Chapter 354 - Instruments Completed

Chapter 354: Instruments Completed
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Very quickly, the news of Headmaster’s order was known by the masses in Qing Xuan, and the fellow elders also paid attention to this Dao assessment. Once the group of disciples handed in the spiritual materials obtained during their travels, all of them began to quiet their minds and enter solitary retreats. It was till the point that no one was paying heed when the headmaster opened the Heavenly Cauldron to forge the treasure items.
Of course, this was also due to the fact that once the Headmaster opened the Heavenly Cauldron, the Qi of vitality of Taiyi Peak boiled. It became a form of its own with the wind howling in the sky and the fire birthing from the ground. It was impossible to even get close.
The Qing Xuan Hall point to the distant Zifu Peak. It was connected to the heavens so it gets the clear air of Qi. It was connected to the earth, the force of the earth element continuously flowed. There was even the water from the River of Spirits that lingered between Taiyi and Zifu. It flowed outwards, which made spiritual vigor of Taiyi Peak to continuously grow and reproduce without stopping.
( Boxno vel. co m )  The Yin Qi of the River of Spirits could suppress the ground fire, causing it to not tyrannize outwards.
Of course, only with Shen Lian’s massive mana that he was able to fuel the Heavenly Cauldron.


The Qing Xuan Hall bore no resemblance to the past appearance. It was like an iron cauldron of a thousand feet. While on one side the blazing fire burnt, the other side was the chilling River of Spirits water. That water was extradited from the top of the mountain to the bottom. It was enough to fight against the ground fire.
At the same time, Shen Lian continuously cast Ice Light into the River of Spirits water. On top of it, a thin layer of icy frost was condensed.
The force of the ground fire was healthy and vigorous. The materials that were cast into it eventually melted into a pool of spiritual liquid.
Once the spiritual liquid absorbed enough energy from the fire, it slowly flowed to the icy frost, melt the icy layer and sunk into the River of Spirits water. The towering internal heat dispelled without a sound and trace during the process of sinking into the River of Spirits water.
Shen Lian continuously chanted spells as one portion of materials were placed in after another. The spiritual liquid condensed in the water. There was a ring, a sword seed, a long staff and many different kinds of instruments that eventually cooled down and set into its shapes.
This was only the first step. What followed next was ingraining the runes. It had to be pierced in one go without any mistakes to be considered perfect.
Shen Lian was not lacking in mana but to ingrain these Dao words consumed both the energies of the mind and spirit. Even if his Primordial Spirit was stronger than most immortal Zhenrens, he was still unable to stand it by a tad.
His beads of sweat rolled down one by one and minor wind and small rain were produced. It stained the surrounding plants that wilted due to the force of the fire, causing it to revitalize.
This was the body of the land immortal that had gotten the essence of the universe. With the drop of a sweat, it was a spiritual rain that would create plants.
For this opening of cauldron, there were sufficient spiritual materials. This was not solely because of the contribution of the disciples that traveled. Ever since the establishment of the Temple of Longevity, it expanded Qing Xuan’s influence once again in the sea area. Even though the Temple of Longevity did not have top grade plants and minerals, it was bountiful in the usual spiritual material. Now, the good quality materials were put to use here.


It was seldom that Shen Lian was somewhat adept in the Dao of the five elements. He categorized each material based on the five elements, whether its amount was more or less, he was like the doctor of the mortal that prescribed medicine using composing principle. All of it was just right.
One portion of the material was tossed in after another, there was hardly any waste.
After approximately one month’s time, the ground figure that surged in the Taiyi Peak slowly diminished under the might of the different kinds of Dao talisman.
And the ten lights of Taiyi Peak shone brightly. It flew around Qing Xuan Hall. For a moment, the essence of all beings and the natural treasures towered into the clouds and it shook and fought.
After one day and one night, only then the lights dispelled.
Shen Lian then slowly let out his breath and kept the instruments into his sleeve.
With this forging experience, he will be able to forge Xuande Sword into the Five Element Magical Sword when he collects the a-thousand-year-old cold iron, cosmic dust, and the Tianyi true water.
Sadly, while there was ample time for other immortal Zhenrens, Shen Lian felt a pressing urge.
He brushed away the faint apprehension that was brought by exhaustion. After regulating his breath, he was once again full of spirit and energy. He walked to the outside of the hall.
A crowd of elders was waiting outside. When they saw Shen Lian coming out from the hall, they bowed.


