The three cold elements had fused into one and the core embryo was formed. The next step was to fuse with the body. If there was no rejection, then after the spiritual energy and divine sense were nourished, the golden core would be formed and the Core Formation stage would be reached.
The Distant Heaven Pill was needed to increase the success rate of the spiritual energy breakthrough. Wang Lin suddenly opened his eyes. Cracks began to appear on his body from his head down. The cracks grew larger and larger until they covered his entire body with a series of cracking sounds.
As his body moved, the cracks began to split even faster. Gradually, a few pieces fell off. Wang Lin slowly stood up. His body shook violently and the pieces of the cracks fell off as if they were blown away by a gust of wind.
The clothes on his body also turned into ashes as they fell off, leaving behind only the slightly damaged flood dragon armor on his body.
Wang Lin quietly stood in place and closed his eyes again. After a long time, he opened his eyes. A cold blue light flashed in his eyes and he gradually clenched his fists.
The three cores had fused into one. Although he was only half a step into Core Formation, his Yellow Springs Ascension Method had already reached completion.
A ball of blue flame emerged from the embryo and flowed along the meridians of his right hand to his fingertips, silently seeping out. At this moment, three inches above his right hand, there was a flame that emitted a blue light, quietly burning.
When it burned, it didn't emit heat, but cold air. This blue flame was the essence of the Yellow Springs Ascension Method … the Yellow Springs Flame.
The moment the Yellow Springs Ice Flame appeared, the thick layer of blue crystals under Wang Lin's feet immediately emitted a white gas and showed signs of melting. Wang Lin waved his right hand and the ice flame immediately disappeared. The white gas gradually dissipated and the blue crystals on the ground caved in.
Wang Lin was secretly shocked by the power of the ice flame. He looked around and took out a set of clothes from his bag of holding. His gaze focused on the beast bones for a while and he sank into deep thought.
After the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, he sat down cross-legged and slapped his bag of holding. The flood dragon skull immediately flew out.
Staring at the skull, Wang Lin's eyes lit up. He planned to go to Nan Dou City to exchange for a pill furnace and then have Li Muwan refine the Distant Heaven Pill. Although three years had passed in a flash, Wang Lin knew that Li Muwan wasn't in any danger due to his connection with her soul blood.
However, after seeing the countless frozen beast bones, Wang Lin's thoughts changed a bit. The War God Shrine's refining technique required a reaction furnace.
After his previous failure, he didn't have any spirit beast skulls. Originally, he had asked Li Muwan to keep the flood dragon skull because he wanted to refine a reaction furnace. However, because of the three-pill fusion issue, Wang Lin wasn't confident. If he failed, then it would take too much time and effort to find spirit beast skulls to refine.
But now, after seeing that he was surrounded by beast bones, the idea of making a reaction furnace appeared in his mind again. He took a deep breath and recalled the method of making a reaction furnace from the refining jade slip. After a while, he took out the jade slip and looked at it again.
He clapped his hands together, and when he opened them, threads of spirit light appeared between his palms. Wang Lin's face revealed a dignified expression as he threw his hands up and the spirit threads immediately flew up.
Wang Lin didn't even blink as he put his hands together again and repeated the cycle. Slowly, more and more spirit threads appeared in front of him and became denser and denser. Finally, they turned into a spirit silk that emitted waves of light.
After finishing this, Wang Lin let out a sigh of relief. The first step of making a reaction furnace, pulling the silk out of the cocoon, was completed.
Now, he needed to test whether the furnace embryo could withstand the smelting of the spirit threads.
He pointed at the flood dragon skull and the spirit threads turned into a silk and quickly wrapped around the skull. Wang Lin focused his mind and carefully observed. He saw the spirit threads slowly fusing into the skull and the color of the skull gradually faded from purple.
However, not long after, a cracking sound suddenly rang out from the skull, following which cracks appeared on the area where the spirit silk had wrapped around it. In the end, the entire skull shattered into pieces and fell to the ground with a bang, leaving only the spirit silk hanging in the air, giving off bursts of spiritual power fluctuations.
