245: Chapter 245 Su Cheng! You fucking blew up my shop!

Tianlan Province City, Four Seas Chamber of Commerce.

Su Cheng received a message from Zhou Changgeng on the afternoon of the fourteenth day of his seclusion.

"Come and get your things."

Su Cheng packed up the finished Medicinal Pill from the last batch in his secret chamber, checked his Storage Pouch, and left the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce, heading towards Qingfeng Alley in the east of the city.

Upon arriving at the shop, Su Cheng pushed the door open and walked in. He bypassed the counter and headed toward the back hall. As he lifted the door curtain, a wave of heat rushed toward him.

The Artifact Refining table in the back hall was completely empty, and the tools were neatly organized; even the scattered fragments of spiritual ore that usually littered the place had been swept clean.

In Su Cheng's memory, this was the first time; Zhou Changgeng was not the type of person to tidy up his workshop.

Sun Boyong sat in a grand armchair in the corner, swaying slightly as he drank wine.

Zhou Changgeng squatted on the floor next to the Artifact Refining table, with a piece of thick velvet cloth laid out before him, upon which rested a mirror.

Its appearance was no longer the wanbao mirror Su Cheng remembered.

The size of the mirror body had not changed; it was still the size of a palm.

But the luster of the mirror surface was completely different—it was a deep, bronze color with hidden, flowing light, like a bronze mirror that had been submerged at the bottom of an ancient well for a thousand years.

Su Cheng reached out to pick up the mirror and examined it carefully; the more he looked, the happier he felt.

The Array Inscriptions of the wanbao mirror could be said to have been reborn; those rough, rigid connections from before had completely vanished, and the transition between every line was natural and seamless, with no trace of resistance when Spiritual Qi flowed through it.

"The outer Array Inscriptions and the base have all been replaced, using Tier 3 spiritual silver as the foundation and Tier 3 profound iron essence as the framework," Zhou Changgeng stood up from the floor and rubbed his hands on his apron. "The Revered Master overturned three versions of the Array Inscriptions circuit before finalizing it. Look at that circle on the bottom left of the mirror's back; he spent four days and four nights carving it. I've tried it myself, and if it were me, I couldn't carve it."

Su Cheng flipped over the back of the mirror and saw that extremely fine circle of runes in the bottom left corner.

The lines were as dense as strands of hair, layered and intertwined. Once Spiritual Qi was infused, it would form a miniature circulation circuit, seemingly equivalent to a micro-version of a Spirit Gathering Formation.

"What is this circuit for?"

Sun Boyong spoke up from the corner: "It's to save you effort. With your current strength, activating a Magic Treasure consumes a great deal of Spiritual Qi. This circuit can draw a portion of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi from the surroundings to supplement you while you output your own Spiritual Qi, reducing Spiritual Qi consumption by about twenty percent. The biggest Bottleneck for a Foundation Establishment Cultivator using a Treasure Artifact is that their Spiritual Qi cannot keep up; after only a few uses, their Spiritual Qi will be drained dry. This thing can help you extend your combat time."

Su Cheng turned the mirror over and over to look at it twice more, feeling reluctant to put it down.

"The position for the core area has been reserved," Zhou Changgeng pointed to the center of the mirror's surface. "Do you see those five dark spots? They are the positions for the five elemental Spiritual Qi: Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth. Later, you go in and infuse it yourself; just align the five positions with your Spiritual Qi. The Revered Master has written the operating method in this Jade Slip; just follow it."

Su Cheng took the Jade Slip and scanned it with his Divine Sense. The content was not extensive but extremely detailed, with the required Spiritual Qi output marked for every step.

He looked up at Sun Boyong.

The old man was still leisurely drinking wine, sipping very slowly, with a calm expression.

"Senior Sun, thank you."

Sun Boyong set down his wine pot: "What are you thanking me for? You haven't repaid that favor yet, so save the polite words for later."

Su Cheng did not indulge in further pleasantries and, holding the wanbao mirror and the Jade Slip, entered the small compartment next to the back hall.

Zhou Changgeng and Sun Boyong exchanged a look.

"Let's go sit in the front," Sun Boyong stood up.

