313: Chapter 313 A Moment of Array Patterns: Turning the Mundane into the Miraculous

Xu Ruyu's carving needle landed steadily on the inner wall of the copper tube.

As the first stroke fell, the tip of the needle rubbed against the metal, sparking tiny embers.

These sparks were not ordinary; they were a faint silver-blue, carrying a unique energy fluctuation.

Xu Ruyu's breathing was steady, his gaze focused.

His carving method was completely different from that of traditional Artifact Refiners.

Traditional rune inscription emphasizes "Completion in One Breath," "Infusion of Divine Sense," and "Resonance with Materials."

The inscriber must use their own spiritual power as a guide to communicate with Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, branding runes containing the Laws of the Dao deep into the Materials, making them a part of the Magical Artifact's "Spirituality."

The entire process was filled with mysterious implications, placing extremely high demands on the inscriber's cultivation, the strength of their Divine Sense, and their understanding of the Dao.

But Xu Ruyu's carving method was more like... drawing a circuit diagram.

He had previously used a charcoal pencil to draw fine lines on the inner wall of the copper tube—these were the "source energy Guidance Circuits" he had deduced based on the principles of "Air Kinetic Energy Compression" and "Directional Release," combined with his understanding of the Taihu Forbidden Array Formation structure.

These lines crisscrossed, some wide and some narrow, some straight and some curved, with special "Energy Node" symbols marked at certain key points.

At this moment, he was simply using the carving needle to transform these lines into real grooves on the metal surface.

And the "Haotian True Qi" he infused into the carving needle naturally permeated these grooves as they were formed, creating an extremely thin but highly stable energy conduction layer.

After finishing the first section of spiral patterns about three inches long, he straightened his back, gently blew away the metal shavings, and leaned in to observe carefully.

In that very instant—

On the inner wall of the copper tube, those newly carved grooves, still carrying a scorching residual heat, suddenly lit up autonomously and extremely faintly!

It was a layer of faint silver-blue light, flowing along the grooves like a stream finding its riverbed, naturally gathering and moving, finally forming small spots of light at several key "Energy Nodes"!

At the same time, the entire copper tube—this piece of metal tubing that had looked unremarkable and twisted under his forging—actually began to emit a faint, ethereal... Spiritual Charm!

That Spiritual Charm was not the grand, imposing pressure of traditional Magical Artifacts, but rather a more restrained, sharper aura of power!

Outside the door, those Artifact Refiner apprentices who had been watching Xu Ruyu's movements instantly widened their eyes!

"Holy crap! It lit up! It lit up! Those patterns lit up!"

"This... what kind of rune is this? I have never seen an Array pattern with this structure!"

"It's not the traditional way of writing runes! Those spiral lines... why do they look a bit like a variant of an acceleration Formation? But they also have traces of a compression Formation?"

"No, no! Look at those nodes! The way the spiritual power gathers is so strange! It doesn't look like the 'Spirit Accumulation Formation' of our clan; it looks more like... some kind of directional burst guidance structure?"

Exclamations rose one after another, and those originally contemptuous gazes were now all replaced by shock and curiosity.

Even Perfected Golden Toad, who was not far away pretending to handle business but was actually using his Divine Sense to monitor the movements in the Ding-Wei No. 7 room, suddenly widened his eyes, a flash of brilliance passing through them.

He stood up, paced calmly to the vicinity of the stone room entrance, and pretended to glance inside inadvertently.

Inside the stone room, Xu Ruyu remained oblivious to the commotion outside.

He picked up another processed short, thick metal cylinder intended for the "poqi type i" compression chamber and began to carve another set of Array patterns on it—this was a composite circuit responsible for "Energy Compression" and "Instant Release," with a more complex structure and more numerous layers.

His carving needle fell again.

This time, the commotion was even greater.

As he carved line after line, a faint golden halo began to emerge on the surface of the metal cylinder.

The halo was unstable, expanding and contracting, with something brewing inside that could burst out at any moment.

After a few breaths, when Xu Ruyu carved the final stroke—a converging node resembling a vortex—

"Hum!"

An extremely faint humming sound actually came from inside the metal cylinder!

Immediately, that golden halo suddenly contracted inward, turning into spots of light like stars, evenly distributed among the carved patterns, flashing steadily!

A cryptic yet tangible, heart-palpitating aura of energy emanated from this small metal cylinder!

The Artifact Refiner apprentices outside the door nearly had their eyeballs pop out!

"Good heavens! This aura... why does this aura feel a bit like... the precursor to an extreme compressed Wind Blade about to erupt?!"

"No! It's more violent than a Wind Blade! More impactful! This feeling... it's like some kind of trapped Vicious Beast!"

"But this is just an ordinary Wind Copper rod! And it was crudely forged by that guy! How could it possibly have such power?!"

The prickly apprentice Mo Ran, who had previously mocked Xu Ruyu, now had an incredibly vivid expression on his face.

He opened his mouth, wanting to say something sarcastic, but found his throat dry and couldn't utter a single word.

What made them beat their chests in frustration even more was that Xu Ruyu then began to carve Array patterns one by one onto those ugly, completely mismatched parts—carving trigger Array patterns onto the crude "trigger linkage mechanism," carving layered deflection and absorption circuits onto the flat, round "Spirit Turtle Shield" shell, and carving even more precise focusing and acceleration patterns onto that long, thin sniper barrel...

Each piece, the moment he carved those unique Array patterns, seemed to be infused with a Soul, radiating a bright, Spiritual Charm!