Chapter Three: A Night of Condensed Soul

  After returning to his own broken house, Kong Fang put the refining equipment materials he had received on the ground. This broken wooden house that leaked wind everywhere except for a simple wooden bed had nothing else, and there was only a little space left on the ground.

  The materials on the ground are Wulang Iron, Qishui Roushi and Fengjin. These three are very ordinary refining materials, so it is extremely difficult to refine a good weapon.

  "Wootz steel can be used as the main body of a weapon, and after refining the seven waters soft stone and infusing it into Wootz steel, the quality of Wootz steel becomes even more dense and solid. As for Fengjin, it needs to be smelted onto the blade edge, making the weapon even sharper." Kong Fang recalled the characteristics of these three materials while quickly thinking about how to use them to forge an extraordinary weapon.

  Just a moment later, Kong Fang's face involuntarily revealed a bitter smile.

  "The refinement of equipment is divided into four steps, which are removing impurities, forming the equipment blank, quenching and igniting. The last three steps will not be mentioned for now, but this first step of removing impurities has already got me stuck. As a person with earth-based innate talent, I have no control over flames at all. Letting me go to the Huoyun Hall's equipment refinement room to refine away the impurities in these materials, it's likely that I won't be able to refine away the impurities before refining away all the useful materials."

  Removing impurities is a very difficult task, because every item contains more or less some unnecessary impurities. The cleaner these impurities are refined, the more perfect the final product will be.

  Removing impurities can be said to be the foundation of refining instruments. Without a good foundation, no matter how well the instrument's embryo, quenching and awakening are done, it is useless.

  Kong Fang, who had no experience in refining equipment, was directly stuck on the first hurdle of refining equipment.

  "He had previously boasted that he would forge an extraordinary weapon, but now he couldn't even complete the first step of removing impurities. Kong Fang felt a sense of frustration in his heart, was his transmigration journey going to end with this vessel?"

  The sky outside was slowly darkening, which made Kong Fang's heart increasingly anxious. "There is only one week left now, no, it will be dark soon, and after midnight there will be only six days left, time is really too short for me."

  Kong Fang, who was somewhat annoyed in his heart, walked back and forth several times in the broken wooden house. When he saw the refining equipment materials on the ground, he became even more annoyed. Finally, with three loud stomps, he trampled all three pieces of refining equipment material into the ground, and out of sight, out of mind.

  "Since there's no way to refine the equipment for now, I'll just have to start cultivating first. Hopefully, that vast starry sky will be of great help to my cultivation, otherwise, I'll really be at a dead end." Kong Fang gritted his teeth, walked over to his simple wooden bed, sat down cross-legged, and sank his consciousness directly into his mind.

  "To cultivate magical powers, one must first condense the divine soul, which resides in the Purple Mansion and can communicate with heaven and earth. Afterwards, one can rely on a strong divine soul to absorb the power of heaven and earth and cultivate magical powers." Kong Fang had carefully studied the simple cultivation method that he passed down to every new disciple who entered the sect, and knew that his first step was to condense the divine soul.

  Removing impurities is the foundation of refining equipment, while the divine soul is the foundation of cultivating the Tao.

  Kong Fang didn't know how to condense his divine soul, but he had some information about it in his memory. However, this information was only fragmented words and phrases that the original owner of this body had heard.

  Kong Fang has no way out now and can only grit his teeth and go on.

  Kong Fang's consciousness carefully observed the vast starry sky in his mind, and in his merged memories, the Soul Refining Method played a crucial role in condensing his divine soul.

  In the vast expanse of starry sky, countless stars are in motion, some alone, others in groups of three or five, performing extremely complex movements. Ultimately, these countless stars form large and small galaxies.

  Although all the galaxies are separate, they give a very harmonious rhythm as a whole, as if it were a perfect entity. The great power hidden in them makes Kong Fang's heart beat faster, and he feels that there are countless secrets hidden in this starry sky.

  Watching the starry sky, Kong Fang gradually felt his consciousness becoming blurry, as if he had entered a state of being half asleep and half awake.

