"No, no, no! It's not that I can't do it, and it's not that I need to rely on a magic treasure or tool to do it. I need this magic treasure to explain my existence!" I nearly spat up a mouthful of old blood.
"So without this magic treasure, you can't prove that you can do it, right? If you can't do it, does that mean you don't exist?" Nan Jin looked at me with open, innocent curiosity. Sometimes, this girl's questions seemed innocent, yet they could bring a person to tears.
"Forget it. Just watch from the side. I'll explain once I've made the thing. I really don't know how to put it into words right now. Basically, there's another person inside my body." I felt utterly battered.
Nan Jin took my hand and shook her head. "Brother Dongren, whether you can do it or not isn't important. I can wait. Don't say that there's someone else inside your body. You're you. One day, you'll definitely be able to do it."
I couldn't let her lead the conversation any further astray, so I simply started tinkering with my own work. Refining this treasure would be no easy task. Aside from making use of the vein-pattern runic formula from the Ancient Bronze Jade in reverse, I also had to create a workable vein pattern of my own. That required experimentation, so I definitely couldn't use the Earth Demon Sun's Treasure right from the start.
There were plenty of substitutes, of course. Ordinary recording jade and various crystals made excellent test materials, so I took out several types of treasured jade and tossed them into the Gold-Transforming Pouch, directly refining the treasure I had envisioned.
At first, Nan Jin obediently watched me refine the treasure from the side, occasionally showing