Fu Xingzhi bowed to the ground and said, "Thank you for your instruction, Master. Your disciple will engrave it upon his heart and dare not slacken!"
"Have you encountered any difficulties in your cultivation?"
Fu Xingzhi told Xu Qingtong about some of his uncertainties. Xu Qingtong answered them one by one, then sent him back once he understood.
Afterward, Xu Qingtong also asked about Li Yingjie's situation. The lad had already reached the third layer of Qi Refining and had not required much worrying over on Xu Qingtong's part.
After sending his disciples away, Xu Qingtong sat cross-legged in his cave abode and took out the jade slip containing the Profound Yin Artifact Refining Technique. He remembered that it recorded a method for refining an external incarnation.
He found the method for refining an external incarnation and began studying it carefully. This study took Xu Qingtong three days and three nights. It was not because there was much content, but because the refining process was complex. He needed to deliberate carefully over every step and cross-check it against what he knew and had learned.
Three days later, Xu Qingtong finally understood the mysteries of an incarnation. Refining one required millennium white jade lotus root as the main material. First, he had to use pill-refining methods to mold its form, incorporating other supplementary materials to increase the incarnation's toughness, strength, flexibility, and so on.
Once its form was complete, it had to be taken into his body and nurtured with essence blood and divine soul. He also had to use the Yin Refining Method of the Profound Yin Artifact Refining Technique to fuse it with his body. Finally, he had to use the Divine Soul Splitting Method to separate a portion of his divine soul and lodge it within the incarnation.