Ye Wudao first refined all the impurities that had yet to be extracted from his body.
That step alone made his entire body shrink by a whole circle.
He looked gaunt, little more than skin and bones.
He knew this was because there were not enough materials.
However, he did not rush to refine new materials to fill his body.
He first needed to switch the primary and secondary components of his fleshly body.
What Xuankai had done before was refine a new fleshly body, something akin to a body of steel.
He had melted Ye Wudao's original body into that steel body.
Because it contained the aura of his fleshly body, his Sea of Consciousness could remain stable within that steel body.
This had created a very bad situation: this body of his was now dominated by the artifact.
What he needed to do now was let his fleshly body regain the dominant position and turn the artifact into an auxiliary.
Still, he could understand why Xuankai had used that reversed method to help him refine his body.
One very important reason was that his fleshly body had already become unusable at the time.
With such severe damage, it simply could not serve as the main body.
Fortunately, Xuankai had not discarded his fleshly body outright. Instead, he had infused all of its essence into this body of steel.
Now, he had to extract all that fleshly essence and reconstruct a body.
As the flames of the Way of Refining continuously refined his body, all the essence belonging to his original fleshly body was extracted.
White bones, red blood, pink muscles, blue-green blood vessels.
All of them were slowly peeled away from his body in liquid form.
The moment those things were extracted, Ye Wudao immediately felt the space