"It's still far too early!" Card Fairy said. "Once this thing is finished, you'll see how powerful it is...!"
"I know!" Wang Yan was already utterly exhausted. He hurriedly asked, "Can this thing really wield the divine abilities of whatever spirit artifacts I smelt into it?"
"Of course!" Card Fairy declared shamelessly in a low voice. After a pause, she added, "And with the dozen-odd jin of black mother iron ore you smelted into it, brat, this will be a supreme-grade puppet at the very least!"
"Mm! Let's hope so!" Wang Yan replied. He paused, then hurried on, "It'll take at least another month for this thing to fuse and cool, right? I'm going to rest and recover first!"
"All right! I'll let you rest for a few days, then we'll start refining the Puppet Immortal Card!"
"Oh, spare me, Card Fairy...!"
"Tsk! You're clever, but you're far too lazy...!"
"You call this lazy?"
"You're miles behind me. I never rest...!"
"Fine, you're amazing...!"
"Oh, right! Your lucky star is here!"
"Huh?"
Just as Wang Yan and Card Fairy were trading barbs-
Knock, knock, knock! A series of knocks reverberated through the door, followed by Ye Shisan's voice calling out, "Big Brother! Big Brother! Are you in there?"
"Ah!" Wang Yan shrugged helplessly and glanced at the humanoid mold. Golden light flowed across it, while strands of red, glowing runes continually streamed inside. He opened the chamber door and went out anyway...
This was the Artifact Refining Room in the Cave Abode Secret Realm. The furnaces and everything else had already been here. In Card Fairy's words, they were all fine treasures, and Wang Yan had struck gold...
Take the furnace, for instance. It could amplify the heat of a cultivator's innate true fire severalfold. With a cultivator of sufficient