"Aren't you going to watch?" Zhou Changgeng asked.

"That is his own thing; why watch?"

The Revered Master and apprentice walked to the front hall. Zhou Changgeng took out a coarse pottery cup and signaled for his Revered Master to pour him a cup of wine as well, then sat behind the counter to wait.

Inside the compartment, Su Cheng followed the steps on the Jade Slip and circulated the Qiankun Creation Art to its maximum power.

The Qi of Creation surged out from his Dantian, flowed along his Meridians into his palms, and seeped through his palms into the five small dark spots in the center of the wanbao mirror's surface.

If an ordinary Cultivator only mastered Spiritual Qi of a single attribute, they could only connect to one of them, leaving the other four to idle; the power of the wanbao mirror could at most be utilized to twenty or thirty percent.

But the Qi of Creation did not distinguish between attributes.

Su Cheng divided his Spiritual Qi into five strands, and all five strands were infused simultaneously. The five dark dots lit up one after another: golden-white, cyan-green, deep blue, crimson, and earth-yellow. The five colors of light converged in the center of the mirror surface, integrated together by the pale cyan background color of the Qi of Creation.

A very thin halo emerged on the mirror surface, the five colors blending together and finally condensing into a warm, bronze luster.

Two hours later, the Spiritual Qi infusion was complete.

Just then, the surface of the wanbao mirror suddenly shone brightly, and five-colored light erupted from within the mirror body, illuminating the entire room.

Fortunately, this small courtyard of Zhou Changgeng's was already reinforced with a Formation, and the Spiritual Qi fluctuations were firmly locked within the courtyard by the Formation, preventing them from leaking out.

In the front hall, Sun Boyong and his apprentice Zhou Changgeng both looked up simultaneously.

Sun Boyong's brows twitched slightly; he placed the wine pot on the table and probed toward the room with his Divine Sense.

The next moment, he raised his hand to cast a Spell, pressing back the Spiritual Qi that was still trying to surge outward.

Zhou Changgeng watched his Revered Master's actions from the side and asked in a low voice: "Revered Master, the commotion over at Su Cheng's side is so big, should we go and take a look?"

Sun Boyong withdrew his Divine Sense without answering. That Spiritual Qi fluctuation was indeed unusual, but as for what was special about it, he couldn't say exactly.

It seemed to have added a touch of something indescribable, as if something was settling within it, suppressed and not yet released.

He glanced toward the room, withdrew his gaze, and picked up the wine pot again.

"What are you looking at? Stay put!"

Inside the room, after the Spiritual Qi infusion of the wanbao mirror was complete, Su Cheng couldn't wait to activate it to see the effect, starting with the sword form.

In the past, when condensing the sword form, it always consumed Spiritual Qi to directly generate a corresponding attack from the mirror surface, while the main body remained a mirror.

But now, Su Cheng channeled a stream of Spiritual Qi into the wanbao mirror.

The wanbao mirror rotated and deformed in his palm; the mirror surface elongated, and the mirror back narrowed, transforming into a long bronze sword within three breaths.

The Treasure Artifact had actually changed its inherent form.

At this moment, fine Array Inscriptionss flowed across the sword body, the blade was sharp, and the conduction of Spiritual Qi was completely unimpeded.

Su Cheng infused the sword body with a stream of Spiritual Qi containing the Azure Wood Thunder Blast Spell, turned his wrist, and pointed the sword tip forward.

"Explode."

A cyan ball of light condensed at the sword tip, several times larger than the Azure Wood Thunder Blast Spell he usually cast himself. The moment the ball of light left the sword tip, it shot out rapidly.

Boom!!!

Half of the room's wall was blown through, gravel and wood chips flew all over the courtyard, and dust surged into the front hall.

It was fortunate that the shop was reinforced with a Formation, otherwise, it was feared that everything would have been destroyed.

Zhou Changgeng jumped up in the front hall, his face turning green: "Su Cheng! You motherf*cker, you blew up my shop!"

Su Cheng stood in the middle of the ruins, still holding the long bronze sword in his hand, his ears ringing, and he lowered his head to look at the sword body.

He had only infused ten percent of his Spiritual Qi.