Chapter 26: Everything Is Ready

  At this time, Tang Lingyan finally left and returned to the blessed land of Lingzhi Forest, continuing to absorb the immortal energy and enhance her spiritual power.

  Zhang Feiyang returned along the original route, back to Biyun Pavilion. It was still early before sunset, and he was able to return so quickly thanks to Tang Lingyan's guidance, which saved him a lot of time searching for trees.

  Zhang Fei Yang continuously climbed up and down the mountain, exhausted to the point of collapse. He lay on his "bed" for a moment, feeling as though his legs had turned soft. After resting for a while, he walked with tired steps to the dining hall, where he ate some immortal food. Suddenly, he felt a great deal of energy restored. On this day, climbing up and down the mountain, he eliminated many impurities from his body. Using the immortal food again, new pure flesh and blood were born, which helped in refining his mortal body and was greatly beneficial for his cultivation.

  Xīn Lóng, 'Flower' Gangyan, and the Hundred Year Dragon Tree have all been obtained. The only thing missing is a small amount of 'refined' iron to temper the Golden Xīn Lóng. 'Refined' iron is high-quality iron that has undergone smelting. It's not a rare material, as ordinary blacksmiths can produce it through long-term smelting. However, in the Biyun Sword Pavilion, iron sources are scarce. Except for some iron doors, there are no other iron tools around. Where can one get iron? Dismantling the iron door would obviously result in punishment, and Zhang Feiyang doesn't dare to do it.

  According to the records of "Lian Yao Lu", refining a Golden Qilin requires one hundred catties of 'fine' iron, which again stumped Zhang Feiyang.

  On this day, Zhang Fei Yang was practicing basic sword techniques in the arena, after a while, he sat on the stone wall to rest and saw a wooden sword placed on the sword rack. This basic weapon made Zhang Fei Yang stunned for a moment, suddenly he had an idea, patted his thigh heavily and said: "How could I forget? Isn't there a lot of ironware in Dong Lao Tou's village? Gathering those discarded farm tools together and refining them with my alchemy furnace will surely make 'refined' iron!"

  Zhang Feiyang leaped down, rushing straight to the foot of the mountain. After several trips up and down the mountain, the child had already recognized Zhang Feiyang. Seeing him, he didn't ask any questions and directly opened the 'door' to let him out.

  Zhang Fei Yang was also very familiar with the road down the mountain and arrived at the foot of the mountain in just one hour.

  All the way running, arrived at Dong old head's village. Villagers had already regarded Zhang Fei Yang as a god, seeing Zhang Fei Yang arrive, they all ran out of their homes, surrounding Zhang Fei Yang and asking questions. The village chief pushed through the crowd, saying: "Sir, you're back, sir has been well lately?"

  "Alright, actually I came this time with a request for everyone, and also hope that everyone can help me out!"

  The village head said: "Sir, you say that even if we go through boiling water and walk through fire, we must repay your great kindness!"

  Zhang Feiyang smiled awkwardly and said, "It's not that serious... This time I came to collect some scrap iron. If you have any unused farm tools or iron scraps, give them to me. I need two hundred catties of iron." Two hundred catties of iron can be refined into about one hundred catties of 'refined' iron.

  The village chief immediately mobilized the villagers, and each household donated some scrap iron. Some villagers even brought brand new iron hoes to give to Zhang Feiyang. The new iron was better, with a higher purity, and Zhang Feiyang was very pleased.

  Zhang Feiyang tidied up the iron tools and piled them together. There were already two to three hundred catties. Zhang Feiyang was very moved and said, "Thank you, you are all kind-hearted people." The villagers shook their hands and said, "No need to thank us, no need to thank us."

  Zhang Feiyang pinched the refining furnace, put three hundred kilograms of iron in it, and then bid farewell to the villagers. He rode a horse given by the villagers back home. Coincidentally, this horse was still the same sorrel-colored horse from last time. Zhang Feiyang had let it go that day, and it had returned safely to the village, where it received good care and became much stronger than before.

  When they arrived at a steep mountain road, Zhang Fei patted the horse's face, and the horse was very intelligent, returning to the original road.

