69: Chapter 69 Refining a Wok with Dao Item Materials

Zhao Ruoan was somewhat amused and exasperated.

"Elder Liu, the kitchen utensils I want to refine might have... rather high requirements for the Materials."

"High? High is great! How else could they match your craftsmanship if they weren't high?!"

Elder Liu waved his big hand, overflowing with bold spirit, "Stop talking nonsense, list out the items. Today, the storehouse of my Tianhuo Peak is open for you!"

Zhao Ruoan stopped being polite as well and rattled off a string of rare metal names.

"The main Materials will be extraterrestrial meteorite iron and deep-sea cold iron, supplemented by star dust sand, refined red copper, and hundred-refined secret silver..."

Every time he said a name, Elder Liu's eyebrows twitched.

After Zhao Ruoan finished reading that long list, Elder Liu was completely numb all over.

What the hell, this is refining kitchen utensils?

Using these Materials, even smashing pots and selling iron would be enough to refine a semi-finished Dao Artifact!

This kid wants to use Dao Artifact Materials to forge pots and pans?

Extravagant! Too extravagant!

What a prodigal son!

But on second thought, given Zhao Ruoan's abnormal Cultivate speed, his future achievements would be boundless.

To him, these so-called rare Materials were probably no different from the scrap iron on the side of the road.

"No problem!"

Elder Liu gritted his teeth and squeezed out three words from between his teeth.

"I'll go get them for you right now! You wait here!"

He turned and walked away, his back exuding a tragic and heroic air, like a warrior cutting off his wrist.

...

In the evening, the afterglow of the setting sun plated Qinghan Peak with a layer of warm gold.

Third Senior Sister Mo Hongling carried a food box, humming a little tune, and walked briskly to Zhao Ruoan's courtyard.

Having eaten so many good things from her Junior Brother during the day, she always felt a bit uneasy in her heart.

Therefore, she ran back to her own kitchen, carefully prepared a table of spiritual meals, and specially brought it for her Junior Brother as dinner.

"Junior Brother! I'm here to deliver food!"

She pushed open the courtyard door, only to find the courtyard completely empty.

"The Young Lord has gone to Tianhuo Peak."

A maid answered respectfully.

"Went to Tianhuo Peak?"

Third Senior Sister Mo Hongling was slightly stunned, "What is he going to that place for? There's nothing there except rocks and fire."

"The Young Lord said he is going to refine two sets of kitchen utensils."

The maid answered honestly.

"Artifact Refining?"

Third Senior Sister Mo Hongling was even more surprised.

She had no idea that her Junior Brother actually knew how to do Artifact Refining as well.

However, she didn't take it too seriously.

Her Junior Brother had only entered the sect for three months, and his cultivation had soared by leaps and bounds. How would he have time to learn that tedious and complicated art of Artifact Refining?

She guessed he probably just had a whim and went to refine an iron pot or iron shovel to play with.

"This little fool, what kitchen utensils is he refining? Aren't mine enough for him to use?"

Third Senior Sister Mo Hongling muttered softly, the corners of her mouth curling up involuntarily.

She walked over to the stone table and sat down, placing the food box on the table.

"Then I'll wait here for him to come back."

...

Tianhuo Peak, in the Elder's Artifact Refining Room.

The earth fire burned fiercely, baking the entire space like a steamer.

Zhao Ruoan hovered in front of the huge Artifact Refining furnace, his expression focused.

In front of him, dozens of rare Materials were already suspended in the air, classified by category and emitting various treasures' lights.

After achieving a Breakthrough to the Middle Stage of the Pulse Condensation Realm, his control over spiritual power reached a whole new level.

If his previous spiritual power was a great river, then now it was a trickle, with every wisps under his precise control.

He didn't, like other Artifact Refiners, throw all the Materials into the furnace all at once.

Instead, he reached out his finger and pointed it in the air.

"Hum!"

A small piece of extraterrestrial meteorite iron flew out and fell into the earth fire.

Zhao Ruoan closed his eyes slightly, and the huge power of his Divine Sense penetrated his body, wrapping around that piece of meteorite iron.

His spiritual power turned into tens of millions of invisible thin threads, probing into the interior of the meteorite iron, feeling the structure and activity of every metal particle within it.

Afterwards, he began to inject spiritual power into it at an unimaginable frequency.

