Chapter 616: Dragon-Elephant Heavy Treasure, Artificial Artifact Spirits, Tenth-Generation Talent—"Monthly Votes, Please!"
Time flowed on, and half a month passed in a flash.
Inside the Xu Residence.
Xu Deling went into seclusion to refine an artifact.
Her main task was to forge a heavy magic treasure for Ye Fan—the Dragon-Elephant Cauldron.
Its primary material was dragon-elephant ingot, harder than divine iron and unquestionably among the finest fourth-tier spirit irons.
It inherently possessed the Dao resonance of immense gravity, making any magic treasure forged from it terrifyingly heavy.
Other materials included mountain copper essence gold, crimson sun flamegold, and heavenly sun jade.
Most were fire- or yang-attributed spirit irons.
This was naturally because Ye Fan primarily practiced a fire-type cultivation method.
Then came auxiliary spirit materials such as third-rank spirit wood marrow, mystic iron sand, and separation flame crystal.
Inside the Artifact Refining Room.
Earth fire surged beneath the suspended furnace platform. Crimson waves of flame rolled endlessly, baking the entire chamber with oppressive heat.
Xu Deling wore a solemn expression, her mind clear and tranquil, without the slightest impatience.
She raised her hands and formed artifact-refining seals. Spiritual light flowed around her fingertips, drawing the earth fire upward.
First, she gradually raised the furnace temperature to burn away the impurities in the furnace platform.
Then she tossed the dragon-elephant ingot into the furnace. The earth fire abruptly surged several dozen feet high, its crimson flames turning a vast, blazing gold-red.
The ingot was exceptionally resistant to heat; the earth fire here alone was not enough.
Only after Xu Deling summoned the Vermilion Bird True Flame to burn it did it show the faintest sign of softening.
It looks like this refining session won't be short, Xu Deling thought.
Yet she remained fully confident in herself.
After seven full days and