Chapter 19 - Natural Born Weapon Refiner

　　Artifact refiners had to both cultivate and comprehend divine patterns to refine divine weapons, most of the refiners would also take up refining tasks to gain wealth, as in the case of Feng Ping, it was naturally impossible for him to refine all the divine weapons to the best of his ability, the so-called golden ratio of liquids that the melting furnace had concocted was more than enough to use for him to refine a lot of divine weapons. 　　Qin Wentian injected the refining liquid into the artifact embryo as Feng Ping requested, then placed it into the refining tank and waited for them to solidify, but Feng Ping set up a small refining furnace next to the large melting furnace at the moment, and instructed Qin Wentian, "Go to the Material Hall and fetch a catty of bronze, half a catty of silver sand, half a catty of bloodstone, a small amount of astral steel, as well as light aluminum over here for me." 　　"This is to refine swords, and light-textured swords at that." The refining memories Qin Wentian obtained naturally had information on the refining materials, bronze was the main material, silver sand could make the sword glittery, and the other several materials could make the refined sword light and sharp, especially bloodstone and star steel, which were quite precious metals. 　　"Master is refining a soft sword for Lin Yue?" Qin Wentian asked tentatively. 　　Feng Ping swept a glance at him and said coldly: "Rather quite a bit of insight, knowing that I want to refine soft swords, Lin Yue's father and I have a bit of friendship, she herself is a cultivation genius, for her to refine weapons I naturally have to do my best, your kid offended her in order to attract her attention, right, but I advise you not to think blindly, if you can feel at ease to be my apprentice for three years, I will grace you with a few simple divine patterns Let you comprehend." 　　"Three years and still just simple divine patterns?" Qin Wentian murmured, refiners could be really heavy on divine patterns. 　　"What, too long? Do you know what price I paid to obtain the Star River Guild's divine pattern?" Feng Ping snorted coldly and said, "Go fetch the materials." 　　Qin Wentian nodded slightly and went forward to the Hall of Materials to fetch the materials Feng Ping needed, and then he saw Feng Ping putting them into the refining furnace. 　　"The flames here are all ground flames provided by the Star River Guild, without the help of the Star River Guild, many refiners wouldn't even be able to melt their materials, wanting to become a refiner is indeed harsh." Qin Wentian sighed in his heart, a material with an extremely hard texture like Star Steel could never be melted by ordinary flames. 　　Especially the higher the grade of the divine weapon one wishes to refine, the harder the material needed to be melted. 　　Of course, for a refiner, the most difficult to obtain as well as the most important was still the divine pattern, as well as the ability to comprehend and inscribe the divine pattern. 　　After placing all the refining materials into the separate refining furnace, Feng Ping waited until the weapon embryo appeared to crack, and then asked Qin Wentian to place a sword's weapon embryo on the forging stone, and with a point of his finger, the weapon embryo instantly cracked, revealing a sword that had been branded red by the flames. 　　"At this time, the artifact hasn't completely solidified and cooled down, it's the best time to inscribe the divine pattern." Feng Ping said faintly, then the power of the stars fluctuated, only to see Feng Ping stretch out a finger, and at the tip of the finger there was a brilliant star power that turned into a star carving knife. 　　"This is a star soul, Feng Ping's star soul is a carving knife, not exactly a casting star soul, but it's not bad for carving divine patterns." Qin Wentian secretly said, then he only saw Feng Ping using the carving knife star soul to carve divine patterns on the branded red sword, not avoiding Qin Wentian in the slightest, the divine patterns were incomparably complicated, a striped road interlaced, indiscernible to the naked eye, as if it was like the veins of the human body, the sword, on the other hand, was equivalent to the body of the human being. 　　However, Feng Ping was afraid that he hadn't anticipated that Qin Wentian had seen his movements clearly. 　　"This is the sword-shaped divine pattern among the basic divine patterns, which can enhance the sharpness of the sword and increase its attack power by a certain amount, but this Feng Ping's engraving is slightly rough." Qin Wentian's heart was like a clear mirror, but naturally he would not say it out, this Feng Ping did not have a Casting Star Soul to carve divine patterns with his hands, on the other hand, his talent for refining weapons was average, so it was difficult for him. 　　