Chapter Thirty-Four: Waiting for Someone Who Has Not Arrived to Refine a Treasure

  "Don't misunderstand, sir. In our family, we have always been extremely respectful to the masters we support and have never had any doubts. My previous words were just concerns that people from opposing families might find out about your arrival and suddenly plot against you." The middle-aged man saw Wang Guang making a gesture to leave and immediately became anxious. If he were to offend the master they had just invited, not only would he not be able to survive, but his wives and concubines would also not be able to survive.

  In her anxiety, she didn't care about Wang Guang's identity and grabbed his robe, sobbing softly.

  "Get out of here, you scoundrel! Can you even touch my Taoist robe?" Wang Guang detested him and with a wave of his hand, sent the middle-aged man flying seven or eight steps back. The man landed on his butt, covering himself in mud, looking utterly disheveled.

  "The Taoist priests in the family are generally of a similar temperament to the Taoist priest, they will not come to provoke the Taoist priest without reason." The middle-aged man rolled and crawled to Wang Guang's front and continued to beg: "Tomorrow, send another 100,000 copper coins to the Taoist priest, hoping that the Taoist priest will not leave."

  "Boundless Heaven Venerable! I, the poor daoist, now believe in you." Wang Guang coldly snorted and waved his dust-sweeping sleeve: "From now on when speaking with me, just say it directly, don't beat around the bush or be ambiguous. As for the 100,000 copper ingots you mentioned earlier, I won't accept them. This isn't a transaction. After I help your family make their move, you can pay me then, it's not too late."

  The middle-aged man nodded repeatedly in agreement. Where did his calm and composed demeanor from yesterday go? It was probably that cultivator who stirred up trouble.

  After driving away the middle-aged man, Wang Guang simply set up some secret seals in the place where the copper mine was stored, and then sat cross-legged in front of this pile of copper ingots to think.

  He originally asked for 100,000 bronze ingots this time, on the one hand, it was a accumulation of a crack in the ground, and on the other hand, it was prepared for himself. Because he wanted to refine a magical treasure for himself, so that when the time came to fight with others, apart from Yin Lei and Huo Jin Shentong, there would be no other means.

  Today I heard that other cultivators might be looking for trouble with him, and the idea of refining a defensive treasure to protect himself surged up even more.

  "Alas, Venerable Wu Liang! If the monk were to come with me, I wouldn't be so worried. Unfortunately, this monk is greedy for comfort and thinks of forming his sarira after coming out of the mountain, making me worry in vain." After muttering and complaining about the monk who stayed in the secret room, Wang Guang began to prepare for his own cultivation of a magical treasure.

  Sitting cross-legged on a rock, after slightly adjusting his demeanor to calm his mood, he suddenly stretched out his hand and pointed.

  A wisp of green smoke emerged from his fingertips, and the green smoke wrapped around a copper ingot weighing dozens of kilograms suspended in front of him three to five feet away. The green smoke churned, and the copper ingot shrank at a speed visible to the naked eye. After dozens of breaths, the large copper ingot shrunk to the size of an infant's fist and no longer changed.

  When he saw that the copper ingot was no longer shrinking, Wang Guang knew that his purification of the copper ingot had reached its limit. Although he felt regretful in his heart, he didn't dare to think too much about it and could only sigh, opening his mouth to let out a stream of green smoke.

  This green smoke burst out and condensed into three or five talismans spinning in mid-air.

  "Hmph!" The talismans took shape, and Wang Guang stretched out a finger. Those few talismans transformed into a flowing light that drilled into a copper ball the size of an infant's fist.

  The copper ball received the symbol seal, and suddenly emitted a faint crisp sound. The blue smoke wrapped around it seemed to flow back like a river, and instantly rolled back in front of Wang Guang. Then it flowed back into his body through his nostrils and mouth, returning to the Dan Tian Qi Hai.

  The copper sphere lost its magical support and fell to the ground with a thud.

  With a flick of his sleeve, the copper ball flew into his hand. He examined it carefully and found that the surface was smooth and even, without any bumps or dents. A thread of spiritual energy flowed in, and the entire copper ball emitted a layer of yellowish light. Upon closer inspection, he also saw three to five talismans slowly moving inside the copper ball. Although the internal space was narrow, the talismans did not collide with each other, each following its own path in an orderly manner.

  "Unbelievable!" Looking at the copper ball in his hand, which was almost a kilogram heavy, Wang Guang couldn't help but sigh. If he had tried to refine this treasure in the past, he wouldn't have been able to do it, and could only envy others for possessing it! But now that his cultivation had reached the third layer, refining treasures had become easy, how could he not be delighted?

  Put down the copper ball, Wang Guang did not continue to refine it, but closed his eyes and meditated for a while before using the dustpan to roll another copper ingot in front of him. This time he stretched out both hands to grab the copper ingot, a layer of golden light appeared on both hands, and he moved the molten gold claw with this divine technique.

  A pair of golden hands kneaded the copper ingot for dozens of breaths, and the copper ingot was sometimes rounded or flattened. It would be pulled into a long strip by him, and then tapped into a square block. In the end, a copper ball the size of a dragon eye was kneaded out by him. Although this copper ball was slightly smaller than the one he had just tempered, it weighed about a catty in his hand, and was somewhat heavier than the previous one.

  After spitting out the law seal and branding it inside to restrict it, Wang Guang continued with the next copper ingot refinement. He kneaded out a few hundred dragon eye-sized copper pellets, not even bothering to brand them with talismans, before finally stopping.

