Generally speaking, in addition to practicing a certain technique and concentrating mana, a cultivator must also practice at least one or two combat skills, as well as one or two auxiliary skills. [} Of course, you can practice more than one, but each of these skills is profound and extensive, and practicing more than one will take up too much energy and delay your practice. Therefore, only some geniuses will practice more than one, while ordinary cultivators practice one or two of each, so as not to bite off more than they can chew.
Combat skills include sword control, various thunder spells, five elements spells, etc. As for auxiliary skills, they include alchemy, weapon making, array research, and other things. These are rough divisions, and each type is actually divided into many types. And mechanical weapon refining is a type of weapon making.
Xiaopang's current state is very stable, and with a large number of auxiliary medicines and utensils, Xiaopang's progress is rapid. In this case, he does not need to practice hard for ten hours every day, because that would cause bad harm to the body. In this way, apart from the time to practice "Chaos Sutra" and refine the two kinds of divine thunder, Xiaopang still has a lot of time left, which is just enough for him to practice an auxiliary skill.
For Xiaopang, the best choice of auxiliary ability is undoubtedly the art of refining. The reason is that his life space is too suitable for refining. Not only does it have a large amount of materials, but the most important thing is that the waste products produced by Xiaopang can be directly decomposed without worrying about waste. In this case, Xiaopang can refine high-level materials almost without limit.
The other cultivators obviously do not have this condition. It is not easy for them to obtain materials, so they cannot refine them regularly and can only refine them occasionally. The rare refining opportunities mean that their refining experience does not grow very quickly.
In addition, although they were very careful every time they refined, even so, a lot of the materials they could use to practice would inevitably be scrapped, and the waste generated by this was something that all refiners once felt very distressed about.
All these disadvantages disappeared with Xiaopang. For him, refining equipment was just like playing, and he would not feel bad about using precious materials. With such conditions, Xiaopang had long wanted to get a secret manual to refine equipment for fun.
However, refining is a big subject, and the secret manuals on the market are all common goods, which can only refine low-level magic tools. Xiaopang's family is so rich, how can he look down on those rubbish? But the high-level refining manuals are all other people's secrets, which are almost like cash cows, and no one will take them out to sell.
There are some good books in Xuantian Villa, which can be used to refine slightly stronger magic tools. But those things require a lot of contributions to the sect to learn. According to Xiaopang's lazy style, he obviously won't spend the effort to contribute to the sect.
That's why Xiaopang never had the chance to try refining weapons. But unexpectedly, in this remote place, someone gave him a set of books on refining weapons. It was really what he wanted.
According to the above records, this set of classics has a very impressive origin. It was left by a rather large sect that specialized in mechanical device refining. This sect called Mechanical Sect was also very popular a thousand years ago, and was even not inferior to Xuantian Courtyard. But unfortunately, in the past thousand years, this sect has gradually declined and eventually became a less famous sect. At least Xiaopang has never heard of the name of this sect.
However, as the saying goes, a lean camel is bigger than a horse. Although this sect has declined, it still has many ancestral treasures left behind, such as this giant crossbow and the mechanical flying boat.
No one knows who this young man is from in the sect. Not only can he get two such good things, but he can also keep the sect's classics. Although it is only a primary classic, the highest of the dozen or so items recorded is the level of the magic weapon giant crossbow. There is no stronger thing, or even the refining method of large magic weapons. But this is already very good. Anyway, with Xiaopang's strength, he can't even make that giant crossbow now. He can only start from the lowest level of the Divine Arm Chain Crossbow.
The materials of the Divine Arm Chain Crossbow are mainly soft steel, black iron, and wind copper, mixed with some intermediate precious materials. These things are all in Xiaopang's life space. He was excited to see the prey, and couldn't help but take out various materials, and then began to refine them according to the method described in the jade slip.
Xiaopang stretched out his left hand, and the chaos power circulated on his palm, stimulating the chaos fire of the "Chaos Sutra". A ball of gray special flame appeared on his palm. This is the life fire that every cultivator can stimulate, and it varies according to their own practice. Xiaopang practiced the Chaos Sutra, and the flame stimulated by the chaos attribute power is this gray appearance.
Although this flame is inconspicuous and even a little ugly, its power is extremely amazing. In fact, Xiaopang was not optimistic about the true fire cultivated by his own Chaos Art at first, but after using it, he was surprised to find that this gray flame was surprisingly sharp, and low-level materials such as black iron and wind copper could be melted almost instantly, very easily.
Later, he asked Han Yufeng about the power of her innate true fire. Han Yufeng told him that because she was a fire practitioner, her innate true fire was a little stronger than that of ordinary practitioners. It could melt low-level materials such as black iron in just a dozen breaths.
After such a comparison, Xiaopang immediately realized that his own life force chaos fire seemed to be much more powerful than Han Yufeng's. This also reflected that the "Chaos Art" technique he practiced was not on the same level as Han Yufeng's technique. This matter once made Xiaopang happy for a while.
After the Chaos Fire was created, Xiaopang swept his consciousness and began to draw various materials into the Chaos Fire in order to burn. Under the terrifying power of the Chaos Fire, various materials turned into liquid and merged with each other.
At the same time, Xiaopang's right hand was not idle either. He lightly cast out spells one after another, which were deeply imprinted in the ball of liquid metal. With the coordination of the spells and spiritual consciousness, the ball of liquid metal began to slowly stretch and deform. After about an hour, it finally took the shape of a giant crossbow.
As the last spell was cast, a silver, one-foot-long exquisite crossbow appeared in front of Xiaopang. He ignored the sweat on his forehead and immediately grabbed it to admire his first refining. The appearance of the crossbow was the same as that recorded on the jade slip, and the talisman flashing on the crossbow seemed to be similar. Then how about shooting an arrow and giving it a try?
Thinking of this, Xiaopang took out the Five Elements Essence Water and swallowed a few mouthfuls to replenish the consumed mana, then took out a small piece of black iron and melted it with his own true fire, and soon refined a 1 foot 2 inch long crossbow arrow. This thing is very simple, so Xiaopang finished it almost in the blink of an eye.