Wang Lin secretly sighed, but then his eyes revealed a look of unwillingness. He swept his eyes around and jumped up, grabbed the spirit threads in the air, and quickly came to the side of a huge beast bone and pressed it down.
This beast bone was about five to six hundred feet long and emitted a grey color. Its skull was also very big, almost as big as the broken flood dragon bone.
The moment the spirit threads fused into the beast bone, they immediately passed through it. Wang Lin was startled and tried again. The spirit threads passed through the beast bone without any obstruction.
Wang Lin stared at the beast bone, his eyes flashing. This beast bone was wrapped in a layer of blue ice crystals, it looked like a crystal. He grabbed the bone with his right hand and squeezed it. The bone made a cracking sound, but it didn't break.
Wang Lin pondered for a while and waved his hand. The Underworld Ice Flame flew out from his palm. As soon as the ice flame approached the beast bone, waves of white air spread out from it. The closer the ice flame got, the more air waves there were. The blue crystals wrapped around it quickly dissipated at a speed visible to the naked eye. Finally, all of them disappeared, revealing the grey beast bone underneath.
Without hesitation, Wang Lin grabbed the spirit threads and pressed them down. This time, the spirit threads wrapped around the skull.
But after the time it takes half an incense stick to burn, the color of the beast bone changed three times and then it shattered into dust.
The spirit threads floated out. There were a lot less spirit threads and the spirit energy was weaker than before.
Wang Lin frowned. The difficulty of creating this reaction furnace was far beyond his imagination. The reason why the War God Temple had so few people mastering the refining technique must have a lot to do with this reaction furnace.
For others, obtaining the skull of a spirit beast was already a great fortune. But to create a reaction furnace, the best requirement was to use the skull of a spirit beast that had just died, and the skull of a powerful spirit beast was the best.
If the spirit beast had been dead for a long time, the chances of using its skull would be much lower.
Of course, if one could obtain the skull of a Desolate Beast, regardless of whether it had just died or not, the chances would increase by several times.
Because of this, the difficulty would naturally increase. When the flood dragon had just died, Wang Lin thought that if he had refined it immediately, the success rate might have been higher. But at that time, his mind was not on refining, and all he wanted was to form his core as soon as possible.
Wang Lin lightly snorted and looked at the boundless sea of bones around him. He couldn't calculate how many spirit beast bones there were.
"I don't believe that with so many spirit beast bones, I can't make a reaction furnace!"
Wang Lin's eyes flashed. He put his palms together and pulled out the spirit threads to replenish the spirit threads. Then, he grabbed the spirit threads and pressed them on another spirit beast bone.
After the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, the spirit beast bone shattered again.
This happened again and again. Wang Lin himself didn't know how many spirit beast bones he had broken. He only knew that he had replenished the spirit threads more than a hundred times.
His eyebrows furrowed more and more. Finally, Wang Lin leaped into the air and coldly looked around. Then, he grabbed the spirit threads and threw them out. The spirit threads immediately turned into circles of ripples that rotated around Wang Lin's body.
He put his palms together and pulled them apart. Every time he did this, some spirit threads would appear and fuse with the spirit threads. Gradually, as Wang Lin's speed increased, the spirit threads fused with the spirit threads like rain, and the size of the spirit threads gradually increased.
The spirit threads around his body also increased in size. Wang Lin didn't stop. In one breath, he transformed all the spirit energy in his body into spirit threads, and then immediately drank a few mouthfuls of spirit energy liquid to transform again.
Time passed, and the spirit threads around his body grew larger and larger. It had already spread out more than three hundred meters.
"Still not enough!"
Thought Wang Lin to himself. Then, he drank more spirit energy liquid and continued to transform. Slowly, the spirit threads grew larger, until they were three thousand meters wide. Wang Lin took a deep breath and let out a low shout. He lifted both hands up, and his divine sense leaped out to control the spirit threads and pressed them down.
At the same time, the ice flame followed.
Amidst the continuous rumbling sounds, the spirit beast bones within three meters were like huge waves, lifting up layer after layer of bone ash. Wherever the bone ash passed, there was no bone that could resist it. One by one, they turned into ash and joined the bone waves.
