Although Benjamin was already fairly confident about attempting a breakthrough to the Void Refinement Realm, he did not mind making himself more certain.
Besides preparing various Magic Potions to aid the breakthrough, the obvious way to improve his chances was to refine the Five-Skandha Rainbow Mirror again and bring it to its third refinement.
With his course decided, Benjamin did not rush into action.
He first secluded himself in the laboratory for three days and reviewed every record concerning the mirror's creation.
From the crude methods he had used when he first crafted it in the Qi Refining stage, to the tentative steps of its first reforging in the Foundation Establishment stage, to the practiced techniques of its second reforging in the Golden Core stage...
Every record remained intact, like a stack of weighty diaries chronicling the care and effort he had poured into his bound Dharma Treasure over a thousand years. Each reforging could increase its power.
Each time it was reforged, it advanced one refinement.
The Five-Skandha Rainbow Mirror had been reforged twice and was currently at its second refinement.
To reach the third, it had originally required materials found only in the Cultivation World: Nine-Heavens Pure Qi, Profound Yin Water, Sun True Fire...
None of those could be found in the Wizard World.
But Benjamin's many years of research into Alchemy had allowed him to gather most of the substitutes. The Core Database of a parallel world's Wizard Civilization had supplied the final pieces of the puzzle.
Together with the changes he had made to the mirror's crafting techniques, the conditions for its third refinement were essentially met.
Benjamin left the laboratory, crossed the East District Plains, and arrived at a smelting chamber deep within the plane.
He had built this space specifically to craft large ritual