He had forged countless artifacts, and his techniques had long since reached perfection—masterful, steady as a rock.
Moreover, he had thoroughly mastered the complete Outer Realm inheritance of World Tools. He understood every process and every trace of every pattern involved in the Mother-Deriving Artifact by heart.
The next instant, light gathered in Lin Yi's eyes as seals flew from his fingertips.
The Nine Dragon Emperor Fire surged forth at his command, enveloping all the spiritual ores and beginning their batch-by-batch tempering and purification. The forging of the Mother-Deriving Artifact had officially begun.
Raging flames swept through the valley as Emperor Fire refined countless materials. The Extreme High Temperature continuously removed impurities from the spiritual ores, washed away their mixed properties, and condensed the essential origins of all seventh-rank spiritual ores layer by layer before merging them into one.
The greatest taboo in artifact forging was impatience. Lin Yi's heart was as still as an ancient well, and every seal he formed was precise to the extreme, without the slightest error.
Others needed countless hammer blows and months or even years to forge an Emperor Artifact of the same rank. Yet with his top-tier forging foundation and talent, coupled with the assistance of the Nine Dragon Emperor Fire, his progress advanced at astonishing speed.
The only difficulty was that the core of the Mother-Deriving Artifact did not lie in destructive combat power, but in carrying the Great Dao of heaven and earth's creation. This was completely different from the Emperor Artifacts Lin Yi had forged in the Source Realm.
Time slowly passed, and more than ten days went by in the blink of an eye.
At the center of the fire valley, the origins of all the fully refined spiritual ores thoroughly fused into one, gradually condensing into a pair