Kindling Fire gathers fortune, a fortune-anchoring Dharma Treasure, the Taiji Diagram (third update)

A Dharma Treasure-grade Eight Trigrams Furnace.

True fire that had fused more deeply with the Flame Law.

Xuanming once again savored the thrill of upgrading his equipment inside and out. They were a hundred times better to use than the Spirit Artifact-grade Eight Trigrams Furnace and his minor-attainment true fire.

In just half a cup of tea's time, the Yin and Yang Mirror he had once painstakingly refined melted into a mass of spiritual liquid. The true fire tempered and purified it, stripping away impurities several times faster than when he had refined the Eight Trigrams Furnace.

In a mere hour, the spiritual liquid was fully purified, shrinking severalfold in volume while its spirit mechanism grew severalfold stronger.

Seated on his cloud couch, Xuanming channeled his magic power and poured three Wish-Fulfilling Pouches' worth of copper coins into the Eight Trigrams Furnace. The Third-Generation True Persons and fourth-generation Daoists had spent months collecting these donations throughout the Four Commanderies.

They had followed the old rule: one coin from each household.

Besides these, Xuanming added a great quantity of firewood, varying in size, thickness, and length.

This, too, had been supplied by every household.

It was the fruit of a sudden flash of inspiration.

If copper coins that gathered the people's convictions could be refined into a fortune-anchoring Dharma Treasure, what would happen if he added Kindling Fire?

"When everyone gathers firewood, the flames rise high" was more than mere lip service.

Copper coins anchored fortune; Kindling Fire gathered it.

The sticks of firewood burned fiercely in the Eight Trigrams Furnace. Whenever one burned away, a firefly-like speck of Kindling Fire was born. By the time all the wood was consumed, the Kindling Fire had accumulated into an impressive quantity.

The copper coins melted under the Kindling Fire's heat, gathering into