A ball of flame burned before Qin Fengming. The flames were not scorching; they brimmed with soul aura, icy enough to chill one to the bone. The surrounding air crackled sharply, as though fine ice grains were falling to the ground.
Within the surging blaze, a fist-sized fragment of bone was decomposing. Dust scattered in all directions, while bead after bead of black, gleaming substance emerged amid the burning flames.
This Xiangliu bone fragment feared no scorching attribute energy, yet it could be eroded by icy soul flames.
As the soul flames eroded it, tiny unknown particles separated from within. The originally pitch-black bone fragment became dark and lustrous.
Qin Fengming's delight did not last long. Very soon, his smile faded.
He abruptly discovered that as tiny particles separated out, the bone fragment had not shattered. Instead, it became even denser, giving him an increasingly harder impression.
This was extremely unfavorable. He would need to spend a great deal of time seeking materials and Spirit Patterns capable of fusing it, allowing it to meld with other materials and form a treasure that could be controlled by magical power Spirit Patterns.
This process was, in truth, the process of creating a new magical treasure.
It was a difficult process, but for an Artifact Refining Master, it was exceedingly common. The more difficult and clue-less it was, the more it stirred one's interest.
He refined it for a full five days. The fist-sized bone fragment had shrunk by a full circle, yet it had not cracked.
Only when not a single speck of dust emerged any longer did Qin Fengming stop urging the soul flames. Ignoring the bone fragment, he directly pinched the fallen dust into his hand, brought it close, and examined it carefully.
The dust was light and floating, utterly