Chen Family, Quiet Room.
Chen Ruoxi sat cross-legged on a cushion. Her pretty face, usually untouched by worldly dust, was now filled with exhaustion and confusion.
Inside the refining cauldron before her, a newly formed short sword emitted waves of unstable buzzing. The spiritual light on its blade flickered between bright and dim, as though it could go out completely at any moment.
Ever since the Wilderness Hunt ended, Chen Ruoxi had shut herself in here, not taking a single step outside for seven days and nights.
The Heavenly Crafts Illustrated Lin Yuan had given her had opened a gate to a brand new world!
The refining techniques recorded within were exquisitely brilliant, overturning every bit of knowledge she had accumulated over the past twenty years!
In just seven days, her refining skills had undergone earth-shattering changes!
Mortal Grade Artifacts that had once taken her days to barely dismantle could now have their structures understood crystal clear with a thought.
Those complex, obscure Basic Spirit Energy Circuits had become as simple and clear as a child's doodle in her eyes.
Three days ago, she had even successfully refined a Profound Grade Top Tier "Ice Soul Hairpin"!
That was an achievement she had never even dared to imagine before!
However.
When she opened the chapter on "Spirit Tool Nurturing" full of confidence, she crashed headfirst into an unbreakable south wall!
Strictly following the methods recorded in the diagrams, she carefully poured her most pure spiritual energy into the work she was most proud of, trying to awaken the sleeping Spirit Tool.
But!
No matter how many times she tried, that short sword remained like a stubborn stone, utterly unresponsive.
Just now, during her final attempt, the short sword in the cauldron had suddenly trembled.
A violent surge of spiritual energy raced