In fact Feng Ping he was self-aware that his carving knife star soul had no advantage in cultivation, only then would he spend great effort to embark on the path of weapon refining, and it was also considered to be some achievement, but he didn't expect that he would be despised by Qin Wentian in his heart. 　　"If you can learn these divine patterns, you will have no worries in your life." Feng Ping, unaware of Qin Wentian's thoughts since he was still enjoying himself, swept a glance at Qin Wentian with a faint smile, separately engraved divine patterns for all the weapons, then waited for them to cool down completely, then polished them, opened the edges, and lastly, fitted them with decorative implements such as scabbards. 　　As for the divine patterns engraved on them, they even completely disappeared after the refining was completed, as if they had been set into the interior of the divine weapons, becoming the veins of the divine weapons, a part of them. 　　"Try it." Feng Ping handed Qin Wentian one of the refined divine soldiers. 　　Qin Wentian held the sword in his hand, then the star power surged and invaded the sword, and there was a sense of blood connection, as if the divine veins were also part of the body's veins, and the star power was able to flow into it to inspire the sword's might. 　　"So marvelous." Qin Wentian hadn't practiced cultivation before, and naturally hadn't come into contact with a divine weapon, not realizing that the divine vein had such a marvelous effect. 　　"You've seen today's polishing and forging clearly, if you really want to be a long term apprentice, how about in the future, I'll carve the divine pattern without worrying about it, and you'll do the rest?" Feng Ping said to Qin Wentian. 　　"Grandmaster Feng Ping, I won't be coming here often, but if I'm free to come over, I'll help with these things since, and I don't need to be paid." Qin Wentian responded, today he had come to the refining process and he had gotten a good feel for it, in his memories he actually already had the method of weapon refining, but after all, one had to experience it first hand to be clearer. 　　Weapon refining, the most important, or engraved divine pattern, the other only need to master the refining of different divine weapons using different refining materials with can, of course, grinding open edge also need technology, as for the flame, in the Star River Guild need not consider. 　　Because everything is ready-made in the Star River Guild, Feng Ping is able to batch refine low-grade first-order divine weapons, but even if it's a low-grade first-order divine weapon, it's an extremely precious treasure for many people at the Body Refinement Realm outside. 　　"Unintelligent." Feng Ping snorted coldly and said, "I'm going to rest first, there are some discarded things you can help me pack up and throw away." 　　Qin Wentian saw Feng Ping leave and secretly said that this guy was insidious enough, obviously he could batch refine some ordinary quality divine weapons in a day, but he wanted others to come and pick them up in three days, appearing as if he needed to spend time refining divine weapons. 　　Of course, if Feng Ping wanted to refine a divine weapon with all his heart, it would indeed take three days, just as he had helped Lin Yue to refine divine weapons, as engraving divine patterns was not an easy task, especially if there was an error in engraving the divine pattern, it would be a failure in refining. 　　Qin Wentian went to fetch another sword-shaped artifact embryo over after Feng Ping left, and then injected the liquid that had been melted in the 'golden ratio' into it as he prepared to try it out himself. 　　"According to the memories I got, divine lines and divine weapons are divided into the same ranks, divided into 1st to 10th order, 1st order divine weapons require 1st order divine lines to refine, while 2nd order divine weapons require at least 2nd order divine lines to refine, these ordered weapon refining divine lines are derived from a combination of those basic divine lines, the higher the order of the divine lines, the harder it is to comprehend them, some of the 3rd order divine lines in my memories are so hard to understand, I can't even understand them when I look at them. " 　　Qin Wentian secretly said in his heart, wait until the cooling artifact embryo appeared cracks, he also placed the artifact embryo on the forging stone, then his palm trembled, cracked the artifact embryo, looking at the branded red sword, Qin Wentian's body star power crazily intertwined, a little bit of convergence, weaving into a splendid pattern, sword shaped divine pattern, this divine pattern for the first-order divine pattern 'Flying Sword'. 　　