Chapter 680: The Trouble of Divine Wood
The group was in high spirits, and Elder Zhou and the others intended to host a celebratory banquet. However, Qin Sang politely declined.
After resting in the cave dwelling for the night, Qin Sang returned to the fire room the next day and instructed Ran Luo to bring the spiritual materials accumulated by the merchant guild. His artifact refinement skills were clearly superior to the young man’s, and the materials Ran Luo provided were top-tier, allowing Qin Sang to focus on crafting top-grade artifacts.
While assisting the guild with artifact refinement, Qin Sang effortlessly acquired many rare materials, allowing him to practice and rapidly improve his artifact refinement skills, making it a win-win situation.
As Qin Sang waited for Ran Luo to bring the materials, he summoned the ebony sword and took a piece of spiritual wood from his Mustard Seed Pouch.
This was the heartwood of a Jiaoshan Tree, a precious spiritual wood comparable to Cold Gold. It was something Qin Sang had found in Du Han’s Mustard Seed Pouch.
The ebony sword was only a low-grade astra, and according to the description in the Primordial Spirit Sword Nourishment, a low-grade astra could only carry up to six killing symbols.
If he didn’t improve the quality of the sword, it would become a bottleneck preventing him from advancing to the late stage of the Core Formation Realm.
To upgrade the ebony sword from a low-grade astra to a middle-grade astra, Qin Sang had no idea how many spiritual materials it would consume. Only divine woods of the Ten Divine Woods rank could provide a significant boost; other spiritual woods could only contribute incrementally.
Qin Sang knew that the sooner he began, the better, to avoid the ebony sword becoming a hindrance when the time came.
However, the ebony sword could not be used in combat while absorbing spiritual wood.
After forming his core in the Bear Mountain region, Qin Sang had planned to head deep into Xijiang to hunt demonic beasts.
The journey had been long, and he had feared encountering unforeseen events along the way.