Kei was now waiting in the alchemy room for Akira to bring the materials (Wearing his normal clothes)
The alchemy room had a few alchemy furnaces, of course Kei had a furnace of his own Akira had given it to him as a birthday present it was a little better than the ones in the alchemy room
Kei mumble something under his breath
"Rank 4..."
He had forgotten to tell Akira his soul rank
'It doesn't matter, he can probably already feel it. Rank 4 allows me to make Golden core level pills and weapons, so I'll definitely make the sword from the blueprint, even if my soul power runs out, I have soul replenishing pills..'
Then Akira slammed open the door
"I'M BACK!" He was in a hurry
Then Kei asked as he got up
"What happend?"
Akira having a guilty look on his face
"n-nothing, I just wanted to get you the materials faster... ANYWAY, you shouldn't start making your sword here, let's leave this space and the furnaces for the new sect disciples! Let's go in the back! To my own alchemy room! I'm sure you'll like my alchemy furnuce more than yours!"
" Oka-" Akira then grabbed Keisuke by the arm and swiftly led him to his alchemy room
It was a little smaller than the common alchemy room, but it only had one alchemy furnace
On the floor there was a great array tha helps stabilise anything you could be making in an alchemy furnace, the room in itself was also reinforced in order to endure strong pressure and perhaps an explosion, and of course the furnace had a beautiful pink colour. Of course the room had many pink decorations as well, and a cherry blossom tree was engraved on the wall
Kei with a blank look
"You know I'm not surprised. So, I can use this?"
Akira hurriedly spoke
"Of course! Quickly get to work, I'll leave you to it! Seal the door after I'm gone so that no one disturbs you! I look forward to seeing your sword! Ah! Yes and here are the materials! Byeee!"
Keisuke couldn't help but feel that Akira was acting odd, but he chose not to say anything
And with a smirk Kei sealed the door(it was made to seal so Kei isn't doing his own sealing on the)
"Well then, shall we begin?"
Kei starts the fire inside the alchemy furnace
"Hehe, this reminds me of an episode of f*rged in f*re"
Kei threw in the broken pieces of his older sword, the cold iron
And he melted it inside the furnace and tempered it according to the instructions of the sword blueprint
Kei then threw in the 10,000 year old cherry blossom petals
Sparks sprung out
"Ouuu hot.."
He fused the petals along with the cold iron
Strengthening it in the process
And finally the 1000 year old bamboo
*
2 weeks later
Keisuke in full concentration finally having finished the body of the sword, the only thing remaining now is..
"... The engraving."
Within the heat of the furnace Kei started the engraving process using his soul power to engrave the runes specified on the blueprint
'what do these even mean?'
while Kei didn't know the meaning of said runes, that didn't matter, they would still work as intended
Rune engraving isn't easy
"Damn it! Now I'll have to start over"
Kei gulped down a soul replenishing pill and pressed on
*
Later that day
Sweat drops fell from Kei's face as he was at the last part of the engraving, finally
'Steady... Steeeady'
Even after failing countless times Kei still didn't give up
And finally as Kei completed the last symbol on the swords' blade, blinding light burst forth and quickly died down
"My very own blade" Kei took his creation out of the alchemy furnace and held it
It was a beautiful sword, the blade was pure white with "alien" looking engravings, the hilt was light silver and so was the handle
"Hmm, something is missing.."
Kei took a white leather out of his dimensional bag and started wrapping it around the handle
With a satisfied look
"Much better!" Kei held up his creation and admired it
"Well, time to test this sword on Akira"
Kei unsealed the door and went out, his long hair waved on the wind that rushed inside the sealed space he was in
There he saw a some new disciples of the Cherry blossom sect
The Cherry blossom sect was famous in Tokyo, since the sect leader and disciples saved the city from facing extinction. Thuss, they had no shortage of disciples
When Kei unsealed the door all of them turned to look his way, many were preparing to make a few basic pills
~GASP!~ "It's him!"
"The young master's friend!"
"I thought he'd be handsome..."
Kei walked out of the alchemy room with a strern face, now that he was a Golden core master he could easily hear the whispers of others
'Well that's nice...' Kei spread his divine consciousness to find Akira
Akira was refining his swordsmanship on the training grounds and many disciples watched in awe
"Found my next destination"
*
Kei entered the training grounds and watched Akira along with the other students, some students noticed the od person not wearing pink clothing but decided that studying Akira's sword art to be more important
Akira's sword aura was pink like a Cherry blossom petal, his sword strikes were elegant and fluid and in each strike his aura manifested sharp cherry blossom flowers, but most important of all it smelled of Cherry blossom
'Mmmm nice smell'
After Akira finished "performing" he turned to Kei with a smile
"You are finally done"
Akira had sensed Kei come out from the alchemy room right away but he waited for him here
The disciples all turned to Kei
Kei took out his newly made sword
"Are you ready? Or do you want me to give you time to catch your breath?"
The disciples watching were shocked, which psycho would dare challenge the direct disciple of the sect?
These disciples were at most
Foundation establishment, Martial body or Battle king body, so they could not even imagine sparing with Akira, plus, no one in the sect other than the sect leader could best him in combat, well, except for his older sister, but she'd left this sect and founded her own when she rose to Nascent soul realm, so the idea of fighting Akira could only be seen as idiotic in their minds
Then Akira mumbled his first sentence and then answered Kei's Question
".. The best reunion is that of the sword... Heh! Tired? Please this wasn't even a warm up! 'Nice sword btw' "
Akira's Qi flared up as he spoke out
"COME!"
Akira was mighty and his aura heavy, the disciples standing close to Kei couldn't bear it and quickly scattered
"hmpf" Kei shook of the pressure closed his eyes with a smile...
"HERE I COME!" And Kei Rased his own aura in response, albeit a tiny bit smaller than Akira's, but still mighty
Both cultivators now bathed in their own Qi Akira in a pinkish Qi and Keisuke in Universe Qi, started dashing towards each other
And finally
~CLANG!~
Their swords finally made contact
To be continued