Chapter 57: Four Hearts Fruit, Refining

  After calming down, Qin Hao re-examined those classics. As he looked through them again, he also gradually stored the ones he had previously read into his ring.

  As time passed, Qin Hao's mood also gradually calmed down from the initial shock. After all, it was rare for someone to be shocked so many times in one day, and even if it was unusual, he had grown accustomed to it.

  The things piled up on the table gradually decreased, Qin Hao got a round fruit in his hand, just about to put it into the ring, suddenly sniffed casually, and found that the taste of the fruit seemed somewhat familiar.

  At the sight of it, I couldn't help but shake my head in frustration once again. That fat guy had too many things that were beyond comprehension. Just when you thought you couldn't be moved anymore, something would pop up and completely overturn your thoughts in an instant.

  This round fruit is crimson in color, with a slightly transparent skin. The surface of the fruit has some veins that resemble human meridians. On the surface of the fruit, there seems to be a weak but real vital energy flowing through it.

  Four Hearts Fruit!

  This is a rather strange fruit, called the Four Hearts Fruit. Inside the fruit, there are four compartments that resemble miniature human hearts, with some vascular tissue connecting them, similar to human blood vessels, and in these vascular tissues flows a crimson liquid.

  This fruit has a faint, mysterious fragrance. This smell has an inexplicable attraction to some demonic beasts, and even some high-ranking demonic beasts will involuntarily seek it out when they catch a whiff of this scent. Therefore, many people who want to capture or tame demonic beasts will actively go in search of it as an auxiliary object.

  However, such fruits are extremely rare on the mainland and are often difficult to obtain even with a lot of money. They can only be found in some large auction houses or underground black markets, and opportunities to get them are usually several years or even decades apart.

  Qin Hao suddenly saw this thing, and his heart was also delighted. This thing is also a good material for making the Feng Xuan array. He thought of the Blue Ridge hunting and killing demon beasts in a few days, and if there were such things at that time, it would be absolutely convenient to lure out some ferocious but hidden demon beasts. As for whether too powerful demon beasts would be lured out, Qin Hao was not worried, the City Master's Mansion would also send people to go, responsible for the safety of each family's children, and there were many Ling Xuan eighth and ninth levels in the City Master's Mansion, let alone Seasonal Fang, who was difficult to predict, if they really encountered this situation, they would have a way to solve it.

  Thoughts turned into action, Qin Hao immediately found a cup, a fire-attribute first-order demon crystal, and a meteorite needle.

  If this fruit is used as an auxiliary material for refining the Sealing Mystical Array, its effect will be even greater, and it can also be controlled at will, freely choosing when to release its power. However, if refined into a Sealing Mystical Array, its rank is not very high, with the highest being only a first-grade peak, which is not too difficult for Qin Hao's current level.

  Qin Hao picked up the fruit, using two fingers on each hand to peel it open. The "four hearts" of the four-heart fruit were then exposed before Qin Hao. He examined them for a moment and felt that this four-heart fruit really had many similarities with humans. Especially the blood-red liquid flowing through its veins, if Qin Hao hadn't known better, he would have thought it was real blood.

  Qin Hao picked up the meteorite needle with his right hand and gently severed some of the connections between the "Four Hearts". Instantly, the blood-red liquid flowed out completely. Qin Hao quickly brought over a cup, and as the red liquid from the connections dripped into the cup, the originally glossy surface of the fruit suddenly became dry and wrinkled like an old man's skin. As the essence was drained, the interior of the "Four Hearts" fruit also withered completely.

  Qin Hao put the useless fruit aside, looking at the cup with only a few dozen drops of liquid left, feeling very helpless. With just this little thing, its value was high to an unimaginable degree.

  Helpless, Qin Hao still took out the meteorite dagger and was about to carve the array diagram on the surface of the Xuan Crystal when he suddenly thought of something: in the past, when he refined the Feng Xuan Array, he would directly draw it on the surface of the demon beast's Xuan Crystal and then use the Xuan Qi to gather into the array diagram to operate, thereby exerting its function.

  However, he had already learned a lot about the mysterious crystal earlier and knew that there was another way to draw it, which was to first condense the symbols and then directly place them inside. This method was much more effective than the initial one.

  At this point, Qin Hao put down the Xuan crystal and picked up the Meteorite Stinger, pointing it at the empty air. Taking a deep breath, Qin Hao circulated his internal energy, and the Xuan Qi suddenly surged to the tip of the Meteorite Stinger. Qin Hao immediately felt that controlling the Xuan Qi at the tip of the Meteorite Stinger was extremely sensitive, following his heart's desire, stronger than when he used his hands or feet to control it.

  "The stabilizing and controlling effect of Meteorite Thorn on the mysterious energy is indeed not small, even now that I am in the Spiritual Realm, it still has a significant amplification."

  Qin Hao let out a sigh of relief, and then controlled the meteorite spear to move in mid-air, drawing a circular pattern. As the meteorite spear moved, the mysterious energy at its tip gradually condensed into shape, forming a symbol according to Qin Hao's idea. The center of the symbol was densely packed with strange lines, looking extremely complex. With Qin Hao's movements, the symbol became more and more solidified.

