"Ye Fei, this wasn't how you underwent tribulation before, was it?"
Long Heng lazily looped around Ye Fei's neck, resting his head on his shoulder to watch the show.
This time, Ye Fei suspended the divine material overhead. Tribulation lightning struck the material before passing down, forming a small enhancement zone of dancing lightning around him...
"It's different in nature. This is a material now, and tempering it with tribulation lightning can improve its quality."
Ye Fei drew in the scattered tribulation lightning around him, tempering his meridians while still chatting with Long Heng.
They were all thunder tribulations, but some strengthened, some tested, and some punished...
Different situations called for different approaches, so sometimes he bore it himself, sometimes he acted as an intermediary to soften it, and sometimes he collected it secondhand like this...
"But... shouldn't the Artifact Refining Furnace be the one getting struck this time?"
Long Heng tilted his head in puzzlement, looking at the furnace huddled in Ye Fei's arms, and suddenly realized that this little fellow wasn't just here to watch the show either.
By normal standards, there was nothing wrong with tempering the material a second time, but normally, the Artifact Refining Furnace should have been struck by lightning, rather than the material being struck directly.
He had thought things were normal for once, but it turned out this was still an abnormal operation!
"..."
The Artifact Refining Furnace immediately shrank another size, pressing against Ye Fei's chest to make itself less noticeable.
It had already hidden away. Why did this annoying little dragon cub have to point it out?
"It's not the Artifact Refining Furnace. The ones undergoing tribulation are the divine material and the artifact spirit."
Ye Fei looked down. The Artifact Refining Furnace had already turned into a little gourd