Road to Be the God

Chapter 26 The Last Step

To make the pigmented ink, it took not only soul power and energy but also massive mental strength of the formation master. Lin Tian had to stare at the ball of liquids before his chest with tremendous attention and meanwhile control his energy and soul power to concoct the liquids bit by bit.

Plop!

The ball of liquids was as big as a fist. As Lin Tian injected his energy and soul power, the ball of liquids started to shrink gradually and some dark sticky things dropped from it. These sticky things were the impurities created in the process of pigmented ink making. It was basically the waste generated thing after multiple kinds of materials were refined.

While injecting his energy carefully, Lin Tian was also practicing Heavenly Unification Soul Method to delicately maintain the ball of liquids. During this process, he was merging the liquids at an appropriate ratio of energy and soul power. The process required high precision. One tiny mistake could lead to failure.

Gradually, Lin Tian had more sweat on his forehead and consumed a lot of mental strength. At the moment, something went wrong with the ratio of the energy and soul power he injected.

"Oh no!"

Lin Tian sensed something wrong.

While maintaining the liquids before his chest, Lin Tian tried to amend the ratio of energy and soul power. Sadly, it was too difficult to amend the ratio after it went wrong. In this case, he made several errors in a row instead.

Splash!

Instantly, the liquids exploded and splashed around.

Looking at the liquids on the floor, Lin Tian felt so sad. The liquids cost him 80 spiritual coins, which were enough to support an ordinary family's living for seven years. However, now, he just lost 80 spiritual coins. He couldn't help sighing about the high expense of the formation technique cultivation. How could ordinary people afford it?

Lin Tian took a deep breath and closed his eyes to practice Siji Scriptures and Heavenly Unification Soul Method at the same time to recover his energy and soul power. Simultaneously, he was recollecting how he made the pigmented ink just now and summarized the reason for the errors. To make progress in failures was what he had learned in his last life. Hence, he didn't lose heart at all.

It was completely dark now and the world was enshrouded with darkness.

Lin Tian didn't take a rest. By the light of the candlestick, he went on making the pigmented ink in the attic. After summarizing the lesson from the first failure, he did better in the second trial of pigmented ink making. Unfortunately, the second trial was only a bit better than the first one. He failed again.

"160 spiritual coins."

Lin Tian smiled bitterly.

After the second failure, instead of making the pigmented ink with real materials again, Lin Tian chose to deduce the procedure of pigmented ink making in his mind, during which, he summed up and modified the previous two failures repeatedly.

Very quickly, over an hour passed.

Lin Tian opened his eyes and a glint of light flashed across his eyes.

"Again!"

He said in a deep voice.

He ground the roots of Yebai Flower and Lingxiang Sulphur and got the juice. Then, he put the juice and the marrow of Black Evil Wolf together and injected his energy and soul power at a certain ratio simultaneously. Gradually, the dark sticky substances dropped bit by bit to the floor.

Lin Tian stared at the ball of liquids before his chest with full attention. After summing up the experience from the two failures, he got quite proficient this time and everything went smoothly. 15 minutes later, the ball of liquids as big as a fist had shrunk by a half.

At the moment, a wisp of faint light appeared.

"I made it!"

Delight was etched on Lin Tian's face at once.

He controlled the pigmented ink before his chest with energy and placed it into a glass vessel carefully. The liquids in the vessel were sparkling with a shimmer of faint three-color light, which looked somewhat mysterious.

"This is the pigmented ink! Quite extraordinary."

Lin Tian was a bit excited.

He finally made it in the third trial!

Lin Tian composed himself and put away the vessel for the pigmented ink carefully. Then, he continued to make pigmented ink again. He bought ten portions of materials. Now that three portions were used, there were seven portions to be used.

Time passed. Very quickly, the stars hid away and the morning sunlight shone the world.

In the attic, Lin Tian wiped the sweat off his forehead with a satisfied look. There were six vessels before him, which all held the same three-color liquids -- the pigmented ink. Over one night, he made six portions of pigmented ink successfully.

"Phew!"

After wiping the sweat off his forehead, Lin Tian let out a breath and put away the six vessels carefully.

Having made the pigmented ink overnight, Lin Tian was tired anyway. After putting away the blank scrolls and the pigmented ink, he got out of the attic and wanted to have a rest.

Time was very precious for him now. He hoped to make some martial integrating formation pattern scrolls as soon as possible but he also knew that haste makes waste. If he continued practicing the formation techniques with tiredness reluctantly, he was likely to fail and waste many materials.

Facing the sun, he did some breathing exercises. Then, he walked into the room and took a nap.

He slept for six hours.

Six hours later, Lin Tian woke up and found some dishes placed on the wooden table by his bed. The dishes were quite simple and yet smelt quite yummy.

When he saw the dishes, Lin Tian's eyes became soft. He was too familiar with the dishes. Only by one glance, he recognized that the dishes were made by Lin Xi. Lin Xi must have come to ask him to have a meal after she prepared the dishes. Yet, when she found that he was sleeping, she figured that he must be tired so she only put the dishes at the bedside without disturbing him.

