53: Star Flying Boat

"Wang Yi, I didn't expect you to come."

An acquaintance noticed Wang Yi and came forward to greet him.

"I heard a big shot is going to refine an Artifact, so I came to take a look."

"Hehe, your Wang Family is one of the three major Families of the Divine Weapon Pavilion, and your Artifact Refining skills are among the best in the entire Eastern Domain. If you join the Artifact Peak, you might even have a chance to become a Disciple of Venerable Chi Huo."

Wang Yi smiled faintly, but said nothing more.

Although his Artifact Refining attainment was not low, he actually did not like Artifact Refining.

What he yearned for was to become a true powerhouse, not an Artifact Refiner.

Artifact Refining was, in the end, just a craft.

...

"You can start now."

Wu Ning placed the flying boat model aside, then stood up. With a wave of his hand, over a hundred million tons of Ancient Starry Gold appeared in the air, emitting a magnificent starry glow.

Ancient Starry Gold has an extremely high density; a palm-sized piece weighs dozens of tons.

A hundred million tons didn't look like much, only about a few hundred cubic meters.

Puff!

The Nine Netherworld Emperor Flame rose, directly enveloping all the Ancient Starry Gold, and then began to calcine and smelt it.

"It's Ancient Starry Gold! So much Ancient Starry Gold!"

A burly old man's eyes widened, filled with shock.

He was the master of Artifact Peak, Venerable Chi Huo, Qi Yang.

"Old Ghost Qi, can you identify what kind of flame that is? Just looking at it makes my heart pound."

An old man wearing an alchemist's robe next to him asked.

"A flame capable of melting Ancient Starry Gold is certainly no ordinary flame. In the entire Heavenly Profound Continent, only the Yanmo Abyss could possibly find a flame of this grade."

"Yanmo Abyss... No wonder."

At the edge of the plaza.

Wang Yi's gaze was horrified, "What terrifying methods! What level of Artifact Refiner is he?"

He originally thought he was at most a Saint-Grade Artifact Refiner, but he didn't expect him to truly be a big shot!

Sizzle, sizzle!

The Nine Netherworld Emperor Flame continuously scorched, and the surrounding space was instantly burned into a void.

Although Wu Ning had tried his best to contain the temperature of the Nine Netherworld Emperor Flame, the entire Artifact Peak was still as hot as a furnace, and many low-cultivation students were constantly sweating profusely.

In just over ten breaths, the incredibly hard Ancient Starry Gold was calcined until it was soft and nearly melted.

Wu Ning's Law power surged around him, controlling the Ancient Starry Gold to be squeezed and stretched, directly shaping the flying boat's Artifact embryo.

High-end metals only require simple forging methods.

Ancient Starry Gold is the top-tier metal and does not need to be repeatedly smelted for purification like ordinary Materials.

Wu Ning's strength was immense, so he also didn't need to manually hammer and forge.

He was already extremely skilled in the process of shaping the Artifact embryo, but shaping such a large piece of metal into a complex flying boat Artifact embryo, and requiring it to be precise to the slightest degree, still took him half an hour.

Afterward, the flying boat's shape was officially formed.

Wu Ning's control was extremely exquisite; the entire surface of the flying boat was extremely smooth, without any flaws, reflecting light like a mirror, completely unlike the roughness of an Artifact embryo.

It was a one-step completion, directly saving the work of further fine forging.

Next, it would be necessary to engrave runes and array patterns, as well as Law imprints.

This step was the most complex and tedious.

To make a piece of metal perform various functions, it almost entirely relied on these runes, array patterns, and Law imprints.

It was roughly equivalent to the human body's nervous system.

The realization of every function of an Emperor-Grade flying boat required Law imprints as its Foundation, driven by hundreds of millions of runes and array patterns.

All combined, it was definitely an extremely massive workload.

Wu Ning took a full three days to complete this step!

Three days later.

A small flying boat, less than a hundred meters long, appeared in the air, emitting a brilliant blue-white starlight.

