258: Purchase a furnace and refine your own magical weapon

The Cold Ice True Energy, which was originally just a trickle, grew into a vast ocean after he absorbed four cold pearls.

“Freeze!”

Mu Feng waved his hand casually.

The icy True Energy immediately left his palm and slammed into the solid ice in the distance.

“Crack!”

The already cold solid ice, upon contact with the Cold Qi, froze even further.

In less than a blink of an eye.

A massive ice mountain appeared before Mu Feng.

And this was precisely the effect caused by the Cold Qi.

“Not bad, it feels like the intensity is already comparable to the attack power of an ordinary Magical Artifact.”

After a simple test,

Mu Feng retracted his hand, satisfied.

This Cold Qi was an unexpected bonus from this trip.

Originally, he just wanted to improve his cold resistance.

“Let’s go. There’s a time limit for passing through this aisle. You still have one hour left.”

Seeing the red prompt appear,

Mu Feng nodded.

With the issue of body cold resistance resolved, it was indeed time to depart.

His goal this time was to obtain the xiānlíng treasure chest reward for clearing the stage.

Because this place was too cold,

Mu Feng did not summon the few small Spirit Beasts from his spirit beast bag.

He directly relied on his Flying Sword escape speed and rushed towards the exit direction indicated by the System.

With the Cold Qi protecting him,

His speed was no longer affected, and he reached the exit in less than half an hour.

His luck was still good afterward.

He didn't encounter any Yao Beasts blocking his path during the half-hour journey.

Instead, he gathered quite a few ice-attribute Spiritual Plants along the way.

Unfortunately, most of these Spiritual Plants were common ones.

The most abundant among them was the ice mountain snow lotus.

He already had quite a lot of this in his medicinal garden.

Many snow lotus seeds had grown from those he had previously planted and cultivated.

So, Mu Feng only picked a few before continuing on his way.

Besides the ice mountain snow lotus,

Mu Feng also gathered a Spiritual Plant called Extreme Cold Grass.

Its effect was for refining Peiyuan Medicinal Pills for the Nascent Soul Stage.

This was exactly what he needed now.

He immediately stopped and gathered a good amount.

Other than these two,

Mu Feng didn't spend much time on the rest.

Therefore, he only took half an hour to successfully pass the trial of this ice path.

After using his Spiritual Eye to scan the exit and confirm there were no hidden dangers,

Mu Feng left the place directly.

“Congratulations on successfully passing the third trial.”

“System Reminder: xiānlíng treasure chest x2”

As soon as he stepped out of the ice path, the stage reward arrived in Mu Feng’s hands.

Similar to the previous illusion trial,

This time, there were also two treasure chest rewards.

“Finally, they’re mine!”

Mu Feng weighed the xiānlíng treasure chests in his hand, his face filled with excitement.

With these,

He could gather the xiling stones and geng essence he needed.

If he was lucky,

He might even get the Fire Spirit Essence needed to upgrade the Puppet Lizard.

“System Reminder: Please open the xiānlíng treasure chests as soon as possible. They will automatically open in five seconds.”

It wasn't the first time Mu Feng had obtained treasure chests.

He knew that he needed to mentally recite the Materials he needed.

Without further ado, he immediately began to think about the Materials he required.

“Open for me xiling stones, geng essence, and Fire Spirit Essence.”

After a few silent chants,

Mu Feng opened the two xiānlíng treasure chests he had obtained.

“System Reminder: xiling stone x3”

“System Reminder: geng essence x1”

...

“System Reminder: System Reminder: xiling stone x4”

“System Reminder: Fire Spirit Essence x1”

As the two treasure chests slowly opened,

The four items inside appeared before Mu Feng.

They were precisely the geng essence, xiling stone, and a fiery red crystal block he had seen before.

“It seems there’s Fire Spirit Essence!”

Among the few Materials,

Mu Feng’s gaze immediately fixed on the red crystal, and he directly picked it up.

“Fire Spirit Essence: A fiery red transparent crystal block containing powerful flame energy. It can easily fuse with any Advanced Materials and is commonly used for Artifact Refining Puppets.”

“It really is it!”

Seeing that it was described as a commonly used item for Artifact Refining Puppets,

Mu Feng’s hanging heart finally settled.

With this,

All the Materials for the Ancient Puppet Upgrade Scroll were gathered.

Among them, the ironwood was even of the hundred-thousand-year level.

He was already impatient to see how powerful the Puppet Lizard would become after the upgrade.

But before that,

He still needed to refine his Lifebound Treasure first.

Thinking this,

Mu Feng reached out and scooped up all the newly opened Materials, placing them into his Storage Ring.

With the xiling stones and geng essence he had just obtained,

All the Materials for him to refine the complete 108 Flying Sword Magic Treasure were now gathered.

“Congratulations on passing all Elementary stages. You can now directly exit this place.”

After receiving the rewards,

A blue teleportation gate appeared before Mu Feng.

Mu Feng glanced at it, and its information appeared on the teleportation array.

“Ordinary Teleportation Gate, can directly return to one’s Immortal Cave.”

