Chapter 541

Once he had confirmed that he had transmigrated as a soul, it was not entirely a bad thing. At the very least, he no longer had to rack his brains over where his physical body had gone, leaving him with one less worry.

Sui Xiong quickly put the matter of "Where did my body go?" aside and began busying himself with other things.

He actually had plenty to do; he had merely delayed it all while searching for his body.

Now that the matter was over, he could turn to other tasks.

The first thing he needed to do was still steelmaking.

For that, he had to thank Palin. After decades of research, Palin had finally reached the threshold of blast-furnace technology and identified several crucial keys.

Inspired by the fact that "wood burns hotter after being turned into charcoal," Palin had tried calcining coal as well. There were many mistakes along the way, wasting countless amounts of time and materials, but in the end, he found a solution.

Thus, he obtained something called Coal Essence. When burned, it could produce temperatures far higher than ordinary coal.

With this material, the most critical step in building a steelmaking blast furnace was complete. The remaining design and refinement work was merely meticulous finishing work. Palin and a group of craftsmen spent several years working it out and ultimately succeeded in constructing a blast furnace.

This blast furnace was not like the one Sui Xiong had imagined, one that could take in raw materials on one side and pour out molten iron on the other. The ingredients had to be prepared in advance and stacked inside the furnace like building blocks before it could be lit. Yet after not too long, the intense heat generated by the Coal Essence would melt the