Above the palm of his hand, a Star Heavenly Hammer emerged and continuously changed into a shape that fit the sword, the intertwined Star Divine Patterns within his body also headed towards the Heavenly Hammer, and was actually branded on the bottom of the Heavenly Hammer. 　　Qin Wentian's palm was raised and then violently slammed down towards the sword, complete with the divine lines branded on the Heavenly Hammer directly imprinted into the sword, transforming into the sword's veins. 　　"Whew......" Qin Wentian took a deep breath, not knowing how effective it was. 　　Putting the Heavenly Hammer away, Qin Wentian then began to use the tools to start polishing, but as he proceeded to the final step to prepare to open the blade for the sword, Feng Ping hurriedly arrived, his expression stalled when he saw Qin Wentian's movements, frowning, "What are you doing?" 　　"Master Feng Ping, I'm trying to see if I can polish it myself." Qin Wentian spoke. 　　"What kind of place do you think this is, the artifact embryo as well as the refining liquid you consumed is enough for me to refine a divine weapon, can you afford to pay for it." Feng Ping looked furious as he walked over to Qin Wentian and directly flicked his sleeve, instantly Qin Wentian's sword which was not yet bladed fell to the ground. 　　"Today, Grandmaster Mu Qing is coming over to take a look, count yourself lucky, get lost immediately." Feng Ping obviously did not expect an apprentice to dare to be so insolent, and coldly said. 　　Qin Wentian's complexion stiffened, this Feng Ping was an artifact refiner, he was really arrogant, with a cold snort, Qin Wentian directly flung his hand away. 　　"Ungrateful thing, in vain I actually wanted to take pity on you." Feng Ping said angrily, at this time, Qin Wentian had already walked out, only to see a few figures coincidentally coming towards this side, all wearing Star River robes, the person at the head had an extraordinary aura, while a beautiful young girl accompanied him, and on the other side, there was an old man as a companion. 　　Mu Qing was the previous hall master of the Star River Guild's refining branch in Tianyong City, but now that he had been transferred to the Imperial City, he had come back this time to see if there was any progress in the refining of weapons by the refiners here. 　　Qin Wentian and this line of people rubbed shoulders, that young girl just lightly swept Qin Wentian a glance, that kind of look more and more let Qin Wentian feel the condescension of the refiners, all of them were high-minded and arrogant. 　　"Feng Ping, what is it that makes you so angry?" Mu Qing and the others stepped into Feng Ping's artifact refining room. 　　"Master Mu Qing, President." Feng Ping bowed to the visitors, at this moment, he was full of smiles, where was the slightest bit of anger. 　　"En." Mu Qing nodded, and then stepped inside the Weapon Refining Hall, and then the said, "Let's see how your level of weapon refining is nowadays." 　　Saying that, he happened to see the sword next to the casting stone, and couldn't help but pick it up, looking at a person's failures, it was sometimes better to see his level. 　　Feng Ping was just about to speak, but he saw that Mu Qing's face suddenly became extraordinarily brilliant, turned around to look at Feng Ping, and said in surprise, "Feng Ping, your refining level has progressed so much?" 　　Feng Ping's expression froze as Mu Qing handed the sword back to him, Feng Ping's mind moved and the power of the stars flowed into it along with the Yuan Power of Heaven and Earth, and his face then became extraordinarily brilliant as well. 　　"How is it possible?" Feng Ping was somewhat disbelieving. 　　"This sword is poor in the selection of materials, you should have refined it with this well-matched furnace liquid, but the superbness of that divine pattern puts me to shame, it can be called a perfect grade, although it is only a first-order divine pattern only, but it has already made it to the peak, I'm afraid that you are not far away from being a second-order refiner." 　　Mu Qing looked at Feng Ping with a smile on his face and said, "I plan to bring an assistant to the Imperial City after the New Year, now this candidate can be finalized, Feng Ping, this sword is surely refined by you, right?" 　　Feng Ping hesitated, then gritted his teeth, this kind of opportunity simply could not be missed. 　　"Of course." 　　"Good, I'll give you three days, do your best to refine a divine weapon, let me see your peak level." Mu Qing smiled, then turned around and left. 　　Feng Ping's heart on the other hand thumped, his face slightly pale, just now he was greedy for a moment and didn't want to miss the opportunity to admit it, but now, how can he carve out that divine pattern out, greed harms people. 　　"That kid ...... right, must find him!" Feng Ping's heart trembled, if he couldn't find Qin Wentian, he would be finished.