Among the ashes, there were also countless wisps of white smoke. It was a spectacular sight.
After the white smoke dissipated, there was nothing left within three meters.
Wang Lin gritted his teeth and once again used the spirit energy liquid to create more spirit threads. Then, he changed directions and pressed down again.
The bone waves surged, and after the white smoke dissipated, Wang Lin's pupils shrank. He saw a human-sized beast skeleton lying alone in the empty space three thousand meters wide.
Wang Lin's face revealed a happy expression. His body sank down and he immediately flew over. He looked at the skeleton for a while and saw that it was an extremely ordinary skeleton.
The color of the bones was slightly white, and they were slightly thin. They looked extremely ordinary. Wang Lin's eyes lit up. He pointed his right hand toward the sky, and the spirit threads were suddenly grabbed by an invisible hand and pressed toward the skull of the small beast.
The color of the skull immediately changed. Once, twice, thrice … After changing nine times, there was a cracking sound. The skull separated from the spine and slowly floated up from the ground.
The spirit threads had already completely merged with the skull. After changing color nine times, the shape of the skull gradually changed, until it was shaped like a bowl. Waves of spirit energy were emitted from it.
Wang Lin held it in his hand and began to examine it.
The origin of the War God Shrine's refining technique was unknown. Rumor has it that it was discovered by the ancestors of the War God Shrine at the same time as the Heavenly Dao Technique. After the descendants cultivated it separately, they spent a lot of time and effort to study it. Finally, they divided it into different categories and sorted out a set of steps. Among them, the reaction furnaces were divided into ten grades.
The higher the grade, the better the effect.
The way to distinguish the grade was also very simple. The moment the reaction furnace was created, the number of times the color changed represented the grade. "
Wang Lin muttered to himself. He felt a bit regretful. After spending so much effort and using the mysterious sea of bones, he still couldn't make a tenth grade reaction furnace.
However, ninth grade was better than nothing. Wang Lin took out the jade slip and carefully examined it again.
Wang Lin didn't know that the jade slip didn't have a detailed introduction. Even the current master of the War God Shrine's refining hall, the Nascent Soul Stage cultivator, only had a sixth grade reaction furnace. The rest of the reaction furnaces were all third grade and below.
The reason why Wang Lin's reaction furnace was ninth grade was directly related to the seemingly ordinary beast bone. This beast bone was the bone of an extremely rare desolate beast in this sea of bones!
After a desolate beast died, its bones weren't much different from other spirit beasts. If it wasn't for the fact that he had studied it, it would be difficult to distinguish it.
Wang Lin took back the jade slip and pondered for a while. The War God Shrine's refining technique focused on three processes: adjustment, fusion, and combination.
Adjustment is like opening, fusion is like a plate, and combination is like a horn.
Without blinking, Wang Lin took out some materials from his storage bag and threw them into the skull reaction furnace one by one. These materials were some refining materials recorded in the jade slip. After Wang Lin memorized them, he also found some in his storage bag.
Bloodstone, after catalyzing with spiritual force, could produce a high temperature.
Purple moon vine, as a kind of vegetation, after catalyzing with the Heavenly Dipper Wood, could play a role in decomposition.
Heavenly Dipper Wood was a kind of wood-attributed material, and its function was corrosion.
Wang Lin had all three of these materials in his bag of holding. Although it wasn't much, it should be enough to refine treasures. Before he got the jade, Wang Lin didn't know anything about these materials from the foreign battleground. But now, he at least had some understanding of the materials needed to refine treasures.
He put the Purple Moon Vine in the reactor, and every time he put a piece of it in, he would smash it with animal bones.
At the same time, spiritual force was injected into it.
As more and more Purple moon vine was put in, a viscous purple liquid gradually accumulated in the reaction furnace.
Staring at the reaction furnace, Wang Lin muttered to himself, as if he was calculating something. After a while, his eyes flashed, and he flicked a drop of his blood into the furnace!