Lin Tian chuckled. What a sweet girl!

He got off the bed and washed himself up. He ate the dishes prepared by Lin Xi quickly. After doing the dishes, he came to the attic again.

He had finished the first two steps -- making the blank scrolls and the pigmented ink. Now, he needed to take the last step. That was, he must imprint the fully apprehended formation pattern on the blank scroll with the ink to make the finished product of the martial integrating formation pattern scroll. Thereafter, he just needed to integrate the combat craft with it.

The combat craft determined the final value of the martial integrating formation pattern scroll. Simply put, if the elementary combat craft of body cultivation was integrated into the martial integrating formation pattern, the final scroll would be the elementary martial integrating formation pattern scroll of body cultivation. If the medium combat craft of body cultivation was integrated, the final scroll would be the medium martial integrating formation pattern scroll of body cultivation, and so on.

Of course, what kind of combat craft could be integrated also had something to do with the quality of the martial integrating formation pattern imprinted by the formation master. If the drawn martial integrating formation pattern was of a plain quality, the combat craft that could be integrated wouldn't be too strong. As a result, the finished martial integrating formation pattern scroll wouldn't be highly valuable.

Sitting cross-legged in the attic, Lin Tian closed his eyes and searched for the martial integrating formation pattern in his mind. Then, he started to deduce it seriously. He tried to comprehend the formation pattern with his willpower. In his mind, the martial integrating formation pattern was magnified by countless times instantly. Everything including all the basic lines and arch corners became very clear.

The martial integrating formation pattern consisted of six lines connected with each other to make a whole. It was beautiful and uniquely mysterious. Lin Tian's soul power was extremely strong. And the martial integrating formation pattern was the simplest basic formation pattern, so it would take him one day to completely grasp the formation pattern.

"The next step is imprinting."

Lin Tian muttered to himself.

Comprehending the formation pattern didn't mean that he could imprint it easily. It was not the case. Compared with making the blank scroll and concocting the pigmented ink, imprinting the formation pattern was undoubtedly more difficult, which was tens of times more difficult than concocting the pigmented ink.

After resting for a while, Lin Tian didn't start imprinting with the prepared ink and blank scroll but fetched the ordinary paper and ink to begin practicing drawing the martial integrating formation pattern. The blank scroll was not that expensive but the ink was really astonishingly dear and also difficult to concoct. Lin Tian didn't dare to draw with the ink directly.

Lin Tian planned to draw the martial integrating formation pattern with ordinary paper and ink. When he could draw the martial integrating formation pattern proficiently, he would imprint the formation pattern on the blank scroll with the ink. In this way, he could lower the rate of failure to the maximum extent.

Then, he just put his thought into practice. He motivated his energy and soul power to start drawing.

A pen was not needed to draw the formation pattern. Instead, one had to exert his energy and soul power to imprint the formation pattern on the blank scroll with the ink so as to make the finished product. Lin Tian bought a thick pile of white paper and some ordinary ink. He fetched the ink with his energy and injected the soul power to practice carefully.

Time fleeted. Five days passed quickly.

Over the past five days, Lin Tian spent most of his time practicing drawing the martial integrating formation pattern on the ordinary paper, except for resting and eating. He consumed nearly a thousand sheets of white paper. Lin Tian didn't feel pitiful for the used paper at all, which only cost two spiritual coins in total. Compared with the consumption of the other materials, it was literally nothing.

Today, Lin Tian was ready to truly take the last step.

"Hum!"

Wreathed by the faint light, he was sitting cross-legged in the attic, practicing the Siji Scriptures and Heavenly Unification Soul Method at the same time. He didn't stop until he adjusted his energy and soul power to the optimal level.

"Begin!"

Lin Tian took a deep breath and a glimmer of light crossed his eyes.

He unfolded the blank scroll and moved his right hand lightly to exert his energy and soul power simultaneously. Instantly, the pigmented ink spurted out of a vessel and gathered on his right hand. Staring at the pigmented ink on his palm, Lin Tian recalled carefully how to draw the martial integrating formation pattern with the ordinary paper and ink over the past days and swung his right hand down slowly.

At the moment, all the palm gestures and the lines of the formation pattern appeared in his mind. With a click, a line as sharp as the eagle's claw showed up on the blank scroll and extended as Lin Tian waved his arm. After practicing it thousands of times, Lin Tian had become proficient in drawing the martial integrating formation pattern.

Very quickly, he finished drawing the first basic line of the martial integrating formation pattern. Now, he didn't stop acting. As he flicked his fingers, the line on the blank scroll altered the angle suddenly. When a new line was connecting the first one, it appeared in another curved line and slowly extended.

"Very good!"

Lin Tian was quite satisfied with his performance.

The repeated practices over the past five days finally paid off.

Lin Tian didn't dare to be remiss. He continued drawing the martial integrating formation pattern attentively. Half an hour later, he had finished drawing three-fifths of the martial integrating formation pattern.

At the moment, Lin Tian was slightly astonished. His energy was nearly running out!