Confirming there were no issues,

Mu Feng stepped into it.

With a flash of dazzling white light,

He returned to his familiar Immortal Cave.

His exploration of this Immortal Cave yielded great rewards.

Not only did he gather all the Materials needed to refine a complete set of Lifebound Treasures,

But he also obtained a powerful ancient treasure.

This made Mu Feng very happy.

After briefly tidying up the Materials on him,

Mu Feng untied the Storage Pouch from his body.

He put them away along with the treasure chests.

“Speaking of which, shouldn’t I make a cabinet or a shelf to store things?”

As his belongings grew,

Keeping them piled up in the main hall wasn't very aesthetically pleasing.

“Hmm, I’ll think about it later.”

“For now, I should refine the Lifebound Treasure.”

The top priority now was definitely refining the Lifebound Treasure.

However, before that,

He seemed to need to get an Artifact Refining Furnace.

He remembered that when the Immortal Cave was upgraded before, the System told him that for items after Core Formation, the Workshop would no longer be able to refine them.

“I wonder if anyone is selling one on the Transaction Channel.”

“Let’s go take a look.”

Opening the Transaction Channel, Mu Feng directly searched for “Artifact Refining Furnace.”

“I didn’t expect there to be so many.”

As soon as he opened it,

Several pages of Artifact Refining Furnaces appeared before Mu Feng.

“But why are they all so Low Grade?”

There were indeed many Artifact Refining Furnaces.

However, he looked through a page, and they were all furnaces that could only refine Magical Artifacts.

As for those that could refine Magic Treasures,

He didn't see a single one.

“Let’s look again. I hope there are some Advanced ones on the later pages.”

Still unwilling to give up, Mu Feng pulled up another page.

However, the Artifact Refining Furnaces that appeared were almost no different from the previous ones.

“One more page. Let there be a powerful one!”

After silently praying once,

Mu Feng clicked on the last page.

“Eh, this one seems to work!”

He didn't know if his prayer had worked,

But on the last page, there truly was an Artifact Refining Furnace that met his requirements.

“Name: Creation Furnace”

“Grade: Advanced Artifact Refining Furnace”

“Effect: An Advanced Artifact Refining Furnace with Heavenly Fire inside, capable of forging Magic Treasures.”

“Activation Requirement: Each activation requires one High-Grade Spirit Stone.”

....

Mu Feng glanced at it.

The item was good.

However, the price was not cheap.

Most importantly, activating this thing actually required one High-Grade Spirit Stone.

This made Mu Feng quite pained.

One had to know, his current assets only consisted of a tiny bit of Spirit Stones.

“Forget it, I’ll buy it first.”

This was the only Artifact Refining Furnace here that met the conditions.

No matter how expensive, he had to buy it.

Anyway, he had many good Materials now.

He could just trade some out for money later.

As for who to trade with,

He already had a target.

“System Reminder: Creation Furnace x1”

After spending five thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones, this Advanced Artifact Refining Furnace was in his hands.

However, after spending these Spirit Stones, his already not-so-rich pockets became completely empty.

For the High-Grade Spirit Stones needed to activate the Creation Furnace later,

He could only trade Materials with others.

“Hmm, I’ll take these few pieces of meat out to trade.”

After some searching,

Mu Feng pulled out two fiery red pieces of Yao Beast meat from his Storage Ring.

“Three-legged Crow Meat: The flesh and blood of the Primordial Spirit Beast, Three-legged Crow. It tastes delicious and long-term consumption can increase the body’s affinity for fire elements and has a chance to increase the power of flames within the body.”

This was the Three-legged Crow meat he had obtained when he killed the Three-legged Crow before.

Originally, he planned to enjoy it slowly when he had time.

Now, for the sake of refining his Lifebound Treasure, he could only reluctantly part with it.

However, he didn't intend to trade all of it away.

Two pieces should be enough.

Opening his friends list,

Mu Feng clicked on Li Chenxi's avatar.

He sent her a message.

Mu Feng.186: “Do you want something good?”

Yes.

Mu Feng's trading target was Li Chenxi.

She possessed the Treasure Seeking Skill, so she should have quite a lot of Spirit Stones.

Moreover, she Cultivated fire-element Cultivation Techniques herself.

Seeing this Three-legged Crow meat, she would likely pay a high price for it.

Li Chenxi.186: “What good thing?”

Li Chenxi.186: “Could it be that you, senior, still have those Spirit Wines?!”

Li Chenxi's reply was very fast.

The Spirit Wine she bought from Mu Feng last time had greatly improved her Realm.

So, when she saw Mu Feng send a message saying he had something good, she immediately replied.

Mu Feng.186: “Not Spirit Wine, but something even better than Spirit Wine!”

Li Chenxi.186: “Better than Spirit Wine?!”

Li Chenxi’s eyes lit up.

She couldn't help but ask,

Li Chenxi.186: “Senior, don’t keep me in suspense, tell me quickly.”

“Hehe, you’ll see for yourself!”

Mu Feng chuckled.