On it, there were palaces, buildings, balconies, and pavilions, everything one could wish for, like a miniature ancient city.

This was the true size of the flying boat.

Don't be fooled by those Saint-Grade flying boats that are thousands of feet long; their true size might not even be one-thousandth of that.

Otherwise, many forces would probably go bankrupt trying to build a Saint-Grade flying boat.

Wu Ning surveyed the Starry Sky Flying Boat in the air with satisfaction.

Next, there was an extremely important step.

That was bestowing sentience!

The current Starry Sky Flying Boat was, in essence, just a lump of metal engraved with runes and array patterns.

It was an inanimate object.

Bestowing sentience was to transform it from an inanimate object into a "living thing" with spirituality or even a Soul.

In this step, the most common method was to sacrifice with blood.

Allowing the Artifact embryo to come into contact with the flesh and blood of living beings, absorbing the essence and Life Qi contained within, thereby producing some mysterious change and giving birth to spirituality.

After continuous nurturing and a long period of time, an Artifact spirit might be born.

Some more extreme Artifact Refiners would, during this process, inject the Soul of other living beings into the Artifact embryo, causing it to directly become an Artifact spirit.

If the Artifact Refining skill was not up to par, a malevolent Artifact might be refined.

Wu Ning chose a relatively rare approach.

That was to integrate a Sacred Artifact that had already given birth to an Artifact spirit into the Starry Sky Flying Boat.

Making the Sacred Artifact's Artifact spirit the Artifact spirit of the Starry Sky Flying Boat.

He first poured a large basin of Heavenly Dog blood onto the Starry Sky Flying Boat for the blood sacrifice, then took out a Sacred Artifact small cauldron and threw it in.

The Nine Netherworld Emperor Flame rose, beginning to smelt.

The Starry Sky Flying Boat rapidly absorbed the Heavenly Dog blood and the Sacred Artifact small cauldron, and soon produced some mysterious changes.

It gradually gained a hint of Life Qi and spirituality.

Rumble!

The sky suddenly darkened, and boundless thunderclouds gathered.

This was the final step of Artifact Refining — Undergoing Tribulation!

However, at least a Sacred Artifact was required to qualify for this.

Wu Ning directly threw the Starry Sky Flying Boat into the sky, allowing it to receive the Heavenly Tribulation's baptism.

The entire flying boat was crafted from Ancient Starry Gold, belonging to the ranks of top-tier Emperor Weapons, so there was absolutely no possibility of Undergoing Tribulation failure.

Rumble!

Streaks of lightning struck the Starry Sky Flying Boat, making it even more perfect.

At this moment, the entire Eastern Xuan State, as well as a large area of the sea, were covered in rolling thunderclouds.

Countless powerhouses looked at the sky in horror, thinking someone was about to become an Emperor.

"It's actually refining an Emperor Weapon!"

Including Wang Yi, many knowledgeable teachers and students were already dumbfounded.

It turned out that this big shot was actually that big!

An Emperor-Grade Artifact Refiner!

The Heavenly Profound Continent seemed to have not seen one for over a million years.

An Emperor-Grade Artifact Refiner must be an Emperor-level powerhouse.

But Emperor-level powerhouses do not necessarily know how to refine Emperor Weapons.

The Emperor Weapons possessed by those Emperor-level powerhouses were either left by predecessors, or their innate weapons had undergone long periods of nurturing to achieve advancement.

"An Emperor Weapon is Undergoing Tribulation!"

The commotion in Eastern Xuan State was quickly noticed by top powerhouses in other places.

Some people's eyes were burning, subtly revealing a hint of greed, but no one dared to make a move to snatch it.

They all thought it was the innate weapon of a certain Emperor Undergoing Tribulation.

After all, Emperor-Grade Artifact Refiners had not appeared for over a million years.

No one dared to snatch food from an Emperor's jaws.

"Eh, why does this Emperor Weapon feel like a flying boat?"

"How can an Emperor Weapon be a flying boat? It should just look like one... No, that's a damn flying boat!"