After a wisp of gray air left the person responsible for delivering Huo Yuhao's daily meals and slipped into Huo Yuhao's Niwan Palace, Huo Yuhao deliberately made a tremendous racket inside the meditation chamber.
Hearing the commotion inside, Kong Deming and Wang Changming immediately pushed open the door to investigate.
At that moment, the Life Creation Qi Refining Furnace bobbed up and down before Huo Yuhao, emanating all manner of profoundly mysterious auras.
Huo Yuhao selectively fed the rare metals he had obtained over the past few days into the Life Creation Qi Refining Furnace.
Kong Deming had long since packed the gifts from Xu Tianran and the princes into a Storage Soul Tool and delivered them to Huo Yuhao along with his daily meals.
Huo Yuhao knew that he had to show them something genuine now.
What Huo Yuhao was firing up the furnace to refine was a low-grade Talisman Puppet made primarily of titanium gold.
Renowned for its hardness, titanium gold was an exceedingly rare metal produced only in the Sun Moon Empire.
Huo Yuhao continuously formed seals with both hands, and a great blaze erupted from the Life Creation Qi Refining Furnace.
The titanium gold steadily softened inside the furnace, strange patterns emerging across its surface as though life itself were flowing within.
"Elder Kong, Elder Wang."
Fine beads of sweat seeped from Huo Yuhao's forehead, but his voice remained exceptionally steady. "Over the past few days, I have studied the ideas of my seniors and come up with some new thoughts."
His fingers flew, and the molten metal inside the Life Creation Qi Refining Furnace actually began to coalesce into a human form.
In a sense, this was Huo Yuhao's first time refining a Talisman Puppet alone, and even he was unsure whether he would succeed.