Ten days later.
Inside the artifact-refining chamber, thick with misty vapor, Wang Chen sat cross-legged before the Life-Giving Creation Cauldron with his eyes closed. He looked utterly haggard.
Over the past half month, he had not taken a single step out of the artifact-refining chamber.
He had remained seated on the Earth Element Prayer Mat, guarding the Life-Giving Creation Cauldron as he forged the Seven Severing Swords.
Though he had prepared thoroughly beforehand, reality proved that Wang Chen had still underestimated the difficulty of refining seven swords in one cauldron.
But Wang Chen persisted.
At this point, the Flying Swords in the cauldron lacked only the final step. Yet his Dantian power, Mana, and even physical strength had all been exhausted. He was holding himself up solely through sheer willpower.
Even all the spiritual energy stored in the Heavenly Net to Punish Evil had been squandered by Wang Chen!
Since yesterday, he had relied entirely on throwing Spirit Stones into the furnace to keep the cauldron fire blazing, lest he fall short at the final moment.
Buzz~
All of a sudden, the Life-Giving Creation Cauldron emitted seven-colored mystical light, its body shaking violently as though something inside were about to fly out.
Wang Chen abruptly opened his eyes and slammed his palm heavily against the treasure cauldron.
Bang!
Accompanied by a muffled boom, the heavy cauldron lid shot into the air.
Wang Chen immediately raised his left hand and sent a stream of Spirit Stones into the Life-Giving Creation Cauldron.
The Spirit Stones he had just thrown in glimmered with strange mystical radiance. The moment they entered the cauldron, they silently disintegrated, releasing incomparably pure Heaven and Earth spiritual energy.
They were all high-grade Spirit Stones!
These high-grade Spirit Stones were precisely what Wang Chen had obtained from the second