A year passed.
Ice Spirit Valley.
Inside a cave abode.
Ling Pengyun sat cross-legged beside a refining furnace flickering with firelight. Golden Core true fire burned beneath the furnace, heating it.
At the same time, he continuously took large amounts of low-grade water- and ice-attributed spirit iron from his Storage Bag and tossed them into the refining furnace. The high heat tempered them into molten iron, which was absorbed into a brilliant blue iron sphere.
The iron sphere's aura steadily rose as a result.
Before long, however, the iron sphere reached the limit of a magic treasure and could no longer improve. It also stopped absorbing the molten spirit iron from outside.
Ling Pengyun's face revealed a trace of helplessness.
He then lifted the furnace lid, directly collected the remaining pools of molten iron into his Storage Bag, and took out the blue iron pearl, whose aura had reached the level of a Third Rank High Grade magic treasure. Holding it in his hand, he looked at it with a few traces of helplessness.
Just then, his cave abode's restrictions were triggered. After briefly tidying up the place, he left the cave abode.
The first person he saw was his wife, Yan Siyi, whom he had not seen for many years.
Since the Demon Beast Uprising ended, Yan Siyi, who cultivated a fire-element cultivation art, had entered Linghuo Mountain within the clan grounds, which possessed a third-order fire vein, to cultivate.
With the aid of the dense fire spiritual energy there, her cultivation speed had increased somewhat.
Yet the moment they met, Ling Pengyun sensed the changes in Yan Siyi's cultivation through his extraordinary divine sense, and delight appeared on his face.
"Though we have not seen each other for a year, your cultivation has risen another level, Wife. That