Chapter 48: Seven Quasi-Spirit Treasures

  In just over half an hour, Kong Fang and Zhao Binglan returned to the front of the small courtyard again. Jin Jiu, who was tasting tea in a corner of the yard, saw Kong Fang and couldn't help but pause for a moment, feeling somewhat surprised, "Has he already adjusted his state so quickly?"

  Kong Fangzhong nodded with a smile and then entered one of the refining rooms, closing the stone door behind him.

  Zhao Binglan came before Jin Jiu and Wei Shou, found an empty stool to sit down. Wei Shou poured a cup of tea for Zhao Binglan.

  "Thank you, Brother Zhao." Zhao Binglan said softly.

  "What's going on? Didn't he say he was going to adjust his state, how did he come back so quickly?" After Zhao Bingxue took a sip of tea, Wei Shou asked somewhat urgently.

  Zhao Binglan shook her head, and her eyes were also full of doubts.

  "I was originally going to take him to the quiet room, but unexpectedly he stopped in front of that old wooden house that no one had lived in before and said it was pretty good. He then pushed open the door and went inside. Half an hour later, he suddenly came out again. I thought he wasn't satisfied with the wooden house and wanted to take him to choose another one, but unexpectedly he said his state had already been adjusted, so... we just came back." Zhao Binglan said everything she knew.

  When Jin Jiu, who had been slowly savoring his tea, heard that Kong Fang had chosen the dilapidated wooden hut as his quiet room, his hand trembled slightly and the tea water in his cup rippled with concentric circles. However, Jin Jiu quickly regained his composure and listened intently to Zhao Bingxue's every word, seemingly calm but actually serious.

  Wei Shou furrowed his brow in deep thought, but after a long time, he still couldn't figure out Kong Fang's purpose, and could only cast a seeking gaze at Jin Jiu.

  Jin Jiu shook his head and said calmly: "Don't think about anything for now, let's wait until he refines all eight Quasi-Spirit Treasures before we do anything."

  "Can he really refine all eight quasi-spiritual treasures successfully?" Wei Shou secretly scoffed, extremely disbelieving.

  Then the three of them sat under the awning, slowly sipping tea while waiting for Kong Fang and Sun Hao to refine their instruments.

  ……

  After entering the refining room, Kong Fang set up the same formation that could isolate sound and divine sense again. Next, Kong Fang took out eight fully formed weapons from his storage ring and arranged them on the ground in a row. Then, he took out a two-meter square stone basin from the storage ring, which was filled with quenching liquid, and these quenching liquids were the same as those in the Xuan-level refining room.

  Kong Fang walked to the side, and the power of his divine soul surged into the True Fire Rings on his wrists. A blazing ball of earth fire immediately flew out of the True Fire Rings and hovered in mid-air. At this moment, the True Fire Rings flashed with light, and a layer of formation appeared in front of Kong Fang, which could protect him from being injured by the scorching power of the earth fire.

  Kong Fang's divine soul power continuously surged into the True Fire Ring, and that mass of flying earth fire floated freely in mid-air, changing shape at Kong Fang's control.

  "This true fire ring is indeed a mid-grade postnatal treasure, using it to control the earth fire is really easy." A smile appeared on Kong Fang's face, and he stretched out his hand to point, his magic power brought over a long sword from the ground.

  The long sword flew into the earth fire, and Kong Fang controlled the earth fire to carefully refine every position of the long sword. The earth fire licked back and forth, and the sword body gradually revealed a thread of light, looking extremely enchanting.

  A moment later,

  With a "whoosh" sound, the long sword quickly flew out of the earth fire and directly into a stone basin filled with quenching liquid on the side.

  With a loud noise, the long sword sank into the bottom of the stone pool.

  With Kong Fang's current spiritual soul, it was a simple matter to focus on two things at once. However, Kong Fang didn't rush to refine other weapons, but instead put away the earth fire and came to the edge of the stone pool, carefully observing the long sword lying at the bottom of the stone pool.

  The weapon in the quenching liquid is not the longer the better, but the more suitable the better. Only with the right time can the properties of various materials in the weapon be activated to the peak. If the time is too long, it will have a great impact on the properties of some materials in the weapon, causing the weapon's grade to decrease. If the time is too short, the properties of some materials cannot be fully activated.

  It's two weapons made from the same material, and the time spent in the quenching liquid may not be the same either. At this point, it depends on experience and visual judgment.

  "Alright." Kong Fang's eyes suddenly lit up, "Out." Kong Fang stretched out his hand and made a grasping motion, the long sword at the bottom of the stone pond was instantly enveloped by his magic power and flew out quickly, then fell to the ground beside him. The sword body was smooth and bright, with a thin layer of cyan light lingering on it, like ripples on water, very strange.

