This particular system focused on three things: blending, merging, and combining. War Shrine’s Refining Technique also required a critical piece of equipment: the reaction furnace, which was frequently mentioned in the jade strip.
The reaction furnace’s main task was to stimulate the source attributes within the various refining materials. Only after first producing the reactor could one be said to have completed the first step of War Shrine’s Refining Technique.
As Wang Lin rapidly moved his hands, the spiritual force threads continuously increased in number and connected together. It was as if both of Wang Lin’s hands were wrapped in a piece of silk, forming a shimmering curtain of spirit.
After the spirit silk curtain formed, Wang Lin shook his hands, and the silk slowly began to float. Wang Lin’s eyes shimmered as he recalled in his mind the procedure to manufacture the reaction furnace. It had very demanding requirements, as it needed the skull of a spirit beast as a base.
Wang Lin did not know that this requirement had caused many War Shrine disciples to remain stuck at this point for their entire lives.
Wang Lin took a deep breath and patted his storage bag. A small bucket and a snake corpse, with its head still attached, came floating out.
This snake corpse had come from Xu Hao’s storage bag, from the foreign battlefield. Wang Lin did not know how or where Xu Hao had obtained it, and had not bothered with it before. However, since the creation of the reaction furnace required a skull, he decided to try to use it.
According to Wang Lin’s analysis, this dead snake had most likely been the pet of a powerful cultivator in the foreign battlefield, and had died soon after its master. Xu Hao must have picked it up while performing clean-up duties.
After carefully cutting off the head of the snake corpse and removing the flesh, an oval-shaped skull appeared before Wang Lin. After further removal of the red and white viscera within the skull, the base for the reaction furnace was complete.
Then Wang Lin took a deep breath. Carefully controlling the spirit silk curtain, he slowly pasted it onto the furnace. The skull began to emit cracking sounds as a rift appeared within the bone. Slowly, it expanded to cover the entire skull, eventually breaking it into countless pieces as it fell onto the ground.
At this point, the Spirit Silk Curtain slowly began to dissipate and eventually disappeared.
The creation of the reaction furnace had ended in failure.
Wang Lin smiled wryly. Although he was disappointed, he had mentally prepared himself for this outcome. It had been written in the jade strip that in order to increase the chance of success, not only was accurate control of spirit silk necessary, but the choice of the furnace base was also very important.
Using the skull of a spirit beast who had just recently died was good. If the skull was that of a powerful spirit beast, then it was even better and would increase the chance of success. On the other hand, if the skull was that of a long dead spirit beast, the success rate would be greatly reduced. Had it not been for the quality of the spirit beast, the success rate would basically have been zero.
The quality of the reaction furnace determined how effective it would be in refining. This fact was emphasized many times.
Wang Lin pondered for a while. The creation of the reaction furnace had failed, and in his storage bag there had only been that one snake corpse. Since it had now broken into pieces, Wang Lin could not attempt the same method a second time, so he settled for trying a different method of refining.
He took out the iron sheet, and it immediately began to spin rapidly. Soon, drops of molten iron began to drip off the sheet as it shrank. As it grew smaller, it spun faster and faster, until with a bang the sheet had completely melted, leaving only a pool of molten iron. The devil floated above it, having already come out from the sheet. It looked at Wang Lin secretively.
A small green sword ghost slowly fluttered out from the melted metal, and started to hover around Wang Lin. Wang Lin took out Sun Youcai’s black flying sword from his storage bag. Wang Lin was cheap, and recycling fit his character.
The small green sword ghost suddenly injected itself into the black sword and they two slowly became one. This method was quite direct, but it could only be considered a poor refining method, if that. It simply allowed the small green sword ghost to take over a new body.
He frowned as he tested it out. The flying sword was now faster than the iron sheet had been; but compared to the green sword’s original form, the range was worse. For now though, this was already a good result.
The devil immediately drilled into the flying sword, not even waiting to be ordered. Wang Lin then put away the flying sword. He calculated for a moment and took a short rest. Then he took a breath, and without hesitation took one step and vanished.