  At this moment, Kong Fang felt that his whole body was warm and cozy, as if he had entered a hot spring on a cold winter's day. Both his body and soul were completely wrapped in this warmth, feeling somewhat ethereal and extremely comfortable.

  In this strange state of being neither asleep nor awake, Kong Fang's heart gave rise to a very contradictory feeling. He felt that the passing time was like just an instant, and yet it seemed as if several months had passed, with the speed of time becoming extremely confusing at this moment.

  Just then, Kong Fang suddenly heard a loud "bang".

  The loud noise was like a drumbeat, suddenly exploding in his ears and directly startling Kong Fang out of this strange state. Just after leaving this state, Kong Fang had not yet come to his senses when he heard another loud "bang".

  "This isn't a voice from outside." Kong Fang gradually regained his composure and made a judgment, "Could it be the sound of my own heartbeat?"

  Just as Kong Fang was somewhat puzzled, the dull sound rang out again, but this time the voice was much lighter and no longer like a drumbeat.

  "It's not the sound of my heartbeat." Kong Fang once again negated his own conjecture, but after negating this conjecture, Kong Fang suddenly froze, with an expression of utter incredulity.

  "This, this is the pulse of the earth, it's the sound of the earth beating. My Jade Emperor, Buddha, Jesus Christ. How can the earth have a pulse and be jumping in such a regular rhythm?" Kong Fang was so scared that he jumped up from bed directly.

  This bounce was several meters high, almost didn't smash the broken wooden house into a hole. Kong Fang, who had no preparation for his extraordinary bouncing power, waved his hands and feet in the air, completely lost his balance, and finally made intimate contact with the ground, and it was a five-body throw.

  Kong Fang quickly scrambled up from the ground without feeling much pain and only then did he discover that his injuries had completely healed.

  But Guan Yu couldn't care about his physical injuries at this time. He found that his vision had become extremely good, and his body was also filled with strength.

  "Could it be..." The abnormality of all this suddenly made Kong Fang think of a possibility, and his consciousness immediately entered his mind.

  Kong Fang's mind had undergone some changes, originally his mind only had a vast starry sky, but now under this starry sky there was an additional figure of a person with a yellowish-brown complexion sitting cross-legged. Under the illumination of countless stars, this yellowish-brown figure emitted a faint soft glow.

  Under the yellowish figure, a piece of darkness was invisible, but Kong Fang had a faint feeling that something was hidden in this darkness.

  "The divine soul has actually condensed successfully, and it's been so long since then." Kong Fang quickly opened his eyes to look at the sky outside the house. The horizon was tinged with a faint white, obviously about to dawn soon.

  "In just one short night, I've traversed the path that others take several months or even half a year to walk. Those geniuses who want to succeed in condensing their divine soul need more than ten days, but I succeeded in just one night." This result made Kong Fang himself somewhat disbelieving, as his speed of successfully condensing his divine soul was too fast, so fast that it's almost abnormal.

  "But this should be related to my Soul Refining Method, my Soul Refining Method is a vast starry sky, it's normal that I can condense my divine soul so quickly." Kong Fang made an educated guess in his heart.

  However, afterwards, Kong Fang's mind only had the three words "Yin Soul Realm". As long as he cultivated his magical powers to enter the Yin Soul Realm, he would have the power to protect himself. At that time, even if he was expelled from the sect by Qi Zong, he wouldn't need to fear Zhao Yong's revenge.

  And by then, it's unclear who is avenging whom.

  Kong Fang's consciousness returned once again to his mind.

  "Now, this space with the starry sky and divine soul should be the Zi Fu Palace. The Zi Fu Palace is considered the inner heaven and earth where the divine soul resides. Through the Zi Fu Palace, the divine soul can communicate with the outer world's great heaven and earth, and then I can absorb the power of heaven and earth to refine my magical powers." Kong Fang was extremely excited in his heart.

  Just at this time,

  Bang!

  A faint echo appeared again, but this sound was not heard by the ears, but by the yellowish-brown divine soul under the starry sky.

  Kong Fang's expression was stunned for a moment, and then his eyes suddenly opened wide, quickly flying out, like a hungry tiger pouncing on food, directly pouncing in front of the refining materials he had just trampled into the ground.