  "Infinite Heavenly Lord! I didn't expect that this divine technique would refine the copper ingot, not only saving spiritual energy but also further purifying it." Looking at his masterpiece, Wang Guang smiled in satisfaction. However, turning his head again to glance at the first copper sphere he had refined, he felt displeased and destroyed the talisman inside, re-refining it once more.

  Those laborers who kept transporting copper ingots here saw Wang Guang's method of kneading the copper ingots and were terrified, but they didn't dare to escape due to their duties. In the following days, those laborers saw that Wang Guang had no other actions, so they gradually put down their worries and stopped worrying about being kneaded into meatballs by the Taoist.

  In just three to five days, 1,001 shiny copper pellets fell to the ground. Although there was mud on them, when picked up, there wasn't a single speck of dirt on their surface. This was because Wang Guang had imprinted talismans on them, turning the copper pellets into magical artifacts.

  The last copper pellet was stamped with the talisman, and Wang Guang couldn't help but let out a long breath. Looking around at the countless copper ingots, he glanced down at the over a thousand copper pellets beneath him, and this guy couldn't help but burst into loud laughter.

  "Haha! A treasure refined by my own hands, no need to mention its effectiveness, just looking at it makes me feel comfortable. Hehe! If some Qi-practicing masters want to cause trouble for me, I'll try out the power of this treasure then."

  Wang Guang burst out laughing at this loss of composure, and those miscellaneous servants immediately panicked.

  Some of the servants even threw down the copper ingots in their hands and ran away, thinking that Wang Guang had heard them privately slandering him and had come to settle accounts with them. As for the credit and money, they were thrown behind their heads.

  There were also miscellaneous servants sweating profusely, stiff in their hands and feet, thinking about how to escape with their lives in front of this seemingly crazy Taoist priest, so as not to be pinched into a meatball by the Taoist's golden hand.

  What did Wang Guang think of the attitude of these miscellaneous servants? After a while, he estimated the time in his heart and carefully calculated that according to the agreement, the person who should have come here had not arrived yet. He couldn't help but worry whether the token was intercepted or destroyed.

  "I won't bother with these troublesome matters, I'm just helping the Lidi Dao people collect materials, other things have nothing to do with me. Even if I wanted to intervene, I wouldn't have the power to do so." As he thought this, his gaze fell on the thousands of copper pellets scattered on the ground.

  Although these bronze pellets are already a treasure on their own, this is not what he wants. In his plan, these individual bronze pellets will eventually be refined into an integral whole according to the formation method. This treasure can also be said to be a set.

  He didn't even care whether the information had been passed on to the people of the Rift Land or not. Wang Guang had spent more than ten days, every day pouring his own spiritual power into this single copper pellet, making it more familiar with himself, in order to consume less spiritual power when refining the set.

  But on this day, Wang Guang sprayed more than half of the bronze balls in front of him with great magical power, and then sat cross-legged, recovering all the consumed magic power in one breath.

  Having felt the surging power of the law flowing through his body, Wang Guang also didn't want to delay any longer and directly began to follow his previous plan, starting the final step of refining this treasure.

  A puff of green smoke shot out from his mouth, splitting into countless threads in the air, like fine snakes drilling into those copper pellets. In a short while, the copper pellets were covered with green silk, swaying in the wind, and entwining together instantly.

  In an instant, over a thousand copper pellets were all wrapped in green threads, and the green threads entwined each other. From a distance, it seemed like a ball of green smoke was tumbling and colliding in front of him.

  "Boundless Heaven Venerable!" Amidst the churning blue smoke, Wang Guang let out a loud roar. A ball of blue light mixed with some blood spewed out from his mouth. This blue light and blood exploded in mid-air, forming dozens of talismans. The talismans rotated and descended, merging into the blue smoke one by one.

  When the last symbol merged into the green smoke, a loud crash was heard, as if a thunderclap had sounded on the ground. The green smoke dispersed, and the thousand copper balls floated in mid-air, colliding and rubbing against each other, emitting a series of ear-piercing crashing and grinding sounds.

  Wang Guang did not infuse his magic into the copper ball at this time, but instead sat cross-legged on the ground, quietly recovering his magic while secretly muttering to himself about how the power of the last treasure he had created had reached his expectations.

  It's also unknown how long ago, that more than a thousand copper pellets became smaller and smaller, some of the copper pellets were mutually contained, and finally in the bright light, they actually shrunk to the size of an adult fist, a single copper ball.

  When only one copper ball was left floating quietly in the air, Wang Guang sprayed a stream of spiritual energy to infuse into the copper ball, which also imprinted his own mark on it. As long as there is this mark, others can't display it even if they get the copper ball.

  A wisp of blue smoke rose, and the copper ball was lifted by the smoke, spinning wildly in mid-air. A layer of yellow light radiated from the copper ball, and countless illusory shadows of copper balls flickered around it.

  "Good baby! Come into my mouth." The treasure was formed, and Wang Guang suddenly had a feeling in his heart. It was an unparalleled top-grade treasure.

  Only to see this guy's big mouth open, that wisp of green smoke wrapped around the copper pellet and slowly flew into his mouth. The closer it got to his mouth, the smaller it became. Finally, it shrunk down to the size of a grain of rice and fell into his mouth. His tongue flipped over, pressing the grain-sized copper pellet underneath, and a stream of spiritual energy rose from his dantian, slowly infusing into the copper pellet, nourishing the power of this treasure bit by bit.