Chapter 75 The Killing Skills We've Hone Together

At Black Magpie Mountain, Zhu Lingyue and Chen Songli returned yesterday after attending the wedding banquet. Chen Songli went up to the third floor of the Formation Comprehensive Building to study Formations.

Zhu Lingyue was also on the second floor helping to produce some Third-Grade Formations. There were already over a hundred sets of Third-Grade Formations piled up in the warehouse. Chen Li occasionally went to purchase a batch of Materials, selling a few Spiritual Plants if the Spirit Stones were insufficient.

A few days later, Chen Songli, who was inside the building, read several books on Artifact Refining. She suddenly had some good ideas!

She also wanted to forge some Magical Artifact swords and blades that could perfectly integrate Formations.

Thus, Chen Songli joined the Chen Family's Artifact Refining efforts. Chen Songyan took a look and honestly went back to insect breeding.

However, a day later, Chen Songli dragged Chen Songyan over, saying: 'Come learn for a few days. What if you're an Artifact Refining Genius!'

Chen Songyan groaned but yielded to the stern authority of Chen Songli, his elder sister, and dutifully went over.

In the Alchemy Immortal Cave, all five operating stations were fully occupied. Chen Songli would occasionally glance over at Chen Songyan's station, under the pretext of 'passing by.'

At Chen Li's operating station, there was already a pile of scrapped swords underneath. He had refined six so far, and all had failed.

According to the description of sword refinement in the 'Li Family Sword and Blade Refining Secret Manual,' to make a sword exhibit the Frost Condensing attribute, one needed to continuously mix and stimulate it with an ice-attributed auxiliary Spiritual Object while melting the Hundred-Year Cold Iron in the furnace.

Then, it must be hammered three thousand times. During shaping, the sword's inscriptions needed to be carved. Once the inscriptions took effect, the sword was complete!

Chen Li refused to believe it and melted the iron again, starting over.

Watching her father fail so many times, Chen Songli found her own Artifact Refining going just as poorly. The path of Artifact Refining was comparable to Formations.

However, Chen Songxuan and Chen Songxiao had produced some First and Second-Grade Arrow Artifacts. But when making a Third-Grade Magical Artifact bow and crossbow, they encountered many problems; the crossbow bolts could never be made properly to meet the standard for a Third-Grade bow and crossbow.

The process was painful, but the result was good!

After another month of continuous attempts, Chen Li finally forged the frost condensing sword. Comparing it with the previous one he took out, the Frost Condensing attribute of this newly forged sword was no less potent than the old one.

Seeing her father successfully refine the frost condensing sword, Chen Songli could only sigh, 'Truly worthy of being Father!'

Chen Li saw Chen Songli's 'pleading' look, as if she were saying: 'Father, come teach me!'

Chen Li walked over to Chen Songli's station. She was refining a flame fire sword, which needed to be mass-produced. These were meant to be integrated into a Formation, a set of ultimate killing weapons. If enemies fell into this Formation and it activated the flame fire sword attack, they would have a terrible time.

The problem was that the flame power the flame fire sword could emit was too weak. Chen Li could only share the experience of how he refined the Frost Condensing attribute when forging the frost condensing sword with her.

After continuous attempts by the two, Chen Songxuan and his group finally found the optimal bolt after refining dozens more. They were now also mass-producing them.

Chen Songyan only studied here for half a month. He realized he was only capable of skills related to breeding or cultivation. This Artifact Refining business was slightly beyond his capabilities!

...Time passed another month. Chen Li was still continuing to refine artifacts, mass-producing the frost condensing sword Magical Artifacts!

In the Alchemy Immortal Cave, Brother Ox had already become the third main force in the Chen Family's Alchemy.

He had been refining pills constantly these past few months. Ever since mastering the refinement of the qi overflowing pill, he had been mass-producing qi overflowing pills in the Immortal Cave. Spiritual Plants were abundant enough for Brother Ox to refine to his heart's content!

To date, he had refined no less than five hundred bottles of qi overflowing pills. Now, the Medicinal Pill warehouse in the Pill Refining Residence already contained no fewer than two thousand bottles of qi overflowing pills.

At the Dao Seeking Platform, Chen Songli gathered the five siblings of the song generation today.

Ever since sparring against Yao Beasts in the Boundless Forest, they had been wanting to find time to spar with each other to sharpen their killing techniques.

At the Dao Seeking Platform, Chen Songli and Chen Songyan began fighting. Chen Songxuan and Chen Songxiao recorded their observations from below the platform.

