Aperture Awakening, Aperture Nourishment, Aperture Solidification, communing with the netherworld, Gate Knocking!

While Chen Miao digested "Adding Firewood," the step that concerned him, Paper Effigy Woman finished explaining the two steps that followed.

Those last two steps had little to do with Chen Miao, Old Ghost, or Old Woman.

After Mold Formation and Adding Firewood, firing the kiln and Kiln Opening would no longer be their responsibility.

So Paper Effigy Woman only gave a brief introduction to those last two steps.

Firing the kiln meant activating the Five Prisons True Form Diagram, bringing the punishments of the five hells down upon the rough blank to temper it.

Ordinarily, a soul body would never withstand the Five Prisons punishment, but the rough blank now bore six Six Livestock Soul Marks.

Under the effects of the Five Hells Six Livestock Reincarnation Art, the Five Prisons punishment would be borne by the Six Livestock Soul Marks instead.

Each soul mark would receive one punishment.

The remaining Six Livestock Soul Mark would help withstand the final impact after the Five Prisons punishment ended.

Once the Six Livestock Soul Marks had successfully endured the Five Prisons punishment, only the final step remained: Kiln Opening!

Paper Effigy Woman explained Kiln Opening in a single sentence: "The immortal porcelain is complete, and the path to immortality lies open!"

Neither Chen Miao nor Old Ghost and Old Woman asked much more.

When Paper Effigy Woman left, Old Woman went with her.

Only Old Ghost and Chen Miao remained in the stone chamber.

Chen Miao sipped his long-cold tea and asked, "Old Ghost, what is a rough blank?"

Old Ghost smiled. Rather than answering directly, he asked another question.

"Do you know that there are many people in this world born with exceptional gifts?"

When Chen Miao nodded, Old Ghost continued, "These gifted people often advance rapidly along the cultivation paths