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Lin Luoran slices down a piece of a two-meter-long shell of the Scorpion King to do an experiment . After refined by the Strange Fire, the shell gradually melts into a pile of shiny black liquid . It is floating above the Strange Fire and changing its shape .
After being refined, the two-meter-long raw material becomes one bowl of black liquid . It is the essence of the scorpion shell . The three months she spent is not wasted . She has designed a set of methods for refining armors after she completed the broken magic circle and studied the chapter of refining weapons in Introduction of Swords many times .
She puts a lot of pieces of jade next to her and sits near the Strange Fire .
Several translucent lights appear between her fingers . They connect her fingers and they target at the liquid scorpion shell .
Lin Luoran recalls her design for the armor and controls the light . She uses the light to pull and shape the black liquid carefully .
This step seems to be easy, but actually, the pile of black liquid is unbreakable and it will take a lot of strength for Lin Luoran to pull it .
The spiritual mind plays a very important part in keeping the shape in mind while refining weapons . Those whose spiritual mind is not strong enough will probably make mistakes in their first try of refining weapons: they may want a knife and end up with a sword… This subtle controlling force is a trial for controlling the spiritual mind .
The liquid becomes longer and thinner and it is shaped above the Strange Fire .
There are dazzling sparkles on the surface . Little by little, it becomes the shape that Lin Luoran wants it to be .
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There is not much shiny black liquid . With Lin Luoran’s control, it is forming the shape of sleeves and waistline . After Lin Luoran used up her Reiki and the Reiki of several pieces of jade, a black armor that looks like a battle suit from manga takes shape .
She withdraws Reiki and the “battle suit” drops to the ground and breaks a few cabbages .
It is black but shiny . It is as thin as a cicada’s wings but it is very heavy . It is the clothes refined from the scorpion shell .
Lin Luoran picks up the “clothes” and she feels a little embarrassed . She doesn’t have experience in designing clothes and her family live in the city so she can’t make a robe . The design from manga seems to be funny, but it can protect the shoulders, the body and ankles very well . It is very functional as it is both protective and light .
It is very convenient for Mrs . Lin to wear it next to the skin . She can wear whatever she wants and no one will notice .
Of course, this is only the first step .
After regaining Reiki, Lin Luoran takes out the diamond of fire that she got from the Strange Fire . There is no Reiki inside her mother’s body, so after she finishes the magic circle, this armor can only take a few attacks before it cracks, just like the jade pendant of Commander Qin’s grandmother — after all, this kind of magic weapons are made for cultivators and when they are used to protect ordinary people, they need to be more powerful .
If she doesn’t have the diamond of fire, Lin Luoran will probably inset some pieces of jade . Although it may look like she is showing off, they are useful . Now that she has the diamond of fire, it is enough to be used as the circle core .
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Lin Luoran is making hand gestures and carefully pinches a fire line from the Strange Fire and burns it at the waistline . That part becomes soft gradually and Lin Luoran insets the diamond of fire at the melted part with Reiki .
She withdraws the Strange Fire and waits until the clothes cool down again . The diamond of fire is inset at the waistline . The scarlet diamond is eye-catching on black . Lin Luoran restrains her excitement and keeps the clothes inside the space .
Walking out of the basement, she finds herself very hungry so she heads to the kitchen . Lin Luoran looks at her watch and finds that the refining and shaping of the armor take three days . No wonder she feels hungry .
After getting something to eat, Lin Luoran goes back to her room and has a nice sleep in her bed . She has slept for over ten hours . Therefore, when she returns to the space, she is in a good fettle again .
The reason why she is so solemn is that the next step is very crucial in refining weapons — carving magic circles .
The armor Lin Luoran refines is a low-grade magic weapon . There is room for mistakes at the beginning of the refining process . When purifying raw materials, if it is not purified enough, it will affect the quality but will not cause any other bad consequences; if anything happens during shaping, it will only make the product look uglier .
However, if anything goes wrong with the carving of magic circles, the magic weapon will be ruined unless the maker starts all over again .
The scorpion shell is extremely hard so Lin Luoran cannot carve with Reiki . The best way is to control the Strange Fire to carve the magic circle .
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Lin Luoran has to be highly focused to pinch a line of Strange Fire and use it to carve the magic circle .
She casts a “Fire-drawing Spell” and pinches a line of fire from the Strange Fire . It looks like a needle jumping inside Lin Luoran’s hand . Lin Luoran calms down and starts carving .
Actually, she is more like “piercing” instead of carving .
Every needle falls on a special node . These nodes seem to be arranged casually and disorderly, but together they form a shape, which is the key to this protective magic circle .
Lin Luoran knows that the most important part of a magic circle is its nodes after she made a lot of experiments and drawings and finally completed a broken magic circle . It is the nodes that evoke the echo of Reiki between the sky and the ground . The nodes can change some rules inside the magic circle and make it powerful enough to make life-or-death choices .
It works like the spells . Each spell has a corresponding hand gesture . The higher the level of the spell is, the more complicated the hand gesture is . Perhaps this is how cultivators draw Reiki to them . It is indeed a bold assumption that the nodes and the frequency of spells are connected . Lin Luoran doesn’t know if other cultivators know about this . However, she only has one broken magic circle to study but other cultivators must have a lot if they want to, no matter how much the cultivation world has declined .
Every spot Lin Luoran pierces with her “needle” is close to the diamond of fire, which is the circle core she sets for the magic circle . As long as the diamond is not broken, it can deliver Reiki and make the armor able to protect ordinary people .
She is highly focused . Some nodes are big, so she has to burn it with the Strange Fire more; some are very small, so she has to pierce it quickly . This job is very taxing and every movement she makes is made carefully .
When she is tired, she lies down under the apple tree; when she is hungry, she eats some fruits; when she is thirsty, she drinks from the little pool… One day, Lin Luoran finds that food tastes bland in her mouth and she realizes the passing of time .
Finally, she finishes the last movement…
The trace of the magic circle is like a complicated pattern . Lin Luoran looks at this simple clothes with secret design hidden in it and smiles .
Her nails have grown longer and she seems to be staying in the space for a long time .
Fortunately, she is now better at controlling the Strange Fire and she has made no mistakes . Looking at the armor, Lin Luoran knows that the last step has come .
Lines and nodes have only set the foundation for the magic circle . Making an armor that can protect the owner needs more than Reiki . The final step is called “incepting in spirit” .
Reiki is not enough for this — this step requires Wakan of Laying Foundation . Therefore, even if ordinary people get something like an “encyclopedia for magic circles”, they can carve nothing more than a pile of useless lines .
Wakan lights up the nodes one by one… They are just like stars hidden behind clouds and now they are showing themselves . Lin Luoran increases the input of Wakan . After a long time, she finally sees the “stars” connected together by Wakan . They are now moving on an orbit centering the diamond of fire—
The armor is still dark, but suddenly, it has a soul . Lin Luoran smiles .
She takes the clothes out . The snow on the roof has disappeared and vegetables are growing well in the backyard . There is green on the willow trees near the lake . Winter has gone and spring arrives . It’s been half a year since she went in… She has spent six months to make this one armor . With all her time and energy, even she has been dealing with an ordinary piece of iron, it should be an unstoppable sword!