  However, Kong Fang shook his head and was not very satisfied with this sword.

  "With the true fire ring controlling the earth fire, it's much easier, but for the first time, I'm still a bit unfamiliar, so I didn't fully exploit the characteristics of various materials in this sword. The subsequent quenching was done well, but it was still affected by the previous influence." Kong Fang summed up the gains and losses just now, secretly remembering some places that need attention, and then controlled the true fire ring to re-ignite some earth fire to start forging the second weapon.

  Qǐ Líng is the process of infusing an array into a weapon, which can comprehensively enhance the weapon's performance in all aspects. Kong Fang has not done the final Qǐ Líng yet; he plans to first refine all eight weapons and then do the Qǐ Líng together, so as not to divide his attention.

  One by one, the weapons were thrown into the earth fire by Kong Fang to be refined, and then they were wrapped in the quenching liquid by the law. The seemingly repetitive action made Kong Fang delighted.

  Kong Fang would summarize the gains and losses of each weapon he refined, then think of ways to avoid such mistakes when refining the next one. As the number of refined weapons increased, Kong Fang's eyes grew brighter and his mental state gradually reached its peak.

  When he was refining the last pair of boxing gloves, Kong Fang could already control the True Flame Ring as if it were an extension of his arm. The earth fire under Kong Fang's control was either soft or hard, and its movement was extremely agile.

  Kong Fang was immersed in the wonderful feeling of controlling everything, when suddenly the earth fire in the air burst out of control, rushing towards the pair of fist sleeves. Moreover, even the earth fire in the True Fire Ring was rapidly overflowing, frantically surging towards the fist sleeves.

  "Refine the body with fire!" Kong Fang was not surprised, but delighted. In the past six months, he had read many classics in Huoyun Hall and already knew what had happened to the earth fire anomaly back then.

  "The grade of this pair of boxing gloves might just give me a surprise." Kong Fang's eyes revealed a hint of anticipation, and he stopped forcibly controlling the fire, allowing it to naturally refine the boxing gloves.

  Huoye Jinshen represents a realm of refining equipment, and once Huoye Jinshen appears, the grade of the weapon is generally very good. However, most of the materials used by Kong Fang are ordinary, with only a few blocks being relatively precious, which makes Kong Fang have some expectations for this pair of fist guards, but he doesn't dare to have too much hope.

  After quenching the fire, Kong Fang immediately grasped the pair of fist covers in his hands and examined them carefully.

  "The fist套 has not yet been activated, but it's already close to the level of a lower-grade Post-Heaven Spirit Treasure. If it's activated...". Kong Fang's heart suddenly filled with great joy. If he could refine a lower-grade Post-Heaven Spirit Treasure, his equipment-refining skills would be elevated once again. Refining equipment is just like cultivating; each realm and grade is a checkpoint, and as long as one breaks through, the path ahead will become much smoother.

  Another hour passed and the door of the refining room where Kong Fang was in opened, Kong Fang walked out from it and came directly to the courtyard.

  Sun Hao refined the lower-grade elixir, but the Heavenly Spirit Treasure had yet to appear.

  Although Sun Hao only refined three pieces of equipment, the lower-grade Post-Heaven Spirit Treasure was many times more difficult to refine than the Quasi-Spirit Treasure. Moreover, unlike Kong Fang who could use the power of the Earth element to remove impurities and create the furnace mold, every step of the way, Sun Hao had to carefully control the fire, thus spending even more time.

  In the courtyard, Jin Jiuzhen and others who were tasting tea saw Kong Fangbu walking out calmly and all stood up.

  "How's the refining going?" Jin Jiu asked, but his heart ached slightly as he hoped that Kong Fang wouldn't waste all the materials without successfully refining even one Quasi-Spirit Treasure.

  "It's already done." Kong Fang said calmly: "However, I only refined seven quasi-spirit treasures."

  "Seven quasi-spirit treasures?" Jin Jiu, Wei Shou, and Zhao Binglan all had a shocking feeling at the same time. They were originally worried that Kong Fang would waste materials, but they didn't expect Kong Fang to give them a huge surprise, successfully refining seven quasi-spirit treasures with the materials used to refine eight weapons. The high success rate was actually a bit frightening.

  "Good, good, good." Jin Jiu said with a comfortable heart, and then warmly invited: "Come on, sit down and rest for a while first."

  Wei Shou, who had always looked down on Kong Fang, surprisingly showed a smile on his face at this time and changed his previous attitude, proactively pouring a cup of tea for Kong Fang.

  Zhao Binglan's eyes sparkled with a strange light as she carefully sized up Kong Fang.

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