  Qin Hao's face involuntarily revealed a hint of a smile, just as the Fuwen was about to take shape. Suddenly, a burst of light flashed out, and Qin Hao's eyes narrowed, his hand holding the meteorite spear also shifted slightly. The pattern that was about to condense trembled for a moment before dissipating into thin air.

  Qin Hao was somewhat stunned, then shook his head and smiled wryly. Could the consequences be so severe just because of a slight deviation? Fortunately, the talisman he had condensed was relatively simple, and the amount of spiritual energy used was also small. Otherwise, the consequences might not have been so simple. If one's luck was bad, it was also possible to follow in the footsteps of those tragic arrays.

  He put aside his thoughts and continued to infuse the mysterious energy, drawing the talisman. However, due to a connection line being too stiff, the almost successful talisman dissipated once again.

  Carve, disperse, penetrate, carve again, disperse again...

  It was unknown how many times he had repeated this, but when Qin Hao felt a slight ache in his wrists, the outer layer of the Fuwen finally took shape. Qin Hao took a deep breath and quickly injected a thread of Xuan Qi that was several times stronger than before, focusing it at the center intersection of the Fuwen's pattern.

  Buzz buzz buzz!

  A faint tremor, followed by a fiery red mysterious symbol finally took shape. Qin Hao's meteorite stinger was immersed in the Four Hearts fruit juice, absorbing all the red liquid. The meteorite stinger continued to dot the symbol, and as soon as it did, the essence absorbed by the stinger immediately spread out from the symbol at a visible speed, until the entire symbol turned into a bewitching blood-red color.

  Qin Hao picked up the Xuan Crystal, his right hand stirring up the Xuan energy, his left hand placing the Xuan Crystal under the floating symbol. Then, with a forceful slap of his right hand, the blood-red pattern instantly infused into the Xuan Crystal.

  As soon as it entered, the demonic energy inside Xuanjing was like encountering a mortal enemy, constantly invading and eroding like a talisman, as if to completely destroy it.

  Qin Hao picked up the meteorite spear again, injecting the mysterious energy into it. At the same time, the meteorite iron flew quickly to the transparent outer shell of the crystal, engraving a crisscross pattern of lines that overlapped and covered each other, completing it in one breath without any pause.

  Qin Hao's painting speeded up, the surface of the mysterious crystal was gradually shrouded in a pattern of arrays, and the violent demonic energy within the crystal also gradually subsided, replaced by the demonic energy starting to rotate around the central symbol at a specific speed.

  When the array diagram on the surface of Xuan Crystal is completed, the violent and turbulent demon power inside the crystal finally calms down thoroughly. The surface of the crystal suddenly shines brightly, and then the light gradually converges inward.

  The Xuanxian Array was successfully refined.

  Qin Hao took a deep breath, wiping away the dense layer of sweat on his forehead, and a sense of accomplishment floated in his heart. On his first attempt at using talismans to refine, he was able to succeed without encountering any major mistakes, and he thought he had performed quite well.

  This method of refining the Xuanxuan Formation is indeed much better than that which only carves the formation diagram on the surface. That carving of the formation diagram can only drive the energy of the demon beasts to circulate along the formation diagram and exert its function.

  While this method of first inscribing the talisman and then carving the array allows the demonic energy to undergo a transformation through the talisman's assimilation, modification, and subsequent operation, the latter is naturally more stable and has a higher efficiency when activated. However, the difficulty of the latter is undoubtedly much higher.

  It's just that the method of releasing the Xuan Qi externally, condensing it in mid-air into a symbol, can be done by at least a Ling Xuan realm martial artist. Even for a Xuan Qi cultivator of the tenth level, the Xuan Qi cannot leave the body, let alone condense into an object. And when condensing the Fu Wen, the control over the Xuan Qi is also not trivial.

  Qin Hao carefully put away the refined Xuanxuan Array into a corner of his ring, and continued to tidy up the books on the table.

  As Qin Hao categorized the books and placed them in different positions within the ring, the cluttered desk also started to clean up. When all the books were put away, the only thing left on the desk was a wooden box.

  A wooden box entirely carved out of sandalwood, looking extremely delicate and elegant. Judging from its size, the box should also be used to store some rolled-up books or similar items.

  Qin Hao was suddenly greatly moved, and a slight ripple arose in his heart. That fatty actually treated these precious classics, which were introductions to various martial arts and techniques, as if they were worthless junk, but he had specially prepared this wooden box. What could be inside the box that would be so precious? Qin Hao hadn't even thought of it.

  Qin Hao carefully placed the box in the center of the table, gently opened it, and then looked inside. At this glance, Qin Hao was suddenly stunned and found it hard to remain calm.

  Thieving in ten ways, the law of preserving one's life, the essence of surprise attacks, hiding a knife in a smile, training in shamelessness, and the chapter on foolishness. These are all those despicable methods that can make someone collapse just by looking at them once.

  Qin Hao was silent for a while, then sighed and put away the box, casually placing it in a corner of the storage ring and ignoring it. He thought he knew why that fatty had those habits and could run fast and his movements were not much inferior to his own.