At this moment, a few bubbles immediately appeared in the reaction furnace. Wang Lin unhurriedly spread out his divine sense and focused it on the reaction furnace. Spiritual force flowed in smoothly.
The Refining Jade Slip had a detailed introduction to the role of the Reaction Furnace. In the introduction, it said that this kind of refining technique was unconventional. It used the Reaction Furnace as a carrier. Through it, the refiner could manipulate the materials inside and change them.
Wang Lin took a deep breath. He hesitated for a moment, then quickly took out the Heavenly Dipper Wood, gently crushed it, and sprinkled it into the reaction furnace.
The purple liquid immediately bubbled, emitting a pungent smell. Then, Wang Lin took out the only piece of bloodstone and threw it in.
After doing this, his expression became serious. His hands formed a seal, and a few rays of light shot out. Gradually, the liquid inside the reaction furnace condensed into a purple ball.
Wang Lin pondered for a moment, then waved his right hand. The ball split into two. One floated up, and the other sunk into the reaction furnace.
Under Wang Lin's control, the floating ball slowly rose. Wang Lin pondered for a moment, then placed his hands between his eyebrows and his chest. With a bit of force, he immediately forced out a mouthful of Violet Kingdom spiritual energy from his body and spat it out. This spiritual energy immediately entered the ball.
The first step of the War God Temple's refining technique, transfer, was completed. Next was the second step, fusion.
This fusion required the tool embryo. Wang Lin slapped his bag of holding, and flying swords of various sizes quickly flew out. There was a total of 35 flying swords, and he threw them into the air one by one.
Wang Lin pointed at one of the flying swords. The flying sword immediately flew out and stabbed into the ball. Slowly, the tip of the sword melted, and the entire flying sword was fused into the ball.
Next, the remaining 34 flying swords were all fused into the ball under Wang Lin's control. Finally, the ball released a dazzling, seven-colored light.
The entire process, from the moment he placed the first Purple Moon Vine in until now, had lasted for two hours. During these two hours, Wang Lin was completely focused. Not only did he not relax, but he became even more serious. After staring at the ball for a while, he took out the black flying sword.
This flying sword could be said to have gone through thick and thin with Wang Lin. From when he first obtained it, to when he killed Zhang Hu's master, to when it drank Teng Li's blood, to when he fought the Jue Ming Valley, to when his body was destroyed and his divine sense was taken away by Situ Nan, the flying sword embryo shattered. Only a sliver of the sword spirit was able to survive because it was refined by Wang Lin's divine sense.
After that, Wang Lin found a few embryos for it, but the results weren't good. At this moment, the new embryos, this black flying sword, had become dented after a few teleportations, and it looked a bit battered.
Wang Lin grabbed the flying sword with his right hand and gently touched it. A sword hymn came out of the flying sword and an illusion of a sword floated in front of Wang Lin.
At the same time, the demon came out of the flying sword and floated to the side. He looked around in a daze and no one knew what he was thinking.
Wang Lin took a deep breath and reached out with his hand. The ball immediately flew in and he gritted his teeth. The flying sword didn't stop at all and charged into the ball.
Wang Lin's divine sense spread out and tightly wrapped around the ball. The last step of the War God Shrine's refining technique, fusion, began.
Time slowly passed. The ball slowly stretched and solidified. After an unknown amount of time, a dragon's roar came from within and a crystal clear flying sword slowly appeared in front of Wang Lin.
The moment the flying sword appeared, a whirlpool of spiritual energy appeared. It spun a few times around Wang Lin before merging into the flying sword. Wang Lin looked at the crystal flying sword. After a long time, he opened his mouth and the flying sword turned into a ray of crystal light and flew into his mouth.
The demon was startled and rubbed his hands. He forced a smile and said, "This … You made it so fragrant. Where will I live in the future?"
Wang Lin raised his head and looked at him. He waved his right hand and the dragon tendon flew out of his bag of holding. He reached into the reaction furnace and the ball that had sunk into it floated out. Wang Lin's eyes lit up and the dragon tendon flew into the ball.