  The materials for refining the Golden Armor have finally been gathered, and it took a lot of time! Zhang Fei Yang returned to the dormitory, extremely excited. His spirit entered the Alchemy Furnace, and the 300 jin of scrap iron stuck to the furnace wall floated up, entering the Fire Illusion Realm. The scorching heat waves burned and roasted these scraps of iron, quickly burning them until they were bright red. The impurities in the scrap iron were burnt away, leaving only pure iron.

  The crimson iron floated out of the fire illusion and sank into the water illusion. Instantly, a wisp of steam rose from the surface of the water, and the crimson iron transformed into a hundred-jin-heavy lump of "refined" iron, shining brightly and unyieldingly solid. Being forged by the heavenly winds and clouds, this "refined" iron was dozens or even hundreds of times stronger than ordinary people's "refined" iron!

  That demonic beast was also stuck to the wall of the Lian Yao furnace, absorbing the Xianling aura emitted by the five pieces of fantasy realm, becoming even more fierce and violent, but it could not escape the restraint of the Lian Yao furnace.

  Zhang Fei concentrated his mind and bit open his finger, dripping fresh blood into the alchemy furnace, shouting: "Begin refining! Vajra Mahoraga!"

  A few drops of fresh blood floated onto the body of the struggling Kyūbi, and the 'flower' granite that had been attached to the alchemy furnace also floated over, wrapping the struggling Kyūbi inside. The hundred-year-old dragon tree floated past, colliding with the 'flower' granite and merging with it. The newly refined 'essence' iron was also wrapped in the 'flower' granite and wood blocks, forming a huge spherical substance that fell into the Golden Illusion Realm, tumbling and shaking. The hundred-year-old dragon tree turned to dust, the 'flower' granite became stone powder, and the 'essence' iron transformed into a bright red liquid iron, merging with the wood powder and stone powder to become an 'essence' material, enveloping the living Kyūbi, absorbing the golden light of good fortune, and refining its muscles and bones.

  Refining a demon is not like refining a pill, it requires a slow process of material fusion. Refining the Golden Armor Rhinoceros, an ordinary demon-refining furnace needs a month's time, while the Heaven and Earth Wind Cloud Demon-Refining Furnace is the supreme among all furnaces, greatly reducing the refining time, and refining the Golden Armor Rhinoceros only takes seven days.

  Tangerine stood on the bed, leaning forward to watch the golden fantasy realm where the Kylin was being refined. His small yellow hands waved and pressed down, directing the golden light and adjusting the proportion of the five elements in the Golden Fantasy Realm, refining the Golden Kylin even better.

  If it were an ordinary alchemy furnace, without a spiritual device, the master could only adjust the fire and refine it, which would take more time and waste magical power. However, this Heaven and Earth Wind Cloud Alchemy Furnace can achieve automatic refining, completely not occupying the master's time and magic power, all because it has a free-thinking spiritual device.

  Zhang Feiyang handed over the task of refining the Golden Armor to Chengzi, and he spent his days practicing basic sword skills in the arena. After several days, his basic sword skills had become 'exquisite'. His spiritual power also increased significantly, after battles, taking Spiritual Power Boosting Pills, his pure spiritual power reached 89 points. Feeling the 89 spiritual power points in the Xian core, Zhang Feiyang was very satisfied, as long as he could increase by 11 more points, he would be qualified to take the True Disciple exam!

  That day, went to Kuan Yun Mountain to collect "chicken tail grass", Zhang Fei Yang and Cao Wan one group holding sickles on the mountain cutting grass, this "chicken tail grass" although is wild grass, but grows not much, only grows in humid shady riverbank, lakeside.

  Zhang Fei Yang arrived at a riverbank, under a big tree, cutting some "chicken" tail grass. The shape of the "chicken" tail grass was like a rooster's tail, hence its name. Suddenly, he felt that there were some bright lights coming from the river water, turned his head to look, and saw that the river water had some shining sand grains, sparkling with light, which made him feel very strange. So he leaned over the riverbank, stretched out his hand to scoop up some sand grains, saying they were sand grains as big as half a green bean, wrapped around some golden substance in the sand grains, although there were signs of corrosion, but couldn't hide the brilliance of gold.

  "Gold dust!"

  Zhang Fei shouted out in surprise, he could see that this was a form of existence of gold mines: placer gold!

