Eccentric Genius and True Genius

New Sea Commandery City, Liang Family Guard City, within the Liang family ancestral grounds.

Golden Swallow Island had a volcano, beneath which several fire veins stretched throughout the island. When the Liang family had built their guard city and family residence, they had chosen to build upon one such underground fire vein.

Thus, within the Liang family grounds, more than a dozen earthfire chambers had been built atop the earthfire vein. This was where Liang family cultivators refined pills and forged artifacts.

Liang Zhaohuang currently occupied the finest earthfire chamber. He placed a magic treasure, the Demon Refining Furnace, over the earthfire, controlled the flames, and operated the third-tier magic treasure to temper a third-tier Blood Crystal within the furnace.

The earthfire turned nine times, and the Demon Refining Furnace refined it nine times. Before long, the third-tier Blood Crystal within had been tempered into a third-tier Golden Crystal.

Liang Zhaohuang picked up a jade box at his side and opened it. Five or six third-tier Golden Crystals already lay inside. He placed the newly refined Golden Crystal into the box and sealed it.

He then took a fresh third-tier Blood Crystal from another jade box at his side and put it into the Demon Refining Furnace for tempering.

Time flew by. Liang Zhaohuang remained in the earthfire chamber for an entire month before refining all the third-tier Blood Crystals harvested from the Myriad Demon Mystic Realm into Golden Crystals—a total of thirty-six.

Some of these Blood Crystals had come from third-tier demon beasts slain by Liang Zhaohuang, Liang Ruijian, Liang Ruiqin, and the others in the mystic realm. Others had been acquired by the family through exchange and collection at the Hundred Treasures Pavilion within the mystic realm.

All thirty-six Golden Crystals possessed one of the five elemental attributes.