He directly sent her a screenshot of the Three-legged Crow meat’s attributes.

Li Chenxi.186: “???”

Li Chenxi.186: “Holy cow! The meat of the Primordial Spirit Beast, Three-legged Crow!”

Li Chenxi.186: “Senior, you’re too incredible! How did you get something like this?!”

Li Chenxi.186: “I love you to death!”

The moment she opened the image,

Li Chenxi was completely stunned.

She never expected Mu Feng to trade her such a Heaven-Defying item!

Yes, it was Heaven-Defying!

For someone like her who primarily Cultivated fire-element Cultivation Techniques,

There was nothing more nourishing than this Three-legged Crow flesh and blood!

Mu Feng.186: “Hehe, don’t be so quick to love, this isn’t free.”

Li Chenxi.186: “How many Spirit Stones? I don’t have too many.”

Mu Feng.186: “Ten High-Grade Spirit Stones…”

Mu Feng.186: “Two…”

Mu Feng originally wanted to say ten High-Grade Spirit Stones for two pieces of meat.

He didn't expect to have only sent half of it.

When he saw Li Chenxi’s excited reply.

Li Chenxi.186: “Only ten High-Grade Spirit Stones! No problem!”

Li Chenxi.186: “By the way, senior, what did you just say ‘two’ about? Do you have two pieces??”

Mu Feng.186: “You’re too smart!”

Mu Feng.186: “That’s right, I have two pieces here. If you can come up with twenty High-Grade Spirit Stones, I’ll give them all to you. I originally wanted to keep one for myself.”

Li Chenxi.186: “Two pieces!”

Li Chenxi.186: “Senior, you’re too good to me!”

Mu Feng.186: “Hehe, I think so too.”

Mu Feng.186: “Seeing how good I am to you, how about you add a little more High-Grade Spirit Stones for me?”

Li Chenxi.186: “.........”

Mu Feng chuckled.

Selling the Three-legged Crow flesh and blood for double his expected price put him in a good mood.

He had chosen the right buyer this time.

He had initially thought of selling it for five High-Grade Spirit Stones, but instead, he sold it for twenty.

“System Reminder: High-Grade Spirit Stone x20”

“Tsk tsk, as expected of the person with the highest exploration progress.”

“They really have a lot of Spirit Stones.”

After checking to confirm the quantity was correct,

Mu Feng closed the other party’s chat window.

However, he didn't rush to exit the friends list.

Instead, he clicked on Han Yuyan’s.

He found that the chat record was still his last message, “I’m here.”

So much time had passed, and the other party hadn’t replied.

He wondered what she was doing.

“Forget it, I’ll wait a bit longer.”

“Anyway, I should still get the Medicinal Pill.”

Shaking his head,

Mu Feng closed the friends list.

For him, refining his Lifebound Treasure now was more appealing than obtaining that single Medicinal Pill.

With the Artifact Refining Furnace and High-Grade Spirit Stones now in hand,

Mu Feng immediately walked into the forging room.

After placing the Creation Furnace beneath the Earth Fire emerging from the forging room, blazing flames immediately erupted from the ground.

“The Creation Furnace has been installed and is ready for Magic Treasure forging.”

“System Reminder: You have met the requirements for Lifebound Treasure refining and can now begin to refine your Lifebound Treasure.”

“System Reminder: It has been detected that you have two Lifebound Treasure crafting blueprints. Please choose one set to refine.”

“Refine the Soul-Devouring Bee Cloud Sword.”

He hadn't even gathered all the Materials for the other set, the Zixiao Sword, so he naturally couldn't refine it.

“Soul-Devouring Bee Cloud Sword: A complete set of Magic Treasures, with a maximum of 108 swords that can be refined. The Magic Treasure comes with a Soul-Devouring effect.”

“Soul-Devouring: Can enhance the Magic Treasure’s strength by devouring the Primordial Spirits of those killed. The more Primordial Spirits devoured, the sharper the Magic Treasure and the faster its grade upgrade.”

“System Reminder: Do you wish to refine the Soul-Devouring Bee Cloud Sword? Lifebound Treasures can only be refined once. Once selected, it cannot be changed again. Please confirm again.”

“Confirm refining the Soul-Devouring Bee Cloud Sword!”

Mu Feng nodded.

“System Reminder: Please place the High-Grade Spirit Stone into the Creation Furnace to activate the Heavenly Fire within, then sequentially place the Materials for the Soul-Devouring Bee Cloud Sword into it.”

“System Reminder: Each refining of the Soul-Devouring Bee Cloud Sword produces a set of twelve swords. A complete refinement requires nine repetitions, and no interruptions are allowed during this period, so please maintain your complete state.”

The conditions for refining a Lifebound Treasure were numerous and stringent.

Even though Mu Feng was mentally prepared, he still found it cumbersome.

Fortunately, there were prompts guiding him on how to proceed.

He just needed to make sure he didn't mess up the order.

After placing a High-Grade Spirit Stone into the bottom of the furnace, Mu Feng began refining his Lifebound Treasure.