Since dusk was approaching, the five decided to find somewhere to rest for the night and make further plans tomorrow.
After searching for a while, they found a relatively level stretch halfway up a tall mountain not far from Black Tiger Mountain, suitable for setting up camp.
Liu Changxu and his father, Liu Shihao, set up an upper-grade first-tier Small Five-Element Formation, while Huang Tianjie and his two companions set up a second-tier lower-grade Primal Chaos Traceless Formation nearby.
Ultimately, they did this because of trust. After all, one could know a person's face without knowing their heart.
Once the formations were in place, Liu Changxu took his cooking utensils out of his Storage Bag. They were all Magical Artifacts, however, with not a single Spirit Artifact among them, which made things very inconvenient. This was also the main reason he intended to learn artifact refining.
Liu Changxu enjoyed preparing spirit cuisine, but after entering the Foundation Establishment Realm, he found it difficult to buy the utensils needed to make second-tier spirit cuisine, whether knives for cutting the meat of second-tier demon beasts or steamers. Unless he supplied the materials and paid a second-tier Artifact Refiner a high price to make them to order, he had little recourse. It was very inconvenient.
First, Liu Changxu took out a Magical Artifact steamer three feet across and placed ten jin of upper-grade first-tier blood jade rice inside, along with an appropriate amount of spirit spring water. He formed a hand seal, and a ball of orange-red flame appeared beneath the pot.
After entering the Foundation Establishment Realm, Liu Changxu's magic power had increased greatly, and he no longer needed spirit charcoal to prepare spirit cuisine.
Foundation Establishment true fire burned at an extremely high temperature, exceeding a thousand degrees. In just the