That incomparably hard extraterrestrial meteorite iron, under the "massage" of his spiritual power, showed no signs of melting at all. Instead, it began to become soft and pure at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The Impurities were stripped away thread by thread, turning into flying ash.

This hand directly dumbfounded Elder Liu, who had just fetched the Materials and was preparing to watch the show.

"This... This is purification? Direct purification without melting?!"

Elder Liu had lived for hundreds of years and fancied that he had seen as many Artifact Refining techniques as the sands of the Ganges, but none of them were like this.

This defied common sense!

Soon, the other Elders of Tianhuo Peak were also alerted.

One by one, they put down the work in their hands, crowded to the entrance of the Artifact Refining Room like they had seen a ghost, and craned their necks to look inside.

"Old Liu, what is that kid doing? Performance art?"

"Why do I feel like he's not doing Artifact Refining, but rather embroidering flowers on that piece of iron?"

"Outrageous, fucking outrageous! This fire control technique, this precision of spiritual power manipulation, is he a monster?"

Under the gaze of everyone, Zhao Ruoan's technique became faster and faster.

Piece by piece, the Materials were subjected to extreme purification by him using the same method.

Afterwards, the essence of all the Materials began Fusion under his control.

The whole process was bizarrely quiet.

Those Materials that usually had conflicting attributes and exploded upon meeting were as docile as little lambs at this moment, blending together perfectly.

A wok flickering with starlight, a kitchen knife flowing with cold light, an exquisite spatula, a soup spoon...

The first set of top-grade Spiritual Artifact level kitchen utensils was formed in less than two hours.

Zhao Ruoan let out a long breath.

The spiritual power in his body was consumed by less than 30 percent.

It was just that the long-term, highly concentrated output of Mental Energy made his brain swell a bit.

He rested a little, recovered his spirits, and once again threw himself into the refining of the second set of kitchen utensils.

The Elders outside the door were completely numb.

They just watched blankly as Zhao Ruoan completed the forging of the second set of kitchen utensils like flowing water in a way they completely could not understand.

When the last kitchen utensil took shape, night had long since fallen.

Zhao Ruoan's complexion was somewhat pale.

Continuous high-intensity Mental Energy consumption made even him feel a wave of fatigue.

He put away the two sets of kitchen utensils and cupped his fists at the group of petrified Elders outside the door.

"Thank you, Elders, for lending this treasured place. This junior takes his leave."

After speaking, he walked out of the Artifact Refining Room.

The night was cool as water, and the stars filled the sky.

Zhao Ruoan stood at the peak of Tianhuo Peak. The mountain wind blew his clothes and also blew away the fatigue in his mind.

He appreciated the pure river of stars of this otherworldly realm for a moment, then his figure moved, turning into a stream of light that disappeared into the night.

Inside and outside the Artifact Refining Room, there was a deathly silence.

For a long time, only then did an Elder speak dryly.

"I... I have decided that starting today, I will seal the furnace for a hundred years. I have no face to call myself an Artifact Refiner anymore."

"With such talent, why didn't he come to my Tianhuo Peak! What a waste of heavenly things! What a waste of heavenly things!" Another Elder beat his chest and stamped his feet.

"If he focuses on Artifact Refining, within ten years, he will definitely become a generation's Grandmaster!"

"Ten years? Who are you looking down on? I think three years is enough!"

The crowd discussed spiritedly, their tones filled with regret and unwillingness.

"Stop thinking about it."

Elder Liu sighed, his voice full of bitterness and relief.

"You only saw his talent in Artifact Refining, but forgot his even more terrifying Cultivate talent."

"Making him come to Tianhuo Peak to hammer iron every day would be an insult to the Great Dao of cultivation, and an even greater loss that my Qingxuan Sect could not bear."

"Our small temple cannot accommodate this true Dragon crossing the river."

Hearing this, everyone fell silent.

They thought of Zhao Ruoan's terrifying record of soaring from Qi Refining to the Middle Stage of the Pulse Condensation Realm in three months.

Indeed.

Compared to that kind of Cultivate talent, this shocking Artifact Refining talent seemed... like just an amateur hobby.

A group of old fellows who had immersed themselves in the way of Artifact Refining for hundreds of years were beaten to a pulp by a teenager's "amateur hobby".

The night of Tianhuo Peak was exceptionally desolate.