Ever since Shen Lian attained longevity, in their eyes, he had more and more of a deep temperament like the skies, it was splendid and unconventional. Which was what made them consciously disregard the fact that they were much senior to Shen Lian, their ego were naturally lower.
Shen Lian nodded and smiled,
My fellow elders, you all have such good measurement of time. I just finished forging the treasures on my end, did all of you come to this hall to obtain the instruments from me?

The group of elders heard Shen Lian’s joke and most of them thought to themselves that it seemed the Headmaster was in a good mood.
Hong Qianya said,
This is considered the first opening of the Heavenly Cauldron in hundreds of years. Most of us heard that the quality of the instruments forged out of the Heavenly Cauldron is exceptional, so we could not wait to see it.

The rest of them nodded and agreed. Those such as Guo Caiwei and Yan Bugui only smiled without saying anything. They were different than the other old elders. Qing Xuan’s situation had been gradually improving and there were young people of outstanding ability appearing after one another. Furthermore, there was not much left of their heavenly fate and they already made plans to enter the secular mortal world. After all, under the hopelessness of obtaining longevity, there were still some thoughts to do the things that made them happy in the meantime. This also had something to do with allowing the elder from the sect to preach about Dao in the Temple of Longevity after Shen Lian built it.
Because of the catastrophe with Yanxu, the previous Chief adjourned with the decision to close off the mountains in order to preserve the sect’s strength. The elders barely stepped out and were cut off from the secular mortal world.
Afterward, because of this matter with the preaching of Dao in the Temple of Longevity, they took turns to go out. Their still worldly desires began to waver, coupled with the soon ending heavenly fate, it was a logical matter to want to enter the secular mortal world.
While traveling, it was hard to guarantee that there would not be any fight encounters. This time, it seemed like there were many treasure items made by Shen Lian. They all wanted to use their savings to exchange an item or two with the Headmaster.
In actual fact, the might of the instruments forged by Shen Lian did not exceed those instruments of other forging masters. It was, however, that it was forged with the ground fire and quenched with the River of Spirits water. It was very firm and tenacious and it did not spoil or disintegrate easily.
Ultimately, when an ordinary instrument is stained with the mark of its previous owner, even if the marks could be wiped off, some of the soulful aura of the instrument would be destroyed, which would make it hard for it to develop spirituality. It was hard to yield a hundred percent of its might.


Unlike the instruments that were newly forged by Shen Lian. The quality was extraordinary and it was like white paper. Under the quenching of the mind and spirit, if one was lucky enough to produce spirituality and have its Qi dynamic collude mutually, it would be beneficial on the accumulation of mana.
Shen Lian chuckled and said,
Then I’ll take one out and show it to all of you.

A light flew out from his flocket and danced in the air.
They waited for the light to fade and to their surprise, it was a ruler.
Shen Lian pointed that ruler from a distant and said,
This is the Xuanguang Ruler.

But once Shen Lian finished with his introduction, he blew a puff of clear Qi. Once that ruler got the clear Qi, it suddenly burst with a multicolored halo and flew towards an elder.
The elder saw the incoming halo and knew that the Headmaster was using him to test the might of the instrument.
He did not dare to be careless. He took his flying sword and attacked the multicolored halo.
Who knew that the multicolored halo spun by a little and a humongous attracting force was produced. It took away the flying sword.
The Xuanguang Ruler displayed more color and circled the group of people. It finally stopped in midair and suddenly, the crisp clang sound. A total of nine instruments were spat out from the Xuanguang Ruler.


The owners of these instruments forced a smile. They did not know whether to praise that the Headmaster’s supernatural power was matchless or that the instrument was abnormally marvelous for actually having the ability to collect instruments from their sleeves.
Shen Lian drawled,
It seems like my fellow elders’ instruments are a bit aged.

When the elders heard Shen Lian said that, they thought he was going to distribute the instruments.
Shen Lian then followed with a half-smile as he said,
How about I put it back into the cauldron and re-forge it?

When they heard this, all of them roared with laughter.