This time, Fang Chen finished sorting through all the artifact-crafting manuals in less than a month. His horizons suddenly broadened. Though the manuals Myna bird had collected were all free, there were a great many of them, and many contained ingenious ideas.
Fang Chen combined those methods with the ones he had used before, making his artifact-crafting techniques more sophisticated than ever.
In truth, Fang Chen's skill in artifact crafting and alchemy was inseparable from his Manifestations.
Whenever he used the Heaven Refining Furnace for alchemy or artifact crafting, those Manifestations helped him enormously.
Fang Chen said to Myna bird, "Huahua, take back your Natal Spirit Pearl. I'm getting ready to craft!"
"Okay!"
Myna bird withdrew its Natal Spirit Pearl. Fang Chen summoned the Heaven Refining Furnace, opened his storage ring, and poured the materials for the Formation Bases straight into the furnace.
The Sacred Flames inside the Heaven Refining Furnace had all undergone Metamorphosis into Imperial Flames. But none of them had undergone Transformation or developed Sentience.
Fang Chen controlled the Imperial Flames and began heating the materials in the furnace.
At the same time, he unleashed all his Manifestations.
The Chaos Giant, the Sun Chasing Giant, the Heaven Mending Goddess, the Medicine-Brewing Old Farmer, the Eight Trigrams Array Diagram, and the Sun Shooting Man.
Once they had all appeared, the Medicine-Brewing Old Farmer set up the Black Cauldron again. The other Manifestations brought out ingredients, and everyone gathered around for hot pot once more.
The Medicine-Brewing Old Farmer swept his hand through the air, opening a Space Vortex. At the sight of it, Fang Chen flew in with practiced ease and emerged in the familiar Bamboo Grove.
Fang Chen found that the bamboo had grown even taller. Nearly every stalk in the grove had turned golden, and many