His words were like a bucket of cold water poured on Xie Qianhe's head. He shuddered hard and was immediately back to himself.
It was true that he had been distracted by too many distracting thoughts in the past two days.
Yes. They were refiners. The arts of refining were everything. Let the arts of refining take care of everything!
For a moment, Xie Qianhe regained the vibe of a top refiner. Confidence was flowing out of his body. He nodded and said, "Alright, Fellow Cultivator Sand. Let's begin!"
He took out dozens of materials from his Cosmos Ring and listed them in front of Li Yao.
"Removing the impurities in the Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures and obtaining the purest materials has always been the premise of refining!
"Refining with impurities will result in substandard magical equipment that is unstable in nature and is greatly weakened. But in serious cases, there will be all kinds of dangers during the refining process!"
Li Yao nodded. The first time he met Master Xue Yuanxin was when the Ares Laboratory exploded. The cause of the explosion was the impurities in one of the materials that had not been completely removed!
"Every refiner has their own unique skills to remove the impurities and purify the materials," Xie Qianhe said confidently. "But the 'Dividing Gold Splitting Jade Art' that I'm going to perform today is one of the best techniques in the field!
"Please take a look, Fellow Cultivator Sand.
"This is a Colorful Star Stone of a very low level. Such materials can easily attract the trace elements inside the spiritual mother lodes and emit colorful brilliance when mixed with them.
"Beautiful as it is, there are too many impurities.
"By my estimation, 77% of the impurities inside the Colorful Star Stone are impurities. It is completely useless!
"It is very difficult to remove all the impurities inside the Colorful Star Stone with regular techniques.
"The 'Dividing Gold Splitting Jade Art', on the other hand, adopts a very delicate mechanism. All kinds of metals and jade are put together with the Colorful Star Stone. When they are refined, they will react with the impurities. Then, I will figure out a way to eliminate them all! "
Li Yao's eyes suddenly shined. "Dividing Gold Splitting Jade Art. 'Gold' and 'jade' are just mediums?"
"Exactly!"
Appreciation beamed out of Xie Qianhe's eyes. "The materials are different. Gold and jade, as mediums, are different, too. They are ever-changing and mysterious. I've studied them for ten years, and I'm still not exhausted.
"Fellow Daoist Sha. Since we're exchanging techniques, I won't keep anything to myself. The information contained in this jade slip is the map of the best materials and mediums that I've found in the past ten years. Study it! "
Xie Qianhe took out a translucent jade scroll from his pocket. He pinched it and tossed it up.
This jade slip had its own broadcasting ability. It floated in mid-air and shone brightly. Dazzling golden, octagonal runes poured down like a waterfall, illuminating the entire equipment forging room in a dazzling light.
Li Yao's eyes glittered like two crystal cameras with a high resolution and response speed, trying to capture every piece of information.
Xie Qianhe smiled faintly. He had worked hard for ten years, not just for a few minutes. How could it be completely learned by others?
Xie Qianhe said, "Fellow Cultivator Sand, allow me to demonstrate the usage of the Dividing Gold Splitting Jade Arts in person!"
Activating the crafting furnace, setting up the operation interface. Adjusting the temperature of the furnace, the furnace was turned on!
Xie Qianhe threw the Colorful Star Stone, the Night Flowing Gold, and the Red Jade into the furnace and confirmed the operation procedure. Then, he narrowed his eyes, waved his fingers crazily, and buzzed his lips. He made almost a hundred hand seals in the blink of an eye.
Inside the furnace, the fire of spiritual energy was burning. The Colorful Star Stone, the Night Flowing Gold, and the Red Jade were all slightly melted. Under the blast of spiritual energy, they were gradually melted into a cluster of colorful liquid metal.
Xie Qianhe's hand seals, on the other hand, was rather special. His palms were far apart from each other, and only his fingers were intertwined.
Suddenly, his palms collided brutally. The hundred runes floating in midair all rushed into the furnace and hit the cluster of melted materials precisely!
BOOM!
Earthshaking noises echoed inside the furnace, which was not very large, as if a certain rare treasure was about to break out of the ground from the deepest part of the earth!
As the runes disappeared into the furnace one after another, the sound of wind and thunder echoed inside the furnace. Small pearls that looked like luminous pearls were forced out of the enormous cluster of liquid metal and rolled on the wall of the furnace, before they were blown to the waste outlet nearby by the rune arrays of the wind class on the wall of the furnace and discharged out of the furnace.
The pearls were colorful and seemed to be made of thousands of different pigments. They were still squeaking, indicating that they were highly unstable.
They were exactly the impurities stored inside the Colorful Star Stone that had been absorbed by the Night Flowing Gold and the Red Jade like a sponge absorbing water.
Three minutes later, Xie Qianhe withdrew his technique.
His clothes were soaked in sweat. His cheeks were red, but he was rather excited. Looking at the waste outlet in satisfaction, he smiled at Li Yao and said, "Fellow Cultivator Sand, this is the magic of the 'Dividing Gold and Breaking Jade Art'. After the preliminary refining, more than eighty percent of the impurities inside the Colorful Star Stone have been discharged. It barely meets the requirements of refining.
"If I want to purify it further, I'll have to spend time and effort to slowly refine it."