  The rocks containing gold, after being washed by the river water for thousands of years, merged with some mineral sand and gravel, deposited in the river water, forming placer gold. The content of placer gold is not much, and it is also the most difficult to find. There are many monsters in this wide cloud mountain, ordinary people do not dare to come forward, so Zhang Feiyang discovered these placers.

  Cao Zuan ran over and saw Zhang Fei lying on the ground, asking: "Brother Zhang, what are you doing?"

  Zhang Fei slapped the ground and said: "It's all gold sand! The riverbed is full of gold sand! We're in luck today! We've struck it rich!"

  Cao looked at the river bottom and saw a lot of gold sand accumulated. Although he was from a wealthy family, his money had been spent. Seeing the gold, he became as excited as Zhang Fei.

  "Stand back, I'll gather all the sand and gold!" Zhang Fei Yang said, pinching the Lian Yao furnace with two fingers pointing at the river water. The Jin Zhi Huan Jing flashed, a golden light burst out, absorbing the sand and gold from the bottom of the river.

  Grains of sand-like gold, or as large as mung beans, flew into the alchemy furnace like a sandy river, then directly entered the Fire Illusion Realm, where they were smelted at high temperatures of millions of degrees, annihilating the sand and rocks, transforming into pure gold.

  Cao Wan exclaimed: "Zhang brother, your necklace is so powerful! I thought it was just a storage necklace, but after seeing it today, I think it's not that simple!"

  Zhang Fei Yang finished collecting the sand gold from the river and proudly smiled, saying: "This is a divine artifact!"

  Cao Wan was even more surprised and said, "Brother Zhang, is what you're saying true or false? Can you really have a divine artifact?" Divine artifacts are more powerful than spiritual artifacts and precious artifacts, with many changes and broad magical powers. However, the number of divine artifacts can be counted on one's fingers, Cao Wan was somewhat skeptical of Zhang Feiyang's words, if Zhang Feiyang said it was a precious artifact, he might have believed it a bit.

  "Believe it or not, heh heh!"

  Cao Wan said: "Zhang brother, you put the sand gold into your pendant, isn't your pendant a crucible?!"

  Zhang Feiyang looked at Cao Wan's determined expression and could only say, "That's right, my alchemy furnace can not only refine gold but also serve as a storage container. Don't you think it's a divine artifact?"

  Cao Wan laughed and said: "Divine artifacts can't compare, but precious artifacts are almost the same! However, Brother Zhang, since the golden chain is complete, give a share to your younger brother!"

  "Definitely!"

  Two men finished cutting the "chicken" tail grass near them, took a look at their own baskets which were already full, and then returned by the original road, got on the dog head immortal boat, and floated towards the Azure Cloud Mountain.

  On the road, looking at the "chicken tail grass" in the bamboo basket, I don't know what use these "chicken tail grass" have, but Zhang Feiyang knows that these are things needed by the elders of the Xianjian Pavilion who control the sect. These inner disciples work themselves to death, just to serve the immortal family above them.

  As soon as he thought of this, Zhang Fei Yang felt very unhappy in his heart. He thought to himself: "I must quickly improve my spiritual power, and when my spiritual power reaches 100, I will participate in the next True Disciple assessment. After becoming a True Disciple, I can enjoy more benefits from the immortal family, which is very beneficial for improving my spiritual power and achieving immortality! Unlike these inner sect disciples who get up early and sleep late every day, exhausting themselves to death, but don't get any real benefits, only some immortal food and a basic sword technique. This is too little... I must get rid of being an inner sect disciple and become a True Disciple! I will learn the true transmission sword technique from the Immortal Sword Pavilion!"

  Back at the Biyun Sword Pavilion, it was already noon. After lunch, he returned to his dormitory and entered the Xianyao Furnace with his 'Jing' spirit. The sand gold in the Huoyan Illusory Realm had become like peeled fruit, round and shiny, with a very high purity.

  Zhang Fei's spirit was stirred, and he said, "If we infuse these high-purity golden essences into the Golden Vajra, what kind of effect will it produce? Gold is a wonderful thing, adding it will surely have an extraordinary effect!" Zhang Fei's heart was filled with excitement, his divine sense controlling the Alchemy Furnace. Those round and shining golden lights floated into the Golden Illusory Realm, merging into the Golden Vajra that was being refined within. Instantly, a loud and clear tiger's roar echoed from the Golden Illusory Realm.