Battle Through the Heavens: Flame Emperor, Please Restrain Yourself—Your Brother Is Truly Quite Unpretentious

A supreme artifact-refining method.

It used the power of lightning and flames to temper materials, then employed a unique technique to forge them into their most suitable forms, granting them extraordinary properties and increasing a cultivator's combat strength.

"It's actually a proper artifact-refining method!" Delight appeared in Zhang Yuan's eyes.

Why call it proper?

Naturally, because the artifact-refining methods of the Dou Qi Continent, and even the stronger Great Thousand World, were all improper.

Leaving aside the Great Thousand World, alchemy on the Dou Qi Continent had its own unique inheritances. But artifact refinement simply involved forcefully smelting some heavenly treasure into a certain shape. Its grade depended entirely on the rank of the raw material, after which one only needed to enchant it with a magic core and call it done.

That was not a technical craft, but simple manual labor. Anyone could refine artifacts, and even without Heavenly Flames, they could use earth fire or heavenly fire.

Yet among the countless artifact-refining methods across the myriad worlds, the Thunderfire Refining Method stood alone, ranking among the best and forming its own school. It could not only refine with fire, but also with lightning—and even with both lightning and fire together. The result was greater than one plus one.

This refining method provided basic design principles, allowing an artifact refiner to hammer multiple materials into essences before fusing them together into a weapon. Just like alchemy, it was far more complicated than one plus one equaling two.

Weapons refined through this method could also undergo the Dou Qi Continent's popular enchanting process, producing even greater power.

Even completed weapons could be reforged through the Thunderfire Refining Method and made stronger.

"What an excellent Thunderfire Refining Method. It suits my Three Dragon Thunder Gang Fire perfectly." If Ling Ying had not been present, Zhang Yuan would have wanted to laugh aloud three times.

Even if he could not refine pills, he could still carve out a bright path for himself through artifact refinement.

He could build a force, win people over, and enhance the strength of himself, his family and friends, and his subordinates.

"Hm?"

After gaining an introduction to the Thunderfire Refining Method, Zhang Yuan's Soul Power underwent a subtle change, and his perception of refining materials became extremely sharp.

His intuition told him there was something unusual within the huge stone beneath him.

Boom!

Zhang Yuan crouched down and punched the huge stone.

Countless fragments of rock flew outward, revealing a round silver-black iron block with a diameter of one zhang.

"Oh?" Ling Ying said in surprise, "Black Profound Iron Essence Gold. It is innate essence that may not appear even in ten Black Profound Iron ore veins. It can be used to forge a third-tier Dou Artifact. If enchanted with a lightning-attribute magic core, it can increase its attack power somewhat."

Using it to forge a third-tier Dou Artifact?

That would be far too wasteful.

Several plans immediately appeared in Zhang Yuan's mind. If Black Profound Iron Essence Gold were used as the core, along with several other materials, it could forge a fourth-tier Dou Artifact that enhanced the power of lightning-attribute or lightning-fire-attribute Dou Techniques.

If Black Profound Iron Essence Gold were used as one of the primary materials, along with several other main materials and one core material, it could forge a fifth-tier Dou Artifact. Its enhancement would be even greater, and enchanting it would produce even better results.

However, Zhang Yuan did not reveal his thoughts. He merely stored the Black Profound Iron Essence Gold in his Storage Ring and smiled. "Not bad luck."

As a quasi-Dou Zong expert, Ling Ying had no interest in Black Profound Iron Essence Gold and said nothing.

Zhang Yuan turned to him and asked, "Senior, this junior has a question for you."

Ling Ying pondered for a moment before saying, "Young Master Zhang Yuan, please ask. As long as it is something I can say, this old man will certainly answer."

The implication was that if he could not say it, Zhang Yuan should not ask.

"Rest assured, Senior. I'm not asking about Xun Er's identity. With an expert like you protecting her, I imagine I wasn't qualified to know much before becoming a Dou Zong." Zhang Yuan smiled modestly.

What a joke. I know more than you do.

"My question is definitely something Senior can answer."

Meeting Ling Ying's gaze, Zhang Yuan grinned. "Did Xun Er give you to me?"

Ling Ying: ???

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