Li Yao bowed and complimented, "The 'Dividing Gold and Breaking Jade Art' is indeed extraordinary. Thank you for your demonstration, Fellow Cultivator Xie!"
After saying this, he once again sat down cross-legged, supporting his cheeks with his hands as he stared at the crafting furnace in a daze, not moving at all.
Xie Qianhe took back the jade chip and smiled casually. "That's easy. Then, I'll be waiting to see how you forge the seven core components, Fellow Cultivator Sand!"
While talking, he turned around and walked out.
According to their agreement the day before, the seven of them would demonstrate their techniques in front of Sand Scorpion first. Then, the seven of them would watch Sand Scorpion demonstrate the secret arts of forging components together.
When he reached the door, he couldn't help but look back.
After only one glance, his eyes froze.
Sand Scorpion's hands seemed to have formed a square tower. His fingers were entangled, and his palms were far apart. It was exactly the same gesture that he made a moment ago!
In only three seconds, Sand Scorpion had changed his hands into seventeen gestures, all of which were real seals that had been filled with spiritual energy. They were definitely not just for show.
As long as he closed his palms, all seventeen spiritual seals would be released!
"These — these are the seventeen most difficult seals in the 'Dividing Gold and Breaking Jade Art'!"
"How is it possible? He grasped all of them after watching me perform them once?"
Xie Qianhe was dumbfounded.
He could tell that Sand Scorpion's gestures were clumsy and irregular, and it was possible that the materials inside the furnace would've been destroyed if they had been blown into it.
However, the essence of the 'Dividing Gold and Breaking Jade Art' had been grasped by him. All that was left was to be polished again and again!
Xie Qianhe felt that his head was dizzy.
Before he came back to himself, Sand Scorpion's hands shook, and the style of his gestures suddenly changed. They were more primitive and unsophisticated than before!
"This is not the 'Dividing Gold and Breaking Jade Art', but another secret art to remove the impurities in the materials. It's a technique that he's learned a long time ago!
"No, that's not right. His hand seals are very strange. There's something vaguely familiar about it."
"He — he has melted the 'Dividing Gold and Breaking Jade Art' into his own refining arts!"
Xie Qianhe was greatly shocked.
What he didn't know was that Li Yao had learned dozens of secret arts to purify materials in the Heavenly Refining Tower of the Hundred Smelting Clan after receiving Ou Yezi's enormous memory pieces.
However, these secret techniques were too ancient and were not suitable to be used in modern crafting furnaces.
Li Yao was willing to exchange techniques with Xie Qianhe not because he wanted to get the 'Dividing Gold and Breaking Jade Art' itself, but because he wanted to understand the mysteries of the techniques in modern furnaces through the 'Dividing Gold and Breaking Jade Art'.
The [Dividing Gold Breaking Jade Formula] was so profound, so complex, and so vast! Even with Li Yao's Cultivation, it was impossible for him to grasp it after only reading it once in several minutes!
However, through the whole process of Xie Qianhe performing the techniques, Li Yao had vaguely grasped the new idea of combining the ancient techniques with modern furnaces.
He had practiced the methods to purify materials hundreds of times in the world of his memories. Naturally, they were as smooth as flowing mercury when he performed them.
Xie Qianhe was born in a noble family with a strict tradition. Naturally, he wouldn't peep at other people's secrets of refining.
He didn't know how he left the refining workshop. Just like the others before him, he sat down in silence.
He didn't even notice Master Huangpu's arrival.
By the time he was back to himself, Master Huangpu had already walked out of the refining workshop with a complicated expression. It seemed that he had sensed the shock from Sand Scorpion, too.
"Everybody, let's go in together. It's Fellow Cultivator Sand's turn to demonstrate his techniques."
Xie Qianhe felt that a bottle of mixed feelings had been knocked over. He followed everybody into the refining workshop in silence.
The refining room had been cleaned up. A compartment in the corner that had been sealed by a rune array was now completely open. An antique iron anvil was placed in the middle of the room. All kinds of mysterious and complicated patterns were engraved on the anvil. They looked like rolling dark clouds, but also like the combination of lightning and thunder.
Inside the furnace, the alloy made of the Heavenly Fire Tungsten, the Moon Tear Germanium, and the Electric Mother Copper was rotating at a high speed. Violent and restless spiritual waves were spreading out, making the entire furnace shake uncontrollably.
On Li Yao's face, there was not the slightest trace of superfluous emotions. Instead, it was filled with a fanaticism for the art of refining. His flame-like eyes licked the bodies of the seven experienced refiners as he said, "Thank you for your unreserved guidance just now. Now, I will demonstrate to you how to combine the three kinds of domineering materials with the manual forging method and engrave rune arrays with the Concealing Rune Technique and the Transforming Rune Technique!
"He!"
On Li Yao's body, the refining suit, which was made of mustard-seed materials and could be stretched to more than ten meters away, was falling apart as if it had been weathered for a hundred years.
What was revealed was an extremely majestic, light golden physique!
There were no tattoos on his body, but colorful brilliance was vaguely flowing inside the slightly protruding veins and nerves. It looked like nine tattoos of dragons that resided inside his veins and were roaring soundless! (To be continued.)
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