production, Formation crafting, and insect egg cultivation. If they wanted more contribution points, they needed to learn new skills.

So, Li Chun chose to study the Puppetry Technique. He used three contribution points to exchange for three books on first and second-grade Puppetry, and spent three contribution points for teaching fees, allowing Chen Songxuan to teach him for three days.

The remaining contribution points were exchanged for qi overflowing pills. One bottle of qi overflowing pill cost five contribution points, so he exchanged for two bottles, leaving him with only 0.5 contribution points.

Luo Anyue chose insect egg cultivation. He also spent three contribution points to buy introductory cultivation books and three contribution points as teaching fees. Chen Songyan came to teach him. The rest was also exchanged for two bottles of qi overflowing pills.

However, while studying, they continued to accept the breeding farm tasks.

Within Black Magpie Mountain, Chen Li looked at the label points on the orange fortune bar and nodded slightly.

[orange fortune bar]: 80 / 100

[Family's Highest Combat Power, Breakthrough to Foundation Establishment, Youngest Generation's Highest Combat Power Breakthrough to Mid-stage Qi Refining]: Old Ancestor Foundation Establishment, Youngest Generation Seventh Layer of Qi Refining - Completed

[Family Can Refine foundation establishment pills >= 30]: > 30 - Completed

[Family Recruits Non-Clan Cultivators >= 10]: 9 people - Incomplete

[Family Harvests Spirit Stones >= 100000]: > 100000 - Completed

[Family Cultivates spirit wood >= 30 mu]: > 30 - Completed

Recruiting Non-Clan Cultivators should be fine this year, which might unlock information about a new Place of Opportunity. Chen Li withdrew from the Sea of Consciousness.

He then picked up the original copy of the "Seven Techniques of Li Family Iron Smelting." With so many Ores, it was time to start iron smelting and Artifact Refining.

He planned to craft some Magical Artifacts, from low to high grade, to see if he could forge an exact replica of the frost condensing sword.

After reading this book, he immediately started on the "Li Family Blade and Sword Artifact Refining Secret Manual." After finishing it, he carved out an Artifact Refining Immortal Cave on a mountainside, naming it the Artifact Refining Immortal Cave.

Chen Songxuan came over to help. He was also reading books related to Artifact Refining, preparing to craft some crossbows to integrate into his Puppets, creating emotionless arrow-shooting Puppets.

The two spent several days excavating an Immortal Cave, first crafting hammers, anvils, and stone mills.

Chen Li used the earth vein fire to directly melt the fine iron Ore, using his cultivation base of a Foundation Establishment Middle Stage Cultivator to forcefully fuse the molten iron into the shapes of hammers and anvils.

After a few days of work, Chen Li forged over ten simple and unadorned hammers and anvils. He then designed a Formation called the Hammering Formation, combining the hammers and anvils within the Formation so that activating the Formation would cause them to strike.

Over the next two months, Chen Li continuously improved the facilities in the Immortal Cave. He set up five furnaces for releasing earth vein fire, five sets of the Hammering Formation, a Cold Gathering Array and a water reservoir, and many cabinets to store special attribute Materials.

During these two months, Chen Songxiao also came to study the Dao of Artifact Refining. After all, he was idle, and he studied and discussed crafting crossbows with Chen Songxuan.

Chen Li looked at the platform, which had improved considerably, and began imitating the frost condensing sword...