Two months later, in the Jingyang Mountain Range, everyone rested in the Wolf King's cave after dinner.
At that moment, Huo Yuhao was holding a piece of rare metal to refine, placing it in a magic array he had prepared beforehand.
He then channeled power into it. The rare metal began to float in the air, then melted into liquid form. He added other metals, and when it was almost ready, Huo Yuhao used his spiritual power to trace patterns inside before it cooled, forming the magic array he had planned out.
Finally, a metal sphere appeared in Huo Yuhao's hand. Its surface was smooth and seamless, but under the light, magic arrays traced out by the metal's own grain could be seen across its surface.
Under the light, these magic arrays gave the surface of the metal sphere a distinctive beauty.
Viewed with spiritual power, the metal sphere's interior revealed even more magic arrays traced out in patterns. These arrays connected and overlapped with one another without becoming chaotic.
Huo Yuhao silently set down the metal sphere in his hand. As he was now, he could make two such metal spheres a day as core components for soul tools without overtaxing his spiritual power.
After all, when he had traced the magic arrays for the Ice Spirit Spear, even with the support of his dual soul cores and spiritual power that had already reached the tangible and substantive state, Huo Yuhao still could not bear that level of spiritual power consumption.
However, Huo Yuhao now made only one each day. After all, he had other things to do.
Every day, Huo Yuhao fought the Ice Empress on the mountaintop, and sometimes in the Undead Demiplane.
Although Huo Yuhao never managed to defeat the Ice Empress, each of his battles