Blazing Sun Peak, Flying Fire Hall.
Xuanming personally prepared the materials for Artifact Refining.
He selected every piece with care.
Artifact Refining was an ancient Immortal cultivation craft, divided into heavenly forging, earthly forging, Five Phases forging, and more. His only practical experience had been forging the Peachwood Sword and the Fly-Whisk. Later, he had borrowed the power of lightning to raise the grades of those two Dharma Artifacts, which barely qualified as a form of heavenly forging.
Beyond that, he had never practiced Artifact Refining again.
Thus, Xuanming knew his own limitations. He understood that his theoretical knowledge was extensive, but his practical skills were poor and his foundations weak. This time, he did not let his ambitions outstrip his abilities; he began with basic Dharma Artifacts.
Once the materials were ready, Xuanming sat cross-legged on a meditation cushion and raised his hand, sending a stream of magic power into the Dharma Furnace in the center.
While traveling through Great Xuan, the founding patriarch of Truth-Seeking Abbey had once passed a volcanic crater and, through a stroke of fortune, found a piece of spirit iron. The Dharma Furnace had been forged from that spirit iron and inscribed with Blazing Fire Talismans, Spirit-Gathering Talismans, and others. Once activated, it used magic power as fuel and could draw on earthly fire for Artifact Refining.
Flames roared, and the temperature in the room rose rapidly. When the heat was right, Xuanming opened his palm and lifted his hand slightly toward the materials. A lump of ironstone flew into the Dharma Furnace. As the heat climbed further, he added another lump.
Artifact Refining demanded precise control of the heat. After most of the materials had been added at their respective temperatures, he extended his spiritual perception into the furnace. Sensing that the Spirit