After refining it for a while, the ball became smaller and smaller until it turned back into the dragon tendon. However, this time the tendon was golden. Wang Lin looked at the devil and the devil quickly entered the tendon.
He waved his right hand and the dragon tendon fell down. Wang Lin looked at it for a bit before putting it into his bag of holding. He looked up at the blue crystal wall above him and the Yellow Springs Ice Flame appeared. His body jumped up and he flew out.
Like a hot knife through butter, he charged out from tens of thousands of feet underground. His speed was too fast, and with the destructive power of the Yellow Springs Ice Flame, the entire Corpse Valley began to shake. The expressions of the cultivators that were looking for beast bones all changed. They didn't know what was going on, but they all flew out of the Corpse Valley. The shaking became more and more intense.
A few sharp-eyed cultivators immediately saw a roar coming from the direction of the fourteenth valley. Then, a black shadow rushed up and instantly flew into the fog above, disappearing.
After a long time, these cultivators all looked at the fourteenth valley in confusion. All kinds of speculations began to spread. Finally, there was a rumor that there was a corpse that had been sleeping for tens of thousands of years inside the Corpse Valley. This corpse had suddenly awakened, which caused the Corpse Valley to shake. The black shadow that flew out was actually this corpse that had cultivated to become a spirit.
After Wang Lin flew out, he didn't stop and quickly flew south. According to the information he got from Sang Muya, Nan Dou City was in the extreme south, about 300,000 kilometers away from the Corpse Valley.
Wang Lin knew that he had spent a lot of time refining, so he flew very fast. Right now, he only had one thought in his mind, and that was to change to a pill furnace and refine the Distant Heaven Pill.
Two days and two nights later, Wang Lin saw a huge, black city. This city was very big, and he couldn't even see the end of it. This was one of the 999 cities in the Sea of Devils, Nan Dou.
The reason it was called Nan Dou was because of the name of the city lord. The city lord was at the Nascent Soul stage and had countless powerful cultivators under him. He could be considered an overlord.
Basically, in the Sea of Devils, owning a city represented a certain level of status, and the city lord was very famous.
Below the city lord were large and small sects. These sects all had different levels of strength, but no matter what, none of them could compare to the prestige of a city lord.
Luckily, the city lord of Nan Dou City disappeared 500 years ago, so the surrounding area was like a headless dragon. This allowed the large and small sects to develop, and a few large sects like the Fighting Evil Sect appeared.
Nan Dou City became an ownerless city in the Sea of Devils and was controlled by a few large sects.
However, Nan Dou City was at the edge of the Sea of Devils, so it was very poor in resources and spirit veins. Nascent Soul cultivators normally wouldn't come here, so there was no Nascent Soul cultivator here. As for Core Formation cultivators, there were a lot of them.
Someone once predicted that if a Nascent Soul cultivator appeared here, that person would naturally become the new city lord.
In the past 500 years, it wasn't that no Nascent Soul cultivator wanted to become the city lord, but they couldn't stay for long. They couldn't stand the thin spiritual energy and poor environment here, so they gave up one by one.
Over time, no Nascent Soul cultivator was willing to come here anymore. After all, there were thousands of cities in the Sea of Devils, so there was no need to stay in Nan Dou City.
Right now, Nan Dou City was controlled by the Heaven Punishing Sect, the Soul Destroying Sect, and the One Heaven Sect. Although the Fighting Evil Sect had the right to enter, with the alliance of the three sects, they couldn't take a single step inside.
After all, there was a big difference between three sects and four sects. No one was short-sighted enough to sit back and watch the Fighting Evil Sect destroy the other sects. That was why the three sects had the same attitude on this matter.
After paying 10 low quality spirit stones and obtaining an entry token, Wang Lin quickly entered Nan Dou City. His goal was the Treasure Refining Pavilion on the east side of the city.
The Treasure Refining Pavilion had three floors. The higher the floor, the more expensive the treasures. When Wang Lin arrived, there were seven or eight cultivators on the first floor. They were bargaining with a few workers.
I'm late, but luckily I made it in time. I'm really sorry!
(To be continued)