A short while later, Chen Songyan retreated from the platform in a sorry state.

Both of them used swords, and Chen Songli's sword was clearly faster than Chen Songyan's.

Next were Chen Songxuan and Chen Songxiao. Both used sabers, and Chen Songxuan won.

Next was the match that Chen Songyan and Chen Songxiao were most interested in: the spar between Chen Songli and Chen Songxuan. One was currently at the Qi Refining Fifth Layer, and the other was at the Perfection of the Fourth Layer of Qi Refining.

'Third Brother, make your move!' Chen Songli said with a relaxed expression.

Chen Songxuan used his heavy and powerful broad saber. Chen Songli's sword was not slow either. The two exchanged blows back and forth, making for a very exciting fight.

The two watching below enjoyed the spectacle, but in the end, Chen Songli still forced Chen Songxuan off the Dao Seeking Platform.

'Elder Sister, I concede!' Chen Songxuan said with a smile.

'Third Brother, if my cultivation level weren't slightly higher than yours, I really wouldn't have been able to beat you!'

The two exchanged modest words, and Chen Songyan interjected: 'Alright, alright, you are both amazing!'

These few then rotated continuously. These four sparred intensely for two months, thinking of ways to defeat the other every day.

One day, Chen Songxiao, with his cultivation at the Qi Refining Sixth Layer, defeated his elder sister Chen Songli!

'Haha, my apologies, Elder Sister. It was due to a slight advantage in cultivation. If you were also at the Qi Refining Sixth Layer, I definitely couldn't beat you!' Chen Songxiao put away his broad saber and smiled modestly.

Chen Songli looked at herself being forced off the Dao Seeking Platform and smiled contentedly.

'Haha, well done, Songxiao! This is the first time you've beaten me!' Chen Songli also smiled with satisfaction.

Chen Songyan beside her looked depressed. How come he couldn't beat a single one of them! It made no sense!

Chen Songli looked at Chen Songyan and smiled: 'Songyan, what's going on with you? After two months, you, a Qi Refining Sixth Layer, still can't beat Song Xuan, who is at the Fourth Layer of Qi Refining?'

Chen Songyan spread his hands, utterly defeated!

His Spiritual Root Aptitude was the best; could his Comprehension Ability be the worst among the song generation?

He thought of the fifth child, Songmei. She looked like a glutton, appearing not very smart. Surely she wouldn't be last, right?

'Songyan, if I were you, I would directly advance my cultivation by three or four layers and crush them with sheer power. With your Three Spiritual Roots, if you seriously enter secluded cultivation for a period, with the Medicinal Pills from Father and Mother, breaking through to the Seventh or Eighth Level of Qi Refining wouldn't be difficult!'

Chen Songli offered her advice. She felt that if she had Three Spiritual Roots, she would probably already be in the Late Stage Qi Refining now.

Chen Songxuan chimed in beside her: 'Second Brother, if you were at the Seventh Level of Qi Refining, I definitely couldn't beat you!'

Chen Songyan didn't really want to enter secluded cultivation for too long; it was too boring. He forced himself to say: 'If I were at the Seventh Level of Qi Refining and still couldn't beat you, I would be utterly disgraced. It's acceptable now since we are all in the Middle Stage of Qi Refining, giving me an excuse. If I reach the Late Stage Qi Refining and still can't beat you, who is in the Middle Stage, I'd have no excuse!'

'Hahahaha~~' All of them burst out laughing. The atmosphere was relaxed and joyful.

...In the Artifact Refining Residence, ten swords were already hanging in the sword cabinet, all uniformly frost condensing swords, neat and tidy. All were new swords, all Third-Grade Magical Artifacts.

Chen Li had forged these ten over the past few months, accumulating considerable experience in Artifact Refining.

Now, the four arts of cultivation most widely applied—Formation, Alchemy, Artifact Refining, and Talisman—were established in the Family with the 'Formation,' 'Alchemy,' and 'Artifact Refining' branches set up. Only the path of Talisman remained.

In a few more years, they would research that too. Songmei would be ready for Spiritual Root testing in a few months. Who knew how many Spiritual Roots this little one had!

This little one actually disliked secluded cultivation. If she turned out to have Five Spiritual Roots, Chen Li would have no choice but to supervise her while she was in seclusion, forcibly feeding her qi overflowing pills.

'Swallow the medicine for me, Cultivate faster!' Chen Li found the scene itself hilarious!

However, not a single one of the five children in the song generation could be left behind!