Flying Fire Hall, Artifact Refining Chamber.
Within the Eight Trigrams Furnace, true fire blazed.
This treasure was only a spirit artifact. Forcing it to forge a Dharma Treasure would very likely blow up the furnace. With luck, he might obtain a Dharma Treasure; without it, the chickens would scatter and the eggs would break, leaving all his labor for nothing.
Thus, Xuanming did not begin forging a treasure outright. Instead, he took out his spoils: the White Bone Funeral Bell. Although damaged in the great battle, this treasure had not fallen in grade. It remained a Dharma Treasure.
Xuanming intended to weed out the dross and preserve the essence, cleansing this treasure. Using Samadhi True Fire, the power of the dharma body of the Heavenly Worthy of Salvation from Suffering, Taiyi, and the primordial unity law, he would purge the foul, baleful qi from the White Bone Funeral Bell, then add spiritual materials that calmed the mind and cleared the spirit, transforming it into a pure, numinous treasure.
This would save time and effort, build experience for formally forging Dharma Treasures, and put the Death Bell to good use without overburdening the Eight Trigrams Furnace. Instead, the furnace could absorb the Dharma Treasure's spiritual radiance, deepen its foundations, and nurture its spirituality, preparing it to transform into a Dharma Treasure.
Once the true fire burned at the limit the Eight Trigrams Furnace could withstand, Xuanming finally opened his eyes after resting his spirit with them closed. He turned his left palm upward, and a Bone Bell shrunk to the size of a little handbell appeared upon it, wreathed in baleful qi and radiating an ominous presence.
With a light sweep of his fly-whisk in his right hand, he opened the lid of the Eight Trigrams Furnace. He flicked his palm,